David Schwimmer says “Friends ”fans still yell 'pivot!' at him: 'Sometimes it's startling'

The one where David can't escape Ross Geller.

David Schwimmer looked back on the enduring legacy of sitcom Friends during a recent appearance on Good Morning America to promote his new Goosebumps series The Vanishing, revealing the one iconic Ross Geller line that he's still met with on a daily basis.

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"A lot of random people shouting 'pivot' at me," said the actor, referencing the memorable season 5 episode (season 5's "The One with the Cop") that sees his character try to lift a new couch up his narrow New York City apartment stairway with pals Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Chandler (Matthew Perry).

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"Sometimes it's startling," quipped Schwimmer. "But also it's just a reminder that the series lives on." When co-host Robin Roberts praised the actor for being willing to revisit his past role several years on, the actor called the sitcom "the gift that keeps on giving."

“When I meet people on the street from another country and they say, ‘I just have to say, I learned English watching your show,’ or a father stops me and says, 'My kid was really, really ill and the one thing that kept them going in the hospital was just watching Friends,’ you feel really grateful and blessed to have done something that people find fun,” said Schwimmer.

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The sitcom, which aired for 10 seasons on NBC between 1994 and 2004, followed the lives of six close-knit pals in New York. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly for the sitcom's 25th anniversary in 2019, series co-creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman said they did not anticipate the pivot scene to become such a pivotal moment in the show's zeitgeist.

"I remember in the writers' room there was a discussion about, 'Can we do a story as simple as getting a couch up a flight of stairs?'" recalled Crane. "Even on stage that was fantastically funny," he says. "The three of them were just brilliant and it was all they could do to get through it."

"You never ever anticipate that kind of thing," added Crane of "pivot!" becoming a signature catchphrase among fans of the show. "You're just trying to tell funny stories and have it work. There was never an eye toward, 'Wow, this is an iconic moment.'"

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