“Friends” Creators Say They’re Constantly Pitched a Reboot Starring the Characters' Kids — Will It Happen?

Nearly all of the hit show's character had become parents by the time it ended in 2004

Friends fans are apparently clambering for a reboot starring the next generation of Gellers, Bings and Buffays.

Ahead of the beloved sitcom’s 30th anniversary on Sept. 22, series creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane and executive producer Kevin Bright stopped by the Today show for a look back at Friends and its continued popularity.

“I would imagine it’s kind of what it must feel like when your kid turns 30 and you’re like, ‘How did that happen?’ ” Crane said of the hit show, which premiered on NBC in 1994.

Speaking of kids, Bright noted that that pre-teen fans constantly ask whether there will ever be more episodes of the series. Friends has famously continued to reach a massive audience of young viewers — who weren’t even born when its finale aired in May 2004 — via streaming platforms.

“We get that a lot,” Kauffman chimed in. “I get emails about it all the time. Everybody has a great idea, and the great idea is: their kids, grown up, doing a Friends show.”

By the time the show ended in 2004, nearly all of its six main characters had become parents. At the end of season 1, David Schwimmer’s Ross became a father when his ex-wife Carol (Jane Sibbett) gave birth to their son Ben. The first of the Friends kids was notably portrayed by a young Cole Sprouse in the show’s final three seasons.

Next up was Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe Buffay. The actress’s real-life pregnancy during the show’s fourth season led to a season-long storyline in which her character served as a surrogate for her half-brother (Giovanni Ribisi) and his wife (Debra Jo Rupp), giving birth to their triplets in a 1998 episode.

After briefly rekindling her on-again, off-again romance with Schwimmer’s character, Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel Green becomes pregnant with Ross’s second child in season 7, later giving birth to their daughter Emma in season 8.

And after a long struggle to get pregnant, Courteney Cox’s Monica Geller and Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing finally adopt. In the show's final season, the meet their unborn baby's birth mother Erica (Anna Faris), who unexpectedly delivers twins Jack and Erica (named for Faris's character) in the show’s final episode.

With seven canonical Friends babies — not to mention any Phoebe and Matt LeBlanc’s Joey Tribbiani may have had since the series ended — there are plenty of options to round out a potential six-character cast to mirror the original show.

But the Friends creators aren’t especially keen on the idea.

“Oh, no. No, no, no,” Crane said of the possibility of a reboot on Today.

Meanwhile, Bright and Kauffman also noted that the show’s 30th anniversary is somewhat bittersweet given Matthew Perry’s untimely death in October of last year.

“He’d been fighting the good fight for so long,” Bright said of the actor’s struggle with substance abuse, “and it really did feel like, from the [2021] reunion, that he had finally found some peace.”

“It’s a huge loss, and it does make the 30th a little fraught,” added Kauffman.

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