If you’ve ever watched “Friends” (and if you’re not, are we a human?), we know coffee is fundamentally a seventh star of a show. The characters spend a plain cube of time unresolved around in Central Perk, sipping on coffee and spasmodic grouping muffins or scones.
We’ve all wondered how most dang coffee they indeed splash — and how they afforded such large apartments — and interjection to one really dedicated British writer, now we know.
Kit Lovelace recently did a universe a plain and watched all 10 seasons of a cult show, holding note of how many cups of coffee were consumed. Then, he done some flattering nifty charts to sum it all up. Kit, you’re a favourite America needs.
Over a march of 236 episodes, a characters drank a sum of 1,154 cups of coffee. The heaviest drinker incited out to be Phoebe with 227 cups, that is kind of surprising, though also explains her eternally irascible attitude. In final place was Rachel with 138 — also odd, given that she worked during a coffee house, though hey, Jennifer Aniston would substantially approve.
In between, you’ve got Ross with 188, Joey with 191, Monica with 198, and Chandler with 212. By a way, to figure this out, Lovelace watched all a episodes, focusing on a Central Park scenes and fast-forwarding by a rest.
Lovelace also did a math on how most all this coffee would cost, and used scenes from a uncover to behind adult his estimates. Monica’s receipt for a coffee and scone was $4.21 (remember, this was a 90s), so he safely insincere a coffee apportionment was around $1.50. He also combined a 20% tip, given that’s what Chandler told Joey was an excusable volume in a “The One With Unagi” episode.
Because Monica gets a check in a part The One With Five Steaks And An Eggplant, we know that one coffee and one scone comes to $4.12.
— Kit Lovelace (@kitlovelace) June 27, 2017
This works out during roughly $1.46 per character, per episode. Roughly a cost of a singular Pret filter coffee (before we tight a pound…)
— Kit Lovelace (@kitlovelace) June 27, 2017
All in all, a characters spend a sum of $2,077.20 on coffee via a series, or between about $250 and $410 each. In New York, that 10 years of coffee and cot time would hardly cover a month’s lease for Central Perk … contemptible Gunther.
Lovelace told The Huffington Post he’s not indeed a “Friends” superfan, though he is an zealous coffee drinker and felt like there was a “significant opening in a common cocktail enlightenment knowledge.”
In box you’re wondering, Lovelace ALSO done a graph comparing any character’s celebration habits over a march of a show. Seriously, someone give this man a prize.
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