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The Friends Episode That Had to Be Changed Because of 9/11

A deleted subplot from Season 8 featured Chandler getting detained at the airport after making a joke about bombs.

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The events of September 11, 2001, affected a number of movies and shows in development at the time. That included everything from Spider-Man to George Carlin’s 12th HBO special, which he planned to call I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die. The hit NBC sitcom Friends, then preparing for the premiere of its 8th season, also had to make some alterations to one of its upcoming episodes. You see, October 11’s “The One Where Rachel Tells…” originally featured an entire subplot about newlyweds Monica and Chandler Bing being detained at the........

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