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Matthew Perry Tried To Pitch A Similar Sitcom Idea Just One Year Before Friends

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In 1993, Matthew Perry pitched an idea for a sitcom to NBC called Maxwell’s House. It was going to be about a mismatched group of young 20somethings, but they turned it down cause they had Friends in the works.

I’m sure after being cast as Chandler, he wasn’t complaining that his original idea got turned down.