Practical and ethical considerations

: There are fan projects (often found on community forums like Reddit) where enthusiasts have manually "patched" the lower-quality DVD extended scenes into the 1080p Blu-ray video. You can find discussions and guides on these on sites like Reddit's r/howyoudoin .

This process takes roughly 2 hours per episode. That is why community patches are so valuable.

To the outsider, it looks like chaos. To the insider, it is control .

Watching these makes the show feel fresh again, as you realize just how many side-plots and character quirks (like Ross's fear of "plague-attracting" crumbs) were left on the cutting room floor.

When Friends aired originally, it used licensed pop songs.