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Friends quietly changed Monica's apartment number

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Because apparently, the highly paid showrunners realized halfway through the first season that apartment number 5 simply wouldn't exist on an upper floor in Manhattan. To fix this glaring architectural impossibility, they stealthily swapped the door numbers to 20 and 19 for Chandler. They assumed nobody would notice, wildly underestimating the obsession of 90s sitcom audiences.

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