John Mulaney’s second trip to Broadway took little convincing.

Lisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football.

The very first episode of Friends hit the NBC airwaves 25 years ago -- on Sept. 22, 1994 -- and a cultural phenomenon was born. Ellen DeGeneres also reportedly turned the role down of Phoebe, a decision that changed the course of TV as we know it. (The cast later returned to the same casino to shoot Ross and Rachel's drunken Sin City wedding in season five.) In the episode, Rachel's cookbook pages get stuck together, leading her to follow half of two very different recipes to concoct a trifle-shepherd's pie hybrid. Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow tried to convince the writers to reveal that Joey and Phoebe were actually Friends' longest-running couple.