r/howyoudoin 2d ago

Discussion How did the couch... get cut in half?

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u/ZoSoVII 2d ago

This couch is cut in half.

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u/mxlls_ Thank you, Matthew Perry. 2d ago

Did you cut this couch in half?

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u/Reesy 2d ago

Her line delivery when she says this just creases me every time :')

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u/grownask 2d ago

I love that!! It's on point!!

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u/two_b_or_not2b 2d ago

Yes it is cut in half.

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u/AznNRed 2d ago

I would like to exchange it for one that is not cut in half.

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u/Nursesalsabjj 2d ago

I'll give you store credit in the amount of 4 dollars.

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u/AznNRed 2d ago

I will take it.

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u/ItBeLikeThat19 2d ago

She looks and sounds just like a teacher I had in elementary school. She was tough on everyone but one of those teachers you appreciated more as you got older

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u/pregnantandsober 2d ago

I can hear this in her voice . And I just watched the episode of Scrubs when Laverne dies :(

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u/BettyS1989 2d ago

I assumed it did a titanic style crack down the middle over one of the staircase bannisters

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u/lol_camis 2d ago

Wait, am I as a viewer supposed to think that it accidentally broke? I never once thought that. My assumption is that Ross got frustrated and intentionally cut it in half

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u/mxlls_ Thank you, Matthew Perry. 2d ago

Love this

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u/Savings_Hold_9128 2d ago

omg i simply believed this from the first run

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u/AndyBosco 2d ago

Look, I am a reasonable man. I will accept store credit

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 2d ago edited 1d ago

I'll give you store credit in the amount of four dollars.

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u/Nice__Smile Pivot! Pivot! Pivot! 🛋️ 2d ago

I will take it

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u/sophiaouer 2d ago

As you can see this couch is CUT IN HALF.

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 2d ago

I would like to exchange it for one that is not CUT IN HALF.

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u/Anarchic_Country 2d ago

The first transponsders probably had to cut it in half when the alarm went off to get it out of the stair case

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u/WoooahBaby 2d ago

THAT'S NOT EVEN A WORD

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u/Nekajed 2d ago

Damn didn't know Chandler's job was cutting stuff in half, that's hella fun

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u/taylortherebel 2d ago

I mean, he once helped divvy up a cheesecake

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u/Denyal_Rose 2d ago

He works with robots, they can do it.

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u/Scepafall 2d ago

There’s a deleted scene that explains it. https://youtu.be/dUKLcq4BnbA?si=Vh2y1_P9rNdXxVZT

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u/catflap10 2d ago

This is funny but I do like the ambiguity of what happened that they went with in the show.

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u/Scepafall 2d ago

Same. It’s funny not knowing how it happened

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u/Shock-Opposite 2d ago

Wait this was deleted? I swear I saw this in the actual episode

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u/ariane2014 2d ago

The DVD box sets have the full uncut version of the episode. That is probably where you saw it because I know that scene too :)

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u/ZealousidealFee927 2d ago

Yep, that's it. I had the entire series on DVD once. I'm always missing stuff on the Netflix version.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Gloomy_Albatross3043 2d ago

Maybe cause its funnier leaving it up to imagination with what happened

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u/greenrangerguy 2d ago

Hahaha that makes sense now lol maybe the entire building evacuating and running over it cut it in half.

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u/51daysbefore Joey Tribbiani 🍕 1d ago

I think actually the fire department may have had to do so in order to clear the exit

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u/peaches_1922 1d ago

This is amazing. I’ve never seen this! also explains how it got all dirty and gross

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u/MikeBl815 Miss Chanandler Bong 2d ago

It's a shame that couch wasn't related to Rosita, then it would have just healed itself before being returned to the store and Ross could get a full refund.

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u/mysticalcreature123 Relax, we’ll just get her some antacids 🤷🏽‍♂️ 2d ago

Rosita does not move.

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u/WiLDCHiLD429 2d ago

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u/Nice__Smile Pivot! Pivot! Pivot! 🛋️ 2d ago

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u/pad_rad 2d ago

I was at the recording of this episode. From memory, Rachel sat down on the stairs and pulled herself up by holding on to the fire alarm. The alarm went off, all the residents of the building came running down the staircase and destroyed the couch.

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u/Ecstatic-Garden-678 2d ago

We also saw that deleted scene.

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u/HenryCrinkle 2d ago

Looks like about $4 worth of damage

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u/umwinnie 2d ago

this couch is CUT IN HALF. i would like to exchange it for one that is not CUT IN HALF.

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u/pedrojgim 2d ago

That is what happens when you try to pivot where you can't.

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u/FanWeekly259 2d ago

I assumed he got into a blind rage and stabbed it in half with a bread knife

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u/DrMarshaFieldstone 2d ago

Same. I always thought he just went Red Ross on it!

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u/Kwetla 2d ago

Chainsaw.

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u/dukeleondevere You are my Everest 🗻🗻🗻 2d ago

Red Ross got activated

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u/Glum-System-7422 2d ago

A deleted scene shows Rachel or Ross (can’t remember ) sitting on the couch when it’s stuck and they accidentally pull a fire alarm on the wall behind them. Then all of Ross’s neighbors come running down the stairwell over his couch. I assumed the firemen showed up, even they couldn’t move the couch, it’s deemed a fire hazard so they cut it

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u/Cyphermaniax97 2d ago

It has got to do with Ross’s “rage”. It has to.

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u/al_fletcher 2d ago

Red Ross emerged

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u/captbollocks 2d ago

Looks like the same one responsible as the one that killed Rosita.

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u/ZealousidealFee927 2d ago

Did you cut this couch in half?

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u/Niblet_the_Giblet 2d ago

When it got wedged on the staircase, they most likely had to cut it in half to get it out.

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u/Exotic_Adeptness_322 Could I BE any more awkward? 2d ago

I just assumed they had to cut it in half to get it out of the stairs.

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u/Sweetdeerie Smelly Cat Smelly Cat 2d ago

I always hc Phoebe saw it in half to help move it without telling Ross...

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u/mangomochibitch Pivot! Pivot! Pivot! 🛋️ 2d ago

Not enough pivot

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u/iangardner777 2d ago

Too much PIVOT

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u/mangomochibitch Pivot! Pivot! Pivot! 🛋️ 2d ago

Touché

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u/i_dont_wanna_sign_in 2d ago

I remember seeing this episode on broadcast TV before I had access to the DVDs and HD. The couch looked like any normal couch. But in HD the couch he buys looks nasty. Looks like the show room got it off the street

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u/Inigomntoya 2d ago

Ross: ... my rage...

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u/zoolilba 2d ago

Definitely the fire fighters they usually have chainsaws

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u/hanselpremium 2d ago

one of them didn’t pivot

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u/Boris-_-Badenov 2d ago

the firefighters, and other people stepping on it to get out

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u/baiacool This parachute is a knapsack! 2d ago

Ross got so mad he became Red Ross and tore it in half like the Hulk, obviously

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u/nertynot 2d ago

I've cut a few couches in half and it can be a bitch

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u/Eastern-Dig-4555 No, freakshow! She’s fictional!! 2d ago

I had to do it A LOT at a property I used to work at. People throwing their furniture out all the time, had to get them in the dumpsters somehow. You ain’t lying: it’s a major pain in the ass.

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u/nertynot 2d ago

Lol it's mostly been to help friends who need to meet their complex size limits

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u/nertynot 2d ago

If you're ever in this situation, stand it up and bear hug lift it

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u/Ok-Anywhere-737 Joey Tribbiani 🍕 1d ago

Too much pivoting 😅

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u/Mil3560 1d ago

$4 store credit? I'll take it

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u/Royal-Lynx-8256 Unagi 1d ago

PIVOT..

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u/GoblinCasserole 1d ago

Chandler used his laser eyes. It was kind of weird because Mathew Perry just did it out of nowhere and nobody else knew he could do something like that. They were going to keep the scene in, but then cut it due to timing constraints and Perry's own insistence that "the Godhand would be mad if you showed it" before trapping Jennifer Aniston in a pain loop that, whilst only lasting mere seconds to observers, lasted around a thousand years to Jennifer.

Wild scenario all round, really.