In Queens of Geek, Charlie thinks, "I don't know how much longer I could have watched their incessant Ross-Rachel, will they/won't they storyline without doing something drastic" when she leaves Taylor and Jamie alone to talk about their relationship.
In The State of Grace, Grace and her family watch a Friends episode that only Leah pays attention to.
In "Apartment Hunters," a broker says, "Hey, you guys know that television show Friends? It's a great show, right? Here's this place," before she shows Abbi a new apartment.
In "Philadelphia," Abbi's dad mentions that she watched a lot of Friends as a kid. She also has a poster of Ross in her childhood bedroom.
In "Twaining Day," Abbi and Shania Twain urge Trey to do his Chandler impression.
Jake: Why don’t I drive you? Terry: I dunno, because I didn’t really think of you as that kind of friend. Jake: Sarge, I’m every kind of friend. I’m Phoebe, I’m Chandler, I’m Rachel, I’m… who’s the dinosaur guy? Terry:Ross Bro! Ross! Jake: Sorry, I forgot, you’re such a Ross-head.
Community: Abed unfavorably compares Jeff and Britta to Ross and Rachel. He also references the time Rachel tried to see Chandler's penis to even the score after he saw her naked.
Glee: Rachel Berry was named after Rachel Green as her dads are fans of the show.
The Good Place: Michael watches the entire series to better understand humans and friendship. He also asks the Judge if she really believes that Phoebe belongs in The Bad Place after conceding that the other five friends most likely belong there.
Murder, She Wrote features an episode centered around the cast of a show called "BUDS", complete with expies of each of the main characters.
In one 1995 episode, Lisa Kudrow and Jennifer Aniston surprise David Schwimmer on SNL while he performs a little skit of the theme song.
The show even did a skit of Friends in a 1997 episode with Matthew Perry as a guest star, who interrupted the skit, objecting to Colin Quinn's gay portrayal of his character from the show.
Scrubs had the Janitor tell JD that his romance with Elliot is a classic sitcom romance.
Janitor: Now you two aren't exactly like Ross and Rachel.
JD: Who are Ross and Rachel?
Janitor: -points at a random couple- You know, Ross and Rachel, from book-keeping.
In a first season episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, when Dick gushes about how he's become someone's friend, Harry responds by singing the first line of the theme song, "I'll Be There for You."
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: The US version hosted by Drew Carey would reference the show a lot. For example -
"Wow, look at all those new viewers out there. Friends must be a rerun!"
"A special welcome to you viewers that have realized that Friends is gettin' just a little bit tired."
"The only difference between our cast and the cast of Friends is that the cast of Friends is richer, better looking, and more popular. Other than that, no difference at all."
Before one edition of "Film Dub", Drew commented that it was a great game to play while watching Friends.
Portuguese comedic group Gato Fedorento named themselves by translating the song "Smelly Cat".
Stay Tooned!: The channel surfing portion at the beginning of the game has a parody of the show, called Frauds, which depicts the cast of Friends as mannequins.
Square Root of Minus Garfield: The strip "No Time For the Dog!" has Jon informing Garfield that they're running out of jokes and that they have to escape the comic. Garfield, in response, asks, "Where to?" Jon replies, "Isn't it obvious? We need somewhere that will appreciate our particular brand of of repeated identical gags and two-dimensional characters!" Garfield then says, "Of course! To ''Friends''!"
Sheldon: This strip lampoons Netflix's announcing shows based on super-obscure Marvel characters and shows us "the bottom of the barrel" - one of them being MODOK and F-R-I-E-N-D-S, featuring MODOK alongside Chandler, Rachel, Ross, and Joey.
DaThings: In "Corn Area", a poop of the Star Fox 64 intro, the canon villain Andross is replaced with Ross.
In the Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon "Later That Night...", Strong Mad dresses up as Monica and Rachel's apartment door. He also calls himself "Mrs. Chanandler Bong", the name that Chandler has his TV Guide delivered to.
Lloyd, written by Friends fan Brad Jones (who once had a "Friendsuary" on The Cinema Snob, with films starring the show's main actors), has the two most prominent female characters named Gladys and Glynis.
My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale: In the very first episode, “A Home To Share”, as Izzy sets up a couch, Hitch says Ross' "PIVOT!" line.
In Red vs. Blue, as it's discussed how to make Kimball and Doyle put their differences aside, Grif suggests inviting both to the same place. Once it's pointed out that is a cliché sitcom plot, he responds "And one of those sitcoms was called Friends, which is exactly what we want them to be! Case closed!"
The short "Acquaintances" has the Warner Siblings tormenting the cast of Friends.
In the short, “Jokahontas”, Wakko brings back the remnants of a hunt, which included the cast of Friends, only for Yakko to say that they’re everywhere.
Wakko: The cast of Friends?
Yakko: So? Those guys are everywhere! I’m still not impressed.
In one ending gag of the show, Wakko asks Yakko & Dot if they want to hear him burp the theme to Friends.
In "Three Kings", in the segment spoofing The Shawshank Redemption, Carter/Norton is watching Friends while Peter/Andy escapes; to avoid being heard, he pounds a rock on the sewer pipe in tempo with the clapping in the theme song.
In "Baby Got Black", Peter mentions the cast of Friends during the song "Thank the Whites".
In "Peter & Lois' Wedding", they used to live in an apartment with Cleveland, Quagmire, and two Bonnies in a similar lifestyle to the cast of Friends.
In the Kim Possible episode "Dimension Twist", the characters are Trapped in TV Land and Shego ends up in Pals with obvious stand-ins for Rachel and Phoebe comforting Shego (who is now a stand-in for Monica) and later gets hit on by a Chandler expy. Kim later mentions being a fan of the show.
It's Pony: In "Scarecrow", Pony invites some crows to watch a marathon of a show called "Buddies", with both logo and name being an obvious reference to Friends.
At one point in the episode "How I Wet Your Mother", during Homer's dream, he randomly gains Rachel's hair, then proceeds to compare Marge to Chandler.
In "Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade", the Simpsons get satellite TV and watch a Japanese version of Friends.
Japanese Chandler: Do you like my new shirt? It says "Reggae Hairstyle Rock N' Roll." Could I be more Japanese?
Japanese Phoebe: You are the emperor of last year.
Japanese Chandler: (lowers head) Your comeback shames me.
In "Midnight Rx", Mr. Burns cuts the company's health insurance plans, and the Simpsons wonder what they'll do for health insurance.
Homer: I'll get a second job, one that pays well. You think those guys on Friends need another friend?
Lisa: That show's gone off the air.
Homer: Damn it. I would've been perfect as Rachel's Irish cousin. (in Irish accent) "So you're all doin' each other, are ya? But who's gonna put out for old Seamus?"
Futurama: In the episode "Love and Rocket", Lrrr watches the show and questions as to why Ross, the largest friend, doesn't just eat the others.
My Little Pony: Pony Life: In the episode, “The Root of It”, Applejack goes to a hair salon, and gets a new mane cut, similar to Rachel's hairstyle on the show, only to arrive the next day and find out that her friends have all gotten the exact same hairstyle. This leads to Rarity saying she pioneered Applejack’s not-average mane style on a fun show about a group of companions called Chums, which is a play-on to the title. At the end of the episode, the Mane Six parody the pilot intro to the show.
has Jon informing Garfield that they're running out of jokes and that they have to escape the comic. Garfield, in response, asks, "Where to?" Jon replies, "Isn't it obvious? We need somewhere that will appreciate our particular brand of of repeated identical gags and two-dimensional characters!" Garfield then says, "Of course! To ''Friends''!"