Friends

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Pre-broadcast audience research

After the finale was broadcast, The Smoking Gun made available the May 27, 1994 "Program Test Report" summarizing the audience reaction to a version of what became the pilot episode. Overall reactions to the pilot were "not very favorable"; most viewers felt the show was "not very entertaining, clever, or original". The report recommended:

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The Smoking Gun - May 27 - 1994

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• Broadening the show to include some older characters
• Adding more humor
• Changing the pilot so that the audience could become more involved emotionally with the show's characters
• Toning down the sexual situations, at least at the beginning of the series
• Having Chandler talk about his dreams on a recurring basis
• Incorporating Phoebe more into the stories
• Make the coffee shop less "funky"