Matthew Perry had this request for the ‘Friends’ series finale: ‘No one else will care’

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A year before his death, Matthew Perry revealed that he asked “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman to give him the final line of the series. “No one else will care about this except me,” Perry wrote in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”“So may I please have the last line?” he asked the producer.

Perry’s wish, of course, was granted, as the Season 10 finale ended with Chandler and Monica (played by Perry and Courteney Cox) saying goodbye to their empty apartment alongside Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Ross (David Schwimmer).At one point, Rachel suggests they all go grab a final cup of coffee before Chandler and Monica leave New York City and go to live in the suburbs with their children. “Sure,” Chandler responds. “Where?” As dedicated viewers know, the group would always meet up at their local Central Perk coffee place. “I got to bring the curtain down on ‘Friends,'” the actor wrote. “I love the look on Schwimmer’s face as I deliver that line — it’s the perfect mixture of affection and amusement, exactly what the show ‘Friends’ had always given to the world.”Perry was found submerged and unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home.

He was declared dead at the scene at age 54 on Oct. 28. Fans have taken to social media to react to Perry’s “Friends” revelation. “This was the perfect last words on ‘Friends,'” one stated. “Inside joke was that the Central Perk set had already been taken down.”“I cried my eyes out during the finale,” a second user noted.