Friends is one of the untouchables. It's one of those shows that is and will forever be as close to perfect as 90s sitcoms could get. Ugly Naked Guy ‘n' all.
And while behind the scenes secrets, plot holes and totally lol camera fails are bound to creep up over time, I can’t be the only one whose heart cries a little bit every time they’re reminded that Friends is actually, like, a television programme. You know, one of those things created by actors, writers and producers and stuff whose job it is to tell stories and make things look like real life when it isn’t actually real life. And Phoebe, Monica, Rachel, Chandler, Ross and Joey aren’t frozen in time, sat in Central Perk, coffees in hand waiting for you to join them as their much awaited seventh friend. Sob.
But what happens when the secrets behind not one, but two worlds are revealed, colliding only to shatter everything you thought to be true about the mystical world of on screen entertainment? What happens then, huh? Because Friends and Home Alone have just been connected in the film and television cosmos and I don’t know how to deal.
Brace yourself, kids. The house that Monica and Chandler move to in the suburbs (when they've got the twins and need more space to raise a fam and then everyone has to give back their keys and it's all very very sad) is the very same house that little Kevin McCallister defends from the Wet Bandits in the film Home Alone. I know. My jaw dropped too.
You probably have questions. So do we. Thankfully though, there’s a super handy video that explains the whole thing.
Turns out that the houses you can see through the window when Monica and Chandler go to view their new home, match up to the houses across the road from the McCallister mansion. Maddness.
According to Digital Spy, the production company contacted the people who live in the house and they confirmed that it is in fact the house that was used for both the show and the film. Apparently the theory is that *Friends *used 'stock Home Alone footage', pressumably on a green screen of some sort, outside of Monica and Chandler's new house.
Oh and one more thing. That house, the one that just about anybody on TV can just waltz into and fake inhabit, isn’t actually in New York OR Chicago. No, no. It's in Winnetka, Illinois! I don’t know if I feel enlightened or deceived.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.