It is a truth universally acknowledged that every single person in possession of a television must have seen Friends – twice. We bet that you could even head into the dense tropical forests of Indonesia, find your way to the timber treehouses of the Karowai tribe, scream “WE WERE ON A BREAK” at them, and they’d know exactly what (and, more importantly, who) you’re referring to.

Yet, even now, the show manages to catch us off-guard, with little known facts, compelling (albeit dark) fan theories and previously unnoticed mistakes. For every pleasant surprise, though, there is one to make us question society at large (think the time Lisa Kudrow was the victim of misogynist abuse on set) – and this story about the banning of an iconic Friends scene is one such occasion.

The sad reason this Friends scene was banned from being shown on TV