Actor Tom Selleck was already a famous name when he starred in, but he still needed some tips from fellow co-star, the late Matthew Perry, when doing an iconic scene.

Tom Selleck opened up about his experience of channeling Matthew Perry's character, Chandler Bing. During his interview with , the actor discussed an ongoing gag in "The One Where Old Yeller Dies," a Season 2 episode where Joey and Chandler start behaving like Richard after hanging out with him. "We had this role reversal thing going, where (Richard) tried to be like them, and them like me," Selleck explained.

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During one of the shots, Richard says Chandler's signature line, "Could that shot any prettier?" but the actor had some trouble delivering the line the way Perry did. "Matthew had this speech pattern that I hadn't been aware of," Selleck says. "Matt told me: 'It's a joke, Tom. It's the way he says it.' But during that whole show, I kept going up to him asking, 'Can you say it again?' and he'd do the line," Selleck recalled. "That was his signature."

"Everybody couldn't have been nicer to me," Selleck says of his

co-stars. "But every day I'd see Matthew, and I'd ask him, 'How's your father?'" referring to actor John Bennett Perry. "And he'd always smile, and we'd catch up. I got to know his father when I was a young struggling actor. Almost any commercial or pilot I went out on, there was John. We became real good friends."

Tom Selleck played Richard Burke, an ophthalmologist who starts dating Monica in Season 2. Although Selleck only appeared in 10 episodes across ' 10 seasons, he made a lasting impression. Richard was Monica's second-most serious boyfriend, and, following their heartbreaking breakup in Season 2, Selleck had brief appearances in Seasons 3 and 6.

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Friends Was Filled With Catchphrases

"Could that ... be ... any" was Chandler Bing's catchphrase, and he used it several times throughout the 234 episodes of the beloved sitcom. Chandler was dubbed the , and he was easily also the funniest. Always with a sarcastic comment or funny anecdotes, Chandler went from a commitment-phobe to the series' most reliable partner after starting to date Monica in Season 5. However, he wasn't the only one with a catchphrase.

One of the most was Janice's "Oh my God," reaction, which the characters impersonated throughout the series. Phoebe's "Oh no" lament was also an iconic catchphrase, alongside Monica's "I know," Rachel's terrified "no," and Ross' sad "hi."

ran between 1994 and 2004, and the cast reunited for Max's documentary in 2021. Both and are streaming on Max.

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