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*'''Alternative way of "giving the finger"''': When they were kids, Ross came up with an alternative way to give Monica the [[the finger|middle finger]] when their parents were around. Both hands, formed into fists, would pound together sideways in front of the person two times quickly. Ross is first seen using this on Rachel in "[[The One With Joey's New Girlfriend]]", and when Rachel asks what it means, Monica explains. Later in the same episode, it is revealed that they also have another alternative to cursing that includes grabbing the neck with your elbows sticking out and waving your elbows towards the other person, although it is never explained exactly what it is an alternative to. Though everyone makes fun of the alternative finger gesture when it is first introduced, in later episodes, the characters are seen using the gag independent of its context here. This is largely because as a network television show, ''Friends'' cannot show characters giving the finger, and the Ross gesture makes a useful and humorous substitute.

*'''"Sticky Fingers"''': The Friends often [[steal]] money from each other. Monica will pick up any [[cash]] she sees laying around at Ross's, Phoebe picked Monica's pocket for "[[seed money]]" for Monica's bridal shower, and Rachel stole money from Ross's wallet while also stealing the keys to the [[Porsche]].

*'''[[Porn]]''': The men of the show sometimes discussed or hinted at having watched pornography. This is most notable in the episode "[[The One With The Free Porn]]" when Chandler and Joey discover that the porn channel on their cable is unscrambled and they spend most of the episode watching free porn. This leads to the other characters also thinking constantly about porn, as Rachel is unknowingly singing the theme to "Good Will Humping" and Monica's fantasy about Ross meeting his girlfriend Emily at the airport turns into a sexual encounter involving a stewardess, ending with the comment, "I've been watching too much porn!" In another episode Joey shockingly finds an adult film starring Phoebe. It is later revealed by watching the movie (under much debate) a tattoo on that the porn star is indeed Phoebe's twin sister, Ursula, starring in the fictional adult film falsely under her sister's name (revealedappearing on the video box as "Phoebe Buffay in: ''Buffay the Vampire Layer''"). In a subsequent episode, Monica tries to lure the gang over to her new apartment with baked goods and [[Playboy Magazine]], prompting Ross to say "Cookies and porn? You're the best Mom ever!" The men, Chandler in particular, also periodically talk about strip joints. In "[[The One With Joey's Dirty Day]]", Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe take Chandler to a strip joint to help him get over his break-up with [[List of significant others of Friends#Kathy 2|Kathy]]. In an interview, [[Matthew Perry]] revealed that one idea for an episode that he rejected was on in which Chandler kept coming back to a male strip club because he liked the sandwiches. In Season 2, Joey's first job was revealed to have been in a porn movie. Apparently he could not do it and got a role as a technician who told the people having intercourse on the copier that it could not be good for the machine.

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