When you concentrate on Matt LeBlanc’s portrayal of Joey Tribbiani on Pals — one of many finest sitcoms of all time — you would possibly recall his most hilarious quotes about meals or the disgusting job of consuming Rachel’s Thanksgiving trifle. David Schwimmer, nonetheless, has one not-so-fond reminiscence. The actor who performed Ross Gellar recalled one “genuinely scary” incident that occurred on the set of Pals that concerned LeBlanc getting injured whereas capturing a scene.
David Schwimmer, who is ready to star on the brand new season of Goosebumps on the 2025 TV schedule (streaming with both a Disney+ subscription or a Hulu subscription), recalled a reasonably scary scene again once they had been filming a Season 3 episode of Pals. In “The One The place No One’s Prepared,” Joey and Chandler’s combat over a chair had fairly a painful ending for Matt LeBlanc, as Schwimmer advised EW:
Through the dwell taping of the present, [Matt LeBlanc] is meant to do a type of a pratfall, and he really dislocated his shoulder. He went completely white, and he stood up, and I may see his shoulder was out. He appeared like he was going to cross out.
If it weren’t for the truth that Matt LeBlanc was injured within the filming of that scene, it might really be fairly humorous that the characters’ infantile argument led to considered one of them getting damage. Joey and Chandler (Matthew Perry) had been being fairly petty, with Joey stealing the chair cushions — “the essence of the chair” — when he went to prepare for Ross’ work occasion. He then realized that Chandler had hid all of his underwear and responded by placing on all the pieces Chandler owned. “May I BE carrying any extra garments?”
To must see Matt LeBlanc damage in such a means, nonetheless, should have been so unsettling for David Schwimmer and his co-stars — not solely to see the dislocated shoulder, however to see how the damage affected LeBlanc. Schwimmer mentioned he shortly referred to as for assist, persevering with:
[I was] instantly turning to the digital camera like, ‘Minimize, minimize, minimize.’ That was genuinely scary. You possibly can see how badly damage he was. And we needed to cease filming that evening, clearly, and he went to hospital.
With Pals being one of many most rewatchable TV reveals, some followers won’t have realized that Matt LeBlanc really damage himself in that episode, however they probably bear in mind the one which adopted — “The One With the Jam.” Originally of that episode, Chandler is proven reacting to Joey supposedly dislocating his shoulder whereas leaping on the mattress, thus explaining why his arm was in a sling for the remainder of that episode.
Greater than twenty years later, that’s one behind-the-scenes story that David Schwimmer hasn’t fairly gotten over, as he emphasised:
That was scary.
If you wish to relive considered one of David Schwimmer’s scariest moments from Pals (and Matt LeBlanc in all probability doesn’t like it both), all 10 seasons of Pals can be found to stream with a Max subscription. You can even see Schwimmer when Goosebumps premieres on Friday, January 10 on Disney+ and Hulu.