Question: What year did the series finale of "Friends" take place?
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The series' creators completed the first draft of the hour-long finale in January 2004, four months before its original airing.
Crane, Kauffman and Bright watched the finales of other sitcoms to prepare the episode's outline, paying attention to what worked and what did not.
They liked the ones that stayed true to the series, citing the finale of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" as the gold standard.
Crane, Kauffman, and Bright had difficulty writing the finale, and spent several days thinking about the final scene without being able to write a word.
They did not want to do "something high concept, or take the show out of the show".
The most critical parts of the finale were shot without an audience, and with a minimum number of crew members.
The main cast enjoyed the finale and were confident that the fans would react similarly:NBC heavily promoted the series finale, which was preceded by weeks of media hype.
Local NBC affiliates organized viewing parties around the U.S., including an event at Universal CityWalk featuring a special broadcast of the finale on an outdoor Astrovision screen.
The finale was the subject of two episodes of "Dateline NBC", a weekly television newsmagazine, one of which ran for two hours.
A one-hour retrospective of clips from previous episodes was shown before to the airing of the episode.
Following the finale, "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" was filmed on the set of the "Friends"' Central Perk coffee house, which featured the series' cast as guests.
The advertising rates for the finale averaged $2 million for 30 seconds of commercial time, breaking the record held by the "Seinfeld" finale at $1.7 million.
In the U.S., 52.5 million viewers watched the finale on May 6, 2004, making it the most watched entertainment telecast since the "Seinfeld" finale in 1998.
Although it was not the series' most watched episode, the finale was the fourth most watched series finale in television history, only behind the finales of "M*A*S*H", "Cheers" and "Seinfeld", which were respectively watched by 105, 80.4 and 76.2 million viewers.
The retrospective episode was watched by fewer than 36 million viewers, and the finale was the second most watched television episode of the year, only behind the Super Bowl.
Following the finales of "Friends" and "Frasier", media critics speculated about the fate of the sitcom genre.
Expressed opinions varied between a signaling of the end of the sitcom genre, a small decline in the large history of the genre, and a general reduction of scripted television in favor of reality shows. 
Writing and music.
The series' creators completed the first draft of the hour-long finale in January 2004, four months prior to its airing on May 6.
Before writing the episode, David Crane, Marta Kauffman and Kevin S. Bright decided to watch the series finales of other sitcoms, paying attention to what worked and what did not.
Kauffman found that they liked the ones which stayed true to the series, and they found the finale of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" to be the gold standard.
The writers had difficulty writing the finale, and spent several days thinking about the finale scene without being able to write a word.
Crane said that they did not want to do "something high concept, or take the show out of the show".
The music playing as the camera pans across the empty apartment at the end of the episode is "Embryonic Journey" by Jefferson Airplane.
The song "Yellow Ledbetter" by the band Pearl Jam is also featured in the episode—after Rachel boards the plane for the first time—making it the first Pearl Jam song to be licensed for a television show.
A spokesperson of the group said it was, "simply a matter of the show's producers asking permission". 
The Finale will take place in a secret location somewhere in the UK during the weekend of 10 September 2011.
Whoever completes the Finale will win the prize, a specially commissioned mathematical sculpture. 
Character history.
Series 1.
In "Jal", Jal anticipates her clarinet recital (for place of BBC Young Musician of the Year) and impresses all her friends by looking great.
Her clarinet is broken by Sid's drug dealing enemy Madison Twatter who smashes it before being chased away by her brothers Ace and Lynton (who are subsequently beaten into hospital).
Her dad surprises her by buying her a new clarinet and having Madison abducted (presumably killed).
Later, in "Chris" it is revealed she did not win Young Musician of the Year and only received £25 to cover her traveling costs.
She grows closer to Chris as he is abandoned by both parents and left homeless, whilst beginning to become aware of his drug addiction.
In "Sid" she is critical of Sid for how he treats Cassie and is there to take Cassie to hospital after an overdose.
She tells the doctors that she is Cassie's sister, and gets rid of Sid, with whom she is angry, hoping Cassie will recover.
In the series finale, she dances with Kenneth at Anwar Kharral's birthday party and the two seem to grow closer.
When Chris starts a brawl, she makes easy work in fighting some of the large male attackers. 
By audience share, the highest rated finale to date was from the series "M*A*S*H" in 1983.
The episode, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", gained an audience share of over 77%.
In the extended-length episode, the Korean War ends, and the characters of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital make their goodbyes and finally go home.
Another famous series finale is that of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", which aired in 1977.
"Friends" ended in 2004 with 52.5 million Americans watching, making it the most watched entertainment telecast in six years.
The finale was the second most-watched television show of the year, behind the Super Bowl.
Named "The Last One", it showed all six cast member starting new lives: Rachel moving to Paris but later returning after Ross says he loves her, Monica and Chandler finally having children when their surrogate gives birth to twins, Joey is still living in his apartment with a job on Days of our Lives while Phoebe and Mike decide to have children.
The show ends with all six friends standing in Monica's empty apartment, before going to get some coffee.
The last words that were said by Chandler who says "where" referring to where to get coffee which is ironic because they have spent the last 10 years getting coffee at Central Perk.
Some positive critical reviews come from shows that have controversial or twist endings.
The finale of "The Prisoner", "Fall Out," caused controversy by providing a cryptic end to the series.
The lead actor of the series, Patrick McGoohan, wrote and directed the final episode.
He recalled in an interview years later that the final episode attracted a large audience, who demanded a clear resolution to the series.
McGoohan recalled having to hide from fans immediately afterwards because of the reaction to the ending.
The episode "The Last Newhart" ended the series "Newhart", by revealing the run of the series to be a dream conjured up by the main character of "The Bob Newhart Show".
In a similar vein, the series "St.
Elsewhere" ended with the suggestion that the entire series is a fantasy of a small boy in the episode "The Last One".
The series finale of "Seinfeld", "The Finale," was seen by 76.3 million viewers.
The episode has the four main cast members facing most of the show's minor characters as they testified against them in a criminal trial; the four had been charged with, and would be convicted of, violating a Good Samaritan law.
The episode ended up with mixed reviews, with its supporters believing that it summarized the series perfectly and its detractors stating that the finale was inadequate for fans who had watched the series for nine years.
The final episode of "", "", won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
The 2005 series finale of "Six Feet Under", "Everyone's Waiting", was ranked as episode #22 on "TV Guide"'s list of "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time", and was also named one of the best TV moments of the decade.
The series "Lost" picked up 13 Emmy nominations in the 2010 Emmy Awards, seven of which were for the series finale "The End".
The Sopranos finale caused millions of viewers to temporarily believe they had lost cable service due to an abrupt blackout finale; the final scene left open the fate of Tony Soprano (series creator David Chase had wanted the cut to black to last for several minutes and take the place of post-show credits, so that the first thing the audience would see was an HBO notice, but the network refused this and there was a very short jump from the final shot to the credits).
The 2013 series finale of "Breaking Bad", "Felina" had the highest ratings of any episode of the series and received critical acclaim, praising the proper conclusion of a series that ties up all loose ends and a wrap-up that proved to feel conclusive and satisfying.
The finale also set records on the social media network Twitter, with 1.24 million tweets from 601,370 unique users during the live broadcast of both the EST and PST telecasts.
The Breaking Bad finale hit a peak of 22,373 "tweets"-per-minute as the final episode began on the East Coast.