Chandler in a box!
Meat in the trifle!
but one that always scores a touchdown with fans is theseason 3episode The One With the Football.
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For the uninitiated (what did you even do with your youth?
), the gang gets together for a quick game of football while the turkey cooks.
But a lifelong sibling rivalry between Monica and Ross threatens to outshine the fun.
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He ultimately located one that was empty and set up some temporary bleachers for the audience.
But that was the easy part.
What about the New York backdrop?
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The fall leaves on the ground?
But this was a big exterior.
The hardest thing to do on any show, especially a multi-camera show is to do outside, inside.
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shares the veteran production designer.
I said, Well in New York on Thanksgiving there arent any cars!
The streets are dead quiet I lived there!
With barely a week to go, the construction team got real busy.
We pulled out every trick we know on how to make inside look outside, says Shaffner.
Then came the big question of whats the ground in the park made of?
We didnt really want it to look like a field of fresh grass in November.
Then there was anxiousness about what if the actors fell would they hurt themselves?
So we put a little padding underneath.
We did two layers of that stuff and then covered it with leaves.
Every episode is an experience unto itself, he says.
That atmosphere you get watching an afternoon of Thanksgiving in New York?
That was our goal and we were proud of that.
