She led the all-star cast for ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience as Blair Warner on The Facts of Life. And during Jennifer Aniston’s performance, the actress gave a nod to the show Friends, which she starred in from 1994 until 2004. The star, 52, said ‘I’ll be there for you’ during a scene, which is a nod to the Friends theme song of the same name by The Rembrandts.
With its focus on blended family, the show – a TV mainstay following its 1978 launch – would prove to be groundbreaking for the time and used its platform to illustrate a variety of social problems, notably racism, child abuse, kidnapping and drug abuse at a time when the crack cocaine epidemic was destroying inner city communities across the United States.
In spin-off The Facts Of Life, which aired from 1979 to 1988, Mrs. Edna Garrett, the Drummonds’ former housekeeper, navigates a group of girls at a female boarding school through the issues commonly faced by teenagers as they enter adulthood.
Live in Front of a Studio Audience was produced by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear, the third time the duo has joined forces to bring back classic TV episodes with a star-studded cast. The first special aired in May 2019 featuring classic episodes of All in the Family and The Jeffersons, with the second airing in December 2019, featuring All in the Family and Good Times.
Friends featured Courteney Cox (Monica Gellar), Jennifer (Rachel Green), Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay) and David Schwimmer (Ross Gellar).