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"Best part of New Girl last night? Hands down, the flashbacks to Schmidt and Nick meeting at college, in an extremely college way. It was love at first dried-noodle bite. Jess and Cece, too, took stock of their friendship, wondering if they&amp;#x27;d still be friends if they met today. Which reminded me: we&amp;#x27;ve spend hundreds of our TV hours watching longtime cliques, and often it&amp;#x27;s easy to forget how they got that way--not least because some shows devote no more than a glancing line to their group&amp;#x27;s beginnings. How many of these did you know by heart? Friends There&amp;#x27;s the stuff everybody knows: Ross and Monica are siblings, and Monica and Rachel are high school best friends who reconnect in the pilot when Rachel ditches her wedding. But it wasn&amp;#x27;t til &amp;quot;The One With the Flashback&amp;quot; that we learned how the guys across the hall, Chandler and Joey, first met: through a rando-roommate search. (Remember when Monica spots Joey and invites him over for &amp;quot;lemonade?&amp;quot;) That just leaves Phoebe Buffay. Because her early onscreen near-tryst with Ross is so memorable, it&amp;#x27;s easy to forget that Phoebs also came in by way of Craigslist (or its 90s predecessor)--she answered Monica&amp;#x27;s ad for an apartment share. Seinfeld Yes, Kramer lived across the hall, and Elaine and Jerry dated (in 1986, to be precise!)--but how did George get into the mix? He and Jerry met in high school in Brooklyn, during gym class. They went on to spend many a teenage afternoon at Mario&amp;#x27;s Pizzas, playing... FROGGER! How I Met Your Mother It&amp;#x27;s all there in the fifth episode of season three, appropriately titled &amp;quot;How I Met Everyone Else.&amp;quot; Lily + Ted = they think they made out at school, but later find out they didn&amp;#x27;t. Lily + Marshall = she asked him for help setting up her stereo in the dorm. Ted + Marshall = Marshall was smoking weed and got nervous when he saw Ted walk in, &amp;#x27;cause he thought he was the dean. Ted + Barney = Predictably, Barney spotted Ted and McLaren&amp;#x27;s and wanted to make him over inside and out (we have to thank him for banishing Ted&amp;#x27;s awful goatee). Robin + Ted = they dated and moved in together when she lost her job, and remained rooomates after their relationship ended. Happy Endings HE is a baby compared to these other shows, so some things are still unclear. Everyone met because of the formerly engaged Alex and Dave, but how did Alex and Dave meet? The rest of the equation is there: Alex and Jane are sisters, and Penny grew up with them--I love the above clip about their pig latin. (Tell me if I missed something.) *Update: intrepid commenter esandercock points out that Dave is also part of the Penny/Kerkovich sisters&amp;#x27; childhood circle. Dave, Brad and Jane met in college, where Dave introduced the two, totally unaware of the years of makeout-witnessing he&amp;#x27;d have to do thereafter. Penny and Max also met in college, when she was his last girlfriend before he came out of the closet (a distinction every girl dreams of). The Golden Girls Rose and Dorothy came to Blanche&amp;#x27;s house as tenants before they were all swishy-skirt-rocking pals. And Sophia moved in after her retirement home burned down. Oh my God, that clip above is the whole episode &amp;quot;How We Met.&amp;quot; Bid productivity adieu. Sex and the City Carrie is the sun SATC orbits around--and through chance encounters in New York, she managed to bring three very different ladies together. The show has always implied Carrie and Samantha knew each other the longest, from their 80s partying days (Samantha is rumored to figure into The Carrie Diaries!). Samantha was bartending at the legendary rock club CBGB. Later, Carrie met Miranda when Carrie was working at Bloomingdale&amp;#x27;s--Miranda was crying in the dressing room. Charlotte was the last one into the group--she and Carrie met on the subway, when a man flashed them. I have to give a shout-out here to this awesome SATC timeline, which outlines the girls&amp;#x27; journey based on clues fromt he series. (Oh, and the clip above? That&amp;#x27;s not them meeting. That&amp;#x27;s just a moment I sobbed over as the show wound down. Go ahead, watch. You&amp;#x27;ve already ruined your work rep spending an hour on Golden Girls.) How many of these did you recall? More on TV... These Happy Endings and Apt. 23 GIFs Make Us Feel Like We&amp;#x27;re Hanging With Our Craziest BFF TV-Inspired Group Halloween Costumes Ways to Make the Bachelor Couples Last Longer P.S. Want more Obsessed? Sign up for our awesome daily newsletter that features the latest celebrity gossip, TV news, hilarious Internet sensations, and more! Photo: IMDB"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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