I know exactly what you mean, Kathleen. I can also pinpoint the exact moment I fell in love with Friends...it was in the pilot. The friends are in Monica's apartment watching TV and Chandler says "Wait...I think this is the episode of Three's Company where there's some kind of misunderstanding."

I howled.

Friends always reminds me of BMC too...the first season was our senior year, and every Thursday night me, Jessica Walcott and Colleen Regan (my chemistry friends) would gather in my dorm room in Radnor and watch it.