The Cast Of "Friends" Drank Enough Coffee To Kill 1900 People According To Study

[Initech]

In a cup or two a day, the caffeine in coffee tweaks us out enough to be the driving force behind the workforce. Ingest all the coffee that they did on Friends, however, and you’ll be asking yourself, “could I be…any more dead?”

No TV show exemplified our love of coffee more than Friends. An appreciable percentage of the show took place in a coffee shop, and it introduced us to the monstrous 20 oz. mug. These six friends slurped more coffee than you are ever likely to see; they ingested enough caffeine over the years to kill hundreds of people.

To find out what kind of caffeine ingestion Joey, Chandler, Ross, Phoebe, Rachel and Monica had over the 10 seasons of Friends, we need to make a few assumptions. First, given their famous mugs, we’ll assume that they drink 20 oz. coffees. Second, we’ll assume that each friend consumes maybe two of these enormous drinks each episode. Finally, we assume that this kind of coffee mainlining happened over each of Friends’ 236 episodes.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/04/29/how-many-people-could-you-kill-with-all-the-caffeine-consumed-on-friends/

[LiberalAndProud]

1. It's a miracle I'm still alive.

This calls my entire worldview into question.

[d_r]

2. the guest bloggest at scientific american

has a fatal flaw with their methodology. They forgot that this was a longitudinal study. Those episodes took place over what, 10 or 11 years probably. They didn't ingest the caffeine all in one time, it was over years and wouldn't be close to a fatal dose. Over ten years I've drank enough alcohol to kill an elephant if it was ingested all at once, and enough sugar to kill a buffalo.

[MADem]

4. Precisely--each episode wasn't just one day--it could be a week or more. NT

[Tien1985]

3. I'm not a coffee drinker

But my mom could drink the friends cast under the table in coffee any day of the week. Either this is flawed, or my mother is some sort of Demi-goddess of coffe drinking.

[patricia92243]

5. "The Big Bang" gang would be sooooo fat - they eat all the time. n/t