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Series Name: Toronto’s Friends
Genre: Sitcom
Run-Time: 30 minute comedy
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Taping: Taped in front of a live studio audience at ICE Studios in Toronto, Ontario
Picture Quality: ICE HD in 1080i
Studios: ICE Studios, Schwimmer Productions, Degrassi Street Video, and BlueLick Media Group
Corporate Executive Producers: Pat Devine and David Schwimmer
Created By: David Schwimmer
Tagline: "At the End of the Day All You Need Are Your Friends"
Characters:
Central Perk Arms Tenants
Stephen Baldwin as Melvin Geller
Jennifer Connelly as Emily Thornton-Geller
Jerry Ferrara as Salvatore "Turtle" Assante
Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter
Adam Brody as Matt Hill
Scout Taylor-Compton as Jen “The Engine” Sanford
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Rebecca Horner
Vincent Chase as Greg Hansen
Kate Mara as Kate Taylor
Jerry Trainor as Wolfgang O'Hara
Erin Walsh as Tracy Hill
Lily Collins as Lily Parker
Lauren London as Keke Rollins
Sleepy Brown as Lupe
Toronto's Friends - 8:00pm - ICE Monday
Sitcom
The biggest comedy on UPN. Twelve diverse varied age strangers move into a Toronto apartment complex that's owned by a paleontologist named Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) who’s looking to make some extra income after moving from New York to Toronto. The strangers end up roommating and become very close friends living life in the city of Toronto. These friends will be very funny people.
Created & Written By: David Schwimmer
Main Cast (Regulars):
Stephen Baldwin as Melvin Geller
Jennifer Connelly as Emily Thornton-Geller
Jerry Ferrara as Salvatore "Turtle" Assante
Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter
Adam Brody as Matt Hill
Scout Taylor-Compton as Jen “The Engine” Sanford
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Rebecca Horner
Vincent Chase as Greg Hansen
Kate Mara as Katherine “Kate” Ronstadt
Jerry Trainor as Wolfgang O'Hara
Erin Walsh as Tracy Hill
Lily Collins as Lily Parker
Lauren London as Keke Rollins
Sleepy Brown as Lupe
Recurring Roles:
David Schwimmer as Ross Geller
Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing
Aubrey Graham a.k.a. Drake Drizzy as Drake Smith
Remy Thorne as Jaime Wentworth
Alexandra Holden as Elizabeth Patterson
Christopher Massey as Cousin Rob Baxter
Texas Battle as Keith Westbrook
Shoshana Bush as Dana Storms
Kina Dean as Kina Ryan
Executive Producers
David Schwimmer
Matthew Perry
Kevin S. Bright
Scout Taylor-Compton
Season 1
New, HD, “The One Where Everybody Moves In”, (2009), (TV-PG), New York paleontologist Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) recently had his job relocate him to Toronto where his cousin annoying and obnoxious Cousin Melvin lives. Melvin owns a bunch of real estate property in Toronto and offers Ross to takeover operations of a new under budgeted apartment complex close to downtown Toronto where Ross can earn extra income and accomplish his dreams of building his own research practice. With the direction of Ross and Melvin the building finally gets completed and is ready to go under the name of Central Perk Arms which is named after Ross’ favorite adult hangout when he was living in New York. Melvin is now the building’s landlord. With Ross now taking over operations he looks for tenants to rent out the apartments, condos, lofts, and the penthouse in the building. Most of the apartments quickly get filled up except an unfinished loft on the building’s top floor. Ross goes to the extremes and puts the loft up for sale online since no one locally seemed to be interested in moving into it. From there twelve diverse young people travel from both the US and Canada to move into the apartment complex to pay for the opportunity to pay cheaper rent. Little did they know they know that the move would be crowded? (Sitcom)
S01 E01
Original Airdate: 6/30/09
New, HD, “The One Where Rebecca & Melvin Street Dance”, (2009), (TV-PG), After a week of getting acquainted with each other and noticing how noisy and annoying their landlord Melvin is they start to get to know the city they live in. Rebecca hits the streets of Toronto where she meets a bunch of hip-hoppers dancing live on the streets including a possible love interest named Keith so Rebecca shows them her moves and starts hanging out with them. Melvin notices Rebecca dancing and wants to be apart of the group of hip-hoppers but makes an ass of himself so Rebecca tries to teach him what she knows but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Cory and Turtle fight over offerings in the refrigerator. (Sitcom)
S01 E02
Original Airdate: 6/30/09
New, HD, “The One About the Bathroom Troubles”, (2009), (TV-PG), With the roommates settling in the difficulties of living in a limited sized living space takes its toll on everybody including the amount of time certain roommates take in the bathroom. Lily, Tracy, and Keke all fight over bathroom time in the mornings but realize at the end of the day that the other two bathrooms are always used by the boys and Greg spends an awful amount of time in the bathroom so the girls resort to confronting him about it and are forced to sneak into the Geller’s apartment only to be caught by Melvin’s wife Emily who questions them. Meanwhile Lupe and Matt are addicted to a video game and spend hours and hours on it. (Sitcom)
S01 E03
Original Airdate: 7/5/09
New, HD, “The One With All the Secrets”, (2009), (TV-PG), As the roommates start feeling comfortable with one another they have a night together where they talk about stories of their lives building a trust between everybody but it starts getting out of hand when gossiper Lily starts making a regular occurrence out of it. The roommates start sharing a multitude of secrets with each other keeping the strain on the house at an all-time high as all secrets finally burst their bubble and get revealed by everyone together. Meanwhile, former college quarterback pheonom Greg tries out for the nearby Detroit Lions after a four year absence from the sport due to a life threatening injury suffered during his first year as a pro player. (Sitcom)
S01 E04
Original Airdate: 7/7/09
New, HD, “The One With Cousin Rob”, (2009), (TV-PG), Cory’s annoying cousin Rob comes by to visit after finding out that Cory had moved north of the border. Rob quickly takes over the house annoying all of Cory’s new roommates even hitting on all the females living in the house. Rob finally realizes his ways are not comforting to Cory or his roommates so he finds comfort in hanging out with the annoying landlord Melvin and together they become a horror for everybody. Meanwhile, Keke expresses her feelings to Jen about her crush on Greg. (Sitcom)
S01 E05
Original Airdate: 7/7/09
New, HD, “The One Where Greg Is Depressed”, (2009), (TV-PG), After Greg finds out that he didn’t make the Lions pre-camp roster for a shot to make the team for the upcoming season he starts to feel depressed and resort to depressed activities. Greg had a previously problem as a recovering alcoholic but starts to drink again. It doesn’t help much when Greg’s male roommates are supporting his bad habit by drinking with him while also watching TV and playing videogames all day with him so Keke becomes the supportive roommate and gives Greg tough love by confronting him about his depressing ways and drinking habit. Meanwhile, Jen finds out more about Melvin’s wife Mrs. Geller. (Sitcom)
S01 E06
Original Airdate: 7/12/09
New, HD, “The One Where Matt Writes About His Roommates”, (2009), (TV-PG), Matt has inspirations to become a screenplay writer so he uses his roommates lives as the subjects for his next screenplay which ends up doing more hard to everyone in the house than good. All of Matt’s roommates start stressing out over the screenplay trying to lie about their lives but it ends up erupting into the house’s first serious argument. Meanwhile, Kate find herself taking frequent naps with Lupe and then the two quickly try to cover it up in front of their roommates. (Sitcom)
S01 E07
Original Airdate: 7/14/09
New, HD, “The One With Turtle’s Fake Porsche”, (2009), (TV-PG), Turtle who has a boyhood love with cars has aspirations to get a new car but is jobless. Turtle uses another man’s Porsche parked on the street as his own and starts polishing it like it’s his own and ends up picking up the chicks on Degrassi Street. When the guy who owns the vehicle finds out Turtle has been using it as his own he confronts him so Turtle wants continue to impress the ladies so he makes a quick move and gets a bunch of boxes stacked up together in the shape of a car with a sheet over them but a bunch of kids play football on the street and run into the boxes exposing Turtle for the lair that he is. Meanwhile, Rebecca teachers the girls of the house how to dance. (Sitcom)
S01 E08
Original Airdate: 7/14/09
New, HD, “The One With the New Lady in Melvin’s Life”, (2009), (TV-PG), A new woman in the apartment complex just moves in and Melvin quickly flirts with her but there’s a problem the guy is practically married. While Melvin keeps it a secret, Lily finds out about it and tells Mrs. Geller about Melvin’s ways so the two spy on Melvin and catch him in action. Meanwhile, The boys go to a Blue Jays game against the New York Yankees but Turtle is a diehard Yankees fan making the boys do some evil things to him at the ball game. (Sitcom)
S01 E09
Original Airdate: 7/19/09
New, HD, “The One Where Jen Celebrates Her 22nd Birthday”, (2009), (TV-PG), Jen “The Engine” Sanford turns 22 years old and finds the age to be boring because it isn’t a milestone age. Jen decides not to celebrate the birthday but her roommates have other plans for her and throw her a huge party with most of the Central Perk Arms building joining them in their loft but Melvin ruins the occasion. Meanwhile, Cory and Keke notice their bad habit of eating cake ruined the party also. (Sitcom)
S01 E10
Original Airdate: 7/21/09
New, HD, “The One About the Night the Lights Went Off in Toronto”, (2009), (TV-PG), A city-wide power outage forces a blackout in the city leading to a crazy night of riots and strange happenings. The roommates spend the night together with just themselves and candles. Turtle, Matt, and Cory become apart of the crazy riots destroying the neighborhood and stealing stuff while getting caught by police and spending the night in lockup. Kate brings a new man home and Lily competes with Kate for his affection but makes an ass of her. Greg becomes stranded at an ATM store with a hot girl and attempts to flirt with her. Meanwhile, Lupe becomes a poet with the candles on and it annoys the rest of the roommates in the house. (Sitcom)
S01 E11
Original Airdate: 7/21/09
New, HD, “The One Where They Meet Toronto’s Trio of 3”, (2009), (TV-PG), A crossover episode featuring Toronto’s Trio of 3 girls Erin, Mia, and Heather including their good friend Isla all meet their neighbors for the first time so they start spending time with them. Mia starts dancing with Rebecca but slips on a move breaking her foot so she goes home where the roommates take care of her. Meanwhile, Greg meets Isla and the two starts off a possible romantic relationship. (Sitcom)
S01 E12
Original Airdate: 7/26/09
New, HD, “The One With Mia’s Broken Foot”, (2009), (TV-PG), A second crossover episode featuring Mia and Isla. Mia spends the night on the couch at the loft and takes advantage of the attention she’s getting from her neighbors by acting like a needy person and it starts to annoy the roommates so they come up with a plan to expose Mia for lying about her helpless ability after they find out she was walking on it. Meanwhile, Greg and Isla share a bowl of Cheerios together back at Isla’s place and get to know each other a little further. (Sitcom)
S01 E13
Original Airdate: 7/28/09
New, HD, “The One That’s Scary”, (2009), (TV-PG), Both Jen and Tracy go looking for something in the building’s creepy basement where they run into a man who in the shadow comes off as a yeti which frightens the girls and makes them scared of everything during the days after that. Jen and Tracy’s roommates take advantage of their frightful stage and start purposely spooking the hell out of the girls. Melvin’s little baby niece comes over for a visit spending time with him and Emily which makes the married couple think about having kids. Melvin’s baby niece brings over a doll which gives Jen, Tracy, and others in the house the chills when Keke, Cory, Rebecca, and Turtle all setup a bad scare on Jen and Tracy when others start going missing and they think it’s the doll doing some killing. Meanwhile, Isla watches Friday the 13th alone in her apartment which frightens her so Greg comes over to comfort her. (Sitcom)
S01 E14
Original Airdate: 7/28/09
New, HD, “The One Where They Play Flag Football”, (2009), (TV-PG), The roommates are challenged by a bunch of neighborhood kids to play flag football. Greg’s football background automatically makes him the leader of the roommates but he hurts one of his athletically challenged roommates Kate’s feelings when she drops the ball several times during the game leading the team to lose. Greg realizes how much he hurt Kate by yelling at her and embarrassing her so he tries to apologize to her after the game. Meanwhile, Melvin sets up a concession stand during the game trying to compete against a kid in the neighborhood but he becomes too over competitive for his own good. (Sitcom)
S01 E15
Original Airdate: 8/3/09
New, HD, “The One Where They Play Strip Poker”, (2009), (TV-PG), Matt LeBlanc’s character Joey moves to Toronto from Hollywood. Joey meets the roommates and gets settled into his new confinements so Joey convinces all the roommates to play a game of Strip Happy Days which is the name of the game for strip poker. Joey is all excited about the game and seeing the female roommates naked but he ends up being the first player out of the game so the focus shifts to Rebecca and her friend Keith. The two end up having an epic one on one showdown that was worth watching closely for the roommates. The only thing about the showdown is that it was attached with some romantic ties between Rebecca and Keith who share an interest with each other so Keith ends up letting Rebecca win on the last hand. Meanwhile, Wolfgang and Turtle try to find the cheapest place to buy their food for the house on their low budget. (Sitcom)
S01 E16
Original Airdate: 8/5/09
New, HD, “The One With All the Overnight Sex”, (2009), (TV-PG), Wolfgang takes Lily down to his place of work where he works with teens after school her age. Lily gets along the teens and quickly gets popular with them easing her into some peer pressure opportunities like going to an all night marathon making out party. While Lily is at the party she makes some of her roommates worried including her nosy landlord Melvin when she doesn’t tell them where she’s at. Wolfgang is deeply worried over her since he’s taken to Lily like his little sister since she moved in with him and the rest of the roommates. Lily meets a dangerous man who gives her promises and attempts to date rape her when a friend of hers that she meets there takes the drink away saving her for the night. Meanwhile, Matt and Cory meet a girl named Dana and end up fighting over her. (Sitcom)
S01 E17
Original Airdate: 8/10/09
New, HD, “The One With the Sex Tape Pt. 1”, (2009), (TV-14), The first season finale wraps up for the milestone franchise with the series’ first really important episode. The series that makes you laugh gets really serious now. Lily Parker is a young mischievous and beautiful young girl who finds herself in some troubling situations like prostituting at night but this time she’s not so lucky. Lily and her friend Kina find a new dancing opportunity and go to the auditions. Kina runs into the same guy she met at the party just a few nights ago and he requests to see her personally so he tells Lily to meet him at his apartment. Lily goes to the apartment and never returns. The roommates worry again but this time it’s serious as Lily is missing for 48 hours and her friend Kina hasn’t seen her since. This is an episode where the humor goes real dark and each character especially Wolfgang shows their emotions. Meanwhile, Greg and Isla finally share their first kiss but Keke who likes Greg sees it and panics. A cliffhanger moment happens at the end of the episode where Lily is shown strapped to a chair. (Sitcom)
S01 E18
Original Airdate: 8/10/09
Season 2
New, HD, “The One With the Sex Tape Pt. 2”, (2009), (TV-14), The second season premiere picks up right where we left off when Lily was shown strapped to a chair. Kate phones the authorities to see if they can help find Lily. Wolfgang starts going crazy with his worries making the roommates calm him down. As the hours continue to pass by and the frustrating wait for the cops to work on the missing persons report, the roommates start to argue with one another causing tension in the household until Mrs. Geller is able to stop all the fighting. Rebecca counsels up with Keith which leads to something more. Meanwhile, Isla starts ignoring Greg’s phone calls to her home leading Greg to believe she’s scared to continue on with him. A sex tape is released to the public from an unknown source. (Sitcom)
S02 E01
Original Airdate: 10/19/09
New, HD, “The One With the Sex Tape Pt. 3”, (2009), (TV-14), Conclusion. The wrap up to the three-part season finale and premiere special. The sex tape is revealed by a neighbor of the roommates so everyone notices it stars Lily in it. Lily’s friend Kina lets everyone know who the guy was Lily was with and she believes it was the guy from the auditions so the detectives working the case. The detectives have also seen the tape and find out exactly where Lily has been stranded at so they go there with Wolfgang who brings Kina, Greg, and Keke with him. When they finally get there they see Lily being tortured by the man who has held her captive so Wolfgang starts beating up on him but detectives restrain Wolfgang from the confrontation. Lily has been raped multiple times and is distraught over the situation. The emotions and pains of these characters are top notch and the realities of these situations is what makes Toronto’s Friends different from other sitcoms because of the closeness factor that these characters have with each other. (Sitcom)
S02 E02
Original Airdate: 10/23/09
HD, Live, “The One That’s Live”, (2009), (TV-PG), The first live episode of the Toronto’s Friends franchise taped live in front of a current studio audience at UPN Studios in Toronto. All six series of Toronto’s Friends (Toronto’s Trio of 3, Too Close, The Peeps of Vancouver, Joey, and the soon to be produced Jaime) including Toronto’s Friends itself and its all of its main characters all get together for a series reunion event to celebrate the new season. The special episode covers the ins and outs of a neighborhood block party outside of Central Perk Arms. (Sitcom)
S02 E03
Original Airdate: 10/26/09
New, HD, “The One With Lily’s Aftermath”, (2009), (TV-14), Lily is now safe back at home and being comforted by her roommates but she starts her difficulties of being a rape victim. Lily begins suicidal activities like cutting herself in one of the loft’s three bathrooms. Wolfgang notices the cuts on Lily’s arm and confronts her about it and the two end up having a hard down to earth talk with one another but it becomes painful for Lily to go over the situation with Wolfgang. Meanwhile, Greg gets back on his feet and tries out for the new UAG Football league with the Toronto Bills where he hopes to get a job as quarterback with the team. (Sitcom)
S02 E04
Original Airdate: 11/2/09
New, HD, “The One That’s Like A Heat Wave”, (2009), (TV-PG), A heat wave hits Toronto and it’s got everybody stretched out. The thing about heat waves is that the hot tempers come out to play and that’s exactly what happened to our roommates. Rebecca gets into a heated argument with Jen about nonsense. The guys' tempers takes a huge boil as one of the Trio of 3 Heather comes over. Greg finds out that he makes the football team although this is good news it is spoiled by a physical fight between Keke and Isla who both share love interests in Greg. At the end of the day they all remain friends. Meanwhile, Melvin tries to fix a fire hydrant but has a problem with the kids interfering with his work. (Sitcom)
S02 E05
Original Airdate: 11/9/09
New, HD, “The One With the Attempted Magic Trick”, (2009), (TV-PG), Matt tries his hand at becoming a magician after seeing episodes of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Revealed so he hopes to try it on his roommates only to find out that the tricks backfire as Turtle exposes him for the liar that he is when Turtle shows everybody the same trick on the show. Lily attends her first therapy session but strains of it and starts secretly skipping out on it and secretly starts hanging out with her lowlife friends to pass the time. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Keith share their passion for fried chicken from KFC. (Sitcom)
S02 E06
Original Airdate: 11/16/09
New, HD, “The One with the Bastard Child”, (2009), (TV-PG), Ellen Paige guest stars for the first time as the miserable Bastard Child. Bastard Child invites Lupe to a poetry competition only to know that Lupe was scheduled to go to another poetry competition in nearby Canadian city Hamilton so Bastard Child gets mad at Lupe for not showing up. Bastard Child cancels her session to ride down to Hamilton and embarrass Lupe as she acts like a mentally ill person. Lupe is down in the dumps afterwards about what happened so Bastard Child explains why she did it and pleads for his forgiveness which he accepts. Jen and Turtle take Greg to his first practice with the team and realizes he needs some work so they practice with him at home. Meanwhile, Emily shows Cory how to properly grow plants and the new hobby for Cory gives him heat from the guys. (Sitcom)
S02 E07
Original Airdate: 11/23/09
HD, Live, “The One Where They Smoke Marijuana”, (2009), (TV-PG), This is a special live episode taped in front of a current studio audience at UPN Studios in Toronto. Shemar Moore guest stars for the first time as Officer Herman. Emily finds that Cory is impressed at Cory’s growth from plant growing so she lets him grow some grass at the building yard. Both Kate and Lupe offer to help him and bring in cannabis to show the other roommates. Little do they know the cannabis is marijuana? Turtle offers to smoke the cannabis to see if it truly is weed. He says it is so Kate and Lupe ride their bikes to rid of the marijuana from their loft only to get stopped by Officer Herman who performs procedure on the two to see if they have anything on them as the two are acting weird but its only because their scared. Kate takes a liking to Officer Herman and she hopes by flirting with Officer Herman that it could get them out of the situation but it doesn’t help as Officer Herman finds the cannabis on them and takes them both down to the station for lock up. Once Cory and Turtle lets Emily know about Kate and Lupe being locked after Lupe phoned them she quickly cleared up the situation and lied to the officers saying it was a different type of plant which they believed. The weird thing about this whole situation is that this story goes deeper throughout the season, stay tuned for that. Lily keeps up her hiding of not going through therapy and restarts cutting herself. Meanwhile, Greg has his first game and has an impressive game. (Sitcom)
S02 E08
Original Airdate: 11/30/09
New, HD, “The One With Jaime Pt. 1”, (2009), (TV-PG), Both Remy Thorne and Drake officially debut their characters for the upcoming spin-off Jaime. The young Jaime is one of the neighborhood kids who hangs out at Central Perk Arms all the time. Jaime starts to hang out a lot at the roommates’ loft getting to know all the roommates. Little do they all know that Jaime is a primed juvenile thief? Jaime’s struts his charm on all the roommates especially the girls who thinks he’s so innocent but some of the boys know better about Jaime. Stuff starts going missing and the roommates start blaming each other when it was in fact Jaime who stole stuff. Jaime also starts sleeping over at the loft every night so Lupe’s friend Drake who Jaime admires comes over and notices that Jaime has been spending a whole lot of time over there which worries him. Wolfgang starts spying on Lily as he notices her at a hangout during the same time of her therapy sessions. Meanwhile, the distance starts to take a toll on Keke and Isla who feel the pain of Greg being away all the time because of the team. (Sitcom)
S02 E09
Original Airdate: 12/7/09
New, HD, “The One With Jaime Pt. 2”, (2009), (TV-PG), Conclusion. Drake takes and interest in learning Jaime’s story so he has Melvin do a background check on him but of course Melvin is a goof about it at first. Drake learns that Jaime has a criminal record is a runaway foster child so he starts to try to understand Jaime and become a big brother figure for him but Jaime has to start confessing to the roommates about his recent thefts of their personal belongings. Drake moves Jaime in with his roommates to try to guide him. Wolfgang continues his spy work on Lily and this time gets around to questioning her face to face and Lily continues to lie and find a way out of it. Meanwhile, Rebecca goes to the Trio of 3 house to dance. At the end of the episode while Cory is hard at work in the yard he notices a bunch of marijuana plants. (Sitcom)
S02 E10
Original Airdate: 12/14/09
Genre: Sitcom
Run-Time: 30 minute comedy
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Taping: Taped in front of a live studio audience at ICE Studios in Toronto, Ontario
Picture Quality: ICE HD in 1080i
Studios: ICE Studios, Schwimmer Productions, Degrassi Street Video, and BlueLick Media Group
Corporate Executive Producers: Pat Devine and David Schwimmer
Created By: David Schwimmer
Tagline: "At the End of the Day All You Need Are Your Friends"
Characters:
Central Perk Arms Tenants
Stephen Baldwin as Melvin Geller
Jennifer Connelly as Emily Thornton-Geller
Jerry Ferrara as Salvatore "Turtle" Assante
Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter
Adam Brody as Matt Hill
Scout Taylor-Compton as Jen “The Engine” Sanford
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Rebecca Horner
Vincent Chase as Greg Hansen
Kate Mara as Kate Taylor
Jerry Trainor as Wolfgang O'Hara
Erin Walsh as Tracy Hill
Lily Collins as Lily Parker
Lauren London as Keke Rollins
Sleepy Brown as Lupe
Toronto's Friends - 8:00pm - ICE Monday
Sitcom
The biggest comedy on UPN. Twelve diverse varied age strangers move into a Toronto apartment complex that's owned by a paleontologist named Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) who’s looking to make some extra income after moving from New York to Toronto. The strangers end up roommating and become very close friends living life in the city of Toronto. These friends will be very funny people.
Created & Written By: David Schwimmer
Main Cast (Regulars):
Stephen Baldwin as Melvin Geller
Jennifer Connelly as Emily Thornton-Geller
Jerry Ferrara as Salvatore "Turtle" Assante
Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter
Adam Brody as Matt Hill
Scout Taylor-Compton as Jen “The Engine” Sanford
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood as Rebecca Horner
Vincent Chase as Greg Hansen
Kate Mara as Katherine “Kate” Ronstadt
Jerry Trainor as Wolfgang O'Hara
Erin Walsh as Tracy Hill
Lily Collins as Lily Parker
Lauren London as Keke Rollins
Sleepy Brown as Lupe
Recurring Roles:
David Schwimmer as Ross Geller
Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing
Aubrey Graham a.k.a. Drake Drizzy as Drake Smith
Remy Thorne as Jaime Wentworth
Alexandra Holden as Elizabeth Patterson
Christopher Massey as Cousin Rob Baxter
Texas Battle as Keith Westbrook
Shoshana Bush as Dana Storms
Kina Dean as Kina Ryan
Executive Producers
David Schwimmer
Matthew Perry
Kevin S. Bright
Scout Taylor-Compton
Episode List
Season 1
New, HD, “The One Where Everybody Moves In”, (2009), (TV-PG), New York paleontologist Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) recently had his job relocate him to Toronto where his cousin annoying and obnoxious Cousin Melvin lives. Melvin owns a bunch of real estate property in Toronto and offers Ross to takeover operations of a new under budgeted apartment complex close to downtown Toronto where Ross can earn extra income and accomplish his dreams of building his own research practice. With the direction of Ross and Melvin the building finally gets completed and is ready to go under the name of Central Perk Arms which is named after Ross’ favorite adult hangout when he was living in New York. Melvin is now the building’s landlord. With Ross now taking over operations he looks for tenants to rent out the apartments, condos, lofts, and the penthouse in the building. Most of the apartments quickly get filled up except an unfinished loft on the building’s top floor. Ross goes to the extremes and puts the loft up for sale online since no one locally seemed to be interested in moving into it. From there twelve diverse young people travel from both the US and Canada to move into the apartment complex to pay for the opportunity to pay cheaper rent. Little did they know they know that the move would be crowded? (Sitcom)
S01 E01
Original Airdate: 6/30/09
New, HD, “The One Where Rebecca & Melvin Street Dance”, (2009), (TV-PG), After a week of getting acquainted with each other and noticing how noisy and annoying their landlord Melvin is they start to get to know the city they live in. Rebecca hits the streets of Toronto where she meets a bunch of hip-hoppers dancing live on the streets including a possible love interest named Keith so Rebecca shows them her moves and starts hanging out with them. Melvin notices Rebecca dancing and wants to be apart of the group of hip-hoppers but makes an ass of himself so Rebecca tries to teach him what she knows but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Cory and Turtle fight over offerings in the refrigerator. (Sitcom)
S01 E02
Original Airdate: 6/30/09
New, HD, “The One About the Bathroom Troubles”, (2009), (TV-PG), With the roommates settling in the difficulties of living in a limited sized living space takes its toll on everybody including the amount of time certain roommates take in the bathroom. Lily, Tracy, and Keke all fight over bathroom time in the mornings but realize at the end of the day that the other two bathrooms are always used by the boys and Greg spends an awful amount of time in the bathroom so the girls resort to confronting him about it and are forced to sneak into the Geller’s apartment only to be caught by Melvin’s wife Emily who questions them. Meanwhile Lupe and Matt are addicted to a video game and spend hours and hours on it. (Sitcom)
S01 E03
Original Airdate: 7/5/09
New, HD, “The One With All the Secrets”, (2009), (TV-PG), As the roommates start feeling comfortable with one another they have a night together where they talk about stories of their lives building a trust between everybody but it starts getting out of hand when gossiper Lily starts making a regular occurrence out of it. The roommates start sharing a multitude of secrets with each other keeping the strain on the house at an all-time high as all secrets finally burst their bubble and get revealed by everyone together. Meanwhile, former college quarterback pheonom Greg tries out for the nearby Detroit Lions after a four year absence from the sport due to a life threatening injury suffered during his first year as a pro player. (Sitcom)
S01 E04
Original Airdate: 7/7/09
New, HD, “The One With Cousin Rob”, (2009), (TV-PG), Cory’s annoying cousin Rob comes by to visit after finding out that Cory had moved north of the border. Rob quickly takes over the house annoying all of Cory’s new roommates even hitting on all the females living in the house. Rob finally realizes his ways are not comforting to Cory or his roommates so he finds comfort in hanging out with the annoying landlord Melvin and together they become a horror for everybody. Meanwhile, Keke expresses her feelings to Jen about her crush on Greg. (Sitcom)
S01 E05
Original Airdate: 7/7/09
New, HD, “The One Where Greg Is Depressed”, (2009), (TV-PG), After Greg finds out that he didn’t make the Lions pre-camp roster for a shot to make the team for the upcoming season he starts to feel depressed and resort to depressed activities. Greg had a previously problem as a recovering alcoholic but starts to drink again. It doesn’t help much when Greg’s male roommates are supporting his bad habit by drinking with him while also watching TV and playing videogames all day with him so Keke becomes the supportive roommate and gives Greg tough love by confronting him about his depressing ways and drinking habit. Meanwhile, Jen finds out more about Melvin’s wife Mrs. Geller. (Sitcom)
S01 E06
Original Airdate: 7/12/09
New, HD, “The One Where Matt Writes About His Roommates”, (2009), (TV-PG), Matt has inspirations to become a screenplay writer so he uses his roommates lives as the subjects for his next screenplay which ends up doing more hard to everyone in the house than good. All of Matt’s roommates start stressing out over the screenplay trying to lie about their lives but it ends up erupting into the house’s first serious argument. Meanwhile, Kate find herself taking frequent naps with Lupe and then the two quickly try to cover it up in front of their roommates. (Sitcom)
S01 E07
Original Airdate: 7/14/09
New, HD, “The One With Turtle’s Fake Porsche”, (2009), (TV-PG), Turtle who has a boyhood love with cars has aspirations to get a new car but is jobless. Turtle uses another man’s Porsche parked on the street as his own and starts polishing it like it’s his own and ends up picking up the chicks on Degrassi Street. When the guy who owns the vehicle finds out Turtle has been using it as his own he confronts him so Turtle wants continue to impress the ladies so he makes a quick move and gets a bunch of boxes stacked up together in the shape of a car with a sheet over them but a bunch of kids play football on the street and run into the boxes exposing Turtle for the lair that he is. Meanwhile, Rebecca teachers the girls of the house how to dance. (Sitcom)
S01 E08
Original Airdate: 7/14/09
New, HD, “The One With the New Lady in Melvin’s Life”, (2009), (TV-PG), A new woman in the apartment complex just moves in and Melvin quickly flirts with her but there’s a problem the guy is practically married. While Melvin keeps it a secret, Lily finds out about it and tells Mrs. Geller about Melvin’s ways so the two spy on Melvin and catch him in action. Meanwhile, The boys go to a Blue Jays game against the New York Yankees but Turtle is a diehard Yankees fan making the boys do some evil things to him at the ball game. (Sitcom)
S01 E09
Original Airdate: 7/19/09
New, HD, “The One Where Jen Celebrates Her 22nd Birthday”, (2009), (TV-PG), Jen “The Engine” Sanford turns 22 years old and finds the age to be boring because it isn’t a milestone age. Jen decides not to celebrate the birthday but her roommates have other plans for her and throw her a huge party with most of the Central Perk Arms building joining them in their loft but Melvin ruins the occasion. Meanwhile, Cory and Keke notice their bad habit of eating cake ruined the party also. (Sitcom)
S01 E10
Original Airdate: 7/21/09
New, HD, “The One About the Night the Lights Went Off in Toronto”, (2009), (TV-PG), A city-wide power outage forces a blackout in the city leading to a crazy night of riots and strange happenings. The roommates spend the night together with just themselves and candles. Turtle, Matt, and Cory become apart of the crazy riots destroying the neighborhood and stealing stuff while getting caught by police and spending the night in lockup. Kate brings a new man home and Lily competes with Kate for his affection but makes an ass of her. Greg becomes stranded at an ATM store with a hot girl and attempts to flirt with her. Meanwhile, Lupe becomes a poet with the candles on and it annoys the rest of the roommates in the house. (Sitcom)
S01 E11
Original Airdate: 7/21/09
New, HD, “The One Where They Meet Toronto’s Trio of 3”, (2009), (TV-PG), A crossover episode featuring Toronto’s Trio of 3 girls Erin, Mia, and Heather including their good friend Isla all meet their neighbors for the first time so they start spending time with them. Mia starts dancing with Rebecca but slips on a move breaking her foot so she goes home where the roommates take care of her. Meanwhile, Greg meets Isla and the two starts off a possible romantic relationship. (Sitcom)
S01 E12
Original Airdate: 7/26/09
New, HD, “The One With Mia’s Broken Foot”, (2009), (TV-PG), A second crossover episode featuring Mia and Isla. Mia spends the night on the couch at the loft and takes advantage of the attention she’s getting from her neighbors by acting like a needy person and it starts to annoy the roommates so they come up with a plan to expose Mia for lying about her helpless ability after they find out she was walking on it. Meanwhile, Greg and Isla share a bowl of Cheerios together back at Isla’s place and get to know each other a little further. (Sitcom)
S01 E13
Original Airdate: 7/28/09
New, HD, “The One That’s Scary”, (2009), (TV-PG), Both Jen and Tracy go looking for something in the building’s creepy basement where they run into a man who in the shadow comes off as a yeti which frightens the girls and makes them scared of everything during the days after that. Jen and Tracy’s roommates take advantage of their frightful stage and start purposely spooking the hell out of the girls. Melvin’s little baby niece comes over for a visit spending time with him and Emily which makes the married couple think about having kids. Melvin’s baby niece brings over a doll which gives Jen, Tracy, and others in the house the chills when Keke, Cory, Rebecca, and Turtle all setup a bad scare on Jen and Tracy when others start going missing and they think it’s the doll doing some killing. Meanwhile, Isla watches Friday the 13th alone in her apartment which frightens her so Greg comes over to comfort her. (Sitcom)
S01 E14
Original Airdate: 7/28/09
New, HD, “The One Where They Play Flag Football”, (2009), (TV-PG), The roommates are challenged by a bunch of neighborhood kids to play flag football. Greg’s football background automatically makes him the leader of the roommates but he hurts one of his athletically challenged roommates Kate’s feelings when she drops the ball several times during the game leading the team to lose. Greg realizes how much he hurt Kate by yelling at her and embarrassing her so he tries to apologize to her after the game. Meanwhile, Melvin sets up a concession stand during the game trying to compete against a kid in the neighborhood but he becomes too over competitive for his own good. (Sitcom)
S01 E15
Original Airdate: 8/3/09
New, HD, “The One Where They Play Strip Poker”, (2009), (TV-PG), Matt LeBlanc’s character Joey moves to Toronto from Hollywood. Joey meets the roommates and gets settled into his new confinements so Joey convinces all the roommates to play a game of Strip Happy Days which is the name of the game for strip poker. Joey is all excited about the game and seeing the female roommates naked but he ends up being the first player out of the game so the focus shifts to Rebecca and her friend Keith. The two end up having an epic one on one showdown that was worth watching closely for the roommates. The only thing about the showdown is that it was attached with some romantic ties between Rebecca and Keith who share an interest with each other so Keith ends up letting Rebecca win on the last hand. Meanwhile, Wolfgang and Turtle try to find the cheapest place to buy their food for the house on their low budget. (Sitcom)
S01 E16
Original Airdate: 8/5/09
New, HD, “The One With All the Overnight Sex”, (2009), (TV-PG), Wolfgang takes Lily down to his place of work where he works with teens after school her age. Lily gets along the teens and quickly gets popular with them easing her into some peer pressure opportunities like going to an all night marathon making out party. While Lily is at the party she makes some of her roommates worried including her nosy landlord Melvin when she doesn’t tell them where she’s at. Wolfgang is deeply worried over her since he’s taken to Lily like his little sister since she moved in with him and the rest of the roommates. Lily meets a dangerous man who gives her promises and attempts to date rape her when a friend of hers that she meets there takes the drink away saving her for the night. Meanwhile, Matt and Cory meet a girl named Dana and end up fighting over her. (Sitcom)
S01 E17
Original Airdate: 8/10/09
New, HD, “The One With the Sex Tape Pt. 1”, (2009), (TV-14), The first season finale wraps up for the milestone franchise with the series’ first really important episode. The series that makes you laugh gets really serious now. Lily Parker is a young mischievous and beautiful young girl who finds herself in some troubling situations like prostituting at night but this time she’s not so lucky. Lily and her friend Kina find a new dancing opportunity and go to the auditions. Kina runs into the same guy she met at the party just a few nights ago and he requests to see her personally so he tells Lily to meet him at his apartment. Lily goes to the apartment and never returns. The roommates worry again but this time it’s serious as Lily is missing for 48 hours and her friend Kina hasn’t seen her since. This is an episode where the humor goes real dark and each character especially Wolfgang shows their emotions. Meanwhile, Greg and Isla finally share their first kiss but Keke who likes Greg sees it and panics. A cliffhanger moment happens at the end of the episode where Lily is shown strapped to a chair. (Sitcom)
S01 E18
Original Airdate: 8/10/09
Season 2
New, HD, “The One With the Sex Tape Pt. 2”, (2009), (TV-14), The second season premiere picks up right where we left off when Lily was shown strapped to a chair. Kate phones the authorities to see if they can help find Lily. Wolfgang starts going crazy with his worries making the roommates calm him down. As the hours continue to pass by and the frustrating wait for the cops to work on the missing persons report, the roommates start to argue with one another causing tension in the household until Mrs. Geller is able to stop all the fighting. Rebecca counsels up with Keith which leads to something more. Meanwhile, Isla starts ignoring Greg’s phone calls to her home leading Greg to believe she’s scared to continue on with him. A sex tape is released to the public from an unknown source. (Sitcom)
S02 E01
Original Airdate: 10/19/09
New, HD, “The One With the Sex Tape Pt. 3”, (2009), (TV-14), Conclusion. The wrap up to the three-part season finale and premiere special. The sex tape is revealed by a neighbor of the roommates so everyone notices it stars Lily in it. Lily’s friend Kina lets everyone know who the guy was Lily was with and she believes it was the guy from the auditions so the detectives working the case. The detectives have also seen the tape and find out exactly where Lily has been stranded at so they go there with Wolfgang who brings Kina, Greg, and Keke with him. When they finally get there they see Lily being tortured by the man who has held her captive so Wolfgang starts beating up on him but detectives restrain Wolfgang from the confrontation. Lily has been raped multiple times and is distraught over the situation. The emotions and pains of these characters are top notch and the realities of these situations is what makes Toronto’s Friends different from other sitcoms because of the closeness factor that these characters have with each other. (Sitcom)
S02 E02
Original Airdate: 10/23/09
HD, Live, “The One That’s Live”, (2009), (TV-PG), The first live episode of the Toronto’s Friends franchise taped live in front of a current studio audience at UPN Studios in Toronto. All six series of Toronto’s Friends (Toronto’s Trio of 3, Too Close, The Peeps of Vancouver, Joey, and the soon to be produced Jaime) including Toronto’s Friends itself and its all of its main characters all get together for a series reunion event to celebrate the new season. The special episode covers the ins and outs of a neighborhood block party outside of Central Perk Arms. (Sitcom)
S02 E03
Original Airdate: 10/26/09
New, HD, “The One With Lily’s Aftermath”, (2009), (TV-14), Lily is now safe back at home and being comforted by her roommates but she starts her difficulties of being a rape victim. Lily begins suicidal activities like cutting herself in one of the loft’s three bathrooms. Wolfgang notices the cuts on Lily’s arm and confronts her about it and the two end up having a hard down to earth talk with one another but it becomes painful for Lily to go over the situation with Wolfgang. Meanwhile, Greg gets back on his feet and tries out for the new UAG Football league with the Toronto Bills where he hopes to get a job as quarterback with the team. (Sitcom)
S02 E04
Original Airdate: 11/2/09
New, HD, “The One That’s Like A Heat Wave”, (2009), (TV-PG), A heat wave hits Toronto and it’s got everybody stretched out. The thing about heat waves is that the hot tempers come out to play and that’s exactly what happened to our roommates. Rebecca gets into a heated argument with Jen about nonsense. The guys' tempers takes a huge boil as one of the Trio of 3 Heather comes over. Greg finds out that he makes the football team although this is good news it is spoiled by a physical fight between Keke and Isla who both share love interests in Greg. At the end of the day they all remain friends. Meanwhile, Melvin tries to fix a fire hydrant but has a problem with the kids interfering with his work. (Sitcom)
S02 E05
Original Airdate: 11/9/09
New, HD, “The One With the Attempted Magic Trick”, (2009), (TV-PG), Matt tries his hand at becoming a magician after seeing episodes of Magic’s Biggest Secrets Revealed so he hopes to try it on his roommates only to find out that the tricks backfire as Turtle exposes him for the liar that he is when Turtle shows everybody the same trick on the show. Lily attends her first therapy session but strains of it and starts secretly skipping out on it and secretly starts hanging out with her lowlife friends to pass the time. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Keith share their passion for fried chicken from KFC. (Sitcom)
S02 E06
Original Airdate: 11/16/09
New, HD, “The One with the Bastard Child”, (2009), (TV-PG), Ellen Paige guest stars for the first time as the miserable Bastard Child. Bastard Child invites Lupe to a poetry competition only to know that Lupe was scheduled to go to another poetry competition in nearby Canadian city Hamilton so Bastard Child gets mad at Lupe for not showing up. Bastard Child cancels her session to ride down to Hamilton and embarrass Lupe as she acts like a mentally ill person. Lupe is down in the dumps afterwards about what happened so Bastard Child explains why she did it and pleads for his forgiveness which he accepts. Jen and Turtle take Greg to his first practice with the team and realizes he needs some work so they practice with him at home. Meanwhile, Emily shows Cory how to properly grow plants and the new hobby for Cory gives him heat from the guys. (Sitcom)
S02 E07
Original Airdate: 11/23/09
HD, Live, “The One Where They Smoke Marijuana”, (2009), (TV-PG), This is a special live episode taped in front of a current studio audience at UPN Studios in Toronto. Shemar Moore guest stars for the first time as Officer Herman. Emily finds that Cory is impressed at Cory’s growth from plant growing so she lets him grow some grass at the building yard. Both Kate and Lupe offer to help him and bring in cannabis to show the other roommates. Little do they know the cannabis is marijuana? Turtle offers to smoke the cannabis to see if it truly is weed. He says it is so Kate and Lupe ride their bikes to rid of the marijuana from their loft only to get stopped by Officer Herman who performs procedure on the two to see if they have anything on them as the two are acting weird but its only because their scared. Kate takes a liking to Officer Herman and she hopes by flirting with Officer Herman that it could get them out of the situation but it doesn’t help as Officer Herman finds the cannabis on them and takes them both down to the station for lock up. Once Cory and Turtle lets Emily know about Kate and Lupe being locked after Lupe phoned them she quickly cleared up the situation and lied to the officers saying it was a different type of plant which they believed. The weird thing about this whole situation is that this story goes deeper throughout the season, stay tuned for that. Lily keeps up her hiding of not going through therapy and restarts cutting herself. Meanwhile, Greg has his first game and has an impressive game. (Sitcom)
S02 E08
Original Airdate: 11/30/09
New, HD, “The One With Jaime Pt. 1”, (2009), (TV-PG), Both Remy Thorne and Drake officially debut their characters for the upcoming spin-off Jaime. The young Jaime is one of the neighborhood kids who hangs out at Central Perk Arms all the time. Jaime starts to hang out a lot at the roommates’ loft getting to know all the roommates. Little do they all know that Jaime is a primed juvenile thief? Jaime’s struts his charm on all the roommates especially the girls who thinks he’s so innocent but some of the boys know better about Jaime. Stuff starts going missing and the roommates start blaming each other when it was in fact Jaime who stole stuff. Jaime also starts sleeping over at the loft every night so Lupe’s friend Drake who Jaime admires comes over and notices that Jaime has been spending a whole lot of time over there which worries him. Wolfgang starts spying on Lily as he notices her at a hangout during the same time of her therapy sessions. Meanwhile, the distance starts to take a toll on Keke and Isla who feel the pain of Greg being away all the time because of the team. (Sitcom)
S02 E09
Original Airdate: 12/7/09
New, HD, “The One With Jaime Pt. 2”, (2009), (TV-PG), Conclusion. Drake takes and interest in learning Jaime’s story so he has Melvin do a background check on him but of course Melvin is a goof about it at first. Drake learns that Jaime has a criminal record is a runaway foster child so he starts to try to understand Jaime and become a big brother figure for him but Jaime has to start confessing to the roommates about his recent thefts of their personal belongings. Drake moves Jaime in with his roommates to try to guide him. Wolfgang continues his spy work on Lily and this time gets around to questioning her face to face and Lily continues to lie and find a way out of it. Meanwhile, Rebecca goes to the Trio of 3 house to dance. At the end of the episode while Cory is hard at work in the yard he notices a bunch of marijuana plants. (Sitcom)
S02 E10
Original Airdate: 12/14/09
