People are just realising Friends created iconic dating term that everyone uses all the time

Friends is probably one of the best American sitcoms ever produced (depends who you ask), but there's one thing that makes it even better.

Obviously, the New York-based show has a giant amount of fans across the world, and rightly so.

However, people are only just realising that the show created a popular dating term and it's something we can't stop thinking about.

If you don't remember this episode, you need to go back and re-watch it!

Basically, in the episode, we got a fantastic Friends trivia round where the gang got together to quick-fire questions.

This is when the iconic dating term was born.

A dating term was born in season one (NBC)

The TV show, which famously starred Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc, first began in 1994, before its end in 2004.

Even though the show ended 20 years ago, it's still living on through this famous dating trend.

Now that it's on Netflix, a new wave of people are tuning into the show and are finding out that they created more trends than they realised.

Friends isn't just entertaining, but educational too.

We even learned how to spell 'Phoebe' thanks to this show (P as in Phoebe, H as in Hoebe, O as in Oebe, E as in Ebe, B as in Bebe and E as in ‘ello there, mate).

Then it explained how to deal with a jellyfish sting.

But one lesson that we all learnt from Friends is what the term 'friend zone' means.

That's right, that's where we all learned what it meant!

What a strange world we live in...

In 'The One With The Blackout', Ross can be seen chatting to Rachel in Monica's apartment.

Rachel leaves the conversation before Ross goes to get up from sitting on the floor. As he begins to walk away, Joey says: “Never gonna happen... You and Rachel... You waited too long to make your move, and now you’re in the friend zone.”

Ross - who was pining after Rachel pretty hard at this point - disagreed with Joey, explaining: "I'm not in the zone."

"Ross, you're mayor of the zone," Joey responds.

Joey tells Ross he's in the 'friend zone' (NBC)

People have been pretty blown away after discovering the origins of the phrase, with one writing: "The moment you realise that Joey Tribbiani invented the word 'Friendzone' in 1994."

While another said: "I genuinely didn’t know the show Friends created the term Friend Zone."

Ironically, of course, after the term was coined about them, Ross and Rachel famously made their way out of the friend zone.

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