--- title: Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the Friends Theme description: Friends superfans Vanessa and Jimmy will be there for you! canonical: https://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-31T22:05:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:37.823Z og:title: BFFs Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the Friends Theme og:description: Friends superfans Jimmy and Vanessa will be there for you og:url: https://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: BFFs Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the Friends Theme twitter:description: Friends superfans Jimmy and Vanessa will be there for you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the _Friends_ Theme Like You've Never Heard It by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 31, 2017 10:05 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 31, 2017 10:05 PM UTC Jimmy Fallon and Vanessa Hudgens got together to prove their undying love of _Friends_ on _The Tonight Show_ on Monday night[](http://time.com/4507557/courteney-cox-lisa-kudrow-friends-trivia/?iid=sr-link5) fans got together and proved their love for the show by singing the theme song. Hudgens is starring in a new NBC TV show called _Powerless_, which will air on Thursday nights. “Thursday night NBC had some of the biggest sitcoms in the history of television,” Fallon noted, and the two started listing the shows that made up NBC’s famed Thursday night line-up of Must See TV that included [_Seinfeld_](http://time.com/4637386/jerry-seinfeld-comedians-cars-coffee-netflix/?iid=sr-link8)_, Cheers_, and, of course, [_Friends_](http://time.com/4537339/friends-supercut-chandler-dead/?iid=sr-link6). When Hudgens mentioned [_Friends_ ](http://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/?iid=sr-link3)they both turned into human versions of the heart-eye emoji. They simultaneously decided that the best way to express their deep and abiding love of the sitcom (aside from having Gunther make them a latte at Central Perk) was to sing the show’s theme song, “I’ll Be There For You.” However, as true fans, Hudgens and Fallon transformed The Rembrandts original poppy song into a heartfelt ballad, proving they would really be there for you—or at least each other, for the duration of the song at least. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/"},"headline":"Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the Friends Theme Like You've Never Heard It","datePublished":"2017-01-31T22:05:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:37.823Z","description":"Friends superfans Jimmy and Vanessa will be there for you.","url":"https://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Friends","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/","name":"Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the Friends Theme Like You've Never Heard It"}}]}] ```