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# Vanessa Hudgens and Jimmy Fallon Sang the _Friends_ Theme Like You've Never Heard It

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## 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.

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