--- title: A Company Wants to Pay You $1,000 To Binge Watch Friends description: Get paid to watch Friends and live tweet the experience. canonical: https://time.com/5653106/paid-to-watch-friends/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-15T18:07:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:57.284Z og:title: A Company Wants to Pay You $1,000 To Binge Watch Friends og:description: Get paid to watch Friends and live tweet the experience. og:url: https://time.com/5653106/paid-to-watch-friends/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b7f4d74baecb19/6989ffb9096a9474166a6a1d/friends.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Friends og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Company Wants to Pay You $1,000 To Binge Watch Friends twitter:description: Get paid to watch Friends and live tweet the experience. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b7f4d74baecb19/6989ffb9096a9474166a6a1d/friends.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Company Wants to Pay One Superfan $1,000 to Binge Watch _Friends_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 15, 2019 6:07 PM UTC  Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribbiani, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribbiani, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe BuffayNBC/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 15, 2019 6:07 PM UTC There are [_Friends_](https://time.com/3386614/friends-20th-anniversary-central-perk/) fans and then there are _Friends_ superfans who would have no problem watching 25 hours of the show straight through. If you fall into the latter group, Frontier Communications has an offer for you. To mark the 25th anniversary of the hit NBC comedy, [NBC New York reports](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Company-Wants-to-Pay-People-to-Binge-Watch-Friends-543619171.html) that the online retailer Frontier Communications, wants to pay a superfan $1,000 to do what they just might do anyway— sit on your couch and watch the adventures of Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe, and Joey for one day and one hour. According to NBC’s calculations, that’s about 1/3 of the entire series. To prove they are truly watching the series, and not just recounting from memory, the company wants the winner to live-tweet throughout the 25 hours and post a selfie with their [real life friends](https://time.com/5556980/courteney-cox-monica-gellar-friends-apartment-instagram/), perhaps with a turkey on their head like Monica once did. In addition to the $1,000 reward, the superfan will also win a 12-month Netflix subscription. While the beloved series is [leaving the streaming service in](https://time.com/5622979/friends-leaving-netflix-for-hbo-max/) 2020, there should be more than enough time to watch the entire series before it decamps to HBO Max [along with _The Office_](https://time.com/5614266/office-netflix-nbc-universal/). If you want to turn binge watching _Friends_ into a paid side hustle, follow [this link](https://www.frontierbundles.com/friends-dream-job#apply) to sign up. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5653106/paid-to-watch-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5653106/paid-to-watch-friends/"},"headline":"A Company Wants to Pay One Superfan $1,000 to Binge Watch Friends","datePublished":"2019-08-15T18:07:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:57.284Z","description":"Get paid to watch Friends and live tweet the experience.","url":"https://time.com/5653106/paid-to-watch-friends/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Friends","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b7f4d74baecb19/6989ffb9096a9474166a6a1d/friends.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35b7f4d74baecb19/6989ffb9096a9474166a6a1d/friends.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Friends","caption":"Friends","creditText":"NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5653106/paid-to-watch-friends/","name":"A Company Wants to Pay One Superfan $1,000 to Binge Watch Friends"}}]}] ```