A Friends writer has dropped a bombshell about Ross and Rachel and, nah

Ah, sorry now.

When you think of iconic Friends storylines, a few tend to stick out. One is Monica and Chandler having a secret affair for about eight months. Another is Joey falling in love with Rachel and wanting her and her baby to move in with him. And another - maybe the most iconic Friends storyline, actually - is Ross and Rachel being on a break. If you are for some reason unfamiliar with the whole 'were they or weren't they on a break' scenario, this is how it went down. Rachel tells Ross that maybe they should "take a break" from their relationship after he gets painfully jealous of her new work colleague, Mark. The pair then try to reconcile at various points during the evening but for whatever reason it doesn't happen and Ross goes off and has sex with a girl called Chloe. He then tries to justify this action by saying that he and Rachel were on a break. It was a whole thing. As it turns out though, Ross and Rachel being on a break was never actually meant to happen - rather, the writers felt they had to include it in the script because their relationship was just too vanilla. Makes sense. Writer Kevin S Bright told Metro.co.uk that in the beginning, Ross and Rachel just didn't have enough "sexual tension." He said:

“It wasn’t planned that way. It allowed us to have fun with the show and give people something to root for.

“We were well aware the audience wanted to keep them together – but we realised when we got them together when the first kiss happened we go, ‘Wow, the air has kind of gone out of the balloon.’ There wasn’t that sexual tension anymore."

And what better way to get the air back in the balloon than to stress an entire audience out for 10 seasons? Solid.