You've Been Singing the 'Friends' Theme Song Wrong This Whole Time

Listen, I'm as big a Friends fan as they come. In high school I exclusively wore a God-awful T-shirt that had Ross's signature catchphrase "We were on a break!" splashed across the front. (I don't know where the shirt is now, but I'd definitely burn it if it suddenly reappeared in my life.) My knowledge of the show runs deep, to say the least. From behind-the-scenes factoids to episode synopses and even exact line reads, I'm a one-stop Friends encyclopedia. And I mean that in the least Ross-sounding way possible.

But here's the thing: Even I'm shocked about what the hosts of the British variety show Saturday Night Takeaway—Declan Donnelly, Stephen Mulhern, and Scarlett Moffatt—found out this past weekend. The trio took a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando for the show's season finale, where musical guests The Rembrandts performed their hit smash "I'll Be There for You," a.k.a. the Friends theme song. HelloGiggles reports that during the show's "Singalong Live" segment, one woman was surprised to learn she'd been belting the lyrics to "I'll Be There for You" wrong her whole life. She thought the chorus went, "I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to fall" when it's actually "when the rain stars to pour."

Her reaction was quickly mirrored on Twitter a dozen times over. Apparently, there are a lot of fans who've been singing this song incorrectly. Below, just a few people who are shaken to their very core.

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