Matthew Perry was found dead at his home, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty ImagesIn the first five minutes of the pilot episode of “Friends,” Ross is destroyed because his wife has moved out and has turned out to be a lesbian, Rachel has run out on her wedding, and Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing has unpacked a dream: He’s back in high school, he’s in the cafeteria, he’s naked, and he has a phone down…there. “All of a sudden, the phone starts to ring,” he says in the 1994 episode. “And it turns out, it’s my mother, which is very, very weird because…she never calls me.”

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Persons: Matthew Perry, Frederick M, Brown, ” Ross, Rachel, Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing, ” Organizations: he’s Locations: Angeles