You read that title right, folks. But why? Was she too funny? Too pretty? Overshadowing Ross, because Ross is totally lame?
Well, read on and you will find out, I promise.
Here’s the rankings for ‘FRIENDS’.

Extensive research has shown that most people rank the Friends friends like this:
Number 1. Rachel
Number 2. Joey
Number 3. Pheobe
Number 4. Chandler
Number 5. Monica
Number 6. Ross
Sorry Ross, blame yourself, not the people.
Regardless of how lame Ross is…

His counterpart, Rachel, just barely beat Joey as fan favorite. And why not?
She’s pretty, she’s funny and she’s all-around loveable… most of the time. She can be kinda petty, but that adds to her hilarity.
So what if I told yo u That there was a time when she was almost written off the show?

Oh yes, Friends fans, we almost lost the show’s best character because of a potential filming conflict Jenny Ani was going through at the time.
Midway through the first season, good ol’ Jennifer Aniston had already shot some episodes for a different series.

It was Muddling Through set to premiere on a rival network, CBS.
However, in order to save Rachel, NBC aired programming that drew viewers away from CBS. And thank goodness they did!