The Mystery Inc. gang travels around in their groovy van and uses teamwork to solve mysteries. Not to mention the best friend group have a Great Dane!
The way these old friends balance each other out and know each other so well is something most people can only dream of. They have endless memories and continue to make them with their crazy antics, plus they always bring out the best in each other.
Even grown men admire the friendship between these teenage girls in '90s Northern Ireland—Martin Scorsese among them!—as they move from teasing each other to fiercely protecting one another.
Over 170 episodes, we got to see four young, strong women navigate relationships, careers, life changes, as well as quarrels with each other, which resulted in a perfectly preserved vignette of the true bond of friendship.
Though romance certainly became the center of this show at many points, the heart always remained in Corey Matthews' friendships. After all, he, Topanga, Shawn, and Eric all start as friends in elementary school and we watch them grow up all the way through college.
Maybe it's just for the luxurious parties, expensive clothes, casual trips across the pond, or maybe it's because they're all endlessly entertaining, but the friend group in 'Gossip Girl' was enviable even despite the terrible things they all did to one another. It's the price to pay to be part of the elite 'it' friends!
The rollercoaster friendship between Issa and Molly quickly becomes more interesting than their romantic relationships, and with their friends Kelli and Tiffany they make up a fierce four who are all at drastically different points in their lives but can still all do drugs at Coachella together.
This friend group is really just centered around Abbi and Ilana, who pull others into their orbit constantly with their zero-boundary, ride-or-die bond. They're the friends who video call each other while they're on the toilet and who would do the most unspeakable things for each other.
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A gay 20-something, his very recent ex-girlfriend, and his roommate make up this Australian show's heart. Their friendship through romantic tumbles and family drama remains equally teasing and loyal, and you'll find yourself laughing through tears constantly.
The middle-aged members of a hyper-competitive fantasy football league are for the friend groups that love to torture each other out of love. They're for the friends who love making ridiculous bets and reminding each other of dirty inside jokes.
We all experience what a breakup in a friendship group can do, but this show provides a lighthearted and entertaining take on it. The group of six friends figure out how to adjust with each other after the couple that brought them together breaks up.
Before 'Fleabag,' Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in this unique show about six people who live in an abandoned hospital as its property guardians and throw crazy parties, embarrass themselves, develop feelings for each other, and cause trouble.
Three friends working at a major fashion magazine is already a promising premise, but besides their juicy personal lives the friends show how important it is to lean on each other while they struggle to find their own voices.
We've all imagined growing old with our best friends, and this show offers a beautiful and hilarious glimpse at how four very different women share and invigorate each other's lives even in old age.
This community college study group, known as the Greendale Seven, turns into the weirdest group of friends with people of all ages, backgrounds, and quirks. It shows how the most unexpected of friendships can be the most entertaining.
Team Cockroach are some of the worst people in the entire universe who are initially meant to torture each other but who become unexpected friends and team up to actually fix the broken binary system of the afterlife. They weather constant tests of their morality, but find the common good between them.
This group of vastly different friends proved that the friends you make either as a patron or a staff member at a bar can really be meaningful and long-lasting!
The friendships of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his small but devoted circle of buddies (consisting of Elaine, George, and Kramer) was an ode to the mundane moments of friendships, celebrating the beauty of recounting tales to your friends over diner coffee and getting mixed up in each other's flubs.
Though we only got one season of this now cult-favorite series, it showed the two friend groups of siblings Lindsay and Sam who were in different grades in high school. It's a hilarious and heartwarming reflection on what it's like to make friends—which can be just as awkward and humiliating and rewarding at any point in life.
For the 20-something women trying to figure out their big plans in the big city together, this show gave a refreshingly raw look at young adulthood and the friendships that help guide you along the way.
This show is the best example of colleagues who become your closest friends, and can make you feel better about not having many friends outside of work since Leslie and Ann's friendship puts all our friendships to shame. We all need a friend as relentlessly supportive as Leslie!
Friends are one of the sweetest pleasures in life, and these platonic partners often last much longer than our romantic ones. Still, sometimes we can’t help but feel envious of the friendships we see on screen because they have elements we long for in our real-life relationships.
Luckily, these fictional friend groups live in beloved TV shows that we can revisit when our actual friends are busy. Click through to see the greatest TV friend groups that you’d actually want to join!
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Friends are one of the sweetest pleasures in life, and these platonic partners often last much longer than our romantic ones. Still, sometimes we can’t help but feel envious of the friendships we see on screen because they have elements we long for in our real-life relationships.
Luckily, these fictional friend groups live in beloved TV shows that we can revisit when our actual friends are busy. Click through to see the greatest TV friend groups that you’d actually want to join!