Back before the fan frenzy, huge success and "Must-See" Thursdays, there was some bad hair, a group of six wide-eyed actors, and a little pilot for NBC. As the show finishes its ten-year run, we went back in time to revisit the early days of "Friends."

"This show basically in its inception is nothing more than six people sitting around saying funny things to each other," Matthew Perry told us during our first visit to the set.

And it seems that right from the start, the superstar cast was extremely close. A hopeful Matt LeBlanc told us during the same visit: "We have really good actors, everyone is really talented in the cast; I just can't wait to go back to work."

When the show began, everyone could sense the magic brewing down at the Central Perk. "That's the thing with this group," Jennifer Aniston told us then. "They're just completely intertwined with each other's lives."

"I'd rather be playing Ross," Lisa Kudrow joked. "I'm him, I really am."

"I think the show has developed a pretty faithful following, so hopefully they'll stay," Aniston said ten short years ago. "You couldn't ask for anything better than for that to happen."

Little did Aniston know just what kind of following the show would have. After tuning in for a decade, and witnessing some of TV's most memorable moments, fans get emotional just thinking about the end -- as did the cast when we talked to them recently: "It's just really sad," Courtney Cox Arquette told us.

"I'm sure we'll all be emotional and we will make Jennifer cry, that's always been our goal," Schwimmer said.

"It's just hard, because it won't be as easy as having to go to work everyday and there they are," Kudrow admitted.

"No, God, I don't know. I can't go there, the end," Aniston mused.

And yet, we'll all be there for the end nonetheless, tonight at 8:00 pm on NBC.