At one time or another, most of us have taken a job primarily for the money. Or done something that hasn't aged well looking back a few decades later.

Matthew Perry did an impressive amount of really good work over his long career. But one of the stranger roles might have been on a promotional video hawking the then-new Microsoft Operating System Windows 95.

To give you an idea of just how much money Microsoft had in the mid-1990s, the company was able to convince Friends co-stars Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston to appear in a 30-minute segment hawking Windows 95 while the sitcom was in its second year. I wasn't able to find a definitive contemporary report on the amount of money each actor was paid, but at the time it was speculated to be around a million dollars each.

Whatever the salary might have been, the two actors appeared in what is billed as the "world's first cyber sitcom," which turned out to mostly involve the duo being introduced to all of the new Windows 95 features. They learn that Windows 95 is compatible "with DOS games like Flight Simulator" and that "you can type a filename that is longer than eight characters." And it's all capped off with a visit to the new online community The Microsoft Network.

As cringeworthy as this is, it's also another reminder that Perry had the ability to make even the dumbest things seem charming and fun.