The series featured six main cast members throughout its run, with numerous characters recurring throughout the ten seasons. The main cast members were familiar to television viewers before their roles on Friends, but were not considered to be stars.^[1] During the series’ ten season run, the actors all achieved household name celebrity status.^[2]

• Jennifer Aniston portrays Rachel Green, a fashion enthusiast and Monica Geller’s best friend from high school. Rachel and Ross Geller are involved in an on again off again relationship throughout the series. Rachel’s first job is as a waitress at the coffee house Central Perk, but she later becomes an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale’s and a buyer at Ralph Lauren in season five. At the end of season eight, Rachel and Ross have a child together, which she names Emma. Aniston had already appeared in several unsuccessful sitcom pilots before being cast in Friends.^[1]

• Courteney Cox Arquette portrays Monica Geller, the mother hen of the group,^[3] known for her obsessive-compulsive and competitive nature.^[4][5] Monica is often jokingly teased for having been an extremely overweight child by the others, especially her brother Ross. Monica is a chef who changes jobs often throughout the show, and marries longtime friend Chandler Bing in season seven. Cox had the highest profile career of the main actors when she was initially cast, having appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Family Ties.^[1]

• Lisa Kudrow portrays Phoebe Buffay, an eccentric masseuse and musician.^[6] Phoebe is known for her self-written guitar songs and for being ditzy yet street-smart. In the last season, she marries a character named Mike Hannigan, played by Paul Rudd.^[7] Kudrow previously played Ursula Buffay on Mad About You, and reprised the dual role of twin sister Ursula as a recurring character during several episodes of Friends.^[1] Before her role on Friends, Kudrow was an office manager and researcher for her father, a headache specialist.^[8]

• Matt LeBlanc portrays Joey Tribbiani, a struggling actor and food lover who becomes famous for his role on Days of our Lives as Dr. Drake Ramoray. Joey is a womanizer with many girlfriends throughout the series, and develops a crush on his friend Rachel in season eight. Before his role on Friends, LeBlanc appeared as a minor character in the sitcom Married… with Children, and as a main character in its spin-offs, Top of the Heap and Vinnie & Bobby.^[9]

• Matthew Perry portrays Chandler Bing, an executive in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration for a large multi-national corporation. Chandler quits his job and becomes a junior copywriter at an advertising agency during season nine. Chandler is known for his sarcastic sense of humor,^[10] and marries longtime friend Monica. Like Aniston, Perry had already appeared in several unsuccessful sitcom pilots before being cast.^[11]

• David Schwimmer portrays Ross Geller, a paleontologist working at a museum of Prehistoric History, and later a professor of paleontology at New York University. Ross is involved in an on-off relationship with Rachel throughout the series. Ross also has three failed marriages during the series, which include Rachel, Emily, and his lesbian ex-wife Carol, who is also the mother of his son, Ben. Before being cast in Friends, Schwimmer played minor characters in The Wonder Years and NYPD Blue.^[1]

Series creator David Crane wanted all six characters to be equally prominent,^[12] and the series was lauded as being “the first true ‘ensemble’ show”.^[13] The cast members made efforts to keep the ensemble format and not allow one member to dominate;^[13] they entered themselves in the same acting categories for awards,^[14] opted for collective instead of individual salary negotiations,^[13] and asked to appear together on magazine cover photos in the first season.^[15] The cast members became best friends off screen,^[8] and one guest star, Tom Selleck, reported sometimes feeling left out.^[16] The cast remained good friends after the series’ run, most notably Cox and Aniston, with Aniston being godmother to Cox and David Arquette’s daughter, Coco.^[17] In the official farewell commemorative book Friends ‘Til The End, each separately acknowledged in their interviews that the cast had become their family.^[18]

In their original contracts for the first season, each cast member was paid $22,500 per episode.^[19] The cast members received different salaries in the second season, beginning from the $20,000 range to $40,000 per episode.^[19][20] Prior to their salary negotiations for the third season, the cast decided to enter collective negotiations, despite Warner Bros. preference for individual deals.^[21] The actors were given the salary of the least paid cast member, meaning Aniston and Schwimmer had their salaries reduced. The stars were paid, per episode, $75,000 in the third season, $85,000 in the fourth, $100,000 in the fifth, and $125,000 in the sixth season.^[22] The cast members received salaries of $750,000 per episode in the seventh and eight seasons, and $1 million per episode in the ninth and tenth.^[11] The cast also received syndication royalties beginning with the fifth season.^[20]

Season 10, Episode 1: The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss
Original Air Date—25 September 2003
Monica, Chandler and Phoebe find out that they can hear through the walls in their hotel rooms. Monica and Chandler cover the wall where they can hear Joey and Rachel kissing, and Phoebe covers the wall where Charlie and Ross are kissing. Both couples put their relationships on hold while they wait to talk to the other before proceeding. On the plane home, Ross tells Joey about him and Charlie, but Joey doesn’t tell Ross about him and Rachel. Monica decides to get rid of her poofy hair by getting corn rows. Back in New York, Ross walks in on Rachel and Joey kissing.

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Season 10, Episode 2: The One Where Ross Is Fine
Original Air Date—2 October 2003
Ross deals with finding out about Rachel and Joey’s relationship almost as well as when he found out about Monica and Chandler. Ross invites Rachel and Joey to a dinner party with him and Charlie. At dinner, Ross gets drunk quickly and embarrasses himself. Rachel and Charlie go home which leaves Joey taking care of Ross. In the morning, Joey and Ross talk and Ross says he will get used to Joey and Rachel. Frank Jr. and his kids come to town and he asks Phoebe to have one of them, but he is not willing to give up any of them. Chandler and Monica visit friends of Phoebe’s who adopted a son but Chandler accidentally reveals to their son that he was adopted after which he tells Frank Jr.’s kids that Phoebe gave birth to them which they also did not know.

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Season 10, Episode 3: The One with Ross’s Tan
Original Air Date—9 October 2003
Ross tries to get a tan, but seems to do it poorly. Rachel and Joey try to make out with no awkwardness. And Phoebe and Monica’s old roommate, Amanda comes to visit.
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Season 10, Episode 4: The One with the Cake
Original Air Date—23 October 2003
On Emma’s first birthday, Rachel won’t let the party start until Emma gets up. Then the cake ends up looking like part of the male anatomy so Rachel & Ross go to New Jersey to get a new cake. When Ross and Rachel get back, the others are playing with Emma’s toys.
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Season 10, Episode 5: The One Where Rachel’s Sister Babysits
Original Air Date—30 October 2003
Monica and Chandler let Joey write a letter of recommendation for adoption, but they find out that he sent the letter written in pen. The adoption agency thinks a kid wrote it. Rachel’s sister, Amy, visits again, and moves in with Joey and Rachel. Phoebe keeps ruining Mike’s chances of proposing. While watching Emma, Amy gets Emma’s ears pierced.
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Season 10, Episode 6: The One with Ross’ Grant
Original Air Date—6 November 2003
Monica and Rachel fight over who gets Phoebe’s ugly painting. Joey gets mad at Chandler for lying about watching his audition tape. Ross can get a big grant, but Charlie’s ex-boyfriend is in charge of it. He bribes Ross for the grant if he gets Charlie back. Charlie breaks up with Ross to get back together with her ex-boyfriend.
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Season 10, Episode 7: The One with the Home Study
Original Air Date—13 November 2003
Phoebe and Mike keep changing their minds about donating their wedding money to charity. Ross fights Rachel’s fear of swings. Monica and Chandler’s adoption interviewer Laura find out that Joey had a one-night-stand with her.
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Season 10, Episode 8: The One with the Late Thanksgiving
Original Air Date—20 November 2003
Monica wasn’t even volunteering to cook her annual Thankgiving feast this year, but accepted to please Phoebe, helped only by Chandler, whose culinary talent doesn’t reach further then washing cranberries; they have a fit when everybody is nearly an hour late. Phoebe entered Emma for a Tristate baby beauty contest; Rachel was dead against in principle, but changed her mind as radically when hearing first prize is $1,000, and when dad Ross finds out that’s not different. Ross got three prime tickets for the New York Rangers, and promised Chandler not to go as they would be late for Monica’s dinner, but sneaked off with Joey anyway. Monica and Chandler are so mad they lock everybody out, just peeking in with the chain bolted, and Joey’s head gets stuck. Suddenly an unexpected phone-call changes Monica’s mood completely…
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Season 10, Episode 9: The One with the Birth Mother
Original Air Date—8 January 2004
After Rachel confirms Joey is more mature in relationships, Phoebe presents him to another friend as date, Sarah, who fails alas to respect his primordial rule by touching food in his plate. Ross wants fashion advice for his date, so Rachel and Phoebe take him shopping, but after he left the choosing to professional buyer Rachel he accidentally ends up wearing her stuff, despite Joey’s ‘jealous’ warning. Monica let the gang get her hopes up when Chandler and she fly to on adoption agency in Ohio. The pregnant mother, Erica, likes them- but only because their files got mixed up with a doctor and a female minister; Monica throws everything at playing the reverend part, but Chandler tells the truth, so Erica calls it off; Monica’s pressing on only makes it worse, but Chandler explains privately…
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Season 10, Episode 10: The One Where Chandler Gets Caught
Original Air Date—15 January 2004
Chandler and Monica have decided they want to raise their offspring in a suburb house, and even find a perfect one in Westchester. Rachel and Phoebe see Chandler enter the house with his realtor Nancy, and think he’s cheating with her on Monica. After that misunderstanding is cleared, the other Friends are shocked the couple wants to leave Manhattan, and everybody starts reminiscing about living in New York as a gang, till Nancy calls about their bid on the house…
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Season 10, Episode 11: The One Where the Stripper Cries
Original Air Date—5 February 2004
Phoebe’s bachelorette party has no strippers, and Phoebe wanted one. So Rachel and Monica find a stripper, but he has to be at least 50 years old. Joey appears on “Pyramid.” Chandler and Ross go to a college reunion, and they recall what they did in 1987. Chandler tells Ross that he kissed Rachel at a party and Ross gets upset with Chandler because that was the night he kissed Rachel for the first time. It turns out that Ross didn’t kiss Rachel that night, that he really kissed Monica.

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Season 10, Episode 12: The One with Phoebe’s Wedding
Original Air Date—12 February 2004
Monica is driving Phoebe insane as she plans Phoebe’s wedding. At the rehearsal dinner, Phoebe gets really upset with Monica and fires her. The next day, Phoebe is going through hell doing Monica’s job. Chandler and Ross find out that they are not included in the wedding and when one of Mike’s groomsmen can’t make it, Mike lets Phoebe decide who should take the role. Phoebe passes the decision to bridesmaid Rachel however Mike makes his dog, Chappy, the missing groomsman. Joey is playing Phoebe’s dad during the ceremony, and he takes it too seriously. There is a giant blizzard which threatens the event, but Phoebe and Mike decide to get married still when the blizzard stops. Phoebe gives Monica her job back. Chappy can’t walk on the snow, so Ross carries him. The minister can’t make it, so Joey volunteers to marry Phoebe and Mike & Chandler then plays Phoebe’s father.

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Season 10, Episode 13: The One Where Joey Speaks French
Original Air Date—19 February 2004
Ross accompanies Rachel to Long Island after Rachel’s father has a heart attack. Rachel wants to have sex with Ross but he rejects her and they make a promise never to sleep together again. Erica comes to town and Monica and Chandler find out that the baby’s father might be a shovel killer. Phoebe, back from her honeymoon helps Joey prepare for an audition by teaching him how to speak french. Joey does not progress well, even on the first line, and Phoebe says he will never learn french, and running out on their lessons.
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Season 10, Episode 14: The One with Princess Consuela
Original Air Date—26 February 2004
When Phoebe goes to get her name changed she realizes she can change it to anything she wants, so she changes it to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock. When Mike suggests he changes his name to Crap Bag, Phoebe gets his point and changes her name to Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan. Chandler finds out that Monica never changed her last name. Monica and Chandler take Joey to their house to convince him it is a good move he tries to find anything wrong with the house so they wouldn’t buy it. Rachel goes to a job interview at a restaurant but her current boss is sitting right beyond her. She does not get the new job and loses her job at Ralph Lauren. When cleaning out her office, she bumps into Mark who takes her for dinner to discuss a job offer for her.
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Season 10, Episode 15: The One Where Estelle Dies
Original Air Date—22 April 2004
Ross tries to get Rachel to go back to Ralph Lauren, Joey doesn’t know that his agent has died, and Monica and Chandler bump into Janice.
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Season 10, Episode 16: The One with Rachel’s Going Away Party
Original Air Date—29 April 2004
As Rachel prepares to move to Paris, Monica throws a going-away party for her. Rachel privately talks to everyone during the party except for Ross. Ross gets upset, and tells her that he at least deserves a goodbye because of their history. Rachel goes over his apartment, and tells him the reason she did not say goodbye was because it was too hard. That he was more important to her than the others. Then they share a romantic kiss. Meanwhile, Joey and Chandler are putting packing around their head, and hitting each other. Chandler finds handcuffs in the guest room, and assumes they are Monica’s, Phoebe’s, or Rachel’s. They turn out to be Monica and Ross’s grandma’s handcuffs.
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Season 10, Episode 17: The One with All the Other Ones: Part 1
Original Air Date—6 May 2004

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Season 10, Episode 18: The One with All the Other Ones: Part 2
Original Air Date—6 May 2004

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Season 10, Episode 19: The Last One: Part 1
Original Air Date—6 May 2004
Erica has gone into labor, three weeks early and Chandler has a hard time getting along with Erica when left alone in the delivery room with her. Meanwhile, Ross and Rachel slept together and Ross realizes that he still loves her and wants to be with her. Erica delivers, but there is one big surprise - there are two babies. After Erica delivers the second baby, Monica and Chandler decide to name the girl, Erica, and the boy, Jack. Ross chases Rachel to the airport with the help of Phoebe but they end up going to the wrong airport. Joey had bought Monica and Chandler a duck Jr. and chick Jr. as a going away gift. Monica finishes the packing.
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Season 10, Episode 20: The Last One: Part 2
Original Air Date—6 May 2004
Ross and Phoebe race to the other airport, afraid they are not going to make it in time to catch Rachel. Phoebe calls Rachel, and tells her there is something wrong with the “left phalange” which creeps out the rest of the passengers so everyone gets off. Ross and Phoebe get to the correct airport but Rachel has just boarded again. Phoebe screams as loud as she can, and Rachel comes back out. Ross tells Rachel he loves her, but she gets on the plane anyway. Meanwhile, Chick Jr and Duck Jr are stuck inside the foosball table, and Monica volunteers to break the table. When Ross gets back to his apartment, he finds a message that Rachel had left him. She says that she is trying to get off the plane. Ross listening to this, does not know that Rachel is standing beyond him and they finally get back together. Monica and Chandler pack the final things in their apartment, and leave their keys, along with the rest of the gang who produce keys. Monica & Chandler, their twins, Joey, Pheoebe , Rachel & Ross all go downstairs to have one more cup of coffee in Central Perk.

Written by Julie Miller

 While the world holds out for a Central Perk reunion movie, Matthew Perry continues his quest for post-Friends success on broadcast television. The 17 Again co-star’s latest hope: a single-camera comedy he will act in, co-write and executive produce under the Sony Pictures TV umbrella. But how will it stack up against Monica and Joey’s current television reincarnations?

Inspired by his own milestone birthday last summer, Perry’s show has him starring as a “self-involved manager of a second-rate sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday.” This sounds an awful lot like the short-lived Mike O’Malley Show (A 30-year-old hockey fan re-evaluates his life after attending the wedding of a close friend), which brings up an interesting point. Who has more star power: 1999’s Mike O’Malley or 2009’s Matthew Perry?

Other Friends alums have found relative success in single-camera television recently. Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town was picked up by ABC for an entire season last week and Matt LeBlanc is set to star in Showtime’s television satire Episodes. Lisa Kudrow dabbled in premium cable single-cam back in 2005 with The Comeback, but has since put herself back on the market for Smelly Cat tribute videos. If Perry gets some traction with his semi-autobiographical comedy, he has a chance at becoming the third most culturally relevant Friend after Cox and Jennifer Aniston. David Schwimmer can write the press release.

By Dave Itzkoff

Slowly but surely, ABC is adding to its collection of vagabond “Friends” alumni. The Hollywood Reporter said the network had acquired a new comedy series created by and set to star Matthew Perry, who played the more-sarcastic-than-thou roommate Chandler on “Friends.” In the new show, which does not yet have a title, Mr. Perry would play the manager of a sports arena who takes stock of his life after he turns 40. (Mr. Perry himself reached this milestone on Aug. 19.) Among the other bidders for the series, The Hollywood Reporter said, was NBC, which broadcast “Friends” from 1994 to 2004. ABC is also home to the Courteney Cox sitcom “Cougar Town,” which was recently picked up for a full season. Matt LeBlanc is committed to a new series of his own for Showtime and the BBC, but Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and the actor who played Gunther the coffee-shop barista are still up for grabs.

 

SEASON 8

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 Season 8, Episode 1: The One After I Do
Original Air Date—27 September 2001
Bride Monica emphatically denies the rumor of her pregnancy, which has even reached Ross. Rachel frantically fears and refuses to tell the truth, so Phoebe pretends to be the mother to be. But when she remembers she shouldn’t be drinking alcohol and spits outs champagne Monica guesses the truth. Ordered to change from his World War I uniform costume, Joey can only find a white tennis kit to wear. Ross sees an attractive guest and changes the seating arrangement to sit with her, but mixes up numbers 6 with 9 landing instead at the kids table, on a chair which makes ‘funny’ noises. His ‘date’ is nonetheless impressed by his kindness to kids as he lets little girls dance’ standing on his shoes, but his last ‘partner’ is built less like an angel.

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 Season 8, Episode 2: The One with the Red Sweater
Original Air Date—4 October 2001
Monica, Phoebe and Joey advise Rachel to tell the father about the pregnancy. Chandler and Ross lose the wedding photos.

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Original Air Date—11 October 2001
Even on honeymoon, Monica is pushy and is annoyed that Chandler wouldn’t jump the queue at the airport check-in especially when the couple before them, also on honeymoon, get bumped up to first class. They try to sneak into the first class lounge, but are caught but at least she can nick an orange. Joey and Phoebe find Monica and Chandler have tricked them out of the keys of the master apartment; Joey hoped a false gas leak alert would make super Treeger use his key, but he makes a fireman use an axe and the wrecked door calls for a big lie. Rachel is finally ready to tell who the father is- the others say they already know, except daddy Ross, who thinks she just wants another passionate night with him. After blaming everything on the condom manufacturer, as he nor Joey ever read the notice they are only 97% safe, Ross promises Rachel full support and of course proposes- which she turns down as they aren’t in love. She refuses to admit she won’t cope on her own, although she can’t even see their baby on the first ultrasound.

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  Season 8, Episode 4: The One with the Videotape
Original Air Date—18 October 2001
Ross and Rachel tell the friends about the night they were together. Ross tells that he has a tape from that night.

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 Season 8, Episode 5: The One with Rachel’s Date
Original Air Date—25 October 2001
Phoebe dates Monica’s sous-chef Tim and Monica doesn’t fire him for Phoebe’s sake. When Phoebe decides to dump Tim Monica can finally fire him. Rachel has a date with Kash, a co-star on Days of Our Lives. Ross thinks it’s weird because whoever takes Rachel out, takes his baby out too. He always pictured that his next child would grow up in a happy family. Rachel’s date was terrible because she made the mistake of mentioning she was pregnant. Ross reassures her it isn’t so bad because when she has the baby she will love someone more than she ever loved anyone.

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  Season 8, Episode 6: The One with the Halloween Party
Original Air Date—1 November 2001
Monica and Chandler are having a costume party for Halloween. Phoebe bumps into Ursula who is getting married in a week and invites her in return for Ursula’s invitation for the wedding. Phoebe really likes Ursula’s fiancé Eric. Eric and Ursula only met two weeks earlier and Phoebe finds out that Ursula told Eric a lot of lies about herself. Phoebe tells him the truth about Ursula while Rachel is trying to be good with children by handing out candy and money after the candy is gone.

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 Season 8, Episode 7: The One with the Stain
Original Air Date—8 November 2001
Chandler hires a maid to clean the apartment and Monica promises to give her a chance. Eric broke up with Ursula and asks Phoebe out for lunch but he is still upset about Ursula and can’t look at Phoebe without seeing Ursula. Rachel is looking for an apartment because she can’t stay with Joey once the baby is here. Monica is very patient with the cleaning lady but thinks the girl stole her jeans and is wearing them. Monica remembers dropping ink and making a stain in the crotch of the jeans and tries to find out if they really are her jeans. Phoebe and Eric make out but then Eric accidentally has sex with Ursula thinking it’s Phoebe and that’s the end of Phoebe and Eric’s relationship. Monica makes Chandler make a move on Brenda to see whether the jeans are stained or not. It turns out Rachel borrowed Monica’s jeans but Brenda quit already. Joey doesn’t want Rachel to move out so he builds a baby room in his apartment to show Rachel that it would work with all of them living there. Rachel decides to stay with Joey.

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 Season 8, Episode 8: The One with the Stripper
Original Air Date—15 November 2001
Chandler finds out that Monica had a bacholerette party with stripper even though they promised not to have bachelor/bachelorette parties. Rachel takes Phoebe to have dinner with Rachel’s dad because she is afraid her dad will be really angry when Rachel tells him she’s pregnant. Mr Green is delighted to hear he will be grandfather but freaks out when he finds out that Rachel isn’t getting married so she just tells him Ross won’t marry her. Monica feels bad about having had a bachelorette party so she organizes a bachelor party including a stripper for Chandler. Joey is the only “guest” at Chandler’s bachelor party because Chandler is embarrassed and doesn’t really want to have the party. The stripper comes a-knocking but turns out to be a hooker. Mr Green goes to see Ross to yell at him but unfortunately for Ross Mona is there too so they are both yelling at Ross. Rachel explains everything to her dad and Mona who makes up with Ross.

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 Season 8, Episode 9: The One with the Rumor
Original Air Date—22 November 2001
Will, an old friend of Ross’ is in town and Monica invited him for Thanksgiving dinner. Will used to be really fat in high school and he really hates Rachel because she was horrible to him. Will shows his hatred and tells Rachel they had the “I-hate-Rachel-Greene-Club” in high school. The members of the club: Will and Ross! Their club spread a rumor that Rachel had both male and female reproductive parts. Everybody knew about the rumor and Rachel figures that’s why certain guys wouldn’t go out with her. It turns out that Rachel told everyone about how Ross made out with the old librarian and Ross is so upset he wants to be in the club again. Phoebe also joins the club because she’s never been in a club. Monica tells them they’re being childish and they should focus on the important things going on in their lives like having a baby together.

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 Season 8, Episode 10: The One with Monica’s Boots
Original Air Date—6 December 2001
Monica buys really expensive but fabulous boots. Chandler wants to return them but Monica promises to wear them all the time and they’ll be worth the money. Monica really does wear them all the time now but they hurt like hell. Joey’s youngest sister Dina is pregnant and comes to Rachel for advice and they go tell Joey who gets really upset about it. Phoebe finds out that Sting’s son is in Ben’s class so she goes to see Sting’s wife pretending to want to talk about Ben and Jack in order to get tickets to Sting’s concert. It all ends in a restraining order for Phoebe.

Next US airings:
Wed. Sept. 23 11:30 PM CW 
 

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 Season 8, Episode 11: The One with Ross’s Step Forward
Original Air Date—13 December 2001
Ross and Mona took pictures of themselves at the Rockefeller Center and now Mona wants to send the picture as a Holiday card to friends. Ross freaks out at the thought of them sending out Holiday cards together because they’ve only been dating a couple of months. Ross tries to have a conversation about their relationship and says all the wrong things and ends up giving Mona a key to his apartment. Chandler has to tell his boss that he split up with Monica in order to prevent that Monica has to have dinner with Chandler and his boss.

Next US airings:
Thur. Sept. 24 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 12: The One Where Joey Dates Rachel
Original Air Date—10 January 2002
Phoebe gives Chandler and Monica a late wedding present: the game Ms Pac-Man. Chandler plays it all day long to be better than Monica and Phoebe. Rachel misses dressing up for romantic dates so Joey promises to take her out. They have a wonderfully romantic date pretending they’re not roommates and they get to know each other a whole new level. Monica and Phoebe have to try to beat Chandler’s top scores because Ben is coming over to play and Chandler put dirty words as names for the top scores. Joey has a crush on Rachel and feels weird about it.

Next US airings:
Fri. Sept. 25 11:30 PM CW 
 

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Original Air Date—17 January 2002
After his openhearted evening with Rachel, Joey finds it impossible to go back to thinking about her as just a friend, yet he can’t talk about it, not even to Chandler. As Joey rambles, only shutting up when Phoebe enters make Monica concludes he must be in love with Phoebe. Considering baby names, parents to be Ross and Rachel find no word in common except ‘veto’! They agree not to ask the child’s sex, yet Ross notices the gynecologist takes a peak, sod asks the doc afterward. After Chandler was unable to understand why Monica loves taking an elaborate bath, she lures him into trying a perfect combination of scents and salts by incorporating a model navy ‘boat’ and he’s hooked, enough to steal her next bath by jumping in before she can. When Joey barges in the bathroom, the boat gets a more modest purpose.

Next US airings:
Mon. Sept. 28 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 14: The One with the Secret Closet
Original Air Date—31 January 2002
Chandler’s very curious about a locked closet, but Monica won’t tell him what is inside.

Next US airings:
Tue. Sept. 29 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 15: The One with the Birthing Video
Original Air Date—7 February 2002
During Valentine’s Day, Chandler discovers the miracle of birth seeing an extremely graphic video.

Next US airings:
Wed. Sept. 30 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 16: The One Where Joey Tells Rachel
Original Air Date—28 February 2002
Ross freaks out when Joey tells him that he is in love with Rachel because Ross is afraid that they will get married and raise his kid together. Phoebe dates a guy called Don, who she thinks is Monica’s soul-mate and introduces Don to Monica to see what will happen. Monica and Don get along perfectly. Ross goes to tell Joey that he doesn’t hate him and Joey promises to never act on his feelings for Rachel because he won’t jeopardize his friendship to Ross. But when Ross realizes that Joey really is in love for the first time he tells Joey to tell Rachel. When Joey tells Rachel it is clear that she doesn’t feel the same way about Joey and they both start crying.

Next US airings:
Thur. Oct. 1 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 17: The One with the Tea Leaves
Original Air Date—7 March 2002
Chandler and Monica are happy together - their worst problem is his habit to put CDs in the wrong box and their different taste in music. Rachel is desperate to get back at good terms with Joey, so she takes Monica’s advice to change the subject to something work-related. However in another uncomfortable conversation she manages to convince Joey that her boss, Mr. Zelner, wants to buy her baby. When Phoebe resumes reading tea leaves, she sees that she’ll meet the man of her dreams soon, and takes that to be Jim, who she keeps bumping into. However she soon finds he isn’t quite that nice, and may be too crazy even for her! Ross is determined to get his favorite pink (’light salmon shade’) shirt back from Mona’s, so he sneaks in with the key, and dives behind the couch when she enters with a studly new lover…

Next US airings:
Fri. Oct. 2 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 18: The One in Massapequa
Original Air Date—28 March 2002
Phoebe has an extremely enthusiast friend, who makes a fuss of everything.

Next US airings:
Mon. Oct. 5 11:30 PM CW 
 

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  Season 8, Episode 19: The One with Joey’s Interview
Original Air Date—4 April 2002
Joey gives an interview to a soap opera magazine.

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 Season 8, Episode 20: The One with the Baby Shower
Original Air Date—25 April 2002
Monica gives a baby shower for Rachel, where the future mother will find out that she doesn’t know to much about babies.

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 Season 8, Episode 21: The One with the Cooking Class
Original Air Date—2 May 2002
Monica gets angry with a critic who wrote an awful review about a soup, served at her restaurant. She goes straight forward with him, in order to give him once again her soup and he could write a better review.

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 Season 8, Episode 22: The One Where Rachel Is Late
Original Air Date—9 May 2002
Rachel’s in a bad mood because she’s tired of being pregnant. She wants that the baby comes quick, while Phoebe and Monica are making bets about the date of the birth.

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  Season 8, Episode 23: The One Where Rachel Has the Baby: Part 1
Original Air Date—16 May 2002
Ross and Rachel go to the hospital to have their baby but it’s a long labor. They get stuck in a semi-private room and many other couples come and go before Rachel is ready to deliver, the last couple being Janice and her new husband. Chandler and Monica decide to start trying to have a baby.

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  Season 8, Episode 24: The One Where Rachel Has the Baby: Part 2
Original Air Date—16 May 2002
After 21 hours Rachel is finally ready to go to the delivery room and baby-girl Geller Green is born and her name is Emma! Janice comes to see Rachel and Janice says she admires Rachel for her strength to raise the child on her own. When Rachel says she isn’t alone because she has Ross, Janice tells her that Ross won’t stay around forever and might meet someone else. Suddenly, Rachel feels very alone and she tries to talk to Ross about the kiss they had. Ross doesn’t want to have a relationship with Rachel anymore because if it doesn’t work out it would really hurt Emma and he and Rachel are doing fine as things are now. Joey comes to comfort Rachel and she accidentally thinks Joey is proposing to her!

SEASON 7

 

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Season 7, Episode 1: The One with Monica’s Thunder
Original Air Date—12 October 2000
It’s still the night of Monica and Chandler’s engagement and they all dress up to go drink champagne at the Plaza. Rachel is a little sad and lonely and asks Ross whether they want to have a night together with no strings attached. Monica catches them kissing and is upset because she waited her whole life for that day and thought it would only be about her engagement but now it is about Rachel and Ross getting back together - they stole “Monica’s thunder”. Monica is really upset and doesn’t want to go out for champagne anymore. Monica and Rachel have a huge fight and Rachel admits that she kissed Ross because she was sad about not even being close to getting married. Monica forgives Rachel.

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 Season 7, Episode 2: The One with Rachel’s Book
Original Air Date—12 October 2000
The wedding planning starts and Monica already has a whole book full of information on everything you need for a wedding. Joey takes a nap in Rachel’s bed and finds out that she reads dirty books and doesn’t stop teasing Rachel about it. To give Monica and Chandler a little time on their own Phoebe moves in with Ross for a couple of days. Ross freaks out when Phoebe does her massages at Ross’ place and asks her to see her clients elsewhere. One of Phoebe’s clients comes by when Phoebe isn’t there and Ross gives him a weird massage. Monica’s parents spent the money for Monica’s wedding on the beach house so there is no money for the wedding. Chandler has saved exactly the amount they need for Monica’s dream wedding but Chandler won’t spend all of his savings on one day. The old man Ross massaged is not coming back after the bad massage he got. If Monica wants the perfect wedding Chandler will spend all the money they have but Monica decides that she wants a future and not spend their security on the wedding. Rachel scares the jokes out of Joey forever when she tells him she wants rough sex with him.

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 Season 7, Episode 3: The One with Phoebe’s Cookies
Original Air Date—19 October 2000
The gang discuss what to get Monica and Chandler as engagement presents. Monica really wants Phoebe’s grandma’s chocolate chip cookie recipe but Phoebe’s grandma made her swear never to let the recipe out of the family.She finally agrees to give it to Monica. Unfortunately, the fire in Phoebe’s apartment destroyed the recipe so she gives Monica and Chandler the only cookie left as a present. Monica tries to figure out the recipe from the cookie and makes heaps of different ones. Rachel tries to teach Joey how to sail which proves to be quite difficult. Chandler wants to bond with Mr. Geller but when they went to the steam room after their racket ball game Chandler accidentally sits on Mr Geller’s lap. Monica finds out that Phoebe’s grandma didn’t have a secret recipe and that she probably got the recipe for Toll House cookies from the back of the Nestles chocolate chip bag, because Phoebe says that her grandma got the recipe from her French friend “Nestle Toulouse”. Chandler clears things up with Mr. Geller and Rachel gives up teaching Joey and enjoys Joey’s way of sailing: sitting on the boat in the marina drinking beer.

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 Season 7, Episode 4: The One with Rachel’s Assistant
Original Air Date—26 October 2000
Joey and Rachel compete over who has the best news. Rachel was promoted by Ralph Lauren, in person, to head a division and subsequently can hire a personal assistant. Although Hilda has all relevant qualifications and plenty of experience, Rachel she still chooses young Tag Johnson, who the girls and Chandler consider beautiful enough to be a model. Tag is greatly surprised that his clumsy interview didn’t lose him the job, but gets increasingly suspicious as it seems people believe he gay, a lie spread by Rachel so she can keep him for herself. However he is more interested in Phoebe. Nobody had the heart to tell Joey a pilot he made stunk, so he was overconfident about his lead in Mack and CHEESE, and told director Terry he could stuff a comeback role on Days of Our Lives, especially if Alas, the producers phone to say the sci-if series is canceled, so Joey must beg Terry to take him on board. Meanwhile, Monica tricks Chandler into telling her an embarrassing ‘Ross at Disneyland’ anecdote. Ross finds out and retorts, starting a series of spilled secrets the three use against each-other.

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 Season 7, Episode 5: The One with the Engagement Picture
Original Air Date—2 November 2000
Monica’s mom arranged to get their wedding announced in the paper, but they need to get a picture from a professional photographer as any camera makes Chandler grin look like a hyenas. Phoebe dates Kyle, who knows both Chandler and Ross -thwho nicknamed him ‘Hums While He Pees’- from their basketball club. Ross gets to divert his crazy ex Whitney by taking her to a ballroom dance-date. Rachel is completely smitten with her office assistant Tag, enough to smell his cloths and be jealous when their colleague Melissa asks him out. Rachel even pays Joey to take Tag out, first to a Knicks game, then to a bar where they meet dozens of potential rivals for Rachel. Rachel then bribes Joey with free Ralph Lauren shirts to stop picking up women together so tag will stop too but Tag decides to go back to his ex-girlfriend.

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 Season 7, Episode 6: The One with the Nap Partners
Original Air Date—9 November 2000
Joey and Ross have a nap together, and Rachel and Phoebe need to decide who will be Monica’s bridesmaid.

 

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 Season 7, Episode 7: The One with Ross’ Library Book
Original Air Date—16 November 2000
Monica runs into Janice and Janice is shocked to hear that she is getting married to Chandler but invites herself and her boyfriend to the wedding. Ross’ doctoral dissertation can be found at the library but when he goes to see it he finds out that the Palaentology section of the library is only used when students make out together. Therefore Ross decides to defend the area. Rachel and Phoebe find the perfect girl for Joey and he is really into her but she doesn’t feel the same way. Chandler and Monica can finally get rid of Janice.

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 Season 7, Episode 8: The One Where Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs
Original Air Date—23 November 2000
It’s Thanksgiving and the friends and Tag are preparing for dinner. Phoebe secretly keeps a dog she is watching for friends who went out of town in her room at Monica and Chandler’s apartment. Everybody thought Chandler was allergic to dogs but the truth is that he hates dogs because he scared of them because you can never tell what they’re thinking. Tag broke up with his girlfriend and Rachel is thinking about making a move. When Rachel tells Tag that she likes him he doesn’t reply because he sees his car being stolen. Later on Rachel says he should just forget about what she said but Tag likes her too and they kiss.

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 Season 7, Episode 9: The One with All the Candy
Original Air Date—7 December 2000
Monica makes candy for their neighbours even though they don’t know them. The neighbours love the candy and Monica becomes very popular in the building. Rachel and Tag try to hide their relationship at work but when Rachel writes a revealing evaluation as a joke and Tag sends it on to human resources without reading it, they have a problem. Ross finds out that Phoebe never owned a bike so he buys her the prettiest pink bike there is and teaches Phoebe how to ride. Tag and Rachel almost get fired but manage to solve the problem. TOns of people hang around the apartment waiting for more of Monica’s candy so Chandler stands up for Monica and tells everyone to go away and leave her alone. Ross buys Phoebe training wheels.

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 Season 7, Episode 10: The One with the Holiday Armadillo
Original Air Date—14 December 2000
Ross wants to introduce Ben to Chanukah. In order to entice Rachel to move back into their refurbished apartment, Pheobe must drive a wedge between Rachel and current roomie Joey.

 

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 Season 7, Episode 11: The One with All the Cheesecakes
Original Air Date—4 January 2001
Chandler and Rachel eat a cheesecake that was accidentally delivered to their door and it’s the best cheesecake they’ve ever had. Another cheesecake gets delivered and they try to resist and drop it off to their neighbour that was supposed to receive it. Ross is invited to a cousin’s wedding but Monica isn’t. Monica is very upset because she was the girl’s best friend when they grew up together so she gets Ross to take her instead of a date. Rachel and Chandler find the cheesecake untouched in front of the neighbour’s door so they take it. Monica wasn’t invited to the wedding because she used to date the groom. Phoebe meets David, the love her life, again but he lives in Russia.

 

 

 

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 Season 7, Episode 12: The One Where They’re Up All Night
Original Air Date—11 January 2001
In the beginning, the 6 friends plus Tag are sitting on the roof looking for comets. Later, everyone goes inside except for Ross and Joey, who takes the tube that was holding the door open off. Ross and Joey are then locked on the roof until they get the idea to go down the fire escape. Phoebe’s fire alarm keeps beeping and it won’t stop. She eventually breaks the fire alarm and throws it down the trash chute. A fireman returns the fire alarm to Phoebe, who can’t stop the fire alarm because the reset button broke off. Monica and Chandler can’t sleep, so Chandler insists on having sex. Rachel realized that she forgets to mail something out at work, so she and Tag stop by the office. Rachel says she left them on Tag’s desk, but she finds them on her own desk. She doesn’t want to be proved wrong, so she makes Tag go check the copy room and then Rachel drops the papers in Tags desk.

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 Season 7, Episode 13: The One Where Rosita Dies
Original Air Date—1 February 2001
Rachel wants to have a place to sit in front of the TV but Joey tells her Rosita, the armchair, does not move. Rachel tries to move it anyway and breaks it in half. The Gellers sell their house and Monica and Ross have to take their childhood memories home but Monica’s boxes were ruined in a flood. Phoebe starts working as a telephone sales woman and talks to Earl who want to kill himself. Chandler sits in the armchair and thinks he broke it so he secretly exchanges Rosita with his chair. Meanwhile Joey and Rachel went to buy a new armchair as well so now they have two. Rachel keeps the super cool new armchair while Joey is stuck with his normal old one. When Chandler finds out he didn’t break Rosita he wants to take it back but Joey broke Chandler’s chair in order to get Rachel’s cool chair. Phoebe talks Earl out of killing himself. Monica’s dad gives her his Porsche to say that he loves her just as much as he loves Ross.

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 Season 7, Episode 14: The One Where They All Turn Thirty
Original Air Date—8 February 2001
It’s Rachel’s 30th birthday and they all reflect on all their 30th birthdays. Rachel is really upset because according to her life plan she should already be with the One and she realizes that Tag could never be the man she would want to spend the rest of her life with.

 

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 Season 7, Episode 15: The One with Joey’s New Brain
Original Air Date—15 February 2001
Joey’s character on Day of Our Lives will finally come out of the coma after they transplant a woman’s brain. The woman Jessica will live on in Drake’s body so Joey asks the actress who plays Jessica (Susan Sarandon) to help him be Jessica. Ross will play bagpipes at Monica and Chandler’s wedding as a surprise. Joey is seeing the actress playing Jessica but she will be doing a movie in Mexico.

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 Season 7, Episode 16: The One with the Truth About London
Original Air Date—22 February 2001
Rachel watches Ben for an hour and is a little scared because she’s never been alone with him before. Rachel teaches Ben practical jokes to entertain him but everybody hates the pranks. Chandler and Monica try to choose a minister but can’t find one so they promise Joey that he can marry them. Joey gets his minister certificate on the Internet and writes his speech including the story how Chandler and Monica got together. Chandler finds out that Monica actually wanted to sleep with Joey when she knocked on the door but Chandler was the only one there. Chandler is really upset and doesn’t want Joey to do the wedding anymore. Joey talks to him about how Chandler and Monica are meant for each other and nothing could take that away and Chandler is happy to let Joey do the wedding. Ross and Ben play a prank on Rachel so she will stop teaching them to Ben.

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 Season 7, Episode 17: The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress
Original Air Date—15 March 2001
Monica takes the other girls to an overpriced store to choose her wedding dress, briefing as if they were in the military as bargain-hunters are far more ruthless then Rachel can usually handle. The worst shopper is Megan who grabs the dress Monica wants then blackmails her over booking of a particular swing band which is about the only thing Chandler really wants for the wedding. Ross and Joey independently meet and date Kristen Leigh while helping her move in. The rivals agree to let her choose after one date with each but they get so carried away cheating on the deal that she runs off altogether.

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 Season 7, Episode 18: The One with Joey’s Award
Original Air Date—29 March 2001
Joey is nominated for a Soapy Award for his part on Days of Our Lives and Rachel is his date to the ceremony. Joey doesn’t win the award but takes someone else’s award home. Rachel convinces him to take it back because he can’t be happy with an award he didn’t win. One of Ross’ students failed the midterms because he is in love with Ross and can’t concentrate in class so Ross changes his grade. But now more students come to Ross pretending to be in love with him in order to get a better grade. When Rachel and Joey take the Soapy back the real winner just throws it away saying it’s not good enough for her so Joey takes it back home. Monica really loves Chandler but it scares her that she will never have the rush of the beginning of meeting someone new again. Chandler reassures her and she realizes she is going to have a lot of new things with Chandler as well.

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 Season 7, Episode 19: The One with Ross and Monica’s Cousin
Original Air Date—19 April 2001
Joey is tickled pink when he gets a Catholic Italian immigrant part in a rising director’s next period film, until his agent tells him it has an essential full frontal nudity scene. Just as Monica has convinced him a movie career is worth showing his family jewels he finds out that the roles means he shouldn’t be circumcised, which he is so Monica promises to attempt to make something that should help. Cousin Cassie Geller stays with Chandler and Monica until their wedding, but as the little girl has grown into a supermodel since they last saw her, Chandler’s ogling requires her staying at Ross’s apartment instead. Alas the incest factor doesn’t stop them flirting hotly. Rachel and Phoebe remember that in two days they have to throw Monica a bridal shower. Arbitrarily calling people from her address book results in a weird crowd neither of them knows and they both forgot to invite the bride.

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 Season 7, Episode 20: The One with Rachel’s Big Kiss
Original Air Date—26 April 2001
Rachel bumps into her old friend Melissa from college who she once kissed after drinking too much sangria. Monica has the seating chart for the wedding finished and Chandler is really sad that only about 10 guests are from his side. Chandler goes to see Rachel at Ralph Lauren’s to choose a tux and picks the tux that Pierce Brosnan wore once and sent back. Chandler thinks he is the coolest until he finds out that Ross picked the tux worn by Val Kilmer in Batman. Phoebe doesn’t believe Rachel that she made out with Melissa so she goes to dinner with them to ask Melissa about it. But unfortunately for Rachel, Melissa can’t remember anything. To prove to Phoebe that she is wild Rachel kisses Melissa again and Melissa admits being in love with Rachel and remembering the kiss all the time. It turns out that Ross’ tux was worn by Val Kilmer but not in Batman. Chandler finds a new tux - which was worn by Diane Keaton.

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 Season 7, Episode 21: The One with the Vows
Original Air Date—3 May 2001
Monica and Chandler are getting married in 4 weeks and have to write their vows but both of them don’t have a clue what to say so they reflect on their past.

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 Season 7, Episode 22: The One with Chandler’s Dad
Original Air Date—10 May 2001
Finding out she’s the only one of the friends who never got to drive Monica’s Posche, Rachel steals the car keys from Ross, who feels responsible so he jumps in before learning Rachel’s license expired. They get stopped, twice, but flirting doesn’t work with both officers. When Phoebe’s studly boyfriend Jake bends over, Joey sees he wears lingerie. Phoebe tells Joey that they exchanged underwear and it takes a really confident man to dare doing so. Joey can’t resist trying it himself. Chandler refuses to send a wedding invitation to his father, who made his entire youth hell by being such a shameless drag-queen, but Monica is determined to put family first and drags her groom to Las Vegas, where Chandler’s dad has a drag show. When they are finally face to face, Chandler makes a decision.

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 Season 7, Episode 23: The One with Monica and Chandler’s Wedding: Part 1
Original Air Date—17 May 2001
Joey unexpectedly gets a part in a movie about soldiers in World War I but his famous co-star Richard Crosby keeps spitting in his face for the sake of articulation. Ross makes everybody burst into laughter by threatening Chandler physically if he ever hurts his little sister. Chandler and Monica have their rehearsal dinner and after seeing his sexy celebrity mother and drag-queen dad, Chandler suddenly freaks out thinking about becoming “Mr. and Mrs Bing.” He freaks out more when he hears the new answering machine message Monica recorded, so he writes a vague apology note and runs. Ross finds it and goes looking for Chandler while Phoebe and Rachel attempt to divert Monica, who is too wedding-high to notice soon anyway. Rachel and Phoebe find a positive pregnancy test in Monica’s bathroom waste basket.

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 Season 7, Episode 24: The One with Monica and Chandler’s Wedding: Part 2
Original Air Date—17 May 2001
Ross tries to find Chandler with Phoebe’s help. Meanwhile Rachel tries to hinder Monica.

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SEASON 6

 

 Season 6, Episode 1: The One After Vegas
Original Air Date—23 September 1999
Ross and Rachel wake up in bed together not remembering anything from the night before. Joey’s movie is officially canceled. Chandler tells Joey that he almost got married to Monica but now realizes that they are moving too fast but does not know how to tell Monica. Monica talks to Phoebe as she feels the same but does not know how to tell Chandler. Ross and Rachel find out that they got married. They hope that the marriage can be annulled. Phoebe and Joey drive back to New York in Phoebe’s cab. Ross decides not to annul the marriage because he doesn’t want to be the guy who has 3 failed marriages. He thinks staying married to each other won’t affect their lives. Rachel wants the annulment so Ross agrees. Chandler and Monica both pretend that they wanted to get married but they need a sign to do so. There are several signs but they just ignore them so they finally decide not get married yet but to move in together. Ross tells Rachel he got the annulment even though he didn’t.

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Season 6, Episode 2: The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel
Original Air Date—30 September 1999
Chandler and Monica tell everyone they’re going to move in together. Rachel is happy because she thinks the three of them will live together. Ross gets the annulment because people think he is still in love with Rachel and that’s why he doesn’t want to get divorced from her. Monica tells Rachel that she and Chandler want to live together on their own. Monica is surprised that Rachel doesn’t seem upset at all. Rachel isn’t upset because she doesn’t think they’re gonna go through with it but Monica tells her it really is gonna happen and Rachel cries her eyes out. Ross hugs Rachel to comfort her.

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Season 6, Episode 3: The One with Ross’s Denial
Original Air Date—17 October 1999
Rachel is looking for a room and Joey offers her Chandler’s old room. Ross hasn’t told Rachel that they are still married. Ross denies having feelings for Rachel and he says he only hugged her for comfort. Chandler and Monica fight about what to do with the spare room. Joey is looking for a female roommate. Rachel can’t find an apartment so Ross asks her to move in with him. Monica doesn’t want Chandler to bring any of his furniture over because it doesn’t match her stuff. They fight but make up again. Ross isn’t sure whether Rachel moving in was a good idea because it’ll be awkward when they date other people.

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 Season 6, Episode 4: The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance
Original Air Date—14 October 1999
Ross gets a part time job as guest lecturer at the university. Joey’s health insurance expires because he wasn’t paying so he goes to see his agent. Phoebe’s psychic says Phoebe will die within a week but she doesn’t know how she will be killed. Rachel and Monica sneak into Ross’ lecture and find that he is doing a fake British accent. He says he couldn’t help it - he was nervous when having his first lecture and the British accent just came out of his mouth. Joey has a hernia but doesn’t want to go to the hospital because he isn’t covered by insurance anymore. Monica and Rachel fight about some candle holders because both claim they bought them. Phoebe’s reading was wrong because her psychic is dead. Ross tries to phase out the accent but everyone notices. Rachel finds out that they are still married and is furious. Joey gets his health insurance back.

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 Season 6, Episode 5: The One with Joey’s Porsche
Original Air Date—21 October 1999
Joey finds keys to a Porsche and wants to leave them at the lost and found but nobody seems to miss their keys. Joey gets great response from people when he stands next to the car. Rachel doesn’t know where to live until Phoebe offers her a room. Rachel takes care of the divorce because she doesn’t trust Ross anymore. Alice and Frank give Phoebe the triplets to babysit for a day and Monica and Chandler help her take care of them. Joey washes the Porsche when the owner comes by and takes it away. Rachel and Ross go before the judge but Rachel filled in untrue reasons for their annulment and the judge won’t annul the marriage. They will have to file for divorce. Chandler swallows a plastic part of his toy and Monica takes him to the emergency room therefore Phoebe is alone with the babies and makes a mess of Monica’s apartment. Ross and Rachel sign the divorce papers and Rachel confesses that it was her idea to get married. They share a moment of truth that they both thought if they ever got married it would last.

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Season 6, Episode 6: The One on the Last Night
Original Air Date—4 November 1999
Chandler shows Joey how to pay the bills but Joey doesn’t have enough money and won’t accept money from his friends. It is the night before Chandler moves in and Rachel moves out. Rachel hasn’t packed and everyone has to help. Rachel and Monica are mad at each other because they list all the things that have been bothering them about the other. Chandler and Joey play for money and Chandler lets Joey win so Joey doesn’t have to accept charity from him. Monica and Rachel get along again after listing the nice things they do for each other and are really sad about not living together anymore. Joey sees through Chandler’s trick and won’t accept his money. Rachel leaves.

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Season 6, Episode 7: The One Where Phoebe Runs
Original Air Date—4 November 1999
Joey finds sexy Janine, a dancer from Australia, as a roommate. Rachel and Phoebe go jogging together to bond. Phoebe runs like an elephant because it makes running a lot more fun but Rachel doesn’t want to go jogging with her anymore because she is embarrassing. Joey can’t flirt with Janine because they live together and it would be too complicated. Chandler finds out how obsessed Monica is with everything and he has to move the furniture back to how it was before he moved it. Joey is drawn to Janine and has to find a way to repel her. But Janine tells him she doesn’t feel attracted to him anyway. Rachel tries Phoebe’s way of running and feels so free and great doing it that she doesn’t care about people staring.

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Season 6, Episode 8: The One with Ross’ Teeth
Original Air Date—18 November 1999
Joey is afraid that Janine makes their place too girlie with all her stuff. Phoebe makes out with Ralph Lauren and it’s Rachel’s chance to be liked by her boss Kim by gossiping about it. But it turns out that it wasn’t Ralph Lauren Phoebe made out with and Rachel will get in trouble if her boss finds out. Monica fixes Ross up with Hillary from work and Ross whitens his teeth for the date until they are shiny bright. They have to find a way to make his teeth look less bright so he puts on make-up. Kim thinks Rachel made out with Ralph Lauren and dislikes her even more. Ross doesn’t say a word on his date in order not to show his teeth. But when Hillary finally sees Ross’ teeth she freaks out. Joey becomes very girlie when Janine shows him hot to knit and arrange flowers. Rachel makes up a story about her and Ralph Lauren and Kim forgives her.

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Season 6, Episode 9: The One Where Ross Got High
Original Air Date—25 November 1999
The Gellar parents are coming over for Thanksgiving but they don’t know that Chandler moved in with Monica nor that they are dating because they don’t like Chandler. Chandler’s plan is to be very charming and make them like him then tell them that he is dating Monica. Rachel made a trifle for dessert but put two recipes together so it has beef and peas in it. Chandler is sucking up to the Gellars but Ross tells him that they don’t like him because Ross was caught smoking pot in college and he blamed it on Chandler. Ross has to clear it all up but he first organizes that everybody pretends to like Rachel’s dessert. Ross finally tells his parents that it wasn’t Chandler. Everybody takes this opportunity to yell out stuff about each other they have wanted to say. The Gellars take a liking to Chandler and thank him for standing by Ross during his “drug problems” and for “taking on Monica as well”.

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Season 6, Episode 10: The One with the Routine
Original Air Date—16 December 1999
Janine is going to be a party person in a New Year’s Eve TV broadcast and asks Joey, Monica and Ross to come along for the taping. Rachel, Phoebe and Chandler look for the gifts MOnica got for them while the others are at the taping. Monica and Ross really want to be on TV but they would have to dance on the platform which only the selected people can. They put on the “routine” - a dance they did in primary school - for the selection guy and they get to dance on the platform. Joey wanted to kiss Janine on the fake midnight but missed his chance. When they get back home Janine kisses Joey.

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Season 6, Episode 11: The One with the Apothecary Table
Original Air Date—6 January 2000
Rachel ordered an apothecary table but Phoebe will hate it because it is mass manufactured. Joey and Janine go out with Chandler and Monica but Janine thinks they are too much and doesn’t want to hang out with them every night. Rachel tells Phoebe she got the table at the flea market and Phoebe loves it. But there is one problem: Ross ordered the exact same table. Rachel orders a whole new living room and tells Phoebe she got it all from the flea market but Phoebe finds out that Rachel lied to her but isn’t mad because she likes some stuff from the shop they don’t have yet. Joey, Janine, Monica and Chandler go on a double date again but Janine just can’t stand them. Janine and Monica have a fight and Joey breaks up with Janine because his friends mean much more to him.

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Season 6, Episode 12: The One with the Joke
Original Air Date—13 January 2000
Ross has sent a joke to be printed in Playboy magazine, which they did but Chandler claims it was his joke so he starts logging his jokes. While the girls go through the Playboy, Phoebe manages to insult Monica by saying she thinks Rachel the better choice to go out with. Later Rachel also insults Monica by saying she’s high-maintenance. When Joey must explain to Gunther he can’t pay his bill because he’s broke, he gets a job at Central Perk as a waiter. He tries in vain to keep his job a secret from the friends, who end up reassuring him and offering advice. Unable to settle the joke authorship, Chandler and Ross ask Monica to decide, each confident she’s in his pocket, only to be told the joke is no credit to anyone. Closing the café after Gunther refused him time off to do an audition, Joey is Joey fired but one word from Rachel has him re-hired.

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Season 6, Episode 13: The One with Rachel’s Sister
Original Air Date—3 February 2000
Ross dates Rachel’s sister. Monica won’t admit she is sick.

 

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Season 6, Episode 14: The One Where Chandler Can’t Cry
Original Air Date—10 February 2000
Chandler admits that he hasn’t cried since he was a child. Phoebe discovers that Ursula is starring in porno movies using her name. Rachel desperately tries to stop Ross and Jill from starting a relationship.

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Season 6, Episode 15: The One That Could Have Been: Part 1
Original Air Date—17 February 2000
After Rachel finds our that Barry (her ex-fiancé) & Mindy (her ex-best friend) were getting divorced, the friends imagine what life would be like if: *Ross was still married to Carol, *Rachel had married Barry. *Phoebe had taken a job offer at ‘Meryl Lynch’ *Chandler had quit his job & wrote stories for ‘The Newyorker’. *Joey was still on ‘Days of our lives’ & *Monica was still fat. …

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Season 6, Episode 16: The One That Could Have Been: Part 2
Original Air Date—17 February 2000
In the Friends’ continuing imagination, fat Monica dates pedantic Dr. Roger, again without result. She exchanges desperate conquest talk with Chandler and ends up in bed with him. Ross still doesn’t get it even when Carole is courted by Susan at his place. Rachel almost cheats on her husband with star Joey, then finds Barry in bed with the dog-walker. She bites Ross’s head off for being a man too and makes Ross understand Carol must be a lesbian. Workaholic Phoebe slips out of hospital, only to hear she was just fired.

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Season 6, Episode 17: The One with Unagi
Original Air Date—24 February 2000
Rachel and Phoebe take a self-defense class, and claim they can defeat anyone who attacks them. Ross doesn’t believe them, and educates them of a martial arts technique called unagi. Chandler and Monica promise they’d make each other’s Valentines Day gifts, but they both forget to make them.

 

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Season 6, Episode 18: The One Where Ross Dates a Student
Original Air Date—9 March 2000
Ross gets his anonymous teacher evaluations back and finds out that he has an admirer amongst his students. The student, Elizabeth, asks Ross out. There was a fire in Phoebe’s apartment probably due to Phoebe’s candles. Phoebe stays at Joey’s and Rachel at Monica’s until the apartment will be fixed. Chandler’s friend Dana from college directs the new Al Pacino movie so Chandler has to take her out to get Joey an audition. Ross and Elizabeth have a great time on their date. Phoebe finds out that the fire was caused by Rachel’s hair iron so Rachel has to stay at Joey’s and Phoebe can stay at Hotel Monica. Rachel actually enjoys her time at Joey’s because she can mess around as much as she wants and Phoebe gets quite annoyed with Monica’s constant attention. Ross thinks it isn’t against the rules to date a student but people will frown upon their relationship. He decides to go out with her because he doesn’t care what people think but his colleagues tell him it actually is against the rules. Ross and Elizabeth like each other too much to stop going out. Joey gets the audition but forgets about it.

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Season 6, Episode 19: The One with Joey’s Fridge
Original Air Date—23 March 2000
Joey’s fridge is broken and he tries to get everyone to pay for his fridge. Rachel is looking for a date for a charity ball and Phoebe, Chandler and Monica look for a guy. Phoebe finds a guy and Chandler and Monica find one so they have a big competition to get Rachel pick their guy. Joey has to eat all his food because the fridge is gone. Ross mistakenly thinks that Elizabeth wants to go on a trip with him and is very relieved when she only wants to tell him that she’s going on Spring vacation with her friends. But when Ross realizes that she is going to party a lot and probably meet other guys he freaks out. Rachel is really upset about the competition between Monica/Chandler and Phoebe about her date for the ball so she decides to go alone and has a great time. Ross ends up going to Florida with Elizabeth to prevent her from meeting other guys.

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Season 6, Episode 20: The One with Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.
Original Air Date—13 April 2000
Monica has an interview for a chef position, but leaves when the boss comments on every things she does as if it were dirty sex. Joey gets his hopes up over his first significant acting job since Dr. Drake Ramore. He has the part of science fiction hero Mac Machiavelli, the crime-fighting partner of a cool robot, C.H.E.E.S.E., which stands for Computerised Humanoid Electronically Enhanced Secret Enforcer. Monica bursts into the apartment making Chandler forget to finish a note for Joey that his decisive second audition has been moved two hours earlier. The friends reminisce about other instances when they have messed up. By miracle Joey gets another chance, which Chandler writes down correctly.

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Season 6, Episode 21: The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth’s Dad
Original Air Date—27 April 2000
Elizabeth’s dad meets Ross to tell him he doesn’t like him going out with Elizabeth. Ross asks for a chance to impress Mr Stevens and he gives him 2 minutes to do so. Ross fails utterly even though the friends try to make him look good. When Rachel meets Mr Stevens again they talk for ages and start dating. Ross sees his chance of getting Mr Stevens blessing because Rachel can change Mr Steven’s opinion of Ross. Joey is about to lose his job on Mac and CHEESE because the robot inventor and controller doesn’t like him. The robot guy promises Joey to get his job back if Joey teaches him how to talk to women. Rachel accidentally tells Mr Stevens about Ross’ three marriages. Elizabeth tells her father that she doesn’t care what he thinks of Ross and neither does Ross.

 

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Season 6, Episode 22: The One Where Paul’s the Man
Original Air Date—4 May 2000
Elizabeth’s dad Paul tells Ross not to see Elizabeth anymore or he will call the university and have him fired. Monica, Phoebe and Rachel go to a museum and learn that the beautiful museum can be hired for weddings. There is a 2-year waiting list and they all make a reservation - if they don’t have a guy by then they can always cancel it. Elizabeth and Ross don’t stop seeing each other and agree to hide their relationship from Paul. They go to Elizabeth’s grandma’s cottage for the weekend but Rachel and Paul turn up as well. Ross catches Paul doing an embarrassing little dance calling himself “the man” and “the love machine” so Ross won’t tell Rachel if Paul won’t get him fired. Chandler finds out that Monica hired the museum for the wedding in his and her name. Chandler freaks out and tells Monica he isn’t ready. She promises that it didn’t mean anything and that she didn’t mean to pressure him. As soon as Monica leaves the room we find out that Chandler is going to ask Monica to marry him!

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Season 6, Episode 23: The One with the Ring
Original Air Date—11 May 2000
Only Phoebe is allowed to know about Chandler’s plan to propose to Monica and they look for an engagement ring together. To cover for their secrecy Phoebe tells Ross that Chandler is mad at him. Things are going well between Rachel and Paul except Rachel wishes he would open up a little and talk more about himself. When Paul finally does share some stories he gets very emotional and can’t stop crying. Chandler and Phoebe find the perfect ring but somebody buys it when Chandler goes to get his credit card from Joey. Chandler ends up buying a different, less nice ring but they are able to trade with the guy who bought the perfect ring. Rachel dumps Paul for being a cry baby. When Chandler tells the others about his plans they are overwhelmed and very happy.

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Season 6, Episode 24: The One with the Proposal: Part 1
Original Air Date—18 May 2000
Tonight is the big night for Chandler: he will propose to Monica. Rachel, Phoebe and Joey go to a beneficial dinner organized by Rachel’s boss. Joey bids at a silent auction because he thought you had to guess the prize and therefore buys a boat for $20,000. Just as Chandler is about to propose Richard walks into the restaurant with his girlfriend and they sit at the table next to Chandler and Monica so Chandler can’t propose. Elizabeth isn’t as mature as Ross had thought so he breaks up with her. Chandler doesn’t want to make Monica suspicious and find out about his plan so he acts as if he was still afraid of commitment. Richard goes to see Monica at the restaurant and says he still loves her.

 

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Season 6, Episode 25: The One with the Proposal: Part 2
Original Air Date—18 May 2000
Richard tells Monica that letting her go was the stupidest thing he’s ever done and he wants to marry her and have kids. Monica is getting weary because Chandler is carrying on about not wanting to get married in order to hide his plans to propose. Rachel finds out that Phoebe and Joey have each other as backup, meaning if they’re both not married by the age of 40 they’ll marry each other. Rachel is very jealous of Monica and wants a backup as well and asks Ross but Phoebe is Ross’ backup. Chandler realizes he has to stop messing with Monica and propose already. Monica goes to see Richard and says wants to be with a grown-up but it isn’t fair that Richard wants to marry her now and not before. Monica says she will need some time to think things over. Rachel trades Phoebe and Ross is now Rachel’s backup. Chandler talks to Richard and Richard tells Chandler to go get Monica and to never let her go. When Chandler gets home Monica has decorated the whole apartment with candles and they propose to each other…

FRIENDS SEASON 5

FROM IMDB WEBSITE **

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Season 5, Episode 1: The One After Ross Says Rachel
Original Air Date—24 September 1998
Everyone is shocked to hear Ross say Rachel instead of Emily but they continue with the ceremony. Emily is really mad at Ross and says she hates him at the party. Monica and Chandler agree to only sleep together while they’re in London. Emily flees the wedding through the bathroom window. Everyone except Rachel thinks it didn’t mean anything that Ross said her name. Emily is utterly humiliated and never wants to see Ross again. The friends return to New York. Rachel is still in London an stand-by for a flight and Ross waits at the airport for Emily. Rachel and Ross are just about to go to Athens together because Ross already had the tickets for the honeymoon when Emily shows up. Ross chases after her while Rachel waits for him on the plane.

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Season 5, Episode 2: The One with All the Kissing
Original Air Date—1 October 1998
Monica and Chandler are still seeing each other without telling anyone. Ross keeps confusing Emily’s and Rachel’s names and has a lot of rage. Rachel comes back from Greece. She pretends that she isn’t mad at Ross for abandoning her on the plane. Rachel puts Monica in charge of her love life and decisions because Rachel always chooses the wrong way. Chandler has to kiss Rachel and Phoebe all the time because they always catch him kiss Monica. The friends want to take a trip to Antlantic City with Phoebe because she felt left out after their London trip. Rachel tells Ross she loves him even though everyone tells her not to. Rachel and Ross crack up laughing at their situation: Rachel is in love with a married guy whose wife doesn’t return his calls. Just as the friends are about to leave for their trip Phoebe’s water breaks.

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Season 5, Episode 3: The One Hundredth
Original Air Date—8 October 1998
Phoebe is having her brother’s babies, 2 girls and a boy, Leslie, Chandler and Frank Jr. Jr.

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Season 5, Episode 4: The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS
Original Air Date—18 October 1998
Almost caught once again, Chandler arrives with champagne for Monica, but instead finds the whole gang in her apartment so he says he is celebrating that his office just got wrinkle free fax paper. Joey thinks he has been hired as host for a PBS telethon, but is actually just one of many phone operators on screen. Phoebe says she hates PBS because it reminds her of the miserable days when her mother watched Sesame Street on it before committing suicide and even bitches Joeys telethon is selfishness masquerading as a good deed. When he retorts there is no such thing as a truly selfless good deed, she promises to prove him wrong. Ross tries to make up with Emily by phone and when she asks him to move to London he says no as he would be away from Ben. Emily agrees to move to New York but on the condition he won’t see Rachel any more. The others consider her request to be unreasonable and after struggling to decide Ross becomes desperate enough to leave the decision to a Magic 8 ball which proves uncooperative. RacMonica has made up a fictional waiter as her secret boyfriend after Rachel walked in on her as she was actually waiting for Chandler. Rachel tells Chandler that Monica said her waiter boyfriend was ‘the best sex she ever had’ which Chandler enjoys enormously and milks for all it is worth. However Monica is cranky enough to cut him dry for the. Not knowing about the specifics of the condition, Rachel incites Ross to do whatever Emily wants to get her over to New York.

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Season 5, Episode 5: The One with the Kips
Original Air Date—29 October 1998
Chandler and Monica plan a weekend on false work-related pretenses so they can be alone. Ross tells Rachel that Emily is coming to New York and they can’t see each other anymore. On top of that, Rachel’s dog Lapooh just died so she is furious and both her and Ross are inconsolable. Monica constantly demands new hotel rooms for silly reasons and Chandler can’t keep his eyes from the TV. They argue, and when they return home Chandler tells Monica he thought their relationship was over. To his delight, Monica is determined to make up and continue. After a number of indelicate slips from Monica and Chandler Joey finally realizes they are involved but they swear him to secrecy.

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Season 5, Episode 6: The One with the Yeti
Original Air Date—5 November 1998
Emily tells Ross she wants a divorce after he decides to keep seeing Rachel.

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Season 5, Episode 7: The One Where Ross Moves In
Original Air Date—12 November 1998
Emily’s cousin kicks Ross out, so he moves in with Chandler and Joey. They try to get him to move out because he drives them crazy. Rachel and Monica’s new neighbor invites them to his party but Rachel makes an excuse not to go. Phoebe starts dating a health inspector, but every time they go out to eat he finds a reason to close the restaurant down. Chandler and Joey decide to let Ross stay.

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Season 5, Episode 8: The One with the Thanksgiving Flashbacks
Original Air Date—19 November 1998
The friends had a great Thanksgiving dinner and remember their worst Thanksgivings they ever had. Chandler tells Monica he loves her.

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Season 5, Episode 9: The One with Ross’s Sandwich
Original Air Date—10 December 1998
Ross brings his leftover thanksgiving sandwich to work, but someone eats it. He finds out that it was his boss, who puts him on sabbatical and sends him to a psychiatrist for anger management therapy. Phoebe takes a literature class and asks Rachel to come with her, but instead of reading the books, Rachel comes and asks Phoebe what they’re about right before the class begins. Monica takes the class instead of Rachel, but she tries to make the class more challenging and no one likes her.

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Season 5, Episode 10: The One with the Inappropriate Sister
Original Air Date—17 December 1998
Joey’s new roommate Ross is bored out of his mind, while on sabbatical, and shows absolutely not aptitude for relaxing and pranks. Phoebe is determined to ’spread joy’ all over the city as Santa’s elf collecting for charity, but takes it too personal while many New Yorkers rather dump trash then actually donate money in the bin, thus reviving ’street Phoebe’. Joey is exasperated: even a part for an Italian Brooklyn actor his age is nailed by an unfit celebrity, so Ross makes it his mission to coach him creating his own part by writing a script; alas Chandler’s idea for a self-invented game gets Joey’s attention far easier. Tired of Rachel’s hopelessly procrastinating ‘plan’ Monica plainly asks Danny ‘who ignored her on purpose’ to data Rachel, and he immediately accepts; she sees him kissing a girl in town, but at his apartment finds it’s just his sister Krista, yet instead of relieved she is rather appalled how physically close the adult siblings still are, and the other friends concur. Joey tells Ross and Chandler who are bickering about what Joey should do that he finished fives pages in the library and asks them to test-read aloud- they soon finds it’s a script for the two of them to make up…

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Season 5, Episode 11: The One with All the Resolutions
Original Air Date—7 January 1999
It’s New Year’s Eve and the friends discuss their resolutions. Ross’ resolution is to be happy in 1999 and to do something he hasn’t done before every single day. Joey wants to learn how to play guitar to actually have one special skill he lists on his resume. Rachel’s resolution is to stop gossiping. Chandler won’t make fun of his friends for a whole year. Monica wants to take more pictures of the group. Phoebe’s method to teach how to play the guitar is very weird and Joey finds a qualified teacher. Rachel finds out that Monica is secretly seeing Chandler. Ross has a little trouble with his new leather pants while he has a date. Joey and Rachel talk about Monica and Chandler.

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Season 5, Episode 12: The One with Chandler’s Work Laugh
Original Air Date—21 January 1999
Rachel wants to know all details about Chandler and Monica, Joey paid attention to none, so she’s all over Monica at Central Perk and at home, but nothing makes her spill any beans. Ross’ ex Emily is going to marry; so he smashes a scone. Chandler and Monica enjoy being a couple at his office party; as his boss Doug and his wife Kara love her, they are invited to play tennis at Doug’s place, where Chandler goes to great lengths to let Doug win, despite Monica who is furious he’s such a suck-up at work; they get a dinner invitation, where Monica first inspires Chandler not to laugh at Doug’s lame joke, then changes her mind. Ross is so frustrated he goes out with… Janice, who still thinks Chandler is in Yemen, and is amazed how well she listens, but all his wining is too much even for her. When Ross apologizes for having gone out with his ex, Chandler cleverly jumps at the chance to set the precedent for forgiving a friend going out with a girl close to a friend, such as a relative.

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Season 5, Episode 13: The One with Joey’s Bag
Original Air Date—4 February 1999
Phoebe’s grandma has died. Joey wants to look great for an audition and Rachel takes him down to the store to help him out. They pick a shoulder bag to go with the clothes. Joey likes the bag so much he isn’t going to return it after the audition. Phoebe meets her dad at the funeral but doesn’t tell him who she is. Joey doesn’t get the part because of his bag. Phoebe meets her dad for coffee. He came to the funeral to speak to Lily and Phoebe tells him that she died 17 ago. She also tells her dad that she is his daughter. Joey gives up the bag because the world isn’t ready for Joey and his bag.

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Season 5, Episode 14: The One Where Everybody Finds Out
Original Air Date—11 February 1999
Ugly Naked Guy is moving and Ross is trying to get his great apartment. While Rachel, Ross and Phoebe have a look at the apartment Phoebe sees that Monica and Chandler kiss. Joey is grateful that they can finally tell them that everyone knows about their relationship. But Phoebe and Rachel don’t want to tell them and have their fun by messing with them. Phoebe makes a pass at Chandler and Rachel gives them all her laundry when Monica and Chandler go to do “laundry”. Ross tries to bribe Ugly Naked Guy with muffins but so many people want the apartment and bribe him. Monica figures out that Phoebe knows about them and that she is trying to freak them out by showing an interest in Chandler. Monica wants to mess with Phoebe and Rachel now and gets Chandler to pretend like he was attracted to Phoebe as well. Ross is looking for a way to bond with Ugly Naked Guy. Chandler invites Phoebe over so she can feel his bicep and “more”… therefore Rachel and Phoebe realize that Monica and Chandler only mess with them so Phoebe accepts Chandler’s invitation. Ross visits Ugly Naked Guy and bonds with him by eating muffins with him naked. Chandler and Phoebe both wait for the other one to back down but neither does and they kiss awkwardly before Chandler gives up and yells out that he loves Monica. Now everyone except Ross knows officially. Ross gets the apartment and sees Monica and Chandler through the window and freaks out.

Next US airings:
Tue. Aug. 18 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 15: The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey
Original Air Date—18 February 1999
Ross is really upset that Monica and Chandler are together but when they tell him that it is serious and they love each other he is very happy. Joey’s girlfriend Katie is really nice but she keeps punching him. Just playfully but Joey hates it because it hurts. Ross moves into his apartment and refuses to pay $100 for the handyman’s retirement present because he only just moved in and never met the guy. The result is that all his neighbours hate Ross already. Ross decides to throw a party for them and explain that he only stood up for his principles. Chandler freaks out when everybody talks about him getting married to Monica. He accuses Monica of wanting to get married right away and have kids and Monica doesn’t want to talk to him again. Chandler doesn’t know how to fix it because Monica has always told him how to fix mistakes in relationships. Nobody turns up to Ross’ party because they are having a party for Howard the handyman. Joey puts on lots of clothes so Katie’s punching won’t hurt him when he breaks up with her. Chandler proposes to Monica to make up for his mistake. Monica refuses to marry him just because he is sorry but agrees to just be together with Chandler.

Next US airings:
Wed. Aug. 19 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 16: The One with the Cop
Original Air Date—25 February 1999
After Joey saw Monica and Chandler doing a crossword together, he dreams about non-sexual closeness with her; they stop him moving out, and suggest their relationship probably looks so appealing because it started as friendship; so Joey transfers his interest to Rachel, who isn’t interested. Phoebe finds a wallet with NYPD badge at Central Perk; after Chandler points out playing cop with real people is a serious crime, she decides to bring it to the police station, but pulls it a last time on her way- to the real cop, Gary. Ross buys a couch, refuses to pay almost as much for delivery just three blocks, but can’t manage getting it up the staircase with Rachel; Chandler as third man just gets caught, the couch gets it even worse. Everyone is scared when Gary shows up, but he only wants to take Phoebe out.

Next US airings:
Thur. Aug. 20 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 17: The One with Rachel’s Inadvertent Kiss
Original Air Date—18 March 1999
Phoebe claims that she and Gary are the hotter couple than Monica and Chandler. Monica wants to prove her wrong by having more sex with Chandler. Rachel has an interview for a job at Ralph Lauren. Joey flirts across the street with a girl in Ross’ building but he can’t find her apartment. Rachel screws up her interview by mistakenly kissing the guy doing the interview. Joey can’t find the girl but Ross meets her and asks her out. Rachel gets the job despite her inappropriate behaviour. Monica is so obsessed about being the hotter couple because she is afraid they’re past the phase where they’re all over each other. Chandler thinks the phase they’re in now is much more exciting because they actually have a real relationship and it’s working out perfectly.

Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 21 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 18: The One Where Rachel Smokes
Original Air Date—8 April 1999
Joey is envious when Ross’ boy Ben gets an audition for a commercial, but is delighted to hear there also is a part for the father, so he teams up with his godchild; both pass the first round. Everybody hopes on free stuff now Rachel starts her job with Ralph Lauren. Phoebe suggests to throw an intimate dinner as surprise birthday party for Rachel, a month in advance, but Monica quickly takes over in grand style- Phoebe insists to be in charge of something, so she gets cups and ice. Rachel quickly finds her boss Kim and collaborators tend to take all decisions on the balcony during smoking breaks, so after trying just to join them, which doesn’t get her close enough, she adopts the terrible habit her dad, an MD, always warned against with true horror stories. After Ben and Joe are selected for the final cut, they hear the lack of physical resemblance means it will either be Joey and Ben’s rival Raymond or Ben and Raymond’s dad Kyle. Monica’s nose and Chandler’s experienced eye immediately notice Rachel has started smoking; she convinces the office girls to attempt quiting together as ‘patch sisters’, but the others quickly relapse and insist she keeps clean- she’s out again. Joey’s fake offer to wave his audition so Ross would retract Ben fails. Even the line “Mm, soup” is too hard for Joey not to mess up to - noodle soup. Phoebe uses cups and ice in huge quantities and endless, wacky variations to take over much of Monica’s party; Ross consoles Joey by suggesting he wanted to fail so Ben could be casted- but the kid didn’t either. Chandler gets a taste of the Ralph Lauren smokers balcony.

Next US airings:
Mon. Aug. 24 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 19: The One Where Ross Can’t Flirt
Original Air Date—22 April 1999
First Ross takes Chandler’s natural joking with pizza delivery girl Caitlin for ‘flirting behind Monica’s back’, and actually tells her, just now they celebrate their 10 month anniversary, which starts a discussion whether flirting by men is innocent, not by females. Then Ross decides to demonstrate his flirtatious talent, which the others know to be abysmal, even conquering Rachel took him nine years. Meanwhile Joey brings over Nonnie, his Italian grandmother who doesn’t speak any English but was his only relative who always believed in his career, to watch a Law and Order episode Joey has a speaking part in. Once he realizes his scene was actually cut out, everyone tries to fool her and thus spare them heartbreak. Phoebe can’t return Monica’s earrings, a gift from Chandler she wants to wear that evening, because Rachel borrowed and lost them, as usual. Ross’s flirting lessons turn out to be of the ‘how not to do it’ variety but Rachel takes pity on him…

Next US airings:
Tue. Aug. 25 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 20: The One with the Ride Along
Original Air Date—29 April 1999
The guys goes on a ride along with Gary.

Next US airings:
Wed. Aug. 26 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 21: The One with the Ball
Original Air Date—6 May 1999
Gary wants to ask Phoebe to move in with him. Phoebe is freaked because it’s so soon and asks Chandler to make him afraid of commitment so Gary won’t ask her. Joey and Ross throw a ball back and forth without dropping it for hours. Rachel buys a very expensive naked cat. Monica joins the boys in their ball throwing game. Rachel’s cat isn’t as cute as Rachel thought it would be but the store won’t take it back. Phoebe agrees to move on with Gary. Rachel sells the cat for $1,500 to poor Gunther. . Phoebe breaks up with Gary because he shot a bird. Monica, Chandler, Joey and Ross have been throwing the ball all night when Phoebe drops the ball.

Next US airings:
Thur. Aug. 27 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 22: The One with Joey’s Big Break
Original Air Date—11 May 1999
Joey is excited to get the lead in a thriller, Shutterspeed, so he and Chandler decide to drive to Las Vegas where it’s being shot, in Phoebe’s late grandma’s cab. Monica sees to it that terrified Rachel gets a glaucoma-test and the necessary eye-drops, whatever that takes. Phoebe is furious at Ross, but won’t say why, or doesn’t even remember, or… The instant answers-technique Phoebe taught Joey, to choose between two routes, makes Chandler blurt out he doesn’t believe it’s going to be Joey’s big break as he gets no pay, just 1% of profit. The indignant star-to-be throws him out on New York’s George Washington bridge. Chandler feels terribly guilty, but when Joey arrives…

Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 28 6:30 PM TBS

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Season 5, Episode 23: The One in Vegas: Part 1
Original Air Date—20 May 1999
Joey calls Phoebe; refusing to take Chandler’s apologies for not believing in his film, he barks for him to not come over- he’s working as a gladiator in armor in a Vegas casino. Monica tells Phoebe, who may not tell Chandler, that she met and lunched with Richard, but felt nothing. Monica decides to give Chandler one anniversary present a day early: tickets for Las Vegas; Phoebe insists everyone goes, to make up for her missing London. Ross and Rachel have previous engagements but decide to follow the next day. As Phoebe put the idea in her head, Rach tests out walking around alone and naked; Ross sees her and comes over, thinking it was a sexual invitation; this misunderstanding escalates on the plane to embarrassing each-other in outrageous ways. In Vegas, Joey must admit he’s just earning cash while the movie is delayed lacking funds. Chandler and Monica fight whether she may see Richard again. Joey loses his only tip in one hand, but thinks he’ll make a fortune because he found the dealer to be his ‘identical hand twin’, and demands Chandler is supportive this time.

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Season 5, Episode 24: The One in Vegas: Part 2
Original Air Date—20 May 1999
Monica gambles instead of making up with Chandler. While Rachel is sleeping Ross draws a beard and a mustache on her face. Rachel is really upset because it won’t come off anymore. Monica and Chandler make up when Monica tells him she won’t see Richard anymore and that Chandler is the love of her life. Rachel doesn’t want to leave her room so Ross and Rachel get drunk and play blackjack in Ross’ room. Monica and Chandler win big in the casino. They bet that if they win the next round they will get married right now and… they win! Ross and Rachel are very drunk and leave the room with both their faces drawn on. When Chandler and Monica go to get married, Rachel and Ross come out of the chapel very drunk - and married!