Season 9, Episode 1: The One Where No One Proposes
Original Air Date—26 September 2002

Rachel thinks that Joey has proposed to her. Monica and Chandler begin trying to have a baby.
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Season 9, Episode 2: The One Where Emma Cries
Original Air Date—3 October 2002

Rachel doesn’t know what to do so Emma will stop crying and Monica is the only one who can make her stop. Chandler is very tired and falls asleep during a very important meeting which results in Chandler agreeing to being transferred.
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Season 9, Episode 3: The One with the Pediatrician
Original Air Date—10 October 2002

Joey arranges a blind date for Phoebe. Chandler is leaving for Tulsa without Monica, because she has got a great job offer.
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Season 9, Episode 4: The One with the Sharks
Original Air Date—17 October 2002

Monica thinks Chandler is aroused by shark documentaries.
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Season 9, Episode 5: The One with Phoebe’s Birthday Dinner
Original Air Date—31 October 2002

Phoebe will celebrate her birthday by having a dinner with her friends at a fancy restaurant. But everybody is late to the dinner, due to a series of problems.
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Season 9, Episode 6: The One with the Male Nanny
Original Air Date—7 November 2002

Ross and Rachel hire a male nanny.
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Season 9, Episode 7: The One with Ross’s Inappropriate Song
Original Air Date—14 November 2002

Ross finds a way to make Emma laugh - singing “Baby Got Back.”
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Season 9, Episode 8: The One with Rachel’s Other Sister
Original Air Date—21 November 2002

Rachel’s middle sister shows up on Thanksgiving Day.
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Season 9, Episode 9: The One with Rachel’s Phone Number
Original Air Date—5 December 2002

Rachel is ready to start hanging out again. She and Phoebe goes to a bar, where they meet two guys.
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Season 9, Episode 10: The One with Christmas in Tulsa
Original Air Date—12 December 2002

Chandler must spend Christmas in Tulsa, which Monica thinks he might have an affair with a former Miss Oklahoma runner-up while he is there. Chandler comes home early to announce that he quit his job.
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Season 9, Episode 11: The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work
Original Air Date—9 January 2003

Chandler starts looking for a job and is anxious about having a baby, Rachel decides to go back to work, and Phoebe works as an extra on Joey’s show.
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Season 9, Episode 12: The One with Phoebe’s Rats
Original Air Date—16 January 2003

Since Rachel didn’t see it in her, Ross got to hire a hot nanny for Emma, Molly. When Joey sees her, his lady killer instinct kicks in. Mike is disgusted to find a rat in Phoebe’s flat. In eliminating her ‘house friend’ Bob may only mean a new home but ‘oops’, the trap snapped already. Bob must have been Roberta as there are seven rodent orphans. Rachel has to share her office with the higher ranking stud Gavin, who is immune to all her tricks and always gets the better of her. And then he turns up at Rachel’s birthday party Monica invited both of them to, to Ross’s horror…
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Season 9, Episode 13: The One Where Monica Sings
Original Air Date—30 January 2003

Monica sings at Mike’s bar, and everyone likes her singing. Later, Phoebe learns that the only reason they think she is good is because they can see through her shirt. Ross tries to move on after seeing Gavin and Rachel kissing. Rachel finds out that he kept a message from that guy at the bar away from her. Rachel decides to move in with Joey again. Joey must get a waxing for his eyebrows to get a part, but chickens out after he gets one eyebrow done. Chandler was able to fix his eyebrows so they look somewhat normal.
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Season 9, Episode 14: The One with the Blind Dates
Original Air Date—6 February 2003

As they think Ross and Rachel should get back together with Emma, Joey and Phoebe, when asked to fix them up with blind dates, plan to make those so horrible they’ll run back. Phoebe does a great job: Steve is so unattractive he even makes himself cry; Joey found his own nightmare woman, a history teacher, not realizing she risks looking ideal to Ross, but she stands Ross up, making him the object of bets by the waiters how late he will leave. Chandler and Monica accepted to babysit Emma, but him being bored without a job and she ovulating, their sex drive gets the better of them, so Joey finds the baby ‘exposed to perversion’ next to the bedroom…

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Season 9, Episode 15: The One with the Mugging
Original Air Date—13 February 2003

Joey gets a part in a stage-play in a painful way. Ross and Phoebe are mugged outside Central Perk, Phoebe realizes that she mugged Ross 18 years ago. Chandler starts his new career as advertising writer.

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Season 9, Episode 16: The One with the Boob Job
Original Air Date—20 February 2003

When Monica and Chandler both ask Joey for money not wanting the other that they are asking, Chandler sees that Joey gave money to Monica. Joey makes up that Monica is getting a boob job. Phoebe asks Mike to move in with her, but decides not to when she and Mike argue about their future. Rachel tempts to baby-proof the apartment, but makes Joey go insane when he can’t open anything.
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Season 9, Episode 17: The One with the Memorial Service
Original Air Date—13 March 2003

When Chandler and Ross joke around on their college website, Ross is accused of being dead which leads to the fact that he was not popular in college. Joey is not willing to give his favorite stuffed animal, Hugsy, to Emma. Monica helps Phoebe not call Mike.

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Season 9, Episode 18: The One with the Lottery
Original Air Date—3 April 2003

When everyone except Ross pools together to buy tickets for the lottery, Phoebe gets a prediction from her psychic that they will win. Ross, despite his skepticism, gets in on the action. Meanwhile, Chandler is anxious to find out if he gets a coveted assistant job at his advertising firm, and Emma is due to say her first word.

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Season 9, Episode 19: The One with Rachel’s Dream
Original Air Date—17 April 2003

Joey is insecure now his Days of Our Lives character Dr. Drake Ramore is getting real dialog, so he asks Rachel to come along to the set, which she loves enough to get romantic dreams, but about Drake, Joey or both? Monica’s fancy restaurant Javu is doing great, so she’s flat out, too badly to accept joining Chandler on a surprise trip he booked to Vermont. When Phoebe comes sing her gross songs outside Javu, Monica tries to tell her nicely it’s inappropriate, lacking style, but Phoebe just gets fancier dress; once told the truth, she starts a nasty row… Meanwhile Chandler couldn’t get a refund, so he takes Ross along, who gets high on maple candy and shows Chandler how to take revenge when they are told no reservation was booked and must take a $600 suite, technically without stealing, by stocking up on absurdly greedy quantities of everything hotels supply guests, worse then even Monica ever did…
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Season 9, Episode 20: The One with the Soap Opera Party
Original Air Date—24 April 2003

Joey secretly plans a party for Soap Opera Stars because Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel always embarrass him every time they meet a star. Rachel finds out about the party and tells everyone else, except for Chandler is waiting for them at theater to see a play. Ross meets a woman named Charlie and invites her to the party. Monica and Rachel are going bananas when they are meeting all the stars. Ross is scared when Charlie describes all of her former boyfriends. At the end, Rachel is looking for Joey and Ross is looking for Charlie. They find them kissing.

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Season 9, Episode 21: The One with the Fertility Test
Original Air Date—1 May 2003

After trying and not yet being able to conceive a child, Monica and Chandler decide to get tests done at a fertility clinic, where they run into Chandler’s favorite ex, Janice. Rachel receives a gift certificate to get a free massage at a chain massage center. Phoebe chastises Rachel for even thinking about going to a massage chain, which she feels takes away business from independent massage therapists like herself. Phoebe does not tell Rachel however that she actually works at this specific massage chain. Although Rachel says she won’t go and even tears up the gift certificate, she later tapes it back together, goes for her free massage and gets Phoebe as her masseuse. In the progress of Joey and Charlie’s relationship, Joey discusses with Ross his feelings that Charlie may be too smart for him. As Charlie wants to go to the “Met” (not to see “The Mets” as Joey originally assumes), Ross coaches Joey on the layout of the museum and on certain paintings on a planned route through the museum.
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Season 9, Episode 22: The One with the Donor
Original Air Date—8 May 2003

When Joey hears that his girlfriend Charlie is an insecure shopper, he volunteers expert Rachel, who dreads being alone with her, so she makes sure Phoebe comes along, by saying she needs a dazzling outfit for the party she’s going to just to save face as her ex Mike is coming too. Gynecologist Dr. Connelly tells Chandler and Monica they should keep trying the natural way, but realistically consider a surrogate mother -a nightmare for Monica- or donor sperm insemination, so Chandler invites his ‘perfectly eligible’ colleague Zach for dinner; they scare him with endless health and genealogy questions, yet Monica has another objection… Ross hopes to be the key note speaker at a paleontology convention on Barbados thanks to his spectacular theory, but it makes professor Sherman, who can get it for him, literally fall asleep. After embarrassing misunderstandings in the shop, Phoebe bumps into David, who is back from Minsk, for good…
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Season 9, Episode 23: The One in Barbados: Part 1
Original Air Date—15 May 2003

Chandler gives advice to David, but that makes David want to propose to Phoebe. Although Phoebe is still in love with Mike. Monica calls Mike who shows up there right in the middle of David’s proposal. Mike proposes instead. Phoebe gets back together with Mike, but doesn’t accept his proposal. Monica’s hair gets all poofy after getting off the plane. Charlie and Ross enjoy themselves when rewriting Ross’s speech. Rachel keeps changing her mind on when to tell Joey that she has feelings for him.
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Season 9, Episode 24: The One in Barbados: Part 2
Original Air Date—15 May 2003

To the other friends’ fury, it keeps raining except during Ross’s speech, which to their amazement is a big hit with the paleontologists. Joey’s scientific ignorance decides Charlie to turn her favor to Ross, then they must flee the other academics who intend by tradition to throw the key note-speaker into the pool. Chandler and Phoebe knew better, but Mike accepts to play table tennis against ever-obsessive fluffy monster Monica; when she gets injured, Chandler jumps in and crushes Mike. Rachel can’t hide her feelings for Joey anymore, so when he sees Ross and Charlie kiss…

It’s been a busy month for the esteemed alumni of Friends. ABC picked up Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town for a full season. Matt LeBlanc finally rebounded from Joey with a Showtime satire about the perils of stardom. According to IMDB, Jennifer Aniston has no less than seven projects in development. David Schwimmer is slated to direct a Clive Owen indie. And Matthew Perry is co-writing and exec producing a comedy series inspired by — himself. Now, Lisa Kudrow can get back to regular work as well. To see which network saved Kudrow from a Smelly Cat American tour, and which Oscar-winning actress will join her, follow us after the jump.

Kudrow will join LeBlanc at Showtime, where she and her Comeback executive producer Dan Bucatinsky are developing a comedy based on Craig Chester’s memoir Why the Long Face?: The Adventures of a Truly Independent Actor, tentatively titled Rapture. The story is about Chester’s “childhood as the gay son in a family of born-again Christian parents and his experiences as a thesp in the indie film world.”

Longtime Kudrow collaborator Don Roos has already agreed to direct if the series is picked up for pilot. The actress will be joined onscreen by Susan Sarandon and Sarah Jessica Parker. Variety reports that a premiere date will be announced soon. And while each alum simultaneously finding work after a major hit sitcom is unprecedented (sorry Cheers and Seinfeld), chances are that at most, two Friends will find success off of these projects. Our money stays on Aniston and Cox.

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.

Despite earning a gazillion dollars during the life of the hit NBC comedy, the show’s stars continue to set up new projects.

Last month, Showtime announced Matt LeBlanc would play a version of himself in “Episodes,” a quirky half-hour being produced with the BBC.

Lisa Kudrow is producing “Who Do You Think You Are,” a reality series featuring celebs searching for their roots. It will premiere on NBC later this season.

And now comes word that Chandler, er, Matthew Perry has decided to make another go at comedy. The Hollywood Reporter says he’s teamed with director Thomas Schlamme for a half-hour, single-camera show about a dude who just turned 40 and is rethinking his life.

Perry will co-write the pilot with writers Alex Barno and Mark Firek, THR says.

Hollywood yentas will also no doubt find it interesting that the project is being produced by former ABC Entertainment chief Jamie Tarses, via her deal at Sony. Tarses and Perry have been romantically linked in the past (and Tarses was a consultant on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” Perry’s first post-”Friends” show).

The new projects from our TV “Friends” come as Courteney Cox seems to have found some new small screen success. She’s starring in ABC’s “Cougar Town,” which just got picked up for a full season.

Jennifer Aniston, of course, is too busy making mediocre movies and dating all the wrong men to consider returning to TV.

As for David “Ross” Schwimmer, well… there’s always hope for a “Friends” reunion special.

by Tanner Stransky

Friends star Matt LeBlanc is headed back to TV in a single-camera comedy for Showtime called Episodes, a series “about a British couple whose hit UK show is turned into a dumbed-down American sitcom starring LeBlanc (as himself),” according to a press release from the cable network. The series is essentially a send-up of the network TV business in America, as the to-be-Americanized UK series at the center of Episodes will be morphed quickly by American TV executives.