There will be something conspicuously missing when Friends costar Lisa Kudrow guests on Courteney Cox’s ABC sitcom, Cougar Town, on Jan. 6: friendship.

“They didn’t want to play friends,” says executive producer Bill Lawrence, who quickly came up with a different role for Kudrow. “She plays a dermatologist who is a horrible, horrible person, but [Cox] goes to her because she’s the best. The [sight] of them playing people who dislike each other intensely was very funny for me to watch.”

If the execution is half as funny as the set-up, I think this is going to be a winner. What do you think? Excited to see the friends morph into enemies? And do you think it’s sad that I interrupted my vacay to post this story? (I have boundary issues.) Sound off below!

LOS ANGELES - Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox have reunited — but don’t expect them to be “Friends.”

The former co-stars will appear back together again on the small screen on Courteney’s new ABC single-camera sitcom “Cougar Town,” with Lisa guest-starring as a mean-spirited dermatologist.

“They didn’t want to play friends,” executive producer Bill Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello. “[Lisa] plays a dermatologist who is a horrible, horrible person, but [Courteney] goes to her because she’s the best.”

And seeing the two face off, he said, should be comedy gold.

“The [sight] of them playing people who dislike each other intensely was very funny for me to watch,” Bill said.

It’s not the first time a former “Friend”, has appeared in a Courteney TV project. In 2007, Jennifer Aniston appeared in a multi-episode arc on the second season of Courteney’s FX drama, “Dirt.”

Lisa’s “Cougar Town” episode is expected to air early next year.

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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.

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…