I always get so excited about Survivor I forget that Friends is playing, too. So could someone spoil it for me?
I’m at the point with this show that I don’t really care if I actually see it…I just want to know in general what’s happening with the characters.
I swear…I do have a life. Just not on Thursday nights!
Hmm, almost nothing spoiler worthy happened.
Basically they go to Ma and Pa Gellar’s 35th wedding anniversary. Ma and Pa Gellar didn’t want to deal with their first grandchild being born out of wedlock so they told their friends that Ross and Rachel were married. R&R, mostly Rachel spent the whole episode talking up this absolutely fantastic wedding, everyone of Rachel’s fantasies. At the end Ross tells about his wedding proposal which really touched Rachel. Oh she’s touched is she? Hmmmmmmm.
Phoebe brings along Alec Baldwin as her date. He’s happy at everything. “Oh my god is this thread not the equivelent of angels singing to me the sweet harmony of life? I think it is!” And annoys everyone until finally Phoebe breaks up with him in “the best fight ever.”
Monica tries to give a touching toast and fails, Ross comes to the rescue and makes everyone cry. Monica is jealous.
Joey and Chandler only react to the others situations.
last chance to turn back . . .
Everyone goes to R&M’s parent’s 35th anniversary party. Phoebe take her new date, played by one of those Baldwin guys (the older one - Alec?). Monica wants to give the toast this year because Ross always does it and everyone always cries and thanks him.
Ross and Rachel are introduced as being married by his parents, then friends of the family keep handing them checks as wedding gifts. Rachel continues to elaborate on the wedding details and Ross tells of proposing to her in a planetarium full of lillies. At the end they share a look/moment that makes you think they’re going to get together again (duh!).
Monica’s speech is intended to make people cry (for joy) but she tries to get them crying by bringing up the passing of grandma “Nana” and the family pet “ChiChi” but only comes off with blank, uncomfortable stares. Ross then says a cheesy little toast and their parents break out the waterworks.
Phoebe’s date annoys everyone because he gets overly excited by every little thing, so they end up breaking it off because he’s too happy/optimistic, I guess.
Oh, and most importantly Joey steps on an oyster and thinks he’s stepped on a snotty booger on the floor.
Okay, let’s see…
The gang is going to the 35th Anniversary party of Mr. and Mrs. Gellar. Monica says that Ross always gives a beautiful speech and everyone cries because it’s so wonderful, yada, yada. So she decides that she’s doing the speech this year. Phoebe is bringing her new boyfriend Parker (Alec Baldwin). Parker arrives at the apartment to pick everyone up and he’s super-annoying. He’s really positive about everything (“We’re going to a party! Oh boy! This is gonna be great!” --that sort of thing).
They get to the party and Ross and Rachel realize that Mr. Gellar has told people that R&R are married, so they decide to play along for the night. Family friends are giving them gifts (checks) and asking about the ceremony. Rachel makes up a story about being married on a cliff (I think in the Caribbean). She tells tham that a dove slipped the ring on her finger, and that her lace veil was made by blind nuns (they weren’t blind originally, you see, but the work on the veil was very intricate, so, you know…) Ross suggests that they could say that he rode up on a Harley, but Rachel tells him that would be totally unrealistic. He then tells everyone that he proposed in the planetarium. The story goes that he had “Just the Way You look Tonight” playing on the sound system and the words “Will You Marry Me?” spelled out in the stars. Rachel is very moved by this, and tells everyone that the diamond was the size of her fist.
Parker is annoying the crap out of everyone (“This evening is so perfect, I need to take a mental picture!” --I cannot acurately do justice to his delivery…it’s hysterical). The gang starts making fun of him just as Phoebe walks up. She’s very upset. Later, though, she realizes how annoying he is and breaks up with him. That scene is great, too. She tells him she can’t see him anymore and he gets upset. She eventually gets him to leave and he pops back in to say, “Wasn’t that the best fight you ever had!?”
Monica delivers her speech, saying that she knew she could get married because of the example set by her parents. In an effort to get everyone to cry, she talks about “those who couldn’t be here” such as her dead “Nana” and their old dog. Everyone is unmoved. Ross then gets up and says that he admires the strength of his parents’ marriage. There’s not a dry eye in the house, and Monica, of course, is annoyed.
Later at their apartment, Rachel asks Ross where he came up with the idea of the planetarium proposal. He says he always imagined it would be how he would propose to her, had they not broken up. She is obviously moved.
That’s about all I remember. I’m sure that if I forgot something, someone will mention it.
(On preview, I see someone else has posted, but I’m submitting anyway, since I went to the trouble of typing it out.)
I can’t believe you other spoilers didn’t mention the significance of the oyster scene* in your posts.
No one mentioned that no one mentioned that Alec Baldwin is like 20 years older than Lisa Kudrow.
–Cliffy
So? Monica dated Richard (Tom Selleck) for a while.
Sheri
Ok, this reason makes no sense, because of Ben. Remember him? Cute little boy born at the end of season 1?
So, why did Ma and Pa Geller tell everybody the two of them were married?
And it was Phoebe’s oyster. Her date wanted her to eat it, and she’s a vegetarian, so she dumps it on the floor when he’s not looking.
I think all these different tellings and retellings of the episode serve to tell us a little something about the teller- er, poster.
Second grandchild. Ben’s already around, born out of wedlock. Or in quasi-wedlock (conceived while Ross and Carol were still together, but born after the divorce was final).
I watch too much tv.
According to IMDB, Alec Baldwin was born in 1958, and Lisa Kudrow was born in 1963, so he’s only 5 years older than her. Where did you get the impression he was supposed to be playing a character 20 years older than her?
While Kudrow may have been born in 1963, I’m pretty sure Phoebe isn’t supposed to be pushing 40.
None of them are spring chicken’s anymore
Hey, don’t look at me, I didn’t write the episode. That’s what they said.
Conceeded, but you can’t fault me for forgetting about Ben. I mean at Monica and Chandler’s wedding Ross didn’t even bother to say hello to him.
Ah, but you see, Ben was conceived in wedlock, but the latest baby (did they settle on Ruth?) was not.
Funny how those old folks can be sometimes about extramarital sex.
She’s not. Last year they had an episode where Rachel turns 30, and they all remember their own 30th birthdays. Phoebe finds out then that she’s actually 31. So now I’m assuming she’d be about 32.
They did not establish how old Alec Baldwin’s character was supposed to be. But hey, I’m quite a bit younger, and (other than the fact that I’m not available) I don’t think I’d say no to a date with him.
And they had Rachel’s birthday in January, whereas in the first season it was in May (in the episode where Rachel finds out that Ross is in love with her). I watch entirely too much TV.