Is this even the right forum for a Friends thread?
Joey’s gotta be the father… right? right??
How you doin?
Methinks no one here gives a rat’s hiney. That show started sucking pretty bad a few years ago.
I’ll admit that I did watch tonight though. The lack of anything comical happening made the canned laughter more conspicuous than usual. Also, if there’s anything I hate more than canned laughter, it’s canned “awwwwws.” Plenty of those toward the end.
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And Pheobe pretending that it was negative at the end? Give me a flippin’ break.
Lame episode. If this is how the season starts, when they’ve had months off, it’ll be flushed and gone by the end of the year.
OK, my enthusiasm for “Friends” is so lackluster that I couldn’t bestir myself to watch. But I still want to hear spoilers.
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So, I take it that Pheobe is pregnant? And that the father has not been specified? Anything else? Why is Joey the suspected father?
Huh? Huh?
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Nope, Rachel is pregnant. Unspecified father. And she’s gonna keep it. Phoebe just said she was pregnant to keep the heat off of Rachel. “I just called James Brolin, the father of my baby, and he’s married! To some musician!”
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Bah. I didn’t bother. Monica and Chandler getting married ruined the show.
It’ll end up being Ross’s baby. Just you wait and see.
I was hoping that this would be the season that they returned Ross to the cool and professional guy he was in the first two seasons. He just keeps devolving into Kramer. Plus, did he have red hi-lights in his hair???It’s a shame. Early on, he was the best character. Now he is just pathetic.
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Wouldn’t it have been funny if Phoebe had said Brad Pitt was the father of her baby?
I thought it wasn’t bad. I liked Rachel’s “Oh, that’s a dangerous little game.” Although the show isn’t as good as it used to be, every once and a while they have a line like that which is so real it makes you pay attention again.
I also liked David Schwimmer’s reaction when he realized how stupid he was sounding to the girl – it’s a joke they’ve used before, but it’s still funny.
No mention of who the father is yet; the promos have pretty much given it away, though. (Unless it isn’t him. I hope not; that just wouldn’t make sense.)
–Cliffy
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. My bet for the father is Gunther!
I hate the “false premises” moments/arcs in the show, like when Monica and Chandler started dating, but couldn’t tell anyone, for no other reason than that the writers wanted to have funny scenes where they’re trying to hide their romance from the other four.
And last night’s “we can’t tell anyone Rachel’s pregnant, so obviously we should tell them Phoebe’s pregnant” was the same sort of thing. It’s no more believable or funny than the misunderstandings and false assumptions on Three’s Company twenty years ago.
Hey, I was gonna make it, but I’ve made quite a few CS threads…so I decided to let someone else do it. Really, the only reason you have this thread is due to the grace of Zog. 
Anyway, it was a bit canned, but what can you expect after all these years? The only reason I watched is because I just had to know about the baby…some of the jokes weren’t bad, but for the most part, it wasn’t great. I did like Joey walking into the room with that tennis outfit out, and the whole “It’s an all Chinese cast” “Well, I’m not too proud of this, but-” Hehe.
I was pretty sure it would be positive, but then I learned in bio class that there’s no such thing as a false positive, only a false negative. And besides, where would the fun sitcomish amusment come from if Rachel wasn’t pregnant? The whole “I lied” thing would have worked out pretty horribly IRL. And the “It’s still not the time” to tell the father of the baby was so blatantly trying to hook us to watch the next episode. (Well, it probably will work, actually.) Stay tuned, kiddies.
Actually, there is such a thing as a false positive, but generally it only occurs if you’ve been taking fertility enhancement drugs or that sort of thing. Which presumably Rachel wasn’t. Oh, and if you take the test and then read the indicator like an hour later or whatever (most of them say to read it at three minutes), I think you can get a faint line even if you’re not pregnant. But again, not what happened with Rachel, I thought I’d just mention it.
I don’t think we learn the father’s ID until the third episode. Not so coincidentally, that is about when Survivor 3 debuts…
I just realized that Ross isn’t becoming Kramer, he’s becoming Screech from Saved By the Bell.
I thought it was pretty good. I liked the whole thing where Pheobe pretended it was her that was pregnant. And it makes perfect sense that Rachel isn’t willing to give the daddy’s identity yet. At least they aren’t making us wait for November sweeps.
I’m thinking that the father is not a regular character. I’ve read quotes from producers about Rachel having to prepare to raise a child alone. Would any of the guys on the show (Ross, Joey, or Gunther) really let Rachel go through this alone? I know several people think Ross is the dad. He’s very involved (by sitcom single dad standards) in his son’s life, and I don’t see that he would abandon responsibility like that.
This is an excellent point. The only counterpoint would be if Rachel WOULD NOT LET THEM be involved. Of course, Gunther could freak out and be written out of the show MUCH more easily than Joey or Ross. Tag is the favorite though, I’d say.
It’s got to be the assistant she was chasing after last season. That could cover the “raising the child alone” requirement.
But…but…Rachel and Ross have to end up together! They just DO. So it has to be Ross’s
Pout.
But did Rachel and Ross ever “get together” last season?
Of course if the writers wanted to pretend they did, it would only be the most recent in several continuity errors the last couple seasons. Like Ross admitting he had slept with “the cleaning woman” in their dorm in college … even though ever since the first season we were told his first wife had been his “first.” Then there was Chandler’s inability to cry, even though he has shed tears before. And Phoebe talking about sad movies she had seen as a child even though in earlier seasons she said her mother had never let her watch sad movies … and all Monica’s things from her room suffering water damage in her parent’s garage even though in the first or second season her parents gave her all the things from her room because they were turning it into a gym … etc.
It’s as if the new group of writers haven’t seen the previous seasons.
Yeah it’s just a show. But it’s a show which has built upon its continuity over the years and now seems willing to toss it all out for a laugh.
I agree with the continuity gaffs, except the one that addresses the OP. It was never established that Ross and Rachel DIDN’T Get together was it? Maybe a drunken night. I don’t know. I didn’t see every episode last season.