Musings on Watching the Whole "Friends" Series

<Monica>I know!<M> Sometimes she could get all* floopy*.

I just saw a couple from when Rachel had the baby. Sorry to belabor the point, but man did I hate those episodes. Still, the worst episodes of Friends were better than the average episode of most anything else on at the time,

That was also the episode where Monica, some months after she and Richard broke up, was going to date Richard’s adult son. Everybody else was giving her crap for it. She finally gets pissed and says, “Fine, judge all you want. But…
(points at Ross) married a lesbian…
(points at Rachel) left a guy at the alter…
(Phoebe) married a gay ice dancer…
(Joey) threw a girl’s prosthetic leg in a fire…
(Chandler) LIVING IN A BOX!!”

Courtney Cox’s delivery of this is priceless.

It’s when he goes, “Boy it’s hot in all these clothes…too bad I’m going commando..” Chandler’s reaction makes me laugh till I lose my breath.

Monica (berating Rachel for blowing the question): “‘Chandler Bing’? We steal that TV Guide every week!”

Chandler: “I knew it!”

:smiley: Great laughs.

Three pages and no mention of Joey’s “moo point”? It’s like a cow’s opinion, it doesn’t matter. It’s his delivery of the last line, like he’s imparting wisdom to Rachel, that cracks me up.

To be fair, that sandwich sounded delicious. It had the Moistmaker!

It occurred to me a few episodes ago that David Schwimmer really could have taken his shirt off a lot more in the show - dude was BUILT!

And, Parading goats are parading, parading down the street, parading goats are parading, leaving little treats. :smiley:

(You can hear it amongst this selection of Phoebe Buffay’s Greatest Hits. :smiley: )

Another vote for the trivia contest episode. Absolutely brilliant. Some of the lines crack me up just thinking about them.

A few other favorites I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

The one where Phoebe builds a elaborate dollhouse that eventually catches fire and burns to the ground;

The alternate universe episode where amongst other things, Chandler and Rachel hook up and Phoebe has become a high-powered stockbroker, complete with stress heart attack

The one where Phoebe teaches Chrissie Hynde how to play “Smelly Cat” properly.

And so many little throwaway bits of silliness involving Chandler and Joey being guys, like the “fireball” game.

One of my favorite Phoebe songs, which she performs for a group of little children:

*Oh, the cow in the meadow goes Moo
Oh, the cow in the meadow goes Moo
Then the farmer hits her on the head with a hammer
And that’s how we get hamburgers

La la la la, la la la la la la… *

Cracks me up evey time.

Whoops, looks like I was conflating a flashback episode from early in the series with “The One That Could Have Been” from Season Six. Whatever, they were both good.

“The One with Joey’s New Girlfriend” has Phoebe getting a cold and a husky bluesy voice. Later she is trying to write a blues song but complained to monica that “nothing that sad has ever happened to her?” Monica looked incredulous and said “What about when your mom died and you had to live on the street?” Phoebe just looks at her then said “I know, I’ll write about when my hair did that woo-woo thing!”
Love that.

Sometimes men like women,
Sometimes men like men,
And then there are bisexuals
but most of them are just kidding themselves…

Another fun Ross moment that I watched today; when Phoebe is selfconscious because she’s never been in a long term relationship and Ross makes up the story of Vikram to fool Mike (Yay, Paul Rudd!). “Hello, this is Vikram. . .”

Speaking of Paul Rudd, what a fun addition he was to the show. When Phoebe has dinner at his parents house for the first time and is putting on her high class, Eastern Seaboard personality. I love when he says " I want them to meet Phoebe, not “Ffeeebeh”. Sorry, hard to convey in print but he delivers the line so well.
Lisa Kudrow was also especially good in that episode. “Soooooo, wheh do you all summeh?”

I watched that episode today - it really was one of the best ones. The whole fourth season is great so far - they’ve really hit their stride here.

The One With Rachel’s Crush (on Joshua) - we meet “How you doin’?” for the first time. :smiley:

Notable, to me, because none of the girls think it will work until Joey actually does it, when it promptly does. I think someone had to physically restrain Phoebe from jumping Joey’s bones.

(Of course, I’m in the camp that says Joey & Phoebe were quietly having sex for years and just never told anyone else about it.)

Oh yeah - Joey turns it on Phoebe, and she gets all giggly. It’s so cute! I must discount your theory about Joey and Phoebe, though, because Joey couldn’t keep a secret that long even if he wanted to.

Holy crap, Charlton Heston was in “Friends”! I totally forgot about that!

Joey could certainly keep a secret. Years passed before Chandler knew that he licked spoons and then put them back.

A better argument against Joey & Phoebe being secret fuck buddies is that it’s difficult to imagine Phoebe remaining just his fuck buddy. Recall how she reacted when he mistakenly thought she was pregnant and almost immediately* proposed. “Hell yes, I’ll marry you!”
*Well, first he did go off to the kick the ass of the guy he thought had abandoned Phoebe in her time of need.

My absolute favorite expression on the show was the look on Ross’s face when, after all the drama about being late to the banquet where he was getting an award, and Joey and Chandler wearing each others clothes and going commando, everybody rushes out the door and Rachel emerges from the bedroom in a very slinky dress, smiles at Ross and says “Guess what? I’m going commando too.”

Absolutely priceless, and I generally hate Ross as a character.

Well, he wasn’t keeping that a secret, Chandler just never knew. Joey didn’t see any sort of problem with it.

I really can’t remember the exact line and am too busy to google it, but the whole Phoebe’s twin Ursula shows were quite funny. The line about “How did you know it was my birthday?” “Twins thing.” never fails to crack me up. Ursala made Phoebe look like a rocket surgeon.

I have a question that may or may not be *Friends *related Not even sure how to pose it. Okay, I have this vague, fraction of a memory niggling at my brain of two male characters having a conversation whereby one is, I don’t know - lamenting something-and the other one mocks him in a condescending, talking to a small child type of voice. He says something like " ,awwwww, did it hurrrrrt?" or, ugh. I don’t remember what. When I try to think of the details it’s just out of my reach but I have a feeling it might have been a Joey scene. Sparse details I know, but since you’re all Friends fans I thought it might sound familiar. It’s driving me crazy because I can hear the tone and the cadence but I don’t know how to convey it in words.