Chandler looks just the same as in the last episode, which was a season ago… I don’t think this ever happened before.
This last season was to give a good ending to the whole thing, and it was a good ending, in a way.
I honestly hated the whole Joey/Rachel romance (though it was nice to see a more serious/normal Joey for once.
1- The one after Joey and Rachel kiss
Monica, Chandler and Phoebe are in a room and the walls are so thin they can hear that Ross is in his room kissing Charlie, while Joey is in Rachel’s room kissing her.
Ross stops it because he wants to talk to Joey first, so he goes searching for him. They board the plane and they still haven’t talked.
Ross talks to him about Charlie and Joey says it’s ok. Ross is so amazed by how cool he is about it, that Joey can’t tell him about Rachel. Later, at home, Ross walks in on Joey and Rachel kissing.
Phoebe meets Precious (Mike’s girlfriend of three months) and breaks them up since Mike isn’t there to do it.
2- The one where Ross is fine
Ross says he’s fine with Joey and Rachel kissing, and he wants to have dinner the four of them together, but he acts so very weird. He talks weird and acts weird and drinks everything himself.
To the others, it’s a horrible night. The girls go away but Joey stays with him, and once more sober, Ross realises it’s been six years sing he was with Rachel, and it’s time to move on.
Monica and Chandler talk to a couple who went to the same thing they are going through now, trying to adopt, but then Chandler sees the child and tells him he was adopted, and he didn’t know it yet.
Frank Jr is so tired for looking after the triplets that he talks about giving one to Phoebe, but then he can’t really give any of them up. She offers to babysit more.
3- The one with Ross's tan
Joey and Rachel have their first official date. It seemed to have gone well, but back home they kiss, but every time he touches her leg she slaps him. They try again but they can’t.
Monica shows a really good spray-on tan, so Ross wants to try it. He counts in Mississippi so he gets it wrong, then he tries to do it again on his back, but it does it wrong again, so he did it four times on his front, and not once on his back. He tries again, but this time there’s a girl telling him what to do and he doesn’t let her talk, so he doesn’t know that the thing works differently here and gets it done on his front again.
Amanda, a woman Monica and Phoebe knew when they lived together, is back in town. She went to England and now speaks with a British accent. The girls don’t like her and try to avoid her, but then Monica says yes to meeting her.
4- The one with the cake
Monica and Chandler plan a weekend away in Vermont, but it’s Emma’s first birthday party. Ross and Rachel want everybody there, to have the perfect birthday party.
Emma sleeps most of the time and it gets late. Rachel founds out that the cake she got was not what she ordered, they did put the face of the baby in icing, but the cake was in the shape of a penis, so she takes the Porsche and drives to New Jersey to change it, but is stopped for speed and can’t make it.
Joey leaves to go to an audition and Phoebe to a client, while Monica and Chandler are forced to stay with Emma and miss their weekend in Vermont.
Joey and Phoebe come back as soon as they can, and make it before the parents arrive.
Ross was able to transform the form of a penis in that of a bunny, so the party is not ruined.
5- The one where Rachel's sister babysit
The adoption agency needs letters of recommendation so they ask Rachel for one, and Joey wants to do it too.
Phoebe and Mike celebrate their one-year anniversary. He wanted to propose to her at a Knicks game, but she said it was a bad way and he didn’t do it, so then she does it, but everyone boos because it’s the girl proposing, so it goes badly, and so they do it again, and this time he asks her at a restaurant.
Amy, Rachel’s sister comes back. She is not only rude and vain and spoiled, she is also totally devoid of any sign of loyalty or familial love or anything: she can never remember Rachel’s daughter’s name and told her so very lightly that she used to make out with Barry once she went to sleep… Rachel was spoiled but she wasn’t rude or bad.
Anyway, Rachel wants to help her get her life together, and lets her babysit Emma, and Amy has her ears pierced.
6- The one with Ross' grant
Chandler’s job in advertising is going great. Joey asks him to star in the commercial, but Chandler thinks he’s not right for the part and won’t even tell his bosses, won’t even watch the tape that Joey gave him, which was what hurt him. Joey is sure because he made a commercial for a lipstick for men that aired only in Japan, and Chandler would have had something to say about that.
Ross is still with Charlie, and is hoping to get a grant, and the one to decide who gets it is Charlie’s ex boyfriend Benjamin Hobart. The guy tells him to break up with Charlie. He pretends it was a joke the first time, then sabotages his interview for the grant, then goes to him saying he’ll offer it to him if he breaks up with Charlie. Ross brings Charlie to him to settle things, and at the end Charlie and Benji get back together.
7- The one with the home study
Phoebe and Mike plan for their wedding, and she wants to get married at City Hall, so to keep the money and give it to charity. Then she talks to Monica and now she wants a wedding so she asks for the money back, then she thinks of the children and wants to give it back but the guy won't take it.
Rachel is scared of swings and doesn’t want Emma to go to the playground. Ross insists, so she has him hold a spider, since he’s afraid of them, and then she tries the swings herself.
Monica and Chandler have a visit from Laura, the woman who will decide if they can be put on the adoption list, but it turns out that she slept with Joey and he never called her back, so they try to keep him out and pretend they are not friends, but he comes in anyway, but manages pretty well to turn it on her saying it was her who never called him, and Laura gives them a good report and they are officially on the waiting list.
8- The one with the late Thanksgiving
Monica and Chandler didn’t want to host Thanksgiving this year, but the others want them to and Phoebe tricks Monica into a challenge with herself, to make it better than last year.
Phoebe convinces Rachel to enter a baby beauty pageant because the winner gets 1000$ (still creepy though - to put makeup and a cowgirl outfit on a one-year-old… ).
Joey has three tickets to a Rangers game, but Chandler argues they wouldn’t make it in time. He doesn’t go, thinking the others won’t go either, but Ross and Joey go anyway.
Everyone is 45 minutes late - Emma won. They waste time deciding what to tell Monica. Ross suggests saying they were mugged and that’s why they were late. Monica is angry and locks the door, the guys insist and Rachel tries her own old key, and Joey pleads… so they are about to open the door… but the girls also forgot to pick up the pies a and then Joey’s head gets stuck in the door so they break down the door and ruin all the food, but Monica doesn’t care because the agency just called and they are going to have a baby, a woman in Ohio picked them.
9- The one with the birth mother
Monica and Chandler go to Ohio to meet the pregnant girl, Erica. She thought, though, that they were a doctor (Chandler) and a reverend (Monica). Monica wants to go along with it, and Erica wants them, but Chandler is troubled. He talks to her, and eventually she sees reason and they tell the truth. Erica’s upset at first but then Chandler talks to her and he’s really great and moving, and she chooses them anyway.
Joey goes out with Sarah, a friend of Phoebe’s, but she took some food from his plate and that’s unforgivable for him. He doesn’t share food, not even with Emma. he goes out with Sarah again, and explains she can’t take food from his plate, but then she answers a call and he eats her dessert.
Ross needs clothes for a date, and he goes shopping with Rachel and Phoebe. Rachel buys stuff for him, but then he gives him one of her bags and keeps one of his, and he wears her shirt (and by the magic of television, Ross and Rachel have the same size apparently). Problem is, his date wears the same thing.
10- The one where Chandler gets caught
Phoebe and Rachel see Chandler getting in a car with a pretty blond and they think he’s cheating, and they tell the boys. They confront Monica and Chandler comes home and the truth comes out, they are looking for a house outside the city. They found a house they love already, and made an offer. Everyone’s sad, Joey doesn’t want them to move, and various flashbacks regarding the apartment since the first season come up. It might be nostalgic if you hadn’t seen that for nine years, but there are reruns you know… so it’s boring, really.
Their offer was accepted and they got the house.
(p.s. if they really wanted to do things in secret, how come Chandler got in the woman's car right outside the coffeehouse where they seem to spend all their time??? oh well, never mind)
11- The one where the stripper cries
Joey will be a guest in a game show that Ross and Monica love: Pyramid where a contestant is paired with a celebrity - and a poor man is paired with Joey.
Ross and Chandler go to a college alumni thing (ridiculous scenes ensue, of Ross and Chandler with ridiculous hair to make them look younger). They argue about the girls they kissed at school. Chandler kissed Rachel at a party. Ross thought he kissed a sleeping Rachel, but it was actually Monica (ehi, do not kiss sleeping girls, where’s the consent in that?!?)
Rachel and Monica planned a bachelorette party for Phoebe. It was to be just a lovely tea party, but Phoebe wanted more, so they hurried to call a stripper, and… a 50yo man arrives. Nobody is thrilled about that, and the man cries and they talk about what he’ll do as a next job.
12- The one with Phoebe's wedding
Phoebe’s stepdad stabbed someone in prison so he can’t get out to go to her wedding, so she asks Joey’s to walk her down the aisle.
Monica planned the whole wedding, going against everything Phoebe wanted. I know this show it all about comedy and being nice to friends even when they are being assholes, but come on, throw out Monica and lock her out of the wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, finally, I was so glad when she fired her!!!!!!!!! Still, between total submission and total rebellion, there should always be common sense… so Phoebe is forced to hire her again.
Ehm… was Joey supposed to be making an Italian accent there? He simply talked slower, there was no accent there…
Rachel has to choose between Ross and Chandler because only one of them has a chance to replace Mike’s friend as his best man. She can't do it though.
There’s a storm outside, so they can’t do what they planned, but they decide to get married on the street, with Gunther lighting the lights outside the coffeehouse, Joey performing the ceremony, Ross carrying their family dog, and Chandler walks Phoebe down the aisle.
(P.s. that coat Phoebe had on, shse took it off because she had her wedding dress underneath, but that coat was really beautiful, so so beautiful!!!)
(p.p.s. in such a case, would Phoebe have to pay for all that stuff anyway? The ice sculpture, yes, of course, it was delivered, but the place and the food and the flowers and who knows what else, the whole thing was crazy... I think so, right? She didn't use all that stuff, but it probably was ready for her anyway...)
13- The one where Joey speaks French
Joey needs help because he needs to speak French for an audition, and Phoebe speaks French, very well. Joey, though, is a lost cause. He thinks he speaks it well, but really it's just a mockery, so Phoebe tells the guy at the audition, in French, that he is retarded and just please humour him, so the guy tells Joey his French was good.
Rachel’s dad had a heart attack, and Ross joins her to the hospital. That night she wants sex but she’s too vulnerable so he says no, but then back home they keep talking about sex.
Erica comes to New York for a visit. The father of the baby could either be her boyfriend who went off to college or a guy who went to prison for killing his father with a shovel. Monica finds out it’s the college guy.
14- The one with Princess Consuela
Phoebe and Mike talk about changing names (Monica never changed her name to Monica Bing or even Geller-Bing). Phoebe goes there and the guy tells her she can choose anything she wants, and she chooses Princess Consuela Bananahammock. So Mike changes his name to Crap Bag… this makes her realise her idea was stupid and wants to change it to Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan.
Rachel has an interview with someone from Gucci, but her boss seated next to her and she pretends it’s a date. She doesn’t get the job and also gets fired. Rachel meets Mark again and he offers to talk about a job at Louis Vitton during dinner. They talk and he offers her a great job, but it’s in Paris.
Joey goes to see the new house, and he talks to an 8yo girl who is wiser than him, and then Chandler tells him he has his own room there.
15- The one where Estelle dies
Joey’s agent Estelle died. Phoebe doesn’t want to tell him right away because there are too many changes lately, so she calls him pretending to be Estelle (that was funny). But then a guy tells him she died, and when Phoebe calls him pretending to be Estelle, he thinks she calls from behind the grave…
Ross works to get Rachel’s old job back, but then Luis Vitton offers her more money so she still wants to go to Paris. Then Ross convinces the guy to offer her more money, so she stays, but she’s so down when she tells Ross, she was so excited about going to Paris, that he tells her to go…
Monica and Chandler look at the house next to the one they’re buying, and they run into Janice. Chandler only manages to get her off the house by pretending to still love her.
(Now, seriously, has she thought this through? Yeah… when does she ever think things through…
she was always so nervous when someone looked after Emma, and now she will have to leave her child in a place she doesn’t know and with people she doesn’t know and that speak another language… easy, why not! )
16- The one with Rachel's going away party
Erica is back in New York, she only has three weeks to go.
The guys throw a goodbye party for Rachel. She wants to say goodbye to each of them individually: first Phoebe then Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Ross is last but the goodbye he was dreading doesn’t come, she goes out without saying anything to him.
He’s so upset he lashes out at her, then she does the same to him because he acted like he didn’t know her at all. They end up kissing.
Chandler and Monica take Erica to the hospital (nobody mentions here she still had three weeks but I guess these things happen...)
17- The last one part 1 and 2
Ross and Rachel had sex (someone gave Ross a book called Sex for Dummies as a joke, and he actually read it and learnt something… good for him)
Joey got a baby chick and baby duck for Chandler’s new house (apparently the old ones are dead, although Joey thinks they went away at a farm… )
Ross wants Rachel to stay and be with him, but Rachel tells him it was the perfect goodbye.
Phoebe insists Ross should tell her.
Erica had not understood something the doctors said, and is surprised like the Bings when it turns out she’s having twins. Chandler is utterly shocked but they’ll keep them both of course. The first is a boy, the second a girl. They’re called Jack and Erica.
Everyone’s shocked when they get home with two babies, then Rachel leaves.
Then Ross decides to tell her and Phoebe drives him to the airport. They would be on time, only they went to the wrong airport so they missed her.
Phoebe calls Rachel saying there’s something wrong with the plane, and even if she doesn’t believe it the other passengers freak out and get off the plane, so Phoebe has enough time to drive him to the right airport and they arrive just in time, and Ross makes a big speech on how much he loves her, then she boards the plane and he cries in Phoebe’s arms.
He goes home, hear’s a phone message she left him, and then she arrives.
Monica packed the whole apartment and now they have to leave. Since everyone had a key, they leave six keys in the empty apartment...
and that’s it, the end. We’ll never get to see Chandler as a father…
Chandler Bing - Matthew Perry
Monica Geller - Courtney Cox
Rachel Green - Jennifer Aniston
Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan - Lisa Kudrow
Joey Tribbiani - Matt LeBlanc
Ross Geller - David Schwimmer
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Gunther - James Michael Tyler
Janice - Maggie Wheeler
Jack Geller - Elliott Gould
Judy Geller - Christina Pickles
Estelle - June Gable
Frank Buffay Jr - Giovanni Ribisi
Mike Hannigan - Paul Rudd
Charlie - Aisha Tyler
Amy - Christina Applegate
Erica - Ana Faris
Benjamin - Greg Kinnear
Amanda - Jennifer Coolidge
the stripper - Danny DeVito
8yo MacKenzie - Dakota Fanning
Mr Campbell - Brent Spiner
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