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Friends “The One with the Monkey” Audio Commentary | 2024 Christmas Special
The boys “phone it in” the year with an audio commentary on the Friends first New Years episode “The One with the Monkey.” Sync with watching the episode for best results.
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Outro:
Pixelland by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4222-pixelland
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Audio file
friends-the-one-with-the-monkey-audio-commentary-2024-christmas-special.mp3
Transcript
00:00:00 Andrew
There's something weird about not having the headphones and it's like passing.
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True.
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Just having a regular dialogue in the the kitchen of my home.
00:00:09 Brandon
In the kitchen.
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I.
00:00:10 Andrew
Guess this is the dining room, technically little fireplace.
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No.
00:00:13 Brandon
No dining room, fireplace as everyone has.
00:00:16 Andrew
Yeah, everyone's gathered around the dining.
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Fireplace for the holidays.
00:00:23 Brandon
I mean, why wouldn't you?
00:00:24 Andrew
We have a shaker of glitter as everyone.
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It's actually supposed to be on my night stand, if you know what I mean.
00:00:27 Brandon
My only.
00:00:32 Brandon
What? What?
00:00:35 Narrator
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00:01:45 Andrew
This is weird.
00:01:47 Andrew
This is the second time we recorded in person.
00:01:50 Brandon
No, this is the third or fourth.
00:01:54 Andrew
Oh I.
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We just did the one time.
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Oh, we do.
00:01:56 Andrew
We do it twice at your place.
00:01:58 Andrew
That's right.
00:01:58 Brandon
Yeah, since we have learned in your recording room, you're the last, right?
00:02:03 Andrew
I think so.
00:02:05 Brandon
Yes.
00:02:07 Brandon
Yes, yes we did.
00:02:09 Brandon
Yes.
00:02:10 Andrew
Well, anyway, that was fun for the listeners.
00:02:12 Andrew
So yeah, but it's not a common occurrence.
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Fewer than the number.
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Years that we've been doing this correct.
00:02:20 Andrew
So there you go.
00:02:22 Brandon
Yeah. And we're in the same room. So hopefully you don't hear like a double echo or something.
00:02:30 Brandon
Audio tracks cause.
00:02:32 Brandon
Most likely it would take a lot to edit out.
00:02:35 Andrew
Then you'll.
00:02:36 Andrew
All right. Because if it's synchronized, my own talking, well, you may have like a micro delay on your audio.
00:02:44 Brandon
I'm sure that's your audio you.
00:02:46 Andrew
Know what I'm saying, but if you.
00:02:48 Brandon
It's already carrying. Yeah, I don't know.
00:02:48 Andrew
A really wireless.
00:02:50 Andrew
Because in theory, if we're at the same if everything's at the same time synchronized perfectly.
00:02:56 Andrew
I shouldn't.
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Whatever sound yours is picking up of mine.
00:03:00 Andrew
Would be minimal and just be additive.
00:03:01 Andrew
What you're already.
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Shouldn't echo unless it's like off.
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But you know.
00:03:05 Brandon
Correct, except I do also alter or voices are so slightly so.
00:03:11 Andrew
Bing's computer does suck enough that it probably just doesn't even count seconds properly.
00:03:15 Andrew
Just recording in some other dimension of time.
00:03:18 Brandon
Well, I have told you in the past that your your audio doesn't sync with your video.
00:03:21
That.
00:03:21 Andrew
Yeah, but it.
00:03:23 Andrew
It was on multiple machines.
00:03:25 Brandon
No, it wasn't my other. So maybe it's audacity.
00:03:28 Andrew
It could be it is.
00:03:29 Andrew
Cheap AK free.
00:03:30 Brandon
Or I think it.
00:03:31 Brandon
I thought it was your camera, but then your screen capture.
00:03:34 Andrew
Kit bed.
00:03:36 Brandon
Your screen capture's been doing pretty well anyway.
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OK.
00:03:39 Brandon
Welcome back to another Christmas special, I guess.
00:03:43 Andrew
A holiday season special.
00:03:45 Brandon
Yeah.
00:03:47 Brandon
This technically rounds it out to 50.
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Done.
00:03:50 Brandon
Of these.
00:03:50 Brandon
I haven't marked these two as bonuses, so who knows.
00:03:53 Brandon
Maybe I have.
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Maybe I have.
00:03:57 Brandon
We haven't released last week's episode yet.
00:04:00 Brandon
I'm finished processing it and hopefully you liked it.
00:04:04 Brandon
Hopefully you're just.
00:04:08 Brandon
Enjoying us, randomly commenting with native space.
00:04:14 Brandon
But also using this as an audio commentary so.
00:04:16 Brandon
Welcome to the second of two or 2024 Christmas specials is just Andrew and I doing audio commentary on 2 Classic 90s episode holiday episodes that we haven't covered yet.
00:04:29 Andrew
That's right.
00:04:30 Brandon
So welcome to the one of the monkey.
00:04:34 Andrew
The one with the monkey.
00:04:36 Brandon
The 10th episode of the first season of friends.
00:04:40 Brandon
Yeah, broadcast on December 15th, 1994.
00:04:44 Brandon
And this is this episode marks the first appearance of Marcel the monkey that Ross adopts to keep him company. And.
00:04:55 Brandon
This is when Phoebe meets the scientist David, played by.
00:05:00 Andrew
Hey gazarian.
00:05:00 Brandon
Azaria and their relationship is short lived.
00:05:05 Brandon
Spoilers because he gets a grant to work in mince.
00:05:09 Brandon
Which is in Belarus, Belarus, which.
00:05:14 Brandon
Must have been a USSR, no?
00:05:19 Brandon
Is it Eastern Europe? Probably.
00:05:20 Andrew
Maybe I don't.
00:05:21 Andrew
I'm not sure at that time.
00:05:22 Brandon
That was Siberia.
00:05:25 Brandon
The gang all make a no date pact for a New Year's Eve.
00:05:28 Brandon
And then all of them, except for Ross ends up breaking it with undesired consequences.
00:05:34 Andrew
Consequences, basically.
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Ensue.
00:05:37 Brandon
Antics and surround.
00:05:39 Brandon
It's as if the show is about nothing.
00:05:42 Andrew
Yeah, but it just it just.
00:05:45 Andrew
Life is about nothing. You know what I.
00:05:47 Andrew
Except when it's about something which every episode of Seinfeld was about something.
00:05:52 Brandon
Thing something or nothing.
00:05:53 Andrew
Therefore, nothing the mundane becomes the story.
00:05:59 Andrew
So therefore it is about something.
00:06:02 Brandon
You just wrinkled my brain.
00:06:04 Andrew
Yes, I did.
00:06:06 Brandon
I feel like I'm not talking loud enough.
00:06:09 Andrew
Well, mine just requires me to talk louder to pick up, apparently because that.
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To.
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Are weird. Hmm.
00:06:13 Brandon
Well, good luck, editor.
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Yeah.
00:06:18 Andrew
OK, we're doing like a 321 go.
00:06:20 Brandon
Yeah. So.
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5 counts for those of you that are trying to sync up with the episode. We're watching this on HBO. Max has a minute and 43 seconds runtime and we are starting in five.
00:06:37 Brandon
4321.
00:06:43 Andrew
Did that classic.
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Interstitial music.
00:06:46 Brandon
Oh yeah.
00:06:48 Brandon
And it's Ross already.
00:06:51 Andrew
I was just telling you, anytime you had a monkey.
00:06:55 Andrew
It's too early to jump the shark.
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So.
00:06:56 Andrew
Surprised it got renewed.
00:06:59 Brandon
You know, I I have to wonder how like.
00:07:04 Brandon
How popular friend was already at this time was this attempt to then.
00:07:08 Andrew
I don't think it was that popular.
00:07:11 Andrew
It took a while to get some traction, I'm pretty sure.
00:07:14 Andrew
Jimmy the office.
00:07:17 Brandon
The office I remember happening because it was.
00:07:23 Brandon
Summer Olympics.
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These.
00:07:25 Brandon
Right after the 6th episode, season 1.
00:07:30 Andrew
Monkey on TV.
00:07:31 Andrew
I I think that like the animal rights, people are all all against it.
00:07:35 Brandon
They did have it on Animal Hospital. The short lived Jo McHale vehicle.
00:07:42 Brandon
Or no. No, he's on the other panel. One animal rescue.
00:07:46 Andrew
No, it's got the one comedian.
00:07:51 Andrew
What's his face? Kim Jong?
00:07:54 Brandon
And John?
00:07:55 Andrew
Yeah, I feel like an event.
00:07:56 Andrew
It makes sense to have a monkey like it fits.
00:07:58 Brandon
Them. But I I actually.
00:07:59 Brandon
Thought that was a good show.
00:08:00 Andrew
Except this implication that that's just sit there and.
00:08:05 Andrew
See all species all the time, and especially really exotic things like. That's very much the exception.
00:08:09 Brandon
Lizard.
00:08:10 Brandon
Yeah.
00:08:10 Andrew
The rule.
00:08:13 Andrew
This is good the intro.
00:08:15 Brandon
I I do love the Rembrandts.
00:08:18 Brandon
I would just on a cassette tape.
00:08:21
Single.
00:08:23 Andrew
It actually sounded right a lot of times on streaming. It sounds weird.
00:08:26 Brandon
Because they don't have the rights anymore.
00:08:29 Andrew
That sounded right, yeah.
00:08:32 Brandon
It had the right amount of claps.
00:08:37 Brandon
However, the 90s suicide jokes.
00:08:44 Brandon
So Entertainment Weekly gave us A/B ranking.
00:08:49 Brandon
Perhaps friends biggest blunder was forcing Schwimmer to do comedy opposite us in which is beneath him.
00:08:59 Brandon
The episode illustrates the writer.
00:09:00 Andrew
I'm sorry, was that person to repeat ******?
00:09:03 Andrew
On the credits, I think it's someone someone named went by some peak ******, but now we can't go back.
00:09:08 Brandon
It's a bomber.
00:09:10 Andrew
We do the.
00:09:11 Brandon
Z oh, even better.
00:09:26 Andrew
Didn't talking aloud.
00:09:29 Brandon
Oddly, I was synced with your audio.
00:09:32 Andrew
It's slightly off.
00:09:37 Andrew
And he's really sensitive about that. And I don't see much.
00:09:42 Brandon
Mine's pretty bad, but I think it's just 'cause our setup right now.
00:09:48 Brandon
Dick Clark called it.
00:09:49 Brandon
So they referenced Dick Clark holiday New Years.
00:09:56 Brandon
16 later they do the episode where ****.
00:09:59 Andrew
**** Clark's rocking New Year's Eve.
00:10:01 Brandon
You think that would come up?
00:10:05 Brandon
If you know they didn't write new episodes every.
00:10:08 Brandon
Is it?
00:10:13 Brandon
It's spelled get.
00:10:17 Andrew
But she is.
00:10:19 Andrew
I know it's supposed to be like a parody of people who do play at coffee shops, and it's sad that.
00:10:24 Andrew
Not.
00:10:24 Andrew
Far off true.
00:10:27 Brandon
This is the suicide one or the snowman one.
00:10:30 Brandon
There it is.
00:10:31 Andrew
And this is a suicide song.
00:10:33 Andrew
No.
00:10:38 Brandon
They got me, they got me.
00:10:43 Andrew
Even her eyelashes.
00:10:47 Brandon
All right.
00:10:48 Andrew
She's on the 12th song about her mother's suicide.
00:10:58 Brandon
Now this is how she meets.
00:11:04 Brandon
I think that's funny.
00:11:14 Andrew
I don't love the.
00:11:15 Andrew
I think it's various character drives me nuts, I think.
00:11:17 Andrew
Never just spit out a sentence.
00:11:20 Andrew
It's weird.
00:11:22 Brandon
I mean, the other guy's worse.
00:11:26 Andrew
This is a character he's doing, but it's.
00:11:28 Andrew
Annoying to listen to him talk.
00:11:46 Brandon
I do like hearing splash.
00:11:50 Brandon
That was the one issue, was a mermaid.
00:11:54 Brandon
With Tom Hanks.
00:12:08 Andrew
Frank is very is good though.
00:12:16 Andrew
Of the 90s fashion.
00:12:20 Brandon
Wow.
00:12:26 Brandon
Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy rank this episode 120 on their ranking of the 238 episodes of Friends Strong early episode.
00:12:33 Andrew
Yes.
00:12:37 Brandon
Isn't that middle ground for?
00:12:49 Andrew
Poor Ross.
00:12:54 Andrew
This is the phase in which Ross is pining for Rachel again, but she's dating the Italian guy.
00:12:58 Andrew
Hmm.
00:13:02 Brandon
Paul.
00:13:02 Brandon
Paleo Paolo.
00:13:06 Brandon
Is this the?
00:13:08 Brandon
Episode where the blackout was a few episodes earlier.
00:13:13 Brandon
Did you know the blackout was?
00:13:15 Brandon
Across.
00:13:16 Brandon
All must see TV. There's there.
00:13:17 Andrew
Yeah. Yeah. You mentioned this once.
00:13:18 Brandon
Yeah, that is true, yeah.
00:13:20 Andrew
What a dumb gimmick.
00:13:23 Brandon
Not about you. Just spent their entire episode inside their house.
00:13:26 Andrew
Now the only blackout is the sports game that you want to watch but can't see.
00:13:32 Andrew
Chandler sweater vest is on point.
00:13:37 Brandon
Bring it back.
00:13:43 Andrew
That's Janice already. Yeah. Janice is early.
00:13:43
Yeah.
00:13:52 Brandon
I mean, she was a character previous to this episode.
00:13:57 Andrew
And you know, he's wearing an elf costume.
00:14:02 Brandon
The boots.
00:14:09 Brandon
Like I've done this before.
00:14:11
Hmm.
00:14:19 Brandon
It's a monkey.
00:14:29 Andrew
I.
00:14:30 Andrew
I don't find it cute at all.
00:14:31 Andrew
Monkey.
00:14:33 Andrew
They creep me out. They seem unpredictable.
00:14:36 Brandon
Yeah, I'm surprised they kept him around so long.
00:14:41 Brandon
Hello, how many episodes was he around for?
00:14:44 Andrew
You threw some feces.
00:14:56 Brandon
Along with the one with two.
00:14:58 Brandon
Part 1. Lisa Kudrow received her first Emmy nomination for this episode.
00:15:01 Andrew
Wow.
00:15:04 Brandon
And this is the first appearance of fun Bobby and David.
00:15:08 Brandon
Oh well, we know, David, but on Bobby.
00:15:13 Andrew
We're fun, Bobby.
00:15:15 Andrew
He ends up being a drunk.
00:15:17 Brandon
Is this? Is that gonna be Monica's date?
00:15:20
I don't.
00:15:20 Andrew
I don't know.
00:15:21 Andrew
I think so.
00:15:36 Andrew
Hey, why are you eating Chinese food?
00:15:52 Andrew
Why his bumbling?
00:15:52
Is.
00:15:54 Brandon
The monkey lasts through season 1 episode 21.
00:15:57
So.
00:15:58 Andrew
It's only the first season. Really. Yeah, that's definitely.
00:16:01 Brandon
11 episodes.
00:16:03 Andrew
Yeah, I mean, that's a long arc.
00:16:04 Brandon
And then they bring him back for.
00:16:08 Brandon
The Super Bowl? Absolutely.
00:16:12 Brandon
Right. Or the commercial?
00:16:16 Andrew
Sweep and throw.
00:16:18 Andrew
Things where he clears off the desk and.
00:16:20 Andrew
It.
00:16:21 Andrew
He just tidies it up.
00:16:27 Brandon
I think you're gay.
00:16:32 Brandon
Feel like they they aped this joke.
00:16:36
In.
00:16:40 Brandon
Big Bang Theory.
00:16:42 Andrew
Sorry, just tidying up.
00:16:45 Andrew
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't consider a theft of a joke.
00:16:48 Andrew
This is a fairly.
00:16:50 Brandon
Call me.
00:16:50 Andrew
Like the well ever runs dry on this.
00:16:54 Brandon
Four true, true, true.
00:16:56 Andrew
The awkward nerd trying to make it in the dating world.
00:17:01 Brandon
Was the title of My Autobiography.
00:17:10
Yeah.
00:17:15 Brandon
Christmas episode in the series.
00:17:17 Andrew
Mm.
00:17:19 Brandon
Do they celebrate Christmas?
00:17:21 Brandon
In this episode.
00:17:23 Andrew
No, you're right.
00:17:24 Andrew
This is not the first Christmas episode.
00:17:26 Andrew
Holiday maybe?
00:17:27 Brandon
I mean, I think it's the reason why we didn't do this for like, one of the specials.
00:17:40
Yeah.
00:17:49
Yeah.
00:17:52 Andrew
Play your monkey.
00:17:57 Andrew
That's euphemism.
00:17:58 Brandon
Mm.
00:17:59 Brandon
This is the first time in series that Chandler reunites with Janice.
00:18:04 Andrew
Oh, 'cause, I think Janice is like a a concept prior to this episode.
00:18:11 Brandon
They must have.
00:18:12 Brandon
Weren't they dating the 1st girl?
00:18:22 Andrew
What? What juggling thing?
00:18:26 Brandon
She is the girlfriend before the start of season 1 and he wants to break up with her.
00:18:34 Brandon
The one with the East German laundry detergent episode 5.
00:18:37
Yeah.
00:18:41 Brandon
Oh, that's the one.
00:18:42
Where?
00:18:47 Andrew
They're awkward scientist type.
00:18:55 Brandon
I know.
00:18:55 Andrew
No, it was Russia back then.
00:18:58 Brandon
With us, the USSR.
00:18:59 Andrew
And now I believe it's in Belarus now.
00:19:03 Andrew
We looked at up something like a *******.
00:19:04 Brandon
I have right here Max.
00:19:06 Brandon
That men see is in Russia, with Phoebe replying.
00:19:08 Brandon
Know where mints is.
00:19:09 Brandon
Are wrong.
00:19:10 Brandon
Minks. Minks Minsk is actually in Belarus, having officially become the capital of the Republic of Belarus in 1981.
00:19:14 Andrew
Thank you.
00:19:19 Brandon
Having previously been the capital of Belarus SSR, a part of the USSR three years before the episode takes place.
00:19:26
OK.
00:19:29 Andrew
Why do you need to go to Minsk to research physics?
00:19:32 Andrew
What's wrong with doing it there?
00:19:33 Brandon
It's colder.
00:19:38 Brandon
OK.
00:19:40 Andrew
It changes the math.
00:19:41 Andrew
Little bit maybe.
00:19:53 Brandon
Channel engines getting bitten by a Peacock, which is the first mention by Phoebe in the one with the blackout.
00:20:08
Replay.
00:20:10 Andrew
So she has him to stay.
00:20:13 Andrew
However.
00:20:20 Andrew
It has to be.
00:20:20 Andrew
Chinese food offers made a huge mess.
00:20:23 Brandon
Mm.
00:20:24 Brandon
That's why I clean the carpets, I mean.
00:20:31 Brandon
OK. And this is REM shiny, happy people.
00:20:35 Andrew
Hello is Janice.
00:20:37 Brandon
Oh my God.
00:20:40 Andrew
Tell me a joke.
00:20:52 Brandon
You're over Janice. Vividly.
00:20:57 Andrew
Stephanie, good morning.
00:21:00 Andrew
How's the indie right away?
00:21:04 Andrew
Oh, she brought our.
00:21:05 Andrew
This is the shenanigans will ensue.
00:21:11
Replay.
00:21:13 Brandon
I mean, what else would you do?
00:21:14 Andrew
Yeah, true.
00:21:15 Andrew
Hard to find childcare.
00:21:26 Andrew
I just think the monkey like it never helps. Adding to the story or helps adding into the comedy, it just distracts.
00:21:32 Andrew
Kind of like unwelcome.
00:21:34 Brandon
And they have to, like, get all the takes, right? Yeah.
00:21:46 Brandon
Also, this is the only time you mention it.
00:21:48 Brandon
It's very cold in there.
00:21:51 Brandon
They were the stage. Oh yeah.
00:22:00 Brandon
There's apparently no one wears bras and.
00:22:03 Brandon
1994.
00:22:03 Andrew
Rachel's looking kind of beat up here.
00:22:07 Brandon
She picking Paul from the airport.
00:22:29 Andrew
Planet with a pocket book.
00:22:50 Andrew
Geez, fat lip is not looking very realistic.
00:22:54 Brandon
No more the black eye.
00:23:00 Brandon
Why would she?
00:23:01 Andrew
There's obviously makeup and actually here with a baseball bat.
00:23:07 Brandon
She takes a cab to go pick someone.
00:23:09 Brandon
At the airport.
00:23:10 Andrew
Yeah, it seems like you could have just gotten.
00:23:13 Andrew
From the airport.
00:23:14 Brandon
Or, you know, I guess they don't have cars.
00:23:17 Andrew
Yeah. But or I feel like they.
00:23:20 Andrew
At the.
00:23:20 Andrew
'Cause, you still could do that at this time.
00:23:22 Brandon
Ohh yeah, I forgot about that.
00:23:30 Andrew
Oh, the the cancer watching.
00:23:32 Brandon
Maybe This is why I don't date women with children.
00:23:39
Yeah.
00:23:42 Andrew
Oh.
00:23:44 Andrew
Sorry.
00:23:44 Andrew
Your girlfriend like, startles you.
00:23:58 Andrew
OK, and more suicide references.
00:24:01 Andrew
I've.
00:24:02 Andrew
Now R 98.
00:24:03 Brandon
I've done that before.
00:24:04 Brandon
Oh yeah. Phone. Bobby sober. I forgot about that.
00:24:15 Andrew
He's gonna bring the party down.
00:24:17 Andrew
They're listening to reggae.
00:24:19 Brandon
That sounds like it.
00:24:23 Andrew
Yeah.
00:24:25 Andrew
No.
00:24:25 Brandon
Oh, this was in the episode where he was over.
00:24:32 Brandon
Who is the actor?
00:24:35 Andrew
Who looks kind of familiar?
00:24:35
Blair.
00:24:36 Andrew
Some way, right?
00:24:41 Brandon
Home Depot is.
00:24:49 Andrew
Janice St.
00:24:50 Brandon
Vincent's Venice, CA.
00:24:52 Andrew
I have no idea.
00:24:53 Brandon
It is known for.
00:25:09 Brandon
Awesome travel.
00:25:10 Andrew
So they end up all losing their dates.
00:25:12 Andrew
Yeah.
00:25:17 Brandon
The Invisible Man TV series.
00:25:23 Andrew
When men's hairstyles in the early 90s were not good.
00:25:23 Brandon
The fact that this is.
00:25:27 Brandon
All good hockey players.
00:25:29 Andrew
Yeah.
00:25:33 Andrew
My daddy got real weird there for a second.
00:25:43 Andrew
Oh, he just starts eating like.
00:25:47 Andrew
No, I think he's going to Minsk. Yeah.
00:25:52 Andrew
She's one of many skinny words.
00:25:56
Oh.
00:25:57 Brandon
How long were you holding on long?
00:25:59 Andrew
I've been trying to work.
00:26:00 Andrew
In. Yeah.
00:26:18 Andrew
She tells him how she's gonna overreact.
00:26:26 Andrew
Well, I can't understand that.
00:26:29 Brandon
Cool. Another continuity.
00:26:33 Brandon
Thing with the one with the red, with the routine that we did watch before.
00:26:39 Brandon
With with Kayla in this episode, Phoebe and Chandler are seen decorating Monica's tree.
00:26:44 Brandon
But in the one with the routine, Ross suggests that Monica never lets people help her decorate her tree when he says, Wow, Monica's letting other people help decorate her tree.
00:26:52 Brandon
Someone get her drunk again.
00:26:55 Andrew
Yeah, but there's a point at which she does that.
00:26:57 Andrew
Not working on it.
00:26:59 Andrew
Then she turns the tree.
00:27:00 Andrew
And decide she made is like facing out.
00:27:03 Brandon
I grew up.
00:27:05 Brandon
Also.
00:27:08 Brandon
Max tells Phoebe that the trip to Minx is for three years, but David doesn't resurface until season 7.
00:27:15 Andrew
It's actually Dick Clark.
00:27:18 Andrew
Ryan.
00:27:18 Andrew
Not Ryan Seacrest.
00:27:23 Brandon
90 Christmas.
00:27:24 Andrew
Please kiss me at midnight.
00:27:25 Brandon
Posters daily.
00:27:28 Andrew
No, I think it's.
00:27:30 Brandon
Big rush. I saw me.
00:27:32
I thought.
00:27:37
What?
00:27:40 Andrew
Chandler.
00:27:49 Brandon
Call 670.
00:27:50 Andrew
There's a number of episodes where Rachel's like facial trauma and tries to talk.
00:27:55 Andrew
Common joke they like to do with her.
00:27:58 Andrew
I was wondering if she's trying to seduce Joshua and she's like in her cheerleader outfit.
00:28:03 Brandon
Oh yeah.
00:28:08 Brandon
All said Bobby.
00:28:12 Andrew
Gunther, from the coffee shop is there at the party.
00:28:31 Andrew
You can't just rush.
00:28:33 Brandon
Yeah, incest joke.
00:28:39 Andrew
This with Joey kisses him.
00:28:44 Andrew
And there's the homophobia. Perfection.
00:28:48 Andrew
Perfect. Yes, we did get the plan with the bottle.
00:28:50 Andrew
A.
00:28:53 Brandon
Wow, the woman that.
00:28:54 Brandon
Stomach stopped, Rachel.
00:28:59 Andrew
American History X style.
00:29:13 Andrew
I think that ***** cracked my tooth.
00:29:16
More.
00:29:16 Brandon
Friends.
00:29:19 Andrew
Yeah.
00:29:23 Andrew
Love it.
00:29:23 Brandon
And that's our audio commentary for.
00:29:27 Brandon
The one with the.
00:29:28 Andrew
My mouse cursor disappeared.
00:29:32 Andrew
Yeah. There you go. That was it.
00:29:34 Brandon
What do you think of the episode?
00:29:39 Brandon
It better than the Seinfeld episode.
00:29:41 Andrew
Yes. Well, I mean, I'm biased because I prefer the show to Seinfeld.
00:29:46 Brandon
True.
00:29:47 Andrew
I'm not a huge fan.
00:29:48 Andrew
The first season, for the most part.
00:29:51 Brandon
Hello.
00:29:52 Andrew
And this felt I.
00:29:54 Andrew
Especially the first like 3 episodes are kind of rough.
00:29:56 Andrew
This felt like.
00:29:58 Andrew
Poor and typical friends episode.
00:30:01 Brandon
You were.
00:30:02 Brandon
This was directed by Peter Bonners.
00:30:04 Andrew
Peter Bonners BONERZ.
00:30:07 Brandon
What's inside?
00:30:07 Andrew
Don't think he directs many.
00:30:11 Brandon
He directed 12 episodes of friends and three from Joey.
00:30:15 Andrew
Oh wow.
00:30:17 Brandon
He appeared uncredited as a theater patron in the one with Screamer.
00:30:23 Andrew
Peep ****** there you have it, Peter ******.
00:30:24 Brandon
Heater bonners.
00:30:27 Brandon
Umm.
00:30:28 Brandon
Because that's too dignified.
00:30:31
Yeah.
00:30:33
Wow.
00:30:35 Brandon
Yeah, I mean the one with the routine is also New Year's Eve episode, which.
00:30:42 Andrew
Joey has that, like kind of foreign, like, attractive roommate who's a.
00:30:48 Andrew
I believe.
00:30:49 Brandon
Like, Oh yeah, or she formed.
00:30:51 Brandon
Was she the 31?
00:30:51 Andrew
She's an accent.
00:30:54 Brandon
I thought she was like Joey.
00:30:57 Brandon
Oh, that's not the one that Channel makes fun of.
00:31:01 Brandon
Oh, they're about to make a movement.
00:31:06 Andrew
It was played by Elle Macpherson, yeah.
00:31:11 Andrew
She was played by Elle Macpherson.
00:31:13 Brandon
She was the one that moved in and had the the picture of the baby.
00:31:16 Andrew
And like feminized the apartment.
00:31:18
It's a famous baby.
00:31:21
Yeah.
00:31:24 Brandon
Yeah.
00:31:27 Brandon
It felt like Marcel was around for more than a season.
00:31:32 Andrew
What a great name for a monkey.
00:31:34 Andrew
I think I just I I will say I'm a big fan.
00:31:37 Andrew
Of friends, I don't think the monkey add anything and I really just didn't care for the monkey.
00:31:41 Andrew
Never like whenever the monkey got screen time. I just found it annoying.
00:31:41
Yeah.
00:31:45 Brandon
It was definitely a stick, but I feel like in the 90s you kind of needed this stick for no reason.
00:31:52 Andrew
But I'm like mad that someone pitched it and it happened.
00:31:55 Andrew
They went with it.
00:31:56 Andrew
Just think it's.
00:31:58 Andrew
Unnecessary and just sort of gratuitous in a way.
00:32:02 Brandon
Of course I mean.
00:32:05 Brandon
Yeah.
00:32:09 Brandon
I wish there was like some background decisions on why they thought they needed one.
00:32:13 Andrew
As I told you, there is a hat in every writer's room, and there's a variety of different stereotypes that you have to draw from.
00:32:23 Andrew
One is add a monkey.
00:32:26 Andrew
Adding a little person is in there or was in the 80s.
00:32:31 Brandon
That's why Seinfeld tried to turn it on his head with Mickey.
00:32:33 Andrew
Jumping shark?
00:32:36 Brandon
Another fun fact.
00:32:39 Brandon
There's on the.
00:32:41 Brandon
There's an extra scene where Phoebe and Monica help. Rachel gets ready for the party and it is the first episode in which you see Rachel's bedroom.
00:32:54 Brandon
But it doesn't appear in the series because yeah.
00:32:59 Brandon
Hmm.
00:32:59 Andrew
Don't do anything.
00:33:01 Brandon
You know I.
00:33:04 Brandon
I think the first season's really tight.
00:33:08 Brandon
It's it's a good like you can tell they didn't know that the show was gonna take off the way it did.
00:33:14 Brandon
And resonate with Gen. X the way it did, but.
00:33:19
Hmm.
00:33:20 Brandon
I it's a good mid season finale or or not finale, but like you know winter break.
00:33:29 Brandon
For the time.
00:33:30 Brandon
Now it's like we need a cliffhanger and we need to like.
00:33:36 Brandon
Do something with that and yeah.
00:33:40
But.
00:33:42 Brandon
I I understand why Entertainment Weekly gave it AB.
00:33:46
Yeah.
00:33:48 Andrew
It was above average but not perfect.
00:33:51 Brandon
No.
00:33:52 Brandon
Wait, middle of the pack and the.
00:33:54 Andrew
But compared to the the Seinfeld episode about the race, I mean, I just.
00:34:00 Andrew
I couldn't care less and I couldn't be captivated by it. I just didn't.
00:34:05 Andrew
It didn't feel real.
00:34:06 Brandon
You're using the Red Scare episodes.
00:34:06 Andrew
Felt.
00:34:09 Andrew
Felt stupid that it was such a big deal.
00:34:12 Andrew
Know what I mean? Yeah.
00:34:15 Andrew
It was also not it didn't make it wasn't funny that he was still obsessing over it.
00:34:15
But.
00:34:20 Andrew
Was just like after the first scene where setting up I was like OK, who cares?
00:34:24 Brandon
Well, here's the most interesting part is that it looks like these episodes aired on the same night.
00:34:30 Andrew
Wow.
00:34:31 Brandon
Yeah.
00:34:37 Brandon
Really, tying that together, really tying that together.
00:34:40 Brandon
Number 15/19/94.
00:34:43 Andrew
Yeah, well, maybe I'll invite some hate comments.
00:34:45
And.
00:34:46 Andrew
That's the way to get subtraction too.
00:34:47 Brandon
Get some interaction people that like Seinfeld.
00:34:50 Andrew
It's just.
00:34:53 Andrew
Well, I know I'm supposed to like it.
00:34:56 Andrew
I even want to like it.
00:34:58 Andrew
Just don't.
00:34:58 Brandon
Surprising.
00:35:01 Andrew
It would be easier if.
00:35:02 Andrew
Just liked it.
00:35:03
You.
00:35:04 Andrew
Know what I mean?
00:35:05 Brandon
Yeah. Just conform Andrew, just.
00:35:06 Andrew
Take Brussels sprouts.
00:35:08 Andrew
Once I just started liking them, it was great.
00:35:10 Brandon
Yeah, but you you know how? Why that?
00:35:14 Brandon
It's because the they have been taking a new cultivar.
00:35:17 Andrew
Yes, they.
00:35:18 Andrew
They got a new cultivar that was less bitter, had the sulfur, sulfuric combat. The only thing is I can't actually verify or vet that over the Internet, so I feel like that's not true, but I think I heard it from like.
00:35:28 Andrew
Elton Brown or something on the Food Network.
00:35:32 Brandon
I always just Snopes that but.
00:35:34 Brandon
Hey, we'll do that in the new year.
00:35:37 Brandon
Yeah. Final thoughts on.
00:35:40 Brandon
The one with the monkey.
00:35:44 Andrew
I just wouldn't have titled it the one of the monkey.
00:35:50 Andrew
I recently the one with the No Date, pact or something you know.
00:35:53 Andrew
I.
00:35:54 Andrew
'Cause the monkey was sort of AB to C story.
00:35:57 Brandon
Yeah, true.
00:35:59 Brandon
But the one with the one with the scientist, yeah.
00:36:03 Andrew
Those.
00:36:04 Andrew
See story in my opinion.
00:36:06 Brandon
The Phoebe's thing, yeah.
00:36:08 Brandon
I would say Marcel's the CEO.
00:36:10 Brandon
Sorry, the Janice was a story that's interesting.
00:36:10 Andrew
OK, Janice is.
00:36:11 Andrew
D story.
00:36:15 Brandon
Yeah.
00:36:17 Andrew
But no, I I you.
00:36:18 Andrew
Know I encourage you to watch it.
00:36:21 Andrew
It was fun.
00:36:21 Brandon
Well, hopefully you did 'cause. This was an audio commentary.
00:36:23 Andrew
Well, yes.
00:36:26 Brandon
And well, that's it for this.
00:36:29 Brandon
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00:36:37 Brandon
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00:36:42
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00:36:48 Brandon
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00:36:53 Brandon
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00:37:04 Andrew
Let us know.
00:37:05 Brandon
Maybe we'll do it.
00:37:06 Brandon
We won't.
00:37:06 Brandon
I'm Brandon. That's Andrew.
00:37:08 Andrew
Have a happy New Year and we'll catch you.
00:37:11 Brandon
In 2025.
00:37:15
The.
00:37:26
The.
00:37:30
I.
00:37:33 Andrew
I think that ***** cracked my tooth.