WEBVTT 00:00:00.050 --> 00:00:00.709 No, you start. 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:01.129 Oh, right. 00:00:01.129 --> 00:00:04.429 I started, oops. 00:00:05.690 --> 00:00:06.110 Hi. 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:13.339 Welcome to What the Phalange?! The podcast, where we watch every episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S discuss it, deconstruct it and fan over it. 00:00:13.369 --> 00:00:14.750 One episode at a time. 00:00:15.050 --> 00:00:19.429 My name is Emilie pronouns she and her also known as the Monica of the group. 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:25.320 You can connect with me on Twitter at @EmilieB__ underscore underscore or on Instagram at @EmilieByoga. 00:00:25.460 --> 00:00:26.960 That's Emilie with an I E 00:00:27.410 --> 00:00:37.479 My name is Quinn and pronouns zie/zir or they/them on social media as @thebasicNB and @FeministMassageTherapist, and maybe the Ross of the group? 00:00:37.929 --> 00:00:39.549 Which is controversial... 00:00:39.700 --> 00:00:41.079 very controversial but... 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:48.490 this week we're talking, I don't want to identify that way this week. 00:00:48.490 --> 00:00:53.270 We're talking about season two, episode 12, The One After The Superbowl. 00:00:53.710 --> 00:00:56.170 And this episode is part one 00:00:56.649 --> 00:00:57.340 of two. 00:00:58.570 --> 00:00:58.780 Yes. 00:00:59.140 --> 00:01:05.917 I don't know if that was necessary, but both part one and part two aired on Sunday, January 28th, 1996. 00:01:05.917 --> 00:01:13.272 Surprisingly enough, right after the super bowl it was written by David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Jeff Astrof and directed by Michael Lembek. 00:01:14.043 --> 00:01:23.373 According to IMDB, this is the episode where Ross goes to visit Marcel whilst on a trip to California and discovers he is working in commercials. 00:01:23.703 --> 00:01:29.313 Joey receives a fan letter from an attractive, but quote unquote unstable woman. 00:01:29.893 --> 00:01:33.611 Phoebe is asked to sing for children at a library. 00:01:34.001 --> 00:01:38.501 Fun fact, I had to copy and paste this from IMDB and Quinn didn't read it ahead of time. 00:01:39.721 --> 00:01:40.120 Fact, 00:01:41.590 --> 00:01:44.260 this is also the one where Ross learns that. 00:01:44.441 --> 00:01:45.161 Oh wow. 00:01:45.251 --> 00:01:48.040 Clearly I did not read my own words ahead of time. 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:53.111 This is also the one where Ross learns that, where he thought his monkey was isn't the truth. 00:01:53.320 --> 00:01:55.150 Phoebe sings about the truth. 00:01:55.180 --> 00:01:58.510 And Joey decides that sex is better than telling a woman that. 00:01:59.516 --> 00:02:00.355 There's a theme. 00:02:01.256 --> 00:02:02.096 There is a theme. 00:02:02.096 --> 00:02:03.415 There's so many themes, 00:02:03.445 --> 00:02:05.156 many, many themes. 00:02:16.270 --> 00:02:16.920 Hi, Emilie. 00:02:17.471 --> 00:02:18.760 Hey, how's it going? 00:02:19.450 --> 00:02:19.871 Ah, 00:02:19.901 --> 00:02:20.290 good. 00:02:20.531 --> 00:02:21.070 Yeah, it's good. 00:02:21.070 --> 00:02:24.251 It's Friday nights, right before a long weekend 00:02:24.251 --> 00:02:27.191 It is, and we have a double recording to do today. 00:02:27.191 --> 00:02:27.520 Yeah. 00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:30.131 We're recording both episodes. 00:02:30.161 --> 00:02:31.121 It's Friday evening. 00:02:31.121 --> 00:02:32.591 It's been a very long week. 00:02:32.651 --> 00:02:34.901 I worked 11 hours yesterday. 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:36.969 But we're doing this and 00:02:37.051 --> 00:02:37.292 Yeah. 00:02:37.292 --> 00:02:43.150 So you're going to get part one today and part two in two weeks, I guess for, 00:02:43.180 --> 00:02:50.861 yeah, we're recording both today, but we're going to split them up because well on crave and Netflix, they're two separate episodes. 00:02:51.132 --> 00:03:04.701 However, this originally aired as one, like extra long episode and as it is named, it is the one that aired after the super bowl, which is why it was airing on a Saturday or a Sunday or something 00:03:04.711 --> 00:03:05.222 Sunday, 00:03:05.891 --> 00:03:06.372 Sunday. 00:03:06.403 --> 00:03:07.400 Know about sports. 00:03:08.150 --> 00:03:10.729 You know, we, we know about sports. 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:11.240 Yes. 00:03:11.312 --> 00:03:12.937 So fun fact, Emilie, 00:03:13.567 --> 00:03:13.986 tell me, 00:03:14.287 --> 00:03:17.317 this is the most watched episode. 00:03:18.352 --> 00:03:19.372 No way on. 00:03:19.401 --> 00:03:27.798 And then also on it's like first evening of opening or airing it got 52.9 million viewers. 00:03:27.978 --> 00:03:28.668 Wow. 00:03:28.706 --> 00:03:30.477 And that's because it played right after the super bowl. 00:03:30.477 --> 00:03:31.347 Of course it makes sense. 00:03:31.437 --> 00:03:31.826 Yeah. 00:03:31.887 --> 00:03:32.276 It makes sense. 00:03:32.306 --> 00:03:36.116 I wonder if they had to pay a lot to get that time slot, I assume, I assume so. 00:03:36.104 --> 00:03:38.949 I don't know how that works because it's an NBC production. 00:03:39.459 --> 00:03:48.669 And so I don't know, I don't know how that time works, but they have a shit ton of like big star actors in this episode. 00:03:49.179 --> 00:03:49.419 Yeah. 00:03:49.419 --> 00:03:50.949 They have really big actors. 00:03:51.037 --> 00:04:04.344 Also the director, Michael Lunbech won the 1996 Emmy award for outstanding, outstanding individual achievement and directing for a comedy series for this episode, for this specific episode. 00:04:04.344 --> 00:04:07.014 And it was the only Emmy one by the series that year. 00:04:07.375 --> 00:04:08.875 Oh, that's a pretty good episode. 00:04:08.935 --> 00:04:09.615 What are your fields? 00:04:09.651 --> 00:04:18.740 To be honest, there were so many other things that I was like paying attention to you when I was like, really trying to pick apart this episode that like the directing didn't particularly stick out to me. 00:04:18.755 --> 00:04:20.208 I also remember reading a few things. 00:04:20.208 --> 00:04:25.137 Like there was a lot of criticism around like John damn van Damme 00:04:26.156 --> 00:04:27.687 Jean-Claude van Damme. 00:04:27.836 --> 00:04:28.887 I'm so bad at names. 00:04:30.567 --> 00:04:35.983 Jean-Claude van Damme essentially like was very criticized even though he's like a very, what, 00:04:35.985 --> 00:04:41.625 Just wanted to say something that only people who've watched all the FRIENDS will understand, because you were said shawl clued. 00:04:41.625 --> 00:04:43.464 Then when I was like,"Je m'appelle Claude". 00:04:43.464 --> 00:04:47.089 Spoilers if you haven't seen all of F.R.I.E.N.D.S, 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:52.699 not a real spoiler, but just, just dangling the carrot to keep watching folks 00:04:52.771 --> 00:04:54.322 Ten years later. 00:04:54.742 --> 00:05:00.168 But, essentially there was a lot of criticism around his performance in the episode. 00:05:00.197 --> 00:05:02.028 I never seen him in anything else. 00:05:02.057 --> 00:05:02.747 So I wouldn't 00:05:03.338 --> 00:05:05.168 criticism, like as, and he's a bad actor. 00:05:05.288 --> 00:05:05.468 Yeah. 00:05:05.468 --> 00:05:05.827 They 00:05:05.858 --> 00:05:10.267 I literally wrote the note Jean-Claude van Damme is not a great actor. 00:05:10.298 --> 00:05:10.687 LOL. 00:05:11.887 --> 00:05:12.427 There you go. 00:05:12.427 --> 00:05:14.887 So he was very criticized for his role. 00:05:15.127 --> 00:05:23.918 I always thought that like his presence in the episode was like very weird and sterial when I was a kid, I didn't actually think that he was a real actor, you know? 00:05:24.158 --> 00:05:24.427 Yeah. 00:05:24.517 --> 00:05:28.718 I think, well, yeah, we'll probably see that a little bit more when we actually get to that episode. 00:05:28.778 --> 00:05:29.048 Yeah. 00:05:29.077 --> 00:05:29.708 Well, yeah. 00:05:29.708 --> 00:05:30.757 So that's the next one. 00:05:30.978 --> 00:05:37.350 But then also, so yeah, here's the thing that folks, we're going to talk about certain themes that run throughout the course of both episodes. 00:05:37.591 --> 00:05:43.483 However, we are cutting this into two podcast episodes, but there's certain things that are going to be pulled over to both. 00:05:43.483 --> 00:05:47.144 So it is a two parter episode essentially that we're doing today. 00:05:47.723 --> 00:05:56.776 Storyline again in the next episode is also really criticized the one again, centered around John clued VanDamme between Monica and Rachel. 00:05:56.776 --> 00:06:04.487 It was criticized to be a poor writing, poor and lazy writing for which I think is interesting. 00:06:04.516 --> 00:06:13.817 Anyway, we'll talk about that more in the next episode, but for today, Emilie, what are your initial feelings on this first half? 00:06:13.846 --> 00:06:18.737 Or actually tell me your initial feelings of like the entire two together and then as them separately? 00:06:18.716 --> 00:06:28.547 I would say that, this is probably like the episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S that I, I dunno if I quote the most, but I know the script the best would probably means I've watched it the most. 00:06:28.901 --> 00:06:30.880 Or one of the few that I've watched a lot. 00:06:30.971 --> 00:06:32.411 I really think that. 00:06:33.461 --> 00:06:34.750 I think it's well done. 00:06:34.750 --> 00:06:35.951 I think it's a great episode. 00:06:35.951 --> 00:06:41.083 Like obviously there are some issues which we will talk about like, you know, they do- 00:06:41.083 --> 00:06:45.283 What?! An episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S that can be criticized, what, 00:06:45.572 --> 00:06:46.492 that's not what we do here. 00:06:46.569 --> 00:06:47.702 I know nothing of this. 00:06:47.733 --> 00:06:55.702 I feel like they were trying to say like the overarching storyline of these two episodes is Ross with his like relationship with the monkey. 00:06:55.702 --> 00:07:01.463 But really, I feel like the overarching storyline of the two episodes is women are crazy. 00:07:01.642 --> 00:07:02.452 Yeah, that's exactly. 00:07:03.442 --> 00:07:03.892 Yeah. 00:07:03.985 --> 00:07:13.355 With both Bookshields portrayal of Erica and the first episode, and then Julia Roberts kind of revenge fantasy, which like also is epic though. 00:07:13.416 --> 00:07:22.297 And then like of course, Monica and Rachel kind of having a petty catfight and then, you know, Phoebe singing the truth and she's kind of like crazy and like weird again. 00:07:22.297 --> 00:07:34.836 So like, I just feel kind of like, there's a lot of this, like, women are crazy and men are reasonable, except not really, they're not really saying that men are reasonable and this 00:07:34.855 --> 00:07:40.225 it is the implication, but I would almost say that Phoebe is the most grounded of people in this house, 00:07:40.586 --> 00:07:41.305 for sure. 00:07:41.485 --> 00:07:43.185 Well, Quinn, she sings about the truth. 00:07:44.266 --> 00:07:44.745 What about you? 00:07:44.745 --> 00:07:46.105 What do you feel about this first episode? 00:07:46.211 --> 00:07:51.497 Yeah, well, I'm kind of want to go through some themes that kind of run through. 00:07:51.497 --> 00:07:54.848 We're going to talk about like three things we're going to talk about today, which I realized we haven't been doing. 00:07:54.958 --> 00:07:59.192 I know, feel like we're rusty coming back, but now I feel like we're getting in the rythem of things. 00:07:59.172 --> 00:08:00.055 But okay. 00:08:00.055 --> 00:08:05.336 So some themes that, cause I was kind of picking apart these two episodes as a whole, and also separately 00:08:05.625 --> 00:08:07.735 wa-wa- wait before Quinn starts. 00:08:07.766 --> 00:08:10.225 I want you guys to all know what I'm witnessing right now. 00:08:10.495 --> 00:08:15.896 Quinn has an iPad to their rights, a notebook to their left and their laptop in front of them. 00:08:15.896 --> 00:08:21.055 And they have notes about F.R.I.E.N.D.S on all three of these things, just so you know, 00:08:21.505 --> 00:08:23.365 my brain does not work linearly you folks. 00:08:23.396 --> 00:08:24.625 I need all the tools. 00:08:24.625 --> 00:08:24.925 Okay. 00:08:25.012 --> 00:08:29.062 But so essentially we have the crazy woman theme. 00:08:29.692 --> 00:08:30.112 Right. 00:08:30.170 --> 00:08:40.517 And, even further we have this mental health theme also that sort of plays out and that's like really more specifically in the first episode that I really kind of want to explore. 00:08:40.611 --> 00:08:41.601 Yeah, we'll get there. 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:52.400 But generally yes, like this crazy woman theme and like it all being centered around like men and attached to some sort of like sex aspect of it as well. 00:08:52.551 --> 00:08:53.270 Oh, interesting. 00:08:53.270 --> 00:08:54.020 I didn't think of that. 00:08:54.051 --> 00:08:54.801 Yeah, you're right. 00:08:54.831 --> 00:09:01.671 But then we also have this theme of essentially animals in the realm of 00:09:02.150 --> 00:09:04.081 the cow and the metal goes, moo. 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:05.240 So, okay. 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:10.623 I actually want to, I thought, I think it's actually really interesting that Phoebe has this, this song. 00:09:10.712 --> 00:09:10.923 I know 00:09:11.222 --> 00:09:12.423 I have so much to say about it. 00:09:12.423 --> 00:09:13.832 I want to get there when we get there though. 00:09:14.293 --> 00:09:15.962 I don't want us to go, I don't want to talk about it right away. 00:09:16.023 --> 00:09:16.562 I love it. 00:09:16.663 --> 00:09:27.793 Yeah, I guess I just want to, like, I think it's very fitting that Phoebe talks about this because we have kind of like three main, very central realms when it comes to like the animal industry. 00:09:27.793 --> 00:09:39.755 We have, we talk about like zoos, we talk about in the next episode animals in TV, as entertainment, and then we also have animals as food anyway. 00:09:39.785 --> 00:09:41.885 So we're going to touch base on all of these today. 00:09:41.916 --> 00:09:50.105 We've kind of like been able to bring it up as a topic here and there with Marcel in the past, but we're going to talk about zoos in this episode, folks, it's going to be. 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:52.291 Enlightening 00:09:52.410 --> 00:10:04.291 animal rights conversations from your friendly neighborhood, off and on vegan, currently vegetarian and your friendly neighborhood, trying to reduce their meat consumption and dairy consumption person. 00:10:04.350 --> 00:10:04.561 Right. 00:10:04.561 --> 00:10:05.490 That's does that make yeah, 00:10:05.490 --> 00:10:05.910 that's me. 00:10:05.941 --> 00:10:06.091 Yeah. 00:10:06.091 --> 00:10:06.480 That's you? 00:10:06.740 --> 00:10:07.171 Yeah. 00:10:07.201 --> 00:10:07.640 In general. 00:10:07.640 --> 00:10:07.890 Yeah. 00:10:07.951 --> 00:10:09.841 I think that, yeah, 00:10:09.841 --> 00:10:11.160 it's a controversial topic. 00:10:11.160 --> 00:10:14.041 Way more than probably anything else that we're going to talk about. 00:10:14.760 --> 00:10:19.201 You know what, like, I think that I also want to approach this topic. 00:10:19.186 --> 00:10:24.855 Not from, especially, I actually kind of want to distance a little bit away from like the food topic. 00:10:25.035 --> 00:10:30.255 I feel like that is one that is like, becomes very central to all the conversations. 00:10:30.255 --> 00:10:31.936 I know that like Phoebe talks about it. 00:10:31.966 --> 00:10:33.225 I want to just touch on it. 00:10:33.285 --> 00:10:39.525 But I think it's one that like really takes on like the central aspect of like the conversation about animals. 00:10:39.525 --> 00:10:43.875 And, and I, I don't, I think it's our neighbors playing piano. 00:10:44.235 --> 00:10:48.405 Our neighbors is, is I think in a band we have determined. 00:10:48.436 --> 00:10:54.346 And if you hear them, well, we're not going to that's as much as we can credit them. 00:10:54.475 --> 00:10:54.846 We don't 00:10:54.846 --> 00:10:59.556 know what that, I remember that time where we were like, well, we can't record in the front room because our neighbor plays music. 00:11:00.336 --> 00:11:02.586 And now here we are recording the front of the room. 00:11:02.676 --> 00:11:03.365 Well, we forgot. 00:11:03.395 --> 00:11:04.716 Let's just hope they don't start playing the drums. 00:11:08.020 --> 00:11:09.971 It is Friday night, I guess this is banned time. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:10.181 Okay. 00:11:10.181 --> 00:11:11.350 Anyway, moving forward. 00:11:11.371 --> 00:11:22.755 But anyway, I want to actually stay away from the food topic as much as possible and really kind of talk about like animals and though the way that we use them in society in modern day as a part of the team there, and I guess, yeah. 00:11:22.842 --> 00:11:23.442 But, okay. 00:11:23.472 --> 00:11:26.503 So should we start off with the opening scene? 00:11:27.133 --> 00:11:27.673 Yeah. 00:11:28.003 --> 00:11:29.952 Well, what are your feelings about the opening scene here? 00:11:30.462 --> 00:11:32.653 Well, it's like the advertisement, right? 00:11:32.653 --> 00:11:41.143 And I think that it's particularly well done knowing the fact that this episode came out right after the super bowl and super bowl is known for the like epic advertisements. 00:11:41.472 --> 00:11:46.123 And so starting the episode off with an advertisement was a choice. 00:11:46.332 --> 00:11:48.102 Oh, that's so interesting. 00:11:48.163 --> 00:11:49.812 I didn't even think of that. 00:11:49.842 --> 00:11:50.082 Yeah. 00:11:50.177 --> 00:11:51.018 Emilie clever. 00:11:51.048 --> 00:11:54.258 So they have this like whole big thing where they're like, monkey shine be here. 00:11:54.317 --> 00:11:58.878 And like, you don't even see any of the characters for the first, like whatever, 10, 12 seconds. 00:11:58.908 --> 00:11:59.317 Right. 00:11:59.837 --> 00:12:00.827 Just like an ad. 00:12:00.888 --> 00:12:01.307 Yeah. 00:12:01.307 --> 00:12:03.827 You could be watching it and being like, oh, it's an ad. 00:12:03.827 --> 00:12:06.288 Like in the same way that everything else has been for this, 00:12:06.587 --> 00:12:07.788 I feel like you just blew my mind. 00:12:08.087 --> 00:12:08.778 Well, thanks. 00:12:08.811 --> 00:12:09.500 It's a classic. 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:12.140 Like I feel like they're trying to make fun of beer commercials. 00:12:12.740 --> 00:12:13.850 That's what I was going to say. 00:12:13.880 --> 00:12:21.650 I feel like, I feel like this is literally what a beer commercial was in the nineties and into the two thousands 00:12:21.711 --> 00:12:23.120 and like also kind of, 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:25.160 and I was going to follow up with this. 00:12:25.160 --> 00:12:32.120 "What are beer commercials now?" Because I don't really watch commercials. 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:33.081 I don't watch TV. 00:12:33.081 --> 00:12:34.400 And so I don't watch commercials 00:12:34.520 --> 00:12:40.880 and none of my YouTube commercials, I don't drink neither of us drink so we don't really get any targeted alcoholics commercials. 00:12:40.941 --> 00:12:53.105 And I feel like, like on Instagram and stuff, if I do get a targeted ad or like a very un-targeted ad I feel like I end up getting like a hard alcohol commercials for whatever reason. 00:12:54.096 --> 00:12:55.926 Oh, it's probably because they know that I'm celiac. 00:12:55.985 --> 00:12:56.525 That's why. 00:12:57.365 --> 00:12:57.666 Okay. 00:12:57.666 --> 00:12:57.966 Anyway, 00:12:58.206 --> 00:12:58.816 so sad 00:12:58.962 --> 00:13:07.438 but yeah, so what I love in this scene is the line of Ross being like, oh, this reminds me of Marcel. 00:13:07.438 --> 00:13:30.178 And I love is like, this really just brings out like Phoebe and Monica and like a, like in a nutshell, the relationship with Marcel and also like ties into like Phoebe later on where he needs, like talking about this monkey, like, like you would a human where it's like big brown eyes and like little up pointed chin, like descriptive of like funky 00:13:30.178 --> 00:13:35.458 and Monica is just like so dry and cynical and like, and also the fact that they're both monkeys, 00:13:37.448 --> 00:13:39.149 it's just like, okay, well, it's great. 00:13:39.389 --> 00:13:42.359 I wrote in my notes, I said, Rachel's hair is so cute here. 00:13:42.359 --> 00:13:42.958 Cause I don't know. 00:13:42.989 --> 00:13:45.778 It's like, it almost looks like she like just got it. 00:13:45.778 --> 00:13:50.339 Freshly cut and like freshly blown out, like it's super volumous and like. 00:13:51.224 --> 00:13:53.413 It's just, I'm like, damn, that's pretty. 00:13:53.533 --> 00:13:53.774 Okay. 00:13:53.793 --> 00:13:58.063 So that this is actually something I noticed in both of these episodes. 00:13:58.063 --> 00:14:02.953 And I actually have a note in my thing where it was just like the hair is so volumous, 00:14:03.014 --> 00:14:05.504 They definitely put so much more money into this episode. 00:14:05.504 --> 00:14:08.083 You can tell, their hair is better. 00:14:08.183 --> 00:14:09.833 Their outfits when they're outside. 00:14:09.833 --> 00:14:13.224 I just kept being like, damn, like it's January, but I want it to be fall. 00:14:13.224 --> 00:14:16.403 Like these outfits are so like OnPoint for like fall weather. 00:14:16.403 --> 00:14:20.573 And like, they just like, look Montreal, fall New York, winter. 00:14:20.586 --> 00:14:23.676 Like they're just like really, really cute outfits. 00:14:23.676 --> 00:14:29.525 And they like clearly put a lot of money into like makeup and hair and high quality cast. 00:14:30.365 --> 00:14:30.635 Yeah. 00:14:30.696 --> 00:14:36.546 The amount of like big names in this episode or the, in these two episodes is pretty wild. 00:14:36.625 --> 00:14:39.145 I do think that they are a little bit self-aware here. 00:14:39.145 --> 00:14:46.534 With the, monkey shine, beer advertisement, I think like it's this kind of making fun of beer advertisements and then. 00:14:47.235 --> 00:14:50.384 , cause Ross says like, oh, this up, this thing always makes me so sad. 00:14:50.445 --> 00:14:52.865 And Joey turning around and being like, yeah. 00:14:52.894 --> 00:14:55.565 But like then all those girls come and everything seems to work out. 00:14:55.565 --> 00:14:56.044 Okay. 00:14:56.865 --> 00:15:06.254 I feel like that's like out of self-awareness of like how ridiculous these beer commercials are, you know, it's like, it almost feels like the only time they're self-aware 00:15:06.317 --> 00:15:07.799 F.R.I.E.N.D.S trying to be woke. 00:15:08.490 --> 00:15:10.830 No, never, never tried. 00:15:10.812 --> 00:15:13.479 So then our next scene is that we're at central perk. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:18.725 Joey walks in, he's carrying his first fan mail from Erica Ford. 00:15:18.763 --> 00:15:21.133 It has 14 eyelashes inside of it. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:26.865 Which makes you think a little bit of like the first episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S where Phoebe says, oh, I just pulled out four eyelashes. 00:15:26.894 --> 00:15:27.884 That can't be good. 00:15:29.294 --> 00:15:34.754 And I was like, I was imagining he putting them in an envelope and sending them off to someone and I feel like she would, 00:15:35.085 --> 00:15:36.674 Yeah, she, she could, 00:15:37.125 --> 00:15:40.125 she's definitely given someone, her saliva in a bag before you see that later. 00:15:40.424 --> 00:15:42.884 At one point had like toenail clippings or something. 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:44.789 Anyway, 00:15:45.299 --> 00:15:54.179 but this is like the beginning of when they start using the terms, like crazy whack job weirdo, like throughout the rest of the episode. 00:15:54.179 --> 00:16:01.980 So when Chandler says like an crazy world, that means you're married in reference to like the 14 eyelashes, 00:16:02.059 --> 00:16:02.690 Right. 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.351 So that Monica reads the letter and essentially it has like the 14 eyelashes. 00:16:06.381 --> 00:16:12.711 And then they realized that that this letter was written to Joey's home address 00:16:13.231 --> 00:16:14.101 with no stamp on it 00:16:14.131 --> 00:16:19.172 So the person literally came into the building, knows exactly where Joey lives made their way over. 00:16:19.241 --> 00:16:27.451 And I guess also implies that they're like local or at least has been recently local and probably is still currently local it's really. 00:16:27.488 --> 00:16:31.268 And yeah, and, you know, stockers let's be real, like 00:16:32.258 --> 00:16:32.648 are real 00:16:32.707 --> 00:16:35.528 is yeah, they, they are real. 00:16:35.629 --> 00:16:39.668 And it also is a very scary thing to experience. 00:16:39.769 --> 00:16:46.823 So there's like a certain amount of like being fearful that makes sense at this point being concerned, 00:16:46.854 --> 00:16:48.744 well, Joey, you seem too concerned at first. 00:16:48.744 --> 00:16:51.894 He's like, I have my very own stocker, like you stoked about it. 00:16:52.163 --> 00:16:58.403 And I think there's like a deleted part of this episode where he literally said where Joey says the line, remember we talked about those things. 00:16:58.403 --> 00:17:01.764 Like, some things are good or somethings are bad or something along those lines. 00:17:01.764 --> 00:17:04.074 Like he has this line of like, this is not a good thing. 00:17:04.103 --> 00:17:04.702 But yeah. 00:17:04.721 --> 00:17:09.259 And then Ross comes in with a suitcase he's going off to travel the world. 00:17:09.251 --> 00:17:16.006 But it's actually just going to LA for San Diego LA going to LA for a conference. 00:17:16.586 --> 00:17:18.226 I have the script in front of me, folks. 00:17:18.256 --> 00:17:18.796 Amazing. 00:17:18.826 --> 00:17:19.516 I don't right. 00:17:19.605 --> 00:17:22.036 I was trying really hard to be prepared today. 00:17:22.215 --> 00:17:25.846 I have, I have a note in front of me that says, oh, Ross has gel. 00:17:26.145 --> 00:17:26.776 It's really rough. 00:17:26.776 --> 00:17:27.435 In this episode. 00:17:27.435 --> 00:17:29.536 He's like hella jelling hard. 00:17:30.615 --> 00:17:36.026 Like they really went all out on everyone's hair, including Ross they splurged on extra gel. 00:17:36.046 --> 00:17:44.266 Like literally you look at him and you could imagine touching his hair and feeling the crunch that like nineties gel crunch. 00:17:44.655 --> 00:17:44.955 Yeah. 00:17:44.986 --> 00:17:45.885 Oh my God. 00:17:45.935 --> 00:17:50.496 People, do you have memories of like the nineties gel hair crunch? 00:17:51.036 --> 00:17:51.455 Real. 00:17:51.705 --> 00:17:52.925 I definitely have that. 00:17:52.998 --> 00:17:54.798 So the next thing happens, 00:17:55.508 --> 00:17:56.077 who walks in? 00:17:56.077 --> 00:17:57.127 Is Chris Isaac? 00:17:57.208 --> 00:17:58.958 Emilie, can you tell us a little bit about Chris Isaac? 00:17:59.448 --> 00:18:09.048 Chris Isaac is a singer songwriter and he sings a song called we could game, which is really, really well known. 00:18:09.048 --> 00:18:09.768 And actually, 00:18:09.768 --> 00:18:11.748 Emilie, can you sing it for us? 00:18:12.647 --> 00:18:13.218 Oh gosh. 00:18:13.248 --> 00:18:13.607 No. 00:18:13.647 --> 00:18:14.028 Damnit! 00:18:14.432 --> 00:18:18.542 But he is, I do you do this part about Chris Isaac? 00:18:18.573 --> 00:18:22.542 The fact that , the song Wicked Game shows up in a later episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 00:18:22.722 --> 00:18:25.032 Oh, I didn't know that! Emilie (she/her): Shows up. 00:18:26.587 --> 00:18:28.357 I can't even say the name of the episodes. 00:18:28.357 --> 00:18:29.077 It's a spoiler. 00:18:29.127 --> 00:18:36.448 But basically it shows up in an episode in which it's a turning point in two people's relationship. 00:18:36.958 --> 00:18:38.458 I think I know what you're talking about. 00:18:38.488 --> 00:18:44.097 Is there a radio's involved and like looking through a window with it raining outside? 00:18:44.337 --> 00:18:44.428 No. 00:18:44.428 --> 00:18:45.387 Did that already happen? 00:18:46.377 --> 00:18:47.307 Oh yeah, that already happened. 00:18:49.377 --> 00:18:49.827 Whoops. 00:18:49.869 --> 00:18:51.730 Oh, you're thinking of the U2 song. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.119 That's 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:52.569 right 00:18:52.569 --> 00:18:53.289 With or Without You. 00:18:53.324 --> 00:19:03.614 So I also, I guess I wanted to point this out right at the beginning of entering the scene because very soon he's going to make the statement of, I don't know anything about music. 00:19:05.894 --> 00:19:08.173 He's like a famous musician. 00:19:08.233 --> 00:19:10.243 He lying, he knows a lot about music. 00:19:11.023 --> 00:19:18.604 I also want to point out that his face feels like he was a cartoon originally. 00:19:18.844 --> 00:19:21.243 And then someone turned him into a real boy, 00:19:21.544 --> 00:19:23.253 his face with the hair combo. 00:19:23.253 --> 00:19:24.903 I'm looking at the photo combo. 00:19:24.903 --> 00:19:27.243 And then his, like his hair line was got 00:19:27.243 --> 00:19:29.374 like very harsh jaw and eyebrows, 00:19:29.554 --> 00:19:34.874 very angular, but then also very bulbous nose and like with a lot of different like details to it. 00:19:35.433 --> 00:19:42.078 Like I just, I feel like every time I watched them, I'm just like, You're a cartoon that keeps life interesting. 00:19:42.239 --> 00:19:42.648 Very fun. 00:19:42.648 --> 00:19:47.538 I also think that the scene is so freaking cute with Phoebe where she's like, like, and they all get in on it too. 00:19:47.538 --> 00:19:54.528 Like, it's this cute, like moment of them being like coming, trying to support her in her quest, this is really cute. 00:19:54.979 --> 00:19:57.618 And then she like turns around and goes to heeeellllo 00:19:58.169 --> 00:19:59.189 I think it would catch everyone up. 00:19:59.219 --> 00:20:03.251 So he walks in and then she's like, okay, everyone pretend that I just told you something really funny. 00:20:03.332 --> 00:20:03.662 Okay. 00:20:03.662 --> 00:20:06.182 Now and everyone laughs and I'm like, wow. 00:20:06.221 --> 00:20:09.662 Only I wish that we had that sort of chemistry to pull that off. 00:20:09.961 --> 00:20:12.092 I feel that our life is not always scripted. 00:20:13.201 --> 00:20:17.912 I feel like if you would, or I would do that to each other, one of us would be like, huh, what 00:20:20.592 --> 00:20:24.882 We would say that probably about 15 seconds after the request is made because we were too busy. 00:20:24.882 --> 00:20:25.872 Not paying attention. 00:20:27.281 --> 00:20:34.872 Let's move along to the next scene where it Chandler and Joey's apartment and they're just standing around in the kitchen as they do 00:20:34.886 --> 00:20:35.290 classic. 00:20:35.411 --> 00:20:36.340 What do you wanna do for dinner? 00:20:36.369 --> 00:20:38.156 And the buzzer goes off. 00:20:39.057 --> 00:20:40.047 Turns out is Erica 00:20:40.707 --> 00:20:41.426 Erica Ford, 00:20:41.876 --> 00:20:42.656 Erica Ford. 00:20:42.777 --> 00:20:45.116 This is like one of my favorite scenes in F.R.I.E.N.D.S. 00:20:45.153 --> 00:20:47.792 Not like before she walks in, like right. 00:20:47.853 --> 00:20:50.472 Them just coming into this major panic mode. 00:20:50.472 --> 00:20:54.012 Like not knowing how to be humans basically. 00:20:54.323 --> 00:20:58.853 I think this, this scene itself could be a skit. 00:20:59.303 --> 00:21:04.163 It's just, it's just so jam packed with like so much goodness and excellent. 00:21:04.192 --> 00:21:07.133 Like their characters in a nutshell, like it should just, yeah. 00:21:07.163 --> 00:21:17.452 I like grabbing the frying pan and then, Chandler making the joke about like, they're not in a cartoon and then trying to run out the door and frantically going, like the one time they're not home. 00:21:17.452 --> 00:21:19.823 And then, you know, trying to go downstairs. 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:23.519 Like avoid her, which they never think to go upstairs. 00:21:23.940 --> 00:21:24.569 Yes. 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:26.430 It bothers me every time. 00:21:27.089 --> 00:21:28.109 No sense. 00:21:28.650 --> 00:21:35.329 And especially cause it's like in future, we find out there is like a roof, you know, like that people can go on to too. 00:21:35.430 --> 00:21:41.579 So it's like extra frustrating that like, they don't just like run, run up to the roof and hide there. 00:21:41.609 --> 00:21:41.970 Right. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.569 And also like you could just lock your door and not answer it too. 00:21:45.569 --> 00:21:52.769 Like, oh my God, they just put, they can just go through like this major peg and like, don't know how to deal with anything. 00:21:52.769 --> 00:21:56.759 And then he's like, he's like, I'll just run by her. 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:03.329 And cause we never met in person Chandler is like, that's how radios radio stars, escape stalker, 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:04.710 which is so good. 00:22:04.769 --> 00:22:09.900 And it also makes no sense because a radio star stalker would definitely also know, look up what they look like. 00:22:09.980 --> 00:22:12.380 I mean, this was a time before social media 00:22:13.700 --> 00:22:15.740 and websites, I guess maybe. 00:22:15.789 --> 00:22:19.483 Chandler doesn't get a computer until the end of, this season 00:22:19.483 --> 00:22:24.650 true if you're looking things up is a little bit less of a thing, like pulling out your Encyclopedia 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:26.809 we practically are in the radio era. 00:22:26.970 --> 00:22:27.329 Emilie. 00:22:27.380 --> 00:22:27.900 That's true. 00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:28.329 Just kidding 00:22:28.364 --> 00:22:39.023 Yeah, and then eventually like running back in and like Chandler grabbing the soap and clicking the soap open, like it's just a 30 second or minute of like pure, excellent writing and acting. 00:22:39.114 --> 00:22:40.713 And the execution is great. 00:22:40.814 --> 00:22:41.584 Opening the soap. 00:22:41.580 --> 00:22:53.701 And so then they're all freaking out and then there's an actual knock at the door and they open it up and it ends up being Erica Ford and Erica Ford is played by Brooke shields. 00:22:53.730 --> 00:23:02.712 And you know, if you don't know who Brooke shields is, she's this beautiful, beautiful, very famous actor from, I guess, who was originally famous around that time, right? 00:23:02.753 --> 00:23:05.693 What was, what, like, did she do that made her famous? 00:23:05.693 --> 00:23:09.413