老友记的经典笑料

维基百科，自由的百科全书

老友记在整部剧中制造了很多经典笑料，其中一些甚至都变成了一种流行的文化，如Chandler的"Could this be any more..."或者Janice的"Oh my God"。其中一些最有名的列在下面。

目录 1 Monica 2 Phoebe 3 Ross 4 Chandler 5 Joey 6 Rachel 7 Ross and Chandler 8 Monica and Chandler 9 Joey and Chandler 10 The Geller family 11 Other characters 12 Miscellaneous

[编辑] Monica

• Obesity: Monica Geller, now slim, was obese as a child. She and the other characters refer to her "fat past", and she is depicted as overweight in several flashbacks throughout the series. She is also supposed to have "big clown feet" as mentioned by Rachel in "The One on the Last Night". There is no clear indication as to at what point she became overweight; several episodes suggest she developed her obesity as early as kindergarten, while another episode shows a home movie of her clearly after that point as thin. She gives one hint in "The One Where Rachel Quits", saying she started to gain weight when her Girl Scout-esque scout troop started selling cookies as a fundraiser. When she first meets Chandler during Thanksgiving her senior year in high school, he upsets her by calling her fat. By the following Thanksgiving, she has lost a considerable amount of weight. It is later revealed that Monica used to be a goalie in field hockey, and her nickname was "Big Fat Goalie". On more than one occasion, we see a running visual gag of 'Fat Monica' dancing. This is also the sole gag in the closing credits of two separate episodes.
• Obsessive-compulsive behavior: While there is no medical diagnosis to point out she has such, Monica has continuously exhibited various traits of an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, including obsession with cleanliness, refusal to relinquish control over anything, excessive categorization and organization, intense competitiveness, and the desire to be liked. Her competitiveness can be observed in the episode in which she is playing tennis with Chandler's boss and his wife: when Chandler suggests that they should let them win, she replies, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you just said." In another instance, Rachel, who is moving out of the apartment, offers Monica a chance to pack her belongings for her, presenting the offer as a goodbye present, which Monica gladly accepts. In " The One In Barbados" Monica is playing ping-pong with Mike. After hours of play and the scores tied again, Chandler suggests that they end the game, but Monica replies, "When you married me you agreed to take me in sickness and in health... well this is my sickness!" (referring to the need to win). In addition, the show has many references to Monica cleaning her apartment, or any other location she's in. When Ross dates a woman with a filthy apartment, Monica shows up at the woman's place begging for the chance to clean it, claiming that she hasn't been able to sleep since hearing about it. In another episode, Phoebe pretends to like Chandler to force him to admit his love for Monica. Monica is hiding in the bathroom and cleans it while she's in there. Also during season 10 Monica is vacuuming the apartment, once finishing she cleans the vacuum cleaner with a smaller vacuum cleaner then states "if only there were a smaller one to clean this one!" In a late episode of the series, a door in her apartment (previously an inconspicuous part of the set) is revealed to be Monica's secret closet of shame. It contains a monstrous pile of clutter she has accumulated over the years. However, when Chandler suggests that they both use the closet, she's worried that "[He]'ll mess it up". In Season 6, it was revealed that Monica bought an entire package of car cleaning supplies to clean a car she found dirty on the street. She then cleaned six others as well. When Chandler and Joey swap apartments with her, everyone goes over to Joey and Chandler's new apartment as it is bigger and nicer. She invites people over, insistent on being, 'Always the hostess'.
• Freakishly strong: Monica's strength is referred to in several instances. In one episode, she beats Chandler in an arm wrestling match (though this might just be evidence of his weakness). In another, when Ross asks Rachel to recruit some extra help in moving his couch, she comes back with Chandler, remarking that Joey wasn't available, so she got the next best thing. Ross comments that "the next best thing would have been Monica," to which Chandler replies "I might be offended by that, but Monica is freakishly strong." In one episode, Monica pins Rachel to the ground and Rachel remarks "Wow, you really are freakishly strong." Another reference was how she would always beat Ross in wrestling matches as a child, even to the extreme of Monica beating him up (" The One With the Bullies"). That was more likely due to her weight rather than her strength. It is more likely her strength is more recently acquired due to athletic activity (also helping to explain her weight loss). During the series finale, Monica volunteers to break up the foosball table to rescue the (new) chick and duck who were trapped inside. The audience does not see her accomplish this, but allegedly it was mostly done without using any tools (claiming that "they were just holding [her] back!").
• “I know!”: Monica often uses that short phrase, emphasizing it in her already-loud voice.
• "Noooo!": Monica's reaction when she receives surprising news, usually shouted at a loud shrill tone. One example is in Season 4, when she and Rachel lose their larger, more luxurious apartment by one question ("What is Chandler Bing’s job?") to Chandler and Joey during a game centering on which pair knows more about the other. Another example is in Season 6, when she listens to a message that she knows Chandler heard concerning a room becoming available for their possible wedding.
• Need for a baby: Throughout the series, Monica has always expressed the fact that she wanted a baby. In almost every episode that involved someone giving birth, Monica having babies was mentioned. In The One with the Jam Monica files for a sperm donation, but decides against it when Joey tells her what he thought her life would be like, which includes her with a husband.
• Is that why I don't have a boyfriend ?: Monica said that sentence several times during the show's early season anytime somebody said something mean about her. It disappeared after she got together with Dr. Richard Burke and was never brought up again as she soon married Chandler.

[编辑] Phoebe

• Previous way of life: It is often mentioned that Phoebe Buffay once lived on the street, and her strange former friends often come up. Various facts from her childhood are revealed throughout the show, such as that she "stabbed a cop", had a pimp spit in her mouth (from which she contracted Hepatitis, but eventually "got over it"), had lived in Prague, and even mugged Ross when they were 14. She has apparently also spent time in jail or prison and at one point lived on a barge. In addition to those, Phoebe is known for holding grudges for an extended period against people who have "betrayed" her. Notable examples of this are her feud with her twin sister, Ursula, her ex-singing partner for leaving her to write jingles for an advertising firm (and using the music to "Smelly Cat" in a cat litter commercial), and her birth mother for not looking for her after giving her up for adoption. When a cop asks her out and brings up her criminal record, she says they'll talk about it at dinner, so while she may be comfortable mentioning some events in front of friends, she apparently prefers not to disclose all the details.
• Music: Phoebe was often a musician at Central Perk and was known for her original songs. Some include: "Jingle Bitch Screwed Me Over", "Ode to a Pubic Hair", "Bisexuals", "The Barnyard Song" (in which she graphically describes farm animals being turned into meat products to a group of young children), and, her most famous song, "Smelly Cat". She also sometimes includes her friends in her songs. For instance, in "The Holiday Song," she sings a short line to every friend (although she is unable to come up with words to rhyme with Rachel and Chandler).
• Regina Phalange: Phoebe's alter ego, to whom she regularly makes references (similar to Art Vandelay on Seinfeld and Anastasia Beaverhausen on Will & Grace). In the "The Last One", she stops Rachel's plane by telling her the plane has something wrong with its left phalange. She is sometimes "Doctor Regina Phalange" and once "Régine Philange". The name first appears in Season 4 in "The One with Ross's Wedding". The friends (except for Phoebe, because of her pregnancy) are in London for Ross' wedding to Emily. Phoebe uses the name Dr. Phalange when she calls Emily's step-mum to try and explain away Ross using the wrong name at the alter as a problem with his medication.
• Dead mother: Phoebe often references her mother's suicide in various situations on the show, usually as an excuse. This continues even when she discover that this "mom" was in fact not her birth mom. For example, when Ross questions her on why she's never tried taffy, "Well, my mother was too busy planning her suicide to provide saltwater treats." Another exchange about her mother begins: "My mother was killed by a drug dealer." Then, when Monica says, "Phoebe, I thought your mom killed herself," Phoebe replies, "She was a drug dealer!" Another example occurs when she forgets to invite Rachel's mother to her baby shower: "Well, since my mother committed suicide, I tend to forget to invite them to functions." Also in Season 9, when Phoebe and Rachel are fighting over the cell phone left by the hot guy, she attempts to use it as a reason why Rachel should let her have the cell phone, to which Rachel replies, "Oh, you already used that to get the last muffin."
• Sexuality: Allusions are made throughout the series to Phoebe's unorthodox sexuality. Although she only explicitly dates men in the series, her appreciation for women is revealed when she comments that Monica has "the breasts of a Greek goddess," and when she kisses Rachel "to see what all the fuss was about" ("The One With Rachel's Big Kiss"). She is also driven speechless by the beauty of Ross and Monica's cousin Cassie. References are also made for Phoebe's apparent penchant for BDSM, in particular during her relationship with Mike. At one point Chandler even asks if Phoebe really chains people up in her sexual practices, to which Phoebe replies while laughing, "Where do you think Mike really is?"
• Animal Rights: Phoebe is a vegetarian and is against the use of fur for fashion. In one episode, she even named and fed a family of rats living in her apartment. At times, however, her beliefs are challenged. At one point, Phoebe receives a mink coat as a family heirloom, but debates whether or not to keep such a beautiful coat (she ends up giving it to a stranger on the street). When she is pregnant, Phoebe is distressed that "The babies want meat!" and is only able to eat meat when Joey volunteers to give up meat while she is pregnant to balance her eating meat, explaining, "No extra animals would die; you'd just be eating my animals." In another incident, Phoebe breaks up with her cop boyfriend, Gary, when he shoots a bird. However, she once comments, "Vegetarians never get to do the wishbone! Just because we don't eat meat, doesn't mean we don't like to play with the carcasses."
• Feelings for Joey: Phoebe sometimes shows hints of feelings towards Joey, although nothing ever really happened between the two of them. For example, in "The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding" Joey asks the three girls of the group to kiss him, and Phoebe is the only one to oblige, saying, "I've kissed him once, I might as well do it again". Also, when she covers up for Rachel by saying she is pregnant in "The One After 'I Do'", Joey, thinking she's pregnant, asks her to marry him and she hastily answers yes. When Joey finds out and takes the ring off her, she appears upset and annoyed. In an interview Lisa revealed that both she and Matt le Blanc (Joey) suggested that Phoebe and Joey were having casual sex without the others knowing. The writers didn't agree however.
• "Oh, no": Phoebe often says this in always the same childish way when something goes wrong or when she realizes she did something stupid.
• Whispering and answering rhetorical questions: When someone says something surprising or stupid that makes the other friends say "What?!" (usually Ross), Phoebe thinks they didn't understand and whispers them what the other said. For example, once Rachel said "We (her and Barry) end up having sex on his chair"; Ross says "What? You had what?!?", to which Phoebe whispers "sex on his chair!".

[编辑] Ross

• Marriage & Divorce: Ross Geller is divorced when the show begins and later has two marriages that both also end in divorce. Many gags from Season 6 imply that Ross will likely marry any girl he has any form of a relationship with and is equally as likely to break up with her after marriage. When Rachel gets pregnant with Ross' baby, he says that getting married "is the right thing to do", to which Rachel responds, "Because that's your answer to everything?" Also in one episode Phoebe and Ross discuss nicknames for him, including Divorco, Divorcer and Ross the Divorce Force.
• Speech: Ross speaks oddly, leaving long pauses in sentences and using words like "hello" and "like". When talking about Russ (an uncannily similar character, also played by David Schwimmer in heavy make-up, credited as Snaro), he exclaims "It takes that guy...like, hello, what, like, a, uh, week to get out a sentence", to which Chandler replies "Annoying, isn't it?" and Ross says "heh, uh, (pause) wheeze yeah." Ross also tends to over pronounce words, as suggested by Chandler in "The One With the Thumb".
• "We were on a BREAK!": A major event of Season 3 was when Rachel and Ross, a couple at the time, were having a major fight and subsequently decided to go "on a break" in their relationship. As a result, the depressed (and drunk) Ross sleeps with another woman; his resulting guilt and Rachel's resulting resentment resonate for many seasons to come. Whenever someone (often Rachel herself) brings up Ross's one night stand, he defensively yells, "We were on a BREAK!" (ironically, it was Rachel who used this term in their original fight). In a fantasy episode showing the paths the characters' lives might have taken if they'd made different choices, a married Rachel wants to sleep with soap opera star Joey and wishes she could "just not be married for a little while - like, be on a break." In the episode where Chandler breaks up with Kathy, Rachel says, "An argument is no excuse for her to sleep with someone else," to which Ross replies, "Well, if she thought they were on a break...." In the episode "The One With The Girl Who Hits Joey", when Chandler panics after having a fight with Monica and asks her to marry him, at the end of the show everyone is teasing him by apologizing to another of the group for some past "wrong", followed by asking them to marry them...Ross turns to Rachel and says "Hey Rach, you know that whole 'we were on a break thing', well, I'm sorry, will you marry me?"...everyone pauses a minute, and then all get up to leave as Chandler states "That wasn't funny"; In a later episode, Ross is diapering his and Rachel's daughter, Emma, and tells her, "So that's why, no matter what Mommy says, we really were on a break." Rachel at one point babysits Ben, telling him that the two of them used to hang out all the time because "I was your daddy's girlfriend", to which Ben replies, "Well you're not any more...'Cause you guys were on a break." In the final episode, Rachel and Ross decide that this time their relationship is on once and for all, and they are done being stupid, to which Ross jokingly replies, "Unless we're on a break."
• Ph.D.: Ross has a doctoral degree in paleontology, and is not a physician. Many times, this leads to misunderstandings, especially since Ross is always keen on presenting himself as Dr. Geller. Rachel is always happy to point out the difference, as seen in one episode; Rachel makes up a hypothetical situation when she has a heart attack in a restaurant, and she says she wants Ross to be there "with his fossil brush".
• Dinosaur Stories: Ross often tries to tell the rest of the gang about his work as a paleontologist, but they are uninterested and sometimes pretend to fall asleep when Ross starts telling one of his dinosaur stories. At one point, Monica wonders whether Ross's dinosaur stories will ever "become extinct". Also, in "The One Where Chandler Gets Caught", Rachel reminds Phoebe that Phoebe once thought that Ross was trying to kill her, to which Phoebe replies, "I'm sorry, but it's hard to believe that anyone would tell a story that dull just to tell it!" In "The One Where No One's Ready", Rachel, unable to decide what to wear to a benefit at the museum where Ross works, steps out of her bedroom with an outfit and asks the others, "Does this look like something the girlfriend of a paleontologist might wear?", to which Phoebe replies, "I don't know, you might be the first one."
• Double Entendres: Ross tends to make unfortunate comments that imply that he is perverted. This can lead to disgust and confusion from those around him. For example, when trying to flirt with a pizza girl who claims her hair resembles "an eight-year-old boy's", Ross says, "I happen to like eight-year-old boys". He was trying to give here a compliment saying that her hair looked good. When she seemed freaked out he said this and also said, "You know I don't actually like eight-year-boys." Another time he offers Rachel's boss free museum tours for his son "after everyone else has left, just the two of us, and he can touch anything he wants." He later rectifies this by saying, "I'm a paleontologist, you'll be there too, and the touching refers only to bones...FOSSILS!" When buying a new sofa, he says that it has to say "Kids are welcome", but at the same time (seductively) "Come here to me", to which Rachel exclaims, shocked, "You say that to kids?!?" Also, when Ross dates Elizabeth (one of his students), he meets her dad, Paul (played by Bruce Willis). Paul says to Ross that he still thinks of her as a 12 year old, to which Ross replies "I do the same thing", referring to the fact that he has a son.
• "...Hi...": When Ross is depressed or has some sort of problem he'll always show up to Monica's apartment or the coffee house. When the door opens he says in a dry, low, and almost incomprehensible voice, "...Hi...", in order to be asked about what is wrong so he can tell them. When Ross says "...Hi..." in "The Pilot", Joey responds, "This guy says hello, I wanna kill myself."
• Girls' Names: The similar names Emily/Emma frequently come up in relation to Ross. In a Season 2 episode, Ross tells Rachel that he is planning on naming their future daughter Emily. Later, Ross meets and marries (and subsequently divorces) Emily Waltham. When Ross and Rachel's daughter is born, they name her Emma. Emma is repeatedly referred to as "Emily", among other names, by Rachel's sister Amy, played by Christina Applegate.
• Female Ross: Many references have been made to question Ross's gender identity. In particular, "The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel", shows a home video of Ross dressed up as "Bea" and hosting a tea party. In "The One with Ross's Teeth", he is seen applying makeup, which Monica suggested and to which he initially replied, "No, we're not 13 anymore". Ross is also mentioned to appear female during childhood in "The One Where Nana Dies Twice", in which a childhood photograph originally thought to be of Monica naked was actually Ross "trying something", and "The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner", in which Ross's mother told Rachel he used to "tuck his willy between his legs" to imply that he was female so he could go with her to the beauty parlor. In Season 7 episode 13: The One Where Rosita Dies, Ross and Monica go to their parents house to collect their childhood stuff because their parents are selling the house and Jack (their dad) finds a clown make-up kit in Ross' stuff and says, "There's your make-up kit". Ross responds saying "It's a clown kit" to which Jack says "Well, the white is almost unused".
• Jealousy: Ross has often appeared to show a large amount of jealousy when whoever he is dating is associated with a another man, which was pointed out by Phoebe, who blames Carol for his behavior; especially when Monica stated that before Carol, he trusted his previous girlfriends no matter how many times they cheated on him.

Some examples:

-Rachel: When Rachel found a new job, she befriends her coworker Mark. This worries Ross and begins to shower her with gifts and visits to make sure Mark (who was actually dating somebody else) stays away from her. In the episode when Phoebe confronted him, Ross becomes aware of his jealous ways, yet states "I still think I was right about the whole "Mark" thing though." Ross mentioning Mark several times was the main factor that broke down his relationship with Rachel.

-Elizabeth: When Elizabeth was going on a spring break party on a beach (which was seen fictionally in MTV), Ross begins to worry about her skinny outfits; he then decides to let it go. But in the airport, he sees that all her friends are male. He then decides to join her to make sure no one gets to her.

-Emily: Ross was badly worried when Emily went on a trip with Carol's lover Susan, afraid that Emily might become a lesbian.

[编辑] Chandler

• Sexuality: Chandler Bing is often painted with the possibility of being gay, despite his determination to prove himself as the heterosexual he actually was. Various characters on the show assumed that he was gay when they first met him; in the episode "The One Where Nana Dies Twice," Chandler is told by his friends and co-workers that he has "a quality" that makes him seem somewhat gay. In addition, Chandler's father is both a transvestite and a male burlesque dancer, which may have been the cause of some of Chandler's feminine behavioral traits (as well as the middle name "Muriel," although he claims it's a family name). One of Chandler's first phrases on Friends is "Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian...wait, did I say that out loud?" He also makes the unfinished statement "If I were a guy...", followed by "Did I just say if I were a guy?". In the episode "The One Where Nana Dies Twice", when they all dress up to go to the funeral of Ross and Monica's grandmother, Chandler says "Don't we look nice all dressed up!", and then realizes the impact of his statement and says "It's stuff like that, isn't it?". Chandler himself, however, is aware of this and occasionally makes fun of himself, claiming that, when Phoebe is reading tea leaves, his leaves resemble The Village People. When Chandler returns from a secret holiday with Monica, Joey receives a phone call about an eyelash curler being left in their room which Chandler says is his, prompting Joey to ask "Were you, or were you not, on a gay cruise?" In the episode "The One That Could Have Been", there are also many jokes about the fact that Chandler has only been with four women, which turn out to be only one woman in the end. (However, this should not be considered canon, because "The One That Could Have Been" is a "what if?" episode in an alternate timeline.) In the episode "The One With the Girl from Poughkeepsie", Chandler asks men if they want do date Rachel, inviting the first one with, "Are you dating anyone? I'm not asking for me, of course, I'm not gay", to which he replies, "I didn't think you were gay. I do now." In another episode, the girls asked all three guys who their boyfriend would be, if they had to pick one of the other male friends. Chandler was the only one who gave an answer (Phoebe was the only one to answer a similar question about the female friends).
• Sarcasm and speech: Chandler often drops snide remarks, typically in response to the actions of his friends. As one of his resolutions in "The One with All the Resolutions", he must not make fun of his friends. He isn't able to, and he ends up blurting out a chain of jokes towards his friends, some of which make fun of their own resolutions. He is also fond of rhetorical questions along the lines of "Could [noun(s)] be any more [adjective]?" Joey occasionally makes fun of this trait; such as when he puts on all of Chandler's clothes and says, "Could I be wearing any more clothes?" Once, when Chandler and Ross are arguing, Joey writes a script (with the goal of reconciling them) and asks for their help acting it out. One of Chandler's lines in the script is "Could I be more sorry?". In another episode, Phoebe tells Chandler that his subordinates at work imitate his speech: "Could this report be any later?" He is also unable to pronounce onomatopoeia correctly.
• Smoking: In early seasons, Chandler had just quit being a heavy smoker, though he still smokes occasionally (but secretly) in later seasons, usually when he is stressed. He sometimes steals cigarette butts from ashtrays, hides packs of cigarettes in the toilet cistern, and smokes other people's cigarettes when they aren't looking. At one point, when told he smells of "perfume and cigarettes," he replies, "Well, the perfume's not mine; be thankful for that!" In one episode where Rachel begins smoking to impress her boss, Chandler exclaims, "You look sick and happy... you smoked!"
• Occupation: From the very beginning of the show the professions of each of the characters are quite clear, except for Chandler's (Statistical Analysis and Data Reconfiguration). He also jokes about his job. In "The Pilot", he told Rachel "If I don't input those numbers... it doesn't make much of a difference." This turns into a recurring joke, culminating in the episode "The One With the Embryos", in which Monica and Rachel lose their larger, more luxurious apartment to Chandler and Joey during a game centering on which pair knows more about the other. The question, "What is Chandler Bing’s job?" (to which Rachel answers transpondster), proves fatal to the girls' efforts and they are forced to trade apartments with the boys. In one Season 4 episode, Joey even implies that he thinks Chandler is an accountant ("You call yourself an accountant?" "No..."). Phoebe thinks that Chandler's company has robots, and in the same discussion, when Joey says, "You make food and robots?", she patiently answers, "No, the robots work for them!" It is clear from statements made by some of the characters during the series, however, that Chandler earns a lot more than his friends. After he and Joey lose all their furniture and appliances in a robbery in "The One With the Cat", Chandler is able to replace everything with new and better stuff. He does so out of guilt for going behind Joey's back and kissing his girlfriend Kathy in "The One Where Chandler Crosses the Line". When it turns out that Monica's parents have spent her wedding fund on a beach house and a kitchen renovation, Chandler has the money to pay for her dream wedding. In Season 9, when Chandler is forced to move to Tulsa for his job, he quits and finds a new career in advertising. Soon after he quits, Monica is able to say exactly what his old job was. Chandler is outraged because it wasn't until after he quit that somebody actually knew what his job was.
• His family: Chandler's family life was very unstable when he was a child. His parents divorced when he was young, telling him about it on Thanksgiving Day. His father is a drag queen, and his mother writes graphic adult novels, including one entitled "Mistress Bitch". She makes an appearance in "The One With Mrs. Bing". Chandler's father stars as the headliner in a gay Vegas show entitled "Viva Las Gay-gas," performing as "Helena Handbasket". Chandler hates his past, and while the details are not fully known, he has been quoted as saying "By age 7, kids have seen orgies. Was that just me?"; "They used the pool boy as a pawn in their sexual games!"; and after Phoebe says "Alright forget hypnosis. The way to quit smoking is you have to dance naked in a field of heather then bathe in the sweat of six healthy young men," Chandler replies, "Or what my father calls Thursday night." Ross also once says, "Have you ever put on a black cocktail dress and invited me up to your hotel room? Then you are neither of your parents." Chandler also once tells Monica that he used to be a showboy in his father's drag show, and (in an attempt to divert the topic of conversation) once says, "You know something funny? I once walked in on both my parents making love to the same man!" An early allusion to his family problems comes in the Pilot episode in which Chandler is describing a dream to his friends: "So there I am, in the school cafeteria naked, and I look down and there's a phone...there. And suddenly, it starts to ring, so I pick it up... and it's my mom, which is weird... because she never calls me."
• Thanksgiving: Chandler's hatred of Thanksgiving comes from his parents telling him of their divorce over Thanksgiving dinner. It becomes a repeated joke, with Joey saying, "It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without Chandler bumming us out", in "The One With All the Thanksgivings". This episode also cements his hatred of Thanksgiving, since it is revealed to be the day he lost a toe. However, his hatred diminishes somewhat after this, since it is the first time he tells Monica that he loves her.
• Breaking up with Janice: In Season 1, Chandler breaks up with Janice three times: once when he can't stand her anymore, once on New Year's Eve, and a final time on Valentine's Day. He starts every break up with "Janice... Janice... Hey, Janice," then proceeds with the break up. He finally escapes her in Season Four by claiming he has been transferred to Yemen by his company. Janice appears in every season (as a voice over in Season 6) and every time she is linked to Chandler, except one episode in which she dates Ross. Their past always comes up in relation to their "activities" as a couple.
• Commitment issues: For the early part of the show, Chandler often becomes anxious when one of his relationships (particularly those with Janice and Monica) show signs of moving to another level. He either takes things a step too far, such as in "The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel", in which he asks Janice to move in with him and take a trip with her parents, resulting in him chasing her down the street after her, or avoids the issue, as when Monica asks him when the two of them are going to have babies in "The One with Joey's Porsche". However, Chandler overcomes his issues, suggesting that he and Monica live together at the beginning of Season 6 and proposing at the end of Seasons 5 and 6. They get married at the end of Season 7. Also, in "The One with the Joke", when Monica has to decide whether Ross or Chandler is the author of a joke, Ross tells her "I'm your only brother", to which Chandler replies "I'm your only chance to have a baby", whispering to her later in the same fight,: "Two babies..."

[编辑] Joey

• How you Doin'?: This is Joey's pick-up line. It is first seen in "The One With Rachel's Crush," and Joey continues using it for the rest of the series, sometimes on Phoebe, Rachel, Monica, and even humorously on Chandler. Janine, his roommate after Chandler started living with Monica, is the only woman to resist the line (although they later get together). In the spin-off based on Joey, his sister mocks him, saying it's the only way Joey can pick up women, to which he replies, "Worked on every one of your friends!".
• Food: Joey has an enormous appetite and often eats food from Monica's refrigerator. In "The Last One" when everything is packed and Monica and Chandler are ready to leave, he asks Monica, "Does this mean there's nothing to eat?" He has a great love of sandwiches, and once eats an entire turkey on Thanksgiving. When ordering pizza, he asks for the "Joey special" (which is two pizzas). During Phoebe's pregnancy, he tells her that he won't eat meat until the babies are born. During the trip to London, he can't resist and eats meat. Food is also somewhat of a deal-breaker with women; he briefly dates a friend of Phoebe's, but breaks it off when she steals fries from his plate because "Joey doesn't share food!" He agrees to give her a second chance, but is angered when she won't let him take a bite of her dessert. Another time, when Monica is obsessed with making jam, Chandler asks Joey if he would prefer "the girl from the copy place, butt naked...or a big tub of jam," holding out his hands to emphasize the size. Joey replies, "Put your hands together." When asked if he would rather give up sex or food, Joey cannot decide, declaring "I want girls on bread!"
• Promiscuity: Joey is often portrayed as promiscuous. In one episode, Chandler says to Joey, "You've had a lot of sex, right?", to which Joey replies, "Today? Some...not a lot." His longest periods of dating one woman on the show are with Kathy and Rachel. A further joke is that the women he dates are often quite dumb; at one point Joey exclaims, "This is why I don't date girls who read!"
• Acting: Joey is an actor but rarely gets work in earlier seasons, either by the fault of his own abysmal acting or the fault of his agent. This tends to drive Joey into odd para-thespian jobs including cologne salesman, elf, game show host, and posterboy for VD. Another running joke is his role of "Dr. Drake Ramoray" on Days of Our Lives.
• Stupidity: Joey is easily the stupidest of the six friends. While not as evident early on in the series, by later seasons it is clear that he is not very bright, especially through his tendency to do stupid things. For instance, when Phoebe's taxi runs out of gas by the highway, he spells PLEH (HELP backwards) so rescuers will "be able to read it from the air." In the last season this character flaw is taken even further. For instance, Phoebe refers to him as "a little retarded" in "The One Where Joey Speaks French" because of his complete inability to learn French. During one of the last episodes, Rachel is moving to France and Joey is doing a coin toss to try to make her stay. He later laments, "Who loses 57 coin tosses in a row? Heads she wins, tails I lose!" In another episode, Chandler likes Joey's girlfriend, Kathy, and for her birthday gets her an early edition of her favorite book as a child. Since Joey is planning to give her a pen with a clock in it, Chandler gives the book to Joey to give to her. Kathy knows it's actually from Chandler, because the book is "The Velveteen Rabbit", and when Joey gave it to her he said he got it because he knows she likes rabbits and he knows she likes cheese (mistaking the title for Velveeta). Joey also thinks there are 56 states in the United States, including "South Oregon" but thinks that Ross made up Utah. Strangely, he appears to have a very good memory. For example, when Chandler gives him "Word of the Day" toilet paper, he remembers what he learns from it, at least for the course of the episode. Once, an encyclopedia seller manages to convince him to buy the "V" volume from his set. When Joey tries to show his knowledge, a conversation that was initially about the Vietnam War turns to one about a Korean War documentary, and Joey, once again, is forced to merely agree with what the others are saying. He is also completely unable to speak in a Southern accent, as the accent comes out Jamaican. Joey periodically has flashes of brilliance, such as when he explains to Ross that he can determine who his secret admirer is by comparing the handwriting on the anonymous teacher evaluations with the final exams. In another episode he correctly identifies Rachel's Pictionary drawing of a bean with some lines under it as The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Delayed reaction: If something happens or is said which uncovers a shocking fact about something or someone, Joey usually does not become aware of it until several seconds after everyone else. One example of this is when Ross identifies his own sweater, which had earlier been identified as belonging to the mystery father of Rachel's baby. Monica and Phoebe stand in shock at the revelation, while Joey remains happily oblivious for at least five seconds before suddenly realizing the implication of the discovery. Ironically, he also provides the biggest reaction of shock upon realization. When the girls switched the apartments back in Season 4 (after Chandler and Joey went to a Knicks game), the two guys enter their old apartment to make peace with the girls. Chandler instantly realizes the change, where Joey even gets a beer and sits down before knowing. Another good example is in the series finale when the friends are forewarned of a big surprise, and Monica brings in her and Chandler's baby, followed by Chandler carrying the unexpected twin. Everyone reacts with appropriate surprise except Joey, who is still wondering what the surprise is... until he counts the babies. Somewhat ironically, he is the first to discover Monica and Chandler's relationship.
• Pat the Dog: When Joey moves out in Season 2, he buys a big white ceramic dog along with some other animals. When he gets fired from Days of our Lives, he is unable to pay his overwhelming credit card debt and has to return everything he bought. Seeing how sad Joey was, Ross buys Joey the big white dog that he didn't actually like but only bought because it went with all the other animals ("I had a whole ceramic zoo going on over there"). He keeps it in his and Chandler's apartment until Season 6. When Chandler moves into Monica's apartment, Joey gives him the dog as a gift, and he keeps on the balcony. In the last scene of the series finale, Monica pays one of the movers to have it "accidentally" fall off the truck. In "The One that Could Have Been", the still-soap-opera-star Joey has the dog; this is the only time it is called Pat. (When Joey says the dog's name is "Pat", Rachel replies, "Pat the Dog...oh, I get it!")
• Lesbianism: Throughout the series, Joey has always liked hints of lesbianism. For instance, he gives his usual, "all right" expression upon seeing two women in an embrace and when Rachel tells him she once kissed another girl during college. When Monica and Phoebe are planning a surprise birthday party for Rachel, Monica says "Let's do it together", to which Phoebe replies, "Yeah, let's do it together!" Joey is sitting there laughing, saying, "They're gonna do it together!" Also, in "The One with the Flashback", when Joey learns from Ross that his wife is a lesbian, he enthusiastically replies, "Cool!"

[编辑] Rachel

• Nose Job: In flashbacks showing Rachel in high school, such as in "The One with the Prom Video" and the first flashback of the Season 5 Thanksgiving episode, "The One with All the Thanksgivings", Rachel is portrayed with a huge nose. In the second Thanksgiving flashback, where Rachel is in her first year of college, her nose is smaller, and Jack Geller compliments their mutual plastic surgeon. As an in-joke reference to Jennifer Aniston's real life medical condition, in one episode she claims the surgery was to repair a deviated septum. Rachel is terrified that Emma, her daughter, has inherited her real nose.
• Rich Background: Rachel's parents are extremely wealthy, and she had been spoiled all her life before she moved to the city. In "The Pilot", Rachel is surprised to learn that everyone else has a job and decides to "go get one of those job things." When her sister Jill visits her, it is easy to see that she is a "pre-job" Rachel. Her sister also states that Rachel is the only daughter their father is proud of.
• "He (Ross) slept with another woman!": See "We Were on a Break!" under Ross.
• Pregnancy: Rachel lacks intelligence on her pregnancy and is always concerned about taking care of her child with exaggerating comments. With Ross, she frequently attempts to arouse Ross by doing stereotypical arousal techniques during her pregnancy such as mentioning about "hot sex" and purposely dropping an object and picking it up.
• Ignorance:Rachel is often portrayed as lacking knowledge of practical things, such as who America fought in World War I, or at least being dismissive or in denial of their significance. Her past as a cheerleader, finding work as a waitress, and later manifesting her love of fashion by working in it, are associated with her stereotypical empty-headedness. While often portrayed as ditzy or shallow, she sometimes shows considerable cunning and depth, making her a more complicated character than at first appearance.
• Her Baby: The gag of Rachel being overprotective with her baby started in "The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner", when Rachel fears Emma being out of her sight while she attends Phoebe's birthday dinner. Incidentally, Ross and Rachel argued about her overprotectiveness. Ross takes Rachel out of the apartment in an attempt to prove that "nothing can possibly go wrong", and in the process gets them locked out with Emma still inside. Also, when Ross wants to take Emma to the park to play on the swings in "The One with the Home Study", Rachel becomes neurotic, citing a traumatic experience that she had on the swing as a child, when her hair got caught in the swing and her mother had to cut some off to free her.
• "Noooo!": Rachel's reaction when she receives surprising news, usually said in a low, almost whispering tone after a gasp. It was most likely first used in "The One with Joey's Dirty Day." In "The One with the Ride-Along," she and Monica reverse their catch phrases. After hearing a phone message from Emily saying that she might want Ross back, Monica emits a surprised "Noooo!", followed by Rachel nodding and saying "I know!" Rachel later reacts with her "Noooo!" after she accidentally erases Emily's message.

[编辑] Ross and Chandler

• College days: Ross and Chandler were roommates in college, and throughout the series, their college days are mentioned numerous times. For example, Chandler claims that the basis of his and Ross' relationship was "unfortunate hair." They both were somewhat nerdy in their college days, as can be seen in the flashbacks in "The One With All the Thanksgivings." In the first flashback, Chandler has a "Flock of Seagulls" haircut, and in the second, both Chandler and Ross are dressed in Miami Vice-inspired outfits. They had a band in college named "Way, No Way!", and their songs were somewhat nerdy as well (ie 'Inter-Galactic Courtship Ritual', 'Betrayal in the Common Room').

[编辑] Monica and Chandler

• Relationship Roles: Monica is generally the one who keeps their relationship functioning and stabilized, because Chandler's inexperience in relationships leads him to make many bad decisions, such as telling her that they are "just fooling around" when he is jealous, mistaking a fight for breaking up, and asking Monica to marry him because he was sorry for freaking about relationships; Monica gently turns him down and explains, "You know when I said that I want you to deal with this relationship stuff all on your own? Well, you're not ready for that." Chandler does manage to calm Monica down at one point when she is upset that they are no longer in the "can't-keep-their-hands-off-each-other phase" of their relationship, but his gloating ("We have switched places! I am the relationship king and you are the crazy, irrational screw up!") is short-lived.

[编辑] Joey and Chandler

• As a couple: One of the more frequently recurring jokes of the early episodes paralleled the interactions of Joey and Chandler to the interactions of a married couple. The gag was usually used to enhance the aforementioned "Gay Chandler" joke, as Chandler would often assume the "wife" role, but was also effective on its own. Chandler and Joey are mistaken for a couple when they are watching Ben in Season 2, and also when they are looking at Richard's apartment. This gag also appears in the first episode of the spinoff, Joey, when Joey responds vehemently to his sister Gina's implications of homosexuality, saying, "Chandler and I were not a gay couple!"
• Conversations: The two seemingly always have conversations that provides comic relief, despite that every character serves as one. It is said that scenes involving them nearly broke character, due to their constant giggling from their jokes.
• Hugging: Joey and Chandler often hug each other through out the series, such as in the last episode when they debate about whether to exchange a "lame cool-guy handshake" or a hug and end up choosing the handshake, only to have it turn into a hug. At one point in the series, when they hug, a set of clips of them hugging is shown, after which Chandler asks "Do you think we do this too much?"
• Entertainment Unit: During Season 3, Joey begins work on a place to keep the mail in their apartment, eventually expanding it out into an entertainment unit. True to his character, Joey builds the unit too large and blocking their bedroom doors, causing Chandler to rip many of his clothes on the side of the unit. Chandler's bedroom door was also cut in half during this time, opening in two halves until Rachel moved in. Joey also drilled a hole in the wall, such that the bit came perilously close to dozing Chandler's head ("Oh, sorry, did I get you?" "Get me? It's an electric drill! You get me you kill me!") After being annoyed by the entertainment unit for too long, Chandler decides to sell it, much to Joey's dismay. While trying to sell it, Joey convinces a customer that the main section can fit a grown man and climbs in as proof. Following this, the buyer locks Joey in and steals all of their other furniture. Chandler had previously done the same with Joey, giving him $5 for being able to fit in, then locking the doors by putting a hockey stick through the handles - this is what prompted Joey's claim to the thief that the unit could hold a whole person. They eventually trade the unit for a canoe. After Chandler kisses Joey's girlfriend Kathy, he agrees to be locked in a box, symbolizing the entertainment unit, to make Joey forgive him, to which Joey replies, "It's a start."
• Baywatch: Joey and Chandler's relationship originally stabilizes itself when Joey introduces Chandler to the wonder that is Baywatch. The two bond over the female lifeguards who are frequently shown running, to which Chandler exclaims, "Look at 'em run!" After Joey briefly moves into his own apartment during Season 2, they watch an episode of the show while talking on the phone to each other.
• Foosball Table: When Joey breaks their kitchen table, Chandler and Joey search for a replacement table. In the end, after endless arguing, they end up buying a foosball table. It appears in their apartment throughout the rest of the series (although the original one gets replaced after being broken by a kick from Joey), even after Chandler moves out and Rachel moves in. In "The Last One", Monica breaks it open after Chick Jr. and Duck Jr. get trapped inside.

[编辑] The Geller family

• Ross as favorite child: In many episodes it is made clear that Jack and Judy Geller like Ross more than Monica. In an early episode and classic example, Ross is telling his parents that his wife, Carol, was a lesbian and was pregnant with his child. Instead of expressing her shock by questioning Ross, Judy turns to Monica with "And you knew about this?" On another occasion, Judy forgets about Monica and tells Rachel, "You're like the daughter I never had." After Judy thought Ross had died, she tells him she thought she was childless, only for him to remind her that she still has Monica. Monica is constantly criticized by her mother, while Ross is the golden child. Apparently this is due to the fact that before Ross' birth, Judy was thought to be infertile, and Ross was thus referred to as a "medical marvel", although this conflicts with an episode where Ross' pre-marital conception was said to be due to a faulty diaphragm. Ross' room was maintained "as a shrine" until the house was sold, while Monica's room was quickly converted to a gym. To a lesser extent, Jack Geller also showed this favoritism. In one episode, when Ross and Monica went to pick up their childhood possessions before the family home was sold, Ross noticed that the boxes containing Monica's possessions had been used to protect Jack's Porsche from flooding, and were thus ruined. Feeling guilty, Jack gave Monica the Porsche as compensation.

• Ross and Monica's Sibling Rivalry: Ross and Monica often fall back into petty sibling rivalry when they are together. On one Thanksgiving, Monica and Ross play in a football game with the rest of the friends. Although everyone takes part in the game, the main battle is between Monica and Ross to gain possession of the "Geller Cup." Once, when Monica was thinking of having a baby through artificial insemination, Ross tried to scare her out of it by saying their father would be mad. Other times, Ross would threaten to "tell Mom" about something Monica did.

[编辑] Other characters

• Ugly Naked Guy: An obese, nude hermit who engages in odd habits in the "privacy" of his apartment across the street from Monica's. One of the gang often notices something going on in his apartment and cries out, "Eww, Ugly Naked Guy is..." and describes the usually strange act to the others, who then crowd around the window to a chorus of "Ewwwww." In "The One with the Flashback", set a year before the pilot, Phoebe and Ross have a conversation that goes as follows: Phoebe: "Aww, that is so unfortunate." Ross: "What?" Phoebe: "Cute Naked Guy is really starting to put on weight." When Rachel's mother sees him she calls him "an unattractive nude man." In Season 5, Ugly Naked Guy decides to move out and sublet his apartment, and Ross rents it so he can live across the street from his sister. Ross persuades Ugly Naked Guy to give him the apartment by hanging out with him there, also in the buff, much to the astonishment of everyone else, watching from across the street. Ironically, at the end of Season Five, Ross can see Rachel naked in the girls' apartment, reversing the roles.
• Mr. Heckles: A slightly off-kilter man who lives below Monica and Rachel's apartment and continually complains about the noise. He usually claims the noise is disturbing something he could have that the friends know he doesn't. For example, he once complained that "It's disturbing my cat," to which the friends replied, "Mr. Heckles, you don't have a cat!" Mr. Heckles says only, "I could have a cat!" When he dies in Season 2, he leaves all his possessions to the "noisy girls in the apartment above mine." In "The One With the Flashback," one exchange that comes to light is when Joey moves in with Chandler and Mr. Heckles complains that the noise disturbs his oboe practice. Phoebe replies that he does not play the oboe, and Heckles says, "I could play the oboe." Phoebe replies, "Then we'll have to ask YOU to keep it down." In addition, Chandler is forced to choose Joey as his new roommate because Heckles told the one Chandler selected, a photographer who invited him to the beach house of his porn-star sister, that "I'm Chandler's new roommate."
• Estelle: Estelle, the chain-smoking woman with a Brooklyn accent, is Joey's agent until she dies in Season 10. She is known for being a very bad agent. She once puts out her cigarette in her sandwich and sells four of Joey's tickets to his big movie premiere on eBay. She has only two clients: Joey and Al Zeebooker, "the guy who eats paper" (who only appeared in one episode, "The One Where Estelle Dies").

[编辑] Miscellaneous

• Oh...My...God!: Janice's catchphrase which is often used as her introductory line in her later guest appearances. It also becomes Chandler's catchphrase after he has sex with Monica.
• Gunther likes Rachel: When Gunther appears in an episode, it often involves his secret crush on Rachel, who remains oblivious to his feelings until the series finale. In a Season 8 episode, she even believes that he is gay when she thanks him by saying, "Some day you are gonna make some man the luckiest guy in the world." That he obsesses about Rachel is evident in the episode where Chandler breaks up with Janice so she can give her marriage another try. When Gunther sees Chandler with Janice's gold-colored shoe in his hand, he observes, "Rachel has those in burgundy." This obsession is also obvious when he buys all the items Rachel came into contact with in Ross's apartment, when he buys Rachel's cat and invites her to come over any time to see it, and again when he overhears Rachel talking about how she could sleep with the next guy she sees and he comes running toward her but falls at the last moment. In "The One with the Fake Party", Gunther tells Emily that Rachel is his girlfriend. In "The One With the Tiny T-Shirt", Gunther causes an off-screen commotion in the kitchen of the coffeehouse after Mark confesses that he likes Rachel, afterwards claiming that he "dropped a cup."
• The One With/Where/Without/After/At/In The...: Almost every episode name starts with these three words, which is referred to as "TOW" in TV guides. This is in reference to the fact that most sitcoms do not display the title of their episodes, so fans must discuss the main plot points with each other when referring to specific episodes. The only exceptions are the first episode, "The Pilot" (although this is sometimes called "The One Where It All Began" or "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate"), and the final episode, "The Last One." In addition, the centenary episode is called "The One Hundredth". (In the French version, "The One" does not refer to the episode but to one character. For example, "The Last One" becomes "Ceux qui s'en allaient", or "The Ones Who Went Away."
• The Magna Doodle: The Fisher-Price Magna Doodle on Joey and Chandler's front door first appears in "The One With the Hypnosis Tape." Throughout the rest of the series it is the source of many hidden gags, as it almost always has something humorously written or drawn on it. However the Magna Doodle was also used to display commemorative messages after the September 11 attacks. Joey still has the Magna Doodle at his new L.A. apartment on Joey, next to his front door.
• "Giving the finger": When they were kids, Ross came up with an alternative way to give Monica the finger when their parents were around. Both hands, formed into fists, would pound together sideways in front of the person two times quickly. Ross is first seen using this on Rachel in "The One With Joey's New Girlfriend", and when Rachel asks what it means, Monica explains. Later in the same episode, it is revealed that they also have another alternative to cursing that includes grabbing the neck with your elbows sticking out and waving your elbows towards the other person, although it is never explained exactly what it is an alternative to. (It could simply be meant for increased emphasis, like a double-finger.) Though everyone makes fun of the alternative finger gesture when it is first introduced, in later episodes the characters use the gag independent of its context here. This is largely because as a network television show, Friends cannot show characters giving the finger, and the alternative gesture makes a useful and humorous substitute.
• "Sticky Fingers": The Friends often steal money from each other. Monica will pick up any cash she sees laying around at Ross' place (as Rachel does in "The One With the Ride-Along"), Phoebe picks Monica's pocket for "seed money" for Monica's bridal shower, and Rachel steals money from Ross's wallet while also stealing the keys to Monica's Porsche, calling the money alimony.
• Porn: The men of the show sometimes discussed or hinted at having watched pornography. This is most notable in "The One With The Free Porn", when Chandler and Joey discover that the porn channel on their cable is unscrambled and they spend most of the episode watching free porn. This leads to the other characters also thinking constantly about porn, as Rachel is unknowingly singing the theme to "Good Will Humping", and Monica's fantasy about Ross meeting his girlfriend Emily at the airport turns into a sexual encounter involving a stewardess, ending with the comment, "I've been watching too much porn!" The guys finally turn off the porn when they realize how surprised they are that bank clerks don't ask them for sex in a vault, or when pizza delivery girls don't hit on them. During the eighth season, Monica gives Chandler porn for Valentine's Day, but it becomes switched with a tape of Phoebe's friend giving birth. Chandler and Monica become very unaroused, and when Rachel ends up watching the porn, thinking it is the birth tape, she remarks, "Maybe they're showing how she got pregnant". In another episode, Joey shockingly finds an adult film starring Phoebe. After much debate as to the propriety of it, the friends watch the movie and discover, because the actress has a tattoo, that the porn star is Phoebe's twin sister, Ursula, using her sister's name. (The writing on the box reads, "Phoebe Buffay in: Buffay the Vampire Layer.") During the apartment switch in Season 4, Monica tries to lure the gang over to her new apartment with baked goods and Playboy Magazine, prompting Ross to say, "Cookies and porn? You're the best Mom ever!" In Season 2, one of Joey's first jobs is revealed to have been in a porn movie. Apparently he could not go through with it and got a role as a technician who told the people having intercourse on the copier that it was bad for the paper tray. When Joey struggles to find work as an actor, his agent Estelle sometimes asks him about doing gay porn. Also, in "The One with the Sharks", when Monica decides to pay Chandler a visit to his hotel room in Tulsa. Before she arrives, Chandler decides to watch some pay-per-view porn. As he is pleasuring himself, Monica enters the room, just as Chandler changes the channel to a documentary about sharks, leaving her thinking Chandler is aroused by sharks.
• Strip Clubs: The men, especially Chandler, also periodically talk about strip joints. In "The One With Joey's Dirty Day", Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe take Chandler to a strip joint to help him get over his break-up with Kathy. In another episode, Chandler accidentally revealed that he bumped into his boss at a strip club; after realizing that Monica was not amused, he tried to recover by claiming it was a "strip church." In an interview, Matthew Perry revealed that one idea for an episode that he rejected was one in which Chandler kept coming back to a male strip club because he liked the sandwiches.
• Spoofs: A running gag throughout all seasons of Friends sees the group parodying certain "typical" situations. For example:
  • Ross cutting off Monica's supply of Girl Scout Cookies is played like a drug addict begging for a fix from their dealer, with Ross first giving Monica a box for free, later telling Monica he is "cutting her off" because it's getting "too dangerous".
  • Monica confessing to Rachel that she went shopping at Bloomingdales with Julie is played like a boyfriend confessing to an affair. Monica uses lines like "We only did it once, and I was thinking of you the whole time...", "It didn't mean anything", "One thing led to another, and before I realized what was happening, we were...shopping".
  • When Monica breaks up with Alan, it is played as if the rest of the Friends are being dumped, with each character asking typical questions like "Is it something I said?" and "But I can change!"
  • In The One with the Ball when Phoebe's police officer boyfriend Gary realises Phoebe hasn't been honest about finding apartments for them, the resulting conversation where Gary gets her to confess in an interview room, is played as if it were an actual police interrogation.
  • In The One With Phoebe's Husband Phoebe's formerly gay Canadian husband Duncan (who married her to get a green card) needs to divorce Phoebe because he wants to get married to another woman. Duncan confessing to Phoebe that he's straight is played as though he is actually 'coming out' as gay; "I suppose on some level I always knew I was straight".
  • In The One With a Chick. And a Duck. Chandler argues that Joey always leaves him to watch the chick, and the conversation is played as a married couple arguing.

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