Rachel was the waitress when Steve came to the apartment for Monica 's 'interview dinner'. Same actor, same name, his backstory in his later appearence tallies with the character who he played in series 1 - definitely the same guy.

As for whether or not Rachel should remember him - she met him once, for a few hours at most, and while he was acting fairly erratically (what with being stoned), she was off to the side with Phoebe for most of the evening. She had very little direct interaction with him that we saw. Add in the fact that Rachel had shown herself to have a fairly patchy memory - like forgetting Emma's age - and no, I certainly wouldn't expect her to remember Steve from one meeting 8 years previously.

Ah, that shortened spelling of 'blo' never occurred to me. Although it wouldn't have made sense if Chandler were to get one from Monica, I could only think of 'rim'! Apologies for dramatically lowering the tone of the thread! Carry on...

On a similar note - and also lowering the tone:
I always wondered what the 2 things were that Monica and Chandler reference when saying that Erica could not have gotten pregnant by doing;

C "Was it the thing we hardly ever do or the thing we never do?"
M "The thing we never do."
C "Shovely Joeeee!"

I think it's totally in character for Rachel not to remember Steve. She forgot Chandler (although obviously in the first ep/flashback she was supposed to have never met him).
She forgot Brad Pitt's character.
In TO That Could Have Been she didn't recognise Ross. I know it wasn't a real episode in terms of storyline but it was in character.
She even forgot Tag's surname.

I think she was always just quite self-involved, as Ross said 'in Rachel land, doing your Rachel thing', and doesn't notice much around her.

Phoebe, similarly, is kind of in her own world, so I don't think it's unlikely for her not to remember Frank Jr and the condom. She might have remembered the incident but not what the guy looked like as she only saw him for a few seconds. Plus, just because it's the same actor it doesn't mean it's the same character.


I've read other people's opinions that what they never do is anal sex, but I think that's a bit rude for Friends. For me, 'never' suggests something they used to do but don't any more, and I don't see Monica ever being up for that. So I'm not really sure.

Why wouldn't it have made sense for Monica to give Chandler a blow job?

"Never" makes me think it's something that was suggested by maybe Chandler and Monica refused.

Shark porn?

I'm sure that's what it is. It passes on decency levels because it's done in a way that the audience can make a good guess at what's being referred to without having it spelt out or the use of innuendo. If Monica had said something like Erica was "taking her deliveries up the back entrance rather than the front", or whatever phrase an American would use, that would be too rude!


Ha ha, I meant my guess of "rim" and the second word (it feels wrong to type the whole phrase!)!

Jon Lovitz is a little bit more than a bit-part actor

I can't remember who the character was let alone who played them, hence my post being phrased as a question asking were they sure it was supposed to be the same character as such small parts tend to be played by familiar faces.

If they'd responded it was a well known actor making a cameo as the same character twice then it would have answered my question.

In the pilot episode Ross is going on about how he's 26 and divorced, so how could Monica be 26 in season 1 too? Agh this show drives me insane sometimes.

Monica and Chandler really annoyed me in Emma's first birthday episode,I thought the way they acted was very bad and if I was Rachel or Ross I would have kicked them out.

Yeah they were awful in that episode, but Ross and Rachel were never going to kick them out as they are Emma's aunt and uncle

I hated the way Rachel's dad had a go at Ross for not marrying Rachel, had he forgotten about their bonding over teasing Rachel?!

I don't get this gripe. Am I missing something?

Yes, when Rachel's dad finds out that Ross isn't marrying Rachel he storms into Ross's apartment while he is with Mona and has a go at him

Just because they got along one time over throwing jibes at Rachel?

But why is it a gripe? Because they joked about Rachel seeing someone about one of her legs being shorter than the other at one time?

Because I thought Dr Green was rude to Ross for no reason

Fair enough.

He went too far, but it was hardly no reason.

As far as he was aware he'd knocked Rachel up but they weren't staying together and he was with Mona IIRC.

That would come across dodgy to me.

I mean obviously the fact it wasn't easily explainable was done for comic effect but I'd imagine a lot of fathers would have some kind of bone to pick with that one.

Yea the birthday ep annoyed me and although I could see Chandler being an obnoxious prick about it I was surprised that Monica was so dismissive of her only niece when she's meant to be "baby mad".
The Gellers, Joey and Phoebe saved the ep tho

I cant understand why was Ross just didn't tell him to EFF off and get out of his apartment especially after he called Mona a tramp.
I mean what was Green going to do? Yell? Threaten to tell his parents? Call him a naughty boy?
C'mon Ross you faced down Bruce Willis ffs!

I have one! It's actually something that I've seen variants of on a few TV shows, but Friends have a really silly one.

In series 4, Chandler reunited with Janice but later regrets it and to get out of their relationship tells her that he's moving to Yemen so she insists on going to the airport with him. When he gets there, he attempts to buy a "fake ticket" to Yemen, but ends up having to pay for a real one. He then attempts to ditch her, but she insists on sticking around until she sees his plane take off. The woman on the tanoy then announces "last call for Yemen" and Chandler reluctantly boards the plane leaving Janice behind and has to go to Yemen.

The problem? You can't just walk onto a plane - you have to go through security and then show your flight ticket to get into the departure lounge. Unless Janice was able to slip past security, there should have been absolutely no reason for Chandler to actually board a 16 hour flight to Yemen because he could have just hung out in the departure lounge until the plane and then Janice both left, then slipped out himself shortly afterwards.

Further to that, he had no reason to pay $2000 to go to Yemen. If he was really that desperate to get away from her, why didn't he buy a cheaper flight to somewhere nearby? He'd still be out of pocket, but not $2000 out of pocket.

To be fair, in the Last One, I think Phoebe actually tells Ross to buy a ticket so he can get through to stop Rachel, so they obviously learned their lesson. Still though, it's something that I've seen in loads of TV shows, and every time it bugs me!

Was the earlier episode not before 9/11? So could be totally plausible.

That is a valid gripe for sure but its one of those things where you just have to remember it is a 25 minute Comedy show

I think all realism has gone out the window when he makes up such a fake story and goes to the airport in the 1st place, I mean who in the world would really do that in Chandlers situation?

The comedic effect wouldn't have been the same had he paid for a low priced ticket to the shortest destination and he just waited in the lounge for Janice to leave then just strolled out.

I think if it had been some hard hitting gritty realistic to the core drama then yes it just wouldn't make any sense and would be quite annoying gripe