1) On the double blind date with Mike, Phoebe describes her friend as "smart and funny and loose", the friend starts to object and Phoebe says "ah come on, who are you kidding?", whereupon the friend shrugs and suggestively sucks an olive off a cocktail stick. Then about 30 seconds later Phoebe storms out, and this girl says to Joey "I'll stay if you can tell me my name". She has just been established as "loose" so why would she suddenly acquire such high standards, particularly as Joey is supposed to be irresistible to women (anyway why would Phoebe have such a yuppie friend in the first place?)

2) When the gang say goodbye to Marcel the monkey Joey, in contrast to the rest of them, is unmoved ("I don't really know what to say, Ross, he's a monkey"). This does not really chime with Joey's character, which is generally warm and emotional, and at other times he exhibits a child-like fascination with animals, most notably the chick and the duck (anyway what happened to the second chick and duck after Joey moved to LA?)

3) The whole business of firing the male Nanny because Ross thought he was too sensitive. The thing is, Ross had already voiced this objection before the Nanny was hired, and Rachel had forced Ross to hire him anyway. Nothing had changed in the meantime, in fact the Nanny was performing well, so how would Ross now be able to persuade Rachel to agree to the firing, which is in any case nastier than just not hiring someone (also, after the Nanny's heart to heart with Ross would not the firing have been reversed?)
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1. Regardless of how "loose" Phoebe's friend was I'm sure she would still be offended that Joey didn't know her name. The fact that Joey said he would set Phoebe up with a friend doesn't make sense, because we never saw Joey with any male friends other than Chandler or Ross

2. Joey is a much more emotional character than Chandler, yet Chandler seemed more upset about Marcel leaving. Admittedly this was season 1 and the characters were still underdeveloped. As for the 2nd chick and duck, maybe Phoebe and Mike took them (they looked after the rat babies so I'm sure they would take a chick and duck)

3. Maybe Sandy chose to leave anyway as he had other offers. But Ross is so unlikeable in that episode and Rachel probably only agreed to firing Sandy to shut Ross up

Just caught the end of The One With the Birth on CC.

I think I have said this before, but I hate the cringeworthy, cheesy ending to this. I mean the scenes where all the characters are apparently seen through Ben's eyes, it just seems so gushing and sickly.

I also hate that line where Monica gushes about being his Auntie Monica and that she will always have gum. I never understood the joke and it seems like such a random thing to say.

I think she just has no idea what her role in the childs life will be so she blurts out 'something' she thinks will be her thing

K I remembered a good one.

When Chandler is trying to persuade an angry Erica to be their adoption mother and he is praising Monica he finishes with "..and don't tell her I said this but the woman is always right!"

But that entire episode is centred around Monica getting things totally and disastrously wrong, which is why Chandler has to make the speech in the first place.

Also, what about the poor couple that Erica did actually choose, suddenly having their longed for baby whipped away from them??

Not sure if Erica ever got in touch with the real vicar and doctor anyway, Chandler and Monica were always her pick

no she never met them the files were switched so she thought she was piking a doctor and vicar when it wa actually monica and chandler

No, she liked Monica and Chandler's resume, but actually chose the Doctor and Priest in the end, it was just that the papers got mixed up and the wrong people were informed.

That's why, when Chandler said "I work in advertising and Monica's a chef", Erica said "Oh yes, I actually really liked you guys"

she mean she liked them as people she never saw their real resumes as she was given the wrong one

She was given many resumes, She picked the 2 she liked who were Doctor and Priest and thought she was meeting them

She then met Chandler and Monica and liked them, But they WEREN'T who she thought they were as she thought they were the Doctor and Priest

Chandler then told her who they really were and she said she actually liked them....Based on their resume, But they weren't who she picked

So she did see Chandler and Monica's resumes but didn't pick them

Yes.

Think about it, the whole deception was based around Erica continuing to believe that they were a priest and a doctor.

she never said based on their resumes she meant she liked them as a couple

When Chandler tell her their real jobs Erica says 'Oh i actually liked you guys' as in yes i seen your resume but went for someone else despite liking what i read

i didnt see it like that but its open to interpretation i guess

She said it in response to Chandler saying "I'm in advertising and Monica's a chef" . In other words she was saying "Oh you're those guys! Yes you sounded good""

It was a Doctor and Vicar for goodness sake - bet they had loads of people after them!

The' Monica is always right' thing was an attempt to make us think she was something other than what the writers turned her into in the latter seasons. A harridan and a nutbag.

Did Joey assume that his parents would be invited to Chandler and Monica's wedding because he was performing the ceremony? It seems odd that Joey would think they'd be invited as Chandler and Monica probably didn't know them that well

iirc he said i thought parents were coming to monica youre parents are coming ross's parents

I have always been a bit confused by the timeline in TOW Dr Ramoray Dies.

From about 4 minutes into the episode, there is a scene in the coffee house where Richard, Monica, Ross and Rachel are sat on the couch while Phoebe plays guitar. Later in the scene Phoebe drops Monica in it by telling Richard that Monica has a lot of exes. The two couples leave to go back to Monicas (which from prior and future knowledge, is only a minute or two away)

The next scene is when Eddie's ex girlfriend Tilly drops off a fish tank, Eddie arrives home and accuses Chandler of sleeping with her.

Then we go back to the coffee house. Phoebe is still there alone, Joey bursts in to show her the interview in a magazine and they have a discussion about Joey changing his lines, this goes straight into a very short scene of a soap opera writer getting annoyed by this and writing a death scene. Straight after this scene, we go back to Joey's new apartment where the script is delivered and he finds out he is being written out.

Only then do we see Richard, Monica, Ross and Rachel arrive at Monica's. Although only 4/5 minutes have elapsed in the actual show, that is still a lot that happened in between, especially as Joey must have got from the coffee house to his new apartment in less time.

We then have scenes with both Richard and Monica talking about magic numbers and then Ross and Rachel having a similar discussion in the bedroom.

Only then does it cut back to Chandler and Eddie, quite a lot has happened since the end of the last Eddie and Chandler scene, but it seems their argument/discussion picks up immediately from this scene.


Now I know timelines are skewed for the purpose of comedy, but this episode just seems to stand out as odd as so much seems to happen in a short space of time.

The other issue with this episode, which again is done for the sake of comedy, is the fact that within a day or two, the Friends actually see Dr Ramoray die on the show, yet didn't know Joey had been fired. Obviously in reality, the timeframe between Joey reading the scripts and the show going to air would be months.

I know what you mean about timelines,
I was watching the one with Phoebe's old singing partner recently and felt the same. They just seem to break off into different timezones

In Series 2 there was an episode where Rachel & Monica are trying to decide who gets the 1 remaining condom that is in the bathroom (why keep condoms in the bathroom rather than keep a few each in their respective bedrooms?).

Anyway a couple of episodes before Monica says to whom she thinks is Richard on the phone: "Did I leave my diaphragm at your place?". If she regularly uses a diaphragm as a contraceptive why was she begging to use the last condom?

Maybe it was still at Richard's place

^^^^^^^
This one for me also. He said that Carol was his first then supposedly had sex in college.
Also the flat numbers changed halfway through the first series (I think it was the first)

I'm sure I read somewhere that they changed the flat numbers from low ones to higher ones because when they showed shots of the building it indicated the characters lived on one of the top floors.