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** We don't get to hear the discussion and the joke in whole - maybe Ross' argument about something being "inconstitutional" was just as stupid as their usual conversation. Also, knowing ''what'' the Algonquin Round table is doesn't mean they were experts.
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*** Building off that, it's not impossible they were in the same situation as Joey, laughing because they didn't want to seem stupid.
** We don't get to hear the discussion and the joke in whole - maybe Ross' argument about something being"inconstitutional" "unconstitutional" was just as stupid as their usual conversation. Also, knowing ''what'' the Algonquin Round table is doesn't mean they were experts.
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** There has also been some speculation that she got some plastic surgery to deal with the excess skin left over from the weight loss.
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**As for what reason? This is probably giving it a lot more thought than anything about the show warrants, but my theory is that Phoebe was feeling insecure and jealous. Monica, Rachel, Joey and Chandler all live together. Ross is also an odd man out, but as Monica's brother and Chandler's best (or at least oldest) friend, his position is pretty secure. Phoebe is the weakest link in the chain, and she probably knows it. On that occasion, it got the best of her and she decided to try to make the others think she had at least one other close friend.
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** It may be that whatever he did with the cleaning lady [[TechnicalVirgin wasn't enough for him to count it later as losing his virginity.]]
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* Since when is Rachel so awkward? Her trying to impress that painfully aloof guy gave me real nerd-chasing-hot-chick vibes.
** Judging by later episodes it's because she's not really all that into him and is subconsciously trying to use him to distract herself from her feelings for Ross. As such she's got a lot of cognitive dissonance going on.
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* Does Ross clearly suffer from depression? His suffering facial expressions, moaning speech and low pain tolerance make me feel so sorry for him. He's clearly not in a healthy place, yet it's PlayedForLaughs.
** Hard to diagnose a fictional character but really its more that Creator/DavidSchwimmer is something of a [[LargeHam Large Ham]] when they give him the slapstick stuff and he was so good at it that the writers kept making Ross miserable to let him keep doing it.
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** Also, Chandler & Joey like being across the hall from Monica & Rachel. So much that the two apartments are practically one big apartment they all live in. Chandler wouldn't want to be away from that setup, just like Joey realizes he doesn't really like being alone away from them.
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** I always thought it was weird that Jamie acts mystified by Central Perk, asking "What is this place???" It's a coffeehouse. In the Village. Coffeehouses have been there since the 1950s.
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*** You don't ''need'' to if your opponent folds, but it is a courtesy. Especially as it shows if you legitimately won or were bluffing.
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*** It's also been established from WordOfGod that this was due to not understanding the difference between drag and trans. They wrote Helena as a drag queen when being trans would be truer to the character.
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** Because Ross is the only one who cared. Rachel wasn't even aware there was a marriage and when she did find out she demanded he end it. Phoebe's marriage was just a legal thing to let her friend stay in the country. Neither was a real marriage. Ross likes to pretend he's a perfect, flawless man so having three divorces, even if they were mostly out of his control, really gets to him.
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** Jack is also InnocentlyInsensitive towards both his children. While he did favour Ross over Monica, he also found Ross' effeminate (and perhaps geeky) behaviour unacceptable, (according to Ross himself in the one with the Male nanny). Unlike their mother who deliberately favoured Ross over Monica. So he was at least fair in terms of being "abusive".
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* In the second half of the series, Ross is constantly mocked for his three divorces. But wasn't RACHEL also divorced at this point (from Ross, ironically enough)? Yet, after she and Ross divorce, everybody seems to act as if Ross is the only one of the friends who has ever been divorced. Which is obviously not true. Also, wasn't Phoebe by that time divorced from Duncan the "gay" ice dancer?
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* In the second half of the series, Ross is constantly mocked for his three divorces. But wasn't RACHEL was also divorced at this point (from Ross, ironically enough)? Yet, enough). However, after she and Ross divorce, everybody seems to act as if Ross is the only one of the friends who has ever been divorced. Which is obviously not true. Also, Plus, wasn't Phoebe by that time also divorced from (from Duncan the "gay" ice dancer? dancer)?
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* In the second half of the series, Ross is constantly mocked for his three divorces. But wasn't RACHEL also divorced at this point (from Ross, ironically enough)? Yet, after she and Ross divorce, everybody seems to act as if Ross is the only one of the friends who has ever been divorced. Which is obviously not true. Also, wasn't Phoebe by that time divorced from Duncan the "gay" ice dancer?
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** I always envisioned Monica explaining to Richard why they wouldn't be having sex that night, Richard saying "oh, well we can fix that!" and going out to get one himself.
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* This one might need an explanation from somebody who has first-hand experience living in the States or being an expert on gay rights and history of the same-sex marriage. [[note]]I'm not an American and my knowledge of the issue consists of reading an article on Wiki/TheOtherWiki and watching ''Series/SixFeetUnder''. As far as I know, the same-sex marriage was not legally possible back then[[/note]]. Was Carol and Susan's wedding merely a symbolic thing that they wanted to go through with no legal validity, which they would later confirm, say, by making each other their inheritors? Or was there any alternative for gay couples to make a legal bond?
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* This one might need an explanation from somebody who has first-hand experience living in the States or being an expert on gay rights and history of the same-sex marriage. [[note]]I'm not an American and my knowledge of the issue consists of reading an article on Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki and watching ''Series/SixFeetUnder''. As far as I know, the same-sex marriage was not legally possible back then[[/note]]. Was Carol and Susan's wedding merely a symbolic thing that they wanted to go through with no legal validity, which they would later confirm, say, by making each other their inheritors? Or was there any alternative for gay couples to make a legal bond?
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*** I get that at the end of the other episode we're supposed to think that Monica think's she's successfully thrown Rachel off the scent. However in tge one where everyone finds out Monica acts so surprised that Rachel knows it just doesnt match with Rachel having said "I know about you and Chandler" an eoisode or so ago. There is no way she can be that surprised given what Rachel has already said.
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*** [[{{Engrish}} What?]]
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** Because while Rachel might not have been ready for Motherhood, she also didnt want to not be the mother once she got over the shock of being pregnant. Id say a more meta view is that this plot point of having a kid was to be the catalyst for Rachel's character to mature, but she really didnt.
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** Because while Rachel might not have been ready for Motherhood, she also didnt didn't want to not be the mother once she got over the shock of being pregnant. Id say a more meta view is that this plot point of having a kid was to be the catalyst for Rachel's character to mature, but she really didnt.didn't.
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** Easy to wonder this if you haven't ever had your own kids and haven't ever been pregnant when you didn't want to be. On paper it seems like a nice tying-up of loose ends, but it's not how this works in reality. If you do want your own kids some day, and you get pregnant, giving your kid to someone else to raise is going to be a heartwrenching choice that you'd be unlikely to make unless you felt you had no other decent option. Rachel originally wanted to wait to have kids until she was married, but she did have a good job and the support of friends and family, and when she got unexpectedly pregnant, she felt she was in a position where she could go ahead and have the baby.
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** She thought she'd successfully thrown Rachel off the scent?
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** At that point, Chandler and Monica just have trouble conceiving and they don't know they're infertile. Rachel wants to have her baby, even if the pregnancy was unplanned.
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*** It is shown in an episode that there is a floor above them(Phoebe ends up sleeping with the upstairs neighbour after going up to complain about his noisiness) so they could have escaped up there. It probably didn’t occur to them in the heat of the moment.
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** My read on the ending of the game was that it was a combination of ego and panic. Keep in mind the whole reason the trivia game was happening in the first place was because Monica and Rachel wanted to prove they knew Chandler and Joey better than they knew them. The questions mostly consisted of incredibly obscure and nuanced trivia that could only be answered by someone who knew the person in question very well and Monica and Rachel just about aced it (the only time we ever saw them get anything wrong was a ballpark guess regarding how old Chandler was when he got his first kiss and Rachel blurting out the wrong answer to a question that Monica knew). With all that in mind, a question like "What is Chandler Bing's job?" should be ''incredibly'' easy to answer and yet the girls draw a blank (in fact, Chandler had an incredulous expression on his face as they fail to come up with the answer). So them blanking on what should be a "gimme" question plus the fact that they're now 10 seconds away from ''losing their apartment'' probably caused both Monica and Rachel to panic and not even consider asking for another question. So when you think about it, it's actually a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome; Monica and Rachel panicked and never once thought about trying another question with the time they had left.
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** People don't tend to keep sweaters on during sex, and Ross was SO horny he probably didn't care where the sweater was going when it came off. Most likely after the sex he simply couldn't find the sweater, gave up, and just took one of Joey's shirts to go home.
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** Statistically most homeless people are only homeless for a few months. New York City also has a lot of homeless shelters and services compared to places like California due to its right-to-shelter law.
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** you're downplaying Emily's irrational stance on that a bit though. She was treating it as no big deal to rearrange another time and place whereas Ross was pointing out that you cant just expect people who have come from abroad and paid a lot of money for tickets and accomodation to do that again, so it's either wedding as it was supposed now or (well no "or") but any later wedding would have been a much smaller affair which is clearly against what bith wanted. They both had a point but were also both not really seeing what the other was saying either.
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** you're downplaying Emily's irrational stance on that a bit though. She was treating it as no big deal to rearrange another time and place whereas Ross was pointing out that you cant just expect people who have come from abroad and paid a lot of money for tickets and accomodation to do that again, so it's either wedding as it was supposed now or (well no "or") but any later wedding would have been a much smaller affair which is clearly against what bith wanted. They both had a point but were also both not really seeing what the other was saying either.
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**** Although that happens to be about the only episode in the series that shows her to be interested and attempting to improve on her work. A later episode, when asked how she overcame being new in her career and getting ahead her answer was "dressing provocativley..."
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** Because while Rachel might not have been ready for Motherhood, she also didnt want to not be the mother once she got over the shock of being pregnant. Id say a more meta view is that this plot point if having a kid would be the catalyst for Rachel's character maturing but she really didnt.
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*** Actually, Monica and Rachel needed two more points to win. They were tied before the lightning round, the guys got four questions correct in their lightning round, and the girls had three correct questions when they got to the one about Chandler's job. So why would they spend so much time on that one question if they still needed at least one other question to win?
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* An episode in season 8 features a Joey recording a scene from the show, where it's explained (through laughable TechnoBabble) that Drake's personality resurfaced because his body was rejecting Sarandon's character's brain, and her body had disappeared. When Rachel asks what happened to it, Joey says he has no idea and doesn't care. But that does imply that his character went back to being Drake Ramoray.
