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nevermind, I thought we were talking about present Ross. My mistake, sorry.
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* AsideGlance: In-universe. When Rachel delivers the WhamLine, Ross looks directly at the camera in happiness.
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* AsideGlance: In-universe. When Rachel delivers the WhamLine, Ross looks directly at the camera in happiness.surpise.
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* AsideGlance: In-universe. When Rachel delivers the WhamLine, Ross looks directly at the camera in surprise.
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* AsideGlance: In-universe. When Rachel delivers the WhamLine, Ross looks directly at the camera in surprise.happiness.
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* ForWantOfANail: All over the place this episode.
** If Ross' date had gone well he would've spent the night with her instead of at Joey's place and Rachel wouldn't have come onto him.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time she wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
** Subverted with Joey, it's implied if Joey hadn't slept with Rachel's coworker, Rachel would've never come onto Ross. Though Ross cuts her a break in the final scene saying even if she hadn't come onto him it probably would've happened anyways.
** If Ross' date had gone well he would've spent the night with her instead of at Joey's place and Rachel wouldn't have come onto him.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time she wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
** Subverted with Joey, it's implied if Joey hadn't slept with Rachel's coworker, Rachel would've never come onto Ross. Though Ross cuts her a break in the final scene saying even if she hadn't come onto him it probably would've happened anyways.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After possibly being given a fake number by the other married couple, Chandler and Monica start to blame each other on the grounds that the former kept making jokes and the latter kept asking a variety questions. Chandler snarking prompts this exchange.
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* AgitatedItemStomping: Rachel was about to do this to the tape when the others beg her to play it first.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After possibly being given a fake number by the other married couple, Chandler and Monica start to blame each other on the grounds that the former kept making jokes and the latter kept asking a variety of questions. Chandler snarking prompts this exchange.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After possibly being given a fake number by the other married couple, Chandler and Monica start to blame each other on the grounds that the former kept making jokes and the latter kept asking a variety of questions. Chandler snarking prompts this exchange.
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** If Ross' date had gone well he would've spent the night with her instead of Joey's place and Rachel wouldn't have come onto him.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
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** If Ross' date had gone well he would've spent the night with her instead of at Joey's place and Rachel wouldn't have come onto him.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time she wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time she wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
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* OrphanedSetup: We only hear the beginning of the Europe story. The audience has to TakeOurWordForIt as to how it gets people to have sex.
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* ChekhovsGag: Joey admits to using the alias "Ken Adams" if he doesn't want to see a girl again. It's revealed Rachel was unaware that Joey created the Europe story because he used that alias on Irene.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Ross claims Rachel was giving him signals the night Emma was conceived without specifying what those signals were. It turns out he omitted that because Phoebe, Chandler, and Monica never heard of the Europe story at the time.
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* ForTheWantOfANail: All over the place this episode.
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* ForTheWantOfANail: ForWantOfANail: All over the place this episode.
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* ForTheWantOfANail: All over the place this episode.
** If Ross' date had gone well he would've spent the night with her instead of Joey's place and Rachel wouldn't have come onto him.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
** Subverted with Joey, it's implied if Joey hadn't slept with Rachel's coworker, Rachel would've never come onto Ross. Though Ross cuts her a break in the final scene saying even if she hadn't come onto him it probably would've happened anyways.
** If Ross' date had gone well he would've spent the night with her instead of Joey's place and Rachel wouldn't have come onto him.
** If Rachel had remembered to mail the wedding invitations on time wouldn't have been at the apartment that night.
** Subverted with Joey, it's implied if Joey hadn't slept with Rachel's coworker, Rachel would've never come onto Ross. Though Ross cuts her a break in the final scene saying even if she hadn't come onto him it probably would've happened anyways.
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* HomePornMovie: Ross was trying to practice Joey's routine by filming himself, but then Rachel came in, one thing led to another, and their whole encounter ended up videotaped by accident. Rachel is highly offended when she learns about it.
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* HomePornMovie: Ross was trying to practice Joey's routine by filming himself, but then Rachel came in, one thing led to another, and their whole encounter ended up videotaped by accident. Rachel is highly offended when she learns about it. They eventually decide to watch the full tape in private but turn it off after a few seconds when they see how awkward they look.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After possibly being given a fake number by the other married couple, Chandler and Monica start to blame each other on the grounds that the former kept making jokes and the latter kept asking a variety questions. Chandler snarking prompts this exchange.
-->'''Monica:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Was that another joke?\\
'''Chandler:''' Was that another question?
-->'''Monica:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Was that another joke?\\
'''Chandler:''' Was that another question?
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Ross blurts out he recorded the whole encounter, the others look outright surprised, but Joey looks more apprehensive. It's later demonstrated he actually knows the full context of what Ross said and how it was just an accident; he just doesn't think this was the way to reveal something like that.
* TheGadfly: When Ross tries to explain himself to the others, he looks to Joey to vouch for him and asks if he remembers going to him with a personal problem. Joey feigns ignorance so that Ross will admit the problem was having gone six months without sex.
* TheGadfly: When Ross tries to explain himself to the others, he looks to Joey to vouch for him and asks if he remembers going to him with a personal problem. Joey feigns ignorance so that Ross will admit the problem was having gone six months without sex.
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* GrammarNazi: When Joey, of all people, acts like this towards Ross.
-->'''Ross:''' It doesn't matter who came on to who.\\
'''Joey:''' "Whom."\\
''[everyone looks at him in surprise]''\\
'''Joey:''' ''[smugly]'' That's right.
-->'''Ross:''' It doesn't matter who came on to who.\\
'''Joey:''' "Whom."\\
''[everyone looks at him in surprise]''\\
'''Joey:''' ''[smugly]'' That's right.
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* IsThisThingStillOn: Unaware she was being recorded, Rachel mockingly imitated all the ways that Monica had lectured her about the invitations. Sitting next to Monica while the tape plays this, Rachel's quick to hit the fast forward button.
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* ShoutOut: "It was like flying with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Riddler]]!"
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Ross had a date with a woman named Kristen, but he failed to tell the Europe story properly and thus didn't get lucky. Had things worked out with her, though, he wouldn't have needed to practice telling the story to the camera and likely wouldn't have been there when Rachel needed help with the invitations.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Ross had a date with a woman named Kristen, but he failed to tell the Europe story properly and thus didn't get lucky. Had things worked out with her, though, he wouldn't have needed to practice telling the story to the camera and likely wouldn't have been there when Rachel needed help with the invitations.
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* JerkassBall: Rachel grips it tightly in this episode when she lets her pride and ego go way in over her head in order to tear down Ross and arrogantly claims he was the one who initiated it.
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* JerkassBall: Rachel grips it tightly in this episode when she lets her pride and ego go way in over her head in order to tear down Ross and arrogantly claims he was the one who initiated it. Luckily, she gets a LaserGuidedKarma for it.
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* JerkassBall: Rachel grips it tightly in this episode when she lets her pride and ego go way in over her head in order to tear down Ross and arrogantly claims he was the one who initiated it.
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* AsideGlance: In-universe. When Rachel delivers the WhamLine, Ross looks directly at the camera in surprise.
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* CallBack: On the tape, Ross and Rachel discuss [[Recap/FriendsS7E1TheOneWithMonicasThunder their attempted "Bonus Night"]] and wonder what would've happened if they hadn't gotten caught.
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* IWarnedYou: Before the tape is played, Ross says he wants the record to show that he tried to be the bigger person in all of this before gloating about being right.
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* BrickJoke: "Ken Adams" and the story that's guaranteed to get you into bed with someone both come back at the end of the episode to prove that Rachel was the one that intiated the sex that got her pregnant.
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* BrickJoke: "Ken Adams" and the Europe story that's guaranteed to get you into bed with someone both come back at the end of the episode to prove that Rachel was the one that intiated initiated the sex that got her pregnant.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Ross, the usual ButtMonkey, seems to be setting himself up for another humiliation by using the videotape to show who between him and Rachel initiated their encounter. However, it turns out that Rachel was the one to come on to him first, by using a routine of Joey's. So Ross wins this one.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Ross, the usual ButtMonkey, seems to be setting himself up for another humiliation by using the videotape to show who between him and Rachel initiated their encounter. However, it turns out that Rachel was the one to come on to him first, by using a routine of Joey's. So Ross wins this one.one.
* WhamLine: It's revealed Rachel was the one who came on to Ross, not the other way around as evidenced by the videotape:
-->'''Rachel:''' ''(in the videotape)'' Ross, did I ever tell you about the time I went backpacking through Western Europe?
* WhamLine: It's revealed Rachel was the one who came on to Ross, not the other way around as evidenced by the videotape:
-->'''Rachel:''' ''(in the videotape)'' Ross, did I ever tell you about the time I went backpacking through Western Europe?
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* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Joey, using his "Ken Adams" alias, seduced one of Rachel's coworkers with a fake story about him hiking in Europe. The coworker told Rachel about the story and she herself decided to use it on Ross.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Ross decies that Rachel's theory that he was talking to himself is less embarrassing than telling her he was talking to the video camera.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Ross decies decides that Rachel's theory that he was talking to himself is less embarrassing than telling her he was talking to the video camera.
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* ReversePsychology: Subverted. Rachel thinks Ross gave her the tape to destroy as a way to have the evidence destroyed and avoid having the rest of the group see he was the one who initiated it. Turns out Ross was legitimately giving it to her to spare her from having everyone else see she used the Europe story to come on to him.
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* BrickJoke: "Ken Adams" and the story that's guaranteed to get you into bed with someone both come back at the end of the episode to prove that Rachel was the one that intiated the sex that got her pregnant.
* GoToAlias: Apparently Joey sometimes uses "Ken Adams" as an alias when hooking up with girls. Phoebe's "Regina Phalange" gets a mention when they pretend to introduce themselves.
* GoToAlias: Apparently Joey sometimes uses "Ken Adams" as an alias when hooking up with girls. Phoebe's "Regina Phalange" gets a mention when they pretend to introduce themselves.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Ross decies that Rachel's theory that he was talking to himself is less embarrassing than telling her he was talking to the video camera.
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Rachel and Ross tell the rest of the gang the story of how they slept together. They disagree on some details and Ross reveals he has a videotape of their encounter as evidence, but Rachel would sooner destroy it than let anyone view it. Meanwhile, Monica and Chandler claim to have made friends with another married couple on their honeymoon, making Phoebe and Joey jealous. However, the couple seems to have given them a false phone number.
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* HomePornMovie: Ross was trying to practice Joey's routine by filming himself, but then Rachel came in, one thing led to another, and their whole encounter ended up videotaped by accident. Rachel is highly offended when she learns about it.
* ReactionShot: The ending of the episode features Rachel and Ross' reactions as they view the saucier parts of the videotape, which they react to with increasing horror to the point where they both scramble to stop it.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Ross, the usual ButtMonkey, seems to be setting himself up for another humiliation by using the videotape to show who between him and Rachel initiated their encounter. However, it turns out that Rachel was the one to come on to him first, by using a routine of Joey's. So Ross wins this one.
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!!Tropes:
* HomePornMovie: Ross was trying to practice Joey's routine by filming himself, but then Rachel came in, one thing led to another, and their whole encounter ended up videotaped by accident. Rachel is highly offended when she learns about it.
* ReactionShot: The ending of the episode features Rachel and Ross' reactions as they view the saucier parts of the videotape, which they react to with increasing horror to the point where they both scramble to stop it.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Ross, the usual ButtMonkey, seems to be setting himself up for another humiliation by using the videotape to show who between him and Rachel initiated their encounter. However, it turns out that Rachel was the one to come on to him first, by using a routine of Joey's. So Ross wins this one.
