History Awesome / Friends

* Watching Chandler defy odds and beat Mike at ping-pong, when he was going round for round with Monica.

-->'''Other Passenger''': You say you love this man, yet you're about to ruin the happiest day of his life! I'm afraid I have to agree with your friend "Pheebs". This is a... this is a terrible, ''terrible'' plan!

-->'''Other Passenger''': But why?! He loves this Emily person! No good can come of this!

-->'''Other Passenger''': [[SarcasmMode Oh no!]] ''(is about to put on his headphones, then turns back to her)'' And by the way, it seems to be perfectly clear [[TakeThat that you WERE on a break!]]
* Ross got his own WhatTheHellHero from Chandler in "TOW The Tiny T-Shirt". When he's having a FreakOut over Rachel "moving on too fast" with Mark, Chandler reminds him that he slept with the copy girl ''three hours'' after he thought they'd broken up.
-->'''Chandler''': I mean, bullets have left guns slower!
* When the gang started expressing disgust/dismay at the idea of Monica dating Richard's son, [[https://youtu.be/RU5k3OcRDSo she pointed out their own relationship, er, quirks]]:
--> '''Monica''': Fine! Judge all you want to, but... ''(Points to Ross)'' [[SuddenlySexuality Married]] [[NoBisexuals a lesbian]]. ''(Points to Rachel)'' [[RunawayBride Left a man at the altar.]] ''(Points to Phoebe)'' [[CitizenshipMarriage Fell in love with a gay ice dancer.]] ''(Points to Joey)'' [[IdiotHero Threw a girl's wooden leg in a fire.]] ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext (Points to the box Chandler's in)]]'' [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Lives in a box!]]
* Monica teaching Chandler about pleasing a woman in "TOW Phoebe's Uterus". Not only because Kathy thanks her at the end, but this was in 1998, Monica and Rachel are completely gleeful about what they like, and there aren't many scenes even a decade on that actually give a damn about what women enjoy in bed.

* The climax of "The One With The Prom Video". Frequently ranked as one of the single best moments in television history.

* Joey telling his cheating dad and "The Mistress" off, outliving every oppressed teenager's wet, rebellious dream in the process:
--> '''Mr. Tribbiani:''' We'll go to a hotel.
--> '''Joey:''' (blocking the door) No, you won't. If you go to a hotel, you'll be... ''doing'' stuff, I want you right here where I can keep an eye on you.
--> '''Mr. Tribbiani:''' ''You're gonna keep an eye on us?''
--> '''Joey:''' That's right, Mister, and I don't care how old you are, as long as you're under ''my'' roof, you'll live by ''my'' rules. And that means: No sleeping with your girlfriend.
--> '''Joey''': Now, go to my room!

* In Season 1 in "TOW The Dozen Lasagnas", when Ross lets Paolo out of Monica's apartment after Rachel dumps him for making a move on Phoebe:
-->'''Ross:''' Paolo, I just want to tell you, and I think I speak for everyone when I say... ''(shuts door in his face)''

* A subtle one early in Season 1 'TOW the Butt': Chandler has a no-strings-attached fling with a married woman. He's intially excited but realizes he can't deal with being her sex toy, and wants a real relationship and ends it. Despite Chandler's rampant insecurities and her being totally out of his league he's still got the guts to call it off. Especially meaningful as his EstablishingCharacterMoment was quipping about never getting women to sleep with him whereas this reveals that despite his committment phobia and jealousy of Joey's one night stands he is actually happier in a relationship.

* Chandler tells off pretty much his whole building when Monica was making candy for them and the building loved it so much they were demanding more day and night. Monica was cracking and Chandler just takes one look at her and shuts the whole thing down.

* Joey forgot to bring a present to Emma's first birthday so he decides to do a dramatic reading of a children's book which seemed like a bad idea but turned out he was really good at it.
-->'''Ross:''' Thank you so much for that.
-->'''Chandler:''' (almost about to cry) I was not ready for this.

* In "The One With the East German Laundry Detergent", a rude and nasty woman tries to bully Rachel out of her washing machine, but Ross steps in and tells the woman off. Later on, the same woman tries to take the duo's cart claiming it was free game, but Rachel sticks up for herself by telling the woman off and jumps into the cart saying if she wants it, she has to take her with it. A crowning moment for Rachel who, at the time of the episode, was still getting used to living on her own and not having everything handed to her.
* In "The One Where Heckles Dies", Ross spends the entire episode trying to get Phoebe to accept evolution as a scientific fact, even though she accepts that it is a possibility but does not believe in it. Eventually, Phoebe snaps and completely shuts Ross down by telling him that the greatest minds in the world in the course of history once thought [[FlatWorld the world was flat]] and how people also believed the atom was the smallest thing to exist until they split it open and found even smaller things inside. She then gets Ross to admit that it's possible he could be wrong about his beliefs, causing her to say to Ross that she got him to crack and now she can't respect him because he didn't fully believe what he believed in. On top of this, she rubs salt in the wound by telling Ross that now he can't face his colleagues at work or himself. Ross falls into stunned silence at what just happened and quietly walks out.
** YMMV on this one: when Ross admits he might be wrong about what he believes to be true, he is actually acting like a real scientist, so basically Phoebe laughs at him for doing what all scientists do. [[ArtisticLicense Of course, the writers never take this into account.]]
** To be fair, right before this, Phoebe said that she doesn't believe evolution is false; she just thinks there are many possibilities. She doesn't do what's mentioned above until Ross kept pushing the issue.

* YMMV, but Joey managing to turn a potential bad situation for Chandler and Monica around in "The One with the Home Study". To explain, Joey had previously dated their social worker, Laura, and never called her back; understandably, she's still pissed. So, to avoid having this ruin their chances at adoption, Chandler and Monica spend most of the episode keeping Joey out of her sight until, by chance, she does. So, how does Joey fix this? By claiming that ''she'' never called ''him'', and that she never gave him her number. He even makes a point of leaving in a huff, saying that any attempt at apologizing is too little, too late. Even better (and most shocking) is that '''this works'''.
** Well, he [[FridgeBrilliance IS an actor]]...
** An added subtle touch to this scene is that fact that he clearly doesn't remember her name during it (he came back once he did, though, but still in character). He managed to turn the whole situation around and get her to apologize for something she ''never'' did... without using her name (the closest he gets is by calling her "lady"). That's actually kind of impressive.

* ''TOW Two Parties'' is awesome for just how well the Friends all work together to stop Rachel's parents from meeting. They seem to function like a well oiled machine, taking cues from one another and being able to think on the fly, in a fantastic example of teamwork and improvised acting. The fact that they're all doing this without complaint, despite the stress and frequent humiliation, just to make Rachel feel better on her birthday makes it a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming too.

* Ross and Rachel finally reuniting in the finale.

* Rachel epically chewing out Ross in "The One where Ross and Rachel Take a Break", when Ross complains to her that she doesn't spend enough time with him.

* Rachel telling Ross how unfair it is for her that she gets punished no matter what happens between them in "The One with the Prom Video":
-->'''Rachel''': No, listen to me. I fell for you and I get clobbered. You then fall for me and I, again, somehow, get clobbered. I'm tired of being clobbered, y'know, it's, it's just not worth it... No, but Ross. We are never gonna happen, OK? Accept that.

* Every time Rachel calls Ross out on his more self-centered moments.

-->''And you work in a diner,''

-->''It's all in your heeeeaad!''

-->''(No-one likes a butt-munch)''

-->'''Chandler''': I mean, bullets have left guns slower.

* During season four Phoebe is told she can name one of the triplets she's carrying for her brother and his wife and decides to name it after one of her friends. She decides against Ross and says it'll be either Joey or Chandler and while the two argue over which it'll be Chandler takes Joey's dismissal of his name seriously and spends the next few days looking for a new one until Phoebe says she'll name the baby Chandler if he'll keep it. As soon as she's gone he turns to Joey and laughs, revealing his whole name changing fit as a ploy to get the baby named after him. Of course, it then backfires when baby Chandler turns out to be a girl.

* In Season four, Rachel is moaning to Pregnant!Phoebe about Ross and Emily's upcoming wedding. Phoebe then proceeds to tell her she had a similar problem: when she was homeless someone offered to give her food if she slept with him. Rachel asks how they are similar. Phoebe's response?

* The fact that, out of all the Friends, the only one who discovered that Chandler and Monica were together without catching them on the act was ''[[TheDitz JOEY]]'' [[note]] Rachel heard them having phone sex, and both Phoebe and Ross saw them from across the street (Ugly Naked Guy's apartment).[[/note]] and he guessed it from two minimal clues. 1) Both Chandler and Monica mentioned seeing Donald Drumpf while they were on what they told everyone were separate business trips. 2) The hotel called about an eyelash curler they left there, a call Joey took, and later Monica asks Rachel if she can borrow her eyelash curler.

* The fact that, out of all the Friends, the only one who discovered that Chandler and Monica were together without catching them on the act was ''[[TheDitz JOEY]]'' [[note]] Rachel heard them having phone sex, and both Phoebe and Ross saw them from across the street (Ugly Naked Guy's apartment).[[/note]] and he guessed it from two minimal clues. 1) Both Chandler and Monica mentioned seeing Donald Trump while they were on what they told everyone were separate business trips. 2) The hotel called about an eyelash curler they left there, a call Joey took, and later Monica asks Rachel if she can borrow her eyelash curler.

* [[ https://youtu.be/7H3DV-oVes8?list=PL4VjYMnxdYuW6Eqst_ko7JxLJgqC4ODfK Janice telling Chandler]] that she doesn't care that he broke up with her for the 3rd time because eventually he'll ''always'' come back to her. It implies GenreBlindness, as she's married to someone else a few episodes later. They did get back together the following season, but only very briefly, and then never again... Though she gives up on them as a couple with the birth of her first child.

* Monica starts dating a man who writes a poem while with her. She is at first happy until the others tell her it is saying bad things about her. She confronts him to find out it isn't about her but about ''all'' American women. She comes back from this by breaking up with him... [[https://youtu.be/xLnahXpHsN4through a ''barbershop quartet'']].

* Monica starts dating a man who writes a poem while with her. She is at first happy until the others tell her it is saying bad things about her. She confronts him to find out it isn't about her but about ''all'' American women. She comes back from this by breaking up with him... [[ https://youtu.be/xLnahXpHsN4through a ''barbershop quartet'']].

* Everyone throws water in Joey's face in order to help him break up with his crazy stalker. But they have a bit too much fun with it.

* Monica starts dating a man who writes a poem while with her. She is at first happy until the others tell her it is saying bad things about her. She confronts him to find out it isn't about her but about ''all'' American women. She comes back from this by breaking up with him... through a ''barbershop quartet''.

* When the gang started expressing disgust/dismay at the idea of Monica dating Richard's son, she pointed out their own relationship, er, quirks:

* Janice telling Chandler that she doesn't care that he broke up with her for the 3rd time because eventually he'll ''always'' come back to her. It implies GenreBlindness, as she's married to someone else a few episodes later. They did get back together the following season, but only very briefly, and then never again... Though she gives up on them as a couple with the birth of her first child.

* A subtle one early in Season 1 'TOW the Butt': Chandler has a no-strings-attached fling with a married woman. He's intially excited but realizes he can't deal with being her sex toy, and wants a real relationship and ends it. Despite Chandler's rampant insecurities and her being totally out of his league he's still got the guts to call it off. Especially meaningful as his EstablishingCharacterMoment was quipping about never getting women to sleep with him whereas this reveals that despite his committment phobia and jealousy of Joey's one night stands he actually happier in a relationship.

-->'''Other Passenger''': I just want to say that you... are a horrible, ''horrible'' person.

-->'''Other Passenger''': You say you love this man, yet you're about to ruin the happiest day of his life! I'm afraid I have to agree with you friend "Pheebs". This is a... this is a terrible, ''terrible'' plan!

-->'''Other Passenger''': [[SarcasmMode Oh no!]] ''(is about to put on his headphones, then turns back to her)'' And by the way, it seems to be perfectly clear that you [[TakeThat WERE on a break!]]

--> '''Rachel:''' And hey, just so you know, it's ''not'' that common, it ''doesn't'' happen to every guy, and it ''IS'' a big deal!

** "I should leave but I won't! I promised myself I'd make it through at least ONE of your weddings!" [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall ba dum tish]] "...Thanks."

* ''TOW Two Parties'' is awesome for just how well the Friends all work together to stop Racel's parents from meeting. They seem to function like a well oiled machine, taking cues from one another and being able to think on the fly, in a fantastic example of teamwork and improvised acting. The fact that they're all doing this without complaint, despite the stress and frequent humiliation, just to make Rachel feel better on her birthday makes it a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming too.

* Every time TomSelleck guest showed up in an episode, he got a standing ovation. ''Every single time.'' Eventually, they would just reshoot the scenes without the StudioAudience.

* When a food critic gives Monica a bad review, she tracks him down at a cooking class he teaches with a bowl of her soup, confident she cam change his mind. When the JerkAss critic balks at "subjecting himself" to her cooking again. Joey changes his mind with six simple words:

** YMMV on this one: when Ross admits he might be wrong about what he believes to be true, he is actually acting like a real scientist, so basically Phoebe laughs at him for doing what all scientists do. [[DidNotDoTheResearch Of course, the writers never take this into account.]]

** YMMV on this one: when Ross admits he might be wrong about what he believes to be true, he is actually acting like a real scientist, so basically Phoebe laughs at him for doing what all scientists do. Of course, the writers never take this into account.

--> Rachel: "He pretended to be Drake to, to sleep with me." (Throws water in Joey's face)
--> Monica: "And then he told me he would run away with me, and he didn't."(Throws water in Joey's face)
-->Chandler: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "And you left the toilet seat up, you bastard!"]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny (Throws water in Joey's face)]]

* The fact that, out of all the Friends, the only one who discovered that Chandler and Monica were together without catching them on the act was Joey [[note]] Rachel heard them having phone sex, and both Phoebe and Ross saw them from across the street (Ugly Naked Guy's apartment).[[/note]] and he guessed it from two minimal clues. 1) Both Chandler and Monica mentioned seeing Donald Trump while they were on what they told everyone were separate business trips. 2) The hotel called about an eyelash curler they left there, a call Joey took, and later Monica asks Rachel if she can borrow her eyelash curler.

-->'''Other Passenger''': [[SarcasmMode Oh, no!]] ''(is about to put on his headphones, then turns back to her)'' And by the way, it seems to be perfectly clear that you [[TakeThat WERE on a break!]]