Storyline:: Monica and Chandler come home from their honeymoon telling Phoebe and Joey that they made friends with a couple until they realize after the couple's phone number is incorrect, that the couple they met really might not want to be friends with them.
Characters: Monica, Chandler, and partially Joey and Phoebe
Review: At first I thought "Please let this be an interesting Mondler storyline", and although it wasn't the most exciting Mondler storyline, I still found it was quite funny. I only found it to really be amusing because of Phoebe and Joey's constant teasing that maybe the couple Mondler met on the honeymoon, don't really want to be friends with them. I thought it was kind of funny that Joey and Phoebe were laughing at them especially since they were upset that Monica and Chandler wanted to mainly be friends with a "couple." and that they didn't get them any souvenirs. We learn later on that Monica thinks they might have not wanted to be with them because she thinks Chandler told too many jokes and Chandler thinks that Monica talked too much. It really didn't create Laugh-Out-Loud laughs but it was still amusing to see that even though they are a married couple, they still find some nuisances about each other. But I understand again that it wasn't a huge storyline because the episode was to actually give the RnR storyline a lot more attention. I'll say one more thing: the tag at the end was the least funniest part of the storyline.
Storyline Grade: 80 (B) -------------------------------------- Storyline:: Another quarrel comes about after Ross and Rachel argue who came on to whom, the night Rachel got pregnant. But only Ross holds the truth on a videotape he accidentally filmed the special night.
Characters: The Whole Gang
Review: Well here it is, we finally see the whole gang hanging out together for the first time since the day they were all sitting in Central Perk a few days before Mondler's wedding. I have to say I had a lot of high expectations about this storyline especially since I wanted to know whom the "third party" was that helped them out. Ironically, it was Joey, without him actually knowing he played a part on the night. Funnily enough it was one of Joey's many lines to get girls to have sex with him. We know that he used it on Rachel's friend, Irene, who told Rachel about the line too which easily enough we see her using on Ross, after he learned about the line a few hours earlier. The videotape turns out to be pretty funny after we see that Rachel leaves Monica's wedding invitations to the last minute, which Monica gets upset about by squeezing Rachel's hand tightly. And another funny moment from the video shows that Rachel was joking around by pretending she was going to spill wine on their invitations. We then learn that Ross and Rachel did it on some of the wedding invitations: even the one that is framed in Mondler's apartment. (Chandler's face cracks me up during that part). But it was also interesting to know that Rachel and Ross wanted to do it on Mondler's proposal night although at the time they were actually trying to figure out who should be their backup. Honestly the best quote is from Phoebe once again who came up with the Pervert motto, "Yeah you raise your left hand and stick your right hand down your pants and say that [I'm not a pervert]." The ending to the storyline was somewhat also amusing with RnR's face expressions (too bad we didn't get to see any of the video...DAMN TV Censors!) Sadly enough we didn't get any new information if RnR are going to hook up. I guess we will have to wait in the next few coming weeks to find out if that videotape will ever change Rachel's mind about wanting to be with Ross again.
Also there are too many funny moments from all the characters in this storyline (Joey's excitement to see the video, Ross telling Joey if he ever has girl problems that he could come to him, etc.) that I'll just leave it up the rest of you guys to mention.
Storyline Grade: 96 (A-) ------------------------------------
804's overall Grade 88 (B+)
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ONE BIG CONTINUITY ERROR IS POINTED OUT HERE: If Joey saw Ross with the red sweater that same night, why did he act so surprised it was Ross' in 802? I guess maybe he is that forgetful.
Courtney looked good tonight.
Even though she had very few lines, Phoebe still came out again with one of the best quotes of the episode (the Pervert Motto.)
Also even though it was canned laughter, the jokes were pretty amusing but we all knew the clapping and screaming wasn't a real response.