Tonight's ep was HILARIOUS!! From Pheebs' struggle with the smoke detector to Ross and Joey on the roof to Chandler and the Oprah book to Rachel and finally a wee bit humourous Tag, the ep was hilarious!! I laughed so hard!!!
I only laughed at Phoebe's storyline. As if Ross and/or Joey wouldn't have had a cell phone to call one of the others and that the others wouldn't have noticed that they didn't come down with them. And Monica and Chandler were just plain boring.
Yes, Ross had one at the start of TOW Phoebe Hates PBS. He and Joey got thrown out of cinema because he was talking on it too loudly while he is trying to find somebody to tell him how to reach Emily.
I thought the episode was okay.
I liked the Phoebe storyline best. Ross and Joey had some good bits (Hey, Toni, they played a mini-version of your balloon game!) and the Chandler/Monica story had its moments. I found the Rachel/Tag plot to be fairly predictable and the least funny.
I'm not a fan of the character Tag, so I liked everything without him. Phoebe is so funny! When FRIENDS ends, she should get a spin-off show called "Phoebe!". Ross was hilarious in this show too.
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:27:48 +0100, Bo Stark wrote:
Joey got a cell phone when he got the part in Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. He's talking on his cell-phone in 621 TOW Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad right after he complains to Chandler and Monica about the robot. :)
According to tvguide.com, Rachel wants to "consumate" her relationship with Tag. I didn't see that episode last week. Can anyone tell me if she's done that or not? (I'm a R&R fan, and I hope it didn't happen.)
I thought this episode was good. I only found Phoebe's and Ross/Joey's storyline the most entertaining and the funniest. Rachel/Tag's and Mondler's storyline were ok. To me this episode is similar to TOW Joey's Fridge, it really didn't have any character development.
Anyways, I noticed that a scene was missing that was reported from the spoiler, which was:
"Phoebe goes to her draws, and pulls out a skii hat/beanie, and some ear muffs and then she can't hear the beeping anymore. Phoebe has a song stuck in her head and it is revealed to the audience now that the beeping is gone. " Oh mickey youre so fine. Youre so fine you blow my mind hey mickey....HEY MICKEY!"
Maybe it'll end up on DVD here in the USA.
I hope TOW They All Turn Thirty will live up to the last two episodes.
Contrary to other expressed opinions here, I didn't find anything worthwhile in this episode at all. I didn't even chuckle once. It's plain here that even the best actors can't make a silk purse out of this sow's ear of a script.
I don't know why Ross bothers with these other folks. They obviously don't care about him enough to spend a couple hours watching for a comet -- which you'd be unlikely to be able to see from New York City anyhow, the ambient light being what it is -- or to even listen to anything he says which MIGHT be about something more worthwhile than the latest television show ... uhhh .... hmmmmm....
But was it the writing that was funny, or DS waddling around in the ridiculous costume? For me, it was the costume moreso than the writing. Ross was obnoxious, himself, which does not make me laugh.
I am forced to agree. This was the worst episode I have seen. In fact ... it was the first one that was so bad that it didn't even seem like 'Friends' to me ... but just some random sitcom.
I was wondering about that lighting thing too. But ... I've always been frustrtated at the groups' determined *anti*-intellectualism (as about to simply not being intellectuals, which I expect of folks on American televison).
Yeah, TV as a whole is hardly a hotbed of thought -- and American Culture (such as it is) has always had a big river of anti-intellectualism running through the valley. That said, most shows worth watching have at least had some spark within them, and I fear they're letting their attempts at humor smother whatever part of that spark may still be barely hanging on.
Once read a piece about how "Format" becomes "Forumula" (think it was written by David Gerrold). Can we note how many episodes of "Friends" these days depend on getting characters in sub-groups and then doing something completely absurd with them?
This was truly the worst episode of the whole season thus far. And hopefully not an indication of where the series is headed. The Joey and Ross stuck on the roof scenario was not funny at all nor original in the least. Phoebe's storyline - well, it works when she plays off of other actors - this was weak.
Lazy writing - the series is going to need more than great guest stars to keep good ratings - the actors are better than this.
can someone pkease explain chandler's glasses to me?? I saw the episode where they were introduced...but i dno't recall him saying that he can't see anything without them. He wears them in EVERY scene.! I don't understand. For 7 1/2 years his vision is fine, but then BOOM, BAM, WHOP!!(sorry for getting too BATMAN-ish) he needs glasses every waking moment? And did he change his teeth??
I guess every situation is different but it could be like my cousin. He had perfect vision until he reached 28 then suddenly he had to wear them all the time because he couldn't see far away. Or like me I didn't have to start wearing glasses until I was 14. I think they should have went into this a little instead of the way they did. I mean if someone I was close too had glasses I think that's something I would remember don't you? As for the teeth I don't know but I never pay much attention to his teeth :)