For those of you who haven't seen the 1-hour season finale of Friends 7th season, "The One With Monica and Chandler's Wedding", it is a must-see!
The best cliffhanger ever, although I did predict it...
SPOILER SPACE.....
Basically, the trailers and spoilers completely mis-led us, which I am happy about. I would much rather have a twist to the finale, than something boring and predictable. To sum it up, during the hour, you think that Chandler will back out of the wedding with Mon when he hears their new answering machine say "The Bings", he runs away, Rach and Phoeebs try to keep it secret from Mon, they go in the bathroom, find a pregnancy test in Mon's bathroom and try to keep this secret as well that Monica is pregnant...Ross convices Chan to marry his sis, and Chan is convinced when he overhears Rach and Phoeb discussing the pregnancy and he gets into the idea of having a baby, so he decides to go through with the wedding. Meanwhile, Joey races to finish taping his movie, and the wedding doesn't happen till the very end..........Joey shows up for the wedding at the last minute of the show (making us believe that something will go wrong, since the whole season and the whole episode, Monica has raved about how Chandler has been so easy to plan the wedding with and how they have had "smooth sailing." THEY ACTUALLY DO GET MARRIED...Joey pronounces them husband and wife, they kiss, Chan's mom and drag dad (Kathl Turner) smile as do the Gellers. Nice music plays in the background and Chan whispers to Mon that its okay and "he knows about the baby and he is happy"...Monica looks bewildered and says "What baby?" He explains the preg. test Rach and Phoeb found, and Mon says she never took a preg test.......Chan then asks "then who did?"
THE LAST SHOT IS OF PHOEBE AND RACHEL...PHOEBE SAYS, "Monica and Chandler are going to be so happy...can you believe they're having a baby?"...........THE CAMERA THEN CLOSES IN ON RACHEL AS SHE LOOKS SAD, AND HAS TEARS IN HER EYES, AND LOOKING ASHAMED. SHE MUTTERS" "I know." THE SCREEN FADES BLACK AND THAT'S THE END.....
RACHEL IS PREGNANT! THE BIG NEWS OVER THE SUMMER IS WHO THE FATHER IS...most likely, ROSS OR JOEY, but which one??????
P.S: there was a line in the episode where Rachel is crying to Mon about not getting married, and she says "I'm never gonna get married, maybe I'll just be a lesbian, or maybe I'll just sleep with Joey.." Could this be foreshadowing, maybe?????????????
We have the entire summer to ponder the possibilities.!!!