Storyline:: Phoebe becomes surprised after hearing that her sister, Ursula, is getting married in two weeks. But after meeting her fiancee Eric at Monica and Chandler’s Halloween party, she is startled to hear that Eric is marrying Ursula for the wrong reasons, especially since Ursula has been lying about herself so Eric could be become interested in her. Phoebe soon then starts to find herself attracted to Eric knowing that Ursula’s lies may change his mind about her.
Characters: Phoebe, Ursula, Eric (Sean Penn)
Review: I think I’ll start off by saying it was nice to see Ursula again. Instead of her usual “yeah right” or “OK” she actually can say something. I thought she was a blast in the episode but seemed to be a little bit nicer than her usual self. The storyline wasn’t the funniest but it was quite amusing to watch. The lies that Ursula made up to Eric to marry him were pretty funny. The one about her praying with the kids was the funniest lie (“Come on Eric I have to go pray!”) Once again though we see Phoebe having to deal with her sister’s boyfriends. First it was Joey (but that was for good reasoning) and the stalker in The One With the Jam. Overall I thought it was nice of Phoebe to show that she does have some compassion for Eric and knows Ursula is the wrong person for him for many obvious reasons.
Storyline Grade: 90 (A) -------------------------------------- Storyline:: Monica is curious as to see who out of Phoebe and her can win but becomes disappointed when Joey said that Phoebe would. Soon Monica becomes even more curious as to see who out of Ross and Chandler is stronger. The decision to see who is stronger turns into the highlight of the party: an arm wrestling match between the two.
Characters: Monica, Ross, Chandler, and partially Phoebe and Joey
Review: This was the amusing part of the episode. We were discussing a few threads ago on who is the strongest between the guys. Monica stated that out of the guys Joey was in fact the strongest but was still eagerly waiting to see that who was the strongest between her husband, Chandler, and her brother, Ross. It was quite amusing seeing Chandler (the pink bunny) and Ross (Sputnik) starting to physically fight at first. I wanted to see more of that for laughs. But after Monica’s orders of no physical fighting in her apartment, Mona thinks they should arm wrestle. The arm wrestling situation couldn’t be more funny. Everybody was dependently waiting for numerous minutes to see who would win. Chandler may have not been the strongest but he proved to be a stronger man by “letting” Ross win so he could look good in front of Mona who was flirting with Joey at the time. I think we know that Monica is stronger than Rachel after she was holding down Rachel on the floor in The One With Joey’s Big Break, but I am still interested to see out of Monica and Phoebe who is actually stronger. The storyline ends with Monica and Chandler arm wrestling so Chandler can prove that he is stronger. Too bad we didn’t find out.
Storyline Grade: 93 (A) Storyline:: Rachel becomes excited to see how she can interact with kids before she has a kid of her own and decides by giving out candy to trick-or-treaters. She soon learns it’s harder than she actually thought after she sees that she’s giving out money (and not candy) to please the kids.
Characters: Rachel and trick-or-treaters
Review: This was also another captivating funny moment of the episode. It was funny to see how far the kids could really go to get what they want from Rachel, who is a mother-to-be. The storyline was funny at first but then became a little sour after a while. The “shut-up” argument between her and the boy with the cape was the funniest part of the storyline but nothing else really stood out. It wasn’t a weak storyline at all but it was mainly funny to see how kids can walk right over her. Hope her kid doesn’t turn out this way. The storyline though ended off very weird with Joey explaining to Rachel how much kids are even worse than the ones she toyed around with that night.
Storyline Grade: 85 (B-) ------------------------------- Notes
Here’s who was who:
Rachel- nobody Monica- Catwoman (did she look fine in that suit) Phoebe- Supergirl (To Monica: “Oh don’t worry it’s me Phoebe”) Joey-Chandler (liked how he tried to immitate Chandler again) Chandler (a pink-bunny he was forced to wear) Ross- Sputnik or Doody (either way he looked a lot better than he did in the Armadillo costume)
Funny how Chandler’s favorite book is Kathy’s favorite book from Season 4. ( The Velveteen Rabbit).
We know now that Joey doesn’t want to have kids.
The cast seemed to really crack up during the episode, just watch.
Who is Doody? (I know I may be too young to know that).
There was no RnR tension at all.
So who do you think would have really won in the arm-wrestling between -Ross and Chandler? -Monica and Chandler? I know Monica would win over Chandler but I’m still undecided about Ross and Chandler. After all everybody thought it was a joke when Ross said he could kick Chandler’s ass in the Season 7 finale.
And Rachel did state that she is not showing just yet.
Mona also looked fine in that nurse outfit. ("A slutty nurse?")
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