Plot Summary:
A Comedy Series based in Manhatten about 6 young friends, in the struggle to find success and happiness in life, but it is never that straight forward, is it? Rachel Green - A popular schoolgirl of the past, is now a spoiled brat living off her fathers finance. In an attempt to start a new life after running out on her wedding, she shares an apartment with an old best friend Monica Gellar, and eventually befriends the other 4 and Monica's older brother, Ross. Monica Gellar - A compulsive neat freak, who has trouble with her love life. Monica was teased when she was in high school for being overweight. However, now a head-chef at a top restaurant in Manhatten, she has lost all her excessive weight, and just wants to start a family with 'the right guy' to complete a happy life. Ross Gellar - Older Brother of Monica, he has always had strong love feelings for Rachel. A successful professor of science leads him to be often teased by the other 5 friends about his profession. Ross has experienced many misfortunes in life, including 3 divorces and bringing up a child with his lesbian ex-wife. Ross now is devoted to finding a girl to settle down with, without a divorce, and makes it his personal goal to share happiness with Rachel. Phoebe Buffay - Brought up as a fatherless child, Phoebe is a ditzy yet loveable hippy, who has become a personal masseuse. Despite liking her profession, her dream is to become a star in the music industry and bases her songs on her life experiences. The other 5 friends secretly believe that Phoebe will never make it, but still encourage her to write. Phoebe often performs at the 'Central Perk' coffee house, and strongly believes in herself. Chandler Bing - A financially secure data processor, who relies on humor as a defense mechanism. Despite being rich, the other 5 have no idea what his profession is, and Chandler is a wimpy, average looking cigarette addict, who has never had a serious relationship. Will he ever get it, and is she just round the corner from him? Joey Tribiani - Despite being close to all the friends, he is especially open with Chandler, who his also his roommate. Joey is a small time actor, who desperately wants fame and fortune, and Chandler has high hopes of Joey, so helps Joey with money for acting lessons and professional photographs. Despite being a relatively bad actor, Joey is an adorable, sensitive guy, who is very successful with women, but needs to become famous and rich to complete his successful life. A Side Splitting Series, with emotion and drama. Definite one to watch!
A Comedy Series based in Manhatten about 6 young friends, in the struggle to find success and happiness in life, but it is never that straight forward, is it? Rachel Green - A popular schoolgirl of the past, is now a spoiled brat living off her fathers finance. In an attempt to start a new life after running out on her wedding, she shares an apartment with an old best friend Monica Gellar, and eventually befriends the other 4 and Monica's older brother, Ross. Monica Gellar - A compulsive neat freak, who has trouble with her love life. Monica was teased when she was in high school for being overweight. However, now a head-chef at a top restaurant in Manhatten, she has lost all her excessive weight, and just wants to start a family with 'the right guy' to complete a happy life. Ross Gellar - Older Brother of Monica, he has always had strong love feelings for Rachel. A successful professor of science leads him to be often teased by the other 5 friends about his profession. Ross has experienced many misfortunes in life, including 3 divorces and bringing up a child with his lesbian ex-wife. Ross now is devoted to finding a girl to settle down with, without a divorce, and makes it his personal goal to share happiness with Rachel. Phoebe Buffay - Brought up as a fatherless child, Phoebe is a ditzy yet loveable hippy, who has become a personal masseuse. Despite liking her profession, her dream is to become a star in the music industry and bases her songs on her life experiences. The other 5 friends secretly believe that Phoebe will never make it, but still encourage her to write. Phoebe often performs at the 'Central Perk' coffee house, and strongly believes in herself. Chandler Bing - A financially secure data processor, who relies on humor as a defense mechanism. Despite being rich, the other 5 have no idea what his profession is, and Chandler is a wimpy, average looking cigarette addict, who has never had a serious relationship. Will he ever get it, and is she just round the corner from him? Joey Tribiani - Despite being close to all the friends, he is especially open with Chandler, who his also his roommate. Joey is a small time actor, who desperately wants fame and fortune, and Chandler has high hopes of Joey, so helps Joey with money for acting lessons and professional photographs. Despite being a relatively bad actor, Joey is an adorable, sensitive guy, who is very successful with women, but needs to become famous and rich to complete his successful life. A Side Splitting Series, with emotion and drama. Definite one to watch!
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Season 1:
This season introduces the six main characters: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing and Ross Geller. Rachel, who left her fiancé at the altar on her wedding day, has come to New York and ends up living with Monica. It establishes early on in the season that Ross has been in love with Rachel since the two characters attended high school. Several episodes revolve around his attempts to tell her how he feels. Meanwhile, Ross's estranged lesbian ex-wife Carol is pregnant with his baby. This puts Ross and Carol's lesbian life partner, Susan, in an awkward position. Due to the loneliness Ross brings home Marcel, a capucin monkey. When the baby is born at the end of the season, Ross, Carol, and Susan agree to name him Ben after a name tag on a janitor's uniform worn by Phoebe. The episodic nature of the season sees the characters learning moral lessons about life and having multiple dates, many of which go wrong (Monica dates a minor in one episode), yet each episode still ended happily. The recurring character of Janice is introduced as a girlfriend Chandler breaks up with in an early episode but frequently returns to through the ensuing ten seasons. Ross leaves for a fossil dig in China at the end of the season, but when Chandler lets it slip about Ross's continuing feelings for Rachel on her birthday, she is shocked to find out. She rushes off to the airport to tell him about her feelings, only to find out that he has a new girlfriend.
This season introduces the six main characters: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing and Ross Geller. Rachel, who left her fiancé at the altar on her wedding day, has come to New York and ends up living with Monica. It establishes early on in the season that Ross has been in love with Rachel since the two characters attended high school. Several episodes revolve around his attempts to tell her how he feels. Meanwhile, Ross's estranged lesbian ex-wife Carol is pregnant with his baby. This puts Ross and Carol's lesbian life partner, Susan, in an awkward position. Due to the loneliness Ross brings home Marcel, a capucin monkey. When the baby is born at the end of the season, Ross, Carol, and Susan agree to name him Ben after a name tag on a janitor's uniform worn by Phoebe. The episodic nature of the season sees the characters learning moral lessons about life and having multiple dates, many of which go wrong (Monica dates a minor in one episode), yet each episode still ended happily. The recurring character of Janice is introduced as a girlfriend Chandler breaks up with in an early episode but frequently returns to through the ensuing ten seasons. Ross leaves for a fossil dig in China at the end of the season, but when Chandler lets it slip about Ross's continuing feelings for Rachel on her birthday, she is shocked to find out. She rushes off to the airport to tell him about her feelings, only to find out that he has a new girlfriend.
Season 2:
Unlike the Brady Bunch-esque first season, this season features more serialized storylines; it begins when Rachel discovers that Ross "dumped" her for Julie, a woman he knew from grad school. Julie returns for several episodes early in the season. Rachel's attempts to tell Ross she likes him mirror his own failed attempts in the first season, but she accidentally lets it slip out on a phone call. When Ross finds out, he dumps Julie, but Rachel is angry because of a list of bad things that he wrote about her to help him decide between the two of them. Eventually, a prom video reveals that Ross intended to take Rachel to the prom when her date was late. This makes Rachel forgive him and they begin a relationship that lasts into the following season.
Joey, a struggling actor in the first season, gets a part in a fictionalized version of the soap opera Days of Our Lives but loses the part soon after when he angers the writers by saying in an interview that he writes many of his own lines. Tom Selleck begins a recurring guest role as Dr. Richard Burke. Richard, a friend of Monica and Ross's parents who is recently divorced and with grown children, is 21 years older than Monica but despite this they date for the second half of the season. In the season finale, they end the relationship when they realize that he does not want any more children and she does.
The second season also served to deepen Chandler and Joey's friendship. This becomes especially apparent in the episodes in which Joey temporarily moves out and a man named Eddie Menuek moves in. Chandler is disgusted that Eddie does not like what he likes, and has trouble bonding with him, so he allows Joey to move in and pretends that Eddie never lived there. Eddie's mental illness causes him to believe that he really has never met Chandler when Chandler insists this is the case and leaves him alone. Another surprise comes when Chandler falls in love with a woman over the Internet and when he goes to meet her at Central Perk, Janice his ex walks in. Despite this, they decide to get back together, for real this time.
This is the only season (excluding the final season) of the entire series in which the season finale does not lead to the immediate beginning of the first episode of the following season
Unlike the Brady Bunch-esque first season, this season features more serialized storylines; it begins when Rachel discovers that Ross "dumped" her for Julie, a woman he knew from grad school. Julie returns for several episodes early in the season. Rachel's attempts to tell Ross she likes him mirror his own failed attempts in the first season, but she accidentally lets it slip out on a phone call. When Ross finds out, he dumps Julie, but Rachel is angry because of a list of bad things that he wrote about her to help him decide between the two of them. Eventually, a prom video reveals that Ross intended to take Rachel to the prom when her date was late. This makes Rachel forgive him and they begin a relationship that lasts into the following season.
Joey, a struggling actor in the first season, gets a part in a fictionalized version of the soap opera Days of Our Lives but loses the part soon after when he angers the writers by saying in an interview that he writes many of his own lines. Tom Selleck begins a recurring guest role as Dr. Richard Burke. Richard, a friend of Monica and Ross's parents who is recently divorced and with grown children, is 21 years older than Monica but despite this they date for the second half of the season. In the season finale, they end the relationship when they realize that he does not want any more children and she does.
The second season also served to deepen Chandler and Joey's friendship. This becomes especially apparent in the episodes in which Joey temporarily moves out and a man named Eddie Menuek moves in. Chandler is disgusted that Eddie does not like what he likes, and has trouble bonding with him, so he allows Joey to move in and pretends that Eddie never lived there. Eddie's mental illness causes him to believe that he really has never met Chandler when Chandler insists this is the case and leaves him alone. Another surprise comes when Chandler falls in love with a woman over the Internet and when he goes to meet her at Central Perk, Janice his ex walks in. Despite this, they decide to get back together, for real this time.
This is the only season (excluding the final season) of the entire series in which the season finale does not lead to the immediate beginning of the first episode of the following season
Season 3:
This season took on a significantly greater serialized format. Rachel begins working at Bloomingdale's and Ross becomes jealous of her co-worker, Mark Robinson. Ross and Rachel break up after Ross sleeps with the hot girl from the copy shop, Chloe. His insistence that he and Rachel were "on a break" becomes a running gag through the remaining seasons. The two show significant animosity towards each other through the second half of the season, though the cliffhanger ending suggests the two reconcile. Interestingly, the first episode after they break up does not focus on the two of them, but on Chandler, who's having a very hard time dealing with the situation, as it reminds him of his parents' divorce. Also early in the season Chandler and Janice's relationship takes a shocking turn when Joey accidentally sees Janice kissing her ex-husband in his office, which ultimately ends with Janice going back to him. Phoebe Buffay, established as having no family except for an identical twin sister, becomes acquainted with her half-brother, Frank Jr. and in the finale discovers her birth mother she never knew she had. Joey develops a crush on Kate, his acting partner in a new play. At first, she doesn't harbor feelings for him, even after sleeping together. However, after her boyfriend/director dumps her following a scathing review of the play, she turns to Joey for support. The relationship doesn't last long, as she is given an opportunity on a soap opera in Los Angeles. Monica begins a relationship with Pete Becker, a millionaire who has a crush on her. At first, she only sees him as a friend, but eventually, the two begin to date. Preparing for what she thinks is a marriage proposal, Pete confides in her that he wants to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion. After seeing him get beat up badly in two matches, she tells him he has to give it up. Since he won't, she breaks up with him.
This season took on a significantly greater serialized format. Rachel begins working at Bloomingdale's and Ross becomes jealous of her co-worker, Mark Robinson. Ross and Rachel break up after Ross sleeps with the hot girl from the copy shop, Chloe. His insistence that he and Rachel were "on a break" becomes a running gag through the remaining seasons. The two show significant animosity towards each other through the second half of the season, though the cliffhanger ending suggests the two reconcile. Interestingly, the first episode after they break up does not focus on the two of them, but on Chandler, who's having a very hard time dealing with the situation, as it reminds him of his parents' divorce. Also early in the season Chandler and Janice's relationship takes a shocking turn when Joey accidentally sees Janice kissing her ex-husband in his office, which ultimately ends with Janice going back to him. Phoebe Buffay, established as having no family except for an identical twin sister, becomes acquainted with her half-brother, Frank Jr. and in the finale discovers her birth mother she never knew she had. Joey develops a crush on Kate, his acting partner in a new play. At first, she doesn't harbor feelings for him, even after sleeping together. However, after her boyfriend/director dumps her following a scathing review of the play, she turns to Joey for support. The relationship doesn't last long, as she is given an opportunity on a soap opera in Los Angeles. Monica begins a relationship with Pete Becker, a millionaire who has a crush on her. At first, she only sees him as a friend, but eventually, the two begin to date. Preparing for what she thinks is a marriage proposal, Pete confides in her that he wants to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion. After seeing him get beat up badly in two matches, she tells him he has to give it up. Since he won't, she breaks up with him.
Season 4:
In the Season 3 finale, Ross enters a room greeting either Rachel or Bonnie. In the Season 4 premiere, it is revealed that he was actually saying "hi" to both of them, as he finds Rachel spreading Bonnie's bald head with lotion. He decides to break up with Bonnie to get back together with Rachel, who writes a letter to him. Rachel writes that she is willing to reconcile with Ross only on condition that he accepts full responsibility for their previous break-up.
However, Ross is too tired to read a 36-page letter in the early hours of dawn ("18 pages – front and back"), but his desire to get back with Rachel is such that he accepts the letter without realizing what he has agreed to. When he does actually read the letter, he changes his mind. Thanks to Rachel's continuous reference to the letter after they have sex, they break up again.
Meanwhile, Chandler and Joey are with Monica at the beach, where she gets stung by a jellyfish. Joey, who saw a feature on the Discovery Channel, suggests peeing on the sting, but gets stage fright, so Chandler has to do it.
Having learnt the truth about her birth mother, Phoebe is extremely disappointed about her and the fact that she never tried to find out about her. Phoebe storms off, never wanting to see her again. After tracking her down, however, Abbott starts off an uncomfortable but moderately friendly rapport with her daughter (albeit with some initial struggling). During this season, Lisa Kudrow (who plays Phoebe) becomes pregnant. This is written in the show as her surrogate pregnancy which she goes through for her brother and his new wife (who also get married in this season but the audience meet for the first time in the third season).
Joey starts dating an actress named Kathy, whom Chandler has a crush on. However, Chandler and Kathy kiss while she still sees Joey. Uncomfortable about Joey finding out about her and Chandler, Kathy breaks up with Joey, but he still finds out about the kiss from Chandler, whose guilt is so great that he buys new furniture for their empty apartment. He becomes so angry that he starts sending off the stuff Chandler bought, until Chandler resolves the issue by spending Thanksgiving in a box (The One With Chandler In A Box). Thanksgiving this year is awkward for Monica, who invites Dr. Timothy Burke, Richard's son, and kisses him, a brief lip contact which reminds her of her ex-boyfriend, but Joey and Chandler make up on this day. Chandler starts dating Kathy, but breaks up with her after she sleeps with her fellow actor, whom Chandler sees having simulated sex with his girlfriend in a play.
Monica starts a catering business with Phoebe, but after reviewing Alessandro's restaurant and accepting a job as head-chef there, she and Phoebe break the catering business up. Her new rapport with her fellow workers is quite difficult at first, but following Chandler's suggestion, she fires Joey in a set-up and gains control of the kitchens. She and Rachel also lose their apartment to Joey and Chandler in this season (as a bet with a quiz with personal questions about each other). To make matters worse for Rachel, her boss Joanna dies, and as a result she gets shunted in Personal Shopping at Bloomingdale's, where she meets Joshua, whom she has a crush on. After several incidents which prevent Rachel from expressing her true feelings to him (including an unplanned opera visit which ends up with Rachel introducing Ross to his new girlfriend, Emily), she starts dating Joshua.
However, Ross and Emily, who are crazy over each other, move on quite fast, and agree to get married in London. This sets off Rachel in a competition with Ross, and proposes to Joshua, who is still in the process of getting his divorce final. She scares him off so much that he breaks up with her. Ross sends out the invitations for his London wedding (The One With The Invitation), and naturally he invites all of his friends, but struggles to invite Rachel after Emily's remarks. He decides to invite her anyway, but she is too worried of being highly uncomfortable seeing Ross marry another woman, so she RSVPs as not coming.
The friends all go to London (The One With Ross' Wedding). Monica helps Ross with the preparations for his wedding, but between the torn-down chapel, the hurried guests menu and other stuff, she almost puts the wedding off by suggesting to Emily to postpone the ceremony; she then helps Ross solve the problem. The rehearsal dinner is a disaster for everyone: Ross can't get his parents and new in-laws to settle their arguments about payments for the wedding, Chandler can't deliver the toast, Joey gets homesick (until he meets one of Emily's bridesmaids, Felicity), and between her mother's cynical remarks and a drunken guest mistaking her for Ross' mother, Monica falls in a depression about being single. In USA, Phoebe, who can't travel by plane because she in her third trimester of pregnancy, has Rachel staying with her. Phoebe helps her re-discover her feelings for Ross.
Ross' wedding day (and the second part of the season finale) contains a few surprises: Ross almost catches Monica and Chandler, who slept together; Rachel rushes off to London to tell Ross she still loves him (only to find him kissing his wife-to-be and realize that Ross is happy to marry Emily); and Ross has all his friends as guests to his wedding. The ceremony starts, Emily says her vows, and Ross starts saying his. But he stops mid-stream when he calls Emily "Rachel", putting an end to the fourth season.
In the Season 3 finale, Ross enters a room greeting either Rachel or Bonnie. In the Season 4 premiere, it is revealed that he was actually saying "hi" to both of them, as he finds Rachel spreading Bonnie's bald head with lotion. He decides to break up with Bonnie to get back together with Rachel, who writes a letter to him. Rachel writes that she is willing to reconcile with Ross only on condition that he accepts full responsibility for their previous break-up.
However, Ross is too tired to read a 36-page letter in the early hours of dawn ("18 pages – front and back"), but his desire to get back with Rachel is such that he accepts the letter without realizing what he has agreed to. When he does actually read the letter, he changes his mind. Thanks to Rachel's continuous reference to the letter after they have sex, they break up again.
Meanwhile, Chandler and Joey are with Monica at the beach, where she gets stung by a jellyfish. Joey, who saw a feature on the Discovery Channel, suggests peeing on the sting, but gets stage fright, so Chandler has to do it.
Having learnt the truth about her birth mother, Phoebe is extremely disappointed about her and the fact that she never tried to find out about her. Phoebe storms off, never wanting to see her again. After tracking her down, however, Abbott starts off an uncomfortable but moderately friendly rapport with her daughter (albeit with some initial struggling). During this season, Lisa Kudrow (who plays Phoebe) becomes pregnant. This is written in the show as her surrogate pregnancy which she goes through for her brother and his new wife (who also get married in this season but the audience meet for the first time in the third season).
Joey starts dating an actress named Kathy, whom Chandler has a crush on. However, Chandler and Kathy kiss while she still sees Joey. Uncomfortable about Joey finding out about her and Chandler, Kathy breaks up with Joey, but he still finds out about the kiss from Chandler, whose guilt is so great that he buys new furniture for their empty apartment. He becomes so angry that he starts sending off the stuff Chandler bought, until Chandler resolves the issue by spending Thanksgiving in a box (The One With Chandler In A Box). Thanksgiving this year is awkward for Monica, who invites Dr. Timothy Burke, Richard's son, and kisses him, a brief lip contact which reminds her of her ex-boyfriend, but Joey and Chandler make up on this day. Chandler starts dating Kathy, but breaks up with her after she sleeps with her fellow actor, whom Chandler sees having simulated sex with his girlfriend in a play.
Monica starts a catering business with Phoebe, but after reviewing Alessandro's restaurant and accepting a job as head-chef there, she and Phoebe break the catering business up. Her new rapport with her fellow workers is quite difficult at first, but following Chandler's suggestion, she fires Joey in a set-up and gains control of the kitchens. She and Rachel also lose their apartment to Joey and Chandler in this season (as a bet with a quiz with personal questions about each other). To make matters worse for Rachel, her boss Joanna dies, and as a result she gets shunted in Personal Shopping at Bloomingdale's, where she meets Joshua, whom she has a crush on. After several incidents which prevent Rachel from expressing her true feelings to him (including an unplanned opera visit which ends up with Rachel introducing Ross to his new girlfriend, Emily), she starts dating Joshua.
However, Ross and Emily, who are crazy over each other, move on quite fast, and agree to get married in London. This sets off Rachel in a competition with Ross, and proposes to Joshua, who is still in the process of getting his divorce final. She scares him off so much that he breaks up with her. Ross sends out the invitations for his London wedding (The One With The Invitation), and naturally he invites all of his friends, but struggles to invite Rachel after Emily's remarks. He decides to invite her anyway, but she is too worried of being highly uncomfortable seeing Ross marry another woman, so she RSVPs as not coming.
The friends all go to London (The One With Ross' Wedding). Monica helps Ross with the preparations for his wedding, but between the torn-down chapel, the hurried guests menu and other stuff, she almost puts the wedding off by suggesting to Emily to postpone the ceremony; she then helps Ross solve the problem. The rehearsal dinner is a disaster for everyone: Ross can't get his parents and new in-laws to settle their arguments about payments for the wedding, Chandler can't deliver the toast, Joey gets homesick (until he meets one of Emily's bridesmaids, Felicity), and between her mother's cynical remarks and a drunken guest mistaking her for Ross' mother, Monica falls in a depression about being single. In USA, Phoebe, who can't travel by plane because she in her third trimester of pregnancy, has Rachel staying with her. Phoebe helps her re-discover her feelings for Ross.
Ross' wedding day (and the second part of the season finale) contains a few surprises: Ross almost catches Monica and Chandler, who slept together; Rachel rushes off to London to tell Ross she still loves him (only to find him kissing his wife-to-be and realize that Ross is happy to marry Emily); and Ross has all his friends as guests to his wedding. The ceremony starts, Emily says her vows, and Ross starts saying his. But he stops mid-stream when he calls Emily "Rachel", putting an end to the fourth season.
Season 5:
Season five features Monica and Chandler trying to keep their new relationship a secret from their friends. Phoebe gives birth to triplets in the show's one hundredth episode. She gives birth to a boy, Frank Jr. Jr., and two girls: Leslie, and Chandler. (They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.) Ross and Emily's marriage is called off as Emily is intimidated by Rachel, and Ross is unwilling to give up his friendship with her as Emily demands. Phoebe starts a relationship with police officer Gary (Michael Rapaport). Monica and Chandler go public with their relationship, to the surprise of their friends. They decide to get married on a trip to Las Vegas, but change their plans after witnessing Ross and Rachel drunkenly stumble out of the wedding chapel.
Season five features Monica and Chandler trying to keep their new relationship a secret from their friends. Phoebe gives birth to triplets in the show's one hundredth episode. She gives birth to a boy, Frank Jr. Jr., and two girls: Leslie, and Chandler. (They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.) Ross and Emily's marriage is called off as Emily is intimidated by Rachel, and Ross is unwilling to give up his friendship with her as Emily demands. Phoebe starts a relationship with police officer Gary (Michael Rapaport). Monica and Chandler go public with their relationship, to the surprise of their friends. They decide to get married on a trip to Las Vegas, but change their plans after witnessing Ross and Rachel drunkenly stumble out of the wedding chapel.
Season 6:
In the sixth season premiere, Ross and Rachel's marriage is established to be a drunken mistake, and although Ross lies and says he got the marriage annulled so that he won't have to be known as the "three divorces" guy, Rachel eventually finds out and they divorce several episodes later. Monica and Chandler decide to move into her apartment together, and Rachel moves in with Phoebe. Joey lands a role on a cable television series called Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E, where he stars alongside a robot. Ross gets a job lecturing at New York University, and starts dating one of his students, Elizabeth (Alexandra Holden). Phoebe and Rachel's apartment catches fire, and Rachel moves in with Joey while Phoebe moves in with Chandler and Monica. Chandler proposes to Monica, who considers reconciling with Richard. Although Richard confesses that he still loves her, Monica accepts Chandler's proposal.
In the sixth season premiere, Ross and Rachel's marriage is established to be a drunken mistake, and although Ross lies and says he got the marriage annulled so that he won't have to be known as the "three divorces" guy, Rachel eventually finds out and they divorce several episodes later. Monica and Chandler decide to move into her apartment together, and Rachel moves in with Phoebe. Joey lands a role on a cable television series called Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E, where he stars alongside a robot. Ross gets a job lecturing at New York University, and starts dating one of his students, Elizabeth (Alexandra Holden). Phoebe and Rachel's apartment catches fire, and Rachel moves in with Joey while Phoebe moves in with Chandler and Monica. Chandler proposes to Monica, who considers reconciling with Richard. Although Richard confesses that he still loves her, Monica accepts Chandler's proposal.
Season 7:
This season mainly focuses on Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) preparing for the wedding which in the season finale gets to be a bit too much for Chandler. Joey's (Matt LeBLanc) TV series Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. gets canceled, but he is offered his job back on Days of Our Lives as a comatose patient with no lines. Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) apartment is fixed, but is rebuilt with only one large bedroom instead of two, so Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) says that Phoebe should keep the apartment and she decides to stay with Joey. Also during the season Phoebe discovers that she is also a year older, when Ursula shows her their birth certificate in the episode where Rachel turns thirty. In the season finale, Monica and Chandler get married and Rachel and Phoebe stumble across a positive pregnancy test in Monica's bathroom, leading to some confusion over who’s actually pregnant ending with a close up of Rachel hinting that she is the one that is.
This season mainly focuses on Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) preparing for the wedding which in the season finale gets to be a bit too much for Chandler. Joey's (Matt LeBLanc) TV series Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. gets canceled, but he is offered his job back on Days of Our Lives as a comatose patient with no lines. Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) apartment is fixed, but is rebuilt with only one large bedroom instead of two, so Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) says that Phoebe should keep the apartment and she decides to stay with Joey. Also during the season Phoebe discovers that she is also a year older, when Ursula shows her their birth certificate in the episode where Rachel turns thirty. In the season finale, Monica and Chandler get married and Rachel and Phoebe stumble across a positive pregnancy test in Monica's bathroom, leading to some confusion over who’s actually pregnant ending with a close up of Rachel hinting that she is the one that is.
Season 8:
The overriding theme of season 8 is Rachel's pregnancy and the birth of her daughter in the season finale. The eighth season's first three episodes revolve around the identity of Rachel's baby's father, who is revealed to be Ross. Rachel and Ross decide to have the baby, but do not resume their romantic relationship. Joey develops romantic feelings for Rachel, but she does not feel the same. Rachel gives birth to baby Emma in the season finale, and Ross's mother wants him to propose. Meanwhile Phoebe meets a patient in the hospital and has Joey pretend to be "Dr. Drake Ramoray" so that she can find out personal stuff about him. Also Chandler and Monica while being bored decide to start trying to have a baby after joking about with Phoebe and Joey in the waiting room. During the last scene of the episode Joey finds Ross's ring on the floor, and Rachel accepts what she thinks is his proposal. But, soon after, they call it off because it was a fake engagement.
The overriding theme of season 8 is Rachel's pregnancy and the birth of her daughter in the season finale. The eighth season's first three episodes revolve around the identity of Rachel's baby's father, who is revealed to be Ross. Rachel and Ross decide to have the baby, but do not resume their romantic relationship. Joey develops romantic feelings for Rachel, but she does not feel the same. Rachel gives birth to baby Emma in the season finale, and Ross's mother wants him to propose. Meanwhile Phoebe meets a patient in the hospital and has Joey pretend to be "Dr. Drake Ramoray" so that she can find out personal stuff about him. Also Chandler and Monica while being bored decide to start trying to have a baby after joking about with Phoebe and Joey in the waiting room. During the last scene of the episode Joey finds Ross's ring on the floor, and Rachel accepts what she thinks is his proposal. But, soon after, they call it off because it was a fake engagement.
Season 9:
Monica and Chandler continue to try have a child throughout the ninth season but discover that they are unlikely to conceive when they go to fertility specialist. Phoebe begins dating Mike Hannigan, who Joey set her up with at the last minute and chooses to be with him over her ex David after some agonizing ponderings. Rachel moves out of Ross's apartment along with Emma and moves back in with Joey when the two of them have a fight over them dating other people. Towards the end of the season Rachel finds herself developing romantic feelings towards Joey after having a dream about the two of them together. While giving some palaeontologists a tour of the city Ross finds himself attracted to one named Charlie who finds herself with feelings towards Joey, and the two start dating which devastates both Ross and Rachel. In the season finale, the gang travels to Barbados to hear Ross give a keynote speech at a palaeontology conference where Charlie ends up kissing Ross; Joey seeing this decides to go ahead with a relationship with Rachel, after she had confessed her feelings for him.
Monica and Chandler continue to try have a child throughout the ninth season but discover that they are unlikely to conceive when they go to fertility specialist. Phoebe begins dating Mike Hannigan, who Joey set her up with at the last minute and chooses to be with him over her ex David after some agonizing ponderings. Rachel moves out of Ross's apartment along with Emma and moves back in with Joey when the two of them have a fight over them dating other people. Towards the end of the season Rachel finds herself developing romantic feelings towards Joey after having a dream about the two of them together. While giving some palaeontologists a tour of the city Ross finds himself attracted to one named Charlie who finds herself with feelings towards Joey, and the two start dating which devastates both Ross and Rachel. In the season finale, the gang travels to Barbados to hear Ross give a keynote speech at a palaeontology conference where Charlie ends up kissing Ross; Joey seeing this decides to go ahead with a relationship with Rachel, after she had confessed her feelings for him.
Season 10:
The season opens in Barbados following on from the end of season 9. Ross and Charlie, a fellow paleontologist (and at the time Joey's girlfriend) kiss. Joey sees this and goes to Rachel's room, where the two of them also kiss. However, they both decide to talk to Ross about the situation to make sure he is okay with it. When Ross finds out after seeing them kiss, he tries to hide the fact that he is hurt, but they realize he is when he starts acting all weird around them. Joey eventually talks to Ross about the situation and Ross says that he will be okay with the relationship. After several obstacles that prevent Joey and Rachel from consummating the relationship, they decide to remain friends. By the end of the sixth episode of this season, Ross becomes single again after Charlie decides to get back together with her ex-boyfriend. Mike tells Phoebe that he wants to marry her which culminates in their mid-season wedding.
Monica and Chandler, after finding out that they are infertile, decide to try to adopt a child. They select a woman named Erica. Following this, they decide that they will need to move to a house in Westchester. Rachel is head-hunted for a job with Gucci, but in the restaurant where she is being interviewed, her boss (Mr. Zelner) is seated at the next table. She gets fired from Ralph Lauren and also doesn't get the job with Gucci, which leaves her unemployed. She accidentally meets Mark, her old work colleague from Bloomingdale's in Season 3, who offers her a job with Louis Vuitton in Paris. Ross, still being secretly in love with her, doesn't want her to leave and tries to make her take her old job at Ralph Lauren back and tries to convince her boss to increase her salary. Rachel decides she wants to go to Paris and says goodbyes to everyone personally except Ross. To which Ross reacts harshly and tells her that its not fair. When Rachel goes to Ross' apartment to explain they end up kissing and spending the night together. Ross expects Rachel to cancel her plans but she still wants to go.
In the season's (and series') final episode, Erica delivers Monica's and Chandler's baby, although—to their surprise—she actually had twins, a boy and a girl. Monica and Chandler name the children Erica (after the birth mother) and Jack (after Monica's father) and go back to their apartment to finish moving. Phoebe and Ross go to the airport to try to convince Rachel to stay, but they end up going to the wrong airport. After Phoebe successfully causes a delay in the departure, they eventually meet Rachel at the gate before she boards, but even though Ross tells her how he feels, Rachel still boards. Ross goes back home only to find a message from Rachel saying she made a mistake. As she is hindered by a stewardess from getting off the plane, the connection breaks. Rachel then stands in Ross' doorway says "I got off the plane" and they kiss and declare their love for each other.
The series ends with Chandler's and Monica's last goodbyes as they prepare to leave their apartment for their new home
The season opens in Barbados following on from the end of season 9. Ross and Charlie, a fellow paleontologist (and at the time Joey's girlfriend) kiss. Joey sees this and goes to Rachel's room, where the two of them also kiss. However, they both decide to talk to Ross about the situation to make sure he is okay with it. When Ross finds out after seeing them kiss, he tries to hide the fact that he is hurt, but they realize he is when he starts acting all weird around them. Joey eventually talks to Ross about the situation and Ross says that he will be okay with the relationship. After several obstacles that prevent Joey and Rachel from consummating the relationship, they decide to remain friends. By the end of the sixth episode of this season, Ross becomes single again after Charlie decides to get back together with her ex-boyfriend. Mike tells Phoebe that he wants to marry her which culminates in their mid-season wedding.
Monica and Chandler, after finding out that they are infertile, decide to try to adopt a child. They select a woman named Erica. Following this, they decide that they will need to move to a house in Westchester. Rachel is head-hunted for a job with Gucci, but in the restaurant where she is being interviewed, her boss (Mr. Zelner) is seated at the next table. She gets fired from Ralph Lauren and also doesn't get the job with Gucci, which leaves her unemployed. She accidentally meets Mark, her old work colleague from Bloomingdale's in Season 3, who offers her a job with Louis Vuitton in Paris. Ross, still being secretly in love with her, doesn't want her to leave and tries to make her take her old job at Ralph Lauren back and tries to convince her boss to increase her salary. Rachel decides she wants to go to Paris and says goodbyes to everyone personally except Ross. To which Ross reacts harshly and tells her that its not fair. When Rachel goes to Ross' apartment to explain they end up kissing and spending the night together. Ross expects Rachel to cancel her plans but she still wants to go.
In the season's (and series') final episode, Erica delivers Monica's and Chandler's baby, although—to their surprise—she actually had twins, a boy and a girl. Monica and Chandler name the children Erica (after the birth mother) and Jack (after Monica's father) and go back to their apartment to finish moving. Phoebe and Ross go to the airport to try to convince Rachel to stay, but they end up going to the wrong airport. After Phoebe successfully causes a delay in the departure, they eventually meet Rachel at the gate before she boards, but even though Ross tells her how he feels, Rachel still boards. Ross goes back home only to find a message from Rachel saying she made a mistake. As she is hindered by a stewardess from getting off the plane, the connection breaks. Rachel then stands in Ross' doorway says "I got off the plane" and they kiss and declare their love for each other.
The series ends with Chandler's and Monica's last goodbyes as they prepare to leave their apartment for their new home
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