I miss Friends!!
Yes, I miss you guys. But also, the TV show. Several months ago, my friend Gen and I were discussing some of our favorite Friends moments (the one where the girls lost the apartment, when Chandler had to spend Thanksgiving in the box because he kissed Joey’s girlfriend, the entire season of "but they don’t know we know they know we know!"), and how it kind of tapered off at the end of the series. But then we remembered this awesome Chandler-Joey scene from season 8, when he thought he had a crush on Rachel. Gen located it on the web and e-mailed it to me, and I giggled like an idiot just reading it. It’s probably not half as funny if you haven’t seen it, but the comedic interaction between these two actors is spot-on.
Joey: (entering) Hey, Chandler, you got a minute? I- I really need to talk to you.
Chandler: Oh! Uh, yeah! Is this a cold pizza talk or a leftover meatloaf talk?
Joey: Well, neither.
Chandler: Oh my God, what’s up?!
Joey: I don’t know. It’s- it’s just…lately, I’ve been feeling… Okay, here’s what it is… <Pause> You know what? I feel a lot better, thanks! (Starts to leave)
Chandler: Oh no-no-no, no you don’t, just come back.
Joey: All right. Okay. You and Monica, friends for a long time, and sure, there are rules, but then you went to London. Oh, no, but that’s different. I mean, there are rules there, too! You know what I mean?
Chandler: Do YOU?
Joey: <pause> It was different for you guys! I mean, I mean, you were both in the same place, right?
Chandler: In London?
Joey: Yeah.
Chandler: Yes. When Monica and I were in London, we were both in London.
Joey: You know what? This is a bad idea. Forget it. Forget it, and listen, do me a favor, this conversation was between you and me.
Chandler: If that.
July 12th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Since I know what this is going to turn into - let me be the first to say…
Ooooh! My favorite one is when Ross and Rachel are broken, up, and they’re all going on a vacation to Rachel’s family’s, like, ski lodge or something. Since the breakup, they decide not to invite Ross, and try to sneak around and not tell him. They’re all huddled together talking about it in Chandler and Joey’s apartment when there’s a knock at the door, and Chandler looks through the peephole -
Chandler: It’s HIM!
Phoebe: Him who? Him Ross??
Chandler: No, Hymn 254, “His Eye Is On The Sparrow”!
July 12th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
Hee! I totally didn’t remember I had sent you that, J. I love that dialogue. JT, that moment is great too. I just love Chandler’s sarcasm.
Okay, it’s hard to choose my favourite moment but here are a few that always make me laugh… (I know I went a little overboard. LOL)
Rachel: Hey, just so you know: It’s NOT that common, it DOESN’T happen to every guy, and it IS a big deal!
Chandler: I KNEW it!
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Chandler (after having had to repress his scarcasm as a New Year’s resolution): I can’t take it any more! So you win, okay? Pheebs? Flying a jet? Better make it a spaceship so that you can get back to your home planet! And Ross, phone call for you today - Tom Jones, he wants his pants back! And Hornswoggle? What? Are you dating a character from “Fraggle Rock”? Ahh.
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Chandler: All right, you will notice that I am fully dressed. I, in turn, have noticed that you are not. So in the words of A. A. Milne, “Get out of my chair, dillhole.”
Joey: Okay.
Chandler: What are you doing?
Joey: You said I had to give you the chair, you didn’t say anything about the cushions.
Chandler: The cushions are the essence of the chair.
Joey: THAT’S RIGHT. I’m taking the ESSENCE.
Chandler: Oh-ho, he’ll be back. Oh-ho, there’s nobody in the room.
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Joey: Here it is, buddy boy. You hide my clothes, I’m wearing everything you own.
Chandler: Oh, my God, that is so not the opposite of taking someone’s underwear.
Joey: Look at me, I’m Chandler, could I BE wearing any more clothes?
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Ross: What are you doing?
Chandler: Making chocolate milk. You want some?
Ross: No thanks, I’m 29.
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Chandler: What are we gonna do? What are we gonna DO?
Joey: Uh, uh, we’ll flip for it, ducks or clowns.
Chandler: Oh, we’re gonna flip for the baby?
Joey: You got a better idea?
Chandler: All right, call it in the air.
Joey: Heads.
Chandler: Heads it is.
Joey: Yess! Whoo!
Chandler: We have to assign heads to something!
Joey: Right, okay, okay, uhhh, ducks is heads, because ducks… have heads.
Chandler: What kind of scary-ass clowns came to your birthday?
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Rachel: Guess what, GUESS WHAT?
Chandler: The fifth dentist finally caved and now they ALL recommend Trident?
Of the latest seasons, this had to be one of my favourite exchanges…
Joey: ‘Sup? ‘Sup, dude?
Chandler: [putting his hands up] Take whatever you want, just please don’t hurt me.
Joey: So, you’re playing a little Playstation, huh? That’s whack. Playstation is whack. ‘Sup with the whack Playstation, ’sup? Huh? Come on, am I nineteen or what?
Chandler: Yes, on a scale from one to ten, ten being the dumbest a person can look, you are definitely nineteen.
July 12th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
OH! I just remembered mine. Favorite. EVER. When Monica invites Richard’s son over for Thanksgiving (Michael Vartan alert!) and Rachel is all “That’s like inviting a Greek tragedy to dinner!” and the rest of them are all “sick sick sick sick sick” to her, she retorts:
Monica: Fine. Judge all you want. But, *points to Ross* married a lesbian, *to Rachel* left a guy at the alter, *to Phoebe* fell in love with a gay ice dancer, *to Joey* threw a woman’s wooden leg in the fire, *to Chandler* LIVE IN A BOX!
July 12th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
I totally remembered that one after posting mine. It’s probably my favourite exchange too.
One line I used all the time for a while was Chandler’s “Gum would be perfection.”
Joey: Rach, you gotta find out if he’s in the same place you are. Otherwise, it’s just a moo point.
Rachel: A moo point?
Joey: Yeah. It’s like a cow’s opinion. It just doesn’t matter. It’s moo.
Rachel: Have I been living with him too long or did that all just make sense?
July 13th, 2005 at 8:08 am
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Ross: What are you doing?
Chandler: Making chocolate milk. You want some?
Ross: No thanks, I’m 29. ”
OH.MY.GOODNESS.
I just laughed. Out loud. SO hard. And it was completely quiet in here. The people here in the church office think I’m insane.
It’s okay, though, b/c I think THEY are.
July 13th, 2005 at 10:06 am
The chocolate milk quote is my ALL TIME FAVORITE in the history of friends. I crack myself up whenever I read it.
=D
July 13th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
HA!
Just read it again.
Laughed out loud - UH-gain.
Damn thee, Kauffman and Crane! What power dost thou have over me!
July 14th, 2005 at 6:19 am
my favorite friends is the one where phoebe finds a thumb in her coke. it
is also the one where her bank puts all that extra money in her acct.
Phoebe: “I can’t spend the money. It will be like stealing”
Rachel: “but you can spend the money. It will be like shopping”
Phoebe: “okay so say I go shopping and buy a really nice pair of shoes.
Every time I take a step on the sidewalk I will be reminded by each step.
not mine, not mine, not mine. and say I am really excited and I start
skipping. I will be reminded not not mine, not not mine.”
I still laugh at that one.