Please be warned now, if you continue reading you might find this may contain spoilers! I am writing about friends, season 7, episode 23.
So first of all I’ll set the scene for you, its the morning of Monica’s wedding, chandler has done a runner and Phoebe has just found Rachels pregnancy test in the trash.
Phoebe tells Rachel to distract Monica, while she and Ross go and search for Chandler. Rachel choses to use the fact that she’s ‘alone’ to distract Monica and ends up using “I’ll just sleep with joey” line to get her attention, which in turn only distracts her a brief period of time. Now I was thinking, surely Rachel would have told Monica about the pregnancy soon anyway, why didn’t she just use that as a distraction? I mean I understand she didn’t want to steal Monica’s thunder (we learnt our lesson on the before) but if she just told Monica it wouldn’t have been thunder stealing? She could have sat Monica down and spoke about the pregnancy, asked for advice and that would have kept Monica busy for longer, I mean she found out later that day anyway. I just feel like it would have been a way better excuse to ‘panic’ about, to distract her. I feel like it would actually be an easier turn out then telling people phoebe was pregnant.
Please be warned now, if you continue reading you might find this may contain spoilers! I am writing about friends, season 4, episode 9.
So, if you are a friends fan, you’ll remember Rachel’s boss, Joanna. In this episode, Joanna has an accident, which leads to her demise. Unfortunately for Rachel, this happened before Joanna could sort out her promised promotion. The thing that makes my mind wonder about this episode, is the fact that we never see chandlers reaction to Joanna’s death. If you recall, Joanna and chandler had a romantic relationship (s3, ep20), it was a pain for Rachel, and well, honestly quite a bit freaky for everyone (we all remember the handcuffs, I think Rachel does to).
Although their relationship was never anything to be considered serious, wouldn’t it bother chandler to find out his old flame had passed away? I always wondered why his reaction wasn’t written into the script. I mean, obviously Rachel would have told the gang about the accident, mainly due to the fact that it cost her a promotion. So, I maybe would have liked to see how chandler would have reacted to it. As we all know, before Chandler started dating Monica, and even a little bit after, he wasn’t great at dealing with emotions of any kind, and sarcasm was his go-to, in order to deal with hard situations (I can relate). So wouldn’t it have had some slight comedic value? I mean, friends is built on the premise of a group banding together, and dealing with the harsh realities of the world, but also adding comedy to brighten up those dark days we all have. I think seeing chandler, a man who has trouble dealing with emotion due to childhood trauma, would have added something to the episode and maybe helped a few people deal in similar situations. Let me know what you think?
Please be warned now, if you continue reading you might find this may contain spoilers! I am writing about Friends, Season 6, Episode 22.
So, in this episode of friends, Ross sneaks off to Elizabeth’s family cabin with her for the weekend. Little do they know, Elizabeth’s father Paul, and Rachel had the same idea. While Elizabeth goes to the shop, to purchase “protection” (and I don’t mean from bears), Ross strips down to his man panties and lays in waiting for her return. Unfortunately for Ross, he got caught with his pants down, literally. Luckily for him the person that caught him, was Rachel. Rachel then tried to get him out, before Paul noticed. Incase you need to hit refresh in your memory (I often do), Elizabeth was one of Ross’s students, and their relationship was extremely frowned upon by the university, and Elizabeth’s father, who forbade them from dating, and made threats to Ross, to ensure the couple stayed apart, but of course, that didn’t happen. So, for the most part of their relationship, they kept it a secret from nearly everyone, apart from the gang. So when they decided to take their secret love affair to the cabin, the last person either of them wanted to run into, was Paul.
When Rachel and Paul first entered the cabin, Ross chose to hide underneath the sofa. I mean, he had time to go anywhere in the cabin, and the stairs leading to Elizabeth’s bedroom, where right behind him, but no, he ran round like a headless chicken, and then thought under the sofa looks like a great place to hide *facepalm*. When Rachel drops something, she discovers Ross under the sofa, she then gets rid of Paul so Ross can find a better hiding spot, so he doesn’t get castrated. What does Ross do? run round like a moron again and ended up in Pauls bedroom *bigger facepalm*. Obviously this was written for the comedy flare, but it does make you wonder how Ross managed to get that PHD.
Another thing I noticed with this episode, is when Elizabeth returns, she walks in and says ‘here i am!’ obviously meant for Ross. But as her father is sat in Ross’s place, her and Rachel quickly make the excuse, that Elizabeth was in fact talking to them as she “saw the tire tracks leading to the closed garage”. Which led me to start thinking, about how Ross and Elizebeth got to the cabin in the first place. The most likely scenario is that Ross drove them down there, in which case, how did Paul and Rachel not notice a car? and even if they didn’t notice a car (which seems unlikely), how does Paul think Elizabeth got to the cabin? As the overprotective father he is portrayed to be, you would think he would have some questions, as to how she got there, and why she would be staying in a cabin on her own overnight. I mean it’s just a thought, but it did puzzle me. What do you think?
Please be warned now, if you continue reading you might find this may contain spoilers! I am writing about The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 11.
So, in this episode of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Amy (or Shamy), finally get down and dirty. Well I mean its Sheldon and Amy, so they probably got horizontal and sanitary. Anyway, they had “coitus”. Which lets face it, was a long time coming. The strange thing about this episode for me, wasn’t the thought of the two having coitus, it was the lack of reaction from the group. All throughout the season, the gang often make references towards Sheldon’s sexual orientation or if he in fact, even had ‘sexual needs’. So I was surprised when the episode ended, without a reaction from, Leonard, Raj and Howard. We did slightly get a reaction from Penny however, who advised Sheldon on how to, well “do the do”. But I still think, as an audience, we deserved to see a reaction from the OG members of the group. When I think about what the reactions would have been, I think the writers of the TBBT, missed out on some comedy gold. I imagine some dropped jaws, spit takes and well we all know Sheldon would gloat about his newly found skills. What is your opinion on this? do you think the writers should have included a reaction scene in the episode?
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