The One With George Stephanopoulos. Between a moping Ross getting his nose broken at a hockey game, Rachel’s old friends coming to visit her, and all 3 girls ruining their slumber party, this episode has lots of laughs and lots of great scenes!
A life lesson that can be taken from this episode is: real friends will make you feel good about yourself and they will always be there for you. Sure it’s a cheesy one, but it’s totally true, and we can see this through Rachel in this episode. She gets her first paycheck and doesn’t get much money from it, and on top of that her old friends come back and don’t hide the fact that they think she is making a very bad choice by living on her own. Rachel’s quite sad about this and she comes back to Monica’s apartment and basically brings Monica and Phoebe down with her. But they stick together, they are there for each other, and they end up having a great time because they are real friends who care about each other. Likewise, at the end of the episode where everyone’s playing Twister, she gets off the phone with the VISA company and sees all of her amazing friends falling and laughing together, and in this moment she realizes that she is actually fine. She realizes that other people and her old “friends” might think she’s crazy, but that it doesn’t matter because she knows that she is happy and satisfied with where she is now. And, she also knows that she would never be there if it wasn’t for her amazing friends. This is definitely one of the more sincere moments in the show, and it shows the immense power of friendship and what true friends are for.
The Squinting Observer 