The One With The Dozen Lasagnas. The beginning of this episode is absolutely hilarious when they all just start singing the theme song of The Odd Couple together, at the same time. Quite a few things happen in this episode, with Paulo making a move on Phoebe, the sex of Ross’s baby being revealed, the big fuss around Joey and Chandler’s table breaking, and obviously, Monica having a dozen lasagnas to give out over the course of the episode.
A life lesson that can be taken from this episode is: trust the power of friendship to get you through tough situations in your life. One of the major plot lines of this episode is Paulo making a move on Phoebe, even though he is Rachel’s boyfriend at the time. Phoebe is giving him a massage, since that is her job, and he starts running his hands up her legs, which is extremely inappropriate. I just want to say that the scene where she tells everyone except for Rachel is done super well, and the reactions of everyone are so perfectly timed. It’s amazing. Anyway, back to the important stuff. Phoebe could have not told her friends because she wouldn’t want to be embarrassed or humiliated, but she did and it was definitely a good decision to tell them. They helped her resolve the problem and they supported her through the whole thing. I think that the entire situation would have been worse if Phoebe hadn’t told her friends what had happened, and the fact that she did was good for herself and for Rachel. Your friends are some of the people you should really trust the most in the world, and this episode shows that this is luckily true for Phoebe too. I believe that you should always be able to count on your friends to help you with tough things that happen in your life, and this episode of Friends demonstrates that very well!
The Squinting Observer 