Category Archives: Life Lessons

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, theContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 12”

The One With Mrs. Bing. In this episode Chandler’s mom comes to visit him and the rest of the gang, and she ends up kissing a drunk Ross. This causes much havoc within Chandler and his rocky relationship with his mom. Now even though this could definitely be enough to fill up a single episode,Continue reading “Season 1, Episode 11”

The One With The Monkey. As you may have guessed from the title, a monkey enters the lives of the friends as Ross’s pet. This episode is just before New Year’s and the gang makes a pact that none of them will have dates. Obviously one by one each member breaks this promise except forContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 10”

The One Where Underdog Gets Away. This is the first Thanksgiving episode in the series, and definitely one of the funniest because everything goes horribly wrong. The turkey burns because they get locked out of the apartment, Rachel tries to make it to her family skiing trip but misses her flight, Joey’s family won’t haveContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 9”

The One Where Nana Dies Twice. This episode manages to put a lighter and slightly more comedic spin on Ross and Monica’s grandmother passing away. But don’t worry, they are still sad. Also, Monica and her mom have a conversation about the relationship between mothers and daughters. Meanwhile, Chandler finds out that a lot ofContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 8”

The One With The Blackout. This wonderfully hilarious episode takes place when there’s a blackout in New York City and most of the friends get stuck in Monica’s apartment building, with the exception of Chandler, who gets stuck in an ATM vestibule with the supermodel Jill Goodacre. This episode also includes Rachel meeting Paolo, whoContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 7”

The One With The Butt. In this episode Joey finally gets a big break in a good movie (with a very weird role), Chandler dates a girl whom he finds out is also seeing 3 other guys, and we get to see how crazy Monica is about organization and cleanliness. A life lesson that canContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 6”

The One With The East German Laundry Detergent. In this episode you’ll get many laughs out of Chandler and Phoebe breaking up together, Monica and Joey making a plan to break up a couple so they can each date one of them, and Ross and Rachel going to do laundry on their first unofficial “date”.Continue reading “Season 1, Episode 5”

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: realContinue reading “Season 1, Episode 4”

The One With The Thumb. This is a great episode where Phoebe finds a thumb in her soda and gets upset for receiving large amounts of money that aren’t technically hers. Also, Monica finds a boyfriend but the rest of the gang ends up liking him more than she does, and Chandler starts smoking again.Continue reading “Season 1, Episode 3”