Friends
This is a show about love and sex and careers and a time in life when everything is possible... about the search for commitment and security... and the fear of commitment and security. Most of all, it's about friendship -- for when you're young and single in the city, your friends are your family.
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- 1994-2004
- 10 seasons
- HBO Max
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-PG
This is a show about love and sex and careers and a time in life when everything is possible... about the search for commitment and security... and the fear of commitment and security. Most of all, it's about friendship -- for when you're young and single in the city, your friends are your family.
Season 10 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 2003 - 2004
Episode 1
The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss
Thu, Sep 25, 2003 22 mins
Monica, Chandler and Phoebe find out that they can hear through the walls in their hotel rooms. Monica and Chandler cover the wall where they can hear Joey and Rachel kissing, and Phoebe covers the wall where Charlie and Ross are kissing. Both couples put their relationships on hold while they wait to talk to the other before proceeding. On the plane home, Ross tells Joey about him and Charlie, but Joey doesn't tell Ross about him and Rachel. Monica decides to get rid of her poofy hair by getting corn rows. Back in New York, Ross walks in on Rachel and Joey kissing.
Episode 2
The One Where Ross Is Fine
Thu, Oct 2, 2003 22 mins
Ross deals with finding out about Rachel and Joey's relationship almost as well as when he found out about Monica and Chandler. Ross invites Rachel and Joey to a dinner party with him and Charlie. At dinner, Ross gets drunk quickly and embarrasses himself. Rachel and Charlie go home which leaves Joey taking care of Ross. In the morning, Joey and Ross talk and Ross says he will get used to Joey and Rachel. Frank Jr. and his kids come to town and he asks Phoebe to have one of them, but he is not willing to give up any of them. Chandler and Monica visit friends of Phoebe's who adopted a son but Chandler accidentally reveals to their son that he was adopted after which he tells Frank Jr.'s kids that Phoebe gave birth to them which they also did not know.
Episode 3
The One with Ross's Tan
Thu, Oct 9, 2003 22 mins
Joey and Rachel consider themselves ready for lovemaking, but their hands strangely refuse to deliver normal service: she keeps slapping him, he is unable to undo her bra, a standard model, which he normally can handle with only one hand. Ross is envious of Monica's tan, so he goes to the studio to get sprayed himself, but messes up the simple instructions so he ends up dark on the front and lily-white on the back. Meanwhile Phoebe and Monica are annoyed by their old friend Amanda Buffamonteezi and her fake British accent, so they decide to ignore her calls, without telling Chandler...
Episode 4
The One with the Cake
Thu, Oct 23, 2003 22 mins
On Emma's first birthday, Rachel won't let the party start until Emma gets up. Then the cake ends up looking like part of the male anatomy so Rachel & Ross go to New Jersey to get a new cake. When Ross and Rachel get back, the others are playing with Emma's toys.
Episode 5
The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits
Thu, Oct 30, 2003 22 mins
Monica and Chandler let Joey write a letter of recommendation for adoption, but they find out that he sent the letter written in crayon. The adoption agency thinks a kid wrote it. Rachel's sister, Amy, visits again, and moves in with Joey and Rachel. Phoebe keeps ruining Mike's chances of proposing. While watching Emma, Amy gets Emma's ears pierced.
Episode 6
The One with Ross' Grant
Thu, Nov 6, 2003 22 mins
Monica and Rachel fight over who gets Phoebe's ugly painting. Joey gets mad at Chandler for lying about watching his audition tape. Ross can get a big grant, but Charlie's ex-boyfriend is in charge of it. He bribes Ross for the grant if he gets Charlie back. Charlie breaks up with Ross to get back together with her ex-boyfriend.
Episode 7
The One with the Home Study
Thu, Nov 13, 2003 22 mins
Ross refuses to allow Rachel to pass on her irrational fear of playground swings to their daughter, because of the time her hair once got caught in one and, 'far worse,' had to be cut off unevenly. He takes them both to the park where he has to face his own fear of spiders in exchange for getting Rachel to try a swing after seeing Emma enjoy it. Monica thoroughly clears away everything that might scare off Laura, the social worker from the adoption agency, but Joey, who promised to turn up in case she's impressed by a TV 'celebrity', makes things worse, because had once dated Laura and never called her back. Meanwhile, after trying on Monica's veil, Phoebe changes her mind about the donation of her wedding day money to the New York Children's Fund, and so drags fiance Mike along to seduce the foundation's clerk, whom she thinks is gay, to convince him to give back the money, but then feels guilty about it.
Episode 8
The One with the Late Thanksgiving
Thu, Nov 20, 2003 22 mins
Monica wasn't even volunteering to cook her annual Thankgiving feast this year, but accepted to please Phoebe, helped only by Chandler, whose culinary talent doesn't reach further then washing cranberries; they have a fit when everybody is nearly an hour late. Phoebe entered Emma for a Tristate baby beauty contest; Rachel was dead against in principle, but changed her mind as radically when hearing first prize is $1,000, and when dad Ross finds out that's not different. Ross got three prime tickets for the New York Rangers, and promised Chandler not to go as they would be late for Monica's dinner, but sneaked off with Joey anyway. Monica and Chandler are so mad they lock everybody out, just peeking in with the chain bolted, and Joey's head gets stuck. Suddenly an unexpected phone-call changes Monica's mood completely...
Episode 9
The One with the Birth Mother
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 22 mins
After Rachel confirms Joey is more mature in relationships, Phoebe presents him to another friend as date, Sarah, who fails alas to respect his primordial rule by touching food in his plate. Ross wants fashion advice for his date, so Rachel and Phoebe take him shopping, but after he left the choosing to professional buyer Rachel he accidentally ends up wearing her stuff, despite Joey's 'jealous' warning. Monica let the gang get her hopes up when Chandler and she fly to on adoption agency in Ohio. The pregnant mother, Erica, likes them- but only because their files got mixed up with a doctor and a female minister; Monica throws everything at playing the reverend part, but Chandler tells the truth, so Erica calls it off; Monica's pressing on only makes it worse, but Chandler explains privately...
Episode 10
The One Where Chandler Gets Caught
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 22 mins
Chandler and Monica have decided they want to raise their offspring in a suburban house and even find a perfect one in Westchester. Rachel and Phoebe see Chandler enter a car with his realtor, Nancy, and think he's cheating on Monica. After that misunderstanding is cleared, the other Friends are shocked the couple wants to leave Manhattan, and everybody starts reminiscing about living in New York as a gang, until Nancy calls about their bid on the house.
Episode 11
The One Where the Stripper Cries
Thu, Feb 5, 2004 22 mins
Phoebe's bachelorette party has no strippers, but Phoebe had wanted one - so Rachel and Monica hurriedly hire a stripper, but he turns out to be at least 50 years old, and under 5 feet tall. Joey appears as a celebrity partner on "Pyramid", but his narrow frame of reference produces less-than-desirable clues and answers. Chandler and Ross go to a college reunion, and recall what they did as freshmen in 1987, inadvertently revealing that they had both broken their longtime pact about dating. Chandler tells Ross that he kissed Rachel at a party, and Ross gets upset because that was the night he thinks he kissed Rachel for the first time - but Monica remembers the night differently.
Episode 12
The One with Phoebe's Wedding
Thu, Feb 12, 2004 22 mins
Monica is driving Phoebe insane as she plans Phoebe's wedding. At the rehearsal dinner, Phoebe gets really upset with Monica and fires her. The next day, Phoebe is going through hell doing Monica's job. Chandler and Ross find out that they are not included in the wedding, and when one of Mike's groomsmen can't make it, Mike lets Phoebe decide who should take the role. Phoebe passes the decision to bridesmaid Rachel; however, Mike makes his dog Chappy the missing groomsman. Joey is filling the role of Phoebe's dad during the ceremony, and he takes it too seriously. There is a giant blizzard which threatens the event, but Phoebe and Mike decide to still get married when the blizzard stops. Phoebe gives Monica her job back. Chappy can't walk on the snow, so Ross carries him. The minister can't make it, so Joey volunteers to marry Phoebe and Mike, and Chandler then fills the role of Phoebe's father.
Episode 13
The One Where Joey Speaks French
Thu, Feb 19, 2004 22 mins
Ross accompanies Rachel to Long Island after her father has a heart attack. Rachel wants to have sex with Ross, but he rejects her and they make a promise never to sleep together again. Erica comes to town, and Monica and Chandler find out that the baby's father might be a shovel killer. Phoebe, back from her honeymoon helps Joey prepare for an audition by teaching him how to speak French. Joey does not progress well, even on the first line, and Phoebe says he will never learn French, and runs out on their lessons.
Episode 14
The One with Princess Consuela
Thu, Feb 26, 2004 22 mins
When Phoebe goes to get her name changed she realizes she can change it to anything she wants, so she changes it to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock, to Mike's displeasure. Chandler finds out that Monica never changed her last name. Monica and Chandler take Joey to their house to convince him it is a good move and he tries to find anything wrong with the house so they won't buy it. Rachel goes to a job interview at a restaurant but her current boss is sitting right behind her, costing her her job at Ralph Lauren. When cleaning out her office, she bumps into Mark who takes her for dinner to discuss a job offer for her. And Ross got a tenure.
Episode 15
The One Where Estelle Dies
Thu, Apr 22, 2004 22 mins
[Continuing from the previous episode...] After getting back from a dinner with Mark, Rachel tells everyone that she got a job offer in Paris. Ross tries to get Ralph Lauren to hire Rachel back, and it works, but she still wants to go to Paris because they boosted her salary. Ross goes back to Ralph Lauren to get Rachel a raise. He succeeds, but she still wants to go to Paris, so Ross tells Ralph Lauren that she does not want to come back to work. Joey, upset that everything is changing, finds out in a weird way that his agent has died.
Episode 16
The One with Rachel's Going Away Party
Thu, Apr 29, 2004 22 mins
As Rachel prepares to move to Paris, Monica throws a going-away party for her. Rachel privately talks to everyone during the party except for Ross. Ross gets upset, and tells her that he at least deserves a goodbye because of their history. Rachel goes over his apartment, and tells him the reason she did not say goodbye was because it was too hard. That he was more important to her than the others. Then they share a romantic kiss. Meanwhile, Joey and Chandler are putting packing around their head, and hitting each other. Chandler finds handcuffs in the guest room, and assumes they are Monica's, Phoebe's, or Rachel's. They turn out to be Monica and Ross's grandma's handcuffs.
Episode 17
The Last One
Thu, May 6, 2004 48 mins
Erica gives birth to the baby that Monica and Chandler are adopting. However, there's one small added surprise. Meanwhile, Ross and Rachel sleep together one last time before Rachel leaves to start a new life in Paris but Ross realises that he still loves her.
Episode 17
The Last One
Thu, May 6, 2004 48 mins
Erica gives birth to the baby that Monica and Chandler are adopting. However, there's one small added surprise. Meanwhile, Ross and Rachel sleep together one last time before Rachel leaves to start a new life in Paris but Ross realises that he still loves her.