TOW Ross and Rachel's Running Record
Over the past 7 years, our favourite couple have had more ups and downs than... um... a really bumpy place. :-)
Here's the full details, if you've got some catching up to do.
101 The One Where It All Began (Pilot):
Ross, who's ex-wife Carol has just left him for another woman, and Rachel, who has just ditched her fiancee at the altar, meet again for the first time since high school. The fire of passion ignites inside Ross, who tells Rachel that he had a huge crush on her in high school. He then casually mentions asking Rachel out sometime. She seems excited.
102 The One With The Sonogram At The End:
Ross' ex-wife tells him that she's pregnant with his child. Ross helps Rachel sweep up Central Perk after closing time. Lamenting about each others' current romantic situations, Rachel lays her head on Ross' hand. Needless to say, Ross doesn't mind.
103 The One With The Thumb:
Rachel pokes fun at the way Ross over-pronounces every word (Ross: "There's nothing wrong with speaking correctly". Rachel: "Indeed there isn't"). Ross gives her a dirty look. The tension mounts.
105 The One With The East German Laundry Detergent:
Ross and Rachel do their laundry together at the local laundromat. Ross helps Rachel to discover a bit of independence, and she is so pleased with his help that she gives him a kiss. Stunned, Ross runs into the door of a washing machine. Afterwards, Rachel lovingly applies an icepack.
107 The One With The Blackout:
During a blackout, Joey encourages Ross to tell Rachel how he feels about her. Meeting her out on the infamous balcony, he begins to ask her out when a stray cat jumps on him from behind. The moment ruined, Rachel goes off to find the owner of the cat and meets a handsome Italian man, Paolo. She brings him back to the apartment, where Ross tells him to stay out of the way. When the lights come back on, Ross sees Rachel making out with him. A definite low point in the relationship.
108 The One Where Nana Dies Twice:
At his grandmother's funeral, Ross takes one too many pain pills and gets a bit woozy. He tells all his friends how much he loves them, and then secretly confides in Rachel 'I love you the most. Rachel, thinking its just the drugs talking, playfully replies 'Do you know who I love the most? You!' Ross, upset with the misunderstanding, wails 'You don't get it!' and passes out in her lap.
110 The One With The Monkey:
Rachel confides to the group that by their second date, Paolo had already named both of her breasts. When she asks if she said too much, Ross dejectedly replies 'Just a smidge.'
111 The One With Mrs. Bing:
Chandler's mom comes to visit, and the group goes to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Rachel arrives late with Paolo, saying that they 'just lost track of time.' Ross starts downing tequila shots, and ends up kissing Chandler's mom.
112 The One With The Dozen Lasangas:
Paolo goes to Phoebe for a massage and makes a pass at her. Finally seeing the light, Rachel breaks up with him. Ross goes out to the infamous balcony to comfort her, and tells her she deserves someone who knows what they have when they have her. They embrace. Rachel then tells Ross that she is swearing off guys for a while. Ross tries to convince her otherwise to no avail.
114 The One With The Candy Hearts:
Depressed about the Rachel ordeal, Ross asks a good-looking woman from his building out on a date, while Rachel and the other girls have a 'boyfriend bonfire.' Ross runs into his lesbian ex-wife during his date, where he tries to patch things up with her. It's a no-go, since she is a lesbian. Rachel makes a date with one of the firemen who helps put out their out-of-control bonfire, not knowing that he's married.
118 The One With The Poker:
The whole crew has a poker game together. In the first game, Rachel gets upset that the guys get such a kick out of taking their money. Ross tells Rachel that once the cards are dealt, he ceases to be a 'nice guy.' Rachel tells the other girls she thought he was being a jerk. In a subsequent poker game, Rachel refuses to show her cards to Ross after he folds, causing him to get angry. During the next hand, Rachel gets a phone call telling her that she has been turned down for the job offer she wanted. Ross, noticing her obvious sadness, intentionally folds the winning hand to let Rachel have the pot.
119 The One Where The Monkey Gets Away:
Ross and Rachel have dinner together alone, where she tells him that she wants to be with someone. Ross, about to bear his soul, is interrupted by the other four friends returning home from a movie. The next day, Rachel accidentally lets Ross' monkey loose in the apartment while looking after him. She then unwittingly calls Animal Control, not knowing that the monkey is an illegal animal. Ross is furious with Rachel, but every-thing turns out OK. Alone once again, Ross pours wine for the two of them and dims the lights. Rachel puts her hand on his leg. Ross begins to tell her how he feels, when Rachel's ex-fiancee walks through the door and tells her that he still loves her. Ross proclaims: 'We have got to start locking that door!'
120 The One With The Evil Orthodontist:
Ross storms out of Monica's apartment after hearing about Rachel's fling with the man she left at the altar. Oh dear.
123 The One With The Birth:
Rachel has erotic dreams about Chandler and Joey, leading Ross to get extremely jealous. While she is asleep on Monica's couch, he gets up to leave and covers her up, when she moans 'Oooooohhhhhh Ross!' Overjoyed that she is dreaming of him, Ross begins to dance on the table and falls into her lap. She wakes up, confused about the situation. She puts her hand on his chest, and he tells her 'I'm here.' Then his beeper goes off, as his ex-wife goes into labor.
124 The One Where Rachel Finds Out:
Chandler tells Ross move on and forget about Rachel. Ross goes to China on a business trip, leaving a present behind for Chandler to give to Rachel for her birthday. When she opens it, she finds that it is an expensive brooch like the one her grandmother had when she was little. She says she can't believe that he did this for her, at which point Chandler lets it slip that Ross is in love with her. Rachel rushes to the airport to talk to him, but barely misses him. A few days later, while having drinks with another guy on the infamous balcony, Rachel begins daydreaming about Ross. On the day his flight arrives, she runs to meet him with a bouquet of flowers... when he gets off the plane with another woman.
201 The One With Ross's New Girlfriend:
Ross tells Chandler he never would have gone for it with the new woman--Julie--if Chandler hadn't told him to get over Rachel. Rachel, upset about the turn of events, sleeps with Paolo again. Joey tells Rachel that she needs to tell Ross how she feels. She meets him out on the infamous balcony, where Ross tells her how much he hates Paolo and that she needs to be with someone that makes her feel good--like Julie does for him. Rachel, speechless, decides not to tell Ross how she feels.
202 The One With The Breast Milk:
Monica goes shopping with Julie, and Rachel gets jealous. Monica tells Rachel that if she gave Julie a chance, she would like her. Rachel and Julie talk, and Julie asks Rachel if she'd like to see a movie some time. Rachel says that would be great. Julie then leaves, and Rachel mutters, 'What a manipulative bitch.'
204 The One With Phoebe's Husband:
Ross asks Rachel how long she has been in a relationship before having sex. Rachel deduces that Ross hasn't done it yet with Julie, and tells him that he should wait. Ross takes Joey's advice instead, who tells him to do it as soon as possible. The gang hangs out at Ross' apartment, where Rachel tries to stall the two so they won't have sex. On her way out, Rachel tells Ross that if it were her, she would want him to slowly kiss her, and then look in her eyes as if something amazing were about to happen. Ross seems entranced. The two get close, as if about to kiss, and then Ross says 'Thanks, Rach. Goodnight,' and shuts the door.
207 The One Where Ross Finds Out:
Rachel hears that Ross and Julie are going to buy a cat together and gets worried their relationship is getting too serious. She goes out on a date and gets toasted, and can't talk about anything but Ross. Her date convinces her to call him and tell him how she feels. She calls him from the restaurant and leaves a message on his machine. The next morning, he comes by her apartment and checks his answering machine from there. Rachel remembers the message she left and tries to stop him from hearing it, embarrassed. But he does. They start to talk, but he has to leave with Julie. Later that night, Ross shows up at Central Perk and gets upset with Rachel for disclosing her feelings because he is unhappy with Julie now. The two argue in what has got to be one of the best scenes that has ever been on television. He leaves, and she locks the doors and begins to cry. Just when we think the episode is over, he comes back, and they share one of the most long-awaited kisses in television history. Talk about your good days.
208 The One With The List:
Ross, forced to choose between Rachel and Julie, takes Chandler's advice and makes a list of the negative sides of both women to help him decide. He decides to break up with Julie for Rachel, and at first everything seems great until Rachel sees the list on Chandler's computer. She is so enraged by seeing her negative points on his list that she wants nothing to do with him. He tries to make it up to her by requesting U2's 'With or Without You' for her on the radio, but she calls the radio back and tells them to stop playing it. Talk about your bad days.
209 The One With Phoebe's Dad:
Sensing that Rachel is still upset with him about the infamous list, Ross convinces her that she'll feel better if she makes a list of his faults. She tells him that he is obsessive, gutless, whiney, and that he uses too much gel in his hair. Ross is taken aback, but it looks like the wounds are healing between these two young lovers. However, Ross may have made a bad decision buying Rachel a Slinky for Christmas. Nevertheless, it looks like the most-watched romance in television is on the verge of a major breakthrough!
210 The One With Russ:
Rachel tells the group that she no longer has any feelings whatsoever for Ross. She then introduces them to her new date, Russ, who looks and acts much like Ross... however, Rachel fails to notice the similarities. When it finally becomes clear to her that Russ and Ross have more in common than just their names, she promptly dumps him. Russ then falls in love with Ross' ex-girlfriend, Julie
214 The One With The Prom Video:
Rachel tells Ross that they will never be a 'thing,' and that he had to accept it. After spending the rest of the day in emotional hell, Ross returns to Monica's apartment to find the entire gang watching an old video tape of Monica and Rachel's senior prom. In the video, Rachel's date has stood her up and Monica's father talks Ross into asking Rachel to the prom. Ross puts on his father's tux, and is just about to ask Rachel to the dance when her date shows up, and she leaves with him. Rachel is so touched by what she sees in the video that her feelings for Ross come rushing back in a huge torrent, and she walks up to him and kisses him full on the mouth, signalling the beginning of a new era in her life... The Age of Ross.
215 The One Where Ross and Rachel... You Know:
Ross and Rachel. Together. Finally. Having planned to go to a romantic dinner and then come back to Rachel's apartment for... dessert, Ross ends up having to straighten some business at the museum he works at, and Rachel tags along Unfortunately, his business takes longer than he had expected. Fortunately, they end up hitting it in the astrology exhibit at the museum. They wake in the morning to see a group of young kids on a field trip who are, needless to say, shocked by the two naked people in the exhibit. Be that as it may, it doesn't change the fact that Ross and Rachel are now officially more than just 'friends.'
216 The One Where Joey Moves Out:
Rachel and Phoebe decide to get tattoos, but Rachel finds out that Ross doesn't think they are very appealing. Rachel accompanies Phoebe to the tattoo parlor, and expresses her second thoughts. Phoebe (apparently in an act of insane jealousy over Rachel's relationship) asks Rachel 'Is this how this relationship is going to work? Ross equals boss?' Not wanting to look like a wimp, Rachel proceeds to get a small heart tattooed on her hip. She is extremely upset when she finds out that Phoebe chickened out at the last minute. Ross walks in on Rachel as she is proudly displaying the tattoo to Monica and her new boyfriend, and is upset that Rachel got the tattoo. After staring at it intensely, though, Ross realizes how sexy it is and he and Rachel spend the next few hours in Rachel's bedroom. Talking, I'm sure. :)
217 The One Where Eddie Moves In:
Rachel becomes mildly upset with Ross for acting childish around Monica. However, the two look as close as ever... all is well in paradise.
218 The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies:
Ross and Rachel finally sit down and have a serious heart-to-heart talk about Rachel's feelings for Paolo. The conversation ends well when Rachel beats Monica in rock-paper-scissors in order to obtain the last condom in the apartment.
219 The One Where Eddie Won't Go:
Rachel reads a self-empowerment book that refers to men as 'lightning-bearers' and urges women to stop letting males steal their wind. Ross comes to take her to a movie, and she begins to feel that he is oppressing her. 'How can you expect me to grow if you won't let me blow?' she asks. To which an aroused Ross replies, 'You know I don't have a problem with that.' Book or no book, things are going just fine for America's hottest couple. Stay tuned!
220 The One Where Old Yeller Dies:
Rachel becomes nervous when Ross slips up and tells her that he has planned out the rest of their lives together (Ross, didn't anyone ever tell you that women don't like that stuff?) This leads to an argument where Rachel tells him that she doesn't want anyone planning her life for her, and Ross telling her that he is the type of guy who is not going to stop planning to spend the rest of his life with the woman he truly loves. This momentous conversation ends with Ross and Rachel exchanging those three little words that mean so much.
221 The One With The Bullies:
Very little to report this week, folks. Ross and Chandler encounter two middle-aged bullies at the coffeehouse, leading Ross to get an affectionate hug from Rachel after he tells her the story.
222 The One With Two Parties:
Rachel's birthday party turns into mayhem when her newly-separated mother and father both show up. Feeling down about the breakup, Rachel turns to Chandler for advice, who in turn turns her over to Ross for comfort.
224 The One With Barry and Mindy's Wedding:
accompanies Rachel to Barry and Mindy's wedding... Barry, of course,
being the man that she left at the altar waaaaayyy back in the pilot
episode. Barry, still hurting from her rapid exit from their ceremony,
pokes fun at her during his speech. Ross stands up for her at first,
but Rachel decides that she needs to stick up for herself and tells
him off at his own wedding. We sure have come a long way... I remember
when Rachel couldn't even protect her own laundry cart.
301 The One With The Princess Leia Fantasy:
Rachel convinces Ross to reveal his deepest sexual fantasy to her... a fantasy which she later reveals to Phoebe. See, it seems that Ross--along with every other male in the free world--has this little hang-up about Princess Leia in her slave outfit from Return of the Jedi. Well, Ross decides to share his secret with Chandler and in return Chandler tells Ross that he sometimes pictures his mother while he's having sex. Ross is shocked and disgusted, but when Rachel finally shows up in the gold bikini, Ross can't seem to get his mother out of his mind. Ohhh Ross... you're letting the hottest babe in New York slip away. The final days of the Age of Ross are not far away.
302 The One Where No-One's Ready:
In a hurry to get the whole gang ready for a museum benefit, Ross blows up at Rachel due to her inability to get dressed on time. Humiliated and angry, Rachel decides not to go to the benefit. But Ross' nice-guy mentality proves to win out here when he chooses to drink a disgusting glass of meat fat in order to show her how much he wants her to be there. Of course, Rachel stops him before he can quaff the concoction, and the two end up going together happily ever after... Rachel sans underwear, no less.
303 The One With The Jam:
Ross and Rachel give Chandler some friendly advice to help him out with his relationship with Janice, and Ross privately teaches Chandler the hug-and-roll maneuver to avoid cuddling after sex. When Chandler tries the move on Janice, however, she falls off the bed. The next day, Janice lets it slip to Rachel that Ross taught Chandler the move. Rachel is upset with Ross because she had thought of them as "cuddly sleepers."
304 The One With The Metaphorical Tunnel:
Rachel becomes moderately annoyed with Ross' unwillingness to accept the fact that his son is playing with a Barbie doll rather than a more masculine doll. Luckily, the week's major revelation--that Ross used to dress up as a girl when he was younger--does not become disclosed to Rachel.
305 The One With Frank Jr:
Ross and Rachel trade lists of the five celebrities who they would be allowed to cheat on each other for. Rachel's list includes Parker Stevenson, Sting, Daniel Day Lewis (?), John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Chris O'Donnell. Ross gives plenty of though to his list, finally deciding on Uma Thurman, Wynona Ryder, Elizabeth Hurley, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Dorothy Hammill (to which Rachel notes, "You do realize that she only spins like that on ice?") One of Ross' original inclusions, Isabella Rossalini, coincidentally happens to show up at Central Perk after Ross has laminated his list. Rachel doesn't believe him when he tells her that had he not taken her off the list, he would go up and flirt with her. Rachel allows him to use her as an alternate, and he is quickly shot down by Rossalini. He then runs into the waiting arms of Rachel.
306 The One With The Flashback:
We learn that prior to Ross and Rachel's hot love affair, Ross nearly had sex with Phoebe on the pool table of the closed-down bar where Central Perk now stands. We also learn that Rachel at one time fantasized about making it with Chandler in the very same pool room before her subsequent wedding and the abandonment thereof.
307 The One With The Racecar Bed:
Ross has dinner with Rachel and her father, much to his chagrin. Rachel's dad shorts the waiter on the tip, and Ross swiftly adds another $20 to the tab. When Rachel's dad goes back to get a copy of the receipt, however, he notes the extra $20 and thinks that Ross is trying to imply that he's cheap. Rachel's dad tears up the check and leaves Ross to foot the entire bill. Rachel begs Ross to give it another chance at getting along with Dr. Green, because she already has a mother and a father who have to be kept separate and she doesn't want Ross to have to do the same. The three of them have brunch at Rachel's apartment, and Ross and Dr. Green realize that they do have one thing in common: nagging Rachel. Rachel is a little peeved that Ross has to resort to picking on her in order to break the ice with her father.
308 The One With The Giant Poking Device:
Ross becomes reluctant to leave his son Ben with Rachel for the day when he has to go to the museum for urgent dinosaur business. Monica assures him that she'll be there the whole time, further accentuating Ross' lack of trust in his girlfriend. While watching Ben, Monica accidentally bangs his head against the ceiling and gives him a hefty bruise. When Ross gets home, he is quick to lecture Rachel on how careful she has to be when watching babies. Defending herself, Rachel points out that Monica was the one responsible for the bump and Ross capitalizes on Monica's guilt.
309 The One With The Football:
The six go out to play a friendly game of football, which turns into an intense competition between siblings Ross and Monica. Ross' competitivity leads him to trade away Rachel, who is shocked and saddened by the fact that she was traded away by her own boyfriend. Bad move, Ross. Anyway, Rachel gives him his comeuppance when she catches the game-winning pass, even though she neglects to actually bring the ball into the end zone. The football game ends in a draw, but the real loser is Ross... trading away the woman you love, even in a friendly football game, is a bad idea.
310 The One Where Rachel Quits:
Chandler and Joey convince Rachel to quit her waitressing job at Central Perk after two and a half years of screwing up orders. Unwittingly, Chandler and Joey have set in motion a chain of events that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the most heralded union in all of television history. But don't blame them, they know not what they do.
311 The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister:
Mark... or as I like to call him, Paolo Number Two... makes his slimy entrance into Rachel's life. While she's sulking over her job prospects, Mark offers her his card and tells her that he may be able to get her an opening at Bloomingdale's. Rachel is very excited, but Ross instantly suspects that Mark wants an opening of his own: "Sounds like Mark something wants to have some sex!" Ross becomes jealous, and Rachel becomes a bit ticked off at his possessiveness. Monica tells Ross to trust her and grow up, but Ross can't shake the feeling that Mark something-or-other is going to serve as a major impediment to his happiness. And in a way, he's right.
312 The One With All The Jealousy:
Rachel starts her new job with Mark at Bloomingdale's. Threatened, Ross sends her a vast array of love tokens, including a musical bug and a huge picture of himself with the caption "I Love You This Much." A thoroughly disgusting display of overaffection if I ever saw one. He then sends a barbershop quartet to her office to sing about how much he loves and supports her. Upset by his obvious marking of territory, Rachel tells Ross that if two people love each other as much as they do, there should be no reason for jealousy. These very words come back to haunt her when Ross makes a playdate with a single stripper mom. Rachel tries to hide her jealousy, but Ross sees through it, casually remarking "I love you too" when he notices how uncomfortable she is letting him go on this playdate. Rachel plants a remarkable kiss on him before he leaves, leading Chandler to add, "Way to go. You've just turned him on and sent him off to a stripper."
313 The One Where Monica and Richard Are Friends:
Ross becomes a bit agitated that Rachel has been working late. Rachel appeases him by agreeing that for every night he is asleep before she gets home, she'll wake him up in a way "that has proved very popular in the past." Ahhh, sexual favors. The core of every meaningful relationship.
314 The One With Phoebe's Ex-Partner:
The foundations of Ross and Rachel's love are crumbling fast. Nearly their one-year anniversary, and yet time is running short. This week, Ross' jealousy resurfaces tenfold when he refuses to accept the fact that Rachel and Mark are just friends. Ross sees no reason for Rachel to be hanging out with Mark, since he had quit Bloomingdale's. Rachel, simply trying to form a life for herself that doesn't include Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, and Ross, attempts in vain to convince Ross that her and Mark are going to attend an innocent fashion lecture. Ross opts to go with her to the lecture himself, during which he promptly falls asleep. After they get home from the lecture, the two argue about who's profession is the least exciting. Rachel calmly tries once again to make it clear to Ross that she wants to have her own life as well as a life shared with him, a perfectly understandable request. Ross pretends to validate her feelings, but a glimpse at the camera while they embrace reveals that he doesn't want to let Rachel have her own life for fear that he won't be included in it. The die is cast, the trap is sprung... and the once burning fires of the Ross/Rachel relationship are reduced to dying embers. Sadly, this special friendship is doomed to failure.
315 The One Where Ross and Rachel Take A Break:
On their first anniversary, Rachel is confronted with a crisis at her new fashion consultant job. Ross can't believe he's being stood up on his anniversary, so he brings a picnic to Rachel's work to try and have a romantic dinner. Rachel flies off the handle with him, and later that evening becomes angry at him again for not apologizing. Ross says that he's not about to apologize for wanting to spend his anniversary with his girlfriend. Trapped between her boyfriend at finally having a job that she cares about and is good at, Rachel offhandedly remarks that maybe the two of them should take a break. Dejected, Ross goes to a bar where he runs into Chloe, the hot Xerox girl that Chandler and Joey have been lusting after for months. Mark calls Rachel and sees she's upset, so he invites himself over and tries to cheer her up. Chandler and Joey tell Ross to call Rachel and try to smooth things out, and Ross overhears Mark's voice at Rachel's apartment. Intensely hurt, he slams the phone down and winds up locked in a meaningless kiss with Chloe to the tune of U2's 'With or Without You.' Meanwhile, Rachel is desperately trying to get in touch with Ross.
316 The One The Morning After:
And so it ends. Gunther finds out that Ross slept with Chloe, divulges the information to Rachel, who cannot deal with the reality that the one man she had thought would never do anything to hurt her has slept with someone else. Ross defends himself by saying that he thought their relationship was dead, a technicality that Rachel will not let him slip out of. In one of TV's most heartfelt moments this year, Ross gets down on his knees in hopes that their love can be salvaged, but Rachel has been wounded too deeply. Can these two continue to be friends after their relationship is over?
317 The One Without The Ski Trip:
Still aching over their recent break-up, Ross and Rachel begin to vie for the companionship of Joey, Chandler, Monica, and Phoebe. Rachel decides to spurn Ross by inviting the four of them on a weekend-long ski trip, with Ross getting shafted on the invite. Ross refuses to let any of the four feel bad about leaving him home alone in New York, however, and passes the time by hanging out with his lesbian ex-wife Carol. Phoebe's grandmother's cab runs out of gas at a rest stop on the highway, and the four are forced to call Ross to bail them out. When Ross shows up at the rest stop, a shouting match ensues between Ross and Rachel, leading Chandler to nervously suck down cigarettes and do Shelley Winters impressions. Phoebe pleads with them to act civil towards one another or risk the unthinkable: the six might stop hanging out together. They agree, but Rachel is still vehemently opposed to the idea of Ross tagging along on the ski trip. Ross offers to let them go alone without making them feel guilty, a noble move on his part which elicits a reluctant "thank you" from Rachel.
318 The One With The Hypnosis Tape:
Realizing that they can't continue to argue with each other without alienating the other four, Ross and Rachel seem to contend themselves with the silent treatment. Ross lets Rachel know how he feels, however, by sticking his hand into her coffee when she tells him she had wanted it without cinnamon. Other than this minor encounter, our two former lovebirds maintain a relatively safe distance from one another this week.
319 The One With The Tiny T-Shirt:
Mark, being the damn sleazeball that he is, asks Rachel out on a date. Rachel, fretting because she feels as if she would be cheating on Ross, decides to get some closure on the relationship (and it doesn't involve answering machines and getting drunk this time). She gives him back a box of his old stuff. Unfortunately, Ross reacts badly to this and demands everything he ever gave her back, including a "Frankie Says Relax" t-shirt that Rachel sleeps in. Later on, after practically gluing his eyes to Chandler and Joey's peephole watching to see her come back from her date with Mark, Ross finally confesses to Chandler that he misses Rachel. Meanwhile, Rachel realises that she's just dating Mark to get back at Ross. Later on, Ross leaves a box of Rachel's stuff at her, including... the tiny t-shirt. Aaaahhh. :)
320 The One With The Dollhouse:
Nothing much to report in this episode, I'm afraid. Ross and Rachel encounter a minor awkward moment when Rachel tells Chandler that she needs to talk to him, and Ross thinks that she's talking to him, but other than that, our favourite couple are becoming friends again.
321 The One With A Chick and a Duck:
Rachel breaks her rib after Monica crashes into her while on rollerskates (don't ask). Ross, seeing that Rachel needs to go to the hospital, gives up a chance to be on TV to take her. Later on, Rachel finds out what Ross gave up for her, and the two look into each other's eyes for a long moment...
322 The One With The Screamer:
Ross gets a date to the opening of Joey's play, and Rachel, so as she doesn't look bad, gets a date with some guy she meets on the street. Unfortunately, this guy, Tommy, turns out to be a total looney-toon, but Ross is the only one who notices. Fortunately, the truth is revealed later on, after Chandler and Joey's chick leaves a little message on Tommy's hand.
324 The One With The Ultimate Fighting Championship:
Phoebe asks Rachel if she can fix Ross up with a friend of hers, Bonnie. Seeing as Bonnie is the girl who shaves her head, Rachel tells her to go ahead, sure that Ross won't like her. Unfortunately, it backfires on her, because Bonnie now has a full head of hair. After Phoebe confronts her about her continuing protests that they have to break Ross and Bonnie up, Rachel confesses that she didn't expect Ross to be happy so soon.
325 The One At The Beach:
Everyone goes to the beach, minus Bonnie, Ross's new girlfriend, who has to work. Now, the saying goes "While the cat's away, the mice will play," and this is certainly no exception as Ross and Rachel flirt with each other, what with toenail painting and dumping margaritas in glasses. (Don't ask about either of those.) Unfortunately, just as Rachel is telling Monica that something seems to be clicking with her and Ross, Bonnie shows up. The next day, Rachel convinces Bonnie to shave her head again. Of course, Ross finds out that it was Rachel who did this, and marches outside to confront her. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which way you look at it), the reasons for this confrontation end up being thrown out the window altogether when, in the heat of the moment, the two end up kissing. Now Ross is faced with a dilemma, and 2 doors, for that matter: should he do the right thing and go with Bonnie, behind the door to his left, or should he go with Rachel, the woman he truly loves, behind the door to his right? God, it's like Wheel of Fortune. Or something like that.
401 The One With The Jellyfish:
We find out that Ross chose Rachel's room (well, this is Ross and Rachel). He then goes and breaks up with Bonnie, which takes a very long time. As Ross says, "I didn't realise how late it was 'till I saw the 5 o' clock shadow on her head." He then finds that, while he's been gone, Rachel has written him a letter. An 18-page letter. Front and back. He goes to read it, even though it's 5 in the morning, but unfortunately falls asleep reading it, which then forces him to bluff his way through the big make-up conversation, agreeing to something that he doesn't know about. He later finds out that he agreed to take all the blame for their relationship problems, which he decides he just can't do, and they break up again. I don't know...
402 The One With The Cat:
After the horrible way in which they broke up again, Ross and Rachel have no choice but to start sniping at each other to cover up their true feelings. This comes out in 2 situations: The first one is that Ross convinces Rachel to call Chip, her old boyfriend from high school, when she finds his number left out. Unfortunately, it's for Monica. The second one is that Rachel gets Ross to apologize to the cat that Phoebe believes is the reincarnated spirit of her adoptive mother, when he tries to convince her that her mother doesn't reside in the cat.
405 The One With Joey's New Girlfriend:
Ross and Rachel are forced to show their love for one another in the one way you wouldn't think at all apropriate: making each other jealous and sniping at each other constantly. Ross goes out with a woman called Amanda, but it turns out that she only thinks of him as a babysitter. Rachel, on the other hand, practically is a babysitter to her date, Josh. He's a college student who keeps stealing from her. Both Ross and Rachel are eventually forced to admit to each other that their dates were less than ideal.
406 The One With The Dirty Girl:
Ross gets a date with a beautiful woman who works at his museum. Unfortunately, she needs to fire her maid and get a new one, and fast. Her apartment makes a bomb site look like it's the tidiest place on earth. Unfortunately, Ross can't deal with it and breaks up with her.
407 The One Where Chandler Crosses The Line:
Ross decides to play his music for everyone to hear. Unfortunately, it's crap (to put it mildly). This provokes a comment from Rachel about how she can't believe she let him touch her with those fingers. (Which brings up the interesting point: Why would Rachel be thinking of that? :)) Other than that, nada this week.
408 The One With Chandler In A Box:
Ross won't let go of the fact that Rachel exchanges gifts that she is given, because he takes it to mean that their relationship didn't mean as much to her as it did to him. She then gets out a shoebox with momentoes from their relationship, including a movie stub from their first date, an eggshell from the first time he made her breakfast in bed, and a bone from the museum the first time they were together. Unfortunately, Ross has to ruin the potentially reuniting moment by telling Rachel that you're not supposed to take bones from the museum.
410 The One With The Girl From Pougkeepsie:
Ross starts going out with a woman who lives in Poughkeepsie. Unfortunately, the travelling is killing him and so he decides to break up with her. Unfortunately, on his way to break up with her, he ends up meeting another woman who lives even further away (Nova Scotia, if you must know). Meanwhile Rachel, becoming desperate, asks Chandler to set her up on a blind date with one of his co-workers. I don't think I need to say any more than that. :)
413 The One With Rachel's Crush:
Rachel meets Joshua, a recently divorced man, and instantly develops a crush on him. This, as you can imagine, upsets Ross. Nobody notices it though (well, no one except the viewers, that is). After Chandler breaks up with Kathy, his latest love, in a way that is very similar to our two former lovebirds' break up a year ago, Rachel mentions something about their (Chandler and Kathy) "break" not excusing the fact that she slept with someone else, leading Ross to comment: "Well, if she thought they were on a break..."
414 The One With Joey's Dirty Day:
It is in this episode that Emily, or, as I like to call her, Ross and Rachel Public Enemy No. 1, makes her soaking wet (and I mean that literally) entrance into Ross's life. After Rachel promises to take her to the opera, Joshua asks her to the opening of a nightclub. Later on, Emily shows up at Monica and Rachel's (sorry, Chandler and Joey's), soaking wet and not very happy, to say the least. Rachel convinces Ross to take Emily to the opera, and they end up at a bed and breakfast in Vermont. Meanwhile, Rachel never gets into the nightclub because of a mix-up on the guest list. So, as you can probably guess, when she finds out that Ross and Emily have hit it off, she is not the happiest of people. This comes out later when, during a talk between Ross and Rachel in which he confidently says that he is over her, she jokingly punches him, he punches her back, then she deliberately lays one on him that would break his rib if it were any harder. Nevertheless, it looks as though the wounds are finally starting to heal between our favourite couple.
415 The One With The Rugby:
Ross gets into a heated discussion with two of Emily's friends about rugby and American football, which leads him to play rugby with them. Unfortunately, he's injured rather repeatedly, so Emily gives him tips on how to cause the others physical harm. Of course, when Rachel hears about Ross's rugby-playing escapades, she doesn't resist a chance to have a friendly poke at him. Other than that, Ross and Rachel keep a bit of distance from each other this week.
416 The One With The Fake Party:
Ross has a romantic night planned for him and Emily on their last night together, but Rachel puts a stop to that when she announces a surprise farewell party for her in an attempt to lure Joshua into a social setting. During this party, Emily and Joey have to kiss for the Spin The Bottle game - a lot, Rachel tries everything in her power to get Joshua to notice her in the romantic sense, and Ross is desperately trying to get out of there with Emily so as they can do the stuff he planned. Later on, Rachel finally tells Joshua how she feels, and he says that he feels the same, but that he's not ready to date so soon after his divorce. Then Rachel apologizes to Ross for ruining his evening, and convinces him that his relationship with Emily doesn't have to end.
417 The One With The Free Porn:
Monica convinces Ross to tell Emily that he loves her before she leaves to go back to England, which he does. And in reply, she says... "Thank you". Then, when she gets back to England, Emily calls Ross and tells him that there's someone else. Again at Monica's suggestion, Ross flies to England to fight for the woman he loves (although we all know who he really loves). But Emily, in the meantime, has flown back to New York to tell Ross that she's dumped the other guy. The episode ends with Ross and Emily talking on the phone.
418 The One With Rachel's New Dress:
Rachel tries to seduce Joshua, and ends up having to wear lingerie to a restuarant with Joshua and his parents in the process - don't ask. Meanwhile, Ross is worried that Emily will become a lesbian while she's in England with Susan. Ross, sorry, but Emily's not the woman you should be worrying about!
419 The One With All The Haste:
Rachel and Monica want their apartment back, and so to seal the deal, they kiss for one minute in front of Chandler and Joey! (You don't see the kiss, though, and I don't think it means that Ross has any competition from his sister. :)) Meanwhile, Ross decides to ask Emily to move in with him, but this proves to be an impossibility. Then he asks her to marry him... and she accepts. (When did this become "The Running Record of Ross and Emily's Way Too Speedy Relationship"?) When Rachel finds out about this, she is beyond heartbroken. A reunion between Ross and Rachel looks like it's brewing, believe it or not...
420 The One With The Wedding Dresses:
Rachel reacts drastically to Ross and Emily's engagement and setting the date for the wedding a month from that time (and I mean drastically), and she goes out of her way to try and hide it by asking Joshua to be more spontaneous. This escalates to the point where she asks him to marry her, but she instead ends up scaring him off. Ross gives her a couple of comforting hugs as a friend, but seems to be wanting to be a bit more than friendly towards her. Oh dear. Our Rachel's now not only alone, but the man she's truly in love with (who I'm guessing is truly in love with her as well) is marrying someone else. Don't you dare miss an episode of this show ever again.
421 The One With The Invitation:
Ross and Emily are mailing out invitations to their wedding, but when it gets to Rachel's invitation, Ross begins remembering the ups and downs of their relationship. When Rachel receives her invitation, she too remembers the relationship, and eventually RSVP's with "Will not attend". And Ross and Rachel both realise something while they're taking a trip down memory lane...
422 The One With The Worst Best Man Ever:
Joey and Chandler's duck swallows Ross's wedding ring. (Smartest animal I ever saw!) Unfortunately, in order to get the ring back, the duck is going under surgery (don't worry, it's fine after the surgery). Meanwhile, someone finally snaps at Rachel because of her unresolved feelings for Ross. And that person's a pregnant Phoebe, of all people! Mind you, she is having severe mood swings. Unfortunately, this only results in Rachel becoming even more upset about the impending wedding.
423 The One With Ross's Wedding:
Ross, Monica, Chandler and Joey all go to England for Ross's wedding to Emily. However, Rachel and Phoebe stay behind in New York, Phoebe because she's waiting for her brother's triplets to be born and Rachel because of her love for Ross. However, after a conversation in which a slip of the tongue reveals that Rachel is still in love with Ross, Phoebe tries to turn her off him by reminding her of his faults (even about the amount of gel in his hair!), but to no avail. In fact, Rachel admits that she shares some of those faults, and that the relationship break-up was partly her fault. She decides that she has to get to London and tell Ross of her feelings for him before he marries Emily, saying that "it's not over until someone says 'I do'." (You go girl!!!)
Meanwhile, Ross and Emily are having trouble organising the wedding, to the point where at one stage the whole thing is called off. However, Ross does up the church with Christmas lights and everything, and the wedding is back on. (Damn!) While all of this is going on, Rachel is on a plane to London, telling a fellow passenger the motive for her trip, ie. her history with Ross, in all its entirety. The passenger responds to this with something along the lines of: "And it's quite clear to me that you were on a break!"
Anyway, we get to the wedding day, with everyone looking out for Rachel. Phoebe, after several failed attempts, finally manages to get through to Joey and warns him that Rachel is on the way to ruin the wedding. But Joey starts making out with one of the bridemaids (typical Joey), which leaves Rachel free to walk straight into the church, only to find Ross and Emily kissing, which makes her decide that she can't go through with telling Ross her feelings. As he spots her, Rachel says, "I just came to tell you... congratulations," and is clearly tearful as Ross sweeps her off her feet in a massive hug. So it's all over for the world's most talked about TV romance... or is it?
does Rachel know that Ross's hug has set off a Mount Everest-sized spark
in his heart and doubts in his head. When they are taking their vows,
Emily says hers with no problem, but when Ross says his, he gets just
a little bit tongue-tied and says, "I, Ross, take thee... Rachel!"
Everyone in the church is stunned, especially Rachel, who's been crying,
and Emily, who looks at him furiously in the same sort of petulant manner
she's been behaving in since they got to England. Of course, Ross realises
his mistake and tries to correct himself, saying, "Emily, ha, Emily..."
but it's too late. The vicar asks them if they want to continue, but
of course, our Ross doesn't know what to do, because he doesn't have
the slightest idea that Rachel flew halfway across the world because
she feels the same way...
501 The One After Ross said Rachel:
Emily is still in shock after Ross said Rachel's name, but the wedding ceremony comtinues, and the happy (?) couple is marrried. Right after the ceremony ends, Emily kicks Ross in the stomack, then locks herself in the bathroom after yelling at him. Rachel is thinking of asking Ross is it ment anything that he said her name, but understands from him that it didn't mean anything. She doesn't tell him how she feels. Later they realize that Emily ran out of building throught the bathroom window. Ross is devistated, and Rachel is still thinking that maybe he does love her, since he said her name. Later Ross is waiting for Emily at the airport, with Rachel comforting him just as the flight is supposed to leave. Ross understands Emily's not coming, and with Rachel's advice he decided to go to Athens by himself. But, what do you do with the second ticket? He askd Rachel to join him, and she, abviously thinking this could be her chance, agrees. She goes on the plane, but Ross forgot his jacket so he's going to get it from the airport, then he sees Emily who saw Rachel going on the plane. She's very angry and is running away, with Ross chasing her, and Rachel going to Athens on her own .......
502 The One With All The Kissing:
Rachel comes back from Athens, and tells Ross she had a great time, but later she tells everyone else she had a lousy time without Ross. She tells Monica to be in control of her love life. Later she decides she wants to tell Ross she still loves him, but Monica says it's a bad idea and keeps interrupting Rachel. Finally Rachel tells Ross how she feels. He is stunned and doesn't know what to say, because he IS married. Then Rachel starts to laugh and is histerical, probably due to severe embarassment. She asks Ross to forget she told him she loves him, and they both agree to let it go and go on as if nothing happened. :-(
503 The One With The Triplets:
Rachel is trying to get over Ross, with the advice of Monica, so she sets dates for herself and for Monica with male nurses. Nothing else happens, Ross and Emily are not talking to each other yet.
504 The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS:
agrees to finally forgive Ross, but she's still in London and is willing
to come to New York on one condition - that Ross won't see Rachel anymore.
Ross doesn't know what to do, cause Rachel is one of his best friends,
but Emily is his wife. He tries the help of a magic 8-ball, but this
always gives him the "ask again later" answer ...
505 The One With the Kips:
tries to tell Rachel what Emily asked him to do, which is not to see
her anymore, but every time something gets in his way. Finally he tells
her, and she gets very mad at him and storm out of the apartment, although
506 The One With the Yeti:
Rachel comes home from work and see everyone, including Ross, hanging there. So she goes to her room and wants to stay there, because Ross can't see her, but Ross insists she joins them, and she does. Then Emily calls, and Ross puts her on the speaker. Joey tries to hide the fact that Rachel is there too, and Emily said Ross should know by now not to see her. Rachel gets mad so she leaves for her room, when Ross tells Emily that Rachel IS there. She gets mad at him and tells him that when she'll come to New York she'll be able to watch him more closely. He says she can't watch his every move and that she has to trust him. She says she can't trust them, and they decide to break up and get a divorce. Everyone hug Ross at the end, including Rachel, to comfort him.
507 The One Where Ross Moves In:
is where the Ross and Rachel plot begins to fade, and we see less and
less of them together. Ross is kicked out of his new apartment because
it belongs to a relative of Emily's, and he moves in with Joey and Chandler,
and drives them crazy ...
508 The One With the Thanksgiving Flashbacks:
gang is after Thanksgiving dinner, full from the good food Monica made,
and they start telling each other about past Thanksgiving dinners they
had. At one flashback, Ross comes home from college and introduces Chandler
to his family. He than asks Rachel if it seems weird now that he's gone
away from home for a long time. She says "not really!" and goes to a
different room. Later then evening, Ross overhears Rachel telling Monice
she will start dating older man, and that she is tired of high school
boys. Ross gets the hint and instead of calling his parents "mom" and
"dad", he calls them by their name, Jack and Judie. Monica makes fun
of him in front of Rachel, so he does his angry act and leaves the room.
And yet later that evening, Ross tells Chandler he will try to ask Rachel
out and play her the new song they wrote.
509 The One With Ross' Sandwitch:
takes a literature class with Phoebe, but she's not serious about it
so always tells the teacher stuff that Phoebe told her about the books,
until Phoebe gets upset because Rachel is getting all the credit for
her ideas, so she tells her that Jane Eyre is about robots, and Rachel
makes fun of herself in class ...
510 The One With The Inappropriate Sister:
Rachel finally starts dating Danny, the new neighbour she had a crush on, but she finds out he has a, well, "weird" relationship with his sister. They always touch each other and stuff like that. When Rachel comes to confront him and break it up, he tries to convince her it's normal to have a close relationship with your family. Just as Rachel tries to be convinced, Danny's sister calls him fro the bathroom, telling him to hurry up because the water is getting cold... This is of course the last straw and Rachel storms out of there ...
511 The One With All The Resolutions:
the new year and every one is making resolutions for the next year.
Rachel promises to stop gossiping and Ross promises "no more divorces
this year!", but he is reminded that he is STILL married to Emily, he
says "just this divorce on 1999!". Rachel is having a hard time keeping
her resolution as she accidently picks up the phone and hears Monica
and Chandler talking. She wants to tell Joey what she knows but she
can't because she can't gossip. At the end they both find out that they
both know about Monica and Chandler. Ross will also have a hard time
keeping his promise, but let's keep it until the next season ...
512 The One With Chandler's Work Laugh:
tries to finds ways to get Monica to confess that she is going out with
Chandler. When she can't get her to confess, Rachel tells Monica that
she knows about them, but Monica denies it. Rachel goes over to Chandler's
apartment to confront them, but she over hears Monica talking to Chandler
and decides not to.
513 The One With Joey's Bag:
and Monica give each other massages. Chandler doesn't want to tell Monica
that she gives bad massages as it will hurt her feelings. She finds
out that he doesn't like them and is upset that he lied to her. He later
says he's sorry and explains that if there was an award for the best
worst massages she would get it.
514 The One With Everyone Finds Out:
is the best and funniest episode of Friends I've ever seen. It starts
in the Ugly Naked Guy's appartment's, soon to be Ross's, when Phoebe
looks out the window and sees Monica and Chandler having sex. Rachel
tells her she knows too. Joey tries to convince them to just tell the
loving couple that they know, but instead Rachel and Phoebe decided
to play with them, so Phoebe starts acting like she has the hots for
Chandler and wants to sleep with him. Rachel uses her status as the
roommate, and when Monica says she's going to do some "laundry", Rachel
gives her a bunch of laundry to do, and Phoebe gives her a bag of quarters.
Monica and Chandler realise that Rachel and Phoebe know abuot them,
and decide to play with them too, so Chandler is acting like he wants
to sleep with Phoebe. Them Rachel and Phoebe realise that Mon and Chandler
know that they know, so they continue their act. This leads to Phoebe's
shirt open, a kiss between her and Chandler, and finally Chandler breaking
and telling everyone he loves Monica. Ross still doesn't know.
515 The One With The Girl Who Hits Joey:
is dating a girl who hits him (but in a funny way), but it hurts him.
When his girlfriend start hitting Rachel, Rachel kicks her leg, which
makes Joey have to choose between Rachel or his girlfriend, so he chooses
516 The One With The Cop
finds a police badge and pretends she's a police-woman, but then the
police man who's badge this is, finds her, takes back the badge, and
asks her out.
517 The One With Rachel's Inadvertant Kiss
Rachel has an interview at Ralph Lauren. She mistakenly thinks her interviewer, Mr. Zelner, wants to kiss her she so kissed him on the cheek. Later she comes for a second interview with an ink blob on her lip. Mr. Zelner is trying to hint to her she has ink there, so he points on his lips. Rachel thinks that again he's trying to kiss her, so she storms out all mad. When she gets home, Ross tells her she has ink on her lip, and then she realizes what a fool she's been at the interview. She comes in later to appologize, and Mr. Zelner decides to give her a change. Rachel is so happy that she want to hug him, but instead tries to shake his hand, but that too didn't work out because she accidently touched his ...
518 The One With Rachel Smokes
starts her new job at Ralph Lauren, but finds out that her co-workers
make all the important decisions while they are on their smoking break.
So she decides to smoke to, although she hates it. She then tries to
convince her co-workers to stop smoking. They do for a while, but then
start smoking again, and won't let Rachel join them because "she's doing
so well quiting". Her boss tells her that if she caught Rachel smoking,
she'll be fired.
519 The One With Ross Can't Flirt
likes the pizza delivery woman and wants to flirt with her, but realizes
he's a bad flirter. He starts talking to her about gas and other stupid
things, and later can't believe he said those things to her. Rachel
tries to help him so she runs after the woman and convinces her to give
Ross her phone number. She gives it to Ross under the excuse that the
delivery woman thought he was cute and decided by herself to give him
her phone number. Ross doesn't believe it, but when Rachel tells him
the girl thought he was cute, he believes it.
520 The One With The Ride Along
Ross, Joey and Chandler go on a ride-along with Gary (Phoebe's boyfriend). Meanwhile, Rachel is at Ross's appartment getting things to make a Margarita, when Emily calls and leaves a message for Ross. She says she's supposed to get married the next day, but she wonders if she and Ross made a mistake giving the marriage up so fast. She wants him to call her. Rachel accidently erases that message, but decides the right thing to do is to tell Ross about it. She does, and he thinks he should call her, but Rachel convinces him not to, because she made him miserable.
521 The One With The Ball
Rachel gets a new cat, which costs her 1000$. It looks weird but she says it's a "purebred, show-quality Sphinx cat". This friendship quickly turns into horror as her new cat is not as cute and lovely as the one her grandma had, but a cat that hisses all time and scratches Rachel. She wants to get rid of it, but is having a hard time because she also wants to get her money back. Finally Gunther buys it from her (he'll probably buy anything that was hers...) at 1500$, and tells Rachel she can always come to visit him... and the cat...
522 The One With Joey's Big Break
Joey gets a lead in a small movie, and so he goes on a road trip to Vegas with Chandler, but they end up fighting and splitting up since Chandler accidently says he doesn't think this is Joey's big break. Joey's movie doesn't have enought budget, so Joey has to stay in Vegas until it does. He keeps this from the other guys, so they wouldn't say "I told you so...". Meanwhile Rachel gets an eye infection but is afraid to go to the doctor, and even after she does, she's afraid to put the drops in her eyes. Phoebe is angry at Ross but doesn't remember why. She later remembers why she's mad at him, but realizes it was only a dream she had...
523 The One In Vegas (part I)
Joey finds his "hand twin" and is sure he can make a lot of money out of it... Monica and Chandler want to go to Vegas to surprise Joey and to celebrate their anniversary. Phoebe decides to join them, but Rachel and Ross and join them the next day. Monica and Chandler have a fight in Vegas because Monica had lunch with her ex, Richard, and Chandler says there won't be a next time for that because she can't see him any more. Since Rachel is in the appartment alone, she decides to go by Phoebe's advice and go around naked in the appartment. She really likes it and even starts dancing, but she doesn't realize that Ross, who sits in his appartment, sees her and thinks she's trying to seduce him... He then goes up to her place, thinking she wants to sleep with him, but makes "ground rules" so it won't raise again "the question of us"... Rachel doesn't know what he's talking about but then finds out he saw her naked. She makes fun of him for thinking she wanted to "entice" him, and he storms out. Later on the plane, she makes fun of him again, and she says she doesn't get embarrased that easlily. Ross says that's not true and they end up trying to embarrase each other through the flight. The final joke is Ross's, when he paints a beard and a mustache on Rachel's face when she's asleep.
524 The One In Vegas (part II)
gets kicked out of the casino... twice... Rachel finds out about the
mustache only when they reach the hotel. She's very angry at Ross and
won't leave the room. They both get really drunk, and when Ross says
he wants to get out of the room, Rachel agrees, but in exchange she
draws on Ross's face a nose and mustache (like a cat). They walk around
the casino very drunk... Monica and Chandler make up, and while getting
excited over a casino game, they decide they want to get married. They
hurry to the chapel. The music starts, Monica asks Chandler if he's
sure about this, then the chapel's doors open up, and out come ... Ross
and Rachel!! They are still very drunk, they call each other "Mr. Rachel"
and "Mrs. Ross", and go out. Monica and Chandler are shocked ... Did
R&R really get married? ...
601 The One After Vegas
and Rachel wake up the next morning in bed together, not sure of what
has happened, but knowing they were really drunk. Only when Ross turns
around we see the words "Just married" written over his back. They go
downstairs, where everyone tells them they got married. They say "no,
we didn't!" but then suddenly remember, and now they want to get a divorce.
Chandler and Phoebe makes fun of Ross for divorcing for the 3rd time.
So Ross thinks maybe they should get an annulment. Later, though, Ross
decides he can't do that, because he has to make his 3rd marriage work,
and tells Rachel he's not going through with the annulment. She says
it's crazy and they try to convince each other. At the end it seems
that Ross is convinced, and tells Rachel it's all over (the annulment).
She's happy, hugs him and goes out to take her coat to go with him to
the movies. When she's gone, Ross tells Phoebe he actually didn't get
the annulment and that they're still married...
602 The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel
Well, Ross and Rachel are still married, although only one of them knows about it ... Phoebe decides that Ross is still in love with Rachel, and Ross is in such denial about this that to prove them wrong he goes to his lawyer (Russell) to take care of the annulment... but finds that it's more complicated than expected, and Rachel will have to be told the truth. But then Monica and Chandler tell the others that they are going to move in together. Joey takes it hard, and Rachel doesn't react at all, until she understand it's for real. Then she gets so sad, that Ross is not able to tell her the truth about their marriage. He gives her a long and soft hug instead, and then he probably realizes that he does still love her.
603 The One With Ross's Denial
Chandler is going to move in with Monica, so Rachel has to move it. She is having problems finding a normal place, so Ross suggests she moves in with him. She agrees, and he prepares the place for her. But then Chan and Mon are having a fight, and it seems as though Chan is not going to move in with Mon, so Rachel tells Ross she's not moving in with him, instead she is staying at Mon's. Ross tries to hide his disappointment. He then tried anxiusly to get C&M back together, and they do, so Rachel is moving out again. Ross tells Rachel she needs to move again, and she says she thinks it's not a good idea, because of their history, and that it would be weird. Ross says it would if they still were in *that* place. He asks if she still is in *that* place, Rachel says no. Ross says no, too. (Though clearly he is.) Then Rachel says that they would eventually start dating, but not each other. Rachel: "Yeah eventually I will have a boyfriend and you will get a girlfriend." Ross goes along with it and Rachel says that they could work out a system just like in college. If like there's a hanger on the door, don't come in 'cause someone's getting lucky. (Rachel's words) Ross fakes laughter. Ross gets so freaked about this, that he's trying to get C&M to fight again, so that Rachel won't have to move in with him. But that doesn't work ...
604 The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance
loses his insurance after not working enough that year, and goes to
a lot of auditions, while having a hernia ...
605 The One With Joey's Porche
is very mad at Ross. She yells at him and says she thinks she was never
this mad at him before, then he says: "What about the time we said we
were on a break?" ....Rachel is so angry at Ross for lying about the
anulment, so when she fills the forms for it she says that Ross is a
drug addict, gay and mentally unstable. At the judge's chambers, Ross
finds that out and starts to get mad when he finds that she also wrote
he couldn't consummate the marriage... He starts to get histeric and
says he is ready to "consummate this marriage right here, right now!!"
and that when he and Rachel were dating, they consummated like bunnies...
After that the judge throws them both out of her Chamber.
606 The One On The Last Night
This episodes takes place on the last night Rachel is living with Monica. Rachel is trying to get Ross to help her pack, but he doesn't want to, so he tells her that he has to look after Ben. He then proceeds to make a fake Ben, so that when Rachel looks through the window it looks like Ben is there with Ross. Phoebe lets Rachel move in with her.
607 The One Where Phoebe Runs
No R&R special plot. Rachel convinces Phoebe to go running with her, but then she gets embarrassed when she sees how weird Phoebe is running. Joey has a new roomate - Elle McPherson, which playes a dancer (Janine). At the end of the episode, Ross is trying to impress Janine by telling her some computer story, and she gets into it and gets excited. Then Ross blows his chance by telling her they are now "interfacing", and she runs out.
608 The One With Ross's Teeth
gets in trouble when she spreads a rumor at work, saying someone made
out with Ralph Loren (it was Phoebe...). Her boss is then convinced
that Rachel herself is the one who made out with Ralph. Rachel has no
option but to go with this rumor, which later turned out to be great
for her, since her boss then feels sorry for her, since Ralph is not
paying attention to her.
609 The One Where Ross Got High
still has the hots for Janine, especially when she asks him and Joey
if they want to hang out at Thanksgivings with her and her dancer friends,
partying and drinking all night ... so they both decide to ditch Monica's
Thanksgiving dinner, but don't manage to (of course).
610 The One With The Routine
Joey to be her dancing partner in Dick Clark's New Eve thing, and Monica and
Ross go along with them. Ross and Monica get so excited about it, that it makes
Rachel laugh out loud, saying to Chandler "I USED to date him, but you're
still dating HER" ...
611 The One With the Apothecary Table
Rachel buys an apothecary table but hides its origin (Potter Barn) from Phoebe. Later, Phoebe and Rachel are at Ross's, noticing he has the exact same table. Again, not a special R&R plot.
612 The One With the Joke
Ross gets a joke published in Playboy, but has to fight with Chandler over the joke's source. The girls takes hold of this playboy, and wonder which one of the three of them would each one choose to sleep with. Phoebe chooses Rachel, which leads to a whole jealousy thing from Monica.
613 The One With Rachel's Sister
Jill, Rachel's sister, shows up suddently after he dad cut her off. Rachel tries to teach her how to become dependent, accidently encouraging her to ask Ross out by pointing all his good qualities. Jill does ask him out, but Rachel can do nothing about it. Ross says no at first, but after he mistakenly understands that Rachel is ok with it, he says yes and they go out. Rachel is at M&C's trying to get a glimpse when she sees them walk in Ross's appartment, and Ross shutting the drapes. She gets totally freaked out.
614 The One Where Chandler Can't Cry
Rachel is unable to stand the Jill and Ross thing, so she asks Ross to stop it. He does, but Jill is very upset and tried to throw herself at him, by tricking him into getting her into his appartment, then shutting the drapes while winking to Rachel viewing from the terrace, then trying to kiss Ross.
615 The One That Could've Been - Part I
616 The One That Could've Been - Part II
617 The One With the Mixed Tape
618 The One Where Ross Dates a Student
619 The One With Joey's Fridge
610 The One With The Routine
(Thanks to Tina and Sandra from Ross and Rachel's Fan Club for letting me use the summaries up to the 4th season :-)


Samuel Veal is a New York based videographer and audio storyteller, combining technical pragmatism with lofty creative aspiration. He has worked on Oscar-nominated full lengths, collaborated with Grammy Award-winning artists, and has work being featured in upcoming film festivals.
Samuel earned a video journalism degree at the esteemed Grady College of Journalism. Upon graduation, he moved to contribute to Atlanta's booming film industry, working with Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Disney-Buena Vista, Tyler Perry Studios, Fortress Features, and several others. He continued his education at the Schools for Public Engagement at the New School located in Manhattan, focusing on documentary storytelling across several media forms.
Taking this big production background into videography, Samuel has produced and directed a number of documentary pieces. Some of his clients have included Capitol Records, Harvard University, BeLoved-Atlanta, Soccer in the Streets, HHBTM Records, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and ACT UP - New York.
His festival premiere, In The Wake: A Record of Direct Action, focuses on how people of marginalized backgrounds organize after the 2016 United States General Election. The film premiered to rave reviews.
When not working with media, Samuel enjoys studying human geography, playing soccer, and finding the best Korean food in New York.


Fredrik Brattberg is the Norwegian playwright who is most played abroad, after Jon Fosse and Arne Lygre. Since most people do not travel abroad to see theater, we brought one of these foreign productions home to PIT.
The Returnings was produced at the Jaffa Theater – The Arab-Hebrew Theater – located in Tel Aviv’s old Jaffa district. The situation around the theater is special. During the rehearsals for The Returnings, children were killed in fighting inside Gaza, which brought the repetitive and almost ritual in the text very close. Themes such as loss and grief are strongly rooted in both Jewish and Palestinian tradition and culture.
In the play, we meet a mother and a father who are struggling to survive after their beloved son has disappeared. And then, one day, there is a knock on the door…
Director Raz Weiner believes Brattberg’s award-winning play demonstrates a disruption of the grieving process, which we are all destined to experience as people who love other people. The minimalism of theatrical language re-examines the realistic Ibsen living room as a meeting point for the heteronormative family, where the most obvious truths, such as the parents’ love for the son, will be challenged and deconstructed.
Fredrik Brattberg’s drama has been translated into 20 languages and staged in as many countries. He has been shortlisted by the Berlinerfestspiele three times, nominated for the French Le Prix Godot and received the Ibsen Prize, the Ferdinand Vanek Award and the Porsgrunn Municipality’s Culture Prize.
After the performance on June 15, we invite you to a conversation between the playwright Fredrik Brattberg and the director Raz Weiner about the play and about this special production.


The love independents are getting these days is insane! In a good way, of course. Lionsgate announced last week that they are opening a micro-budget division, headed up by Matt Kaplan. Specifically, they are looking to back ten films a year that are made on budgets of 2 million or less. So we're looking at budgets on the level of Paranormal Activity or Blair Witch.
The reasoning seems to be clear; get behind a film that cost substantially less than studio-backed films for a better return on investment. If you only have to pay back $2 million instead of $200 million, that's more cash in your pocket if your film does well. And that is the key. You can bet Lionsgate is looking for something like was seen in Sundance this year. Films that are impeccably made with a targeted audience, a great cast, well acted, beautifully shot, and all the details attended to. Which can translate into a film doing well. If yours isn't, they probably won't look at it.
But despite that, things are looking up for the indie world. Let's hope it continues!


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Robert Pattinson and Mia Goth are working on a new movie together and it looks like they’re getting to know each other off-set as well!
The 31-year-old actor and the 23-year-old actress were spotted sight-seeing on Tuesday (August 22) in Cologne, Germany.
The actor then approaches Goth and asks for his backpack, telling her, “I don’t wanna touch you. This is the kind of s— that makes a person abusive.” La Beouf then proceeds to get in the car of one of the locals and travels to the airport.
'What I can say about that is I think people are going to be pleasantly surprised to realize that it's really not a remake at all,' Mia said.'I think people are going to be really shocked.
It's a nod of the hat to Dario Argento and his version of Suspiria, but we really do take it to a completely different place.'The film is expected to be released in theaters later this year.
The actor even appears to attempt to make a Face Time call to his actor has exhibited increasingly strange behavior over the past few years.
In an odd video released last month, the actor, shirtless, sports a rat tail as he performs a freestyle rap that a group later claimed as their own.
She added on some black uggs and kept her hair tied back in a bun. Mia is set to appear in the horror remake Suspiria based on the 1977 classic about a group of ballerinas who go missing at a school.


In 10th century France, 18-year old Cherine Cadet only knows one thing: that the life of a peasant isn’t a life at all. Tired of working in utter poverty for an unfeeling Lord, with only her indifferent family and love-struck best friend as company, Cherine dreams of the day she can run away from the future set-up for her, even if she knows there’s no real escape from her destiny.
Then, in one brutal instance, everything changes. A Viking fleet led by the powerful nobleman and warrior, Rolf the Walker and his right-hand man, Erik the Axe, arrive on the shores of the Lord’s estate. In minutes, the entire land is up in flames, Cherine’s family and fellow serfs are killed, and Cherine comes dangerously close to death herself. She is saved only by the fierce Erik – but a new lease on life comes with a cost.
Cherine becomes a slave to the Vikings, a fate she thinks is no better than the one she had before. But as she finds herself being shared between the two men, the savage and darkly handsome Rolf and the mysterious and sensual Erik, Cherine discovers that she too has a fiery warrior heart and that the flames that consumed her old life might burn them all to the ground.
Cherine's home is destroyed by the feared Vikings and she is taken to be used by two handsome, strong, poweful Vikings as they wish. In this backdrop, a seemingly impossible romance buds between Cherine and Erik all the while Rolf places his unrelenting demands on Cherine's body. Both men are motivated with differing desires for her, as well as different ways to make her life somewhat more pleasurable than before, but she has no voice herself to choose the man that she prefers. Which man will ultimately claim her as his? The man that softly yet firmly awakens her sexuality, or the man that gives her pleasure while brutally forcing her body into submission?


I recently wrote a story on an interesting trend in books, movies and art: Cli-Fi.
“Cli-fi” movies have emerged as a niche genre, taking the pomp of doomsday science-fiction flicks and mixing it with the underlying message of environmental awareness. The latest example being released Friday, “Interstellar,” is a $165 million space-time saga about a last-ditch effort to find humans a new home in another galaxy. The film takes place in the near future after Earth has been ravaged by a blight that’s left many food sources extinct.
Normally I don’t write about film because the AP’s very talented movie reviewers and entertainment writers have that covered. But the Blue Ocean Film Fest – a documentary film festival focused on the sea – was in my hometown of St. Petersburg and I thought it would make an interesting trend piece. My husband and I saw James Cameron’s “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” about the filmmaker’s quest to dive seven miles beneath the ocean’s surface into the Mariana Trench. Great movie.
There was also a giant, inflatable whale near my house.


NEW YORK — Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, the only youngster of Alfred Hitchcock and an actor herself who built a unforgettable visual appeal in her father’s “Strangers on a Train” and championed his get the job done in the decades subsequent his dying, has died at age 93.
Hitchcock died Monday in her rest at dwelling in Thousand Oaks, California, her daughter Tere Carrubba reported Wednesday. She died of pure results in, said Carrubba.
“She was normally actually superior at safeguarding the legacy of my grandparents and creating guaranteed they have been often remembered,” explained Carrubba, one of Patricia Hitchcock’s three daughters. “It’s form of an finish of an era now that they’re all gone.”
Identified to lots of as Pat Hitchcock, she was born in London to Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville Hitchcock in 1928 and put in considerably of her lifetime in and all-around the family members business enterprise. Throughout her childhood, Alfred Hitchcock directed such classics as “The 39 Techniques,” “The Lady Vanishes” and “Shadow of a Doubt,” moved to California following signing a multipicture deal with producer David O. Selznick and rose to world wide fame as the “Master of Suspense.” Alma was his indispensable adviser, a former film editor through whom he vetted story tips and screenplay treatment plans.
“My mom had a lot a lot more to do with the movies than she has at any time been presented credit rating for — he depended on her for almost everything, certainly every little thing,” Pat Hitchcock instructed The Guardian in 1999.
Pat would pay a visit to her father’s movie sets and by her teens was acting in school plays and showing up on stage, together with the Broadway productions “Solitaire” and “Violet.” She was admitted to London’s Royal Academy of Extraordinary Artwork in 1947 and was about to graduate when her father contacted her and explained he experienced a part for her in his new film, “Strangers on a Practice,” adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel. The 1951 production starred Robert Walker and Farley Granger as strangers who meet up with on a educate and concur — at minimum Walker thinks they agree — to a double murder: Walker will get rid of Granger’s wife, and Granger will destroy Walker’s father. Pat Hitchcock plays the sister of a lady (Ruth Roman), with whom Granger is in adore.
Walker duly carries out his side, strangling Granger’s spouse on the grounds of an amusement park, and pressures Granger to honor the discount. He turns up at a party attended by Granger and chats up an aged female about the finest way to get rid of somebody — strangulation. He has placed his hands on her neck, when he looks up and sees Pat Hitchcock staring back in horror. Unnerved by her resemblance to his murder victim — they wear similar glasses — he practically chokes the guest to demise. Hitchcock’s character later sobs that she felt as if she was the one he could have killed, top to suspicions about the murder of Granger’s spouse.
“I feel he was employing her as the audience,” Pat Hitchcock, interviewed for a 1997 BBC specific on her father, claimed of her character. “I think he was acquiring her go by way of what the audience went via.”
Hitchcock was a lively, witty actor with a heart-formed experience and her other acting credits included the Tv sitcoms “My Little Margie” and “The Everyday living of Riley” and quite a few roles in the Tv collection “Alfred Hitchcock Provides.” She also had areas in her father’s “Stage Fright” and in his horror masterpiece “Psycho,” in which she plays an place of work colleague of Janet Leigh, who afterwards in the film is famously stabbed to loss of life in a motel shower.
Extra not long ago, she labored for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, appeared at a lot of movie festivals and in quite a few Hitchcock documentaries and contributed pictures and a foreword to “Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco,” by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal. She also co-authored a guide on her mom, who died in 1982, “Alma Hitchcock: The Girl Behind the Gentleman.” (Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980).
Pat Hitchcock was married for far more than 40 decades to Joseph O’Connell, who died in 1994. They had three small children.
She would insist that her childhood was satisfied and that her mother and father have been normal, but she wasn’t spared her father’s distant, controlling mother nature and his skewed and occasionally cruel sense of humor. As a lady, she normally ate alone, was sent to boarding faculty and deprived of a higher education education and learning when her father determined she should instead return to England. She would specific regret that he didn’t solid her in extra of his films.
“I undoubtedly would like he’d considered in nepotism,” she liked to say.
At property, the director once painted a clown experience on her though she was sleeping, anticipating her shock when she awoke the next morning and initial looked in a mirror. During the filming of “Strangers on a Prepare,” realizing her panic of heights, he bet her $100 that she wouldn’t journey a Ferris wheel on the established. She disputed a story from Donald Spoto’s 1983 biography “The Dim Aspect of Genius” that he remaining her stranded, and terrified, for an hour.
“What happened is they turned off the lights and pretended they were being going absent — for all of what I’d say have been 35 seconds — and put the lights on and we came down,” she instructed the Chicago Tribune in 1993. “The only ‘sadistic’ part is that I under no circumstances acquired the hundred dollars.”
British director and producer Alfred Hitchcock appears with his eldest granddaughter, 6-calendar year-outdated Mary O’Connell, who can make her performing debut on Sept. 24, 1959, when she appears with her mother, actress Pat Hitchcock, ideal, in an episode of the famed “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” television series in The united states. The only baby of Alfred Hitchcock has died. Pat Hitchcock, who designed a unforgettable visual appeal in her father’s “Strangers on a Practice,” was 93.


Born 1987 and raised in the small canton of Glarus, ever since I was a young boy, movies were my main interest. In my circle of friends, we used an old VHS camcorder to make our very first shortfilms.
Today, I live in Zurich and study Cinematography as Master of Arts ZFH in Film at the ZHdK.
In 2015, I graduated Bachelor of Arts ZFH in visual communication with focus on audiovisual media.
I have several years experience behind the camera and set my focus on feature films and documentaries as well as commercial, corporate and short films.
Feel free to contact me for any kind of camera related work, or if you want to have access to one of my projects on my website.


We are two guys who go to the theatre a couple of times a week and then sit down at Smith College TV Studio and conduct an autopsy of the film we've seen. The procedure is often funny (just as with any real corpse) and sometimes insightful, despite our efforts. But it also gets a bit messy where there's movie blood and guts everywhere. But we always strive to be irreverently relevant.
We welcome your feedback on the reviews -- good, bad, or ugly.
A bit more about us: Kevin Taylor Anderson is a lecturer in anthropology and film studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Salman Hameed is associate professor of integrated science & humanities at Hampshire College, and when not watching movies, he blogs about science & religion at Irtiqa.
How long is each film autopsy?
Our film autopsies are about 7 minutes long (we can bore you for only so long). However, sometimes we decide to take a chainsaw to analyze a film, and these Chainsaw autopsies are usually under 3 minutes in length. The type of autopsies have no correlation with the quality of films. We also sometimes exhume a not-so-recent film. These film exhumations are about 10 minutes long.


Dubai, United Arab Emirates - September 08, 2019: Michael Kors is pleased to introduce “Michael Kors: A Portrait,” a mini-documentary directed by Grammy-nominated director Alison Chernick.
In this intimate look at the world-renowned fashion designer, Michael talks about his extraordinary career, touching on his origins, his design philosophy, his favorite fashion moments and more.
“I am here to make people feel their best self,” says Michael in the film. “It's a gift that you get to love what you do and get to create things that excite you and be around people that inspire you.”
The film touches on the many milestones that led Michael to where he is today. From redesigning his mother's wedding dress at five years old to arriving in New York City during the Studio 54 era as a teenager and, later, heading his own fashion house and serving as the Creative Director of Céline—it's the story of a remarkable life and an iconic brand.
Concluding the film with his trademark optimism, Michael says, “Fashion people should smile more because they're lucky. It's the greatest joy in the world. Smile!”
“Michael Kors: A Portrait” will premiere September 5th, 2019, on the Michael Kors YouTube channel via the YouTube Premieres feature, which allows fans to chat and watch new videos together. For 24 hours, the film will be available exclusively on YouTube before launching on other platforms.


In today’s world, it seems like everything is expensive. That can be especially true when it comes to watching the latest movies and TV series. However, there are ways to watch those things without spending a lot of money. As a movie and TV series enthusiast, you know that keeping up with the latest releases can be expensive.
How to watch the latest movies and TV series for free? This is a question that many film and TV enthusiasts are asking. There are numerous ways to watch your favorite movies and TV shows without spending a penny.
This blog post will discuss some of the best ways to watch free movies and TV series. So, whether you are a Binge watcher or just like watching the occasional movie here and there, we have you covered! Keep reading for more information.
1. The Kodi Way
The first way to watch movies and TV series for free is by using Kodi. If you’re not aware of what Kodi is, then don’t worry! It’s a type of media player that allows you to stream content from the internet. You can install it on your smartphone, computer, or even an Amazon Firestick. Once installed, you can watch TV series and movies using Kodi.
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The second way to watch free movies is by looking at which streaming services are offering a free trial. Some of these services include Hotstar, Viu, and Netflix. We’d recommend you go for either Netflix or Hotstar, as they have the widest selection of movies and TV series.
3. Websites To The Rescue
The third way to watch free movies and TV series is by using websites that offer free streaming. While this method isn’t as reliable as the ones mentioned earlier, it’s still a viable option if you’re low on cash. Some of these websites include 123Movies, FMovies, or PrimeWire. If you’re looking for a specific movie or TV show, you can also check out websites like WatchFree and Project Free TV. These websites are dedicated to streaming the latest movies and TV series for free.
Another great way to watch free movies and TV series is by using torrents. For those of you who don’t know, torrents are basically files that can be downloaded very quickly. As for how to use these downloads, it’s simple. All you need to do is download the torrent file and then open it.
If you want to access every piece of content in just a few clicks, a rarbg torrent is your best bet.
5. MX Player
A great app to use if you want to watch free movies and TV series on your Android device. The app has a ton of content, including both old and new movies and TV shows. You can also find anime, documentaries, and cartoons on the app.
It is one of the best ways to watch free movies and TV series. Those who have never heard of Crackle should know that the app offers a ton of content. You can even find full-length Hollywood movies on this streaming service.
A great app to use if you want to watch movies and TV shows for free. It’s important to note that this app doesn’t have the most content available, but it does have enough content to provide entertainment. You can even find some hit movies on this mobile app.
8. Popcorn Time for Android
We can’t talk about the free movie and TV streaming services without mentioning Popcorn Time. This app is great for those who want to watch the latest movies and TV series. The best part about this app is that it’s available for Android devices.
This app has tons of content, including anime, documentaries, TV series, and movies. You can even watch some popular TV shows for free on this app. If you want to watch the latest content available on Viewster, you have to sign up with them because it has a monthly subscription fee.
Of course, one of the simplest ways to watch free movies and TV shows is by using a VPN. A VPN, or virtual private network, is a service that allows you to connect to the internet through a server located in a different country. This can be useful for bypassing censorship laws or simply accessing blocked websites in your country.
One of the best things about using a VPN is that it’s free to use. All you need to do is sign up for a VPN service and download the app. There are numerous VPN services available, but one of the most popular ones right now is CyberGhost.
Cyberghost can help you unblock access to Project Free TV and other streaming websites that would typically require a subscription or login for access. Just download the free app, choose a server located in another country, and then visit your favorite streaming sites!
In the modern age, it’s hard to watch movies and TV series for free. You have to be careful with your money, or you can easily spend a lot of money watching just one TV show episode. However, there are ways around this problem. In this blog post, we’ve discussed several different services that allow you to watch as many TV shows and movies as you want without spending a lot of money. The mentioned services don’t require any subscription or login; all you need to do is download their free app and start streaming!


The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) "Don't you realize that Americans dislike having their children stolen?" An American couple (James Stewart and Doris Day) vacationing in Morrocco accidentally gets involved in a spy ring when a murdered agent whispers a crucial secret to them with his last breath. Their young son is kidnapped in an attempt to keep their them silent about an assassination that is scheduled to happen soon; fearing for their child, their only recourse is to take the law into their own hands and track the kidnappers down before time runs out. This is Doris Day's best dramatic role, playing the grief-torn mother, and James Stewart, here as the desperate father, is always excellent. Do not confuse this one with the 1937 version of the same name; both films were directed by Alfred Hitchcock, but the remake is a vast improvement on the original. This films is possibly his best, demonstrating why Hitchcock earned his reputation as an incomparable master of suspense. He builds the tension with excellent directing, without resorting to any of the cheap gory effects of his later films like Psycho or The Birds.
The Maltese Falcon (1941) "I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk." This is the quintessential noir detective film; Humphrey Bogart is at his best in the famous "Sam Spade" role, here caught up in a tangle of international treasure-hunters all vying for a famous jeweled statue of a falcon and willing to do anything to get it. Note Mary Astor as the femme fatale; she was a gorgeous, very intense actress, and often ironically cast as one of two extremes: a) dangerous, "bad" women or b) matronly, gentle, "good" women. Also, as in The Thin Man, the original novel has a lot of less-than-decent stuff in it, but because of the code in
at that time, the filmmakers had to edit out the most objectionable content. Far from detracting from the characters or the plot, the result of the editing was a superb film. So, Hollywood , what did we learn there? Hollywood
Mon Oncle (1958) I cannot find a quote from this movie--partly because it's all in French, partly because it's almost a silent comedy, as the dialogue is so--at first glance-- unimportant. But after you watch this movie a few times, you'll realize that it isn't just a quaint little French comedy; it's a carefully-crafted work of art with subtle and poignant, almost Chestertonian themes, and every shot and every word heard in the background is deliberately placed where it is. At the same time, its a genuinely funny story about a bumbling, humble, simple man, Monsieur Hulot (French comedic genius Jacques Tati), and the misadventures that ensue when he is given charge of his young nephew for a day. Chivalrous, modest, and especially old-fashioned, Hulot represents an older world, a French neighborhood of ramshackle brick buildings and wrought-iron balconies, little cafes, mischievous boys, street-sweepers and stray dogs. This milieu is swiftly being swept away in a flurry of modern inventions, sleek new apartment buildings, sterile homes, factories and fancy cars--the grim, largely colorless world his nephew is growing up in. This, along with M. Hulot's Holiday, is undoubtedly the best of Tati's Hulot films.
Sergeant York (1941) "I ain't a-goin' to war. War's killin', and the book's agin' killin! So war is agin' the book!" As much as we value higher education, the history of the world is bursting at the seams with men who never had it and yet were wise in the manner of common sense, and willing to fight for what they believed in. This move is about one of those men and it isn't fictional. Alvin York, a young man from back-woods
and an uncannily good sharpshooter, had a very deep and sincere faith in God and the "Good Book" which compelled him to become a "conscientious objecter" during the draft of World War I. His objection was denied, and he was drafted anyway. This films beautifully recounts how York, excellently played by Gary Cooper, struggled to reconcile his faith with his duty to his country. Tennessee
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) "I have a proposition--because, frankly, sir, you and I are the only two characters worth saving in this whole affair." A traveling Englishman who looks remarkably like the drunkard king in an Austria-like country is obliged to secretly fill the throne while the real king is busy being kidnapped. Alright, maybe I just have soft spot for this one because I love Ronald Colman, starring in the double-role as the king and his look-alike. Or because I love swashbucklers. And Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. And . . . actually, I don't think there's anything about this movie I don't like. The plot is thrilling, the action unmatched, and the characters are unforgettable, from a strait-laced, noble old soldier (a superb C. Aubrey Smith), to the beautiful princess (Madeline Carroll) torn between love and duty, and a roguish and witty villain (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) just too good to kill off in the end! This movie is so much fun, in fact, that the 1952 remake with Stewart Granger copied this version exactly scene for scene.


There are a variety of acting schools to select from. How do you determine which one fits your needs? Below is actually a checklist of 10 things to take into consideration when you make your selection.
1) School Reputation
Learn about an acting school’s reputation through word-of-mouth and if possible, by asking agents and casting directors at seminars and workshops. Take a look at just how many working actors came out from the school you like in recent years. Also glance at the acceptance rate and which schools require an audition. Usually, the more effective schools tend to be more competitive. Bear in mind, though, that lots of prestigious acting schools will not likely allow you to audition professionally until you graduate.
2) The faculty
Your acting teachers could have a great deal to use the sort of actor you become. Check if it is possible to audit a class and in case your teachers are operating actors. Also check out the student to faculty ratio to make sure you reach work on scenes in each and every class.
3) Focus from the school: film or theater
What type of acting career do you need? In order to become a Broadway actor, consider picking a school in The Big Apple. Film acting schools will teach you better for acting ahead of the camera, but understand that a great deal of casting directors still prefer actors with theater training, even for film and television.
4) Approach to training
What’s the philosophy from the school? What acting techniques are you going to study? Method acting? The Meisner technique? As a beginning actor, you may not understand what techniques is wonderful for you, so consider a school that provides many methods to acting. Regardless of what curriculum you end up picking, make sure your acting class includes work on relaxation, concentration, improvisation, scene study and character study.
5) Classes offered
Beyond acting classes, acting schools west hollywood should offer courses in movement (including stage combat and dance), vocal production and speech (including singing, dialects and accent reduction if needed), plus acting for that camera and auditioning classes. You may also wish to take special courses like mask, makeup and costumes.
6) Period of studies
What kind of commitment would you like to make? If you’re unclear you want to become an actor, begin with a few acting classes or sign up for a summer acting camp. If you’re ready to train full time, programs differ from someone to 4 years of education.
7) Performance opportunities
How many times are you on stage? This is important. You can’t learn to act in the event you don’t get the opportunity to work before viewers. Attempt to schedule a school tour to have a look in the facilities as well as their in-house theater(s). Determine whether graduating students can be found in a marketplace showcase in front of agents and casting directors.
8) Preparation for the marketplace
Find out if the acting school offers assistance with headshots, resumes and cover letters. Are workshops and seminars with working professionals included in the curriculum? Does the school have a film department where one can work with future filmmakers and get a reel together? Are internships within the entertainment industry facilitated? Is definitely the act1ng associated with an experienced acting company? All these things can help you land the initial acting jobs.
9) Acting degree
What degree would you like to get at the conclusion of your acting training? A Bachelor’s degree from an acting university will give you more options down the road, including the chance of pursuing a Masters later. In case the school you enjoy doesn’t give a BFA in acting, check if you can make transferable credits.
Consider your budget. You will need money for tuition fees, books, supplies, room and board, insurance, transportation and personal expenses. Check if the school you’re thinking about offers educational funding. Also know upfront what type of financial risk you’re taking (some acting schools will not guarantee their students will probably be accepted to the second or third year).