Friends

PRE-INTRO-SCENE: CENTRAL PERK (ALL PRESENT EXCEPT JOEY)

MONICA: Alright. Phoebe?

PHOEBE: Okay, okay. If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want, um,
world peace, no more hunger, good things for the
rain-forest...And bigger boobs!

ROSS: Yeah, see.. you took mine. Chandler, what about you?

CHANDLER: Uh, if I were omnipotent for a day, I'd.. make myself
omnipotent forever.

RACHEL: See, there's always one guy. (MOCKING) "If I had a wish,
I'd wish for three more wishes."

(ENTER JOEY)

ALL: Hey Joey. Hi. Hey, buddy.

MONICA: Hey, Joey, what would you do if you were omnipotent?

JOEY: Probably kill myself!

MONICA: ..Excuse me?

JOEY: Hey, if Little Joey's dead, then I got no reason to live!

ROSS: Joey, uh- OMnipotent.

JOEY: You are? Ross, I'm sorry..

(INTRO)

SCENE 1: CENTRAL PERK (ROSS AND MONICA ARE WATCHING PHOEBE SLEEP)

MONICA: How does she do that?

ROSS: I cannot sleep in a public place.

MONICA: Would you look at her? She is so peaceful.

PHOEBE: (WAKING AND STARTLING THEM) Oh! What what what! ...Hi.

ROSS: It's okay, y'know, you just nodded off again.

MONICA: What's going on with you?

PHOEBE: I got no sleep last night!

ROSS: Why?

PHOEBE: My grandmother has this new boyfriend, and they're both kind
of insecure in bed. Oh, and deaf. So they're constantly,
like, having to reassure each other that they're having a
good time. You have no idea how loud they are!

MONICA: Well, if you want, you can stay with Rachel and me tonight.

PHOEBE: Thanks.

(ENTER CHANDLER AND JOEY. JOEY IS COUNTING HIS STEPS)

JOEY: ...Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven. See, I told you! Less
than a hundred steps from our place to here.

CHANDLER: You got waaaay too much free time.

JOEY: (TO ROSS) Hey! Here's the birthday boy! Ross, check it out:
hockey tickets, Rangers-Penguins, tonight at the Garden, and
we're taking you.

CHANDLER: Happy birthday, pal!

JOEY: We love you, man. (KISSES HIM)

ROSS: Funny, my birthday was seven months ago.

JOEY: So?

ROSS: So, I'm guessing you had an extra ticket and couldn't decide
which one of you got to bring a date?

CHANDLER: Well, aren't we Mr. "The glass is half empty".

ROSS: Oh my God, oh- is today the twentieth, October twentieth?

MONICA: Oh, I was hoping you wouldn't remember.

ROSS: Ohhh.

JOEY: What's wrong with the twentieth?

CHANDLER: Eleven days before Hallowe'en.. all the good costumes are
gone?

ROSS: Today's the day Carol and I first.. consummated our physical
relationship. (JOEY IS PUZZLED) Sex. ..You know what, I-I'd
better pass on the game. I think I'm just gonna go home and
think about my ex-wife and her lesbian lover.

JOEY: The hell with hockey, let's all do that!

CHANDLER: (TRYING TO STOP ROSS LEAVING) C'mon, Ross! You, me, Joey,
ice, guys' night out, c'mon, whaddya say, big guy,
(PRETENDING TO PUNCH HIM IN THE STOMACH) huh? huh? huh?

ROSS: What are you doing?

CHANDLER: (STOPS) I have no idea.

JOEY: C'mon, Ross!

ROSS: Alright, alright, maybe it'll take my mind off it. Do you
promise to buy me a big thumb finger?

CHANDLER: You got it.

(RACHEL RUNS UP CLUTCHING AN ENVELOPE)

RACHEL: Look look look look look, my first pay check! Look at the
window, there's my name! Hi, me!

PHOEBE: I remember the day I got my first pay check. There was a cave
in in one of the mines, and eight people were killed.

MONICA: Wow, you worked in a mine?

PHOEBE: I worked in a Dairy Queen, why?

RACHEL: God, isn't this exciting? I earned this. I wiped tables for
it, I steamed milk for it, and it was totally- (OPENS
ENVELOPE) -not worth it. Who's FICA? Why's he getting all my
money? I mean, what- Chandler, look at that.

CHANDLER: (LOOKING) Oh, this is not that bad.

JOEY: Oh, you're fine, yeah, for a first job.

ROSS: You can totally, totally live on this.

MONICA: Yeah, yeah.

ROSS: Oh, by the way, great service tonight.

ALL: Oh! Yeah! (THEY GET THEIR WALLETS OUT AND GIVE GENEROUS TIPS)

BOYS: Hockey! (THEY GO TO LEAVE BUT ARE BLOCKED BY LESLIE, KIKI AND
JOANNE. A PAUSE AS THE BOYS STARE AT THEM) Hockey! Hockey.
(EXIT BOYS)

LESLIE: (LOOKING ROUND) Rachel?

RACHEL: Oh my God! (RACHEL, LESLIE, KIKI AND JOANNE ALL SCREAM AND HUG
EACH OTHER)

MONICA: (TO PHOEBE) I swear I've seen birds do this on Wild Kingdom.

RACHEL: What are you guys doing here?

KIKI: Well, we were in the city shopping, and your mom said you work
here, aaand it's true!

JOANNE: Look at you in the apron. You look like you're in a play.

RACHEL: (TO (PREGNANT) LESLIE) Look at you, you are so big I can't
believe it!

LESLIE: I know. I know! I'm a duplex.

RACHEL: (TO JOANNE) So what's going on with you?

JOANNE: Well, guess who my dad's making partner in his firm? (POINTS
TO HERSELF; THEY ALL SCREAM)

KIKI: And while we're on the subject of news.. (HOLDS UP HER FINGER
TO SHOW A RING; THEY ALL SCREAM)

PHOEBE: (TO MONICA) Look, look, I have elbows! (THEY SCREAM)

SCENE 2: THE BOYS WALKING DOWN A STREET (CHANDLER AND JOEY ARE
KICKING A CAN ABOUT)

CHANDLER: ...Poulet passes it up to Leech! (PASSES TO JOEY)

JOEY: Leech spots Messier in the crease- there's the pass! (KICKS IT
TO ROSS, BUT ROSS IS STARING INTO A SHOP WINDOW)

CHANDLER: We'll take a brief time out while Messier stops to look at
some women's shoes.

ROSS: Carol was wearing boots just like those the night that we- we
first- y'know. Fact, she, uh- she never took'em off, 'cause
we-we- (OFF CHANDLER'S LOOK) Sorry. Sorry.

(THEY WALK ON. CHANDLER AND JOEY START TO TALK BUT ROSS STOPS AND
WHINES)

JOEY: What?

ROSS: Peach pit.

CHANDLER: Yes, Bunny?

ROSS: (POINTS) Peach pit. That night we, uh- we had-

JOEY: -Peaches?

ROSS: Actually, nectarines, but basically..

CHANDLER: (TO JOEY) Could've been a peach.

ROSS: Then, uh, then we got dressed, and I-I... I walked her to the-
(LOOKS UP, REALISES, AND POINTS) -the bus stop... I'm fine.

JOEY: Hey, that woman's got an ass like Carol's! (THEY TURN TO STARE
AT HIM) What? Thought we were trying to find stuff.

(CUT TO CENTRAL PERK- RACHEL, LESLIE, KIKI AND JOANNE TALKING)

RACHEL: So c'mon, you guys, tell me all the dirt!

KIKI: Well, the biggest news is still you dumping Barry at the altar!

JOANNE: Alright. Let's talk reality for a second.

RACHEL: Okay.

JOANNE: When are you coming home?

RACHEL: What? Guys, I'm not.

JOANNE: C'mon, this is us.

RACHEL: I'm not! This is what I'm doing now. I've got this job-

KIKI: Waitressing?

RACHEL: Okay, I'm not just waitressing. I'm.. I, um... I write the
specials on the specials board, and, uh... and I, uh... I
take the uh dead flowers out of the vase... Oh, and, um,
sometimes Artelle lets me put the little chocolate blobbies
on the cookies.

LESLIE: Well. Your mom didn't tell us about the blobbies.

SCENE 3: MONICA AND RACHEL'S (PHOEBE AND MONICA ARE IN PAJAMAS.
MONICA IS MAKING SOMETHING IN THE BLENDER)

(ENTER RACHEL)

MONICA: Hey, Rach. How was it with your friends? (SHE AND PHOEBE
SCREAM) Okay! How would you like some Tiki Death Punch?
(POURS THE CONTENTS OF THE BLENDER INTO GLASSES)

RACHEL: What's that?

MONICA: Weeeell, it's rum, and-

RACHEL: Okay. (GRABS THE BLENDER AND STARTS TO DRINK)

MONICA: We thought since Phoebe was staying over tonight we'd have
kinda like a slumber party thing. We got some trashy
magazines, we got cookie dough, we got Twister.. (PHONE
RINGS, MONICA GOES TO ANSWER)

PHOEBE: Ooh! Ooh! And I brought Operation! But, um, I lost the
tweezers, so we can't operate. But we can prep the guy!

MONICA: Uh, Rach, it's the Visa card people.

RACHEL: Oh, God, ask them what they want.

MONICA: (PHONE) Could you please tell me what this is in reference to?
...Yes, hold on. (TO RACH) Um, they say there's been some
unusual activity on your account.

RACHEL: But I haven't used my card in weeks!

MONICA: That is the unusual activity. Look, they just wanna see if
you're okay.

RACHEL: They wanna know if I'm okay. Okay.. they wanna know if I'm
okay, okay, let's see. Well, let's see, the FICA guys took
all my money, everyone I know is either getting married, or
getting promoted, or getting pregnant, and I'm getting coffee!
And it's not even for me! So if that sounds like I'm okay,
okay, then you can tell them I'm okay, okay?

MONICA: (PAUSES, THEN, TO PHONE) Uh- Rachel has left the building,
can you call back?

RACHEL: Alright, c'mon! (MISERABLY) Let's play Twister!

SCENE 4: THE GUYS AT THE GAME (TRYING TO FIND THEIR SEATS)

ROSS: (SQUEEZING PAST PEOPLE) Sorry, sorry... Uh-oh.

CHANDLER: What? There was ice there that night with Carol? Plastic
seats? Four thousand angry Pittsburgh fans?

ROSS: No, actually I was just saying it looks like we're not sitting
together. But now you mention it, there was ice there that
night... It was the first frost...

JOEY: C'mon, sit. Just sit down, sit.

(CUT TO THE GIRLS)

MONICA: You should feel great about yourself! You're doing this
amazing independence thing!

RACHEL: Monica, what is so amazing? I gave up, like, everything. And
for what?

PHOEBE: You are just like Jack.

RACHEL: ...Jack from downstairs?

PHOEBE: No, Jack and the Beanstalk.

MONICA: Ah, the other Jack.

PHOEBE: Yeah, right! See, he gave up something, but then he got those
magic beans. And then he woke up, and there was this, this
big plant outside his window, full of possibilities and
stuff.. And he lived in a village, and you live in the
Village..

RACHEL: Okay, but Pheebs, Pheebs, Jack gave up a cow, I gave up an
orthodontist. Okay, I-I-I know, I know I didn't love him-

PHOEBE: Oh, see, Jack did love the cow.

RACHEL: But see, it was a plan. Y'know, it was clear. It was figured
out, and now everything's just kinda like-

PHOEBE: Floopy?

RACHEL: Yeah.

MONICA: So what, you're not the only one. I mean, half the time we
don't know where we're going. You've just gotta figure at
some point it's all gonna come together, and it's just gonna
be... un-floopy.

PHOEBE: Oh, like that's a word.

RACHEL: Okay, but Monica, what if- what if it doesn't come together?

MONICA: ...Pheebs?

PHOEBE: Oh, well... 'cause.... you just... I don't like this question.

RACHEL: Okay, see, see, you guys, what if we don't get magic beans? I
mean, what if all we've got are.. beans?

(CUT TO THE GAME)

ROSS: Get him! GET HIM! Get him! Get- YESSS! Not laughing now, are ya
pal!

CHANDLER: (TO ROSS) See buddy, that's all you need, a bunch of
toothless guys hitting each other with sticks.

ROSS: Pass it! Pass it!

CHANDLER: He's open!

ALL: Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!

(THE PLAYER SHOOTS. THE PUCK FLIES OFF THE RINK AND HITS ROSS IN THE
FACE. CHANDLER LOOKS CONCERNED, UNTIL HE NOTICES...)

CHANDLER: Hey, look, we're on that TV thing!

(CHANDLER AND JOEY HOLD UP THE PUCK AND WAVE AT THE TV THING)

(AD BREAK)

SCENE 5: EMERGENCY ROOM (CHANDLER AND JOEY LEADING ROSS IN)

CHANDLER: (TO RECEPTIONIST)'Scuse me.

RECEPTIONIST: (HOLDS UP HER HAND- SHE IS ON THE PHONE) It says to
call this number if you're not completely satisfied with
this candy bar. Well, I'm not completely satisfied.

CHANDLER: Listen, it's kind of an emergency. Well, I guess you know
that, or we'd be in the predicament room.

(RECEPTIONIST GIVES HIM A LOOK TO FREEZE HELL)

RECEPTIONIST: (TO PHONE) Hold on. (TO CHANDLER) Fill these out, sit
over there. (TOSSES HIM SOME FORMS)

ROSS: (JUMPS TO HIS FEET) Look, I don't wanna make any trouble, okay,
but I'm in a lot of pain here, alright? My face is dented.

RECEPTIONIST: Well, you'll have to wait your turn.

JOEY: Well, how long do you think it'll be?

RECEPTIONIST: (SARCASTIC) Any minute now.

ROSS: Hey, this- (SHE GIVES HIM A LOOK AND THE GUYS BACK OFF)
Heyy...

(CUT TO THE GIRLS)

RACHEL: I'm so sorry, you guys. I didn't mean to bring you down.

MONICA: No, you were right. I don't have a plan. (A KNOCK AT THE DOOR)

PIZZA GUY (OUTSIDE): Pizza guy.

RACHEL: Thank God. Food. (SHE GOES TO GET IT)

MONICA: Phoebe?

PHOEBE: What?

MONICA: Do you have a plan?

PHOEBE: I don't even have a 'pl'.

PIZZA GUY: Hi, one, uh, mushroom, green pepper and onion?

RACHEL: (MISERABLE) No, no, that's not what we ordered... We ordered
a fat-free crust with extra cheese.

PIZZA GUY: Wait, you're not 'G.Stephanopoulos'? Man, my dad's gonna
kill me!

MONICA: (LEAPS THE COUCH AND RUNS UP) Wait! Did you say
'G.Stephanopoulos'?

PIZZA GUY: Yeah. This one goes across the street, I must have given
him yours. Oh, bonehead, bonehead!

MONICA: Wait, was this a-a small mediterranean guy with curiously
intelligent good looks?

PIZZA GUY: Yeah, that sounds about right.

MONICA: Was he wearing a stunning blue suit?

PHOEBE: And-and a power tie?

PIZZA GUY: No, pretty much just a towel.

MONICA: (STAGGERED) Oh God.

PIZZA GUY: So you guys want me to take this back?

MONICA: Are you nuts?! We've got George Stephanopoulos' pizza!

(RACHEL PAYS HIM. MONICA GRABS SOME BINOCULARS AND RUNS TO THE WINDOW)

RACHEL: Uh, Pheebs? Who's George Snuffalopagus?

PHOEBE: Big Bird's friend.

MONICA: I see pizza!

PHOEBE: Oh, I wanna see! Lemme see! Lemme see! (RUNS UP AND TAKES THE
BINOCULARS)

RACHEL: Hello? Who are we spying on?

MONICA: White House adviser? Clinton's campaign guy? The one with the
great hair, sexy smile, really cute butt?

RACHEL: Oh, him, the little guy? Oh, I love him!

PHOEBE: Ooh, wait.. wait, I see a woman.

MONICA: Please tell me it's his mother.

PHOEBE: Definitely not his mother.

MONICA: Oh, no...

PHOEBE: Oh, wait, she's walking across the floor.. she's walking..
she's walking.. she's going for the pizza- (YELLS) Hey, that's
not for you, bitch!

(PHOEBE COVERS HER MOUTH WITH HER HAND AND WALKS AWAY FROM THE WINDOW)

(CUT TO THE HOSPITAL. JOEY IS MIMING HOCKEY PUCKS HITTING FOREHEADS.
CHANDLER REALISES IT'S GETTING TENSE AND GOES TO THE RECEPTIONIST
AGAIN)

CHANDLER: Excuse me, look, we've been here for over an hour, and a
lot of people less sick than my friend have gone in. I mean,
that guy with the toe thing? Who's he sleeping with?

(SHE SLIDES THE GLASS PANEL OVER. CHANDLER TALKS THROUGH IT IN A LOUD
VOICE)

CHANDLER: Oh, c'mon Dora, don't be mad... I know we both said some
things we didn't mean, but that doesn't mean we still don't
love each other. (TO THE E.R.) Y'know, I feel like I've lost
her.. (SHE SLIDES THE PANEL BACK. HE TURNS AND IT TAKES HIM
BY SURPRISE) Ba-!

(CUT TO THE GIRLS ON MON+RACH'S BALCONY)

MONICA: Light still out?

RACHEL: Yeah.

MONICA: Oh. Maybe they're- napping.

RACHEL: Oh please, they're having sex.

MONICA+PHOEBE: Shut up!

RACHEL: So, whaddya think George is like?

MONICA: I think he's shy.

PHOEBE: Yeah?

MONICA: Yeah. I think you have to draw him out. And then- when you
do- he's a preppy animal.

(HOSPITAL)

ROSS: I remember the moonlight coming through the window- and her
face had the most incredible glow.

CHANDLER: Yes, the moon, the glow, the magical feeling, you did this
part- Could I get some painkillers over here, please?

JOEY: He's right, enough, already. What is the big deal about today?
So you slept with her for the first time, so what? You slept
with her for seven years after that.

ROSS: Look, it's just a little more complicated...

CHANDLER: Well, what? What? What is it? That she left you? That she
likes women? That she left you for another woman that likes
women?

ROSS: Little louder, okay, I think there's a man on the twelfth floor
in a coma that didn't quite hear you...

CHANDLER: Then what?

ROSS: My first time with Carol was.. (MUMBLES)

JOEY: What?

ROSS: It was my first time.

JOEY: With Carol?

(ROSS GIVES HIM A LOOK)

JOEY: Oh.

CHANDLER: So in your whole life, you've only been with one- (HE GETS
A LOOK TOO) -oh.

JOEY: Whoah, boy, hockey was a big mistake! There was a whole bunch
of stuff we could've done tonight!

(BALCONY)

MONICA: Okay. Okay, I got one. Do you remember that vegetarian pate
that I made that you loved so much?

PHOEBE: Uh-huh.

MONICA: Well, unless goose is a vegetable...ha haaaah!

PHOEBE: Oh! Oh! Oh! Okay, fine, fine. Now I don't feel so bad about
sleeping with Jason Hurley.

MONICA: What?! You slept with Jason?

PHOEBE: You'd already broken up.

RACHEL: How long?

PHOEBE: A couple hours.

MONICA: Oh, that's nice!

RACHEL: Okay, okay, okay, I got one! (SHE SITS UP AND THE CUSHION SHE
WAS LEANING AGAINST FALLS OFF THE BALCONY) Anyway- The
valentine Tommy Rollerson left in your locker was really from
me.

MONICA: Excuse me?!

RACHEL: Hello? Like he was really gonna send you one? (TO PHOEBE) She
was a big girl.

MONICA: Really. Well, at least 'big girls' don't pee in their pants
in seventh grade!

RACHEL: I was laughing! You made me laugh! (MONICA AND RACHEL START
TO SQUABBLE)

PHOEBE: There he is! There he is!

MONICA: Where?

PHOEBE: Right- where we've been looking all night!

RACHEL: He is so cute!

MONICA: Oh, George, baby, drop the towel!

ALL: Yeah, drop it! Drop the towel! Please drop the- (PAUSE) -wowww.

(HOSPITAL- ROSS IS ABSENT)

JOEY: Man. Can you believe he's only had sex with one woman?

CHANDLER: I think it's great. Y'know, it's sweet, it's romantic..

JOEY: Really?

CHANDLER: No, you kidding? The guy's a freak..

(ENTER ROSS OFF CAMERA)

BOTH: Hey, buddy.

ROSS: Hi. (HE IS WEARING A PIECE OF STEEL BANDAGED TO HIS NOSE. HE
TOSSES SOME FORMS ONTO THE RECEPTION DESK)

RECEPTIONIST: (SARCASTIC) Oh, that's attractive.

CHANDLER: Oh, I thought you were great in Silence of the Lambs. Oh
come on, admit it! All things considered, you had fun
tonight.

ROSS: Fun? Where was the fun? Tell me specifically, which part was
the fun part? Where's my puck?

JOEY: Oh, ah- the kid has it.

ROSS: The kid..? (TO KID) Excuse me, uh, that's, that's my puck.

KID: I found it. Finders keepers, losers weepers.

(ROSS LOOKS AT CHANDLER FOR HELP)

CHANDLER: You gotta do it, man.

ROSS: (TO KID) Oh yeah? Well, I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever- (TO
CHANDLER) -can't do it. (TO KID) Listen, uh- gimme back my puck.

KID: No.

ROSS: 'Yes', how about. C'mere. Gimme!

KID: No! No!

(THEY FIGHT OVER IT.)

RECEPTIONIST: Hey! Hey! No rough holding in my ER!

ROSS: (TRIES TO SNATCH IT-) GIVE ME MY PUCK!! (-BUT IT FLIES OUT OF
HIS GRASP AND KNOCKS OUT THE RECEPTIONIST)

ROSS: ...Now that was fun.

CREDITS SCENE: RACHEL+MONICA'S PLACE (JOEY AND THE GIRLS ARE PLAYING
TWISTER)

ROSS: (DOING THE SPINNING) Okay, Monica: Right foot red.

MONICA: Could've played Monopoly, but nooooo.

(A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. CHANDLER OPENS IT AND SOME GUY SILENTLY HANDS
BACK THE CUSHION)

CHANDLER: Thanks. (THE GUY NODS AND LEAVES)

ROSS: Okay, Pheebs: Right hand blue. (PHOEBE HAS TO BEND OVER.)Good.
(JOEY STARES AT HER BUTT APPRECIATIVELY)

(PHONE RINGS, CHANDLER ANSWERS)

CHANDLER: Hello? Oh, uh, Rachel, it's the Visa card people.

RACHEL: Oh, okay. Will you take my place?

CHANDLER: Alright. (TO PHONE) Yes, this is Rachel.

RACHEL: Nooo! (TAKES THE PHONE; CHANDLER TAKES HER PLACE) Hello? Oh,
yeah, no, I know, I-I haven't been using it much. Oh, well,
thanks, but, I'm okay, really.

ROSS: Green. To the green.

RACHEL: I've got magic beans. Never-never mind.

CHANDLER: To the left, to the left- aww! (THEY COLLAPSE)

RACHEL: Ohhh... I'm fine.

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