We’re back, on a brand new TV! But only a day has passed for my Friends™, as Ross grapples with how to cope with seeing Rachel and Gavin kiss. It turns out… badly.
“The One Where Ross, Just Still Sucks”
It seems to me a lot of Ross’s insecurity comes from being an elder single. Chandler makes some good points about the secure, married, life being better than running round after dates. But that’s what Ross’s stuck with, in a bid to compete with Rachel.
Chandler agrees to help, and him and Ross end up being so weird to two women in the coffee house they just straight up leave. Should have asked if they could speak to Angela.
We’ve just received some exciting, related, news in the form of Chandler Number One revealing they now have a boyfriend! (Reminder that my Chandler’s a girl… Chandler’s a girl… Chandler’s a girl…)
Poor Ross, forever alone. I have to say, at this point, I did expect a lot more of us would have separated. Perhaps New Yorker’s have a more relaxed attitude to divorce? Maybe there is something in the power of the Church of England after all…
It’s all getting a bit much for Rachel. Not only does she work with Gavin, but things are all very complex with the big baby. And Emma too… (Ross is the big baby.)
She calls in sick to avoid Gavin and he comes round her house to check up on her. Is this romantic or is he creeping harder than Ross? Just kidding. No-one is worse than Ross. Rachel is literally scared of him catching Gavin in the apartment! Possibly with good reason. Given how he acted when he was telling Chandler about seeing the kiss.
Joey’s getting his eyebrows done! Which is giving me horrific flashbacks to accidentally getting my nose waxed at a Turkish barbers over Christmas™. It’s interesting to think male grooming is often presented as a liberal, metrosexual, Western thing but really it’s got a rich worldwide history.
Joey ends up wussing out after one eyebrow. Which reminds me of a girl in school who, one day, came in with fully shaved eyebrows after some hurtful comments from other kids. And now all the kids are doing it! That girl was ahead of her time.
Elsewhere, Paul Rudd is running karaoke. And Phoebe convinces Monica to sing (although, like all of us, she secretly wants to anyway). Monica goes down much better than expected! (steady). On account of her top being see-through under a spotlight. (Steady, steady…)
Chandler tries to intervene to protect his wifes honour. But she decides she’s into the attention and owns it. You go girl!!
Ross is still on the hunt for a new woman, despite criticising Rachel for finding someonewithout even looking for it. I’m starting to sense a pattern here. Rachel does something relatively innocuous. Ross retaliates in a disproportionate way. Hilarity ensues. He ends up with the most vulnerable/crazy woman he could possibly find. And ALL just to get back at Rachel. AND right as Rachel has put the stopper on Gavin and is about to come clean.
Obviously it all backfires as Ross, jealously, tells Rachel about (abusively) tearing up her answer phone message. Rachel responds “Ross, this is so messed up!” And she’s not wrong. He’s far too immature to handle the, slightly more complex than traditional, set-up they’ve found themselves in.
And Rachel is the one that suffers… forced to move back in with Joey.
At least they can do each others eyebrows.
Real Live Sitcom Moment:
Just a quick one to say that we went to the Life-Sized Monopoly™ in central London recently. And it was actually really good!
I’d recommend it to any group of mates looking for a few hours of non-alcoholic fun.
“The One Where Ross, Just Still Sucks”
It seems to me a lot of Ross’s insecurity comes from being an elder single. Chandler makes some good points about the secure, married, life being better than running round after dates. But that’s what Ross’s stuck with, in a bid to compete with Rachel.
Chandler agrees to help, and him and Ross end up being so weird to two women in the coffee house they just straight up leave. Should have asked if they could speak to Angela.
We’ve just received some exciting, related, news in the form of Chandler Number One revealing they now have a boyfriend! (Reminder that my Chandler’s a girl… Chandler’s a girl… Chandler’s a girl…)
Poor Ross, forever alone. I have to say, at this point, I did expect a lot more of us would have separated. Perhaps New Yorker’s have a more relaxed attitude to divorce? Maybe there is something in the power of the Church of England after all…
It’s all getting a bit much for Rachel. Not only does she work with Gavin, but things are all very complex with the big baby. And Emma too… (Ross is the big baby.)
She calls in sick to avoid Gavin and he comes round her house to check up on her. Is this romantic or is he creeping harder than Ross? Just kidding. No-one is worse than Ross. Rachel is literally scared of him catching Gavin in the apartment! Possibly with good reason. Given how he acted when he was telling Chandler about seeing the kiss.
Joey’s getting his eyebrows done! Which is giving me horrific flashbacks to accidentally getting my nose waxed at a Turkish barbers over Christmas™. It’s interesting to think male grooming is often presented as a liberal, metrosexual, Western thing but really it’s got a rich worldwide history.
Joey ends up wussing out after one eyebrow. Which reminds me of a girl in school who, one day, came in with fully shaved eyebrows after some hurtful comments from other kids. And now all the kids are doing it! That girl was ahead of her time.
Elsewhere, Paul Rudd is running karaoke. And Phoebe convinces Monica to sing (although, like all of us, she secretly wants to anyway). Monica goes down much better than expected! (steady). On account of her top being see-through under a spotlight. (Steady, steady…)
Chandler tries to intervene to protect his wifes honour. But she decides she’s into the attention and owns it. You go girl!!
Ross is still on the hunt for a new woman, despite criticising Rachel for finding someonewithout even looking for it. I’m starting to sense a pattern here. Rachel does something relatively innocuous. Ross retaliates in a disproportionate way. Hilarity ensues. He ends up with the most vulnerable/crazy woman he could possibly find. And ALL just to get back at Rachel. AND right as Rachel has put the stopper on Gavin and is about to come clean.
Obviously it all backfires as Ross, jealously, tells Rachel about (abusively) tearing up her answer phone message. Rachel responds “Ross, this is so messed up!” And she’s not wrong. He’s far too immature to handle the, slightly more complex than traditional, set-up they’ve found themselves in.
And Rachel is the one that suffers… forced to move back in with Joey.
At least they can do each others eyebrows.
Real Live Sitcom Moment:
Just a quick one to say that we went to the Life-Sized Monopoly™ in central London recently. And it was actually really good!
I’d recommend it to any group of mates looking for a few hours of non-alcoholic fun.
