Ross proposes to Emily. Monica and Rachel fight to reclaim their apartment from Chandler and Joey.
8 Scenes301 Lines
Scene 1
Rachel's bedroom; Rachel is awoken by a man singing in the next apartment.
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The Singing Man
(singing, duh) Morning's here! Sunshine is here! The sky is clear, the morning's here! The morning's here!
Rachel
HEY!! Do you have to do that? It's Saturday!
The Singing Man
Oh come on! Morning's here! (Starts singing) Morning's here! The morning is here! Sunshine is here!
(Rachel slams shut her window and storms into the living room, where Joey and Monica are eating breakfast.)
Rachel
I hate this apartment! I hate the color of these walls! I hate the fact that this place still smells like bird! I hate that singing guy!
Joey
Are you kidding? I love that guy! (Starts singing) Morning's here! Morning is here-
Rachel
Stop it! I will kill you. I hate the fact that my room is so small.
Monica
Hey, I have all the space I need. Just do what I did.
Rachel
Monica, you don't even have a bed, you sleep in a ball on the floor!
Monica
Y'know what? I am really tired of your bellyaching! Okay, I-I worked really hard at making this a nice place for us to live!
Rachel
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Monica
Okay.
Joey
See, this is a great apartment.
Monica
Shut up! This place is a hole!
OPENING CREDITS
Scene 2
Ross's bedroom; Ross and Emily are making out. Ross as a new feature.
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Emily
Oh, blimey, I still can't believe you've got an earring!
(Yep, it's a little gold loop.)
Ross
Huh? I know, I know. Who am I? David Bowe? (Shakes his head around, pretending like he's jamming.)
Emily
He does that?!
Ross
Uh, I don't know, whatever.
Emily
I think it makes you look really dangerous.
Ross
Oh, I know. Y'know what, I never would've gotten this if it weren't for you. No really, when I'm with you I'm-I'm like this whole other guy, I love that guy! I mean, I love you too, a lot, but that guy! I-I love that guy!
Emily
I love both of you!
Ross
Yeah?
(They kiss.)
Emily
I wish I didn't have to go.
Ross
Then don't. Stay here. Just don't go so soon to London, just one more day.
Emily
Ohh, Ross, please!
Ross
One more day, seriously/
Emily
Don't do this to me, again. You'd know I'd stay here in a minute, but I'd really miss so much work, they'll fire me.
Ross
So, then you can stay as long as you want.
Emily
I wish I could.
Ross
Oh no. Don't, don't, don't start packing. Come on! (She puts some clothes into her bag, and Ross throws them out.)
Emily
I don't think you understand packing. Look, I just don't want to leave it to the last minute. Last time I left in such a rush, I left my knickers here.
Ross
Yeah, I know, I uh, I tried them on.
Emily
You didn't!
Ross
No. No, I didn't. I didn't want to be that guy.
Scene 3
Monica and Rachel's erm, Chandler and Joey's, Joey and Chandler are watching one of those Kung Fu movies and imitating the moves.
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Phoebe
(entering, wearing Santa pants) Hello!
Chandler
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Phoebe
Excuse me.
Chandler
Your pants!
Phoebe
Oh, yeah! You like 'em? I just, I went to a used clothes store and got a bunch of maternity stuff. These are sooo comfortable!
Joey
Uhh, Pheebs, those are uh, those are Santa pants.
Phoebe
What?
Chandler
Santa pants. (Phoebe still doesn't get it.) Santa Claus's pants.
Phoebe
Nuh-uh! They're maternity pants. They even came with a list of baby names. (Pulls out a sheet of paper which lists who's been naughty and who's been nice.) See, these names are good, and these names are bad. (Finally, she figures it out.) Ohh.
Rachel
(entering) Hey!
Monica
(entering) Hey!
Rachel
So-Hey, Pheebs! So, how are the elves?
Phoebe
I don't know! How are the-the-the-the, y'know-You're clothes aren't funny.
Monica
Hey, guys, what-what should I wear to a Knicks game?
Chandler
Uhh, a T-shirt that says, "I don't belong here."
Joey
You have Knicks tickets?
Rachel
Yeah, my mom got my dad's season tickets in the divorce, so she just gave them to me.
Monica
Yeah, apparently, they're pretty good seats.
Rachel
Yeah.
Joey
(examining the tickets) Oh my God! Those are almost right on the floor!
Rachel
Do you guys want these?
Joey
Yeah!
Chandler
Yeah we do!
Rachel
Ohh, well you got 'em.
Both
All right!
Rachel
Just give us our apartment back!
Phoebe
Boy! I didn't see that coming!
Chandler
Are you serious?
Rachel
Oh, come on! We know what these are worth.
Monica
Yeah, what, do you think we're stupid?
Joey
You're not stupid. You're meaner than I thought.
Monica
What do you say?
Chandler
Forget it! Okay, I'm not giving up my bachelor pad for some basketball seats!
Rachel
You're bachelor pad?!
Monica
Have you even had a girl up here?
Chandler
No. But uh, Joey has, and I usually talk to them in the morning time.
Joey
Yeah, you do!
Scene 4
Central Perk, Joey is whining to Chandler about the tickets.
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Joey
Come on!
Chandler
(ignoring him) Yes, Gunther, can I get two cups of chino, please?
Gunther
Good one.
Joey
Come on, season tickets! Season tickets, do you know what that means?
Chandler
Forget it! Okay, I'm not giving up the apartment.
Joey
Oh come-look, when I was a kid my dad's company gave season tickets to the number one salesman every year, all right? My dad never won! Of course, he wasn't in the sales division, but still, I never ever, ever forgot that!
Ross
(entering) Hey, guys! (They both notice his new little friend)
Joey
Hey!
Chandler
Oh my God!
Joey
We don't make enough fun of you already?
Ross
Oh yeah, Emily convinced me to do it.
Chandler
You do know that Wham broke up?
Ross
I like it, and Emily likes it, and that's what counts. So uh, how are you guys doing?
Joey
Oh-no, don't try and talk all normal with that thing in your ear.
Chandler
Where is Emily?
Ross
Ugh, she's saying good-bye to her uncle.
Chandler
Man, didn't she like just get here?
Ross
Yeah!! Yeah!
Chandler
Easy tiger.
Ross
I just, I hate this so much! I mean, every time I go pick her up at the airport, it's-it's so great. But at the same time I'm thinking, "Well, I'm gonna be right back there in a couple of days, dropping her off."
Chandler
So what are you going to do?
Ross
Nothing! There's nothing to do! I mean, she lives there, I live here. I mean, she-she'd have to uh, move here. She should move here!
Joey
What?
Ross
I could ask her to live with me!
Chandler
Are you serious?
Ross
I mean, why not! I mean, I mean why not?!
Chandler
Because you've only known her for six weeks! Okay, I've got a carton of milk in my fridge I've had a longer relationship with!
Ross
Look guys, when I'm with her it's-it's-it's like she brings this-this-this great side out of me. I mean I-I-I love her, y'know?
Chandler
And I love the milk! But, I'm not gonna some British girl to move in with me! (Realizes that made no sense.) Joey, you say things now.
Joey
All right look, Ross, he's right. Emily's great, she's great! But this way too soon, you're only gonna scare her!
Ross
I don't want to do that.
Joey
No! You don't want to wreck it, you don't want to go to fast!
Ross
Yeah, no, you're right, I know, you're right, I'm not, I'm not gonna do it. All right, thanks guys. (Gets up to leave.)
Chandler
Okay, no problem, just remember to wake us up before you go-go.
Scene 5
Monica and Rachel's erm, Chandler and Joey's, later that same day. Joey and Chandler are eating pizza, and Phoebe is trying to knit something.
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Phoebe
That's too hard. Too hard!
Monica
(entering with Rachel) All right boys, last chance for the tickets!
Rachel
Or I'll give them to my new boyfriend, Joshua.
Chandler
No thank you.
Joey
Wait-wait-wait-wait! (To Chandler) Come on! Come on, let's trade! The timing's perfect, I just clogged the toilet!
Chandler
Look, I want those basketball seats as much as you do! Okay, but we can't leave in the small apartment after we've lived here! Didn't you ever read Flowers for Algernon?
Joey
Yes! Didn't you ever read Sports Illustrated?! No! I didn't read yours! But come on, we can go to the game tonight!
Chandler
Look, the only way I will even consider this is if they offer a lot more than just season seats.
Joey
It's the Knicks!
Chandler
Screw the Knicks!
Joey
Whoa!
Chandler
I didn't mean that. I just meant that the apartment is worth so much more.
Joey
Huh.
Chandler
And the Knicks rule all.
Joey
Yeah, the Knicks rule all!
Phoebe
Hey, so? Are you gonna do it?
Chandler
No. No. We're not gonna do that, y'know why? Because its not an even trade.
Rachel
All right, okay, look, what if you could keep the apartment and get the tickets?
Joey
Done!
Rachel
Let me finish.
Joey
Oh.
Rachel
I'm talking about a bet, winner takes all.
Joey
Ooh, we could end up with nothing.
Phoebe
Or you could end up with everything.
Joey
Ooh, I like that.
Monica
All right, so what do you say?
Chandler
No!
Monica
Oh, just do it!!
Chandler
Op, op, I'm convinced!
Joey
Come on man, you know I'd do it for you! Because, you're my best friend.
Chandler
All right, but you can't use that again for a whole year. I'm in.
Joey
All right!
Phoebe
Ooh, this is so exciting! Ooh, God, what are you going to bet?
Rachel
Oh, okay, well, I think we should let Phoebe decide, because she's the only who's impartial, and she's so pretty.
Phoebe
Okay. Umm, ooh, ooh-oh, I have a game!
Joey
Okay!
Chandler
Okay!
Phoebe
This is great!
Joey
What's the game?! What's the game?!
Phoebe
Oh, well, it doesn't have a name-oh, okay, Phoebeball! No, it doesn't have a name. Umm, okay, Monica, what is your favourite thing about trees?
Monica
They're green?
Phoebe
Good! Good! Five points!
(They both rejoice; Chandler is totally confused.)
Phoebe
All right, Joey, same question.
(He looks to Chandler, who doesn't have a clue.)
Joey
Uhh, they're tall.
Phoebe
Ooh, three points. Both fine answers, but we were looking for leafy, leafy.
(Joey turns and is angry that Chandler didn't come up with the answer.)
Monica
That's not even a game!
Rachel
What? Shut up! We're winning!
Monica
You wanna finish this right now? All right, we get a deck of cards, high card wins. What do you say?
Chandler
Fine, let's do it.
Phoebe
Oh, I have cards!
Joey
Oh.
Monica
Oh, good.
Phoebe
Yeah! Here! (She grabs a deck out of her purse) Oh no, these are the trick deck. Okay. Here yes. Okay.
Chandler
Okay, you guys uh, you guys pick first
Rachel
Okay.
Monica
Okay. (She picks a card.) Four.
Chandler
That's a low one!
Joey
Yeah! Okay. (Joey picks a card.) Phoebe, you look, I can't.
Phoebe
What make you think I can?! (Shields her eyes from it.)
Joey
Okay. Okay. (He looks at the card.) Ace!
(Both Joey and Chandler and Monica and Rachel jump up and down for joy.)
Chandler
Why are you screaming and hugging?
Monica
Because we won our apartment back!
Joey
What? Ace is high! Jack, queen, king, ace!
Monica
No! Ace is low! Ace, two, three, four!
(They all look to Phoebe to settle this.)
Phoebe
I don't know. Ooh! Ooh! Look it! (She fans out the trick deck.) Ah-ha!
Rachel
All right, cut, let's pick again, pick again.
Joey
Okay.
Rachel
Come on apartment! Come on apartment! (Picks a card.) Oh! I know queen is high!
Joey
Uh-huh, not as high as...(picks a card) It worked! King!
Chandler
Yeah baby!
Monica
But, we pick again! We pick again!
Joey
Why?!
Monica
I don't know!
Chandler
Tickets please! (Rachel hands over the tickets) That's courtside baby!
Joey
Seriously, good game though. Good game. (He tries to congratulate them, but they pull away.) (To Chandler) What are they so mad about? They get the apartment back!
Chandler
No they didn't!
Scene 6
Ross's apartment, Emily has packed as Ross returns.
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Ross
Hey!
Emily
I packed while you were gone. I left some knickers under your pillow.
Ross
(laughs) Move in with me.
Emily
What?!
Ross
Don't be scared, I-I know it sounds crazy and-and people will say it's too soon, but just-just think, think how great it will be.
Emily
Ohh, no. Ugh. Oh, leaving London, my whole family lives there.
Ross
I know.
Emily
My job!
Ross
Well, so, you-you'll get a job here! I mean, I'm always hearing about uh, them foreigners coming in here and stealing American jobs; that could be you!
Emily
Yeah, but it-it-it's my whole life-you come to England.
Ross
No, I can't. I would, I really would, but my son is here; I can't leave him. Isn't-you don't think there's any way?
Emily
Ohh, I don't think so. I mean it would be different if it was way into the future -and-and-and we were getting married or something.
Ross
What?
Emily
Oh no, no, right I shouldn't have said married. Uh, please don't go freaky on me. I didn't mean it. Well, I didn't say it; I take it back!
Ross
No, no, don't. Why don't we?
Emily
Why don't we what?
Ross
Get married.
Emily
You are mad!
Ross
No! No! I'm not! It's-it's-it's perfect! I mean it's better than you just-just moving here, 'cause it's us together forever, and that's-that's what I want.
Emily
We've only known each other for six weeks!
Ross
Yeah, I know, so what? I mean, who's-who's to say? Does that me we-we can't do it? Look, huh, I was with Carol for four years before we got married and I wound up divorced from a pregnant lesbian. I mean, this, this makes sense for us. Come on! I mean, on our first date we ended up spending the whole weekend in Vermont! I mean, last night I got my ear pierced! Me! This feels right. Doesn't it?
Emily
My parents are going to be really mad.
Ross
Is that-are you saying yes? Is that yes?
Emily
Yes.
(They kiss and hug.)
Emily
Yes!
Ross
Yes! We're getting married?!
Emily
Oh my God!
Ross
Yes!
Emily
We're getting married!
Ross
Come here, come here. Uh, (He takes the earring out.) ow! Emily, will you marry me?
Emily
Yes.
(He tries to put it on her finger.)
Emily
Ohh, it's a bit small.
Ross
Damn! I thought that was going to be romantic as hell!
Emily
It was.
(They kiss.)
Commerical Break
Scene 7
The hallway, Joey and Chandler are coming back from the game.
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Chandler
Those were like the best seats ever.
Joey
Oh yeah. Hey! Should we give these shirts to the girls? Y'know, kinda like a peace offering.
Chandler
Oh yeah, that's very nice. Plus, y'know they were free and they're too small.
(He knocks on the girls' door and walks in. Surprise! The girls, obviously using Star Trek technology, have completely moved everything in both apartments back to their original positions, all in the time it took for the guys to go to a basketball game. Wow! Anyhoo, Chandler is stunned, and Joey doesn't even realise it.)
Chandler
Oh. Oh, God! (He starts running around like a chicken with his head cut off.)
Joey
Hey, want a beer? (Hands him a beer and sits down in one of the chairs.) (Jumping up.) WHOA!!!!
Chandler
I KNOW!!!
(They both sprint to what used to be their apartment.)
Chandler
Open up! Open up! Open up!
(A very angry Monica opens the door with the security chain still on.)
Monica
We'll discuss it, in the morning! (Slams the door shut.)
Chandler
What the hell is going on?!
(It's Rachel's turn to open the door.)
Rachel
We took our apartment back!! (Slams the door shut.)
Phoebe
(opening the door) I had nothing to do with it. (Closes the door.) (Opens the door.) Okay, it was my idea, but I don't feel good about it.
(She goes to close the door, but Chandler puts his foot it in.)
Chandler
We are switching back, right now!
Monica
No, we're not! We're not leaving!
Chandler
Well, you're gonna have to leave sometime, because you both have jobs, and as soon as you do, we're switching it back! There's nothing you can do to stop us! Right, Joe?
Joey
I don't know.
Chandler
What?
Joey
I don't want to move again!
Chandler
I don't care, this is our apartment! And they stole-you stole it-our apartment, and we won that apartment fair and square, twice! And I am getting it back right now. I'm getting back right now!
(They open the door.)
Rachel
All right. We figured you might respond this way, so we have a backup offer.
Chandler
Oh no-no-no, no more offers. You can't offer anything to us!
Rachel
Let us keep the apartment and...
Monica
As a thank you, Rachel and I will kiss for one minute.
[Time lapse. The guys are entering their apartment.]
Chandler
Totally worth it!
Joey
That was one good minute!
Chandler
Good night.
Joey
Good night.
(They both go back into their old rooms and shut the doors. Of course, Chandler has to close both sections of his door.)
[Cut to the girls apartment.]
Monica
Men are such idiots.
Rachel
Yeah! Can you believe that something that stupid actually got us our apartment back?
Phoebe
That's so funny to think if you'd just done that right after the last contest, no one would have had to move at all.
Monica
Yeah, let-let-let's pretend that's not true.
Rachel
Yeah.
Phoebe
Okay, scarf's done. (It's not really a scarf, it's just a bunch of yarn that Phoebe has tied together. Just then, Ross and Emily enter dragging with them Joey and Chandler.)
Ross
Come on! Come on. Come on.
Chandler
Okay!
Phoebe
Hey!
Ross
Hey!
Monica
What-what's going on?
Joey
Ross has some big thing to tell everyone.
Ross
Uhh, okay, it's uh, Emily and I, we decided to uh, to get married.
(The gang is stunned.)
Phoebe
What? Oh, are you pregnant too?!
Emily
Umm, no.
Monica
When, when did-how, how did you...
Ross
We, we just decided to uh, to go for it.
Emily
I mean, we know it's a bit hasty but, uh, it just feels so right, so...
(Rachel slowly walks in from her bedroom. She is stunned speechless.)
Ross
(turning around.) Umm, uh, I was just telling the guys...
Rachel
Yeah, I-I heard. (Pause, everyone looks at each other, waiting for Rachel's reaction.) I think it's great! (Hugs Ross.) Ohh, I'm so happy for you!
(Seeing Rachel's apparently okay with this, the rest of the gang jumps up to congratulate Ross and Emily on their pending nuptials.)
Chandler
Oh, well, that's great!
Joey
Yeah! Yeah!
Monica
(to Ross) I can't believe you're getting married!
Ross
Yeah. (They hug again.)
Joey
Monica and Rachel made out. (Giggles like a schoolboy and Monica glares at him.)
CLOSING CREDITS
Scene 8
Joey's bedroom, he is awoken by the singing guy.
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The Singing Man
(singing) Morning's here! The morning's here!
(Joey joins him.)
Both
Sunshine is here! The sky is clear, the morning's here!