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Friends season two September 1995 - May 1996 List of Friends episodes

Episodes: The One with Ross's New Girlfriend The One with the Breast Milk The One Where Heckles Dies The One with Phoebe's Husband The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant The One with the Baby on the Bus The One Where Ross Finds Out The One with the List The One with Phoebe's Dad The One with Russ The One with the Lesbian Wedding The One After the Superbowl, Part One The One After the Superbowl, Part Two The One with the Prom Video The One Where Ross and Rachel...You Know The One Where Joey Moves Out The One Where Eddie Moves In The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies The One Where Eddie Won't Go The One Where Old Yeller Dies The One with the Bullies The One with the Two Parties The One with the Chicken Pox The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding

"The One With the Prom Video" is the fourteenth episode of season two of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: February 16, 1996

Contents 1 Plot 2 Production 3 Additional cast 4 Trivia 5 Goofs 6 References

Joey, now making money, decides to share some of his wealth with Chandler. He gives Chandler some money to repay him for head shots and pizza. He also gifts him with a gaudy gold bracelet. Despite hating the bracelet, Chandler wears it. When the bracelet costs him a date with a pretty woman at the coffeehouse, he makes fun of the bracelet - calling it an "eyesore from the Liberace House of Crap" and a "reject from the Mr. T collection." Joey overhears, and is quite upset. After promising to never remove the bracelet, Chandler finds it's missing. He buys a new one to replace it, but shortly after the bracelet has been found. He gives one to Joey, which patches over their argument.

Ross still tries to get Rachel to forgive him for "The List," but is upset when Rachel tells him that they as a couple will never happen. Despite Phoebe's insistence that he is her "lobster," she wants little more to do with Ross than just as a friend.

Monica, short on cash, has a disastrous interview with a restaurant manager with a salad fetish. She then decides to ask her parents for a loan. They come by with a couple of boxes, and an announcement - they're turning Monica's old bedroom into a gym. In going through some of the boxes, Monica finds several mementos from her childhood - including her old swimsuit (since Monica was larger then, Chandler quips that they used it to cover Connecticut when it rained), and a video of her and Rachel getting ready for their senior prom. The gang decides to watch the video, although Ross objects to everyone seeing the tape.

Monica - before she lost all her weight - and Rachel - sporting a huge pre-nose job nose that prompts Chandler to take back his earlier comment about Monica's swimsuit - are waiting for their dates to arrive. Monica's date, Roy Gublick (who saw Star Wars 317 times in the theater), comes - but Rachel's date, Chip Matthews, doesn't. Mrs. Geller convinces Ross - complete with mustache and bad Afro - to wear Mr. Geller's tux and take Rachel to the prom. Ross reluctantly agrees, but by the time he's dressed and ready to save her night, Chip has shown up and the girls leave, with the camera finally ending with Ross having a look of utter disappointment, kind of like when you are rejected.

Rachel, so touched by Ross's gesture, gets up and kisses Ross, having forgiven him for "the List."

Monica keeps watching the tape after everyone else is gone - it starts out with a clip of her dancing with her father, but quickly cuts to her parents having sex. Monica, naturally, is horrified.

An early script draft featured a scene in the prom video in which an episode of All My Children is on in the background. The scene was intended to feature the character "Bryce", played by Gunther (as revealed in "The One Where Eddie Won't Go").^[1]

• Jack Geller - Elliott Gould
  
• Judy Geller - Christina Pickles
  
• Roy Gublick - Michael Bower

• In 2004, this episode was voted the all-time greatest. The only cast member who agreed with this choice was David Schwimmer.
• In the prom video, Mr. Geller refers to Ross as a "college man". Ross is home for the summer from (perhaps) his freshman year.
• Ross is known to be allergic to lobster (The One With the Baby on the Bus); it's quite ironic that Rachel is his "lobster".

• When Phoebe tells Chandler that a girl is "checking him out," she incorrectly says that she is sitting "11 o' clock". Chandler's perspective would actually make the girl "5 o' clock".
• When Monica turns off the prom video, the reflection on the TV shows her getting up. But in the next scene she is sitting down.

1. ^ And Now A Word From The Supporting Player's Club, Entertainment Weekly

Preceded by "The One After the Superbowl, Part Two"

List of Friends episodes

Followed by "The One Where Ross and Rachel...You Know"