This is without a doubt one of the best episodes of friends. there are 3 different plots for characters and all are as funny as each other. and of course... there's Danny DeVito...
8 Reviews
One of the Top Ten
ashkalani7 April 2019
The One Where the Stripper Cries
ComedyFan201015 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Finally after a few bad episodes we get another good one!
Rachel organizes a very boring party for Phoebe. But luckily Phoebe is not one of those who believes that being adult means to never have fun. So we get a hilarious storyline with Danny DeVito as a stripper! And it is interesting to see Phoebe in this episode. It is basically her new ruined character fighting vs. the old Phoebe that I loved. First she is nasty to him, saying that he is too old, but then not only does she suggest to him to start teaching stripping so that he can pass on what he loves, but that he should also finish that dancing of his and she seems to really have fun while he does it! now this is Phoebe!
It is also great to see their memories from the college party when Rachel and Monica came as well. Chandler hitting on Rachel was great, and when he kisses her he tells her that he is in college and in a band and it is enough for her. And we also find out that Ross's first kiss with Rachel was in reality a kiss with Monica (hich was her first kiss). Great idea!
Rachel organizes a very boring party for Phoebe. But luckily Phoebe is not one of those who believes that being adult means to never have fun. So we get a hilarious storyline with Danny DeVito as a stripper! And it is interesting to see Phoebe in this episode. It is basically her new ruined character fighting vs. the old Phoebe that I loved. First she is nasty to him, saying that he is too old, but then not only does she suggest to him to start teaching stripping so that he can pass on what he loves, but that he should also finish that dancing of his and she seems to really have fun while he does it! now this is Phoebe!
It is also great to see their memories from the college party when Rachel and Monica came as well. Chandler hitting on Rachel was great, and when he kisses her he tells her that he is in college and in a band and it is enough for her. And we also find out that Ross's first kiss with Rachel was in reality a kiss with Monica (hich was her first kiss). Great idea!
It always sunny with Danny
paudieconnolly1 October 2020
Cameos in long running series can take you out of the story. This is not the case here filled with cameos and three different plots at the same time could have felt very different and not in tune with the normal friends episode instead it's filled with laughs right up the the reveal of the final 💋 kiss .
Short
bevo-1367812 November 2020
The one Monica discovers that Ross was her first kiss!
Lady_Targaryen14 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Joey is gonna be a celebrity guest on a game show called PYRAMID, one of Ross' and Monica's favorite game shows of all. But Joey is very stupid and only brings problems to the guests he pairs with.
Phoebe has a bachelorette party organized by Monica and Rachel, but she stays so upset that she is only going to have tea, that Rachel decides to call a stripper. To Phoebe's disappointment, the stripper is a short middle age and non attractive guy, that makes her laugh instead of stay excited.
Chandler and Ross go to a college alumni reunion, where Ross ask Chandler permission to broke their university pact, a pact where neither Ross or Chandler could never date Missy Goldberg. Chandler allows Ross to break the pact, but in the reunion, while talking to Missy, Ross discovers that Chandler and her dated. When Ross confronts Chandler about what he did and about their pact, Chandler tells him that the only reason he dated Missy was because Ross kissed a girl that he liked, Adrienne.
Other funny revelations from the past are Monica's first kiss with Ross and Rachel kissing Chandler while they were in the college party.
Phoebe has a bachelorette party organized by Monica and Rachel, but she stays so upset that she is only going to have tea, that Rachel decides to call a stripper. To Phoebe's disappointment, the stripper is a short middle age and non attractive guy, that makes her laugh instead of stay excited.
Chandler and Ross go to a college alumni reunion, where Ross ask Chandler permission to broke their university pact, a pact where neither Ross or Chandler could never date Missy Goldberg. Chandler allows Ross to break the pact, but in the reunion, while talking to Missy, Ross discovers that Chandler and her dated. When Ross confronts Chandler about what he did and about their pact, Chandler tells him that the only reason he dated Missy was because Ross kissed a girl that he liked, Adrienne.
Other funny revelations from the past are Monica's first kiss with Ross and Rachel kissing Chandler while they were in the college party.
One last blast from the past
studioAT20 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
As its the final series of the show its nice that the writers gave us as an audience the chance to have one last blast from the past and see Fat Monica, Rachel with her old nose one last time. And it amounts to a fun story that reveals some more things about the characters past.
Danny DeVito was a lot of fun as a crying stripper, and its a good example of the show being boosted by a guest star.
Again in preparation perhaps for his spin-off, Joey is again in a story without the rest of the gang, and although LeBlanc makes it work (just about) it's alarming quite how dim the writers were making the character at this point.
A good episode, written by creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane no less.
Danny DeVito was a lot of fun as a crying stripper, and its a good example of the show being boosted by a guest star.
Again in preparation perhaps for his spin-off, Joey is again in a story without the rest of the gang, and although LeBlanc makes it work (just about) it's alarming quite how dim the writers were making the character at this point.
A good episode, written by creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane no less.
so bad
Larrypiraeus13 October 2019
I'm not sure how to rate this
jpapanone30 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Let's go down, shall we.
10/9/8/7...absolutely not 6. Definitely. Not.
5 is too generous.
We are left with a 4 or a 3.
Let's go 4.
It isnt completely unwatchable... it's just all surface. No depth at all.
Joey playing pyramid. As soon as I saw it...i remembered the scene. Oh. This is where joey says...GHOST!
Yeah. It's funny. Well...dumbed down sitcom funny. Not layered. Just a big softball, laugh at this. It's the easy laugh. I prefer a little effort in my funny. Maybe the show never changed....but I changed and what I once found funny, I no longer do.
Devito. I love devito. Twins...reno 911...sunny. So many good things. But at this point...I don't think he had become the guy I loved (mainly cuz of sunny). Again. Easy laugh. Low bar. Fluff.
Ross and Chandler was fine enough.
I get it. Near the end, last when they were younger. But...went to that well one too many times at this point.
And hey..I get doing it. For overwhelming majority of people tuning in, they'll love it.
So...it wasnt the plots. Those were fine enough.
It's the little things. The lines. The delivery. Those fingernails on the chalkboard.
That little stuff is either neutral and not doing much harm or good....bringing things up...or bringing things down.
Stuff in later episodes of friends definitely brought it down.
So yeah. 4. It's been a few years since I've seen this. This may have been my 3rd viewing.
So...I have a more critical eye and I judge it a bit harsher.
And really...very rarely do I rate an episode after one airing.
Unless its really good....or really bad imo.
And....if I think it's bad, I'll usually watch it 1 or 2 more times to make sure I'm not coming to a snap decision. I had a bad feeling about community on Yahoo...and the 2 subsequent viewings of those abominations confirmed that my initial thoughts were right.
Absolute garbage.
So yeah..this episode is not good. Well...not actually really good. Junk food good. If you're hungry, it will satisfy. But that's about it.
10/9/8/7...absolutely not 6. Definitely. Not.
5 is too generous.
We are left with a 4 or a 3.
Let's go 4.
It isnt completely unwatchable... it's just all surface. No depth at all.
Joey playing pyramid. As soon as I saw it...i remembered the scene. Oh. This is where joey says...GHOST!
Yeah. It's funny. Well...dumbed down sitcom funny. Not layered. Just a big softball, laugh at this. It's the easy laugh. I prefer a little effort in my funny. Maybe the show never changed....but I changed and what I once found funny, I no longer do.
Devito. I love devito. Twins...reno 911...sunny. So many good things. But at this point...I don't think he had become the guy I loved (mainly cuz of sunny). Again. Easy laugh. Low bar. Fluff.
Ross and Chandler was fine enough.
I get it. Near the end, last when they were younger. But...went to that well one too many times at this point.
And hey..I get doing it. For overwhelming majority of people tuning in, they'll love it.
So...it wasnt the plots. Those were fine enough.
It's the little things. The lines. The delivery. Those fingernails on the chalkboard.
That little stuff is either neutral and not doing much harm or good....bringing things up...or bringing things down.
Stuff in later episodes of friends definitely brought it down.
So yeah. 4. It's been a few years since I've seen this. This may have been my 3rd viewing.
So...I have a more critical eye and I judge it a bit harsher.
And really...very rarely do I rate an episode after one airing.
Unless its really good....or really bad imo.
And....if I think it's bad, I'll usually watch it 1 or 2 more times to make sure I'm not coming to a snap decision. I had a bad feeling about community on Yahoo...and the 2 subsequent viewings of those abominations confirmed that my initial thoughts were right.
Absolute garbage.
So yeah..this episode is not good. Well...not actually really good. Junk food good. If you're hungry, it will satisfy. But that's about it.
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