The One with the List

Episode aired Nov 16, 1995
TV-PG
22m

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

YOUR RATING

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow in Friends (1994)

Comedy Romance

With help from Chandler and Joey, Ross makes a list of pros and cons to decide whether to be with Julie or Rachel. Meanwhile, Monica gets a job making dessert with a disgusting synthetic cho... Read allWith help from Chandler and Joey, Ross makes a list of pros and cons to decide whether to be with Julie or Rachel. Meanwhile, Monica gets a job making dessert with a disgusting synthetic chocolate substitute.With help from Chandler and Joey, Ross makes a list of pros and cons to decide whether to be with Julie or Rachel. Meanwhile, Monica gets a job making dessert with a disgusting synthetic chocolate substitute.

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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Season 2 is the only season where the group do not enjoy, plan or sit down to a Thanksgiving holiday meal together. The holiday is only briefly referred to in 'The One With the List' when Monica is at her job interview & later when she's trying to come up with recipes for the 'Mockolate' chocolate.

Goofs
One of the items on Ross's list of Rachel's good qualities (which he is shouting out to her while on the balcony in the rain) is "...how great you are with Ben!" Ironically, in every subsequent story where Rachel is tasked with watching Ben [all the way to season 7], we learn that she knows nothing about babies, she holds Ben "like a bomb", and generally she has never been around babies since the time she was one.

Quotes
Ross: I don't know what I'm gonna do. What am I gonna do? I mean, this, this is like a complete nightmare.
Chandler: Oh, I know, this must be so hard. "Oh no, two women love me. They're both gorgeous and sexy. My wallet's too small for my fifties AND MY DIAMOND SHOES ARE TOO TIGHT."

Connections
Featured in MsMojo: Top 10 Friends Thanksgiving Episodes (2017)

Soundtracks
In My Room
(uncredited)
Written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher
Performed by Grant Lee Buffalo

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Featured review

5/10

Does not deserve the high ratings.

Friends hasn't aged well. At all. Jokes on the show are cringey and have really weird storylines. For example Phoebe being a surrogate for her brother, Monica going out with a high school kid and then going out with somebody who's an actual grandfather (Richard), Ross having a monkey, Rachel and Joey...and this episode. Why did Ross need to make a list?? He's been in love with Rachel forever and has been wit Julie for five seconds. Why did he need to choose?? I don't get it.

Was an unnecessary episode pretty much a filler. And the audience cheering every time they kissed was really irritating.