Pete says Ultimate Fighting is outlawed in 49 states. So...the only one in which is isn't is New York?! Does this seem right?!

(Incidentally, there was a huge controversy recently over whether this sport should be legalised in Britain).

But did the episode explicitly indicate that Pete’s matches took place in New York? The Ultimate Fighting Championship is usually held in Las Vegas.

I remember when I first saw this episode, how gratuitous and pointless Billy Crystal and Robin Williams' appearnaces were. Their little skit had nothing to do with the episode, and as it was just a shameless plug for their movie at the time, it seemed entirely self-invovled of them.

1. Well, no, but it would have to be fairly close, given that all the gang attend and some of them seem to have busy schedules.

2. I thought the same thing.

If the match were held on a weekend, it would not have been beyond Pete's abilities to fly them in.

Good point.

As for Tank Abbott, he had a short stint in the now-defenct WCW, and this was said of him in a photograph caption:

"The man who would be champion, Tank Abbot, seen here dancing with the boy band tag-team known as Three Count."

You read right, they actually had a BOY BAND gimmick back then! Sheesh!

But he totally kicked butt in this episode!

BTW, these UFC fights are on PPV right? The group seemed to have no problem paying the $30 bucks every time Pete lost in less than 30 seconds. I've never gotten cable or PPV at my place, but I did watch Wrestlemania XXVIII earlier this year at a friend's house. It was really good, The Rock defeated John Cena in the heavily hyped main event. In Miami, the Rock's hometown! And there even were signs in the crowd reading "IF CENA WINS WE RIOT" and that was taken seriously this time (that sign has been frequently seen at events since Cena first started getting pushed) and I think that WWE went all out to make it better than last's year's WM, which, along with WM 2 and WM 9, were so bad that they were inducted into the Wrestlecrap Hall Of Shame. Trust me on this, they were really bad!

Anyway, how realistic was the way the *extremely* brief fights Pete were in protrayed? I do know that in real life, Monica and Ross would NOT have been allowed to talk to the fighters through the cage after the match has started. That was just for the sake of this episode's plot, I do realize that. Also, after sustaining the injuries that he did, the UFC would definetly not have allowed him to continue fighting. Maybe after his first loss, he seemed OK then. But when he's in that upper body cast and isn't supposed to move his spine? Sorry, no way would he have been allowed to continue. And then during the end credits, Pete is getting his ass handed to him AGAIN! But just for the sake of comedy, of course. And even though Monica broke up with him, she still can't bear to see it happen again. I liked Pete, I thought he was a decent character even though he was a multi-millionaire. Usually rich people are portrayed on sitcoms as real mean nasty jerks, like Jimmy James on "Newsradio", but Pete was definetly more likable than most incredibly wealthy characters.

As for the "Moss" computer program that he invented which made him all that money in the first place, I remember when Chandler said that "every office in the world uses that program". Notice how they never specified whether it was hardware or software, or even an operating system. Cuz Windows 95 was out at the time this show aired and Windows 98 had not yet debuted, but were they really talking about a company that was actually competing with Microsoft and Apple? Maybe in an alternate reality, but definetly not in real life. In any case, Pete had created something that people used with their computers and was incredibly wealthy as a result. And they left it at that. I guess I can suspend disbelief in this case!

"I remember when I first saw this episode, how gratuitous and pointless Billy Crystal and Robin Williams' appearnaces were. Their little skit had nothing to do with the episode, and as it was just a shameless plug for their movie at the time, it seemed entirely self-invovled of them."

I completely agree with you about this, Luigi. How about that!

I also thought that it was totally unneccesary for either of them to be there. However, both Billy and Robin had been on TV shows in the past, but they, as you said, were really only there to plug "Father's Day". I saw it, and it was pretty bad. I wonder if perhaps they could have been any obvious with their brief cameos. No subtlety whatsoever. Much like their styles of acting, quite frankly!

And Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor would later do "Zoolander" together and get married, and then continue to do movies together, even though their characters here had nothing to do with each other. I found that interesting!

BTW, Wrestlemania XXIX was last night, and Cena and the Rock fought again! This time, Cena won and is now once more the WWE Champion. Yippee.

And Wrestlecrap has now inducted Wrestlemania XI into their hall of shame. And for good reason. They concentrated too much on the celebrity guest appearances, and it's main event was the late Bam Bam Bigelow versus disgraced former football player Lawrence Taylor, who actually won! Figure out that one if you can, cuz I sure can't!

That now makes WM 2, 9, 11, and 27 that were so terrible that they are now part of Wrestlecrap. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?

what has that to do with this episode?

Cuz I wondered about the price of PPV's last year and then I continued the theme further. Only cuz I care aqbout that and nobody else around here seems to. And only to see if you would wonder why I was off-topic. Turns out I was right, hmm? Oh well.

How was Melbourne, BTW?

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Pete says Ultimate Fighting is outlawed in 49 states. So...the only one in which is isn't is New York?! Does this seem right?!

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