HILARIOUS Phoebe Line:
Rachel: “What happened at dinner?”
Monica: “My parents spent the money for our wedding!”
Phoebe: “(Gasp!) My God! What did you order?”
Jack (Monica’s father) tells them he got engaged to Judy because he got her pregnant. He says he doesn’t know how that happened. Judy retorts that his dog thought her diaphragm was a chew toy. But in The One With The Sonogram At The End(1.2), wasn’t their apathy and insensitivity towards Monica explained as being because Ross was the “miracle baby” that was conceived when they didn’t think Judy could become pregnant? This makes it sound as if Jack and Judy had tried for some time to conceive without success, but now they’re trying to establish that they conceived before they were married, and simply because Judy’s contraception was broken? If Judy conceived because the diaphragm she’d been using up until then was destroyed, then why would they have thought of Ross as a “miracle baby,” or that they had trouble conceiving?
Maybe Jack and Judy told Ross and Monica the miracle baby story as a cover for what really happened, and somewhere between The One With the Sonogram at the End and this episode, the truth got revealed.
In the beginning of this episode, we see Ross finishing a lecture to his class in which he tries to prove to them that he was the one who had the original idea for Jurassic Park. But in The One With The Cat(4.2), Rachel and Ross got into an argument in which she accused him of always needing to be right, and taunted him by saying that Jurassic Park could’ve happened, an indication that he had asserted otherwise sometime prior.
Great “Joey’s Universal Language” Line:
(After an attractive woman comes by Ross’s apartment for a massage, and Ross claims to be a masseuse, only for the customer to turn out to be the woman’s father…)
Joey: “Dude, what were you massaging an old man for?”
Ross: “His daughter was hot.”
Joey: “Gotcha.”
Does anyone find it ever so slightly disturbing that Joey thought a vicar was a hockey goalie?
I had no idea what a vicar was when I saw the ep for the first time.
I myself had never heard of the word until I read an issue of Marvel Comics' Excalibur (Issue #4, I believe), and went and looked it up.
So the word is not used in the USA? What do you say, 'minister' or 'priest' depending on denomination? What are Episcopal church officiators called? (The Episcopal church is I believe the American church closest to the Church of England, which is the one whose officiators are called vicars).
I had never heard it used prior to reading that comic book (which was in December or so of 1988), which of course, was set in England, and the word was spoken by a British character. My American Heritage Dictionary indicates that in addition to a parish priest in the Church of England (the first definition), it can also be a cleric in charge of a chapel in the Episcopal Churhch (second), and in Roman Catholicism, a priest who acts for or represents another (third).
I was raised Catholic, and live in a town predominantly Latino (mostly Cubans), who I presume are mostly Christian, and there are churches of other denominations here too, such as Pentacostal, Mormon, and I had never heard of the word while attending parochial school or in church.
I knew of it, but then Monty Python tends to use the phrase...
By that logic, ScottN, I assume you also know of lemon curry.
That's a rather personal question (and yes, I know I'm changing sketches)... and we've gone seriously OT.
As moderator of boards that typically get little traffic (and will probably get less now that the show's over), I'm allowing it.
Having read The Vicar of Wakefield in college, I knew what the word meant.