After Monica successfully absconds with her dress from Megan’s clutches, Megan calls her to tell her that she booked the band Monica wanted. First of all, what good will this do, given that they don’t have the same wedding day? What’s Megan gonna do with them on that day? Second, how did Megan get Monica’s phone number?

When Ross and Joey both agree to date Kristen, Ross suggests that he take her to the new French restaurant down the street, but Joey complains that he can’t afford to take her to a place like that. How’s this? Joey’s a regular on a soap opera again. What do they pay him in, food stamps?

Funniest Continuity-Based Line/Exchange Since Monica’s in The One With Chandler In A Box(4.8):
Kristen: “Well, uh, Ross, This is Joey. Joey, Ross.”
Joey: “Hi!”
Ross: “Hi. It's nice to meet you. I used to have a friend named Joey. I don't anymore.”
Ross: “So, Joey, um, you look familiar. Are, uh, are you on TV or something?”
Kristen: “Well, Joey doesn't like to talk about it but, he's one of the stars of Days Of Our Lives.”
Ross: “That's right! That's right. Don't you play a woman?”
Joey: “A woman in a man's body.”
Ross: “Much better.”
Joey: “You know, Ross, it's funny, because you look familiar to me, too. Have you ever been married?”
Ross: “Well, yes, yes I have. In fact, um, just the other day Kristen and I were talking about how I've been married and how I have a son.”
Kristen: “Yeah, little Eric.”
Ross: “That's right. Wait, no, Ben.”
Joey: “So you've just been married the one time then?”
Ross: “Well um...”
Kristen: “You've been married twice?”
Ross: “Yes. And another time after that. Boy I'm getting hungry! Hey Joey, have you ever been so hungry on a date that when the girl goes to the bathroom you eat some of her food?”
Kristen: “You said the waiter ate my crab cake!”
Joey: “Yeah. So, uh, Ross, now why did that first marriage break up? Was it because the woman was straight or because she was a lesbian?”
Kristen: “Do you two know each other?”
Joey and Ross: “No.”
Joey: “No. It just seems like Ross is the kind of guy that would marry a woman on the verge of being a lesbian and then push her over the edge.”
Ross: “Wait a minute! Were you on a poster for gonorrhea?”
Joey: “Have you ever slept in the same bed with a monkey?”
Ross: “Hey, you leave Marcel out of this!”
Joey: “Fine! Have you ever got stuck in a pair of your own leather pants?”
Ross: “Hey, hey, have you ever locked yourself in a TV cabinet, V.D. boy?”
Joey: “Monkey lover!”
(They look around and see that Kristen has left.)
Joey: “When do you think we lost her?”
Ross: “Probably around gonorrhea.”

When Chandler comes home at the end of the episode and sees Monica in the wedding dress, she says it's not the one she's going to wear, but that she managed to book the Swing Kings. How did she manage to get them if she's still wearing the dress? Wouldn't Megan only have relented and cancelled her booking with the Kings after Monica relinquished the dress? By cancelling before Monica handed it over, and allowing Monica to book the Kings herself, Megan gave up her only bargaining chip. At this point, Monica doesn't even need to return the dress. She can keep it.

Possible nit: Throughout this episode, the band at Chandler and Monica's wedding are referred to as the "Swing Kings". However, in The One With Chandler and Monica's Wedding, Part 2, although the band is a swing band, the legend on the bass drum says something other than Swing Kings.

TRIVIA: Andrea Bendewald, who plays Megan, is one of Jennifer Aniston's best friends, and was a bridesmaid at her wedding.

AH HA! Here it is! The confirmed first appearance of an actual NON-WHITE would-be love interest for one of the Sinister Six (as I am still continuing to refer to them as, cuz it's funny)!

And yeah, I know that whats-her-face from season two that Ross dated for a while until he proclaimed his love for Rachel was Asian-American, but I don't think she counts. That's just how I see it, anyway.

And this was TWO YEARS before Charlie, who was a tall, intelligent, strong-willed woman with a real career in archeology, therefore making her perfectly compatible with Ross. How about that. But that wasn't until the final two seasons, and this Kristin chick ended up leaving while Ross and Joey were arguing over who was more screwed up and who had done the most stupid things. I think she was smart to get out of there while she still could!

I remember seeing the "MAD TV" parody sketch where they show a black woman entering the scene as a possible girlfriend for Ross, and being on NBC as they were, where everyone was white and attractive and there were no visible minorities to be seen anywhere, she didnt exactly appeal to the friends all that well. There were jokes about how this sort of thing had never happened and that Ross really didnt know what to do when a non-white person enters the room, almost as if none of them had ever seen a black person before. Funny, Kathy Griffin said that same thing about the Osmond family in one of her comedy specials. I thought that was about right, to be honest!

So, now I wonder, just what was it that convinced the NBC producers and studio executives to actually start showing non-whites as potential love interests for the main characters in their sitcoms? Were they being threatened by the Anti-Defamation League with a lawsuit or something? And I noticed that they portrayed Kristin's character as normal and ordinary as possible, probably because they were afraid of making her look bad because that would *definetly* have offended some people!

At least that's how I look at the situation!

Why would the ADL worry about that? The ADL concentrates on anti-Semitism. The NAACP might complain, though...

Well, didnt they? And isn't that why black women started showing up as love interests for two of the guys all of a sudden? Seven seasons into the show's existence? There were only two that I could remember, but still, that was a lot better then there never being any good-looking black dudes for the girls to hook up with. For the love of God, I thought maybe Phoebe would have slept with at least one black guy, it would have seemed likely for her to have done that than the other two, I think. And no, it isn't because they were Jewish! (Although Kudrow is a Jew in real life as I have mentioned elsewhere.)

So yeah, you're right, I meant the NAACP, not the other thing. My bad! (Do people still say that? I really dont know at this point!)

Frankly, Andre, I have no idea if the NAACP complained, nor do I care.

Yeah well, my point was that there seemed to be virtually no minorities to speak of in the Must See TV era of NBC sitcoms, primarily in the 90s but also extended into the 2000's a little bit. That's really all I was trying to say.

Thanks for your imput, though!

Yeah well, my point was that there seemed to be virtually no minorities to speak of in the Must See TV era of NBC sitcoms

Bill Cosby says hello, as does the entire cast of A Different World.

Ahh, but the Must See TV era didnt begin until the mid 90s. Google and/or Wikipedia is your friend.

I've been wanting to use that line in the proper context in one of my posts for a while now. Looks like I got my chance!

And I thought that Cos was bad when they added the female Cousin Oliver (Olivia), but once they added a streetwise inner-city relative and her three idiot friends, that was it for me, it was pretty much all over. At least Theo FINALLY graduated college in the finale!

Bzzzt!!! Sorry, and thank you for playing, but you get no lovely parting gift. Must see TV ran from the 80s through the 90s.

Wikipedia has a listing of the Thursday night shows for Must See TV.

Frankly, I've had enough of your ••••, Scott. Why are you bothering me with this stupid drivel that doesn't even matter? It borders on harassment, in my opinion.

Don't you have anything else better to do? Even though it seems like you, me, and maybe Rodney are the only ones who still post on this board, I really don't know why you feel the need to spam it up with useless garbage in your attempts to upstage me and make me look like I don't know what I'm talking about. Well, I do!

All I wanted was to NITPICK an old sitcom. And now you've come along and made an issue out of some mildly inaccurate minute details about another old show that ended decades ago. Why do you feel the need to do that?

And where the hell is the moderator, why hasn't he come around yet to remind posters to stay on topic? That used to happen ALL the time in the old days.......

And when I did you flew off the handle so it seems I can't win either way.

And the fact was that you based your whole response on a fact that was wrong- which is why Scott corrected you.

The discussion itself hasn't veered too far from your original, on topic, point so it's fine. It's when you start talking about breast sizes that I tend to step in.

As for nobody posting, well it's a sitcom no longer being made. Luigi in the day did a great job of putting up nits and unless there is a revival of it somewhere, I don't see many more nits being placed here, which is fine by me as it means less work.

What can I say, Rod? I LOVVVEEEEE the boobies!

And what's with the "The One With Russ" Season 2 board? I meant to ask you about that sooner, one cannot post anything on it, it's totally blank for some reason. If you could fix it, I might post some nits for it. Just letting you know!

Andre, this is a *NITPICKER'S* site. You posted an incorrect fact, and I nitpicked it. Using the source you specifically recommended (Wikipedia).

Sooooo.....non-whites as would-be love interests for the main characters on a NBC sitcom in the 90s to 2000's.....how about that, huh? Seems like quite a liberal and radical notion to me!

That's what this was originally about. And now I'm done nitting this episode. There is nothing else more to say. Away I go for now!

That board is now open Andre. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks, Rodney.