20. The One With the Soap Opera Party
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Friends:
Season 9:
20. The One With the Soap Opera Party
First Aired: 4/24/03
---Guest Cast:
James Michael Tyler as Gunther
Aisha Tyler as Charlie Wheeler
Ken Lerner as Professor Spafford
Alex Borstein as bitter woman on stage
Ethan Erickson as Dirk
Matthew Ashford as himself
Kyle Lowder as himself
---Synopsis:
Rachel finds out that Joey, embarrassed over how the gang acts around famous people, always arranges for them to be out when he has parties with his Days of Our Lives coworkers. Ross begins seeing a brilliant professor. Rachel decides that she wants to fool around with Joey.
---Notes:
This episode marks the first appearance of Aisha Tyler in her five-episode stint as Charlie Wheeler, the second African American love interest to appear on the series.
Also making appearances as themselves are Matthw Ashford and Kyle Lowder, who play Jack Deveraux and Brady Black on Days of Our Lives.
By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, April 25, 2003 - 6:29 am:Great Line:
(Rachel telling Monica in the hallway that she’d like to fool around with Joey but remain just friends with him:)
Rachel: “I just thought it would be…"
(Joey walks out into the hallway)
Rachel: "…OK, so that’d be two cups of tarragon, one pound of…baking soda, and one red onion?”
Monica: (checking to see that Joey closed his door behind him) “What the hell are you cooking?”
By Liv on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 7:41 pm: The is no Nobel prize in paleontology.
By LUIGI NOVI on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 9:18 pm: Ooh, good one! 
By eggman on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 11:55 pm: I won't say I knew that, but now that I think about it, it makes sense. It's not a field where there's going to be a whole lot of advances every year.