Phoebe mentions that one of her perks as a massuese is she gets a 401- the audience wentbonkers. Can someone (possibly the great God of the Friends Board) explain that gag to a non-American?
Sorry, Rodney, but I'm stumped. Perhaps giving us the context of the quote (like the situation, and what was said before and after it) might help.
You're sure it wasn't a 401-K????
Well, that's what I thought, but Rodney says the audience erupted in laughter. This is why I asked for the context. Was the audience all composed of tax attorneys?
the actual quote is
"...and they give me benfits like a mdeical, and dental and a 401k (pronounced "four-oh-wunk)
Aha. THAT's the joke. She pronounced the "K" phonetically, instead of by name.
ok- but what exactly IS a 401k?
Retirement plan.
Great Ross Line:
(After Joey comments that it's so confusing because the Met sounds so much like the Mets.)
Yes I'm sure there's a lot of p***ed off Baseball fans over there.
Ya know, I expect Joey not to figure this, but since he asks for Ross' help, Ross should've clued into it: Rather than having Joey memorize all the pieces in the museum tour, which requires him to remember which direction to walk in and the order in which the pieces are arranged, why doesn't Ross just advise Joey to going to the Met before his date with Charlie, picking up a book on the tour (which all, if not most museums like the Met, will have), and simply have him READ it? He could even take the book with him on his date to supplement the date, and show Charlie how interested he was in learning about the topic. In fact, how did Ross, when writing the cards with which he quizzed Joey, know exactly which pieces would be in the tour, and all the info on them? If Ross had reference on the tour and the pieces, couldn't he have just had Joey read that?
Joey? Read? Other than The Shining (or Little Woemen)? Surely you jest!
Well, he reads scripts, doesn't he? And if he's willing to memorize info that Ross dictates to him, why not just bring a book from the Met's gift shop with him?
Also, during Ross' quiz of Joey, Joey pronounces the word chiaroscuro as "KEE-rah-SKOO-row," instead of its correct pronunciation which is "kee-AH-row-SKOO-row", and Ross doesn't correct him. Guess Ross himself doesn't know much about art.