23. The One in Barbados: Part 1

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Friends: Season 9: 23. The One in Barbados: Part 1
First aired: 5/15/03

Written by Shana Goldberg-Meehan & Scott Silveri
Directed by Kevin S. Bright

---Guest Cast:
Ayisha Tyler as Charlie Wheeler
Hank Azaria as David
Paul Rudd as Mike Hanigan
John Balma as Professor Oberblau
Audrey Waslewski as Sarah
Robert Alan Beuth as Professor Klarik
Alison Shanks as Nancy Oberblau
Joe Everett Michaels as the waiter

---Synopsis:
The gang go to Barbados to tag along with Ross, who attends a palenotology conference. The erratic weather leaves everyone disappointed. Monica and Chandler both meddle in Phoebe's love life. A computer virus that wipes out Ross’ speech incites a change in relationships among the gang.

---Note:
Parts 1 and 2 were originally aired as a single one hour and ten minute episode.
By LUIGI NOVI on Thursday, May 15, 2003 - 8:09 pm:

A paleontologist named Sarah comes up to Ross in the opening scene of Act 1 and tells him that she’s a huge fan, has followed his entire career, and asks for his autograph. Interestingly, she doesn’t have a camera to take his picture, and gives him a yellow notepad for the autograph, rather than one of his books or papers. When I used to go to comic book conventions, I’d take books written or illustrated from the people attending if I wanted autographs from them.

In the next scene, in Central Perk, Monica tells David that she’s trying to explain to Chandler how an airplane flies, and David says that it’s a combination of Bernoulli’s Principle and Newton’s Third Law of Motion. First, it’s not that the two need to be combined in the explanation, but rather that one is the popular explanation, and the other is a more accurate and inclusive one. Bernoulli’s Principle states that as the velocity of a fluid increases, its pressure decreases. This also applies to air, and the camber of an airfoil causes an increase in the velocity of the air passing over the airfoil. This results in a decrease in the pressure in the stream of air moving over the airfoil, which causes lift. Although this principle is true, many believe that using it to explain lift is incorrect because flat wings (such as seen on balsa wood airplanes, paper planes and others) also have managed to create lift. It also implies that inverted flight is impossible (when in fact it is not), it does not address acrobatic airplanes with symmetric wings (the top and bottom surfaces are the same shape), how a wing adjusts for the great changes in load such as when pulling out of a dive or in a steep turn, and it ignores the work that is done. Lift requires power (which is work per time, and an understanding of power is key to the understanding of many of the phenomena of lift. Second, Newton’s Third Law isn’t the only one used to explain flight. The First and the Second are also necessary for it.


By stephen on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 2:13 pm:

During his speech, Ross mentions Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. The first is modern humans, the second is one of our ancestors. But the speech seemed to be about dinosaurs, and I didn't see any indication of how Ross was making his references to humans, relevant. Maybe it was a part of the speech we don't hear.
Ross' computer doesn't have virus protection, which seems awfully unlikely.


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