After a couple of mediocre episodes, I was really pleased with this one. Joey’s improvised saving of Monica and Chandler’s interview by turning the tables on Laura was just plain brilliant, and hilarious.

---Great Ross Line:
Mike: “I heard that weddings are… like a, $40 billion a year industry.”
Ross: “Yeah, and I’m responsible for just like half of that.”

---Great Ross Follow-Up:
Phoebe: “How would you feel if we gave all the wedding money to charity and, and we just got married at City Hall?”
Mike: “I think it would make me want to marry you even more.”
Ross: “I gotta say, you guys, that’s, that’s an incredible gesture!”
Chandler (to Ross): “Maybe you do that the next time you get married.”
Ross: “No no no, the next time’s gonna be Hawaii at sunset………But maybe the next time after that!”

Why did Joey have one of his porno tapes in the VCR in Monica and Chandler’s apartment?

When Ross sarcastically wonders who will play Rachel in the movie about the traumatic swing incident when she was “little,” Rachel says she was thinking about Claire Danes. Rachel wants someone who’s currently 24 years old to play her when she was “little”?

Joey almost walks into Monica and Chandler’s during their interview with Laura, who had a bad date with Joey. Chandler races to the door and slams it shut before he can enter. Yet another scene that would be precluded if the occupants of the apartment locked the friggin’ door.

I noticed Ross said that Emma likes the swings after Rachel said she couldn't go to the playground. How does he know that if she's never been on one and (presumably) never been to a playground? Hmmm...maybe it wasn't really her first time on a swing. Like when Joey gave her cookies and Rachel didn't know about it. Ross just didn't let on.

Maybe Rachel wanted Claire Danes to play her as an adult dealing with the childhood trauma. Rachel could have repressed the memory from the age of 4 to 24, like in those incest TV-movies.

Luigi Novi: Yet another scene that would be precluded if the occupants of the apartment locked the friggin’ door.

Dan Gunther: Yeah, but dude, they're HOME. Why would they lock the door?!?

Um, to keep out intruders, just as everyone who locks their doors does? It is New York City, after all.

Oh yeah, I forgot, Americans tend to lock their doors a great deal... Canadians tend to, in general, not lock doors so much. See Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine." Sorry 'bout that, to quote the Cardassian in DS9's "Destiny," "I think this is a case of cross-cultural misunderstanding."

Dan Gunther: ...to quote the Cardassian in DS9's "Destiny," "I think this is a case of cross-cultural misunderstanding."
Luigi Novi: Yeah, and ironically, both situations involved dialogue pertaining to the question of whether the character was capable of having a baby!

Once again we are led to belive that a completely unrelated coincidence will somehow jeopardise a meeting. In this instance it's the adoption lady's bad date with Joey. So would she REALLY reject them solely on their friendship with Joey? I would like to see how she would write that up in the report. Also wonder exactly how long she would keep her job for when she did!

Also right at the very it looks as though Rachel was going to have her hair caught in the chains again.
On that topic, when Emma sits on the swing, Rachel starts fussing over Emmas hair fearing a repeat of her incident. She is totally ignoring a couple things:
1) Emma is too small and her head doesn't go near the chains.
2) The bottom part of the chains are taped up so it wouldn't matter if her head COULD reach the chains.

Maria Pitillo (Laura) of course also played the primary female character in that truly terrible American Godzilla film. Curse you Emmerich and Devlin!

She also played Ed Begley Jr.'s mistress in the 1989 "She-Devil" starring Roseanne and Meryl Streep. That one was interesting, that's for sure.

"Once again we are led to belive that a completely unrelated coincidence will somehow jeopardise a meeting. In this instance it's the adoption lady's bad date with Joey. So would she REALLY reject them solely on their friendship with Joey? I would like to see how she would write that up in the report. Also wonder exactly how long she would keep her job for when she did!"

Good one, Rodney. Not to mention how much better looking she was in Godzilla, too. Take that, vindictive adoption councelor lady! (Heh heh.)

Once again we are led to belive that a completely unrelated coincidence will somehow jeopardise a meeting. In this instance it's the adoption lady's bad date with Joey. So would she REALLY reject them solely on their friendship with Joey? I would like to see how she would write that up in the report. Also wonder exactly how long she would keep her job for when she did!


This show had a few character doing things that would get them fired in real life (such as the DJ pulling Ross's song after the list debacle).