


“The One With the Routine” (Season 6, Episode 10) Plus, Ross and Rachel’s first real kiss is pretty damn amazing.ġ3. Poor Julie was probably Ross’ best girlfriend in the show’s entire run, but she never stood a chance after Rachel’s ill-timed phone confession of love. “The One Where Ross Finds Out” (Season 2, Episode 7) This one has all the makings of a great Friends episode: flashbacks, confessions of love (Chandler says it to Monica for the first time) and frozen turkeys on various friends’ heads.ġ4. “The One With All the Thanksgivings” (Season 5, Episode 8) Some of Ross and Rachel’s best moments are before they become an item, and none were cuter than the time they hung out in a laundromat together.ġ5. “The One With the East German Laundry Detergent” (Season 1, Episode 5) Joey puts Chandler in a box on Thanksgiving as punishment. “The One With Chandler in a Box” (Season 4, Episode 8) “The One With All the Cheesecakes” (Season 7, Episode 11)Ĭhandler and Rachel didn’t get too many storylines together, which is a shame because this unlikely duo is great together, especially when they’re stealing (and eating) their neighbors’ cheesecakes.ġ7. Ross and Monica have always been hyper competitive, but never is it more apparent than when the siblings vie for the “coveted” Geller Cup in this Thanksgiving episode.ġ8. “The One With the Football” (Season 3, Episode 9) Joey may not have been thrilled to turn the big 3-0, but we loved watching Monica get drunk on hers and Ross buy a midlife crisis sports car for his.ġ9. “The One Where They All Turn Thirty” (Season 7, Episode 14) There is no moment that elicits more happy tears in the entirety of the show’s run than when Monica and Chandler finally propose to one another.Ģ0. “The One With the Proposal, Part 2” (Season 6, Episode 25) She completely freaks out, and rightfully so.Ģ1. (“Hey! It’s Por-sha!”) Meanwhile, Ross continues to live in a fantasy world of his own: he didn’t get an annulment like he promised to Rachel. “The One With Joey’s Porsche” (Season 5, Episode 6)īefore Monica gets her dad’s Porsche in a later season, Joey pretends to have one that’s parked on the street. department - the plot about how Rachel was rumored to be a hermaphrodite in high school is pretty yikes - but Brad Pitt’s cameo as an old classmate who hated Rachel (he and Jennifer Aniston were still married at the time) remains a total riot.Ģ2. This one doesn’t exactly hold up in the P.C. “The One With the Rumor” (Season 8, Episode 9) While the gang’s Las Vegas adventure has some delightful moments (Joey finds his identical hand twin), it’s Ross and Rachel realizing they drunkenly got hitched in Sin City that really makes this a trip to (hazily) remember.Ģ3. “The One in Vegas, Parts 1 & 2” (Season 5, Episodes 23 & 24) 'Friends' Turns 25: Inside the NBC Sitcom's Pop-Up Return to New YorkĢ5/24.
