The Reel Rejects - FRIENDS Season 1, Episodes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12 REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Thank you to Shopify for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Without further ado, we're going to jump back in. So let's start with episode seven. Here we go. All righty guys. All righty, gang. The it for us today in this video.
Starting point is 00:01:54 We've done it. Oh, we did it. We watched episode 7 through 12. Yeah. Seven through 12, guys. We just did a binge, a big old binge. Bingey boys, guys. Thank you so much for watching.
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Starting point is 00:02:26 Highlights. Right. High light. You can sit here on the YouTube's. That's right. Get them on the YouTube. But I do know we have some patient questions. Oh, yeah, dude. God, what do we see today?
Starting point is 00:02:38 We saw the one with the blackout. We saw the one where Nana dies twice. We saw the one where the underdog gets away. Boom. We saw the one with the monkey. We saw the one with Mrs. Bing. And we saw the one with a dozen lasanias. That's a lot of ones.
Starting point is 00:02:54 saw the six. All the ones. Six of the ones. All right. And half a dozen of the others. Half a freaking dozen. Dude, let's pull up some patron cues, but in general, I'm feeling lovely. This is always a, this is a very fun addition to the schedule,
Starting point is 00:03:10 and I hope this does well enough that we can go through the whole thing. I would love that. I would love that as well, my friend. Let's just make sure we got all the possible options accounted for. But how are you feeling? You're feeling pretty good?
Starting point is 00:03:26 You're feeling like these are friends you want to welcome into your heart? I think they are friends. I want to welcome into my heart. Hell yeah. You know, this show is consistently funny. It's true. With some flawed characters, which, you know, is very human. And, you know, we get to watch them grow, hopefully.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Knock on all the woods over the next 10 years of their lives. See how they develop as people and how the relationships grow when change. and what kind of father will Ross be as the show continues on, powers on. But, yeah, this is a very comedy-heavy day, which is, you know, it's great, you know, love and very grip of what I do. But, yeah, I feel like every time I see this pop-up on our schedule, I get really happy. You're really excited for us to shoot some more friends because I like these cast of characters. I'm growing attached to them in the 12 episodes we've watched thus far. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:04:24 as well. Love in our newfound friends and definitely seeing just the general you know, hype. I get why this show is beloved to the degree that it is and it's been a real joy getting to be, you know, inducted
Starting point is 00:04:41 into this. So, okay, now I got the right page up. There we go. There we go. Okay. We got a friend. Science. Yip, yip,
Starting point is 00:04:53 and we got Jay. Yip, yupp, I think everything is as it's supposed to be. It is okay, gang. Let's do this thing. Let's start with a little question from none other than... Zen science. Zend science says the blackout episode is one of my favorites. What do you do during a long power outage?
Starting point is 00:05:20 You know, I learned a little bit about this recently when we had the fires because the power was out for several days. At your place? Oh, snap. And, you know, I mean, it's weird. You kind of begin to appreciate it. It was very easy in that situation to appreciate that it wasn't worse in our areas. So, like, having the power out inconvenient, though it maybe was more of, like, a neat side quest adventure than, you know, it could have been largely due to the devastation happening.
Starting point is 00:05:51 and the fact that that's a far cry from, you know, having the power out for a couple days. But definitely, I don't know, it was kind of nice. It was very peaceful in a way. It's very simple in a way. So, like, long power outage, I don't know, grab a, grab, you know, a lantern or a candle,
Starting point is 00:06:09 maybe read a book, go take a walk. I don't know, play some board games or something. You know, do all the analog stuff. Yeah. Draw, right, paint or something. Yeah, like in the before times. Yeah. Yeah, you've got the TV to rely you on or your other, you know, things that we've become accustomed to.
Starting point is 00:06:27 But, yeah, I think that's really good. What would I do? Probably read a book, play some games. Play a lot of Uno. Let me some Uno. Yeah, it really depends on who I'm with and where I am. Because, yeah, ooh, because if it's in their building like it was, means you can't use the elevator. You're stuck up there.
Starting point is 00:06:45 Unless you use the stairs. They must have a big old staircase. But, yeah, go on. walks, you know, sing some songs, probably write. Do some writing, some poetry or some short stories. Play some improv games with your friends. Yeah. It'd be fun. I'd like to go take a walk outside like in the evening time when there's a power outage and just kind of like behold how quiet everything has become counter to the norm. Yeah. I think that's nice. I think that's exactly what I'd want to do. It's always nice just to be able to be able to be
Starting point is 00:07:21 be a little disconnected from the immediate sources of dopamine we've become accustomed to in our modern day society so, you know, get some old-fashioned person-to-person action or some old-fashioned old-fashioned
Starting point is 00:07:37 strutton, walking. Go do some exercises. Yeah, go bat watching. Get your night vision goggles and go bad watching, all the different bats in your area. That's a very funny episode the the blackout one
Starting point is 00:07:55 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah getting stuck in the thing which I guess I guess they must have got an actor to play Jill Goodacre because the name was different in the thing and Jill Goodacre seems like it's her name so either way
Starting point is 00:08:08 but yeah that one man with Chandler stuck in the vestibule was very very funny okay can we confirm something yes I feel like I feel like the actress who played uh ross's ex was different in the first few episodes because i remember her the cuss one she had curly hair as well because when they both had curly hair let me look this up episode five uh we meet janis
Starting point is 00:08:37 right maggie wheeler oh yeah because it's to break up with her yeah yeah with the laundry detergent i feel like she's probably been the same since the top they might not janis janis was Chandler's. Oh, sorry. Who are we talking about? Ross's ex. Oh, maybe. It's possible.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Yeah. Find it. Find it. Find it. I will find it. I will find him. 231 episodes. Carol.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Is her name Carol? Carol? Look at that. Look at that. It's Carol. Well, which episode was she in? the second one Carol Judy
Starting point is 00:09:24 God this has been the whole I didn't realize this is the whole Palo Saga because we met him in episode 7 with the blackout right and then went all this way Okay they did switch the actress Oh do they?
Starting point is 00:09:38 Yeah because Carol was Janice Sibbitt before In the pilot? No in the So she was in the second episode So Carol was Anita Barone
Starting point is 00:09:53 in the first episode but how many episodes are friends was she Carol I will get to the bottom of this and it must be must have yeah had to recast after the pilot or something yeah maybe
Starting point is 00:10:06 it's bothering me because I knew it immediately okay thank you for indulging me guys is racking my brain but yeah there's a lot of great episodes in this block of episodes I was gonna say the one with Nana was very fun. It was nice to see
Starting point is 00:10:22 some actual tender moments between Monica and her mom. I thought that was a good one. And a lot of very fun, wacky bits. A lot of Ross in this episode block getting, you know, drunk or becoming loopy in one way
Starting point is 00:10:40 or another. And then all the guys joining around the football game was pretty funny. The Thanksgiving one was very charming. I thought the game of that was a lot of fun and everyone like trying to figure out how to like avoid no wait wait I'm getting that confused it's like everybody wants to have the perfect
Starting point is 00:10:58 Thanksgiving except for Chandler who like only associates this with dysfunction and then it comes back around at the end that like he's happy because it's a big dysfunctional Thanksgiving and ugly naked guy having his like romantic dinner bringing them all together was just like a nice
Starting point is 00:11:14 fun thing oh god there's the one with the monkey that's right and friggin freaking Hank Azario was in this chunk. I'm surprised. I thought that would be like a recurring thing or something like that. Well, considering the show is, you know, 10 years long,
Starting point is 00:11:32 and he said he's only going to be gone for three years. I imagine maybe he'll come back. He could come back. It's true. After his internship or his job overseas. Yeah, absolutely. That was a fun one, though. That was a fun one. The one with Mrs. Bing, obviously, Morgan Fairchild, hell yeah. I bet she'll come back at some point.
Starting point is 00:11:52 But, yeah, that was pretty wild circumstances. The whole subplot with the guy getting hit by the car was random. Yeah, mad random. Oh, all right. Interesting. Definitely one of the cuckier subplots we've seen so far. And then the one with a dozen lasagna is a fun. It's interesting to see a show like this and to see, like, yeah, a handful of episodes arc.
Starting point is 00:12:15 Because, yeah, Paolo, you know, is as of these six, it seems. like as of yeah seven we meet him and then by 12 he's done so as of these five i should say uh you know now if you've been part of the reject nation for a while you've probably heard us mention our site rejectnation shop dot com where you can get apparel such as this now how did we build that site well we did that with today's sponsor note they were not our sponsor when we used them other note we could have saved some mullah if they were our sponsor then the way you can save Moolah through our link today. Shopify. We've been using Shopify since day one. We're not tech experts, so we needed something simple and powerful and made for creators like us. And that's
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Starting point is 00:13:50 Yeah. I'm trying to see which one I liked the most out of these. Yeah. Do you have a favorite out of the ones we watched? That's a tough one. I mean, which one has Joey on the STD posters? Because that was very funny, too. That was a great.
Starting point is 00:14:04 It might have been the Thanksgiving one, honestly. Like, that one was really fun. I liked the Nana one a lot, too. I mean, like, there were great moments in all these. The blackout is, like, I can feel whilst watching that. like this must be like a classic episode or something like that so the blackout one yeah i mean that one was really funny just so much like good wacky physical humor and stuff like that yeah because we got to see yeah we got to see them all bonding over you said the one with the the blackout right
Starting point is 00:14:37 yeah yeah no it was fun to get to see their different dynamics they're different couples and you know them all not having somebody at the end and just all you're just all you in there as friends I was like oh this is sweet this was very sweet yeah I'm tossed
Starting point is 00:14:51 between the the underdog one and the one with the monkey both of those were great for me yeah oh yeah that one had fun Bobby
Starting point is 00:14:58 poor fun Bobby yeah yeah but I mean these are all like a joy but yeah I think I think the kind of of the yeah like the first three
Starting point is 00:15:09 of this chunk I liked the best and I really enjoyed watching the other three but I think those ones had like my favorite moments across these are the things that I'm thinking back to
Starting point is 00:15:19 the most at this moment. Although, you know, Paolo leaving and, you know, the sort of beginnings I assume of, you know, a more focused, Ross, you know, Rachel pursuit, you know, certainly seems like a big canon moment.
Starting point is 00:15:36 But yeah, I believe we have another question on the block. Let's see who we got. Thank you so much, Zen. Jay Rushden, question. The main opening theme is epic. What other show opening is classic there?
Starting point is 00:15:54 Oh, man, there's so many classic. The Family Matters theme is classic. Yep, King of the Hill opening theme song, classic. That's just like a societal classic and personal classic for you. Yeah. For me, the theme song to Spectacular Spider-Man. Spectacular, Spider-Man. It's pretty sick.
Starting point is 00:16:15 We rocked out hard, Kauai and we watched that. I watched all those episodes. They're great. It's my favorite reactions. Oh, that makes me happy. Yeah, you guys killed it. I love the kids in the hall theme sequence with that, like, surf rock tune by shadowy men on a shadowy planet. It's a good one.
Starting point is 00:16:34 There's no words to it, but I like the How I Met Your Mother theme. How I Met Your Mother's going. Dexter, A-plus opening. theme sequence. Does it change from season to seasoners or remain the same? As far as I've seen it is, I'm like, don't ever change it. Oh, it's been making breakfast. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:55 Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, I always say too much, but you'll see other pieces of that. Oh. Yeah, that's a good one. I always like the Mad Men's opening score thingy. It's pretty simple. I think the Breaking Bad song that like, you know, slide guitar thing. is very memorable
Starting point is 00:17:16 I bet there are other ones though this is probably like a broad and like if you want to bring anime into this we'll have a whole other discussion on our hands you know yeah yeah so many some good some good death note ones
Starting point is 00:17:29 I mean the Pokemon theme song how could you ever top that that's classic very best like no one ever was catch them as my real test to train them is my cause oh my goodness yeah
Starting point is 00:17:41 you also travel across land searching far wide I was going to say Are there any other ones, though? Are there any others we're forgetting? I think I remember What's the show? Full House.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Dude, that's a Do-do-da-da-da-d-d-d-be-d-be-d-be-d-be-d-bo-de-bo-de- Never seen the Sopranos or six-feet under, so I couldn't tell you. I mean, The Simpsons is a classic. Oh, Malcolm in the middle? You're not the boss of me now. Oh, yeah, you're not the boss of me now,
Starting point is 00:18:12 and you're not so. life is unfair Fresh Prince Hondo P, fresh prince Sex and the City is pretty memorable Oh yeah, I have heard that you've never seen this show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, not bad, not bad American Horror Story ones are always fun to watch
Starting point is 00:18:36 They change each time Melrose Place Sorry I pulled up a list to help us out I really like the song from True Blood. Brady Bunch is an all-time. You watch True Blood. You watch Masters of Sex. Dude, you do.
Starting point is 00:18:51 Even Stevens is a great one. Severance is a great one. Svrendo P. Severance has a good one. Severance is a great one. And the updates, I find myself just like humming that out loud at times. Just, yeah. Oh, Cowboy Bebop, yeah. Game of Thrones is also classic.
Starting point is 00:19:16 And BoJack Horseman's a good one. There are a lot of good ones. What's the worst one? What's the most lackluster opening TV? All you see is violence and movies and sex on TV. That's a pretty memorable one, honestly. That's definitely, I think, one that a lot of people throw in there. But yeah, goodness gracious me.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Goodness, gracious. It's very fun, the one where we watched six more episodes. Yeah, we did the dang thing. Walking Dead. It's pretty decent. What was Walking Dead? Well, I mean, oh, God, Twilight Zone, dude. Twilight Zone, All-Timer and every iteration.
Starting point is 00:19:57 You know, the Walking Dead has that like... Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. There's some good ones out there. There are some good ones out there. Leave us your favorites, gang. of the, you know, TV theme songs out there. Leave us what your favorite episodes were of this block.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Yeah. To the dang thing. Thanks for chiming in, gang. Appreciate you. I don't have any final words before we get out of here. Just that this was funny, I'm enjoying myself, and I cannot wait for another six episode binge alongside you, my friend. My friend.
Starting point is 00:20:37 My friend. I am excited. Dude. It's been real. It's been corporeal. It's been real, guys. we're going to see you guys in the next block until then

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