The Reel Rejects - FRIENDS Season 4, Episodes 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18 REVIEW!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 all right gang it's season four episode 13 we're not going to look at the title we're just going to watch the show no one or two and a three okay not what i was expecting gang green gang green gang gang gang gang gang if you happen to have made it to this point in the video thanks for sticking around and being friends. Thank you for being a friend. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:00:33 If you happen to be on your computer, on the phone, or anywhere near the things, you could leave a like on the video. That would be a big help to us, you know? It would boost these reactions for friends. It also just helped the channel out. If you want to be notified when the next friend's block is coming your way,

Starting point is 00:00:49 subscribe. Hit the notification bell. And if you happen to be listening to our discussion, our post-react discussion, Our discusseruny On a podcast platform Of any variety Leave us a rating if you could

Starting point is 00:01:01 Be so kind Be very much Love you for Appreciated Uh Jain Jarnaldi Season 4 Episodes 13 through 18

Starting point is 00:01:11 How we feeling right Feeling good Doc We're feeling well Feeling swell Gents and ladies It was a really fun block I think it's funny

Starting point is 00:01:19 That you know I did the British accent The all the videos we've done The one where the girlfriend of Ross is very British. So what are the odds of that? I don't know. Pretty odd.

Starting point is 00:01:32 Maybe I sensed it through the ether or something. But yeah, this is a great block of episodes. I'm happy they didn't do the immediacy of Rachel being jelly of Emily and Ross. Because I'm like, we just did that last season with the girl who was bald. Let's not do it again immediately. So I'm happy with like, we tease that and we curved it quickly. Yeah. But yeah, but I think these were a lovely block of episodes.

Starting point is 00:01:55 I like that they each. have their own respective romantic interests going on i'm sorry for chanler getting cheated on that did suck but yeah we're exploring the the insecurities of both ross and chandler we're also exploring some phoebe pregnancy hijinks monica's craziness with her apartment set up and uh right yeah and joey's there joey is there joey's just living his best life honestly And you know what I'm happy for. He got to act opposite Charlton Heston. He did.

Starting point is 00:02:29 He got to stink. He got to enjoy free corn. Apparently, I could smell it through the screen. I wish they would have released this in Smellivision. I would have liked that. That would be pretty freaking sick. Let's see what Emily Bexs or Helen that Bexendale has been in. What have you been in later?

Starting point is 00:02:48 Helen Victoria Bexendale. I don't think I've seen her before. Let's see. Let's see. Tell us what you've been in later. she's been in a bunch of stuff wait i don't want to get spoiled i don't know i don't know how many episodes she's in it's okay i'm past that point okay sick she's in cuckoo no that's a show um i've don't see that movie oh i thought yeah no there's a show or i don't know

Starting point is 00:03:08 agatha and the midnight murders that is a different agatha than the one i'm accustomed to agatha christie's puaro maybe funny yeah because she seems she's super familiar she's on dirk gently i must have seen her in something but uh yeah i don't know exactly what it would have been Nope. No, I don't think so, although there was one character when they went to see the Fertil, the OB-G-Y-N, they credited that character just as the doctor. So I'm choosing to accept this as part of the Doctor Who Canon. I'm with you on that.

Starting point is 00:03:40 Thank you. Yes, I appreciate that you, you know, are a hoovian. I'm a co-signer. Yeah. Dude, which were the friends while I look this up really quick, would make the best companion to the doctor? Ooh, that is a great question. That's right. Who would make the best companion?

Starting point is 00:04:00 Funk's sole brother. Because they would all serve a different function. Check it out now. You can do two. I mean, you could do two. Okay. We have, I mean, hey, we have one season, the Jody Whitaker season,

Starting point is 00:04:11 they have like three companions. That's true. I don't think, okay, who, I got to eliminate people. Phoebe, excellent companions. I think Phoebe and Ross make good companions. Phoebe and Ross would make good companions. Joey would be a very funny companion.

Starting point is 00:04:22 He would be, you know, to have someone who's just like, you know, there to get into trouble. He'd get into trouble and he'd also flirt with alien girls. Exactly. Exactly. That'd be fun. Once a season series, sorry, UK, then he would be really useful for an episode. Yes. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:38 You'd, like, infiltrate some stuff that the doctor can't get into because Joey has that, that suave skill. There's one iconic episode where Joey, they do something to his brain that makes him super intelligent. Yes. And then he's like, you know, totally out-dollinger. doctoring the doctor but then by the end of the episode they realized that whatever this thing is is going to kill him so they have to revert him back to normal joey so they have this like teary heartfelt goodbye with intelligent joey and then you know we welcome regular joey back yeah but we still love regular joey's we do know you know we're going to miss smart joey and

Starting point is 00:05:11 then like some seasons down the line they bring smart joey back for an episode some major event yeah man i like this i like this a lot making can't all right dr hoe joey's been off i'm with it i like that a lot yeah okay so dr who joey um i think you know like they would all just be different i think gunther would be uh definitely a shoe in as like you know potential if he and rachel were the companions gunther and rachel because then he's like crushing on her but she's not that would be hilarious dr gungther damn near dressed like a doctor himself he does he does dude very funky fresh he could be the new he could be the 16th incarnation or the 17 i don't know what they're doing this is the cross

Starting point is 00:05:52 over everyone was asking this is the crossover man this is a very fun episode block though and i do again just appreciate i know i am assuming and i've heard mild assessments to the uh you know and that eventually they'll get to a slightly more purely episodic more they always call it the homer simpsonification of things when you go more to like it's the tropes of the characters rather than like stories um but right now i'm still kind of dazzled by the fact that they are and and just you know fascinated by the fact that they are able to do these multiple episode rampups you know throughout the season and again in splitting them up the way we have i feel like we've often gotten pretty lucky with the timing because like here you know the whole thing with rachel

Starting point is 00:06:39 and this um i gotta commit that guy's name to memory but um her new guy yeah was in his name freaking yeah that guy Mark no Mark was the other guy yeah yeah

Starting point is 00:06:52 Langston yes is definitely Langston for sure Joshua Joshua what are you

Starting point is 00:07:00 what else you and Tate Donovan Tate Donovan I was gonna say Tate free Donovan Free my man He's an Argo oh wow

Starting point is 00:07:09 He's in stuff Okay He's in stuff I mean he was in Rocket Man Never seen Rocket Man He's in the holdovers I love that movie movie look out now see you were saying he didn't look all that good well look out now because

Starting point is 00:07:23 he's acting clearly he's a guy he's got a career on his hand out here but yeah the fact that you have this joshua story that you know sets in alongside a change in rachel's situation because you know like for a friggin boss died and then they folded up the you know department into personal shopping and everything and then alongside that you have all the stuff with emily uh you know beginning with Ross and it was an interesting kind of thing to do where you know we've seen the game of Rachel and Ross for a long time yeah going back and forth when they're not in a relationship there's always this kind of you know bumper cars effect of like okay one of them is moving on slightly faster than the other and one of them is really hung up on the other and you know the conversation

Starting point is 00:08:06 about when can we get to a point where we're just happy for each other uh you know and you can tell there's probably still stuff deep down inside of there with Ross and Rachel but you know the the ups and downs of like their personal stuff alongside these two storylines has been kind of interesting you know them out on the step together you know kind of commiserating as both of their nights aren't going very well and uh you know the fact that even took emily on the date to help rachel out with the guy in the first place just so's a sense of growth in this current stage of their relationship even though you do see like the small inclings the small seeds that there might be something still underneath the surface of that that. yeah 100% also I want to clarify my statement earlier I wasn't trying to say the guy was ugly I was just saying I was just trying to say that like a super model guy he's not a super model he's not like crawling the floor kisses freaking calves handsome like yeah yeah yeah yeah he's a decent looking guy but not like he's not showy but like he's not like he's not like those two dudes that Phoebe was dating where you're like both these guys are like model fit and hot and like yeah totally totally totally totally he's a regular he's a child he's a child he's a regular he's a child charming suitor guy yeah he's afraid of birds and you know has goes to his parents nice apartment every now and that that was wild yeah i'm sad for chanler um you know him and cathly him him him and kathy together was a nice thing so it was a sad turn i was i was bummed at that she seemed like really nice yeah and then that leading to the the yemen thing with janis was bonkers actually

Starting point is 00:09:42 insane just a one actually insane was wild and they never is funny because yeah it's like I think they are they've drawn a tone where they can nicely do all this stuff that is serial but when they need to they can pull the episodic rip cord and be like Chandler just spent above $2,000 for a

Starting point is 00:09:59 flight to Yemen that I assume he is now going to have to immediately purchase a new ticket back from this thing is like he's out like at least five grand on this trip or so at all wow and yeah it's like I can't tell her you don't want to end it yeah and I'm like I guess this guy just

Starting point is 00:10:15 makes enough money to where he can do that he still don't know what he does but still yeah it's just uh yeah funny game um and then yeah god what else i mean uh because yeah rachel this whole saga and her like going to joey and phoebe and and you know try to get all this different like advice and wondering if he's even open to her at all and then yeah emily coming into the picture and like that was an interesting they're good at doing stuff like that where it's like yeah rachel pawns this thing off on ross and he's like oh why at all would I want to help you with that even under you know good circumstances um I guess under circumstances it wouldn't be so bad but uh you know but yeah you get the kind of initial

Starting point is 00:11:00 aversion to that but then yeah like it's nice to watch them both go into their own sort of harmoniously solo efforts with other people yeah you know and kind of reaching that play I'm sure the Ross Rachel relationship thing is going to swing back around in some interest way down the road but yeah but for right now it's been nice to watch them find some love it was fun to watch uh rachel and uh or not rachel that friggin mostly monica and phoebe trying to pull chanler out of his depression uh friggin uh taking him the strip club and all that stuff yeah uh and uh it was nice of them i'm happy we have good healthy relationships with our uh our opposite sex friends even though he did say he wanted to watch watch them have sex which is you know

Starting point is 00:11:45 not like the best you know you ideally don't want to sexualize your your opposite sex friends but yeah you know to each their own yeah you know I don't know man maybe maybe they've all had a cuddle pile

Starting point is 00:12:00 maybe we'll get another flashback episode where it turns out that they all got mushroomed up one night and just you know kind of did the thing better fringy but yeah we also got that quick it is fascinating like because it's nice to see I always find it fun when we get like a joey is on stage or he's in an acting class or he's in a

Starting point is 00:12:15 movie or something like i like those kind of joey interludes and so to get friggin charlton heston for here it's another one of those appearances where i'm like how did this happen like hey why would he be interested or who asked him or like what's the you know what's the story there because it's like he at the time you know certainly like a veteran actor i don't know if i've seen him in anything else i haven't seen like those classic films that he's known for oh yeah i mean you know i mean the the original planet of the apes alone is like iconic but he's he's been in so much wait maybe i damn you all to hell damn dirty apes

Starting point is 00:12:48 yeah yeah absolutely but uh the freaking rugby thing was pretty fun uh and monica with the wall sweat i've just i have had switches like that so i understand her compulsion to like tear the place up until you know you find the answer and then it being the freaking

Starting point is 00:13:03 tv was very funny in a part of person's apartment is crazy though yeah and part of my head cannon is that something to do with the switch is what caused them to get the access to the corn that's my own head can I like that nothing to do with anything I like that yeah

Starting point is 00:13:18 and then yeah freaking Chandler and Yemen was wild the fake party was pretty fun you know her Phoebe trying to deal with the baby

Starting point is 00:13:28 wanting meat has been a kind of fun plot thread throughout this and then yeah freaking god just everything

Starting point is 00:13:36 with the party was very fun Phoebe sorry I'm just I just got the thing here because we have questions today so uh we don't have questions today no we know question list nobody cared no no there was some

Starting point is 00:13:47 schedule stuff behind the scenes and uh we just didn't get the post out in time but uh i have to imagine the season would end with phoebe having the baby it seems like yeah it seems like a fairly pretty good you know guess because we're you know we're in like the final act of the season i'm sorry babies plural babies that's right yeah because yeah we discover the triplets thing which is crazy and the whole thing of them like trying to name them or figuring out what the name should be it was a very fun again a thing that happens for anybody who's about to become a parent

Starting point is 00:14:17 but a fun way to sort of add some juice to that plot like oh my god three babies and the mom's name of one Frank's name one Phoebe gets to name one it's kind of like a nice lovely thing that they do and then and then yeah the back and forth with Monica and Ross with her like you know

Starting point is 00:14:31 trying to pep talk him into like really going after Emily and like the the tension of that was pretty good because I feel like we were both saying they're going like I don't know man I don't think it's going to work I don't think you should be following Monica's advice even though like what she's saying to do seems reasonable but as it turns out it was reasonable

Starting point is 00:14:48 so that was just a nice thing and you know them flying back the use of transport in these episodes has been a little bit crazy because like freaking a flight tonight to England and back a flight tonight to New York and I don't know back maybe

Starting point is 00:15:07 it was just bonkers like the amount of like the last minute flights these guys get to go on is uh is kind of wild but uh you know i like the whole thing where he's in the phone booth and then she calls back and then he's outside her window and they're going to talk and the whole i love you thank you reprisal at the end was very cute was very sweet yeah yeah absolutely and then of course they got to give it up for chanler and joey with the free corn real pioneers and uh changing the game yeah

Starting point is 00:15:41 Joey and Jamler had to walk so that Freakorn could run today's day and age. And then the fricking the last episode, just the long game on Chandler was crazy. I know, right? Crazy work. I snuck up on me at the end when she leaves the room. Like I was like, that was a beautiful, like so freaking funny. And especially, you know, on the heels of the stuff that he's been going through, as much as they don't make that like a huge, they don't touch on that. But at the same time, just kind of in watching these episodes in a burst.

Starting point is 00:16:11 you kind of feel it makes sense why he would be sort of like you know in a tender place about stuff even so simple as his own name but then to come to find that it's yeah it's just a tactic

Starting point is 00:16:24 it's very very funny and change it up on us wow what a clever fella yeah he's a clever guy and then yeah we get all this the Ross paranoia about Emily becoming a lesbian which you know I

Starting point is 00:16:36 it sucks but I understand how the experience of losing a relationship And a way that feels like such a betrayal would give you a sense of fear and paranoia about, you know, that happening again. Even though, you know, you're literally self-sabotrising your relationships if you, you know, lean into those inclinations and thoughts. But, you know, I can't say I don't understand them, even though I don't agree with how you deal with those feelings. Yeah, man, you got to. I get it, man. Like, there's a lot that can cook your rain up.

Starting point is 00:17:10 but yeah i'm like ross oh you gotta you gotta practice a little bit of restraint my man i know you gotta you gotta hold it together a little bit uh but yeah and and and you know her carol even just acknowledging like oh my god there could be a the modicum of a chance like i don't know if anything's gonna come out of that but it is a kind of fun place to leave off here uh and then i'm just gonna say joshua's dad way too transparent way too transparent my guy way too chill like cool cool it

Starting point is 00:17:42 I get it wait what do he do this attractive lady in a in a piece of you know in like a negligee in your living room was he goggling

Starting point is 00:17:49 he didn't he just seemed very he's like you they're gonna be there we're all gonna go dinner you're gonna be in that dress you in that dress freaking that dress

Starting point is 00:17:59 you know he was even trying to hide it he seemed like he was about about that dress also did you guys catch that weird freaking statue

Starting point is 00:18:06 with the glowing eyes when you're watching it. That was bonkers, I know. About the time I realized, I'm like, wait, that's got red eyes. And then that shot came around. And as my brain was processing, I'm like, what happened?

Starting point is 00:18:16 And you pointed out, and I was like, is this thing haunted? Yeah. And when they didn't show it when they went back to them, because it was a different angle. I was like, I was trying to play with me, show. I'm like, was this some editing?

Starting point is 00:18:26 Or did it just tick off at some point during the take and whatever, it's fine? Yeah, that's like the second time I ended with some weird, ish going on in the background. Continuity is. Yeah, because we met, phoebe's mom there's like a door that opened that never had any like payoff to it weird i was so

Starting point is 00:18:42 odd yeah there's probably a lot of friends conspiracies oh i have no little details like this that amount to like a creepy pasta yeah it looks like actually if you really put them all together it like you know form some kind of grim subplot about occultism yeah they're actually all dead the whole time and this is the dying hallucination of janis oh yeah yeah this is this is her recollection of what she thinks those friends are like exactly as she like dies in a shakespearean fashion like on top of chandler's body having like kissed the poison on his lips wow to join him in the ever hereafter what did you do eternal yeah you should stop messing with this girl man she just she just wants love and you can't decide what you want because you went from hating her to then being absolutely head over heels in love with her you are king yo yo you're willing to buy a a $2,000 flight just to get away from her. That is insane. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:19:41 That's a problem right there. You got to get that unpacked. No. You got to unpack that. We just got to address it head on. Listen, these friends, if there's anything they got in common, they are very conflict avoidant. They are very conflict avoidant. It's a very good way to describe these people.

Starting point is 00:20:00 Yeah. They do not want to tackle things head on. No. Or risk and embarrassment. No. but you know I understand it's hard to do that stuff it takes a lot of emotional grits yeah but uh this was a delightful batch of episodes gang gangroonies you got anything else to observe before we head on down to central perk and grab a cup of they played spin the bottle that was fun you know don't let your fears of chicks and ducks block you from from living life you know live freely chicks and cocks make which i mean in the context of animal sciences,

Starting point is 00:20:40 which is the technical term for rooster, YouTube. I know you're listening. Ducks and clucks, baby. Ducks and clucks. There we go. I like that one. Quacks and and a rooster. Quacks and clucks. Quacks and clugs. You were right the first time. Gang, leave us your thoughts. What was your favorite episode? Favorite moment? Most used quote

Starting point is 00:21:01 from this batch. Leave us all your thoughts, all your observations. And we'll catch. you for the next block we'll catch you for the end of season four yeah baby episodes 19 through 24 or 5 or however many there are this season anyway thanks for joining us and we'll catch you next time

The Reel Rejects - FRIENDS Season 4, Episodes 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18 REVIEW!!

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.