The Reel Rejects - FRIENDS SEASON 5 EPISODES 1–6 REVIEW – SECRET RELATIONSHIPS & TOTAL CHAOS – FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Without further ado, before we get into our questions that we have today, let's check in with how we're feeling.
Johnny, boy, how are you feeling?
I'm feeling.
This was a roller coaster, man.
This was a fever dream.
I got into the groove, but especially up top, I was just like, you know, everything was just moving so quickly.
and it was so cringe in a intentional way,
and like in a bad way.
But yeah,
it was like so, yeah,
sorted the circumstances.
And just, yeah,
the way that they're continually able to find these new ways
of like really making it clear
that they're like doing a long game thing
with Ross and Rachel is like pretty fascinating.
And yeah, this like conflict of, yeah,
him saying the wrong name
and then fighting so hard.
to get her to even entertain the idea
of continuing to go through with their marriage
and then having to
change his life all around and the
conversations back and forth between him and Rachel
and it's like there's nice stuff in there because you can
feel the growth of
the characters and that you can feel
how they're handling these things slightly differently
than they might have earlier on in the show
but at the same time they come up with
these interestingly high
concept nuances to keep
them apart and
you know to add again to the
kind of richness of their story together.
So, yeah, all that stuff with the wedding, though.
Oh, that's painful, man.
It's painful.
But the cringe.
But yeah, how are you feeling?
I'm feeling good, man.
I think that the audience is right and is not steered us wrong as far as the quality
of the show improving over time.
And, yeah, I am thoroughly enjoying this season so far, even with the highs and the lows
of the different emotional woes that are happening
in the way that this season started off
with the direct continuation of the last season
and how that ended.
Highs the lows with the emotional lows,
taking blows with your bros.
You already knows.
Keep you on your toes.
Steady with the flows.
That's a river.
Anyway, we're going to look at episode one here
because you've got the episodes in front of us,
at least the titles and descriptions.
The first episode of the season I really enjoyed
because it was a direct continuation.
You know, we were on the cliff, on the edge,
then we got up off the cliff to continue to see what the events were.
And, yeah, it picked up pretty immediately after that had gone down.
And, yeah, everything that happened made sense.
But it's always like this, not ship in the night,
but this thing where, you know, you think you're going to get the resolution
and then another wrench get thrown in the middle of it.
You're like, ah, gosh, dang it.
And I really liked Emily in season four.
but season five Emily's being all controlling, but it makes sense.
She's scared of getting heard and scared of being cheated on and all this stuff, which
you know, concerns for the most part are valid.
There's still a lot of history and love between them, although the highs and the lows and
the emotional woes of their relationship between Ross and Rachel.
But honestly, my favorite thing about this block of episodes is finally getting to
explore the dynamic between Chandler and Monica and seeing them finally.
finally consummate and be into a relationship, it seems like at this point.
They said it.
Yeah, they did say it.
They confirmed they are in a relationship.
They started off as hooking up, then kind of the French with benefits, and now full-blown, which...
God, watching them dance around that.
Watching Chandler, I have to kiss everybody.
It was very entertaining.
Yeah, that was funny.
That was really funny.
That whole game of them developing this in secret, skirting around everybody, it ultimately
becoming at least the relationship it is up till this point has been a very fun set of threads.
Yeah.
I've really enjoyed it and I'm going to continue to enjoy it because not everybody knows yet.
It's only Joey.
Joey is the one guy to figure out the last person you would think to put it together.
Yeah, I love that choice.
I love that choice.
But yeah, Phoebe guy had birth.
She had the babies.
I was surprised they didn't do like a little bit of her going through some postpartum.
stuff but you know i feel like we did get past the i want to keep one very quickly yeah well at least
like it was appropriate for the episode but yeah we never talked about it again yeah she had the
babies and like you know we referenced it once and you know she back to normal phoebe yeah so you know
that stuff went a little quick and then that was a great coinciding of of subject matter and
the hundredth episode though the one hundredth is a very fun way to title that and
Patrick Fabian.
That's the dude's name, the hot nurse.
A man. Last Exorcism. Better call Saul.
And Danny.
Danny. Who's he?
He's been in other stuff.
Oh.
But he's in Saw Six.
He's in Saw Six?
He's the guy in Saw Six in the flashbacks who's like trying to get life-saving medical care.
And the guy who's the head of the insurance company is the dick.
and he doesn't give it to him.
Oh.
So he's like the guy whose kids,
who's, I don't want to spoil too much about so-s six,
but he's like the guy whose family is involved with the trap.
Oh, snap.
He's the guy who's, yeah,
who's like part of the reason the health insurance CEO guy is doing the trap.
So yeah, he's like the dude who's innocent who's like,
I just need, you've signed my death warrant.
He's that guy.
Yeah.
My death sentence, whatever.
He obviously looks younger.
I want to see an image of him from that,
of that movie.
Oh, I'll find you, George Newburn in Saw 6.
There he is.
Oh, snap.
Oh, wow.
He's all sad.
He's like, because this asshole, this other character actor, he can give him his health insurance.
Oh, snap.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
One of the best Saw movies.
Sorry, anytime I can ride for Saw 6.
I know we shouted out Friday the 13th part 5 in the intro of this video.
But Saw 6, one of the great sequels.
And randomly,
franchises out here be having good part sixes i'm just saying yeah it's true it's very rare
great freddie six not so good but jason six six pretty good jason six saw six we love it yeah
and we love the six episodes we watched yeah in addition to the six is giving up that trend
we're on season five episode six that's where we left off bs dougain chanler them not talking about
how how he's like the best sex yeah that was tough that was fun i was surprised that chanler was so
I guess the circumstances are different because they don't each other so long,
but the first four seasons, at least the first three seasons,
Chandler had a lot of,
he had a lot of romantic entanglements,
but also just like a fear of commitment.
But he seems pretty just like, okay, we're getting into it.
I guess because they're the best lovers they've ever had for each other.
Yeah.
Which is great, you know, happy for them.
I think that's wonderful.
Yeah, no, I mean, like I like the growing of that.
And, yeah, their portrayal of the ups and downs and down.
that they have faced like that little spat the the argument with the trip and everything like those
have been nice bits of like yeah there's there's tension there's stakes but it's not as high
stakes as everything was freaking ross yeah i was i was curious to see how they would do it because of my
concern because that's i didn't know the context or the how or the why or the when of chandler
and monica but i think that's one of the very very few things i did know that eventually that that
would be a thing
whether it remains for the rest of the show
I don't know but I know that that happened eventually
but my concern
hearing that was would the characters
still feel like themselves
in coupling or they have to alter
the writing to make that work and luckily
unfortunately for us they
keep them not only the same
but the ways in which they're different
causes conflict within their relationship
which I appreciate
it feels honest and it feels authentic
to these characters and I'm
excited to see where they go going forward.
Hondo P. This has been a very, of all the,
we've seen a lot of serial blocks,
but this batch of six has been,
has felt quite unified despite
the episodic nature of the plot threads
sometimes like everything with
Ross and Emily has been very,
Ross Emily, Rachel has been very,
you know, intertwined with everything.
Chandler and Monica
is kind of intertwined with everything.
So yeah, it feels kind of like a new level
in how they're approaching the serial
versus episodic because like these episodes
felt very serial and there were times
where people would disappear and I'd be like oh shit we haven't
seen this person like all episode
or it feels like it you know
especially like Ross and Rachel disappearing here
and there and it's also really funny that
you know we're on season 5 of the show
now and the Ross and Rachel
saga but they haven't actually been a couple
since like season two
yeah
it's crazy
which is really funny like they get close
and then life gets in the way
yeah but I will say this
this go around or this iteration of the conflict has been the most interesting and engaging
because of the emotional complexities of how they have to navigate that or, you know,
what the different states in which they are with their relationship to one another.
But, yeah, I don't know.
I'm not having read it fully yet.
But yeah, let's see if the people who send us questions want to talk about as well.
So without further ado, let's get into our family.
questions.
Brandy Davis, happy
Friends Day, guys. Happy Friends Day,
Brandy and all the other people
who are watching this on YouTube and to our
patrons. I know
talking the high road was the
classy thing, but I feel like
it would have cared
I wouldn't. I feel like
I wouldn't have cared
who was watching and a valid
crash out would have
followed. Yeah, very, very true.
What would you have done if
You were in Emily's shoes.
That's tough, man.
I mean, I wouldn't have been able to blame her if she had, like, fully crashed out.
I guess my approach, I don't know, man.
Like, part of, you know, it's like, you know in that moment that everybody knows that, like, oh, this is not right.
Yeah.
Like, and this is going to, there's just no way this isn't going to dilute everything.
So I don't know what I would do.
I don't know if I would just be like, okay, let's.
I don't know.
That's tough.
I know how I would feel.
I don't know exactly what I would do.
If I would be numb enough to just be like, I don't know, let's just finish this and talk about it afterwards because fucking everyone's here.
I, yeah, I get why Emily didn't do it in front of everybody because everybody like flew out and paid all this money.
So, you know, at least have that ceremony, complete the ceremony and then deal with your qualms after the fact.
But, yeah, I would for sure feel a type of way.
Crash out is valid.
I'm with you.
She could have crashed out and I wouldn't have blamed her.
Yeah.
You know, that's a lot of money in time.
In front of everybody, your family, her family, and just so embarrassing overall.
But, yeah, I don't know.
It's hard for me to say what I would do.
I don't know if I would crash out.
What about you?
Do you think you'd crash out?
I don't think, but I don't think behind doors probably like her.
I don't know.
It's weird.
It depends, because I can also fathom a version of,
it depends on how the moment reads, I guess,
because, you know, I can imagine a version where an honest mistake is really what's happening here.
And it's, we know that, like, Ross and Rachel have so much love and entanglement that you're like,
ah, this is a true Freudian slip.
Yeah.
You know, I can imagine a scenario in which, like, it's a funny thing and it's not that big a deal.
So, like, it really, it really depends.
but given what we know about Ross and the situation,
I probably would have done what Emily did,
but I can't blame anybody for wanting,
like if she had gone on a rant or, you know,
just walked off from there.
I wouldn't have blamed her.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for sending in the question, Brandy.
And, yeah, very valid crash out.
Totally understandable.
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know by now that they had to write in phoebe's pregnancy uh write phoebe's pregnancy into the show
because Lisa Kudrow was pregnant in real life.
I think being a surrogate is a very Phoebe thing to do.
How would you have written the pregnancy into the show?
Golly.
That's a good question because the surrogate thing is quite specific.
Yeah.
Okay.
Because that's tough, right?
Because if you want to work around that, it's a hard thing to do.
Because if you don't, you have to commit to Phoebe being a mom for the entirety of the series.
and then
well
another route
they could have taken
is like she did actually
get pregnant or
organically
and then
she feels like
she can't handle
being a mom
she either gives her mom
to her mom
or gives her baby up
for adoption
nah dude
we add a kid to the ensemble
they add a kid
the kids
the 2000s are coming
the 2000s are coming
it's prime time
to add a kid
to your ensemble
blues
Brothers 2000.
You know what?
I think it would have been cool to make Phoebe
a mom.
Yeah, we still gotta watch that.
You know, Mom Phoebe would actually be pretty cool.
Yeah, we do have to watch.
We have to watch
We have to watch Blues Brothers 2000.
I mean, I would be very game to check it out.
Two years in the making.
Yeah.
Oh, golly. I guess, yeah,
I would make the reasoning
be something opposite if
it was up to me. I would pick like
a weird circumstance
that is not deep or heavy.
Like, I would make it, sorry.
I just spat all over your face.
I didn't feel it.
Can't understand your accent.
I would make it something where, like, I don't know, to get money, she goes and does a surrog.
Well, because she is, I don't know.
I don't know what I would do.
I would do, hold on, hold on.
Let them cook.
10 seconds.
Okay.
So, Phoebe, she wants to be a mom.
Yeah.
And she doesn't want to commit to any one guy, right?
No.
So she
Uh
Uh
Uh
Uh.
I don't know
It would
It would just be some kind of
Yeah
silly
Silly non-deep
Non-Familial circumstances
Would feet
In your scenario
Would Phoebe keep the baby
Or would the baby
Would the baby be written out of the show?
You know what I would do?
I would have it be a thing
Where we just start noticing
Over time that
She's starting to show
And then like
Finally
I would treat it like a weird elephant in the room where everyone's like
Phoebe's pregnant, right? And then finally having to
confront her about it and then either we find out that she just got knocked up incidentally
or that you know she is
doing it as part of some kind of sweepstakes or
you know some kind of you know clinical trial
and then we add the kid later. I feel like Phoebe not realizing she'd be pregnant
is a very Phoebe thing.
I feel like, yeah, I think that would be kind of funny.
And then especially...
Or way too long.
And then you could have fun, you know, basically having her try to figure out when the last time she was intimate was.
And it being like too long ago to be possible.
And then we just entertain the idea that maybe Phoebe just had an immaculate conception of some kind.
Oh, Phoebe's the mother Mary.
Yes, exactly.
Wow.
Yeah.
And she's, that's why, you know, she is the kind of lone figure in the flock.
Yeah.
And, I mean, she has love interest here and there.
But really, she's here to look after the friends.
You know what I would probably do?
I would probably have her get pregnant organically,
but she doesn't know who the father is.
And then her mom would take care of the baby.
Because her mom never got the chance to raise Phoebe.
So she would help her raise her baby.
And then she would get a redemption.
And then they'd treat her.
And then they treat Phoebe's baby like the show treats Ben, where you kind of forget he's a dad sometimes.
Definitely.
Yeah.
She raised, Phoebe doesn't raise her own kid.
Her mom raised a kid.
We just, we're checking sometimes.
Bring the kid on the set when it's convenient for you.
Yeah.
For certain storylines.
For a plot device.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We got there.
We did it.
We got there eventually.
I was like, I, like, I, the circumstance that is inspired will come to me later when I'm a little more, you know, combobulated.
But yeah.
We'll revisit it sometime down.
We'll revisit it in season 10.
On the 200th block.
Or here's the thing.
She gets pregnant by normal means.
She knows, but we make it a game for the rest of the series.
People are trying to guess whose kid it is.
Tankzeria's kid.
Tank's area's kid.
Yo.
I'm with it.
I like it.
It's Robin Williams' kid.
Oh, snap.
That'd be crazy.
All right.
Nikki Seresa.
Hey, Aaron and John, John and Aaron.
Happy Friends Day, happy Friends Day to you, Nikki.
I can't believe we're already in season five.
I know me either.
In the 100th episode, Phoebe asked Rachel to ask Frank and Alice if she can have one of the triplets.
If you were Rachel, would you have asked more clearly or taken out or taken the out like she did?
I've always been conflicted about this plot point.
Yeah, that's a good question.
I think you could easily go either way.
I think that, like, given what we see with Frank, it's weird.
Like, I don't think it would have been a bad conversation.
I don't know if they would have blown up about it.
Like, it would create a complicated sort of conversation to have.
I don't know.
I thought that was another thing that kind of felt real, where it's like, okay, I know how much this means to you.
And you're at the kind of apex of a lot of different feelings.
and hormones and physical circumstances
and yada yada yada uh
i don't blame her for not asking
because like in a way in an unspoken sense
it felt kind of like the right call
because it seemed like
yeah i thought that thing where he comes out and he's like
oh i'm getting nervous
two of them are out you know and and you know
for a second i was like oh is they going to set up
some kind of like oh this is too much
and uh i'm glad they didn't
and yeah like
stuff
it kind of reminded me of a more meaningful
version of the cat thing
where like Phoebe has to let go of this
cat she thinks has her mom's spirit
inside of it. Yeah, that's right.
It kind of reminded me of that
but in a harder, more lifey
nuanced way where it's like, yeah,
you know, like,
I don't know. I kind of get it.
It's like it didn't seem right, but I think
Rachel could still have asked and the same
outcome could have prevailed, but
I liked it as kind
of a reading the room scenario,
especially because like
I don't know what the odds are.
That's a big ask.
Yeah.
I don't think I would have done it.
I don't think I would have asked.
That's just such a not a great time.
I'm not the person to do that.
I don't know this kid.
I don't know Frank like that.
If anything,
have the conversation afterwards.
Like, yeah, as they're being delivered,
I don't think is the time to talk about this.
Yeah.
Because if she really was like,
please, I could not have this conversation.
I don't know, maybe I would do something.
All of the route, Rachel did it.
I'll test the waters.
Okay, bet.
And that's my answer.
And then tell her.
Yeah, it's a cool point of conflict
because, like, I can see having multiple opinions about this
and it's not like either outcome is, like, hugely different.
But they are slightly different.
And, like, that's actually interesting.
Yeah.
So, yeah, there are a lot of, like, good, what would you do?
moments in this episode
in these batch of episodes
I would say.
But leave us your thoughts
of what you would do.
Leave us your fucking thoughts.
All right.
Tara, the question
to close us out,
ta-da,
do you guys feel
that Emily was justified
in asking Ross
to never see Rachel again
along with getting rid
of all his furniture
that Rachel touched
and ultimately wanting him
to move out of his apartment
that Rachel had been to
or was that too much
to ask of Ross?
Oh, okay.
Not enough, you ask me.
Never too much.
Burn off all the layers of skin that Rachel is touched.
You've heard Rachel's voice?
Got to gouge out those eardrums.
I feel like where the story ultimately ended with that was the nucleus of why she was asking him to do these things.
It was more about her being able to trust Ross than it was his relationship with Rachel.
And at the end of the day, she felt like she couldn't trust Ross.
And if you don't have trust, you don't have anything.
But to answer your question, I think that it was unreasonable because it was just kind of aiding her own insecurities and fears about, you know, being cheated on or being abandoned or being unfaithful and whatnot.
And I felt like anytime you ask a partner to do something or distance yourself from somebody, I felt like create.
an opportunity for resentment to build because they're not doing it of their own volition.
They're doing it to appease their partner.
And I felt like that is a choice that Ross himself needs to make, not one he needs to be pressured into.
So I feel like the context in which it was happening, yes, I feel like it was unfair for her to ask him to do that because that's a choice as her partner who you have to trust foundationally that he has to make it at a respect for his own relationship.
Yeah. It's like I
when she asked him not
to be friends with Rachel anymore
I got it. I was like yeah, I understand
like especially with
what Ross has to prove to you
now given what happened at the wedding
I get that. It's everything else
it's like once it starts to be like you got to sell all your
stuff and you got to move out of your apartment then it's like
okay this is the level of insecurity that is maybe
reasonable but it is
way beyond the solution now.
You know, it's sort of like, you can see it coming.
You're like, okay, he's going to have to turn his whole life upside down and kind of give
all of himself over to her, which in a way is what you're, part of what you're signing up for.
And then like, where does it stop, though?
Yeah, and it's one of those things where it just doesn't feel right or harmonious.
And, you know, it's your whole group of friends.
It's not just Rachel.
It's a lot of stuff.
And, you know, I like that thing with Joey where he's like, I, you know, promise I would
say something as long, wouldn't say anything as long
as Ross is happy, but I've, you know, you're becoming
unhappy with this and you're doing so
much, uh,
compensating that it's starting
to eclipse the actual event itself.
And it, yeah, very much
smacked of like, there's no trust here. Like it's,
we got to create this,
you know, completely
controlled environment and that's not
reasonable.
Yeah. So, uh, so yeah, I
appreciate the way they handled it overall.
But it definitely felt like the second it
got past the
point of yeah we're not only not
being friends with Rachel but we're changing
your whole life I was like I don't think it's going to work
and I wasn't sure to what degree she would come out
and you know be present with that
but yeah when they had that phone call and it's like you just got
to trust me you know
there's no trust
yeah it's tough and that's the case
but yeah and yeah it's weird
because it's like she's so lovely and then
in these episodes
it's not like she becomes a villain but
you can just feel it from the outside.
And then, you know, it's interesting
the perspectives because you feel
the weight of the ask from
Ross's perspective mostly, and you see
the effect mostly it's having
through him. And then you could
get the call from her at the end, and you're reminded
of like the tender stuff,
but you're also like, yeah, this isn't a partnership
right now. This isn't right.
This is a lot of effort
to heal something that's going to take
a long time and that Ross
can't even fully take.
take part in healing
it sucks it's not that he cheated on her
you said the wrong name coupled with
the whole plain thing of like taking her on the honeymoon
and that I'm like well
yeah and that like you know it's such it's right on that edge of like
well I didn't know if you were going to come
it's the last minute I thought it all was lost
but then again it is the person who you named
at the wedding so it's like yeah it's it's
right on that razor's edge of like this is
circumstantially innocuous
but in a deeper sense, dubious.
Like if anyone were to help you heal through the fact that your relationship might not,
or your marriage might not work,
it is not the person in which you said the name of to cause it to not work in the first place.
Yeah, totally.
So, like, that was your first mistake, Ross.
Totally.
You're big dummy.
But anyway, you guys, what would you do?
Would you crash out at the wedding?
Would you stop having your partner be friends with their ex slash best friend?
Let us know down in the comments.
Yeah, you can't be friends with that.
Andrew anymore. I can't be friends with
Andrew. I got to cut it off. I said
his name. I said his name when I asked
my girl to be official and it was just
nothing's been the same sense. But anyway
this has been great.
And we love you guys.
We'll see you in the next block.
