The Reel Rejects - FRIENDS SEASON 5 EPISODES 1–6 REVIEW – SECRET RELATIONSHIPS & TOTAL CHAOS – FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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Starting point is 00:01:25 let's get into the show and find out what the heck happens in the fallout of the last season. Let's get into it. Oh gosh. Okay, you guys. Well, we have some housekeeping to do real quick. We want to thank people for Pepper for cutting down these highlights so you can see them over here on YouTube. Also, if you are on YouTube as well, hi, first off, and second off, leave a like, leave a comment, subscribe, and keep asking for that over there.
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Starting point is 00:02:45 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.
Starting point is 00:03:10 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.
Starting point is 00:03:28 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
Starting point is 00:03:46 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
Starting point is 00:04:02 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?
Starting point is 00:04:18 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.
Starting point is 00:04:42 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,
Starting point is 00:04:59 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,
Starting point is 00:05:22 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
Starting point is 00:05:48 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...
Starting point is 00:06:17 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.
Starting point is 00:06:38 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.
Starting point is 00:07:01 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.
Starting point is 00:07:37 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.
Starting point is 00:07:58 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.
Starting point is 00:08:17 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.
Starting point is 00:08:30 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.
Starting point is 00:08:45 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
Starting point is 00:09:08 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.
Starting point is 00:09:42 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
Starting point is 00:10:03 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
Starting point is 00:10:33 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
Starting point is 00:10:49 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
Starting point is 00:11:07 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
Starting point is 00:11:22 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
Starting point is 00:11:39 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
Starting point is 00:11:53 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.
Starting point is 00:12:25 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
Starting point is 00:12:41 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.
Starting point is 00:12:57 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.
Starting point is 00:13:23 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.
Starting point is 00:13:52 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.
Starting point is 00:14:13 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,
Starting point is 00:14:28 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,
Starting point is 00:15:00 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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Starting point is 00:17:14 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.
Starting point is 00:17:37 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
Starting point is 00:17:57 get pregnant or organically and then she feels like she can't handle being a mom she either gives her mom to her mom
Starting point is 00:18:06 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
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Starting point is 00:18:37 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.
Starting point is 00:18:52 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.
Starting point is 00:19:09 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
Starting point is 00:19:20 Uh Uh. I don't know It would It would just be some kind of Yeah silly Silly non-deep
Starting point is 00:19:30 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
Starting point is 00:19:39 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
Starting point is 00:20:01 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.
Starting point is 00:20:24 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.
Starting point is 00:20:51 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.
Starting point is 00:21:10 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.
Starting point is 00:21:25 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.
Starting point is 00:21:33 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.
Starting point is 00:21:53 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.
Starting point is 00:22:06 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.
Starting point is 00:22:23 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.
Starting point is 00:22:55 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
Starting point is 00:23:20 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
Starting point is 00:23:36 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.
Starting point is 00:23:51 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
Starting point is 00:24:07 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.
Starting point is 00:24:22 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.
Starting point is 00:24:37 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.
Starting point is 00:24:53 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?
Starting point is 00:25:11 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
Starting point is 00:25:24 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
Starting point is 00:25:34 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.
Starting point is 00:25:47 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.
Starting point is 00:26:14 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
Starting point is 00:27:16 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
Starting point is 00:27:36 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.
Starting point is 00:28:00 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,
Starting point is 00:28:17 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.
Starting point is 00:28:32 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
Starting point is 00:28:51 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
Starting point is 00:29:06 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
Starting point is 00:29:23 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.
Starting point is 00:29:38 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
Starting point is 00:29:58 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.
Starting point is 00:30:22 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.
Starting point is 00:30:37 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.
Starting point is 00:30:52 We'll see you in the next block.

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