In just its second Thanksgiving episode, Friends takes the action outside for a change (always a tricky prospect for a three-camera, live-in-front-of-a-studio-audience sitcom) so that the friends can do what so many families and friend groups do in reality: play a game of tag football. Most of these Thanksgiving installments of Friends are what TV people call “bottle episodes” - everything takes place in a short period of time, and in one location, like, say, a huge apartment with a mirror on the peephole. “The One Where Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs” (Season 7, 2000) Of course, none of that matters when Chandler and Monica receive word - on Thanksgiving - that they’ve been selected to be adoptive parents.ħ. B-plots involve Rachel and Phoebe entering Emma in a baby beauty pageant and Ross and Joey hitting a hockey game … which makes them all late for dinner, which in turn makes Monica and Chandler angry enough to lock everybody out of the apartment (although Joey gets his head stuck in the door, because he’s Joey). Thanksgiving-food-hating Chandler (he’s resented the holiday since childhood, when he learned of his parents’ divorce on that day) makes a big breakthrough by preparing cranberry sauce. See, Monica and Chandler don’t even want to host Thanksgiving in their apartment, the main set of the show, but Phoebe convinces them that they have to. That makes it just as depressing as “The One With Rachel’s Other Sister,” but it still ranks higher because of some genuine laughs and a major, poignant plot development. It lays the groundwork for the splintering of the group into different directions and locations by series end. “The One With the Late Thanksgiving” (Season 10, 2003)Īfter that morbid misstep in season nine, Friends writers turned it around a little for what they knew would be their last Thanksgiving episode, and, sadly, the last Thanksgiving all the friends would spend together. I mean, does anybody really want to see the Friends friends fight and contemplate death?Ĩ. Despite being just a recurring character and a terrible person, Amy isn’t happy with that decision, but then Chandler also gets mad because he learns that if Monica died after Ross and Rachel, then Jack and Judy Geller get Emma instead of him alone. Of course, they’ve already picked the most logical and obvious godparents: Chandler and Monica. In this, the second-to-last time Friends would celebrate November’s most gluttonous holiday, Rachel’s obnoxious sister Amy (Christina Applegate) invites herself to Thanksgiving, and the conversation turns to who would get custody of baby Emma if Rachel and Ross died. By 2002, Friends had explored most every possible Thanksgiving angle, except for the one that defines so many real-life Thanksgivings: familial fighting. “The One With Rachel’s Other Sister” (Season 9, 2002)Īny show is going to run out of steam and/or ideas by its ninth season. This week, you’re going to need something to watch with your family on Thanksgiving that isn’t football, a parade, or a dog show, so here are the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends, ranked from least-best to most-best.Īll episodes of Friends are currently streaming on HBO Max. Maybe they’re the only show to try it because no other show wants to earn itself an unfavorable comparison to the Central Perk Six - after all, almost every single one of the nine Thanksgiving episodes produced over the show’s ten-season run, 1994–2004 (what’s your problem, 1995?!), is an excellent Thanksgiving episode. With its more than two dozen “Treehouse of Horror” anthologies, The Simpsons is the undisputed champion of Halloween episodes (with Roseanne close behind), and Bob’s Burgers has a nice collection of Valentine’s Day installments.īut as far as Thanksgiving episodes go, Friends has the most and the best. While special holiday episodes are a sitcom institution, only a handful of shows can lay claim to specific celebrations. For a list of our favorite Chandler Bing episodes of Friends, head here.
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