Friends (TV Series) The One with Phoebe's Cookies (2000) User Reviews

The One with Phoebe's Cookies

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 19 August 2011]

This is a pretty good episode. We get to see Chandler "bonding" with Mr. Geller. Probably a bit more than he wished to. This is actually done in a pretty funny way

Really good is also the part where Phoebe and Monica are trying to some up with the recipe that Phoebe inherited from her grandmother. It ends very funny. And I also like how Phoebe believes that her grandmother is in hell. This is a pretty original way of thinking

Rachel teaching Joey how to sail and being mean like her dad is a good idea as well. I almost feel bad for Joey when she yells at him because he is so bad at sailing

Chandler is wearing glasses!

[Lady_Targaryen · 8/10 · 13 March 2009]

Chandler starts to use glasses, but no one notices,even Monica. This makes him feel bad, because he feels that nobody really pays attention to him.

Monica asks Phoebe as a wedding gift her (Phoebe) grandmother's cookies recipe, because her cookies were the best ones she already tasted. Phoebe tells Monica that the fire in her apartment burned the cookie recipe and the only thing left was an old cookie in her refrigerator. Monica thinks that she can find the recipe's ingredients if she tastes the cookie, since she works with that.

Joey accepts Rachel's invitation to learn how to sail. Rachel sailed all her life with her father, and that's why she gets very impatient with Joey. Joey is a terrible student who doesn't pay attention or memorize anything, and that makes Rachel behave like her father, bossing him around and staying stressed.

Funny and sad

[mrs_hood · 22 September 2023]

This episode makes me laugh, especially the Monica and Pheobe storyline. As someone who likes baking, I enjoyed it. But the Rachel and Joey storyline always makes me sad. I just can't concentrate on what's going on with them. I just keep seeing the background. Throughout the whole show you see the towers in opening scenes in both the daylight and nighttime. But in this episode you see them so clearly. I can't imagine being from New York and having the skyline change so much. This episode aired about 11 before 9/11 happened. I heard years ago that the show was thinking of digitally taking them out anywhere they were in each episode. I'm glad they chose not to.

The One Where Joey Learns How To Sail His Boat...

[taylorkingston · 10/10 · 28 January 2015]

I love this episode. It's defiantly in my Top 10 episodes of the entire series. It has to be, it's just so funny.

In this episode Rachel is teaching Joey how to sail his boat, the one he accidentally bought at an auction, a few episodes back. Meanwhile, in my opinion, the better part of the episode, Monica wants Phoebe's Grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe. Phoebe eventually goes to get it and sadly, it's been burned up in the apartment fire. So she gets the one frozen cookie that was leftover, out of her freezer and Monica tries to work out the recipe from tasting it. They make so many batches, one of which makes Ross throw up, which I enjoyed. I don't like Ross. And when Joey get's back, he says, "You could've at least saved me a whole cookie", and eats the last bite. Eventually, Monica finds out that Phoebe's Grandmother's recipe wasn't her Grandmother's recipe at all. It was Nesley Tollhouse's. And that's why, and I'm quoting Phoebe here, "Why you're burning in hell!" It's just hilarious.

Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10.

The One with Phoebe's Cookies

[studioAT · 6/10 · 2 July 2021]

I've never really felt that S7 of 'Friends' was the show at its best, it seemed to have a bit of a lull before the 8th showed a bit of renewed vigour.

This is the best episode of the series so far though, with all the stories working.

Poor Matthew Perry still looks terrible though, and it's sad that such a talented man has struggled to find happiness.

Overall, a marked improvement on the last episode.

Steam Room and Cookies

[vivianla · 23 December 2020]

Monica wants Phoebe's grandmother's cookie recipe as an engagement present but it was burned in the fire.

She tries making batch after batch of cookies to figure out the ingredients.

Chandler, Ross and Mr. Geller play racquetball together and then after there is an incident in the steam room. Chandler takes off his towel and hangs it on the rack. He goes into the steam room and cannot see and sits on Mr. Geller's lap.

Monica says he gave her dad a lap dance.

Again, Geller and Chandler wear robes and take off their robes to hang. Chandler turns around, naked and sees everyone in swimsuits. Geller has swim shorts on too.