Friends (TV Series)

The One with Phoebe's Husband (1995)

Steve Zahn: Duncan

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• Rachel : [on phone]  Mom, would you relax. That was 10 blocks from here and, the, the woman was walking alone at night. I would never do that. Mom, c'mon, stop worrying. This is a safe street, this is a safe building, there's nothing

  [a pigeon flies in the window] 

  Rachel : OH MY GAAWD, oh my God, mom I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go.

  [hangs up] 

  Rachel : Ah!

  [in a soothing voice] 

  Rachel : OK, that's fine, you just read the paper, I'm gonna get a pot - it's not for you.

  [grabs a pot and lid] 

  Rachel : OK, that's fine, read the Family Circus, enjoy the gentle comedy.

  [puts pot over the pigeon] 

  Rachel : Aaahh, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, aaaaahh,

  [turns over pot] 

  Rachel : oh-uh

  [knock at the door] 

  Rachel : It's open you guys.

  Duncan : [enters with flowers]  Hi.

  Rachel : Hey, hey can I help you?

  Duncan : Yeah, I'm looking for Phoebe, does she still live here?

  Rachel : Uh, no she doesn't but I can, I can get a message to her.

  Duncan : Great. Uhh, just tell her her husband stopped by.

  Rachel : Her what?

  [in surprise she forgets she has the pigeon in the pot and lets it fly out] 

  Duncan : Hey, how, how did you do that?

• Phoebe : I don't understand. How can you be straight? I mean, you're so smart and funny, and you throw such great Academy Award parties.

  Duncan : I know. That's what I kept telling myself. But you just reach a point where you can't live a lie anymore.

  Phoebe : So how long have you known?

  Duncan : I guess on some level I always knew I was straight. I thought I was supposed to be something else. You know, I'm an ice dancer, all my friends are gay. I was just trying to fit in.

  Phoebe : And, um... And there's actually a woman?

  Duncan : Her name's Debra.

  Phoebe : Oh. Well, is she the first that you've been with?

  Duncan : Well, I've never told you this but there were one or two times back in college when I'd get really drunk and go to a straight bar and wake up with a woman next to me. But I told myself it was the liquor, and everyone experiments in college... But now I know I don't have a choice about this. I was born this way.