Friends (TV Series) The One with Ross' Grant (2003) User Reviews

The One with Ross' Grant

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 14 September 2011]

I really like the part of the episode in which Joey asks Chandler to look at his video and he doesn't and lies to Joey about it. Pretty bad from Chandler but luckily Joey figures it out. And the reason he knew it is this great commercial of lipstick for man that Joey filmed for Japan! It was also awesome when Chandler was made to put it on

Pretty good is also the story of Ross who tries to get his grant from Charlie's ex. Very funny especially at the end when they end up going back together. David Schwimmer looks very funny in it

And the picture of Phoebe that Monica and Rachel are fighting about...yeah, I would be scared to have it in my house too, so I don't blame Joey!

Phoebe is engaged!

[Lady_Targaryen · 8/10 · 30 April 2009]

Phoebe is finally engaged to Mike. She gives Rachel her little black book, since Rachel is Phoebe's only female friend who didn't marry yet. (The little book has all the contacts of guys Phoebe already dated.) Chandler tells Joey that the agency he works is going to make a national commercial/ad and that a lot of the ideas for the commercial came from Chandler. Joey asks Chandler a chance to act in the commercial, but Chandler is against the idea, since Joey doesn't have the profile of the person they are looking for. Joey insists and gives Chandler his reel, where all his commercials are saved. Chandler lies to Joey that he saw the tape, but Joey notices he didn't see the tape,staying upset with him.

Ross is happy that he is the finalist for a huge research grant, that will give him the opportunity to complete his field research and it will have an article about him in Paleontoly Review. The problem is that Benjamin Hobart, Charlie ex boyfriend, is administering this grant and he wants Ross to break up with Charlie to get the grant.

Phoebe is trying to save some space in her apartment, and Mike wants her to get rid of Gladys, a horrible portrait she did. Phoebe decides to give the portrait to Monica, who tries to get rid of it in all ways she can.

hilarious buffay paintings

[Judyokki · 9/10 · 8 October 2018]

Laughing out loud about the scary paintings! hahaha

Laughed a lot

[eirikiverson · 10/10 · 24 January 2022]

Binging through all 10 seasons, this one made me laugh the hardest and the most. Not just one very funny scene but several. And a well written episode as usual.

Love this epsiode

[afiqueaziz · 10/10 · 29 November 2021]

I love almost all of friends episodes. But this one is definitely among the top 10. It was so funny and everybody was absolutely on fire during this episode.

Joey's acting range is proved again

[studioAT · 5/10 · 18 August 2017]

I thought the Monica/Rachel/Phoebe story was a bit rubbish, but apart from that this is a fun episode of the show.

The story with Ross's grant was nice, with a fun guest appearance from Greg Kinnear. Sadly though it also spells the end of Aisha Tyler's time on the show, as the writers were clearly trying to get Ross and Rachel to both be single what with the end of the series in sight.

It was lovely also to see a return to the old days in the sense that there was a Joey/Chandler story. The lipstick for men commercial was very funny.

Apart from the rather weak story this was a good episode.

I had no idea what season this was from

[jpapanone · 5/10 · 29 May 2021]

When I was watching it. For some reason, I'm not good at being able to immediately tell when it's from.

However...I know Rachel's baby and Paul Rudd being around means it's at the end.

I didn't realize Aisha Taylor was so near the end.

I think I had stopped watching the episodes new after about 1998 or so, so I didn't have the same relationship with them.

This was way before DVR, so if I missed the episode or didn't tape it with my VCR, I had to hope to catch it that same season in a rerun...or wait for the season on vhs which would have been what...3/4 years later? How time's have changed.

Anyway. Damn...I didn't realize how bad the show got. Writing, awful. Acting, awful.

Just showing up and going through the motions at this point...from writing to directing to acting.

What's the point of quality if we're making money...we have enough viewers...and the end is near. Forget it.

The scene where Monica goes to Phoebe's really struck me. I was like...how old are they and acting like this? Almost 40?

The schticks were funnny as late 20's early to mid 30's...but yeah. Wears thin.

And I remember them ruining ross, and then pulling it back. But they basically made him... Great to begin...then whiny and nerdy...then annoying...then impotent.

A 7 would be worth rewatching...so no.

A 6 I could watch again if nothing else was on. I have no desire to ever watch this episode again. A handful of good parts, but not worth 20 minutes of anyone's time.

A 5 it is.

Nobel prize for paleontology and other stupidities

[puzgolac · 1/10 · 14 August 2023]

Another unfunny episode, full of stupid, ridiculous ideas, thrown haphazardly on a pile in a hope that it would, somehow, make for a coherent, and what is more - funny, episode. So, in no particular order:

There is, now, a Nobel prize for paleontology (an idea from a previous episode, that was reused, instead of being buried in shame and hope that people will forget about it).

Ross was inspired to become a paleontologist by a person who is clearly the same age as him (give or take a year or two). Maybe that is possible because those paleontologist geniuses who get Nobel prizes for paleontology get their PhD at the age of five.

It is now official - the only people who didn't have sex with Phoebe are those who never bothered to have a go at her. Ha ha, hilarious.

Charlie is not just a badly written character, but a terrible person.

Not too many episodes until the end. I wonder will there be a funny one among them.