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

Hilarious; another brilliant episode

[rubymonstone · 10/10 · 1 September 2007]

This episode is one of my personal favourites. Basically, it starts off with Ross admiring Monicas tan while sitting in Central Perk. He is astounded to find out it is a spray-on tan from a tanning booth. Ross decides he wants one. He goes to the tanning booth and goes in the cubicle thing and attempts to follow the instructions that were given to him. 1. Step inside. 2. When the light comes on close your eyes. 3. when the spray stops, count to 5, then turn around to tan your back. Only Ross cant seem to get it right. When he counts to 5, the spraying has already started before he can finish. So when he comes back, the front of him is brown and his back is white. Meanwhile Monica and Phoebes old friend comes back from England and decides to visit them. They do their best to avoid her, until she phones and Chandler picks up. Not realising that Monica and Phoebe don't want to see her, he arranges for her to visit. When she arrives, she speaks in an annoyingly false English accent, and causes a row between Phoebe and Monica.

Favourite part of the episode: Monica and Phoebe walk on on Amanda showing Chandler her "dance". She is doing a very bad can-can thing and says," Can you believe it! I've never even had professional dance lessons!" Chandler is looking appalled. Hilarious.

The One with Ross's Tan

[ComedyFan2010 · 9/10 · 12 September 2011]

Great episode! Ross and his tan is an awesome story! He is so funny through all of it. I like both how he messes up with the turning and also how he looks with all this tan on his face (and without any on the back). The end where Chandler takes a picture is also very funny it

I also liked the story about Amanda. She is so annoying and arrogant that it is hilarious! It is one of those characters that would be horrible on a long run but brilliant for one episode. Her dancing to Chandler was an awesome scene, and what is also pretty hilarious is when he comes into Joey and Rachel's place and says that Amanda is a bitch but she sure can dance

Joey and Rachel's attempts to sleep with each other were very funny as well. Especially when Rachel slaps him or he tries to open her bra. The good thing is that we know that they won't be together and it was done in a pretty good way

nostalgic for me

[hudsonjhawks · 10/10 · 24 December 2022]

My favorite episode, good all around, i've watched this episode the most, i used to watch this with my parents when i was little and so it brings back lots of memories and it. One of my favorite characters is Ross and i'm glad he got an episode like this and i'm glad that Rachael and Joey are trying to make it happen. It's just a very nostalgic episode for me, and i love it. It reminds me of when my mom used to get spray tans and we would die laughing at this show, this was one of the first episodes i ever watched of friends and i'm glad i watched it for at, because i love it and it's one of my favorite episodes.

The One Where Rachel Keeps Slapping Joey...

[taylorkingston · 10/10 · 4 April 2015]

I really do love this episode. I don't like how much of it centers around Ross, but I love that it does make him look like a total idiot.

In this episode, Joey and Rachel decide they're ready to have sex, but once they start kissing, Rachel keeps slapping him. Which is really weird. She doesn't know why and that can be really awkward unless he was into that sort of thing. But I don't think that even Joey would be that kind of guy. Meanwhile, Ross decides to get a spray-on tan, but when in the machine, instead of counting, 1, 2, 3 and turning around, he counts 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, and gets strayed twice on his front half of his body. He's so stupid. Then when he goes to get the same terrible tan on the other side of his body, he faces the wrong way, so he gets another two coats on his front side. It's hilarious.

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

A strong episode all round

[studioAT · 7/10 · 17 August 2017]

Whether it was due to fan backlash or just the writers wanting to move the show towards an inevitable Ross/Rachel reconciliation, the Joey/Rachel love story is brought to a sweet conclusion in this episode.

Although I was wary of the show revisiting the plot in series 9/10 it has been well performed by Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc, and reaches a sweet conclusion as they realise that they're better friends than lovers.

Elsewhere David Schwimmer is on top form again as his character tries to get a tan, and there's fun to be had in the 3rd story involving Phoebe/Monica and guest star Jennifer Coolidge, who a year later would pop up in a different role in the spin-off 'Joey'.

A strong episode, with 3 good story lines going on.

Joey and Rachel will finally have their night together!

[Lady_Targaryen · 7/10 · 26 April 2009]

It is going to be Joey's and Rachel's first night. Joey is confident and Chandler asks Joey how he can be always so confident. Joey tells Chandler that he knows exactly what to do, and shows some of his techniques to conquer his women. Unfortunately for Joey, he and Rachel had a terrible date, since Rachel doesn't feel comfortable with Joey and sees him too much as a friend.

Monica has a cool tan and Ross is curious to know how she got that nice tan. Chandler tells Ross that Monica went to one of those spray-on-tan places, and Ross decides to do the same. Monica gives Ross the card of the place she went, but Ross, with his Mississippi counting, ruins his tan, having some parts of his body full of spray and others with nothing.

Phoebe and Monica don't want to see Amanda, an ex colleague that lived in the building that has a very fake British accent/annoying attitudes. Phoebe tells Monica about cutting Amanda out of their lives, but Monica thinks this is very harsh. Later, Monica is going to discover that Phoebe already though about cutting her of her life too, and that will make Monica stays upset with Phoebe.

Wow. Back to back 3's.

[jpapanone · 3/10 · 27 June 2021]

Ross's tan is so memorable.

So memorable that I forget that everything other than that is absolutely atrocious.

Joey Rachel feels icky. Just didn't work.

Whether they wrote it so that it wouldn't sit eight on purpose...or even if they did write it to work, I still don't think I would have liked it.

Have no problem with that story line....it is how they handled it and wrote it and filmed it.

Later seasons of friends and other shows...do they not second guess anything at that point? Do they/did they ever second guess?

Did they do the same thing on the back half as the series as they dis on the front half and it just didn't work? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!

So. Ross fine. Joey Rachel eh.

Jennifer Coolidge is garbage.

I had to go and see when American Pie came out. 1999. If memory serves, she played stifflers mom.

And after that, she popped up all over the place.

Would she have without american pie?

Why was she cast in so many thing?

Whose idea was her character? Her...or the writers/directors etc? Both?

Whoever is responsible...well...I was gonna say should have been fired.

However...her and her acting choices did fit right in line with later friends episode.

Hi. We're the writers and directors of friends. We used to do solid comedy that was enjoyable. But we abandoned that and have decided to embark on a journey that includes annoying characters, poorly written dialogue, entire episodes of laughless scenes. Jennifer...we think you would work perfectly.

We were gonna get u on years ago, but we were doing good tv back then...and honestly, you're "talents" are much more suited for our non comedy episodes. I think now you'd be a perfect addition to our show in it's current format.