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The One with the Blind Dates

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 10 September 2011]

This is a pretty good episode. Phoebe and Joey create a plan to get Ross and Rachel together. I like their "plan laughters", especially when Joey makes the Santa one.

The dates were just perfectly made. David Schwimmer is so great as Ross who thinks that he is being stood up, very funny! Was also happy to see Sam Pancake as the waiter again. Rachel's date had a chance to be irritating, because of their anti drug sentiment (oh, the stoner guy lost everything "to drugs") but Jon Lovitz is absolutely great at it!

Monica and Chandler's story was alright. I don't really know what is a big deal about having sex with a baby in the house, as far as I know it is common practice and nobody goes to jail for it. But it was funny that Chandler and Joey were testing if they are ovulating with Monica's sticks

Only terrible dates for Rachel and Ross

[Lady_Targaryen · 7/10 · 9 March 2009]

Rachel is living with Joey again, and things go well, spite of the fact that he wakes up every night with Emma's cry. Ross asks Joey to help him to find a girl to date, and Joey doesn't like the idea because he thinks Ross and Rachel should be together. He talks to Phoebe about what Ross told him, and Phoebe tells Joey that Rachel also asked her to help her to meet someone. They have a plan to introduce Ross and Rachel to horrible persons they know, in order to make them see that were meant to be together. ( I love Phoebe's evil laugh!)

Rachel goes out to dinner with the most horrible and annoying guy in the world and Ross got stood up.

Chandler and Monica want to have sex because she is ovulating, but since they are taking care of Emma, they cannot do anything in front of her. They decide to go to their room, and when Joey enters in Monica's apartment, he discovers what they are doing. He decides to take Emma to his apartment, what makes Monica and Chandler stay desperate searching for her everywhere.

Underrated!

[allweinz · 10/10 · 5 December 2022]

You'd have to be the biggest joke snob not to have laughed multiple times during this episode. The character work and comedic chops were spot on in this one. The dialogue was full of wit and subtle humor and actually funny jokes. You can tell the writers didn't worry too much about moving the various arcs forward, and chose to focus on the scene work. My favorite was Phoebe and Joey kickin it in the kitchen while they hatched their plan. Also, the guest stars had great chemistry with the main characters. Lovitz was a great casting choice! Whole episode was thoroughly entertaining and is possibly one of my favorites of the entire series.

It's not Santa's plan

[studioAT · 4/10 · 9 August 2017]

Joey and Phoebe try to show Ross and Rachel that they're meant to be together by setting them both up on terrible blind dates. That's the main plot in this thinner episode from the 9th series of 'Friends'.

In fact if anything I preferred the Chandler/Monica story line, as Matthew Perry had some good lines in it, and I liked Joey's reaction when he saw that they were having sex in another room while they were meant to be looking after Emma. There have been a few Chandler/Monica/Joey moments in the 9th series, and the show has been all the better for it.

Not a classic episode, but it has some nice moments.

This is one of the worst episodes of friends

[jpapanone · 3/10 · 27 June 2021]

This is a great example to use to compare how friends gets it wrong....to contrast with a good episode of how friends gets it right.

Episodes like this that make me happy it ended... Angry they did this to this once great show... And puzzled if whoever was responsible or involved in the making of it thought it was good.

Stay away from this episode.

The only bright spot was a young Sam Pancake popping up as the waiter.

I love Lovitz, and even his role fell flat.

Only funny thing was joey about how lazy chandler is having sex.

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