"Friends" The One with the Ball (1999)

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Director:

Gary Halvorson

Writers:

David Crane (creator) &
Marta Kauffman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Friends" (1994)

Original Air Date:

6 May 1999 (Season 5, Episode 21)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Gary wants to ask Phoebe to move in with him. Phoebe is freaked because it's so soon and asks Chandler...

Plot Keywords:

Ball | Cat | Game | Break Up | Bird

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 13

11:30 PM

CW

The One With the Ball

#5.21

Cast

Jennifer Aniston	...	Rachel Green
Courteney Cox	...	Monica Geller
Lisa Kudrow	...	Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc	...	Joey Tribbiani (as Matt Le Blanc)
Matthew Perry	...	Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer	...	Dr. Ross Geller
Michael Rapaport	...	Gary
James Michael Tyler	...	Gunther
Victoria Kelleher	...	Woman #2 (as Victoria L. Kelleher)
Antoinette Spolar	...	Woman #1

Runtime:

22 min (approx.) | USA:22 min | Argentina:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Netherlands:AL | Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Dijon Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions

Trivia:

(episode #5.21), Chandler visits Phoebe's boyfriend Gary (Michael Rapaport) at his precinct. When they sit at Gary's desk, a blackboard with names written in blue chalk is prominent behind his head. All of the names on the blackboard are references to or characters from the films of Stanley Kubrick (Alex, Dim, Hal, Kissoff, even Redrum).

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: As they are leaving Chandler and Joey's apartment to go eat pizza at Monica's, Joey has the ball in his hand. In the next shot Chandler has it and then throws it to Joey.

Quotes:

Monica Geller: I made this game what it is.
Chandler Bing: Not fun anymore?

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Friends: The One with All the Other Ones: Part 1 (#10.17)" (2004)