"Friends" The One with the Soap Opera Party (2003)

Director:

Sheldon Epps

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Friends" (1994)

Original Air Date:

24 April 2003 (Season 9, Episode 20)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Joey secretly plans a party for Soap Opera Stars because Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel always embarrass him every time they meet a star...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Roommate | Paleontologist | Musician | New York City

Cast

  (Episode Credited cast)

Jennifer Aniston	...	Rachel Green
Courteney Cox	...	Monica Geller-Bing (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
Lisa Kudrow	...	Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc	...	Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry	...	Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer	...	Dr. Ross Geller
Aisha Tyler	...	Charlie Wheeler
James Michael Tyler	...	Gunther
Ken Lerner	...	Professor Spafford
Alex Borstein	...	Bitter Woman on Stage
Ethan Erickson	...	Dirk
Matthew Ashford	...	Himself
Kyle Lowder	...	Himself

Runtime:

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

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

Quotes:

Rachel Green: You are having a party tonight?
Joey Tribbiani: I am kind of having a thing for the Days of Our Lives people.
Rachel Green: And you weren't gonna tell us? How did you thing you were gonna get away with that?
Joey Tribbiani: I do it every year.
Rachel Green: You do it every year?
Joey Tribbiani: I didn't have to tell you that!
Rachel Green: That's why you got us tickets to that play! To get rid of us!
Joey Tribbiani: Yeah...
Rachel Green: And last year, is that why you sent us to that Medieval times restaurant?
Joey Tribbiani: Yeah...
[...]

Movie Connections:

References "Access Hollywood" (1996)

Soundtrack:

Tell Me Girlfriend

The one Rachel finds out about Joey's parties

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Joey offers to all friends tickets to a play. He tells them that he cannot go because he needs to wake up really early in the next day to go to work, but they can invite anyone they want.

Rachel still wants to kiss Joey and she tells Monica about it. Monica says that she should not continue with this idea, since Joey is Rachel's friend and they can lose their friendship.

Ross is annoyed. He needs to show the university campus for 2 new professors. When he sees that professor Wheeler is in fact a beautiful and young woman, he gets excited and tries everything to stay alone with her.

Rachel discovers by the answering machine that Joey is going to have a party for people from ''DAYS OF OUR LIVES', and she discuss with him about it. Joey tells that he does this parties every year, but he hates to see the Friends behaving like idiots close to famous people, so that's why he doesn't invite them. In the end, Rachel tells all the Friends about the party and they all (with Chandler's exception)go there, even Charlie Wheeler.

In the party, Ross discovers that Charlie only dated genius and Nobel winners, what makes him think that he is too ordinary for her.