Season 4 Episode 6 Friends

[Magdalena Liendo]

Theseries narrative follows six friends living and working in New York City: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Ross Geller played by Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer respectively. All episodes were filmed at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank in front of a live studio audience, except the fourth season finale, "The One with Ross's Wedding", that was filmed on location in London in front of a British studio audience.[1]

When the cast won their $1 million/episode salaries (or $22 million per season), the show had just recovered from seasons of declining ratings and was enjoying its highest-rated season in five years. But the stars really wanted to do other things, which meant the show was close to ending. It would end up running just two more seasons, but no one at the time knew exactly. And if NBC felt it could get at least one more year of "Friends," it would take that. The network needed all the time it could get. None of the shows NBC produced in eight years showed the ability to replace "Friends."

To make the timing even more critical, salary negotiations were still open as the show had just four scripts left in the season. The writers had to know if they needed to write a proper series ending.

It was also getting terribly close to network upfronts, which are annual presentations of the season's upcoming schedule to potential advertisers. If NBC didn't have "Friends" on its schedule, it would've been disastrous for advertising sales.

According to accounts of the events, the "Friends" cast didn't just decide to band together for a million dollars in 2002. They had been negotiating their salaries together since the show's third season. But that required two of the stars to take initial pay cuts.

As the central couple of the show, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston made more money than the others. After the hit first season, Schwimmer was being courted with movie offers and his agents felt it was time to renegotiate his "Friends" contract. But he had enough forethought to convince his costars to act as a mini-union and insist on being paid equally.

That may have cost Schwimmer and Aniston initially, but who knew how long they'd stay the most popular actors on the show. By negotiating as a group, they not only gained leverage, but some job security. The show could easily drop one actor, but how could they write around the loss of all of them?

On top of that, the "Friends" cast not only made $1 million an episode, but they also have had years of syndication payments (a bump they won during season-six negotiations). Can you imagine a time when "Friends" episodes weren't in reruns somewhere on TV since the 90s? Last year, USA Today reported that each of the stars receives $20 million a year in syndication payments.

Festive moments: Monica and Rachel throw a holiday party but the heat breaks, Phoebe tries to work up the nerve to visit her father before Christmas and Chandler and Joey gift their friends some "found" objects, like toilet seat covers and condoms.

Festive moments: Rachel hates being single at this time of year, so she gets Chandler to set her up. Phoebe struggles to write a holiday song for the rest of the group, but she finally sings the hilarious final product at the end of the episode.

Festive moments: Ross and Monica perform a dance routine at a taping for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Rachel, Phoebe, and Chandler search for their Christmas presents that Monica hid around the apartment.

Festive moments: Ross decides to teach his son Ben (Cole Sprouse) about Hanukkah, and gets an armadillo costume to do it. (Major props for the Hanukkah representation! And, fun fact: In almost every other season you can actually see a menorah in Ross or Monica's home.)

The classic NBC sitcom was known for its beautiful cast, its coffee shop setting and its Thanksgiving episodes. Holidays make great TV, and nobody did the day of turkey, football and family fighting better than "Friends," which featured a Thanksgiving episode in nine out of 10 seasons (Season 2 was the exception).

It's almost always a treat when Monica (Courteney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Ross (David Schwimmer), Joey (Matt Le Blanc) and Chandler (Matthew Perry, who died at 54 last month) gathered around the table for stuffing, pie and laughs. The Thanksgiving installments have everything, from big guest stars to big turkeys to football to beef in an English trifle. They include some of the best episodes of "Friends," even if a few are best left forgotten. And watching them might be the only thing your family can agree on this Thanksgiving.

Awkward, unfunny and surprisingly morbid, the Season 9 episode, featuring guest star Christina Applegate as Rachel's sister Amy, was a big miss. The meat of the episode is focused on a discussion of who will care for Ross and Rachel's daughter Emma if they die (cheery!) While a big guest star can make an exciting holiday episode (see below), Applegate's presence wasn't enough to elevate the poor and often cringeworthy material.

This Season 7 outing is a bit nondescript, more like an average episode than a special holiday treat. Chandler fakes a dog allergy while Phoebe sneaks a pup around the apartment. Ross tries to remember all 50 states and just can't. Rachel has low-stakes drama with her puppy-like boyfriend Tag (Eddie Cahill). It was all fine, but not nearly as good as most of the other Turkey Day episodes.

A better title for this episode might have been "The One With Brad Pitt." The movie star (who was married to Aniston at the time) shows up as a former high school classmate of Monica, Ross and Rachel's. Big and bullied as a teen, he is now, well, Brad Pitt-level hot, and holding on to a grudge against Miss Popular, Rachel Green. Many of the specifics of this episode have not aged well (including that the rumor that was seemingly so horrible was the suggestion that Rachel was intersex), but it remains the most brilliant and exquisitely executed bit of stunt casting for a sitcom, possibly of all time. He's not known for comedy, yet Pitt commits to his Rachel-hating character with every ounce of his Academy Award-winning acting prowess.

The Thanksgiving that started it all was kind of a disaster for our friends, who are locked out of Monica and Rachel's apartment on the holiday. Rachel misses a flight to go skiing with her family, and the dinner Monica has labored over (and customized with three versions of mashed potatoes) burns to a crisp. Fights and recriminations lead to laughs and forgiveness, perhaps like your own Thanksgiving. They end up eating grilled cheese sandwiches with Chandler, who has hated Thanksgiving food ever since his parents announced their divorce on the holiday. It was such a success for the show, that the writers cooked up eight more Thanksgiving feasts.

The relationship between siblings Monica and Ross is as complex, fraught and inevitably loving as any of the romantic pairings over the series' 10-season run. This football-centric Season 3 episode is one of the best examples of the comedy they could wring from the ūber-competitive brother and sister. The friends decide to play some casual touch football on the holiday, but when Monica and Ross are team captains no game can be casual. Their rivalry borders on the absurd, but writers keep the stakes (and the troll doll trophy) from being too ridiculous.

Sometimes "Friends" drew its strength from witty comedy, and sometimes from its exceptional cast and their chemistry. And then other times it just went for the weird and absurd. This Season 4 outing falls in the third category, sticking Chandler in an actual box for most of the episode as penance for kissing Joey's girlfriend Kathy (Paget Brewster). It's also the episode where Monica tries to date the son of her ex, Richard (Tom Selleck), and is wearing an eye patch. It's silly, hilarious and heartfelt, and it represents some of the most creative years of "Friends."

Monica and Ross's parents Judy (Christina Pickles) and Jack (Elliot Gould) make a welcome appearance at the Thanksgiving table in Season 6 for an episode full of Gellar high jinks (literally and figuratively). Monica and Ross get into a childish fight, revealing their secrets, after Monica discovers her parents don't like Chandler (now her live-in boyfriend) because Ross once blamed him for the stench of marijuana in their dorm room. This is also the very memorable Thanksgiving where Rachel makes an English trifle with ingredients for a shepherd's pie because the pages of the cookbook were stuck together. But don't worry, Joey eats it anyway.

This episode is not only the best Thanksgiving "Friends," it's one of the best episodes of the series, period. Overstuffed from Monica's Thanksgiving dinner, the gang swaps stories about bad Thanksgivings past, and we learn where Chandler got his hatred of the holiday, that Monica accidentally cut off Chandler's toe and that Joey thought it would be a good idea to put a turkey on his head. The turkey-on-head-image (which also includes Monica later in the episode) is iconic all by itself, but the episode is so smartly written and hilariously acted by the cast, that it's nearly flawless. If only it didn't smell so bad inside a dead turkey.

The rest of the season began airing starting on May 12, 2024, with episodes being added to Max the day after their Adult Swim premieres. The season is scheduled to conclude on June 23, 2024 with "Pim Finally Turns Green".

"Delve into the world of Smiling Friends, where Pim, Charlie, Zongo, Allan and Glep fight off evildoers and nasty baddies and maybe some characters smile on the way as well! After all, it IS their job!!! This SHALL be an epic season and you SHALL enjoy it!" [4]

"Friends and Enemies"Production informationSeriesStar Wars: The Clone Wars[1]SeasonFour[1]Episode16[1]Production No.4.08Air dateJanuary 27, 2012[1]Run time25 minutesDirector(s)Bosco NgWriter(s)Brent FriedmanEpisode chronologyTimeline20 BBY[2]Previous episode"Deception"[1]Next episode"The Box"[3][Source]

3a8082e126