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    • new scene
    • Scene 1

      Monica and Rachel's, everyone except Chandler is playing poker.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (entering) Hey.
    • Everyone
      Hey!
    • monica
    • Monica
      So how was Joan?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I broke up with her.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Don't tell me, because of the big nostril thing?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      They were huge. When she sneezed, bats flew out of them.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Come on, they were not that huge.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I'm tellin' you, she leaned back; I could see her brain.
    • monica
    • Monica
      How many perfectly fine women are you gonna reject over the most superficial insignificant things?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hold it, hold it. I gotta side with Chandler on this one. When I first moved to the city, I went out a couple of times with this girl, really hot, great kisser, but she had the biggest Adam's apple. It made me nuts.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (To Ross) You or me?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I got it. Uh, Joey, women don't have Adam's apples.
    • joey
    • Joey
      You guys are messing with me, right?
    • Everyone
      Yeah.
    • joey
    • Joey
      That was a good one. For a second there, I was like, "whoa."
    • OPENING CREDITS
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    • Scene 2

      Monica and Rachel's, Phoebe is getting Ross and Chandler a beer.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      You name one woman that you broke up with for a real reason.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Maureen Rosilla.
    • ross
    • Ross
      "'Cause she doesn't hate Yanni," is not a real reason.
    • (There's a knock on the door.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      (opening the door) Hello, Mr. Heckles.
    • Mr. Heckles
      You're doing it again.
    • monica
    • Monica
      We're not doing anything.
    • Mr. Heckles
      You're stomping. It's disturbing my birds.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      You don't have birds.
    • Mr. Heckles
      I could have birds.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay, Mr. Heckles, we'll try to keep it down.
    • Mr. Heckles
      Thank you. I'm going to rejoin my dinner party.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      All right, bye-bye.
    • (Monica closes the door.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Okay, Janice. Janice. You gotta give me Janice. That wasn't about being picky.
    • ross
    • Ross
      We'll give you Janice.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I miss Janice though. (Imitating Janice) "Hello, Chandler Bing."
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (doing Janice) "Oh, my, god."
    • joey
    • Joey
      (doing Janice) "Oh, Chandler, now, now, that's it. There, faster!" (He turns around and everyone is staring at him.)
    • (Mr. Heckles bangs on his ceiling.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      Stop with the broom, we're not making noise.
    • (She stomps in protest. Heckles bangs again, which is answered by Monica and Rachel. Heckles bangs yet again, which is answered by everyone. There is no response.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      We won. We won!
    • [Cut to a man wrapped up on a sheet being wheeled out on a gurney with the gang and Mr. Treeger looking on.]
    • monica
    • Monica
      Mr. Heckles.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      How did this happen?
    • Mr. Treeger
      He musta been sweeping. They found a broom in his hand.
    • monica
    • Monica
      That's terrible.
    • Mr. Treeger
      I know. I was sweeping yesterday. It coulda been me.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Sure, you coulda. You never know.
    • Mr. Treeger
      You never know.
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    • Scene 3

      Monica and Rachel's, the next day everyone is eating dinner.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ok, it's very faint, but I can still sense him in the building. (Screaming) Go into the light, Mr. Heckles!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Ok, Phoebe.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I'm sorry, but sometimes they need help. (Everyone groans) That's fine. Go ahead and scoff. You know there're a lot of things that I don't believe in, but that doesn't mean they're not true.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Such as?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Like crop circles, or the Bermuda triangle, or evolution?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Whoa, whoa, whoa. What, you don't, uh, you don't believe in evolution?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Nah. Not really.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You don't believe in evolution?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I don't know, it's just, you know...monkeys, Darwin, you know, it's a, it's a nice story, I just think it's a little too easy.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Too easy? Too...The process of every living thing on this planet evolving over millions of years from single-celled organisms, is-is too easy?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, I just don't buy it.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Uh, excuse me. Evolution is not for you to buy, Phoebe. Evolution is scientific fact, like, like, like the air we breathe, like gravity.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ok, don't get me started on gravity.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You uh, you don't believe in gravity?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, it's not so much that you know, like I don't believe in it, you know, it's just...I don't know, lately I get the feeling that I'm not so much being pulled down as I am being pushed.
    • (There's a knock on the door.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Uh-Oh. It's Isaac Newton, and he's pissed.
    • (Monica opens the door.)
    • Mr. Treeger
      There she is. And over there, that's the other one. This is Mr. Buddy Boyle, Mr. Heckles' attorney. He'd like to talk to you.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What can we do for you?
    • Mr. Boyle
      All right, kids. Here's the deal. According to my client's will, he wants to leave all his earthly possessions to "The noisy girls in the apartment above mine."
    • monica
    • Monica
      Well, what about his family?
    • Mr. Boyle
      He didn't have any.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ok, so let's talk money.
    • Mr. Boyle
      All right, there was none. Let's talk signing. (To Monica) You be noisy girl number one, (To Rachel) you be noisy girl number two.
    • monica
    • Monica
      I can't believe that this whole time we thought he hated us. I mean, isn't it amazing how much you can touch someone's life, without even knowing it?
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    • Scene 4

      Mr. Heckles' apartment, the gang is looking over Monica and Rachel's inheritance.

    • monica
    • Monica
      Would you look at this dump? He hated us. This is his final revenge!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Have you ever seen so much crap?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Actually, I think this apartment sullies the good name of crap
    • joey
    • Joey
      Check this out. Can I have this? (It's a giant magnifying glass on a stand.)
    • [Cut to Phoebe and Ross.]
    • ross
    • Ross
      How can you not believe in evolution?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Just don't. Look at this funky shirt!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Pheebs, I have studied evolution my entire adult life. Ok, I can tell you, we have collected fossils from all over the world that actually show the evolution of different species, ok? You can literally see them evolving through time.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Really? You can actually see it?
    • ross
    • Ross
      You bet. In the U.S., China, Africa, all over.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      See, I didn't know that.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, there you go.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Huh. So now, the real question is, who put those fossils there, and why?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (holding a book) Hey, look at this. "My Big Book of Grievances."
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey, there's me! April 17th. Excessive noise. Italian guy comes homes with a date. Hey Chandler, look, you're in here too.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      April 18th, excessive noise. Italian guy's gay roommate comes home with the dry-cleaning. Well that's excellent.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Monica, Monica, look at this lamp. (She's holding a lamp made from seashells.) Is this tacky or what? We have to have this.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Rache, I think we have enough regular lamps.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What? Come on, it's not like I'm asking for this girlie clock or anything, which, by the way, I also think is very cool. (It's a girl in a bikini and pasties standing behind an alarm clock.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      It doesn't go with any of my stuff.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, what about my stuff?
    • monica
    • Monica
      You don't have any stuff.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      You still think of it as your apartment, don't you?
    • monica
    • Monica
      No.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yes you do. You think of it as your apartment, and I'm just somebody who rents a room.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Mmmmm.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ok, while you "mmm" on it for awhile, I'm gonna go find a place for my new lamp.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Ok, Pheebs. (He's holding two little toys.) See how I'm making these little toys move? Opposable thumbs. Without evolution, how do you explain opposable thumbs?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Maybe the overlords needed them to steer their spacecrafts.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Please tell me you're joking.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Look, can't we just say that you believe in something, and I don't.
    • ross
    • Ross
      No, no, Pheebs, we can't, ok, because-
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What is this obsessive need you have to make everyone agree with you? No, what's that all about? I think, I think maybe it's time you put Ross under the microscope.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (To Chandler) Is there blood coming out of my ears?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Check it out, check it out. Heckles' high school yearbook.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Wow, he looks so normal.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      He's even kind of cute.
    • joey
    • Joey
      "Heckles, you crack me up in science class. You're the funniest kid in school."
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Funniest? Heckles?
    • joey
    • Joey
      That's what it says.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Wow, Heckles was voted class clown, and so was I. (There's a banging coming from upstairs.) He was right. Would you listen to that?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I'd call that excessive.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Whoa!
    • joey
    • Joey
      What?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Heckles played clarinet in band, and I played clarinet. And he was in the scale modeler's club, and I was, well, there was no club, but I sure thought they were cool.
    • joey
    • Joey
      So, you were both dorks. Big deal.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I just think it's weird, you know? (The banging is back.) Heckles and me, Heckles, and me, me and Heckles... (He picks up the broom and bangs on the ceiling) Would you knock it off? (Everyone stares) (Realizes) Bah! (He throws the broom down.)
    • COMMERCIAL BREAK
    • new scene
    • Scene 5

      Mr. Heckles' Apartment, Chandler is in one of Heckles' old robes and sitting on the couch.

    • joey
    • Joey
      (entering) Have you been here all night?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Look at this. Pictures of all the women that Heckles went out with. Look what he wrote on them. (As he mentions each name and description, he hands a picture to Joey.) Vivian, too tall. Madge, big gums. Too loud, too smart, makes noise when she eats. This is, this is me. This is what I do. I'm gonna end up alone, just like he did.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Chandler, Heckles was a nut case.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Our trains are on the same track, ok? Yeah, sure, I'm coming up 30 years behind him, but the stops are all the same. Bitter Town. Aloneville. Hermit Junction.
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right, you know what we gotta do? We gotta get you outta here. Come on, I'll buy you breakfast, let's go.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What if I never find someone? Or worse, what if I've found her, but I dumped her because she pronounced it 'supposably?'
    • joey
    • Joey
      Chandler, come on, you're gonna find somebody.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      How do you know that? How?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I don't know, I'm just tryin' to help you out.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You'll see, you guys are all gonna go off and get married, and I'm gonna end up alone. Will you promise me something? When you're married, will you invite me over for holidays?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, I don't know. I don't know what we're gonna be doin'. I mean, what if we're at her folks' place?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah, I understand.
    • joey
    • Joey
      You can come over and watch the Super Bowl. Every year, all right?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You know what? I'm not gonna end up like this. I'll see you man.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Supposably. Supposably. Did they go to the zoo? Supposably.
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    • Scene 6

      Chandler and Joey's, Chandler enters, picks up the phone, and dials.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (on phone) Hi, it's me.
    • Janice
      Oh, my, god.
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    • Scene 7

      Central Perk, Chandler is telling everyone about his phone call.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Janice? You called Janice?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yes, Janice. Why is that so difficult for you to comprehend?
    • ross
    • Ross
      You remember Janice, right?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yes. She was smart, she was pretty, and she honestly cared about me. Janice is my last chance to have somebody.
    • Janice
      (entering and pregnant) Helloo!!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh...my...God!
    • joey
    • Joey
      (To Chandler) Geez, look how fat she got.
    • Janice
      Hey, it's everybody.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Janice, you're...
    • Janice
      Yes, I am.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Is it...
    • Janice
      Is it yours? Ha! You wish, Chandler Bing. You are looking at a married lady now. (She shows everyone her ring.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Congratulations.
    • Janice
      Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You couldn't have told me about this on the phone?
    • Janice
      And what? Missed the expression on your face? Janice likes to have her fun.
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    • Scene 8

      Monica and Rachel's, Rachel is reading and admiring her new lamp.

    • monica
    • Monica
      Hey, Rache. You know what we haven't played in a while?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What?
    • monica
    • Monica
      Hide the Lamp.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Monica, let it go.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Did you know I was allergic to shellfish?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, then, you'll just have to eat the other lamps.
    • (Ross enters carrying a briefcase.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Uh-oh. It's Scary Scientist Man.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Ok, Phoebe, this is it. In this briefcase I carry actual scientific facts. A briefcase of facts, if you will. Some of these fossils are over 200 million years old.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ok, look, before you even start, I'm not denying evolution, ok, I'm just saying that it's one of the possibilities.
    • ross
    • Ross
      It's the only possibility, Phoebe.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ok, Ross, could you just open your mind like this much, ok? (Holding her thumb and forefinger close together) Wasn't there a time when the brightest minds in the world believed that the world was flat? And, up until like what, 50 years ago, you all thought the atom was the smallest thing, until you split it open, and this like, whole mess of crap came out. Now, are you telling me that you are so unbelievably arrogant that you can't admit that there's a teeny tiny possibility that you could be wrong about this? (Monica and Rachel are intrigued.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      There might be...a teeny...tiny...possibility.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I can't believe you caved.
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      You just abandoned your whole belief system. I mean, before, I didn't agree with you, but at least I respected you. How, how, how are you going to go into work tomorrow? How, how are you going to face the other science guys? How, how are you going to face yourself? (Ross slowly closes the briefcase and walks out hugging it.) Oh! That was fun. So who's hungry?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I am. Let me just get my coat.
    • (As Monica puts on her coat she knocks over and breaks the seashell lamp.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (running into the living room) What happened?! What happened?!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Ok, all right. It was an accident, I swear, all right. I was putting on my jacket, and the thing, and the lamp, and it broke.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, please, Monica. You've always hated my lamp, and then, all of a sudden, it's just magically broken?
    • monica
    • Monica
      Phoebe, tell her!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ok, I didn't see it, because I was putting on my jacket, but I uh want to believe you.
    • (Chandler enters.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hey Chandler. Monica just broke my seashell lamp.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Neat. I'm gonna die alone.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ok, you win.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Chandler, you're not gonna die alone.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Janice was my safety net, ok? And now I have to get a snake.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Uh huh. Why is that?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      If I'm gonna be an old, lonely man, I'm gonna need a thing, you know, a hook, like that guy on the subway who eats his own face. So I figure I'll be Crazy Man with a Snake, y'know. Crazy Snake Man. And I'll get more snakes, call them my babies, kids will walk past my place, they will run. "Run away from Crazy Snake Man," they'll shout!
    • monica
    • Monica
      You have got to get over this. You're not gonna end up alone.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Of course I am. I reject anyone who's crazy enough to actually go out with me, and then I bitch about the fact that there aren't any great women out there.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Chandler, you have just described virtually every man that we have ever gone out with.
    • monica
    • Monica
      You are not a freak. You're a guy.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      She's right. She's right. You are no different than the rest of them.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Wait a minute, wait a minute. Yes he is. You are totally different.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      In a bad way?
    • monica
    • Monica
      No, honey, in a wonderful way. You know what you want now. Most guys don't even have a clue. You are ready to take risks, you are ready to be vulnerable, and intimate with someone.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah. You're not gonna end up alone.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Chandler, you called Janice! That's how much you wanted to be with someone!
    • monica
    • Monica
      You made it!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      You're there!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      You are ready to make a commitment!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Whoa! Don't know about that.
    • new scene
    • Scene 9

      Mr. Heckles' Apartment, everyone is finishing cleaning up the apartment as Monica walks up to Rachel carrying the girlie clock.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What you got there? Something else that's not yours that you can break?
    • monica
    • Monica
      No. Um, I know you like this, and I want you to have it. I think it'll look good in our apartment.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Thank you.
    • (The clock sounds it's alarm by whistling and having the girl shake her hips.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      That's fine.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Hey. Well, you will all be pleased to know that I have a date tomorrow night. This woman Alison, from work, she's great. She's pretty. She's smart. And uh, I've been holding off on asking her out in the past, because she has an unusually large head. But, I'm not gonna let that stuff hang me up anymore. Look at me. I'm growing.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey, uh, you can't recycle yearbooks, can you?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I'll take that.
    • joey
    • Joey
      You want his yearbook?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah, yeah. Some people said some nice things about him. I think somebody should have it.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh, gosh, this is so weird. I mean, his whole life was in this apartment, and now it's gone. You know, I think it would be nice if we just took a few moments, for Mr. Heckles. I mean, he was kind of a pain, he was, but he was a person. (She ends up standing behind the magnifying glass and everyone is laughing.) (Realizes.)You're all going to hell.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      It's really not that big!
    • (Joey grabs the magnifying glass and walks out.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (To Joey) Takin' that with you, huh?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh, yeah.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You comin'?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah, just second. (Ross exits and Chandler picks up the broom and leans it up against the wall.) Good-bye Mr. Heckles. (He turns off the lights.) We'll try to keep it down.
    • CLOSING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 10

      A Restaurant, Chandler is on his date with Allison.

    • Allison
      Oh, my major was totally useless. I mean, how often do you look in the classifieds and see "Philosopher wanted?"
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Sure. (In his head.) My god, that's a big head! It didn't look this big in the office. Maybe it's the lighting. My head must look like a golf ball at work. All right, don't get hung up on it, quick, quick, list five things you like about her: Nice smile, good dresser...Big head, big head, big head!
    • END