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    • new scene
    • Scene 1

      Rachel's bedroom; Rachel is awoken by a man singing in the next apartment.

    • The Singing Man
      (singing, duh) Morning's here! Sunshine is here! The sky is clear, the morning's here! The morning's here!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      HEY!! Do you have to do that? It's Saturday!
    • The Singing Man
      Oh come on! Morning's here! (Starts singing) Morning's here! The morning is here! Sunshine is here!
    • (Rachel slams shut her window and storms into the living room, where Joey and Monica are eating breakfast.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I hate this apartment! I hate the color of these walls! I hate the fact that this place still smells like bird! I hate that singing guy!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Are you kidding? I love that guy! (Starts singing) Morning's here! Morning is here-
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Stop it! I will kill you. I hate the fact that my room is so small.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Hey, I have all the space I need. Just do what I did.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Monica, you don't even have a bed, you sleep in a ball on the floor!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Y'know what? I am really tired of your bellyaching! Okay, I-I worked really hard at making this a nice place for us to live!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay.
    • joey
    • Joey
      See, this is a great apartment.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Shut up! This place is a hole!
    • OPENING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 2

      Ross's bedroom; Ross and Emily are making out. Ross as a new feature.

    • Emily
      Oh, blimey, I still can't believe you've got an earring!
    • (Yep, it's a little gold loop.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Huh? I know, I know. Who am I? David Bowe? (Shakes his head around, pretending like he's jamming.)
    • Emily
      He does that?!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Uh, I don't know, whatever.
    • Emily
      I think it makes you look really dangerous.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh, I know. Y'know what, I never would've gotten this if it weren't for you. No really, when I'm with you I'm-I'm like this whole other guy, I love that guy! I mean, I love you too, a lot, but that guy! I-I love that guy!
    • Emily
      I love both of you!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah?
    • (They kiss.)
    • Emily
      I wish I didn't have to go.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Then don't. Stay here. Just don't go so soon to London, just one more day.
    • Emily
      Ohh, Ross, please!
    • ross
    • Ross
      One more day, seriously/
    • Emily
      Don't do this to me, again. You'd know I'd stay here in a minute, but I'd really miss so much work, they'll fire me.
    • ross
    • Ross
      So, then you can stay as long as you want.
    • Emily
      I wish I could.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh no. Don't, don't, don't start packing. Come on! (She puts some clothes into her bag, and Ross throws them out.)
    • Emily
      I don't think you understand packing. Look, I just don't want to leave it to the last minute. Last time I left in such a rush, I left my knickers here.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, I know, I uh, I tried them on.
    • Emily
      You didn't!
    • ross
    • Ross
      No. No, I didn't. I didn't want to be that guy.
    • new scene
    • Scene 3

      Monica and Rachel's erm, Chandler and Joey's, Joey and Chandler are watching one of those Kung Fu movies and imitating the moves.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (entering, wearing Santa pants) Hello!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Ho! Ho! Ho!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Excuse me.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Your pants!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, yeah! You like 'em? I just, I went to a used clothes store and got a bunch of maternity stuff. These are sooo comfortable!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Uhh, Pheebs, those are uh, those are Santa pants.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Santa pants. (Phoebe still doesn't get it.) Santa Claus's pants.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Nuh-uh! They're maternity pants. They even came with a list of baby names. (Pulls out a sheet of paper which lists who's been naughty and who's been nice.) See, these names are good, and these names are bad. (Finally, she figures it out.) Ohh.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (entering) Hey!
    • monica
    • Monica
      (entering) Hey!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      So-Hey, Pheebs! So, how are the elves?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I don't know! How are the-the-the-the, y'know-You're clothes aren't funny.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Hey, guys, what-what should I wear to a Knicks game?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Uhh, a T-shirt that says, "I don't belong here."
    • joey
    • Joey
      You have Knicks tickets?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, my mom got my dad's season tickets in the divorce, so she just gave them to me.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah, apparently, they're pretty good seats.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah.
    • joey
    • Joey
      (examining the tickets) Oh my God! Those are almost right on the floor!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Do you guys want these?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah we do!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ohh, well you got 'em.
    • Both
      All right!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Just give us our apartment back!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Boy! I didn't see that coming!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Are you serious?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, come on! We know what these are worth.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah, what, do you think we're stupid?
    • joey
    • Joey
      You're not stupid. You're meaner than I thought.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What do you say?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Forget it! Okay, I'm not giving up my bachelor pad for some basketball seats!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      You're bachelor pad?!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Have you even had a girl up here?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No. But uh, Joey has, and I usually talk to them in the morning time.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah, you do!
    • new scene
    • Scene 4

      Central Perk, Joey is whining to Chandler about the tickets.

    • joey
    • Joey
      Come on!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (ignoring him) Yes, Gunther, can I get two cups of chino, please?
    • Gunther
      Good one.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Come on, season tickets! Season tickets, do you know what that means?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Forget it! Okay, I'm not giving up the apartment.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh come-look, when I was a kid my dad's company gave season tickets to the number one salesman every year, all right? My dad never won! Of course, he wasn't in the sales division, but still, I never ever, ever forgot that!
    • ross
    • Ross
      (entering) Hey, guys! (They both notice his new little friend)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh my God!
    • joey
    • Joey
      We don't make enough fun of you already?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh yeah, Emily convinced me to do it.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You do know that Wham broke up?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I like it, and Emily likes it, and that's what counts. So uh, how are you guys doing?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh-no, don't try and talk all normal with that thing in your ear.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Where is Emily?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Ugh, she's saying good-bye to her uncle.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Man, didn't she like just get here?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah!! Yeah!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Easy tiger.
    • ross
    • Ross
      I just, I hate this so much! I mean, every time I go pick her up at the airport, it's-it's so great. But at the same time I'm thinking, "Well, I'm gonna be right back there in a couple of days, dropping her off."
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      So what are you going to do?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Nothing! There's nothing to do! I mean, she lives there, I live here. I mean, she-she'd have to uh, move here. She should move here!
    • joey
    • Joey
      What?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I could ask her to live with me!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Are you serious?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I mean, why not! I mean, I mean why not?!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Because you've only known her for six weeks! Okay, I've got a carton of milk in my fridge I've had a longer relationship with!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Look guys, when I'm with her it's-it's-it's like she brings this-this-this great side out of me. I mean I-I-I love her, y'know?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      And I love the milk! But, I'm not gonna some British girl to move in with me! (Realizes that made no sense.) Joey, you say things now.
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right look, Ross, he's right. Emily's great, she's great! But this way too soon, you're only gonna scare her!
    • ross
    • Ross
      I don't want to do that.
    • joey
    • Joey
      No! You don't want to wreck it, you don't want to go to fast!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, no, you're right, I know, you're right, I'm not, I'm not gonna do it. All right, thanks guys. (Gets up to leave.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Okay, no problem, just remember to wake us up before you go-go.
    • new scene
    • Scene 5

      Monica and Rachel's erm, Chandler and Joey's, later that same day. Joey and Chandler are eating pizza, and Phoebe is trying to knit something.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      That's too hard. Too hard!
    • monica
    • Monica
      (entering with Rachel) All right boys, last chance for the tickets!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Or I'll give them to my new boyfriend, Joshua.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No thank you.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Wait-wait-wait-wait! (To Chandler) Come on! Come on, let's trade! The timing's perfect, I just clogged the toilet!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Look, I want those basketball seats as much as you do! Okay, but we can't leave in the small apartment after we've lived here! Didn't you ever read Flowers for Algernon?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yes! Didn't you ever read Sports Illustrated?! No! I didn't read yours! But come on, we can go to the game tonight!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Look, the only way I will even consider this is if they offer a lot more than just season seats.
    • joey
    • Joey
      It's the Knicks!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Screw the Knicks!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Whoa!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I didn't mean that. I just meant that the apartment is worth so much more.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Huh.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      And the Knicks rule all.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah, the Knicks rule all!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hey, so? Are you gonna do it?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No. No. We're not gonna do that, y'know why? Because its not an even trade.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      All right, okay, look, what if you could keep the apartment and get the tickets?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Done!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Let me finish.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I'm talking about a bet, winner takes all.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Ooh, we could end up with nothing.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Or you could end up with everything.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Ooh, I like that.
    • monica
    • Monica
      All right, so what do you say?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh, just do it!!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Op, op, I'm convinced!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Come on man, you know I'd do it for you! Because, you're my best friend.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right, but you can't use that again for a whole year. I'm in.
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ooh, this is so exciting! Ooh, God, what are you going to bet?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, okay, well, I think we should let Phoebe decide, because she's the only who's impartial, and she's so pretty.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay. Umm, ooh, ooh-oh, I have a game!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Okay!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Okay!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      This is great!
    • joey
    • Joey
      What's the game?! What's the game?!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, well, it doesn't have a name-oh, okay, Phoebeball! No, it doesn't have a name. Umm, okay, Monica, what is your favourite thing about trees?
    • monica
    • Monica
      They're green?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Good! Good! Five points!
    • (They both rejoice; Chandler is totally confused.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      All right, Joey, same question.
    • (He looks to Chandler, who doesn't have a clue.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Uhh, they're tall.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ooh, three points. Both fine answers, but we were looking for leafy, leafy.
    • (Joey turns and is angry that Chandler didn't come up with the answer.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      That's not even a game!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What? Shut up! We're winning!
    • monica
    • Monica
      You wanna finish this right now? All right, we get a deck of cards, high card wins. What do you say?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Fine, let's do it.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, I have cards!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh, good.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah! Here! (She grabs a deck out of her purse) Oh no, these are the trick deck. Okay. Here yes. Okay.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Okay, you guys uh, you guys pick first
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay. (She picks a card.) Four.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      That's a low one!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah! Okay. (Joey picks a card.) Phoebe, you look, I can't.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What make you think I can?! (Shields her eyes from it.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Okay. Okay. (He looks at the card.) Ace!
    • (Both Joey and Chandler and Monica and Rachel jump up and down for joy.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Why are you screaming and hugging?
    • monica
    • Monica
      Because we won our apartment back!
    • joey
    • Joey
      What? Ace is high! Jack, queen, king, ace!
    • monica
    • Monica
      No! Ace is low! Ace, two, three, four!
    • (They all look to Phoebe to settle this.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I don't know. Ooh! Ooh! Look it! (She fans out the trick deck.) Ah-ha!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      All right, cut, let's pick again, pick again.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Okay.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Come on apartment! Come on apartment! (Picks a card.) Oh! I know queen is high!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Uh-huh, not as high as...(picks a card) It worked! King!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah baby!
    • monica
    • Monica
      But, we pick again! We pick again!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Why?!
    • monica
    • Monica
      I don't know!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Tickets please! (Rachel hands over the tickets) That's courtside baby!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Seriously, good game though. Good game. (He tries to congratulate them, but they pull away.) (To Chandler) What are they so mad about? They get the apartment back!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No they didn't!
    • new scene
    • Scene 6

      Ross's apartment, Emily has packed as Ross returns.

    • ross
    • Ross
      Hey!
    • Emily
      I packed while you were gone. I left some knickers under your pillow.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (laughs) Move in with me.
    • Emily
      What?!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Don't be scared, I-I know it sounds crazy and-and people will say it's too soon, but just-just think, think how great it will be.
    • Emily
      Ohh, no. Ugh. Oh, leaving London, my whole family lives there.
    • ross
    • Ross
      I know.
    • Emily
      My job!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, so, you-you'll get a job here! I mean, I'm always hearing about uh, them foreigners coming in here and stealing American jobs; that could be you!
    • Emily
      Yeah, but it-it-it's my whole life-you come to England.
    • ross
    • Ross
      No, I can't. I would, I really would, but my son is here; I can't leave him. Isn't-you don't think there's any way?
    • Emily
      Ohh, I don't think so. I mean it would be different if it was way into the future -and-and-and we were getting married or something.
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?
    • Emily
      Oh no, no, right I shouldn't have said married. Uh, please don't go freaky on me. I didn't mean it. Well, I didn't say it; I take it back!
    • ross
    • Ross
      No, no, don't. Why don't we?
    • Emily
      Why don't we what?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Get married.
    • Emily
      You are mad!
    • ross
    • Ross
      No! No! I'm not! It's-it's-it's perfect! I mean it's better than you just-just moving here, 'cause it's us together forever, and that's-that's what I want.
    • Emily
      We've only known each other for six weeks!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, I know, so what? I mean, who's-who's to say? Does that me we-we can't do it? Look, huh, I was with Carol for four years before we got married and I wound up divorced from a pregnant lesbian. I mean, this, this makes sense for us. Come on! I mean, on our first date we ended up spending the whole weekend in Vermont! I mean, last night I got my ear pierced! Me! This feels right. Doesn't it?
    • Emily
      My parents are going to be really mad.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Is that-are you saying yes? Is that yes?
    • Emily
      Yes.
    • (They kiss and hug.)
    • Emily
      Yes!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yes! We're getting married?!
    • Emily
      Oh my God!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yes!
    • Emily
      We're getting married!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Come here, come here. Uh, (He takes the earring out.) ow! Emily, will you marry me?
    • Emily
      Yes.
    • (He tries to put it on her finger.)
    • Emily
      Ohh, it's a bit small.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Damn! I thought that was going to be romantic as hell!
    • Emily
      It was.
    • (They kiss.)
    • Commerical Break
    • new scene
    • Scene 7

      The hallway, Joey and Chandler are coming back from the game.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Those were like the best seats ever.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh yeah. Hey! Should we give these shirts to the girls? Y'know, kinda like a peace offering.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh yeah, that's very nice. Plus, y'know they were free and they're too small.
    • (He knocks on the girls' door and walks in. Surprise! The girls, obviously using Star Trek technology, have completely moved everything in both apartments back to their original positions, all in the time it took for the guys to go to a basketball game. Wow! Anyhoo, Chandler is stunned, and Joey doesn't even realise it.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh. Oh, God! (He starts running around like a chicken with his head cut off.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey, want a beer? (Hands him a beer and sits down in one of the chairs.) (Jumping up.) WHOA!!!!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I KNOW!!!
    • (They both sprint to what used to be their apartment.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Open up! Open up! Open up!
    • (A very angry Monica opens the door with the security chain still on.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      We'll discuss it, in the morning! (Slams the door shut.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What the hell is going on?!
    • (It's Rachel's turn to open the door.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      We took our apartment back!! (Slams the door shut.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (opening the door) I had nothing to do with it. (Closes the door.) (Opens the door.) Okay, it was my idea, but I don't feel good about it.
    • (She goes to close the door, but Chandler puts his foot it in.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      We are switching back, right now!
    • monica
    • Monica
      No, we're not! We're not leaving!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, you're gonna have to leave sometime, because you both have jobs, and as soon as you do, we're switching it back! There's nothing you can do to stop us! Right, Joe?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I don't know.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I don't want to move again!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I don't care, this is our apartment! And they stole-you stole it-our apartment, and we won that apartment fair and square, twice! And I am getting it back right now. I'm getting back right now!
    • (They open the door.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      All right. We figured you might respond this way, so we have a backup offer.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh no-no-no, no more offers. You can't offer anything to us!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Let us keep the apartment and...
    • monica
    • Monica
      As a thank you, Rachel and I will kiss for one minute.
    • [Time lapse. The guys are entering their apartment.]
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Totally worth it!
    • joey
    • Joey
      That was one good minute!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Good night.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Good night.
    • (They both go back into their old rooms and shut the doors. Of course, Chandler has to close both sections of his door.)
    • [Cut to the girls apartment.]
    • monica
    • Monica
      Men are such idiots.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah! Can you believe that something that stupid actually got us our apartment back?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      That's so funny to think if you'd just done that right after the last contest, no one would have had to move at all.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah, let-let-let's pretend that's not true.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay, scarf's done. (It's not really a scarf, it's just a bunch of yarn that Phoebe has tied together. Just then, Ross and Emily enter dragging with them Joey and Chandler.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Come on! Come on. Come on.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Okay!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hey!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Hey!
    • monica
    • Monica
      What-what's going on?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Ross has some big thing to tell everyone.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Uhh, okay, it's uh, Emily and I, we decided to uh, to get married.
    • (The gang is stunned.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What? Oh, are you pregnant too?!
    • Emily
      Umm, no.
    • monica
    • Monica
      When, when did-how, how did you...
    • ross
    • Ross
      We, we just decided to uh, to go for it.
    • Emily
      I mean, we know it's a bit hasty but, uh, it just feels so right, so...
    • (Rachel slowly walks in from her bedroom. She is stunned speechless.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      (turning around.) Umm, uh, I was just telling the guys...
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, I-I heard. (Pause, everyone looks at each other, waiting for Rachel's reaction.) I think it's great! (Hugs Ross.) Ohh, I'm so happy for you!
    • (Seeing Rachel's apparently okay with this, the rest of the gang jumps up to congratulate Ross and Emily on their pending nuptials.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh, well, that's great!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah! Yeah!
    • monica
    • Monica
      (to Ross) I can't believe you're getting married!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah. (They hug again.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Monica and Rachel made out. (Giggles like a schoolboy and Monica glares at him.)
    • CLOSING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 8

      Joey's bedroom, he is awoken by the singing guy.

    • The Singing Man
      (singing) Morning's here! The morning's here!
    • (Joey joins him.)
    • Both
      Sunshine is here! The sky is clear, the morning's here!
    • The Singing Man
      Hey! You're back!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey! (Singing) Get into gear!
    • The Singing Man
      (singing) Breakfast is near!
    • Both
      The dark of night has disappeared!!
    • The Singing Man
      I'll see you tomorrow morning!
    • joey
    • Joey
      (happily) Okay!
    • END