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    • new scene
    • Scene 1

      Monica and Rachel's, the entire gang is there, eating breakfast. Phoebe is on the couch, fidgeting.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What am I sitting on?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Top of the world? Dock of the bay? (He tries to think of another but can't) I'm out.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (taking something out of the couch) Ew-eww!! Undies!
    • (She throws them into the kitchen and Rachel picks them up with the handle of a large spoon. Chandler and Monica have horrified looks on their faces.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      All right! Who's are they? Who's are they?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, they're not mine!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, they're Joey's! They gotta be Joey's!
    • (Rachel turns and stares at him.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah, they're mine.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      See? They're Joey's! J-J-J-J-J-Joey's!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Why are they here?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I don't know uhh... (Pause as he thinks about it.) Well, I'm Joey. Yeah, I'm disgusting, I take my underwear off in other people's homes.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, get 'em out of here! What's wrong with you?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (waving them in his face) Take 'em! (Joey makes a noise and jumps out of the way.) Joey, you can touch them! They're your underwear.
    • joey
    • Joey
      (reluctantly taking them) Chandler? A word.
    • (Follows Joey into their apartment and shrugs on his way out.)
    • [Cut to the guy's apartment.]
    • joey
    • Joey
      That's it! I'm tired of covering for you two! This has got to stop! (Realizes he still has the underwear in his hand.) Ahh! (Throws them towards Chandler's room.) And tighty-whiteys! What are you, 8?
    • monica
    • Monica
      (entering) Thank you Joey, thank you so much!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh hey, no, you're not welcome. Okay, look, I hate this! You guys keep embarrassing me! (To Monica) Yesterday, Rachel found your razor in our bathroom and I didn't know what to say, so I said it was mine and-and that I was playing a woman in a play. And one thing led to another and (He puts his leg on the chair and pulls up his pants leg to reveal that he now has shaved legs.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      (inspecting his leg) Wow! And around the ankles, y'know that is a tough spot.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah, it was! All right, listen, I can't...
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (interrupting him) All this lying has been hard on us too.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh-oh, yeah-yeah, I bet all the sex makes it easier!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, yeah actually.
    • monica
    • Monica
      We'll try to be more careful okay? It's just that, we don't want everyone to know because this is going really well, and maybe the reason it's going really well is because it's a secret.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I know it sounds really weird, but we're just so bad at relationships.
    • monica
    • Monica
      We are! Help us!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Help!
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right! But, (To Monica) you do it with me once.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Joey!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Didn't think so.
    • OPENING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 2

      Central Perk, Joey, Chandler, Monica, and Rachel are there as Phoebe enters with her nose stuck in a book.

    • monica
    • Monica
      Hey, Phoebe!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Hi, Pheebs!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hey, Pheebs!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey, Pheebs!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What are you reading?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Umm, Wethering Heights. I'm taking a literature class at the New School and I have to finish it for the first session tomorrow.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I didn't know you were taking a class. That is so cool.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah! Well, I really liked that Lamaze class I took! Y'know and this time I thought I'd go for something, y'know a little more intellectual, with a less painful final exam.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Honey that sounds like fun.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah! Ooh, you should come with me! Oh yeah, then I'd have someone to sit with!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah! Okay-ooh, but are you going to have time to read it?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, I read that in high school.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      This is going to be so much fun! Okay-shhh, I have to finish.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (entering, depressed) Hi.
    • joey
    • Joey
      What's wrong buddy?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Someone at work ate my sandwich!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, what did the police say?
    • ross
    • Ross
      My Thanksgiving leftover sandwich. I can't believe someone ate it!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Ross, it's just a sandwich!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Just a sandwich? Look, I am 30 years old, I'm about to be divorced twice and I just got evicted! That sandwich was the only good thing going on in my life! Someone ate the only good thing going on in my life!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay, look, I-I have enough stuff for one more sandwich, I mean I was going to eat it myself, but (motions that he can have it.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      (quietly) That-that would be incredible. Thank you so much. I-I still can't believe someone ate it!! I mean, look, I left a note and everything.
    • (Shows the note to Chandler who reads it aloud.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (reading) Knock-knock. Who's there? Ross Geller's lunch. Ross Geller's lunch, who? Ross Geller's lunch, please don't take me. Okay?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'm surprised you didn't go home wearing your lunch.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay, look you wanna hold onto your food? You gotta scare people off. I learned that living on the street.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Really?! So what would you say Pheebs? Stuff like uh, "Keep your mitts off my grub?"
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Say Ross, when you picture Phoebe living on the street, is she surrounded by the entire cast of Annie?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay, this will keep them away from your stuff. (Writes him a note and the gang reads it.)
    • Everyone
      Whoa! Ohh!!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Phoebe, you are a bad ass!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Someday I'll, tell you about the time I stabbed the cop.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Phoebe?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, he stabbed me first!!
    • new scene
    • Scene 3

      Phoebe's class, the class has already started and Rachel walks in late.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (To Phoebe) Sorry I'm late, but I left late.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      So Pheebs, what is the book about?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I thought you said you read it in high school.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well yeah, but then I remembered I started it and there was this pep rally and I was, I was on top of the pyramid but anyway-umm, what is this book about?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay, umm, it's this tragic love story between Cathy and Heathcliff and umm, it takes place on like these really creepy mores in England. Which I think represents the wildness of Heathcliff's character. I totally get symbolism.
    • The Teacher
      How would you characterize the theme of this book, uh let's see here (looks at his attendance sheet), Rachel Green?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Umm, well I would have to say that it's a, it's tragic love story.
    • The Teacher
      Well, that's sort of a given, but yes. Anyone else?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh-oh-oh, symbolism! And uh, the-the uh, wildness of the mores, which I think is-is mirrored in the wildness of Heathcliff's character.
    • The Teacher
      Excellent! What Rachel has shrewdly observed here...
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (To Rachel) You completely stole my answer!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, honey that was pretty obvious.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well how would you know?! You didn't even read it!
    • The Teacher
      What do you think? You in the blue shirt.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I think that uh, yours is a question with many answers.
    • The Teacher
      Would ya care to venture one?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Would you care to venture one?
    • The Teacher
      Are you just repeating what I'm saying?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Are you just repeating what I'm saying?
    • The Teacher
      All right, let's move on.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay then.
    • new scene
    • Scene 4

      Central Perk, Monica is there as Phoebe and Rachel return from the class.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah but why didn't you just say that you didn't read the book?!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Be-because I didn't want him to think I was stupid! I mean, that was really embarrassing what happened to you!
    • ross
    • Ross
      (entering) Phoebe!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Phoebe! You're note, amazing! Not only did no one touch my sandwich, but people at work are actually afraid of me. Yeah, a guy called me mental! Mental Geller, yeah, I always wanted a cool nickname like that.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah, the best you got in high school was Wet Pants Geller.
    • ross
    • Ross
      That was the water fountain! Okay?! Anyway, people are writing reports for me, uh pushing back deadlines to meet my schedule, I'm telling you, you get tough with people you can get anything you want. (Joey walks by with a cup of coffee.) Hey Tribbiani, give me that coffee! Now!
    • (Joey casually pushes Ross over the back of the couch and sits down proud of himself.)
    • new scene
    • Scene 5

      The hallway, Joey is returning from a date with Cynthia.

    • Cynthia
      God, this was really fun! I've been wondering if you were going to ask me out.
    • joey
    • Joey
      So you uh, still wondering?
    • Cynthia
      No, we just went out.
    • joey
    • Joey
      You're smart. I like that.
    • (He goes to open the door to his apartment, but finds it locked. As he's getting out his keys, Chandler and Monica quickly jump up from making out in the living room and run to Chandler's bedroom. The apartment has about 20 candles burning all over the place. Joey opens the door and ushers Cynthia in.)
    • Cynthia
      Oh, candles! (Notices something.) What is that? A blanket? A video camera? Oh my God! (As she storms out, Rachel returns and overhears the conversation.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh no-no-no-no, wait-wait-wait!!
    • Cynthia
      I can't believe you thought that you were going to video tape us having sex on the first date! (She storms away and Rachel enters to confront Joey.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hiya.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Joey, is what she just said umm-Oh my God. (Looks around the room.) You were actually gonna... (Chandler picks this moment to return to the living room.) (Rachel stares in shock.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What is going on here?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      And with Chandler in the next room. What are you, what are you sick?
    • (Chandler silently pleads with Joey to cover for them.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'm Joey. I mean, I'm disgusting. I make low-budget adult films. (Points at Chandler, angrily.)
    • COMMERCIAL BREAK
    • new scene
    • Scene 6

      Chandler, Joey, and Ross's; continued from earlier. Joey is closing the door after Rachel leaves and is about to confront Chandler and Monica.

    • joey
    • Joey
      You guys promised you'd be more careful! I mean, come on! The good Joey name is being dragged through the mud here!
    • monica
    • Monica
      We're so sorry.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, I'm telling everyone about you! That's the only way to explain the underwear and the video camera that doesn't make me look like a pig!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No-no, wait! There's got to be a better explanation. You can tell them you had to make an adult film for your (Thinks) adult film class.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah, I like that. But no-no, how does that explain why Rachel found my underwear at your place?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh-I don't know.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, get ready to come out of the non-gay closet!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay, just wait, please. I promise we'll come up with something. Just give us a little more time.
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right. Hey, but it better make me look really, really good. (Starts for his room.) Oh, and another thing, the video camera? Nice!!
    • new scene
    • Scene 7

      The Museum of Prehistoric History (Ross's work); Ross is in the break room eating lunch as his boss, Dr. Leedbetter walks in.

    • Dr. Leedbetter
      Umm, Ross. May I have a word with you?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, of course, Donald.
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      We've been getting reports of some very angry behavior on your part.
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?!
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      Threatening letters, refusal to meet deadlines, apparently people now call you mental.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (Proudly) Yeah.
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      We want you to speak to a psychiatrist.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh no, you-you don't understand. Ugh, this is so silly. Umm, this is all because of a sandwich.
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      (laughs) A sandwich?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah. You see my-my sister makes these amazing turkey sandwiches. Her secret is, she puts a, an extra slice of gravy soaked bread in the middle; I call it the Moist Maker. Anyway, I-I put my sandwich in the fridge over here...
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      (laughs) Oh, you know what?
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      I-I'm sorry. I, I-I-I believe I ate that.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You ate my sandwich?
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      It was a simple mistake. It could happen to anyone.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (getting upset) Oh-oh really? Did you confuse it with your own turkey sandwich with a Moist Maker?
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      No.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Do you perhaps seeing a note on top of it?
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      There may have been a-a joke or a limerick of some kind.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (getting angry) That said it was my sandwich?!
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      Now-now calm down. Come look in my office, some of it my still be in the trash.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (jumping to his feet in anger) What?
    • Dr. Leedbetter
      Well, it was quite large. I-I-I-I-I had to throw most of it away.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You-you-you-you (trying to remain in control) threw my sandwich away!
    • [Cut to an outside shot of the museum.]
    • ross
    • Ross
      (losing control, we hear him shout outside) MY SANDWICH?!!!
    • [Cut to a shot of a park.]
    • ross
    • Ross
      MY SANDWICH!!!!!! (Ross's scream scares a flight of pigeons away.)
    • new scene
    • Scene 8

      Phoebe and Rachel's class; Rachel walks in, on time this time.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hi!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hi!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (sitting down) So umm, what's this book about?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      You didn't read this one either?!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, I was gonna, but I accidentally read something else.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Vogue! Hey, so tell me about this Jane Eyre woman.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      No! You should've read it yourself!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Come on Phoebe! Don't be such a goodie-goodie!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Fine! Okay, all right, so Jane Eyre, first of all, you'd think she's a woman, but she's not. She's a cyborg.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      A cyborg?! Isn't that like a robot?!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, this book was light years ahead of its time.
    • The Teacher
      (entering) Sorry I'm late. Let's get started. So, what did everybody think about Jane Eyre?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Umm, Rachel and I were just discussing it and she had some very interesting insights.
    • The Teacher
      Well, go ahead Rachel.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Uh, thank you Phoebe. Umm, well, what struck me most when reading Jane Eyre was uh, how the book was so ahead of its time.
    • The Teacher
      If you're talking about feminism, I think you're right.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, well, feminism yes, but also the robots.
    • new scene
    • Scene 9

      Central Perk, Chandler is on the couch as Monica joins him.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Hey.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Hey. Okay, so umm, since that video camera thing didn't work out uh, I thought that I would give you just a little preview. (Hands him a Polaroid.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (gasps) You're naked in this picture!
    • monica
    • Monica
      I know.
    • (Ross walks in, eating cotton candy. Monica nudges Chandler who hides the picture in his magazine. Ross sits down on the chair, he seems kinda out of it.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Ross?
    • ross
    • Ross
      (in a stupor) Hey Chandler. (Sees Monica.) Monica!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Ross, are you okay?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I'm fine! I saw a psychiatrist at work today.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Why?!
    • ross
    • Ross
      On account of my rage.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Which I may say, right now, is out of control.
    • ross
    • Ross
      He gave me a pill for it.
    • monica
    • Monica
      A pill?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Uh-huh. Well, when the psychiatrist told me I had to take a leave of absence because I yelled at my boss I started to get worked up again, so he offered me a tranquilizer. And I thought was a good idea so, I took it.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Wait a minute, they're making you take time off work?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      And you're okay with that?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I don't know. It's going to be weird not having a job for a while, but I, I definitely don't care about my sandwich.
    • new scene
    • Scene 10

      Monica and Rachel's, Rachel and Phoebe are returning from class.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (entering, angrily) Ugh, that was so embarrassing! I can't believe you let me go on and on like that!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (smiling) I'm sorry. It was just so funny when you started comparing Jane Eyre to Robocop.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      That was not funny!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, I snapped! Okay? You weren't taking the class seriously.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Phoebe, come on! What is the big deal? I thought this was going to be something we could do together! Y'know, I thought it would be fun!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, yeah! Fun is good, but y'know I also wanted to learn. Y'know, people are always talking about what they learned in high school and I never went to high school.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ohh. Oh, so you really wanted to learn. Yeah, y'know, Pheebs I just wanted to have fun. Ohh, you know who you should go with?
    • new scene
    • Scene 11

      The Class; Monica has taken Rachel's spot.

    • monica
    • Monica
      (yelling and waving her hand in the air) I know! I know! I know!
    • The Teacher
      Monica, you asked the question.
    • (She sits back defeated, and Phoebe groans with disgust.)
    • new scene
    • Scene 12

      Chandler, Joey, and Ross's; Joey returns carrying a bucket of chicken, and starts going through the mail. While doing this, Monica's picture falls out. He bends over to pick it up and gasps. While he's staring at the picture, Rachel decides to come over and sees him looking at the picture.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (sees the picture) Oh my God! That's Monica!!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh no-no-no! No-no-no-no-no-no-no!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      You get away from me!! You sick, sick, sick, sick-o!!
    • ross
    • Ross
      (entering, with the rest of the gang) What's going on?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Joey has got a secret peephole!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (Sees the picture) Oh no! No! No! No! (Monica gasps as well.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yes! He has a naked picture of Monica! He takes naked pictures of us! And then he eats chicken and looks at them!
    • (Ross stares in shock at him as he angrily puts down the chicken and takes off his coat.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Look! (Shows Ross the picture.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      (covering his eyes) Dude! That's my sister! (She shows the rest of the gang.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      (grabbing the picture) Give me that!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      All right, wait! Just wait. Everybody just calm down. Okay? Let's give our friend Joey a chance to explain why he's such a big pervert!
    • joey
    • Joey
      No! I am not a pervert! Okay? It's just... I just... Kinda...
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right, look! Look. I think I can explain this.
    • (He walks over and stands behind Joey.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Thank you!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Joey's a sex addict.
    • joey
    • Joey
      What?!! (He turns around and stares at Chandler who's silently pleading with Joey to go along with it.) No I'm not!!
    • monica
    • Monica
      It's okay! It's good! It's good. It's a disease!
    • joey
    • Joey
      No! No! I am not a sex addict!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yes you are! That's the only way to explain all this stuff!
    • joey
    • Joey
      No it isn't! No, it's not. Because you can also explain it with the truth!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, what is the truth?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, what's going on?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What's going on?
    • joey
    • Joey
      (thinking) I slept with Monica.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well let's....let's see what everybody thinks of that?
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh no!
    • ross
    • Ross
      You slept with my sister?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Uh yes, but it was, we just did it once uh, in London.
    • ross
    • Ross
      This is not good for my rage. (Takes another pill.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Monica, is this true?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Of course it's true! How else would you explain all the weird stuff that's been going on?
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yes it's true.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay, but if it only happened that one time, how come we found your underwear in our apartment the other day?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Ahh-oy! That was the underwear I was wearing that night in London. Right Monica?
    • monica
    • Monica
      I guess I wanted to keep it (Pause) as a souvenir.
    • ross
    • Ross
      My God Monica!!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Are you sure Joe? Are you sure you're not just a sex addict?
    • joey
    • Joey
      No! If anyone's a sex addict here, it's Monica! Yeah. Yeah. She has been trying to get me back in the sack ever since London!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      So that's why she gave you a naked picture of herself.
    • joey
    • Joey
      That makes sense!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      And the video camera?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Uhh, Monica?
    • monica
    • Monica
      I guess I set up the video camera to try and entice Joey.
    • joey
    • Joey
      But sadly I could not be enticed.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Unbelievable! I mean you really kept Joey's underwear?! Why? Why would you do that?!
    • monica
    • Monica
      I'm Monica. I'm disgusting. I stalk guys and keep their underpants.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, I think we've all learned something about who's disgusting and who's not. Eh? All right, now, I'm going to get back to my bucket. I'm only eating the skin, so the chicken's up for grabs. (Offers it to everyone.)
    • CLOSING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 13

      Monica and Phoebe's class; the class has ended and Phoebe is talking to one of her classmates.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I really thought you making a good point. I mean y'know, until you got cut off.
    • A Female Student
      Yeah, what's up with that girl Monica?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I don't know! I didn't come with her!
    • monica
    • Monica
      (entering, happily) All right everybody! Everybody guess what? I just convinced Paul to give us a test next week!
    • Everyone
      A test?!!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Come on! Tests make us all better learners! Oh yeah! (Running out) We should have essay questions!!
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