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    • new scene
    • Scene 1

      Monica and Rachel's apartment. Rachel is on the phone.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Mom, would you relax. That was 10 blocks from here and, the, the woman was walking alone at night, I would never do that. Mom, c'mon, stop worrying. This is a safe street, this is a safe building, there's nothing [a pigeon flies in the window and lands on the table] OH MY GOOOD, oh my God, oh I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. [hangs up] OK, that's fine, you just read the paper, I'm gonna get a pot, it's not for you. [grabs a pot and lid] OK, that's fine, read the Family Circus, enjoy the gentle comedy. [puts pot over the pigeon] Aaahh, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, aaaaahh. [knock at the door] It's open you guys.
    • [a stranger enters with flowers]
    • Stranger
      Hi.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hi, hi can I help you?
    • Stranger
      Yeah, I'm looking for Phoebe, does she still live here?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Uh, no she doesn't but I can, I can get a message to her.
    • Stranger
      Great. Uhh, just tell her her husband stopped by. [leaves flowers on bar]
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What? [in surprise she forgets she has the pigeon in the pot and lets it get away]
    • Stranger
      Hey, how, how did you do that?
    • OPENING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 2

      Monica and Rachels apartment. The whole gang is there.

    • joey
    • Joey
      This is unbelievable Phoebs, how can you be married?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, I mean, I'm not married married, ya know, he's just a friend and he's gay and he's just from Canada and he just needed a green card.
    • monica
    • Monica
      I can't believe you married Duncan. I mean how could you not tell me? We lived together, we told each other everything.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I'm sorry Monica but I knew if I told you, you'd get really, like, judgemental and you would not approve.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Of course I wouldn't approve, I mean, you were totally in love with this guy who, hello, was gay. I mean, what the hell were you thinking?
    • ross
    • Ross
      You see, and you thought she'd be judgemental.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      OK, I wasn't in love with him and I was just helping out a friend.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Please, when he left town you stayed in your pajamas for a month and I saw you eat a cheeseburger.
    • Everyone
      Huuh.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Well, didn't you?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I might have.
    • monica
    • Monica
      I can't believe you didn't tell me.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, c'mon, like you tell me everything.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What have I not told you?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, I don't know. Umm, how about the fact that the underwear out there on the telephone pole is yours from when you were having sex with Fun Bobby out on the terrace.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Wait a minute, who told you? [turns to Chandler who's looking sheepish] You are dead meat.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I didn't know it was a big secret.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh it's not big, not at all, you know, kinda the same lines as, say, oh I don't know, having a third nipple.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      You have a third nipple?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You bitch.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Whip it out, whip it out.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      C'mon, there's nothin' to see, it's just a tiny bump, it's totally useless.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh as, as opposed to your other multi-functional nipples?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I can't believe you. You told me it was a nubbin.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Joey, what did you think a nubbin was?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I don't know, you see somethin', you hear a word, I thought that's what it was. Let me see it again.
    • Everyone
      Yeah, show it. Show it. The nubbin, the nubbin, the nubbin.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Joey was in a porno movie.
    • Everyone
      Huuh.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      If I'm goin' down, I'm takin' everybody with me.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You were in a porno?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Ahh, alright, alright, alright, I was young and I just wanted a job, OK. But at the last minute I couldn't go through with it so they let me be the guy who comes in to fix the copier but can't 'cause there's people havin' sex on it.
    • monica
    • Monica
      That is wild.
    • ross
    • Ross
      [to Chandler] So what's it shaped like?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, is there a hair on it?
    • joey
    • Joey
      What happens if you flick it?
    • new scene
    • Scene 3

      Central Perk. Chandler, Ross, and Julie are sitting on the couch.

    • ross
    • Ross
      So, uh, does it do anything, you know, special?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Why yes Ross, pressing my third nipple opens the delivery entrance to the magical land of Narnia.
    • Julie
      You know, in some cultures having a third nipple is actually a sign of virility. You get the best huts and women dance naked around you.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Huh? Are, uh, any of these cultures, per chance, in the tri-state area?
    • ross
    • Ross
      You know, you are so amazing, is there anything you, you don't know?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      [to Monica at the counter] Ooh, Julie's so smart, Julie's so special.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Look honey, I wanted you to hook up with Ross as much as you did. But he's with her now and you're just gonna have to get over it.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ohh, I'm gonna have to get over it. God, see I didn't know that's I had to do, I just have to get over it.
    • [Phoebe enters all dressed up]
    • Everyone
      Woah.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Foxy lady.
    • Julie
      Where you goin'?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Um, I'm gonna go meet Duncan, he's skating tonight at the Garden, he's in the Capades.
    • joey
    • Joey
      The Ice Capades?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No, no the gravel capades. Yeah, the turns aren't as fast but when Snoopy falls. . . funny.
    • monica
    • Monica
      I can't believe you're dressing up for him. I mean, you're just, you're setting yourself up all over again.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      OK, no. For your information I'm going to see him so I can put all those feeling behind me. OK, and the reason I'm dressed like this is because I think it's nice to look nice for your gay husband.
    • ross
    • Ross
      [holding cream pitcher] Oh, darnit, we're all out of milk. [holds pitcher in front of Chandler's chest and flips the lid] Hey Chandler, would you fill me up here?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh I see, I see, because of the third nipple thing. Ha ha ha ha. . .
    • new scene
    • Scene 4

      Central Perk close to closing. Ross and Julie are still there. Rachel is cleaning tables.

    • ross
    • Ross
      OK sweetie, I'll see you later.
    • Julie
      See you later Rach.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Bye-bye Julie. [Julie leaves]
    • [Rachel is still cleaning, Ross is laying on the couch. Ross kicks Rachel in the butt.]
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hey.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Hey.
    • [Ross kicks her again]
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hey, c'mon, cut it out.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Hey?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Can I ask you somethin'?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Sure.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Naa.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What? C'mon, talk to me.
    • ross
    • Ross
      OK, what's the longest you've been in the relationship before ha, have, having the sex?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Why? Who's not having. . . Are you and Julie not, are, are you and, are you and Julie not having sex?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Technically, huh, no.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Wow. Is it, is it 'cause she's so cold in bed. Or, or is it 'cause she's like, kinda bossy, makes it feel like school?
    • ross
    • Ross
      No, no, she's great and it's not like we haven't done anything. I mean, uh, uh, we, we do plenty of other stuff, lot's of other stuff, like uhh. . .
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      No, no no no, don't need to know the details.
    • ross
    • Ross
      It's just, it's, it's me. You, you know I've only been with one woman my whole life and she turned out to be a lesbian. So now I've got myself all psyched out, you know, and it's become, like this, this thing and I. . . Well, you just must think I'm weird.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      No, no, no, no I don't think it's weird, I think, I think umm, in fact, in fact you know what I think?
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I think it's sexy.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Sexy?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Let me tell you something. As a woman there is nothing sexier than a man who does not want to have sex.
    • ross
    • Ross
      No kidding?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh yeah. In fact you know what I'd do?
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I'd wait.
    • ross
    • Ross
      You'd wait?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yes, absolutely. I would wait and wait. . . then I'd wait some more.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Really?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh yeah, I don't care how much she tells you she wants it, I don't care if begs, she pleads, she tells you she, she's gonna have sex with, with another man. That just means it's working.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Women really want this?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      More than jewelry. [Rachel struts off, extremely pleased with herself]
    • new scene
    • Scene 5

      Madison Square Garden. Duncan's dressing room.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hi.
    • Duncan
      Phoebe!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ta-da.
    • Duncan
      Hey.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hi.
    • Duncan
      Ahh, look at you, you look great.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Do I? Thank you, so do you.
    • Duncan
      Thanks.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Sparkly. So, wow, this is pretty wonerful, huh. Mr. major capades guy. I, I remember when you were just, like, King Friday in Mr. Roger's Ice is Nice.
    • Duncan
      You always said I'd make it.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, well, ya know, I'm kind of spooky that way. Wooo.
    • Duncan
      I missed you. [they hug] I'm gonna get changed.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      OK.
    • Duncan
      Um, now. Phoebs.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, right, OK. Ole.
    • Duncan
      What?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Um, the matador. [Duncan leaves] Ole, ha ha ha.
    • new scene
    • Scene 6

      Ross's apartment. Ross and Julie are setting the table.

    • ross
    • Ross
      Julie, can you hold this for a second, thanks. [hands her a bowl and kisses her]
    • [Chandler, Monica, Joey, and Rachel enter. Ross and Julie don't notice.]
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Uh, Julie.
    • Julie
      Yeah?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Sorry, you had a paleontologist on your face. But, uh, it's gone now, you're alright.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Hi everyone.
    • Everyone
      Hi.
    • ross
    • Ross
      [pulls Rachel aside] I just, I wanted to thank you for our uh, our little talk before.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, God, no problem. So you're gonna go with the uh, waiting thing?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, I was going to, but after I talked to you, I talked to Joey.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What did, what did he say?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Basically he told me to get over myself and just do it, ya know. So I though about what you said and I though about what he said and, well, his way I get to have sex tonight so. . .
    • new scene
    • Scene 7

      Ross's apartment. After dinner. Chandler enters.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What's this in my pocket? Why it's Joey's porno movie.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Pop it in.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'm fine with it, I mean, if you're OK watching a video filled with two nippled people. [Chandler puts the tape in]
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Great, people having sex, that's just what I need to see.
    • ross
    • Ross
      What's wrong with people having sex?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, well um, you know, these movies are offensive and uh, degrading to women and females. And uh, and the lighting's always unflattering. And, Monica help me out here.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Hell, I wanna see Joey.
    • [video starts with the cheesy porn disco music]
    • Julie
      So is there like a story or do they just stard doing it right. . . oh, never mind.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      OK, now wait a minute. That is the craziest typing test I've ever seen.
    • monica
    • Monica
      All I say is, she better get the job.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Looks to me like he's the one getting the job.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Shh, OK, here I come, here I come. See I'm comin' to fix the copier, I can't get to the copier, I'm thinkin' what do I do, what do I do. . . so I just watch 'em have sex. And then I say, wait, here's my line, [Joey from TV] you know that's bad fo r the paper tray.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Nice work my friend.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Thank you. Wait wait wait wait, you see me again. Hang on, the guy's butt's blockin' me. There I am, there I am, there I am, there I am, there I am. . .
    • new scene
    • Scene 8

      Madison Square Garden, Duncan's dressing room. Phoebe is fixing her hair and Duncan enters.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      So um, so what's up, you came to see me yesterday.
    • Duncan
      Oh, yeah, um, alright, I kinda need a divorce.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ohh. . .K. How come?
    • Duncan
      Umm, actually, I'm getting married again.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What?
    • Duncan
      Oh God, I don't know how to tell you this. I'm straight.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Huuh.
    • Duncan
      Yeah, I know, I.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I, I don't, I don't understand, how can you be straight? I mean, you're, you're so smart and funny and you throw such great Academy Award parties.
    • Duncan
      I know, that's what I kept telling myself but you just reach a point where you can't live a lie anymore.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      So how long have you known?
    • Duncan
      Well I guess on some level I always knew I was straight. I though I was supposed to be something else, you know, I'm an ice dancer, all my friends are gay, I was just tryin' to fit in.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      And um, and there's actually a, a woman?
    • Duncan
      Her name's Debra.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh. Well is she, is she the first that you've been with?
    • Duncan
      Well, I've never told you this but, there were one or two times, back in college, when I'd get really drunk, go to a straight bar and wake up with a woman next to me. But I, I, I told myself it was the liquor and e-everyone experiments in college.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Sure.
    • Duncan
      But now I know I don't have a choice about this, I was born this way.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I, I don't know what to say. I mean, you know, you're married to someone for six years and you think you know him and then one day says, 'Oh, I'm not gay.'
    • Duncan
      I'm, I'm still me.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Why couldn't you have just figured this out six years ago?
    • new scene
    • Scene 9

      Ross's apartment. Everyone is sitting around. Monica enters from bathroom.

    • monica
    • Monica
      You know, it still smells like monkey in there.
    • Julie
      That saves us a conversation.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, listen, this has been great but I'm officially wiped.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Me too, we should get goin'.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      No, no, I mean, no, c'mon you guys, I mean, c'mon look it's only eleven thirty. Let's just talk, we never just hang out and talk anymore.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Rachel, that's all we do.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Maybe that's all we do, what about Julie?
    • Julie
      What about Julie?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, you have been in our lives for nearly two months now and we don't really know you. I mean, who is Julie? I mean, what do you like, what don't you like? We wanna hear everything.
    • Julie
      Well, that could take a while.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      So. I mean, who here does not have the time to get to know Julie?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I got the time to get to know Julie.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I got time.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Rach, I know her pretty well, can I go? [Rachel gives her a look from hell] That's fine.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      OK Julie, so now let's start with your childhood, what was that like?
    • Julie
      Well, in a nutshell. . .
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Nah, uh, uh, uh, uh.
    • new scene
    • Scene 10

      Madison Square Garden, Duncan's dressing room. Phoebe is signing the divorce papers.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      So, um, have you told your parents?
    • Duncan
      No, but it'll be OK, they're pretty cool, my brother's straight so. . .
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      [handing him the papers] Here you go. You know what, I just have one more question, um, if you had figured this out sooner and um, I had been around, do you think that I would have been the one who. . . no, um, I'm sorry, don't tell me, I don't th ink either answer would make me feel better.
    • Duncan
      I love you Phoebe. [they hug and kiss]
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      So your brother's straigh huh? Seriously.
    • new scene
    • Scene 11

      Ross's apartment. Julie is telling her live story.

    • Julie
      And my second grade teacher was Ms. Thomas, and my first grade teacher was Mrs. Cobb.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Mrs., Mrs. Gobb?
    • Julie
      No Cobb, as in cobb salad.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Now, what exactly is in a cobb salad?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I'm goin' home.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      What?
    • [Outside in the hallway, Chandler, Joey, and Monica exit]
    • joey
    • Joey
      Boy that Julie's a talker, huh?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Goodnight.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      So, it's pretty late, you're probably uh, not still planning on. . .
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh, no no, I am.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, well, are hey, are you nervous?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Um, no, I uh, I have done it before.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Uh, OK, I mean uh, what, how are you gonna handle it. I mean, are, are ya gonna, are ya gonna talk about it before hand, are you just gonna pounce?
    • ross
    • Ross
      I uh, I don't know, I guess I'm just gonna see, see what happens.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      OK, gook luck.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Wha, uhh, what?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Nothing, I mean, um, it is your first time with her and, you know if the first time doesn't go well, well then that's, that's pretty darn hard to recover from.
    • ross
    • Ross
      OK, now I'm nervous.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Maybe you should put it off.
    • ross
    • Ross
      No, no, I don't wanna put it off, I just, God I just, I spent last year being so unbelievably miserable, ya know, and now, now I'm actually happy. You know, I mean, really happy. I just, I just don't wanna, I don't wanna mess it up, ya know.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I know, yeah, sorry.
    • ross
    • Ross
      What, it's not your fault.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Maybe it, maybe it doesn't have to be this tough. I mean, maybe you were on the right track with this whole, you know, spontaneous thing. I mean, women really like that.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Really?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, I mean, you know it, I mean, if it were me I, I, you know, I'd want you to, I don't know, like catch me off guard, you know, with like a really good kiss, you know really, sort of um, soft at first, then maybe um brush the hair away from my face, and look far into my eyes in a way that let's me know that something amazing is about to happen.
    • ross
    • Ross
      [being drawn in by her talk] Uh-huh.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      And then, I don't know, I mean you'd pull me really close to you so that, so that I'd be pressed up, you know, right against you. And, um, it would get kind of sweaty and uh, and blurry, and then it's just happening.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Ohh. . . Thanks Rach, goodnight. [goes back in apartment]
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ohh, God.
    • CLOSING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 12

      The next morning on the street. Ross is dancing along, Singing in the Rain is playing. Two old ladies are sitting on a bench.

    • ross
    • Ross
      Good morning.
    • Old woman
      Well, somebody got some last night.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Twice.
    • END