Phoebe struggles to connect with her half-brother Frank. Joey builds an entertainment center. Ross is challenged to name his top five celebrity crushes.
15 Scenes287 Lines
Scene 1
Chandler and Joey's, there is lumber all over the apartment
13 lines
Chandler
(entering) Hey!
Joey
Hey!
Chandler
Hey-hey-hey. So what happened? A forest tick you off?
Joey
No. Y'know how we're always saying we need a place for the mail.
Chandler
Yeah!
Joey
Well, I started building one. But then I decided to take it to the next step.
Chandler
You're building a post office?
Joey
No, an entertainment unit, with a mail cubby built right in. It's a one day job, max.
Chandler
Okay. (notices that Joey is wearing some really tight jeans) My word! Those are snug.
Joey
Oh yeah. These are my old work pants, Sergio Valente's.
(Chandler goes to his bedroom and opens the door. However, only the top half opens, and he trips into his bedroom over the bottom half.)
Joey
Power saw kinda got away from me there.
OPENING CREDITS
Scene 2
Outside Central Perk, Phoebe is pacing back and forth waiting for someone.
9 lines
Rachel
(joining Phoebe outside) Hey Pheebs.
Phoebe
Hey!
Rachel
Any sign of your brother?
Phoebe
No, but he's always late.
Rachel
I thought you only met him once?
Phoebe
Yeah, I did. I think it sounds y'know big sistery, y'know, 'Frank's always late.'
Rachel
Well relax, he'll be here.
Phoebe
No, I know, I'm just nervous. Y'know it's just y'know Mom's dead, don't talk to my sister, Grandma's been sleeping a lot lately. It's like the last desperate chance to have a family, y'know, kinda thing. You're so sweet to wait with me.
Rachel
Well, actually Gunther sent me. You're not allowed to have cups out here, it's a thing. (takes her cup and goes back inside)
Scene 3
inside Central Perk
45 lines
Chandler
Does anyone else think David Copperfield is cute?
Monica
No, but he told me, he thinks your a fox.
Chandler
All right, Janice, likes him. In fact she likes him so much she put him on her freebie list.
Joey
Her what?
Chandler
Well, we have a deal, where we each get to pick five celebrities that we can sleep with, and the other one can't get mad.
Ross
Ah, the heart of every healthy relationship. Honesty, respect, and sex with celebrities.
Monica
So, Chandler, who's on your list?
Chandler
Ah, Kim Basinger, Cindy Crawford, Halle Berry, Yasmine Bleeth, and ah, Jessica Rabbit.
Rachel
Now, you do realize that she's a cartoon, and way out of your league?
Chandler
I know, I know, I just always wondered if I could get her eyes to pop out of her head.
Joey
Hey, Monica, who would yours be?
Monica
First, I need a boyfriend, then I can have a list.
Joey
It's just a game Mon. (makes a 'Can-you-believe-her' face to the rest of the gang.) Rach, how about you?
Rachel
Oh, I don't know, I guess, Chris O'Donnel, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Daniel Day Lewis, Sting, and Parker Stevenson.
Ross
Spiderman?
Rachel
Hardy Boy.
Chandler
Peter Parker.
Ross
Thank you.
Rachel
What about you honey, who would be on your list?
Ross
Well I-I-I, that kind of thing requires some serious thought. First, I'll divide my perspective canidates into catergories....
Chandler
(coughing) What a geek!
Phoebe
(entering) Everbody this is Frank! This is my half-brother Frank.
Everyone
Oh, hi.
Phoebe
This is everybody. This is Ross.
Frank
How are you?
Ross
Hey.
Phoebe
Chandler.
Chandler
Hi.
Frank
Hi.
Phoebe
Joey.
Joey
Hey-hey!
Frank
Hey.
Phoebe
This is Monica.
Frank
Whoa!
Phoebe
And this is Rachel.
Rachel
Hi!
Frank
Whoa!!
Phoebe
I'm gonna get coffee.
Frank
Hey, how do you guys get anything done?
Chandler
We don't, really.
Rachel
Well, so, now, do you guys have a lot of big plans?
Phoebe
Oh yeah! Yeah, no, we're gonna connect, y'know bond, and everything.
Frank
Yeah, I was thinking that maybe we could go down to Time Square and pick up some ninja stars. And, oh, um, my friend Larry, he wants me to take a picture of a hooker.
Chandler
You know, we don't really take advantage of living in the city.
Joey
I know.
Scene 4
Chandler and Joey's, Joey is drilling a hole in the wall and the drill comes out the other side really close to Chandler's head. Chandler then rushes out to talk to Joey.
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Joey
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I get 'ya?
Chandler
No, you didn't get me!! It's an electric drill, you get me, you kill me!!
Joey
Calm down, do you want this unit or not?
Chandler
I do NOT want this unit!!
Joey
Well, you should've told me that before, I'm not a mind reader. Hey, we're out of beer. I'm going to Monica's.
Chandler
Fine! (goes into his room and slams the door, then he slams the bottom half of the door.)
Scene 5
Monica and Rachel's, Joey is entering
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Monica
Hey! Where 'ya headin' in those pants? 1982?
Joey
Oh Monica, listen, I ah, I saw down at the hardware store, they got those designer tiles on sale. If you ever want to redo the bathroom floor.
Monica
Why, what's wrong with my bathroom floor?
Joey
Nothing. It's just old and dingy, that's all.
Monica
I highly doubt that. (they both go to the bathroom)
Joey
Oh yeah. If you ah, move your hamper, you see what color the tile used to be. (Monica gasps) Yeah.
Monica
I can't live like this! What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
Joey
Relax. Here hold this (hands her his beer). This old stuff just comes right off. (he bends down to try and lift some tile right in the middle of the floor, in his tight pants.)
Monica
That's a little more than I wanted to see.
Joey
(manages to pry off only a small piece) Aw! Look at that, every inch of this stuff is glued down. It'd take forever to pry this up. You should ah, you should just leave it. (starts to walk away, but Monica grabs him)
Monica
I can't leave it! You gouged a hole in my dingy floor.
(Joey places the toliet brush and holder over the hole, which is in the middle of the floor.)
Joey
Eh! There you go.
Monica
You know that's nice, y'know we could put it back there after the surgeons remove it from your colon!
Scene 6
Phoebe's, Frank and her, are sitting on the counh, watching Tv
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Phoebe
(sits up) Oh, ew!
Frank
What?
Phoebe
Yeah I know what I wanted to ask you. Um, can you roll your tongue? Because I can, and my Mom couldn't, and I thought y'know, I figured that was something I got from our Dad.
Frank
What, wait, you mean like this? (does it)
Phoebe
Yeah, yeah. You can do it to. (tries to do it, but can't)
Frank
Your not doing it.
Phoebe
Oh right, yeah okay, my Mom could, and I can't. We don't have that....
Frank
When's your birthday?
Phoebe
Feburary 16th.
Frank
I know a guy who's the 18th.
Phoebe
Wow, that's close. When's yours?
Frank
October 25th.
Phoebe
That's the same month as Halloween. So, um, what kinda things do you like to do at home?
Frank
Melt stuff.
Scene 7
Central Perk, Ross is working on his list
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Ross
Okay, I've got three of my five.
Rachel
Three of your five, what?
Ross
Celebrities I'm allowed to sleep with.
Rachel
Oh my God! You are giving this a lot of thought.
Ross
Yeah, it's hard okay, I only have two spots left.
Chandler
All right, so who do you got it narrowed down to?
Ross
Okay, Elizabeth Hurely....
Chandler
Oooh-hoo, very attractive, forgiving.
Ross
Susan Sarandon.
Chandler
Eh, y'know what, she's to political, she probably wouldn't let you do it, unless you donated four cans of food first.
Ross
And!! Isabella Rosselini.
Chandler
Ooh-hoo. Very hot, very sexy. But ah, y'know she's too international, y'know she's never gonna be around.
Rachel
So?
Chandler
So, you gotta play the odds, pick somebody who's gonna be in the country like all the time.
Rachel
Yeah, 'cause that's why you won't get Isabella Rosselini, geography.
Scene 8
Phoebe's, Frank is melting a plastic spoon.
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Phoebe
Okay so, by melting, you meant melting.
Frank
Yeah.
Phoebe
So is it like art?
Frank
Yeah, you can melt art. Hey, can I use your phone?
Phoebe
Um, yeah sure. Why you wanna call your Mom?
Frank
No, I wanna melt it.
Phoebe
Oh, well um, not right now. Y'know I'm just gonna go to bed, I think the fumes are giving me a headache.
Frank
(starts laughing) Yeah!
Phoebe
G'night, bro.
Frank
G'night.
Phoebe
Here. (gives him a fire extinguisher) Y'know, just in case.
Frank
Oh, excellent. (starts to melt the fire extinguisher's hose.)
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Scene 9
Monica and Rachel's, Phoebe is eating breakfast with Monica while Frank is playing with num-chucks on the balcony
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Monica
What kind of karate is that?
Phoebe
No kind. He just makes it up.
Monica
So how's it going with you guys?
Phoebe
So far, it kinda blows. I don't know, I just thought y'know that he'd feel more like a brother y'know, like you and Ross, just like close and connected and....
Monica
Oh honey, we're close now but you-you wouldn't believe the years of-of nugies, and wedgies, and flying wedgies, and atomic wedgies, and....(Phoebe shakes her head like she doesn't understand) That's where the waistband actually goes over your head.
Phoebe
Ah!!
Monica
Oh, we used to drive each other crazy playing the shadow game.
Phoebe
Oh, how do you play the shadow game?
Monica
Oh, how do you play the shadow game?
Phoebe
I just asked you.
Monica
I just asked you.
Phoebe
I don't have time for this.
Monica
No, that is what the game is.
Phoebe
Which you just gave up really quickly.
Chandler
(entering) Have you seen Joey?
Monica
What's the matter?
Chandler
Oh, just this! (turns around and has a paint lid stuck to the back of his pants.) Y'know what it's my fault really, because the couch is usually where we keep the varnish.
Joey
(yelling from bathroom) Hey, does somebody wanna hand me one of those tiles.
Chandler
What's going on?
Monica
He's retiling my floor. (they both run to the bathroom)
Chandler
Yo!! Spackel boy! Get up!
Monica
Ah-ah-ah, now you started this, you will finish it.
Chandler
He started mine first!
Phoebe
Build the unit Cinderelly, lay the tile Cinderelly.
Scene 10
Phoebe's, Phoebe and Frank are watching Tv.
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Frank
Whoa! Big octopus.
Phoebe
Yeah. (phone rings and Phoebe answers it) 'Hello. (listens) Oh my God, I totally forgot! (listens) Well can't someone else do it. (listens) But, I have company. (listens) Yeah, no look, that's all right I'll come in.' (hangs up phone) Um, Frank, I'm really sorry but I have to go to work. It's-it's one of my regulars and he's insisting that I do 'um.
Frank
Hey, what kind of work do you do?
Phoebe
Oh! I'm a masseuse. I give people massages and stuff.
Frank
You-you work at one of those massage parlors?
Phoebe
Well, y'know we don't call it that, but yeah!
Frank
(starts laughing) Wow! That's wild! No, I had no idea.
Phoebe
All righty. I'll be back in-in a little bit. Unless you wanna come with me?
Frank
You mean like watch?
Phoebe
No, no, you can get one yourself. It'll be on the house! Y'know what are big sisters for?
Frank
Well, I don't think this, y'know.
Phoebe
No, no, no, I wouldn't do you myself, I mean that would be weird. Yeah, no, I'll get one of the other girls to do it. Oh, this will be so much fun! Hey! Are you excited?
Frank
Yeah! Hey, do Monica and Rachel work there?
Scene 11
Monica and Rachel's bathroom, Joey and Monica are admiring the new floor.
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Monica
It's beautiful! It's like the first bathroom floor there ever was. (Chandler tries to go to the bathroom) Whoa! Are you going in there for?
Chandler
What, like a number?
Ross
(entering) Hey!
Chandler
Hi! Bye! (runs to the bathroom)
Ross
Okay, I'm done with my choices, these are final. (holds up a little card)
Rachel
Well, it's about time.
Joey
Ooh, very official.
Ross
Oh, yeah, well y'know Chandler printed it up on his computer.
Monica
And who laminated it?
Ross
That would be me.
Rachel
All right let me see. (grabs the card) Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder, Elizabeth Hurely, Michelle Pfieffer, and Dorothy Hammel?
Ross
Hey, it's my list.
Rachel
Okay honey, you do realize she only spins like that on ice.
Scene 12
Healing Hands Inc. (Phoebe's work), Frank is being ushered in, by the arm, to the room Phoebe is in by another girl.
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Frank
Ow!-Ow!-Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Y'know, ow!
Phoebe
Hey!-Hey! What's going on?
Frank
She broke my arm.
Girl
He touched my fanny.
Frank
No, she touched mine first!
Girl
That's my job!
Frank
So wait, what's the deal here, I can have sex with you, but I can't touch you?
Phoebe And Girl
Ewww!!!
Phoebe
You can't have sex with her!
Girl
What'd you think I was, a hooker?
Frank
No, your a masseuse, it's cool, I'm not a cop.
Phoebe
Okay, Jasmine, can you, can you ask Mr. Whiffler if he can wait for like five minutes.
Jasmine
Fine. (starts to leave, and points at Frank) I don't like you!! (leaves)
Phoebe
(turns around and hits Frank) So that's what you thought I did!! God! That's not what I do!
Frank
Wait that's-that's, what that's not what you do?
Phoebe
Nooo! Why would you think that?
Frank
I don't know, I mean, y'know, this is the city y'know, I just, I mean, I don't know.
Phoebe
Whatever, it's the perfect end to the perfect weekend anyways.
Frank
Oh, wait, no your right, no it was perfect and I can't believe that I screwed it up so bad.
Phoebe
You really thought it was perfect?
Frank
Well, no, maybe-maybe it wasn't perfect, but y'know it was pretty cool, y'know, 'cause we had all those great talks y'know.
Phoebe
Yeah, um, which ones in particular were great for you?
Frank
Well y'know about the tongue thing, y'know, and how I told you about my likes and my dislikes...
Phoebe
I don't....
Frank
How-how I like to melt stuff, and how I dislike stuff that doesn't melt.
Phoebe
Right, okay, um-mm.
Frank
Yeah, y'know I feel like I can really talk to you 'cause y'know you're my sister, y'know.
Phoebe
Yeah, I guess I do, yeah.
Frank
Then I go feel your friend up and make you mad at me.
Phoebe
Well, I-I wasn't hopping mad, y'know.
Frank
You hopped a little bit. Yeah, I really sorry.
Phoebe
Okay. All right, this is my favourite part of the weekend, right now, this.
Frank
This?
Phoebe
Uh-huh.
Frank
Oh come on we went, we went to Time Square, we found ninja stars, I almost got arm broken by a hooker...
Phoebe
She wasn't a hooker.
Frank
Well, when I tell my friends about her she will be.
Scene 13
Chandler and Joey's, everyone is there, helping to lift the entertainment center into place
21 lines
Chandler
Okay, on three. One....Two....
Joey
Why don't we just go on two.
Chandler
Why two?
Joey
Because it's faster.
Chandler
Yeah, I coulda counted to three like four times without all this 'two' talk.
Rachel
Oh!
Joey
All right, but in the future...
Ross
Okay!! Okay!!
Rachel
Come on!
Ross
Heavy thing, not getting lighter!
Chandler
Okay, one...two...
Joey
So we are going on two?
Everyone
All right!! (they lift it into place, however there is one small problem, the unit is so long that it blocks some of both of their bedroom doors.)
Chandler
Oh, good job Joe.
Joey
Wow, it's big!
Chandler
Yeah-yeah, so big that it actually makes our doors look smaller!
Joey
Maybe, my ruler's wrong.
Phoebe
Maybe all the rulers are wrong.
Joey
Look it's not that bad. So what, it blocks a little of your door, a little of my door.
Chandler
Yeah, y'know what I got a better idea. How-how 'bout it blocks none of mine door and a lot of yours? (throws his shoulder into the center to try and move it, but it doesn't move.)
Joey
Yeah, listen, before I forget that side is still wet.
Scene 14
Central Perk, Rachel is serving some guy coffee.
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Rachel
Okay sir, um-mm, let see if I got this right. Ah, so this is a half-caf, double tall, easy hazel nut, non-fat, no foam, with whip, extra hot latte, right? (the guy nods) Okay, great. (she starts to walk away and under her breath) You freak.
(Isabella Rosselini enters)
Ross
(to Gunther) Thank you.
Isabella
(to Gunther) Um, coffee to go, please.
(Ross recognises her and goes over to the couch, mouthing 'Oh my God')
Ross
Isabella Rosselini. (points to her)
Monica
Are you serious? (they all look) Oh my God.
Ross
Damn! I can't believe I took her off my list.
Monica
Why? 'Cause otherwise you'd go for it?
Ross
Yeah, maybe.
Rachel
Oh-oh, you lie.
Ross
What you don't think I'd go up to her?
Rachel
Ross, it took you ten years to finally admit you liked me.
Ross
Yeah, well missy, you better be glad that list is laminated.
Rachel
You know what honey, you go ahead, we'll call her an alternate.
Ross
Okay, hold my crawler.
Rachel
Okay.
Monica
Rach, are you really gonna let him do this?
Rachel
Honey, he's about to go hit on Isabella Rosselini. I'm just sorry we don't got popcorn.
Ross
(to Isabella) Hi! Hi, I'm Ross, you don't know me, but I'm a big, big fan of yours. I mean, Blue Velvet, woo-oo hoo! Um, I was wondering if I could um, maybe buy you a cup of coffee? (Gunther hands her change) Or maybe reimburse you for that one?
Isabella
Aren't you with that girl over there? (points at Rachel, who waves back)
Ross
Well, yeah, kinda. Um, but that's okay, see we have an understanding, um, see we each have this list of five famous people, (gets his out) so I'm allowed to sleep with you. No, no, no, it's flattery.
Isabella
I'm sorry. (starts to leave)
Ross
Oh no, no, no, wait, wait, Isabella. Don't, don't just dismiss this so fast. I mean this is a once in a lifetime opportunity...
Isabella
Yeah, for you. Is that the list?
Ross
Um, yeah.
Isabella
May I see it?
Ross
Um, no.
Isabella
Come on! (grabs the list)
Ross
But, okay.
Isabella
(reading it) I'm not on the list!
Ross
Um, see, but that's not the final draft.
Isabella
It's laminated!
Ross
Yeah, um, okay see, you were, you were on the list but my friend, Chandler (Chandler waves) brought up the very good point that you are international, so I bumped you for Wynona Rider, local.
Isabella
Y'know it's ironic...
Ross
What?
Isabella
...because I have a list of five goofy coffee house guys and yesterday I bumped you for that guy over there. (points at a guy and leaves)
Ross
(to the rest of the gang) We're just gonna be friends.
CLOSING CREDITS
Scene 15
Chandler and Joey's, they are admiring the entertainment center
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Joey
Y'know what?
Chandler
Umm?
Joey
I bet 'ya ya I could fit in there. (points to a hole in the center)
Chandler
I've got five bucks says you can't.
Joey
Get out your checkbook, mister.
Chandler
Oh, I think I have the cash.
(Joey successfully enters the entertainment center, and Chandler closes the door on Joey.)
Joey
You are dogged man! I totally fit!
Chandler
Yeah, you got me. (picks up a 2x4 and puts it through the handles so that the doors won't open) I'm out five big ones! (puts the money in the crack between the door and frame) Here you go.
Joey
Thank you. Cha-ching! (Chandler starts to leave) Oh, well hello Mr. Lincoln. Better luck next time buddy. (Chandler leaves and closes the door) And the drinks are on me!