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    • new scene
    • Scene 1

      Monica and Rachel's, Phoebe, Chandler, and Ross are there, Rachel is serving brownies.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Here you go Pheebs. Who else wants one of my special homemade brownies?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I will have one. (Ross and him both take one.)
    • (Phoebe takes a bite and spits it out and screams.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Okay, I'm not gonna have one.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Neither will I. (they both put back the brownies.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      No, no, it's just my tooth.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right I'll have one. (he and Ross take another brownie,)
    • ross
    • Ross
      So what's a matter, you need a dentist? I've got a good one.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      No thanks, I have a good one too. I just, I, I can't see him.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      See that is the problem with invisible dentists.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Why? Why can't you go to him?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Because, every time I go to the dentist, somebody dies.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      That is so weird, because every time I go to the dentist, I look down the hygienist's blouse.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Phoebe, what? Umm...what?!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, yeah, first there was my aunt Mary, and then there was umm, John, my mailman, and then my, my cowboy friend 'Albino Bob'.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      And all these people actually died?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yes, while I was in the chair! That's why I take such good care of my teeth now, y'know, it's not about oral hygiene, I floss to save lives!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Pheebs, come on, you didn't kill anybody, these people just happened to die when you went to the dentist. It's, it's, it's just ah, a coincidence.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well tell that to them. Oh! You can't, their dead.
    • OPENING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 2

      Central Perk, Ross, Rachel, and Phoebe are there.

    • ross
    • Ross
      Thanks, Gunther. (takes the plate Gunther serves him and Rachel comes up and kisses him) (to Rachel) Hey! (to Gunther) Umm, can I get a napkin too?
    • Gunther
      Oh, like you don't already have everything.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (trying to bite into an apple) Ow! Ow! (drops the apple in disgust.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Phoebe, your in pain, would you just go to the dentist, just go.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      All right, fine, fine, but if you're my next victim, don't come back as a poltergeist and like suck me into the TV set.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I promise.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Although, don't feel like you can't visit.
    • joey
    • Joey
      (entering with Monica) Hey, is, is, is Chandler here?
    • ross
    • Ross
      (patting his clothes like he is looking for his wallet) No, no he's not.
    • monica
    • Monica
      You guys, Joey just saw Janice kissing her ex-husband.
    • ross
    • Ross
      What? (to Joey) So what are you going to do? I mean how, how are you going to tell Chandler?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, I was thinking about that and I, I think the best way would be, to not.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Joey, you can't keep this to yourself, if you know about this, you have to tell him.
    • joey
    • Joey
      It'll kill him. I mean it'll, it'll just kill him.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, you could wait 'til I go to the dentist, maybe I'll kill him.
    • new scene
    • Scene 3

      Monica and Rachel's, All are there except for Chandler.

    • joey
    • Joey
      (looking out the window) Ewww! Ugly Naked Guy is using his new hammock. It's like a Play-Doo Fat Factory.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, I'm going to the dentist, so listen, okay, just be on the look out for anything that, that, that you can fall into, or, or that can fall on you, or... All right, just look out! Okay, And um, I also just wanna, I just wanna tell you all that um...... (starts to cry and runs out)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Okay, I have a problem I have to go into work for a few hours, some kids messed up the Homo Sapien display.
    • joey
    • Joey
      What did they do?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, they painted over the word 'Sapien' for one thing, then they rearranged the figures, let's just leave it at that.
    • monica
    • Monica
      So, do you want me to watch Ben for you?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yes, that's what I was going to ask, thank you.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Whoa! Wait! Hello! What about me?
    • ross
    • Ross
      You? You! Want to watch Ben? (in the background Monica mouths 'Don't worry, I'll be here the whole time.' to Ross.) Yes! That'd be great, no, I just wanted to ask Monica, because I know how empty her life is. (Monica sarcastically mouths 'Yeah!' and holds up her thumb.)
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey-hey, Ross?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I've got a science question.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Hmm?
    • joey
    • Joey
      If the Homo Sapiens, were in fact 'Homo-sapien', is that why there extinct?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Joey, Homo Sapiens are people.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey-hey, I'm not judging.
    • new scene
    • Scene 4

      Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Rachel are babysitting Ben.

    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (holding Ben) Look Benny, spoon. (moves it back and forth) Spoon. Come on! All right, y'know what I think he's bored.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Here. Ben, do you wanna play the airplane game, do you wanna show Rachel? Come here. (takes Ben) We're gonna do something fun. Okay. (throws Ben up in the air a little bit and catches him) Weee!! (moves into the living room and does it again) Weee!! (starts to walk back into the kitchen as she does it again, and hits Ben's head on that wooden beam across the ceiling.)
    • [cut to later]
    • monica
    • Monica
      (to Ben) Who's so brave, you're so brave, yes you are, you're so brave.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay. Okay honey, he's fine, he's fine, let's just put him down. Come here, Ben. (sets him on the couch) See that's a good boy. (to Monica) How could you do that to him!! Ross trusted me, what is he going to say?!
    • monica
    • Monica
      He's not gonna say anything, because we're not gonna tell him.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      We're not?!
    • monica
    • Monica
      No we're not.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      All right, I like that.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      So we're okay, we're okay, we're okay, (starts to exam Ben) aren't we? No, we're not okay, we're not okay, there's a bump, there's a bump.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh my God! Well push it in! Push it in!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I cannot push it in!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay, we're gonna need a distraction.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay, okay, okay.
    • monica
    • Monica
      I got it!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay.
    • monica
    • Monica
      The second that Ross walks in that door, I want you take him back to your bedroom and do whatever it is that you do that makes him go, (high pitched) rweee!!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Or. We could put a hat on his head.
    • monica
    • Monica
      A hat! Yes! We need a hat.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      We need a hat..
    • monica
    • Monica
      Where are we gonna find a tiny little hat?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, oh, oh, I'll get 'Rainy Day Bear'!! (runs to get him)
    • monica
    • Monica
      Because he'll know what to do? (Rachel comes out of her room with a bear that's dressed in a rain suit.) Oh my God, you're a genius!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh God, oh God, it's sowed on though.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Give it. Give it.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay.
    • (Monica takes the bear, grabs his hat, and rips off his head.)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh!!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, it's just like a bloodbath in here today.
    • new scene
    • Scene 5

      The street, Chandler and Joey are walking past a jewelery store.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Hey! Hold on a minute, hold on a second. Do you think these pearls are nice?
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'd really prefer a mountain bike.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Janice's birthday is coming up, I want to get her something speacial. Come in here with me.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, whoa. Do you ah, want to get her something speacial, get her flowers, get her candy, get her gum, girls love gum.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      That's a good idea, 'Dear Janice have a Hubba-Bubba birthday'. I would like to get her something serious.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh, you want something serious. Y'know what you should do, you should get her one of those um, barium enemas. Those are dead serious.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right. Look, I'm gonna go in here, and you don't buy me anything ever. (starts to go into the store)
    • joey
    • Joey
      (stopping him) No, no, you can't, you can't, okay, you can't, you can't buy her pearls, you just can't, you can't, you can't.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Why not?!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh God. Uh, okay, here's the thing, this is the thing, okay, the thing is...
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What is the thing?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Okay. I went down to the 'Mattress King' showroom and, and I saw Janice, kissing her ex-husband.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (shocked) What?
    • joey
    • Joey
      They were in his office.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well she, she wouldn't do that, she's with, she's with me.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'm telling you man, I saw it.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah, well, you're wrong! Okay, you're wrong.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'm not wrong! I wish I was. I'm sorry. Bet that barium enema doesn't sound so bad now, huh?
    • new scene
    • Scene 6

      Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Rachel are dressing up Ben in the entire rain suit from Rainy Day Bear.

    • monica
    • Monica
      It just makes more sense as an ensemble.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Right.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Besides, it takes the focus off the hat.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (running through the door) No! Oh! You're alive! You're alive!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      See Pheebs, I promised you no one would die, didn't I?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, well, we'll see about that. Can I use your phone? I just wanna call everyone I know.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Sure, we have no money, go ahead.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (on phone) 'Hey! You're not dead! Okay, see ya!'
    • Ben
      Monica.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh my God! He just said my name! Did you hear that?
    • Ben
      Monica bang!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Okay, I heard that.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Did he just say 'Monica bang'?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Uh-huh.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh my God! He's gonna rat me out!
    • Ben
      Monica bang!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh-ho-ho, sweetie, sweetie, you gotta stop saying that, now. It's no big deal, it's not even worth mentioning, you see we all do it all the time. See watch this, Ben, Ben, Ben. (goes over and starts hitting her head on the post) Ow, Monica bang! (does it again) Everybody bang. (repeats) Ben bang. (repeats) Rachel bang. (repeats) Bang, Rachel bang! Oh, isn't that fun?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (goes over and hits her head on the post) Look at that! (repeats) Look at that! (repeats) We all do it. (repeats) Okay, I'm stopping now.
    • monica
    • Monica
      You okay?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh yeah! Y'know, if it's not a headboard, it's just not worth it.
    • new scene
    • Scene 7

      Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is waiting for Janice to arrive, and is angrily fllipping through a magazine.

    • Janice
      (entering) How's my Bing-a-ling?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Ah, I don't know, you tell me. Anything you ah, wanna tell me, because, if you ah, you should, if you, you would, tell me.
    • Janice
      Why are your eyes so white?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You tell me! Maybe, it's because I was just fooling with my ex! Oh no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no, that was you!!
    • Janice
      Oh my God!!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right!
    • Janice
      How did you know?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Joey told me, he saw you two kissing.
    • Janice
      In the park?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No! In his office! How many kisses were there?
    • Janice
      Just those two!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Wh-wh-why, wh-why, why, why was there kissing!? There should be no kissing!!
    • Janice
      Oh, I'm sorry honey, I'm so, so, (nasally) haaaaa! I'm so, so sorry, I just (nasally) haaaaaa! But I, oh what happened was, I-I-I can't breathe. Can you get me a bag, or something?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (giving her a bag) Here.
    • (Janice starts to breath into it and sucks in the reciept, and then spits it out.)
    • Janice
      The receipt.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I'll take it! All right look, I gotta know. Are you finished with me? (Janice shakes her head no) Are you finished with him? (Janice shakes her head no) Do you still love him? (Janice shakes her head yes) Do you still love me? (Janice shakes her head yes) All right look, (grabs the bag) I'm gonna need an actual answer here okay, so which is it, him or me? (his phone starts to ring)
    • Janice
      I don't know.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (rushing in) Okay. If you're alive you answer your phone!
    • COMMERCIAL BREAK
    • new scene
    • Scene 8

      Monica and Rachel's, Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, and Joey are there.

    • monica
    • Monica
      Okay, Ben, I won't tell your daddy that you had ice cream for dinner, if you don't tell about our little bonking incident.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Monica, number one, I don't think Ben understands the concept of bribery, and number two, I... (Joey starts laughing in the background) (to Joey) What?!
    • joey
    • Joey
      You said number two.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I also said number one.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I know. (giggles harder)
    • ross
    • Ross
      (entering) Hey! Everyone.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hi!
    • ross
    • Ross
      How's my little boy?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      He's perfect, he's never been better.
    • ross
    • Ross
      (noticing the outfit he is wearing) What'd you do, take him whaling?
    • Ben
      Monica.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh my God, he just said your name, that's great! Good job Ben.
    • Ben
      Monica bang!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh that's right, that's what I'd sound like if I exploded.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Woo-Hoo! The curse is broken! I called everybody I know, and everyone is alive.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Uh.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      What?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Ugly Naked Guy looks awfully still. (Phoebe runs to the window and gasps.)
    • [Cut to later, all except Chandler are staring out the window at Ugly Naked Guy.]
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh my God! I killed him! I killed another one! And this curse is getting stronger too, to bring down something that big.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well maybe he's just taking a nap.
    • joey
    • Joey
      I'm tellin' ya, he hasn't moved since this morning.
    • monica
    • Monica
      All right, we should call somebody.
    • ross
    • Ross
      And tell them what? The naked guy we stare at all the time isn't moving.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, we have gotta find out if he's alive.
    • monica
    • Monica
      How are we gonna do that? There's no way.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, there is one way. His window's open, I say, we poke him.
    • new scene
    • Scene 9

      Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is throwing darts, as Joey enters.

    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey! Y'know how we ah, save all those chopsticks for no reason we get when we get Chinese food?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, now we got a reason.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, we're fashioning a very long poking device.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey uh, what's a matter?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I talked to Janice.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh my God, is she going back to him?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      She doesn't know. Says she loves us both. Y'know I woke up this morning and I was in love, well I was happy. Y'know it serves me right for buying that twelve pack of condoms. And now I can't even return them, because she choked on the reciept!
    • joey
    • Joey
      What are you ah, what are you gonna do?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I don't know, y'know. What, what, would you do?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, it doesn't matter what I would do.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Come on, tell me.
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right, you're probably not gonna want to hear this but ah, if it was me, and this is just me, (Chandler gets ready to throw another dart) I would ah, I would bow out.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      What? (turns around quickly still ready to throw the dart and Joey quickly ducks and hides behind the chair) What are you, what are you talking about?
    • joey
    • Joey
      They have a kid together, y'know. They're like, they're like a family, and if, I don't know, there's chance they could make that work, I know I wouldn't want to be the guy who stood in the way of that. Are you okay? Do you wanna ah, come poke a nude guy?
    • new scene
    • Scene 10

      Monica and Rachel's, Ross has just finished putting Ben to sleep, and is entering from Rachel's room.

    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, he's finally alseep. About that ah, bump on his head?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Are you, are you, are you sure it's ah, a new bump? I mean, no offense, I've always thought of Ben as a fairly bumpy headed child.
    • ross
    • Ross
      It's okay if he bumps his head, kids bump their heads all the time, y'know, it was your first time babysitting, I figured you did the best you could.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      (confidently) I did!
    • ross
    • Ross
      I know! I'm saying you have to watch them all the time.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I did!! I watched! I watched! I watched Monica bang his head against that thing!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Monica did it?
    • (Monica runs into the kitchen from the terrace.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Monica?
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Umm, did you notice anything wierd about Ben today?
    • monica
    • Monica
      No. Why?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, I was just playing with him, and y'know we were doing the alphabet song, which he used to be really good at, but suddenly he's leaving out 'e' and 'f.' It's like they just ah, I don't know, fell out of his head.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Really?!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Oh, and also, he's, he's walkin' kind of funny, his left leg is moving a lot faster than his right leg, and he's in there just sort of y'know... (walks around in a circle)
    • monica
    • Monica
      Oh my God, I wrecked your baby!! (runs into the bedroom)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I hope it's still funny when you're in hell.
    • monica
    • Monica
      (coming out of the bedroom) You jerk! You know how much I love that kid! (starts to chase Ross around the living room)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Monica bang! Monica bang! (runs into one of the posts) Ow!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      I'll get the hat.
    • new scene
    • Scene 11

      Central Perk, Chandler and Janice are there.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Janice, I have something I need to tell you, and I want you to let me get through it, because it's, it's, it's not gonna be easy.
    • Janice
      Okay.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I think you should go back with Gary. I don't wanna be the guy that breaks up a family, y'know when my parents split up, it was because of that guy. Whenever I would see him I was always think y'know 'You're the reason, you are the reason why their not together.' and I hated that guy. And it didn't matter how nice he was, or how happy he made my Dad.
    • Janice
      Wow!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah, well. It's the right thing to do.
    • Janice
      Oh! You're right. Oh God. But, before I can say 'good-bye', there's something I really need you to know, Chandler. The way I feel about you, it's like, I finally understand what Lionel Richie's been singing about. Y'know, I mean what we have, it's like movie love, you're my soulmate, and I can't believe we're not going to be spending the rest of our lives together.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Then don't leave me!
    • Janice
      What?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Forget what I said, I was babbling! Pick me!
    • Janice
      No, you were right, you were right. I mean, I-I-I've got to give my marriage another chance.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No you don't! No, no, no, I say you have to give your divorce another chance.
    • Janice
      (standing up) I'm sorry. (hugs him)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Ohhh. Don't go.
    • Janice
      No, I-I-I gotta go. (she starts to walk away, but Chandler doesn't let her go.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No. No! No! No!
    • Janice
      Honey, honey, people are looking.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I don't care! (turns around and to the people watching them) I don't care!!
    • Janice
      Yeah, um, I'm, I'm leaving now. (tries to get her leg out of Chandler's grasp, she finally does, but Chandler takes off her shoe.)
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You can't leave! I have your shoe!
    • Janice
      Good-bye Chandler Bing. (walks out with one shoe)
    • Gunther
      Rachel has those in burgendy.
    • new scene
    • Scene 12

      Monica and Rachel's, Joey, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, and Ross are holding the giant poking device.

    • joey
    • Joey
      All right now remember, something this big and long is going to be difficult to manuver, fortunately I have a lot of experience in that area.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Can we please focus here, a naked man's life hangs in the balance!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I'm telling you he's dead. What we are about to have here is a dead fat guy on a stick.
    • joey
    • Joey
      All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's poke. (they start to advance the giant poking device) Steady. Steady. Okay, a little higher. Careful of the angle. Okay, okay, we're approaching the window (as he says this the camera cuts to their view of Ugly Naked Guy, so that we actually see him!) Thread the needle. Thread the needle.
    • (They thread the needle and start poking him, he then stirs.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      He's alive! He's a-live!!!
    • monica
    • Monica
      And yet, we're still poking him.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Okay, retract the device, retract the device.
    • ross
    • Ross
      He does not look happy.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Hey-hey, now he's showing us his poking device.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Hey, that's never gonna make it all the way over here, buddy!
    • CLOSING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 13

      Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is listening to a Lionel Richie album

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (singing) I'll hold you close in my arms. (Phoebe enters) I can't resist your charms. And love....
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (joining him) Love....
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I'll be a fool for you. I'm sure, you know I don't mind.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (high pitched) No you know I don't mind.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yes! You mean the world the world to me. Oh...
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I know.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I know.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I've found.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I've found....
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      ...in you, my endless (Phoebe goes high pitched, Chandler goes low pitched) love. (they both look at each other.) My endless love. (once again they don't match tones, and they just look at each other)
    • END