Friends

Season 4

The One with the Jellyfish

1. Although this episode follows the previous episode within the same weekend Matthew Perry has a different hair cut due to the summer hiatus between both episodes.
2. Lisa Kudrow and guest stars of this episode, Christine Taylor and Teri Garr, appear together on the movie Kabluey.
3. Previously, Matt LeBlanc has just done the voiceover work during the "Previously..." two part episode recaps. As he is now in vision in character as Joey for this episode recap, it could now be considered plausible that every "The one with..." is a dramatisation of Joey recounting a situation episode.
4. Guest star Teri Garr's hairstyle is significantly different from the previous episode, even though it's the same weekend the episodes take place.
5. In the re-mastered Widescreen version of this episode, broadcast by Comedy Central UK in 2015, there is a very obvious drop in picture quality during the beach jellyfish scene, and the split screen shots between Phoebe and her sister Ursula. This is most likely due to it being either shot on 24 frame video, and/or master elements are missing.

The One with the Cat

1. The Magna-Doodle board on the door of Joey's apartment reads: "Thanks for all your stuff".
2. Schwimmer is actually allergic to cats.
3. The Cafe name "Dot's Spot" is highly likely to be an in-joke reference to the female character Amblin/Warner Bros Television Animation series "Animaniacs". The three Warners, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, (Warner Brothers Dot) were three cartoon stars from the 1930s that were locked away in the Warner Bros. water tower until the 1990s, when they escaped. The series was renowned for having an adult fanbase profile similar to the "Friends" fans, partly as "Animaniacs" made fun of celebrities, major motion pictures, and television shows for adults including Friends, among others.
4. The first episode where "the chick" is not little and yellow.

The One with the 'Cuffs

1. The moment where Chandler hits his head because of pulling the drawer cuffed to his hand into his head in the middle of a sentence was not scripted to happen and completely accidental. He did actually hit his head and you can see Jennifer Aniston covering her mouth because she was trying to hold her laughter right as the scene abruptly ends. The producers liked this incident and decided to keep it in the show.
2. The Salesman is played by Penn Jillette. One half of the famous magician duo Penn and Teller.
3. The exterior of Monica's parent's home is the same one used for the home of Tony Sopranos' mother in The Sopranos.
4. Penn Jillette has the nail on his left hand ring finger painted red throughout the episode.
5. Jennifer Aniston's middle name is Joanna.

The One with the Ballroom Dancing

1. When Treeger leaves for the Ball at the end, he closes the door. In season 7, episode 12 - "The One Where They're Up All Night", it's shown that the door can't be opened from the outside. Joey would have here been locked out on the roof.
2. The transition scene when we see where Phoebe works has the telephone number 212-486-1122 is a real number and is actually the number for the Healing Hands massage shop on Lexington Ave.
3. E. J. Callahan, the massage client who walks into the room with Phoebe's boss as she's starting to make out with Rick on her massage table, is the same actor who plays Al Zebooker, the guy who eats paper, in "The One Where Estelle Dies" (season 10, episode 14).

The One with Joey's New Girlfriend

1. First appearance of the solitary double fist bump that became so popular throughout the series.
2. When Chandler dodges traffic trying to catch Kathy the song playing is the theme song to The Mod Squad.
3. First appearance of Paget Brewster as Kathy.
4. Paget Brewster went on to play Emily Prentiss in Criminal Minds. This role in Friends was her first in TV or film.
5. Rachel tells Gunther that her birthday is May 5th.
6. The late night movie that Chandler is watching at about 20:15 is an old B/W B-Movie called _Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)_ from 1958 staring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers

The One with the Dirty Girl

1. Acting debut of Rebecca Romijn. She went on to play Mystique in the X-Men films.
2. This is the first time The Velveteen Rabbit story book is mentioned. It's Kathy's favourite book. There is no mention of it being Chandler's favourite book which Monica states in the Valentine's episode from season 6.

The One Where Chandler Crosses the Line

1. The Magna-Doodle reads "Clean up the duck feathers in the hallway! Treager". Later on it changes to "I love you man!" and a little cartoon face.
2. The uncut DVD version of the episode features an extra sub-plot where Rachel starts eating out by herself. She starts to enjoy it so much that she blows of a date with a doctor. Monica later convinces Rachel to change her mind, however the doctor silently rebuffs her when he sees Rachel eating out by herself.

The One with Chandler in a Box

1. Joey uses the Tuscan insult: "Va fa Napoli!", the Tuscan equivalent of "Go to Hell!" which literally translates as: "Go to Naples!".
2. When Joey goes to Central Perk to ask Gunther if he's seen Chandler, there's a potato in the pastry tray.
3. The Magna-Doodle reads "I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'! m Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry.
4. David Schwimmer (Ross Geller) and Michael Vartan (Dr. Tim Burke) appeared in the movie Pallbearer (1996).
5. This is the first time Michael Vartan plays a son that dates a girl that also dated his father. A similar situation happens three years later on Ally McBeal.
6. Michael Vartan, who plays Richard Burke's son Timothy, also starred in Alias (2001), along Melissa George, who plays his wife. Melissa George appears later on the series, as Molly, Emma's babysitter (Ross and Rachel's daughter together.

The One Where They're Going to Party!

1. Last appearance of Rachel's boss, Joanna (played by Alison La Placa).
2. This is the final time Monica is unemployed in the series.

The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie

1. The melody for Phoebe's holiday greeting to Monica is her melody for "Smelly Cat".
2. When Ross wakes up he is asked what song Phoebe was singing and he answers: "The one with the cat", which is the title of an episode earlier that season.
3. The girl Ross dates in this episode lives in Poughkeepsie. Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe) is an alumna of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

The One with Phoebe's Uterus

1. Matthew Perry messes up a line by saying "blue blazer black" instead of "blue blazer back". The rest of the cast's responses were so funny that they left it in the episode.
2. The whole "Phoebe is having her brother's babies" story line was created to keep Lisa Kudrow in the show while she actually was pregnant. It was also the reason she stayed in the US during Ross's wedding because she actually was in her 3rd trimester and was not allowed to fly.
3. This is the last appearance of Phoebe's mother.
4. Monica's towel categories include: Beach, guest, fancy guest, bathroom, kitchen, old towels and every day use.

The One with the Embryos

1. The One with the Embryos is ranked 21 in "TV Guide's Top 100 T.V. Episodes of all time".
2. The surrogate mother story arc was written especially for Lisa Kudrow because she was really pregnant with her son Julian.
3. One of the questions the guys get right is about Monica's categories of towels. When the guys & the girls move, several boxes with Monica's name & the towel categories are visible in the background.
4. When Rachel answers the name of Joey's imaginary friend she says he was called Maurice and was a space cowboy making a reference to the song The Joker by Steve Miller Band
5. During the game, who knows who better, we learn that Rachel's favorite movie is Weekend At Bernie's (1989), which starred Johnathan Silverman, who played the doctor that delivered Ross and Carol's son Ben in ('95) episode, The One With The Birth.
6. When Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe) stands up from hanging upside down, you can clearly see that she is very dizzy.
7. Rachel's favorite film is "Weekend at Bernie's (1989)'.
8. Monica's towel categories include: Beach, guest, fancy guest, old towels, bathroom, kitchen and every day use
9. Chandler's biggest fear is Michael Flatley from the Irish Step group "Lord of the Dance." Monica's biggest pet peeve is animals dressed as humans.

The One with Rachel's Crush

1. The first episode in which Joey used his trademark line "How you doin'".
2. Tate Donovan (Joshua) and Jennifer Aniston (Rachel) were engaged in real life from 1995 to 1996.
3. The Magna-Doodle reads "Have you seen our VIEW??"
4. The pregnancy book Phoebe is reading in the coffee house is, "What to expect when you're expecting"
5. In the coffee house, Ross and Joey are discussing celebrity couples when Joey talks about Susan Sarandon. Susan Sarandon later appears a few seasons later as Jessica Lockhart, an actor Joey ends up replacing in "Days of our lives"
6. When the gang are in the coffee shop, they start talking about celebrities who fell in love while starring together in movies. In real life, Courtney Cox (who plays Monica) fell in love with actor David Arquette while starring in the Scream movies, and even got married later on.

The One with Joey's Dirty Day

1. First appearance of Emily Waltham.
2. Charlton Heston and Tate Donovan previously appeared together as voice actors in the animated feature Hercules (1997)
3. In the episode Chandler tells Joey that he will have plenty of opportunities to go to the strip club because "there are still thousands of women waiting to screw me over". Ironically, he dates Janice briefly and then the next woman Chandler gets together with is Monica and they never break up.
4. Emily was the name that Ross liked for a daughter with Rachel .

The One with All the Rugby

1. Magna Doodle says "Nice Nails Chandler!"
2. Last episode to be directed by 'James Burrows'.
3. The rugby match being played during the episode is Wales V England from the 1970's.
4. When Rachel walks in on Monica after she's carved all the holes in the wall, Monica is reading a book called "Like a Hole in the Head" by Jen Banbury.
5. Emily is the name that Ross mentioned, in a previous episode, that he liked if he and Rachel ever had a child.

The One with the Fake Party

1. Magna Doodle says "Emily... Bon Voy(crossed out) See Ya!"
2. Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan were dating at the time of this story arc.
3. The sign on the door in Joey and Chandler's apartment reads "Joey eats little V".
4. Joey tells Rachel she should take off her bra through her sleeve like in Flashdance. He's seen Phoebe do this in The One Without The Ski Trip.
5. One of the few times you can glimpse the missing wall in the big apartment. It's visible when the gang is playing spin the bottle and the camera focuses on Phoebe, Joshua, and Gunther.
6. When Rachel is spelling Emily in her "cheer", she makes the L backwards.
7. Rachel's attempt to twist a cherry stem with her tongue was made famous by Sherilyn Fenn from the old TV show 'Twin Peaks' (1990). She had previously appeared on Friends the year before in, "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner," as the Chandler's girlfriend with the wooden leg.

The One with the Free Porn

1. The Magna Doodle reads "Knock Knock Who's there? PORN!"
2. When Phoebe is at her ob/gyn the doctor has a name tag for Dr. Oberman. That's the same name as was Carol's ob/gyn in The One With The Sonogram At The End. Also The One Hundredth has a male ob/gyn with the same name.
3. The porn movie that Joey and Chandler were watching when the super comes in was, On Trial: Oral Arguments.
4. Long time porn star Ron Jeremy can be seen on the tv in the background.
5. When Emily comes back to tell Ross she loves him, the TV is off already.

The One with Rachel's New Dress

1. Matthew Perry's dad, John Bennett Perry, plays Joshua's dad in "The One With Rachel's New Dress" (episode #4.18).
2. Chandler mentions that the only true famous Joey is Joey Buttafuco, who had had an affair with an underage girl 18 years younger than him named Amy Fisher, who ended up shooting his wife in the face. Which is why Joey says, "Yea, he really hurt us". The scandal was a tabloid sensation about 5 years before this originally aired.
3. Monica mentions she is uncomfortable picking out other people's sex clothes (when Rachel asks what lingerie to wear for her date with Joshua). She is okay with asking others to do the same though. In season 8, "The One With the Birthing Video", Monica asks Phoebe - but is intercepted by Ross.
4. Monica only appears in two scenes in this episodes.
5. Nine minutes into S4, E18, a model of a space shuttle orbiter is shown behind Chandler in two shots. Rachel's boyfriend in this episode is played by Tate Donovan, who co-starred in the motion picture SpaceCamp (1986), in which he flew and piloted the space shuttle.

The One with All the Haste

1. The song "Morning's Here", sung by Joey's neighbor in the opening and closing scenes, is actually a vocal version of Chuck Mangione's 1977 instrumental hit "Feels So Good".
2. The episode makes references to David Bowie and George Michael, both of whom died in 2016.

The One with All the Wedding Dresses

1. In a scene in Chandler and Joey's apartment, the writing on white board changes from "Poop" to "Get out!" in the same shot.
2. The wedding dress Rachel wears in the episode is not the same wedding dress she wore in the pilot, her dress in the pilot had noticeably more embroidery around the midsection.
3. In the begining of the episode Joey says the famous lines from the coffeshop scene of the popular movie Heat: I've gotta do what I've gotta do, you've gotta do what you've gotta do.
4. "The Morning's Here" song sung by the man next door is sung to the trumpet tune of 'Feels So Good' by Chuck Mangione.
5. In the episode, Rachel tells Monica and Phoebe that they aren't going to marry Chandler. Later on in the series, Monica and Chandler actually do get married.

The One with the Invitation

1. Out of the 238 episodes rated individually, this episode is rated at the lowest.
2. The address for Rachel and Monica's apartment is featured as 945 Grove St #20. New York, NY 10001. The real apartment inspiring the set is 90 Bedford Street.

The One with the Worst Best Man Ever

1. The magna doodle says: another one bites the dust.
2. A scene featuring Emily only appears in the DVD version of the episode. Despite this, Helen Baxendale is credited in both versions of this episode.
3. The magna doodle during the best man argument says, "Big chief ain't got no fire water".
4. The fake name that Chandler uses to get the stripper to come to his office is Gunther Centralperk, a lukewarm tribute to the quirky waiter at the gang's favorite hangout. It's actually a joke because Gunther (from Central Perk) asked the guys, "Do you even know my last name?" to which Chandler responded "Gunther Centralperk?"
5. The bachelor party decorations in Joey and Chandler's apartment include inflated condoms. You can see them behind Ross in the scene when Joey first tells him about the ring.

The One with Ross's Wedding: Part One

1. This episode aired the same day when Lisa Kudrow's son was born.
2. The finale was filmed in three parts, first the scenes with Lisa Kudrow were filmed in Los Angeles, then everybody went to London and they filmed the scenes on the street, then they filmed the dinner and other scenes in a studio in London before an audience.
3. Although Lisa Kudrow was really pregnant, she was still wearing padding when the episode was filmed to make her seem larger.
4. Lisa Kudrow was pregnant in real life during the filming of this episode, and was therefore not able to travel to London; therefore the writers had to find a way to keep her involved in the story while still in Monica's apartment.
5. The London street vendor is played by Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group. One of the hats in his souvenir booth has the Virgin Atlantic logo on it. Actually there are several Virgin Atlantic baseball caps on the stand; they have tan cap bills.
6. In the closing credits, the lady sat behind Chandler on the open top bus is show creator and writer Marta Kauffman
7. The shirt Monica wears in the beginning is the same one she wears in Scream 2 (1997)
8. After Phoebe made a phone call, the scene changed to show the sign of a restaurant, "interlude..." it is an indication of the start of the second part of the two-part episode.
9. When Ross and Emily are arguing in the hotel room about postponing the wedding Ross is wearing 2 different boxer shorts in different shots during that scene.
10. Joey pronounces Buckingham Palace as "Bucking-ham" Palace whereas it's actually pronounced "Bucking-im".
11. Elliott Gould (Jack Geller, Ross and Monica's father),committed a major error by inadvertently revealing to the public that Rachel was going to turn up at the wedding, a mishap that upset Marta Kauffman, the show's executive producer.

The One with Ross's Wedding: Part Two

1. The set used for Ross and Emily's wedding is the set that was used for Carol and Susan's wedding.
2. Although the bulk of the 2 part episode was actually shot in the Fountain Studios, in Wembley, London, it wasn't as well received in the UK as in the USA. Many British viewers regarded the episode as an ill-informed and patronising caricature of the UK and its people, causing the episode to be unofficially labelled "The One Where They Insult the English". Ironically, the UK terrestrial TV channel "Channel Four" which had first-run terrestrial broadcast rights, had proposed a UK based episode to Warner Bros. TV.
3. June Whitfield, who plays The Housekeeper in this episode and Jennifer Saunders who plays Andrea Waltham were both a part of the show Absolutely Fabulous (1992). On the show they played mother and daughter, although in this episode they do not appear in the same scene.
4. Rachel's seat mate on her way to Ross's wedding was Hugh Laurie (House)
5. The man selling British flags and umbrellas is Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Group.
6. When Phoebe calls Mrs. Waltham on the phone and tells her she couldn't come to the wedding because she was pregnant with her brother's babies, Mrs. Waltham asks if she is on the radio. This is a reference to the practice in the UK where radio stations would place prank phone calls to people and then play their confused responses from the victims over the air.
7. This episode marks the beginning of Chandler and Monica's romantic relationship. The pair would go on to get married in the Season 7 finale.