Friends Season 7

Friday, October 12, 2007


Season 7, Episode 1: The One with Monica's Thunder
Original Air Date: 12 October 2000
It's still the night of Monica and Chandler's engagement and they all dress up to go drink champagne at the Plaza. Rachel is a little sad and lonely and asks Ross whether they want to have a night together with no strings attached. Monica catches them kissing and is upset because she waited her whole life for that day and thought it would only be about her engagement but now it is about Rachel and Ross getting back together - they stole "Monica's thunder". Monica is really upset and doesn't want to go out for champagne anymore. Monica and Rachel have a huge fight and Rachel admits that she kissed Ross because she was sad about not even being close to getting married. Monica forgives Rachel.
Season 7, Episode 2: The One with Rachel's Book

Original Air Date: 12 October 2000
The wedding planning starts and Monica already has a whole book full of information on everything you need for a wedding. Joey takes a nap in Rachel's bed and finds out that she reads dirty books and doesn't stop teasing Rachel about it. To give Monica and Chandler a little time on their own Phoebe moves in with Ross for a couple of days. Ross freaks out when Phoebe does her massages at Ross' place and asks her to see her clients elsewhere. One of Phoebe's clients comes by when Phoebe isn't there and Ross gives him a weird massage. Monica's parents spent the money for Monica's wedding on the beach house so there is no money for the wedding. Chandler has saved exactly the amount they need for Monica's dream wedding but Chandler won't spend all of his savings on one day. The old man Ross massaged is not coming back after the bad massage he got. If Monica wants the perfect wedding Chandler will spend all the money they have but Monica decides that she wants a future and not spend their security on the wedding. Rachel scares the jokes out of Joey forever when she tells him she wants rough sex with him.
Season 7, Episode 3: The One with Phoebe's Cookies

Original Air Date: 19 October 2000
They discuss what to get Monica and Chandler as engagement presents and Monica really wants Phoebe's grandma's chocolate chip cookie recipe. Phoebe's grandma made Phoebe swear never to let the recipe out of the family but agrees to give it to Monica. Unfortunately, the fire in Phoebe's apartment destroyed the recipe and Phoebe gives Monica and Chandler the only cookie left as a present. Monica tries to figure out the recipe from the cookie and makes heaps of different ones. Rachel tries to teach Joey how to sail which proves to be quite difficult. Chandler wanted to bond with Mr. Geller but when they went to the steam room after their racquet ball game Chandler accidentally sits on Mr Geller's lap. Monica finds out that Phoebe's grandma didn't have a secret recipe. Monica realizes that she probably got the recipe for Toll House cookies from the back of the Nestles chocolate chip bag, because Phoebe says that her grandma got the recipe from her French friend "Nestle Toulouse". Chandler clears things up with Mr. Geller and Rachel gives up teaching Joey and enjoys Joey's way of sailing: sitting on the boat in the marina drinking beer.
Season 7, Episode 4: The One with Rachel's Assistant

Original Air Date: 26 October 2000
Joey and Rachel rival who has the best news. Rach was promoted by Ralph Lauren in person to head a division, and may consequentially hire a personal assistant. Although Hilda has all relevant qualifications and plenty of experience, and even Phoebe says that must be the thing to consider professionally, she still chooses young Tag Johnson, who the girls and Chandler consider beautiful enough to be a model; he is greatly surprised his clumsy interview didn't loose the job, but increasingly suspicious when people believe him gay, a lie spread by Rachel to keep the hunk for herself, and more interested in Phoebe. Nobody had the heart to tell him the pilot stunk, so Joey was overconfident about his lead in Mack and CHEESE, and told director Terry he could stuff the Days of Our Lives- part of Dr. Drake Ramore's twin brother Stryker if he must do an audition for it; alas the producers phone the sci-fi-series is canceled, so Joey must beg Terry to take him on board... Meanwhile Monica tricks Candler into telling an embarrassing Disneyland-anecdote to Ross, who finds out and retorts, starting a series of spilled secrets the three use against each-other...
Season 7, Episode 5: The One with the Engagement Picture

Original Air Date: 2 November 2000
Monica's ma arranged to get their wedding in the paper, but they need to get a picture from a professional photographer- alas any camera makes Chandler grin like a hyena. Phoebe dates Kyle, who knows both Chandler and Ross -they nickname him Hums While He Pees- from their basketball club, and gets Ross to divert his crazy ex Whitney, which ends up in a ballroom dance-date. Rachel is completely smitten with her office assistant Tag, enough to smell his cloths and be jealous when their colleague Melissa asks him out, she even pays Joey to take Tag out- first to a Knicks game, but then to a bar where they meet dozens of potential rivals for Rach, who now bribes Joey with free Ralph Lauren shirts to stop picking up women together; alas Tag decides instead to go back to his ex-girlfriend.
Season 7, Episode 6: The One with the Nap Partners
Original Air Date: 9 November 2000
Joey and Ross have a nap together, and Rachel and Phoebe need to decide who will be Monica's bridesmaid.
Season 7, Episode 7: The One with Ross' Library Book
Original Air Date: 16 November 2000
Monica runs into Janice and Janice is shocked to hear that she is getting married to Chandler but invites herself and her boyfriend to the wedding. Ross' doctoral dissertation can be found at the library but when he goes to see it he finds out that the Palaentology section of the library is only used when students make out together. Therefore Ross decides to defend the area. Rachel and Phoebe find the perfect girl for Joey and he is really into her but she doesn't feel the same way. Chandler and Monica can finally get rid of Janice.
Season 7, Episode 8: The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs

Original Air Date: 23 November 2000
It's Thanksgiving and the friends and Tag are preparing for dinner. Phoebe secretly keeps a dog she is watching for friends who went out of town in her room at Monica and Chandler's apartment. Everybody thought Chandler was allergic to dogs but the truth is that he hates dogs because he scared of them because you can never tell what they're thinking. Tag broke up with his girlfriend and Rachel is thinking about making a move. When Rachel tells Tag that she likes him he doesn't reply because he sees his car being stolen. Later on Rachel says he should just forget about what she said but Tag likes her too and they kiss.
Season 7, Episode 9: The One with All the Candy

Original Air Date: 7 December 2000
Monica makes candy for their neighbours even though they don't know them. The neighbours love the candy and Monica becomes very popular in the building. Rachel and Tag try to hide their relationship at work but when Rachel writes a revealing evaluation as a joke and Tag sends it on to human resources without reading it, they have a problem. Ross finds out that Phoebe never owned a bike so he buys her the prettiest pink bike there is and teaches Phoebe how to ride. Tag and Rachel almost get fired but manage to solve the problem. TOns of people hang around the apartment waiting for more of Monica's candy so Chandler stands up for Monica and tells everyone to go away and leave her alone. Ross buys Phoebe training wheels.

Season 7, Episode 10: The One with the Holiday Armadillo

Original Air Date: 14 December 2000
Ross wants to introduce Ben to Chanukah. In order to entice Rachel to move back into their refurbished apartment, Pheobe must drive a wedge between Rachel and current roomie Joey.
Season 7, Episode 11: The One with All the Cheesecakes
Original Air Date: 4 January 2001
Chandler and Rachel eat a cheesecake that was accidentally delivered to their door and it's the best cheesecake they've ever had. Another cheesecake gets delivered and they try to resist and drop it off to their neighbour that was supposed to receive it. Ross is invited to a cousin's wedding but Monica isn't. Monica is very upset because she was the girl's best friend when they grew up together so she gets Ross to take her instead of a date. Rachel and Chandler find the cheesecake untouched in front of the neighbour's door so they take it. Monica wasn't invited to the wedding because she used to date the groom. Phoebe meets David, the love her life, again but he lives in Russia.
Season 7, Episode 12: The One Where They're Up All Night

Original Air Date: 11 January 2001
In the beginning, the 6 friends plus Tag are sitting on the roof looking for comets. Later, everyone goes inside except for Ross and Joey, who takes the tube that was holding the door open off. Ross and Joey are then locked on the roof until they get the idea to go down the fire escape. Phoebe's fire alarm keeps beeping and it won't stop. She eventually breaks the fire alarm and throws it down the trash chute. A fireman returns the fire alarm to Phoebe, who can't stop the fire alarm because the reset button broke off. Monica and Chandler can't sleep, so Chandler insists on having sex. Rachel realized that she forgets to mail something out at work, so she and Tag stop by the office. Rachel says she left them on Tag's desk, but she finds them on her own desk. She doesn't want to be proved wrong, so she makes Tag go check the copy room and then Rachel drops the papers in Tags desk.
Season 7, Episode 13: The One Where Rosita Dies

Original Air Date: 1 February 2001
Rachel wants to have a place to sit in front of the TV but Joey tells her Rosita, the armchair, does not move. Rachel tries to move it anyway and breaks it in half. The Gellers sell their house and Monica and Ross have to take their childhood memories home but Monica's boxes were ruined in a flood. Phoebe starts working as a telephone sales woman and talks to Earl who want to kill himself. Chandler sits in the armchair and thinks he broke it so he secretly exchanges Rosita with his chair. Meanwhile Joey and Rachel went to buy a new armchair as well so now they have two. Rachel keeps the super cool new armchair while Joey is stuck with his normal old one. When Chandler finds out he didn't break Rosita he wants to take it back but Joey broke Chandler's chair in order to get Rachel's cool chair. Phoebe talks Earl out of killing himself. Monica's dad gives her his Porsche to say that he loves her just as much as he loves Ross.
Season 7, Episode 14: The One Where They All Turn Thirty

Original Air Date: 8 February 2001
It's Rachel's 30th birthday and they all reflect on all their 30th birthdays. Rachel is really upset because according to her life plan she should already be with the One and she realizes that Tag could never be the man she would want to spend the rest of her life with.
Season 7, Episode 15: The One with Joey's New Brain

Original Air Date: 15 February 2001
Joey's character on Day of Our Lives will finally come out of the coma after they transplant a woman's brain. The woman Jessica will live on in Drake's body so Joey asks the actress who plays Jessica (Susan Sarandon) to help him be Jessica. Ross will play bagpipes at Monica and Chandler's wedding as a surprise. Joey is seeing the actress playing Jessica but she will be doing a movie in Mexico.
Season 7, Episode 16: The One with the Truth About London

Original Air Date: 22 February 2001
Rachel watches Ben for an hour and is a little scared because she's never been alone with him before. Rachel teaches Ben practical jokes to entertain him but everybody hates the pranks. Chandler and Monica try to choose a minister but can't find one so they promise Joey that he can marry them. Joey gets his minister certificate on the Internet and writes his speech including the story how Chandler and Monica got together. Chandler finds out that Monica actually wanted to sleep with Joey when she knocked on the door but Chandler was the only one there. Chandler is really upset and doesn't want Joey to do the wedding anymore. Joey talks to him about how Chandler and Monica are meant for each other and nothing could take that away and Chandler is happy to let Joey do the wedding. Ross and Ben play a prank on Rachel so she will stop teaching them to Ben.
Season 7, Episode 17: The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress

Original Air Date: 15 March 2001
Monica first takes the other girls to an overpriced fancy store to choose her deal wedding dress, then briefs them to get it in commando style at a Brooklyn sale, where bargain-hunters are far more ruthless then Rachel can handle. The worst is Megan, who only knew about Kleinman's from the Friends, is finally decked but decides to blackmail Monica with the booking of the swing band which is about the only wedding option Chandler really cares for. Ross and Joey independently meet and date Kristen Leigh while helping her move in, so once more sneered-at Chandler is amused to make them realize they compete for her; the rivals agree to let her chose after one more date each, no gifts, but get so badly carried away cheating and bagging on each-other that she runs off altogether.
Season 7, Episode 18: The One with Joey's Award

Original Air Date: 29 March 2001
Joey is nominated for a Soapy Award for his part on Days of Our Lives and Rachel is his date to the ceremony. Joey doesn't win the award but takes someone else's award home. Rachel convinces him to take it back because he can't be happy with an award he didn't win. One of Ross' students failed the midterms because he is in love with Ross and can't concentrate in class so Ross changes his grade. But now more students come to Ross pretending to be in love with him in order to get a better grade. When Rachel and Joey take the Soapy back the real winner just throws it away saying it's not good enough for her so Joey takes it back home. Monica really loves Chandler but it scares her that she will never have the rush of the beginning of meeting someone new again. Chandler reassures her and she realizes she is going to have a lot of new things with Chandler as well.
Season 7, Episode 19: The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin

Original Air Date: 19 April 2001
Joey is tickled pink with a Catholic Italian immigrant part in a rising director's next period film, but his agent tells him it has an essential full frontal nudity scene. When Monica has convinced him a movie career is worth showing his family jewels, the casting wants him but specifies those may not be circumcised, which he is- Monica promises to attempt simulating something. Cousin Cassie Geller stays with Chandler and Monica till their wedding, but as the little girl became a virtual supermodel since they last saw her, Chandler's ogling requires her staying at Ross's; alas the incest factor doesn't stop them flirting hotly viz. clumsily... Rachel and Phoebe are reminded only two day before they have to throw Monica a bridal shower; arbitrarily calling people from her address book results in a weird crowd neither of them knows; as both forgot to invite the bride, it becomes a surprise party with a nasty surprise...

Season 7, Episode 20: The One with Rachel's Big Kiss

Original Air Date: 26 April 2001
Rachel bumps into her old friend Melissa from college who she once kissed after drinking too much sangria. Monica has the seating chart for the wedding finished and Chandler is really sad that only about 10 guests are from his side. Chandler goes to see Rachel at Ralph Lauren's to choose a tux and picks the tux that Pierce Brosnan wore once and sent back. Chandler thinks he is the coolest until he finds out that Ross picked the tux worn by Val Kilmer in Batman. Phoebe doesn't believe Rachel that she made out with Melissa so she goes to dinner with them to ask Melissa about it. But unfortunately for Rachel, Melissa can't remember anything. To prove to Phoebe that she is wild Rachel kisses Melissa again and Melissa admits being in love with Rachel and remembering the kiss all the time. It turns out that Ross' tux was worn by Val Kilmer but not in Batman. Chandler finds a new tux - which was worn by Diane Keaton.
Season 7, Episode 21: The One with the Vows

Original Air Date: 3 May 2001
Monica and Chandler are getting married in 4 weeks and have to write their vows but both of them don't have a clue what to say so they reflect on their past.
Season 7, Episode 22: The One with Chandler's Dad

Original Air Date: 10 May 2001
Finding out she's the only one of the friends who never got to drive Monica's Posche, Rachel nicks the car keys from Ross, who feels responsible so he jumps in before learning even her license expired; they get stopped, twice, even with him steering super-safe as required by the first officer, who was flirted to mildness, which doesn't work now... When Phoebe's studly boyfriend Jake bends over, Joey sees he wears lingerie; Phoebe tells they exchanged underwear and it takes a really confident man to dare doing so, now Joey can't resist trying it himself, but it sort of follows him. Chandler refuses to send a wedding invitation to his father, who made his entire youth hell by being such a shameless drag-queen, but Monica is determined to put family first and drags her groom to Las Vegas, where dad has a drag show- face to face, Chandler makes a decision.
Season 7, Episode 23: The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding: Part 1

Original Air Date: 17 May 2001
Joey unexpectedly gets a part in a movie about soldiers in World War I but his famous co-star Richard Crosby keeps spitting in his face for the sake of articulation. Ross makes everybody burst into laughter by threatening Chandler physically if he ever hurts his little sister. Chandler and Monica have their rehearsal dinner and after seeing his sexy celebrity mother and drag-queen dad, Chandler suddenly freaks out thinking about becoming "Mr. and Mrs Bing." too when he hears the new answering machine message Monica recorded, so he writes a vague apology note and runs. Ross finds it and goes looking for Chandler while Phoebe and Rachel must divert Monica, who is too wedding-high to notice soon anyway. Rachel and Phoebe find a positive pregnancy test in Monica's bathroom.
Season 7, Episode 24: The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding: Part 2
Original Air Date: 17 May 2001
Ross tries to find Chandler with Phoebe's help. Meanwhile Rachel tries to hinder Monica.