Friends Season 1

Friday, October 12, 2007


Season 1, Episode 1: The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Original Air Date: 22 September 1994
Rachel runs from her wedding and meets the friends in the coffee place. Ross is depressed about his divorce but he still has a crush on Rachel.
Season 1, Episode 2: The One with the Sonogram at the End

Original Air Date: 29 September 1994
In this episode, Ross finds out that his ex-wife Carol is pregnant with his child. He's stunned to learn she wants to give the baby her and her lesbian lovers last name. Ross and Monica's parents come for dinner which makes Monica really stressed. Rachel decides to return her engagement ring to Barry, the man she left at the alter and learns that he didn't let their honeymoon go to waste. He spent it with her maid of honor Mindy.
Season 1, Episode 3: The One with the Thumb

Original Air Date: 6 October 1994
Monica's new boyfriend, starts hanging out with everyone. But then he gets invited to places with her friends that she doesn't. So out of jealousy, she breaks up with him, and this makes everyone else feel very down. Chandler resumes his smoking habit. Phoebe encounters a problem with her bank account, they give her $1,000. She complains and gives it away, but then she opens a can of soda and sees a thumb. So the soda company gives her $7,000.
Season 1, Episode 4: The One with George Stephanopoulos

Original Air Date: 13 October 1994
Joey and Chandler take Ross to a hockey game to keep his mind off of the anniversary of his first time with Carol. Monica, Phoebe and Rachel get George Stephanopoulos' pizza by mistake, and spy on him from Monica's balcony.
Season 1, Episode 5: The One with the East German Laundry Detergent

Original Air Date: 20 October 1994
Chandler and Pheobe decide to end their current relationships at the same time. Phoebe handles it well, but Chandler has more difficult time. Ross agrees to go to the laundromat with Monica and Rachel, even though he has a laundry machine, so that he can see more of Rachel. Then Monica backs out last minute. Rachel admits that she has never done laundry before. Joey wants his ex-girlfriend Angela to break up with her boyfriend Bob, so he arranges for Monica and him to go on a double date with Angela and Bob by telling her that Bob and Angela are brother and sister.
Season 1, Episode 6: The One with the Butt

Original Air Date: 27 October 1994
The friends attend Joey's new musical, Freud. At the theater, Chandler meets a beautiful women named Aurora. Joey gets hired to be Al Pacino's butt double. Chandler learns that Aurora is married, AND has another boyfriend.

Season 1, Episode 7: The One with the Blackout

Original Air Date: 3 November 1994
Just as Phoebe is about to sing folk songs at Centeral Perk, New york has a black out. Chandler is trapped in an ATM vestibule with Victoria secret model Jill Goodacre. Ross decides that he is finally going to ask Rachel out. The friends find a cat that they decide to return. While Rachel and Pheobe are knocking on doors, Rachel meets a hot Italian named Paolo. Ross asks him not to ask Rachel out, but when the power kicks back in, you see Rachel and Paolo kissing.
Season 1, Episode 8: The One Where Nana Dies Twice

Original Air Date: 10 November 1994
Chandler is shocked to learn that people he works with think that he is gay. He asks his friends why, and they tell him that they also thought that he was gay when they first met him. Monica's Grandmother dies, and Ross falls down the open grave, and gets high on pain killers.
Season 1, Episode 9: The One Where Underdog Gets Away

Original Air Date: 17 November 1994
With their parents away Monica and Ross decide to have Thanks giving dinner alone together at Monica's. However, one by one the other friends join them. Rachel says that she can't afford to buy a ticket for Vail to be with her family, Joey confesses that his fairly thinks that he has V.D. because he appeared in an ad campaign, Chandler recalls his story of how he doesn't eat thanks giving food because of bad memories, and Pheobe, who brings her Grandmother, confesses that she observes Thanks-giving in December because her Grandma's boyfriend is Lunar. As the Macy's parade passes by the Underdog balloon gets loose. The friends rush onto the terrace for a better view and get locked out, so the dinner burns. Chandler is happy because everyone eats grilled cheese sandwiches.
Season 1, Episode 10: The One with the Monkey

Original Air Date: 15 December 1994
It' almost New Years and Ross is lonely. So he adopts a monkey named Marcel. All the friends adore Marcel - except Monica. The friends agree not to bring dates to the new years eve party, however everyone but Ross brakes the promise. However, amongst all of the madness, Joey kisses Chandler at midnight.
Season 1, Episode 11: The One with Mrs. Bing

Original Air Date: 5 January 1995
Chandler's mom,a lusty romance novelist (Morgan Fairchild), travels to New york to visit. She takes everyone out to dinner. Ross then kisses her, after the consumption of too much wine. Monica and Phoebe witness a hot man get hit by an ambulance and fight over which one gets to date him when he gets out of the coma.

Season 1, Episode 12: The One with the Dozen Lasagnas
Original Air Date: 12 January 1995
Paolo and Rachel prepare for a weekend getaway, but before they go Pheobe gives him a massage. He hits on her and the friends debate whether or not to tell Rachel. Chandler and Joey purchase a foozball table. Carol is having a boy.
Season 1, Episode 13: The One with the Boobies

Original Air Date: 19 January 1995
Chandler inadvertently sees Rachel's breasts as she comes out of the shower, which in turns starts a whole chain of peeking. Phoebe dates a shrink who has an annoying habit of analyzing everyone. Joey finds out his dad has a mistress.
Season 1, Episode 14: The One with the Candy Hearts

Original Air Date: 9 February 1995
It is Valentine's Day and Joy convinces Chandler go out with a friend of his own date. The blind date turns out to be his annoying ex-girlfriend Janice. Ross goes on a date with a neighbor, which turns bad when they run in to his ex-wife in the restaurant. The girls decide to stay home and preform a cleansing ceremony, which involves burning object connected to guys they have dated.
Season 1, Episode 15: The One with the Stoned Guy

Original Air Date: 16 February 1995
Phoebe's friend Steve is looking for a new chef for his restaurant. Phoebe takes Steve over to Monica's place so she can impress him with her culinary skills. But there is a problem: Steve is behaving in a peculiar manner.
Season 1, Episode 16: The One with Two Parts: Part 1

Original Air Date: 23 February 1995
Season 1, Episode 17: The One with Two Parts: Part 2

Original Air Date: 23 February 1995
Season 1, Episode 18: The One with All the Poker

Original Air Date: 2 March 1995
The friends play poker together.
Season 1, Episode 19: The One Where the Monkey Gets Away

Original Air Date: 9 March 1995
Rachel loses Ross's monkey, and everyone looks for him.
Season 1, Episode 20: The One with the Evil Orthodontist

Original Air Date: 6 April 1995
The friends are angry to discover someone watches them by telescope, until she phones and compliments them. Chandler rides a pink cloud after a date with Danielle, but Joey and Ross agree he should not call her that day; when the girls make him, a hilarious succession of fears and deceptions starts between the couple just about when and how to use the phone. When Ross finally gets Rachel to go tell her ex-bridegroom Barry off as he's about to marry, they have sex in his dentists chair; his bride Mindy asks her best friend Rachel as bridesmaid while confiding she suspects Barry to have an affair.

Season 1, Episode 21: The One with the Fake Monica

Original Air Date: 27 April 1995
Monica becomes friends with a woman who stole her credit card. Ross has to get rid of his monkey.
Season 1, Episode 22: The One with the Ick Factor

Original Air Date: 4 May 1995
Rachel had a dream about her and Chandler having sex. Ross is jealous. Monica's boyfriend Ethan is a senior at college and their age difference is no problem because Monica told him she was 22. Phoebe fills in for Chandler's secretary and tells Chandler that nobody likes him at work. Ethan and Monica have sex after Ethan tells her he is a virgin, Monica confesses to being 26 and Ethan then tells her that he is a senior in high school. Monica freaks out. Rachel has another dream about Chandler - but this time Joey was there too. Chandler accompanies Phoebe to a party with people from work even though he was not invited. They still don't like him. Monica tells Ethan she loves him but can't be with him. Rachel has a dream about Ross and Ross is there when she yells out his name. They share an almost intimate moment when Ross gets beeped that Carol is in labour. Everybody leaves for the hospital.
Season 1, Episode 23: The One with the Birth

Original Air Date: 11 May 1995
When Ross' ex Carol is rushed to the hospital to have their baby, all the friends come along, but prove less then helpful. Rachel only has eyes for the unmarried obstetrician; Chandler and Monica worry if time is passing by for them to find partners and become parents. When Joey has a sports argument with a very single pregnant woman, he finds himself the only available birth coach. After Carol throws Ross and her lesbian life-partner Susan out for bickering, Phoebe manages, while lecturing the pair, to lock them three in a janitorial closet...
Season 1, Episode 24: The One Where Rachel Finds Out

Original Air Date: 18 May 1995
Joey is part in a fertility study. Joey really likes his girlfriend Melanie but can't have sex during the study which lasts another week. The friends are having a barbecue for Rachel's birthday but without Ross because he has to go to China for the museum. Rachel unwraps the gift from Ross and its an antique pin exactly like the one her grandma used to have. Chandler lets it slip that Ross is in love with Rachel. Rachel goes to the airport to speak to Ross but he's already gone. Rachel decides to give her and Ross a chance and goes to pick him up at the airport.