"Friends" The One Where Paul's the Man (2000)

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Director:

Gary Halvorson

Writers:

David Crane (creator) &
Marta Kauffman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Friends" (1994)

Original Air Date:

4 May 2000 (Season 6, Episode 22)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Elizabeth's dad Paul tells Ross not to see Elizabeth anymore or he will call the university and have him fired...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Paleontologist | Roommate | Musician | New York City

Cast

Jennifer Aniston	...	Rachel Green
Courteney Cox	...	Monica Geller (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
Lisa Kudrow	...	Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc	...	Joey Tribbiani (as Matt Le Blanc)
Matthew Perry	...	Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer	...	Dr. Ross Geller
Bruce Willis	...	Paul Stevens
Alexandra Holden	...	Elizabeth Stevens
Merrin Dungey	...	The Museum Official
Ilia Volok	...	The Dry Cleaner
James Michael Tyler	...	Gunther
Susie Park	...	The Dry Cleaner's Wife

Runtime:

22 min | Argentina:30 min | 22 min (approx.)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Netherlands:AL | Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Dijon Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions

Trivia:

The dry cleaner from "The One Where Paul's the Man" (episode #6.22) claims never to have seen the movie Air Force One (1997). The actor who played the dry cleaner, Ilia Volok, played the part of Vladimir Krasin, the first terrorist to die at the hands of the president, in Air Force One.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Paul brings Rachel a diet coke with ice, we see her holding the glass in her left hand. In the next shot, she's holding it in her right hand, only for it to be back in her left hand in the immediately following shot.

Movie Connections:

References Air Force One (1997)

Soundtrack:

Love Machine, Part II

Ross and Elizabeth will travel together..

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Paul,Elizabeth's father,still doesn't like Ross and is against their relationship, even blackmailing him saying that if they don't end their relationship, he is going to denounce Ross to the University. Ross and Elizabeth, however, decide to keep their relationship in secret.

Ross is excited that he is going to travel with Elizabeth into her grandma's country house. Arriving there, they both cannot wait to have sex, but Ross forgets to bring condoms and Elizabeth go to the drugstore to buy, letting Ross alone in the house. While Ross is waiting Elizabeth, Rachel and Paul arrive in the house, since they had the same plans of having sex and staying some days in the house. Ross tries to hide from them, but Rachel discovers him and tries to help him to scape from the house without Paul know that he is there.

Joey goes to a Laundry that has the practice of setting pictures from the stars on the walls, to give his picture, but since his TV show still was not aired, the Laundry's owner tells him that he is not going to put his picture. Joey ends up going out with the Laudry's owner wife, and gets his picture on the wall in a pretty easy way.

Rachel,Phoebe and Monica go together to a Museum, using Phoebe's tickets that she won. Once there, they discover that it is possible to marry in the place, but they need to wait 2 years for that. Monica is convinced to put her name on the list, but when they call to Monica's house to notify her about the wedding details she gave, Chandler listens to the message and disappears.