The One Where Ross Can't Flirt (22 Apr. 1999)

First Ross takes Chandler's natural joking with pizza delivery girl Caitlin for 'flirting behind Monica's back', and actually tells her, just now they celebrate their 10 month anniversary, ... See full summary »

Director:

Gail Mancuso

Writers:

David Crane (creator), Marta Kauffman (creator),

Stars:

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Jennifer Aniston	...	Rachel Green
Courteney Cox	...	Monica Geller
Lisa Kudrow	...	Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc	...	Joey Tribbiani (as Matt Le Blanc)
Matthew Perry	...	Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer	...	Dr. Ross Geller
Kristin Dattilo	...	Caitlin
Lilyan Chauvin	...	Grandma Tribbiani

Storyline

First Ross takes Chandler's natural joking with pizza delivery girl Caitlin for 'flirting behind Monica's back', and actually tells her, just now they celebrate their 10 month anniversary, which starts a discussion whether flirting by men is innocent, not by females. Then Ross decides to demonstrate his flirtatious talent, which the others know to be abysmal, even conquering Rachel took him nine years. Meanwhile Joey brings over Nonnie, his Italian grandmother who doesn't speak any English but was his only relative who always believed in his career, to watch a Law and Order episode Joey has a speaking part in. Once he realizes his scene was actually cut out, everyone tries to fool her and thus spare them heartbreak. Phoebe can't return Monica's earrings, a gift from Chandler she wants to wear that evening, because Rachel borrowed and lost them, as usual. Ross's flirting lessons turn out to be of the 'how not to do it' variety but Rachel takes pity on him...

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Plot Keywords:

flirting | pizza | pizza delivery | grandmother | earring | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 April 1999 (USA)

Filming Locations:

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

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min 22 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Footage from Law & Order: Agony is used as the episode Joey appears in.

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Goofs

While the group is watching Law and Order, there are several close-ups on the TV where you can clearly see the living room reflected. In these reflections, the room is empty: the couch is visible but there are no people on it.

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Quotes

Caitlin: Hey, where's the chicken?
Chandler: Oh, he's in the back. The duck pissed him off. Said that "eggs came first".

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Connections

References Capricorn One (1977)

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Soundtracks

"Space Oddity"
(uncredited)
Performed by Matthew Perry

User Reviews

The One Where Ross Can't Flirt

Ross's flirting in this episode is just great. All the talk about gas and how he likes 8 year old boys. It is also great how he is trying to practise his flirting skills on Phoebe but it doesn't work out too good either. And it is very sweet how Rachel helps him out. There is a bit sexism in it with Chandler's attitude on how he can flirt but Monica can't. The bad part is that the people making the show seem to support that

The story with earrings is pretty good too. Especially the ending when Chandler doesn't even notice that those are different earrings.

I also like Joey's grandma in it and his tape that he made. Hilarious how he even wears the same clothes and uses the duck in his action scene. And of course grandma's English skills are funny too. As Chandler said "She can't say "hello" but she knows "Capricorn 1"