"Friends" The One with Unagi (2000)

Director:

Gary Halvorson

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Friends" (1994)

Original Air Date:

24 February 2000 (Season 6, Episode 17)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Rachel and Phoebe take a self-defense class, and claim they can defeat anyone who attacks them. Ross doesn't believe them...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Roommate | Paleontologist | Musician | New York City

Cast

  (Episode Credited 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
Louis Mandylor	...	Carl
James Michael Tyler	...	Gunther
Jill Matson	...	The Receptionist
Ron Recasner	...	The Doctor
Mongo Brownlee	...	The Instructor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maggie Wheeler	...	Janice Litman (voice)

Runtime:

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

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

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the episode, Ross explains to Chandler that his Saturn V Rocket model is from the Apollo 8 mission and that Apollo 8 did not land on the moon but instead orbited the moon twice and returned safely to earth. In fact, Apollo 8 orbited the moon a total of ten times, not two.

Quotes:

Phoebe: [after Chandler mentions he and Monica will make anniversary gifts for each other] So what did you make Chandler?
Chandler Bing: Oh, I made a 'flablarghaargh'...
Phoebe: What is that?
Chandler Bing: Nothing!

Soundtrack:

The Way You Look Tonight

Ross, the Unagi's master!

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Phoebe and Rachel start to go to self defense classes, and Ross talks to them that they need to know a concept called ''Unagi', that he learned when he did karate classes. Unagi is a state of total awareness that Ross says it is essential to everybody who practices martial arts, but he is not aware all the time as he says, since Rachel and Phoebe are always trying to scare him to see if he really masters the ' Unagi' .

Joey needs some money for the pictures of his Book, that are more expensive then he imagined it would be. He wants to go back to the lab studies, the problem is that the next study only serves for people who are identical twins, and this is not Joey's case. In order to receive some money, Joey tries to find an actor who looks like him to pretend to be his identical twin.

Chandler has difficulties to find a good Valentine's present to Monica, specially because they decided to make their own presents. He gives her a tape full of songs, but what he doesn't remember is that Janice made that tape for him.