The One with the Joke (13 Jan. 2000)

Ross has sent a joke to be printed in Playboy magazine, which they did but Chandler claims it was his joke so he starts logging his jokes. While the girls go through the Playboy, Phoebe ... See full summary »

Director:

Gary Halvorson

Writers:

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

Stars:

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow

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
James Michael Tyler	...	Gunther
J.D. Lewis	...	The Customer
Joeanna Sayler	...	The Woman At The Table
Matthew Mullany	...	The Patron
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alex Boling	...	The Latte Guy (scenes deleted)

Storyline

Ross has sent a joke to be printed in Playboy magazine, which they did but Chandler claims it was his joke so he starts logging his jokes. While the girls go through the Playboy, Phoebe manages to insult Monica by saying she thinks Rachel the better choice to go out with. Later Rachel also insults Monica by saying she's high-maintenance. When Joey must explain to Gunther he can't pay his bill because he's broke, he gets a job at Central Perk as a waiter. He tries in vain to keep his job a secret from the friends, who end up reassuring him and offering advice. Unable to settle the joke authorship, Chandler and Ross ask Monica to decide, each confident she's in his pocket, only to be told the joke is no credit to anyone. Closing the café after Gunther refused him time off to do an audition, Joey is Joey fired but one word from Rachel has him re-hired.

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Plot Keywords:

pushover

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 January 2000 (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:

30 min 22 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Chandler: Hey, Joey. Playboy published my joke.
Ross: No, it's MY joke.
Chandler: No, it's mine.
Ross: No, it was MY joke.
Joey: Hey, hey, hey. You guys. You know they put pictures of naked chicks in there, right?

User Reviews

Ross and Chandler fight over a joke

Ross tell the Friends that he invented a joke and sent to Playboy, where they printed. Everybody sees the joke, but Chandler says that he was the one who invented the joke.

Both Ross and Chandler stay fighting in the episode just to prove to each other that each one of them invented the joke.

Joey starts to work in Central Perk with Gunther. He stays ashamed to tell this new to the Friends, specially because not so long time ago, he was a star raising, and this is a decline in his career. Since when Janine moved, the bills are too expensive to Joey pay alone. Chandler wants to help him with the money, since Joey didn't pay many of basic services like water and energy.

Monica,Rachel and Phoebe are looking to a Playboy magazine and Monica asks who Phoebe and Rachel would date of them 3. Phoebe chooses Rachel, and Monica stays angry with her decision. Phoebe admits to Monica that she picked Rachel because Monica isn't easygoing,while Rachel is easy to convince. It is not necessary to say that they all end up fighting.