The One with the Blind Dates

Episode aired Feb 6, 2003
TV-PGTV-PG
22m

8.2/10

S9.E14

Phoebe and Joey purposely set Ross and Rachel up on bad dates in the hopes they'll get back together. Monica and Chandler babysit Emma.Phoebe and Joey purposely set Ross and Rachel up on bad dates in the hopes they'll get back together. Monica and Chandler babysit Emma.Phoebe and Joey purposely set Ross and Rachel up on bad dates in the hopes they'll get back together. Monica and Chandler babysit Emma.

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Jennifer Aniston and Jon Lovitz in Friends (1994)

Matt LeBlanc, Alexandra Conley, and Athina Conley in Friends (1994)

Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry in Friends (1994)

As they think Ross and Rachel should get back together with Emma, Joey and Phoebe, when asked to fix them up with blind dates, plan to make those so horrible they'll end up back with each other. Phoebe does a great job: Steve is so unattractive he even makes himself cry; Joey found his own nightmare woman, a history teacher, not realizing she risks looking ideal to Ross; but she stands Ross up, making him the object of bets by the waiters on how long he will wait before leaving. Chandler and Monica agree to babysit Emma, but with him being bored without a job and she ovulating, their sex drive gets the better of them, so Joey finds the baby 'exposed to perversion' next to the bedroom... —KGF Vissers

Genres
- Comedy
- Romance
Certificate
- TV-PG
Parents guide
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Trivia
This is the second episode Jon Lovitz guest starred (in this same series) as a character named Steve who was a stoner. The previous one was The One with the Stoned Guy (1995).

Goofs
Joey has his regular fully-grown eyebrows in this episode, despite his statement that Rachel has been staying with him for just 5 days since he got his eyebrows waxed (in the previous episode: 'The One Where Monica Sings'). This is impossible: eyebrows take months to fully grow back after shaping.

Quotes
Joey Tribbiani: You can't be having s-e-x while taking care of a b-a-b-i-e!

Connections
References The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986)

Top review

3/10

This is one of the worst episodes of friends

This is a great example to use to compare how friends gets it wrong....to contrast with a good episode of how friends gets it right.

Episodes like this that make me happy it ended... Angry they did this to this once great show... And puzzled if whoever was responsible or involved in the making of it thought it was good.

Stay away from this episode.

The only bright spot was a young Sam Pancake popping up as the waiter.

I love Lovitz, and even his role fell flat.

Only funny thing was joey about how lazy chandler is having sex.

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