The One with the Lesbian Wedding

Episode aired Jan 18, 1996
TV-PGTV-PG
22min

8.1/10

S2.E11

Rachel's mom comes to visit with big news. Monica caters Carol and Susan's wedding. Phoebe becomes 'possessed' by the spirit of a recently deceased client.Rachel's mom comes to visit with big news. Monica caters Carol and Susan's wedding. Phoebe becomes 'possessed' by the spirit of a recently deceased client.Rachel's mom comes to visit with big news. Monica caters Carol and Susan's wedding. Phoebe becomes 'possessed' by the spirit of a recently deceased client.

8.1/10

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Ross isn't confident enough to accept attending his ex Carol's lesbian wedding to Susan. Because the wedding caterer has a bad accident, Monica gets the job, a first for her, but can't get it done without generalized slave labor... Joey has his first TV appearance as Dr. Drake Ramore in Days of Our Lives, and shows the friends some acting tricks used there... Phoebe's 82 year-old client Rose died on her massage table, and her spirit went into her- now she has two crazy personalities and an octogenarian's agenda... Rachel was all nerves for her ma's first visit since she blew her wealthy wedding to Barry, but actually her happiness in poverty inspires Mrs. Greene Sr., who never worked but cracks at everybody, to leave Rach's pa and cheerfully join the crazy modern girls life... Everybody attends the wedding, and when Carol's parents won't give her away... —KGF Vissers

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Genres
- Comedy
- Romance
Certificate
- TV-PG
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Shortly before the episode aired, NBC hired 200 part-time operators to take what they expected would be a flood of phone complaints for portraying a lesbian wedding. They only received eleven calls.

Goofs
After Joey says "smell the fart acting," the cast messed this scene up several times because they kept laughing. But the editors didn't completely cut it out, so right after Joey says it, you can see Jennifer Aniston start to laugh before it goes to the next shot.

Quotes
Rachel: [about her mother] If she wanted to be more like me, why couldn't she just copy my hairstyle or something?

Connections
Featured in The 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1996)

Soundtracks
Strangers in the Night
(uncredited)
Written by Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder and Bert Kaempfert
Performed by Frank Sinatra

Top review

7/10

The One With The Gay Wedding

Not sure what is going on with all these substandard offerings of late. They are all watchable episodes and are very easy going TV that is easy to watch, they just are not very funny.

Plot In A Paragraph: it's the wedding of Ross's ex wife Carol and her lesbian lover Susan, Monica is hired to do the catering when the original caterer has an accident, meanwhile Phoebe finds herself possessed by the spirit of a client who died on her massage table.

I really liked the scene where Ross convinced Carol to go through with the wedding when she started to have doubts after her homophobic parents reveal they will not go to a gay wedding.

It's interesting to see now, all these years later how prejudice some people were, and still are in some places.

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