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Revision as of 00:12, 15 June 2010 by TyDwiki (talk | contribs) (→Episodes)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Season of television series| Friends Season 6 | |
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| Season 6 | |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 23, 1999 – May 18, 2000 |
| Season chronology | |
| ← Previous Season 5 Next → Season 7 | |
| List of episodes | |
The sixth season of Friends, an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC (National Broadcasting Company) on September 23, 1999. Friends was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The season contains 25 episodes and concluded airing on May 18, 2000.
In the sixth season premiere, Ross and Rachel's marriage is established to be a drunken mistake, and they divorce several episodes later. Monica and Chandler decide to move into her apartment together, and Rachel moves in with Phoebe. Joey lands a role on a cable television series called Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E, where he stars alongside a robot. Ross gets a job lecturing at New York University, and starts dating one of his students, Elizabeth (Alexandra Holden). Phoebe and Rachel's apartment catches fire, and Rachel moves in with Joey while Phoebe moves in with Chandler and Monica. Chandler decides to propose to Monica, who considers reconciling with Richard. Although Richard confesses that he still loves her, Monica accepts Chandler's proposal.
Cast and characters
Main cast
- Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green
- Courteney Cox as Monica Geller
- Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay
- Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribianni
- Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing
- David Schwimmer as Ross Geller
Episodes
| # | Total | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate | |
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| 1 | 122 | "The One After Vegas" | Kevin S. Bright | Adam Chase | September 23, 1999 (1999-09-23) | |
| Ross and Rachel deal with the aftermath of their drunken escapade. Phoebe and Joey take a road trip. Monica and Chandler ponder the idea of marriage and decide to live together. | ||||||
| 2 | 123 | "The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel" | Gail Mancuso | Shana Goldberg-Meehan | September 30, 1999 (1999-09-30) | |
| Monica and Chandler tell Rachel and Joey that they're moving in together. Joey takes the news that Chandler is moving out badly, and Chandler reassures him that their friendship won't be affected. On the other hand Rachel takes the news well... but only because she doesn't realize that as Chandler is moving in she will have to move out. Eventually when Monica tells the truth of the situation Rachel is distraught and seeks comfort from Ross. Phoebe meanwhile thinks Ross still loves Rachel due to the fact he didn't get the annullment, and her belief is strengthened when he hugs Rachel in an attempt to comfort her and because he smells her hair. | ||||||
| 3 | 124 | "The One with Ross's Denial" | Gary Halvorson | Seth Kurland | October 7, 1999 (1999-10-07) | |
| Ross tries to deny he still has feelings for Rachel and invites her to move in with him. Monica and Chandler fight over what to do with their spare bedroom. | ||||||
| 4 | 125 | "The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance" | Gary Halvorson | Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen | October 14, 1999 (1999-10-14) | |
| Joey's health benefits lapse just as he develops a hernia. Ross decide to use a fake accent when he starts lecturing at NYU. Rachel finds out she and Ross are still married. | ||||||
| 5 | 126 | "The One with Joey's Porsche" | Gary Halvorson | Perry M. Rein & Gigi McCreery | October 21, 1999 (1999-10-21) | |
| Ross and Rachel attempt to get an annullment. However when Ross lets slip to the Judge that the two were previously in a relationship they are denied the annullment and are forced to get a divorce. Ross is miserable about now having three failed marriages, but cheers up when Rachel confesses that getting married was her idea. Joey pretends to be the owner of a Porsche whose owner left its keys at Central Perk. Phoebe baby-sits the triplets and ropes in Monica and Chandler, who swallows a toy gun and has to be taken to the hospital leaving Phoebe alone. | ||||||
| 6 | 127 | "The One on the Last Night" | David Schwimmer | Scott Silveri | November 4, 1999 (1999-11-04) | |
| It's the final night before Chandler moves in with Monica, and Chandler tries to give Joey money, and when Joey refuses Chandler makes up a fake game and 'loses' the money to Joey only for Joey to lose the money to Ross in the same game. Upon finding out Rachel hasn't packed, Monica and Phoebe agree to help her move however when the two start to get emotional Phoebe suggests they think of the things they don't like about each other... but this backfires when the two then get into a massive argument. | ||||||
| 7 | 128 | "The One Where Phoebe Runs" | Gary Halvorson | Sherry Bilsing & Ellen Plummer | November 11, 1999 (1999-11-11) | |
| Rachel and Phoebe start living together, however Rachel is embarrassed by Phoebe's odd running style and attempts to avoid her during her morning jogs through Central Park. Joey takes in a new roommate: dancer Janine (played by Elle Macpherson). | ||||||
| 8 | 129 | "The One with Ross's Teeth" | Gary Halvorson | Perry M. Rein & Gigi McCreery | November 18, 1999 (1999-11-18) | |
| Ross goes too far while trying to impress a date by over whitening his teeth. Phoebe may or may not have made out with Ralph Lauren which gets Rachel into trouble with her boss. Ralph Lauren cameos in a lift scene. | ||||||
| 9 | 130 | "The One Where Ross Got High" | Kevin S. Bright | Gregory S. Malins | November 25, 1999 (1999-11-25) | |
| Ross is forced to tell Chandler why Jack and Judy don't like him. It turns out that in college, Ross experimented with 'pot', and blamed the smell of the drugs on Chandler, who had supposedly jumped out of the window because he was 'stoned'. Rachel tries to make dessert, but because the recipe book's pages were glued together, she makes only half of the dessert, the other half being a Shepherd's Pie. Phoebe develops a crush on Jack Geller after a sensual dream. Joey and Ross try to get out of Thanksgiving when they are invited to hang out with Janine and her dancer friends. | ||||||
| 10 | 131 | "The One with the Routine" | Kevin S. Bright | Brian Boyle | December 16, 1999 (1999-12-16) | |
| Janine gets a job dancing for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve and invites Joey, Ross and Monica to come with her. Meanwhile, Phoebe, Chandler and Rachel look for Monica's Christmas presents so that they could buy her something suitable in return. | ||||||
| 11 | 132 | "The One with the Apothecary Table" | Kevin S. Bright | Brian Boyle | January 6, 2000 (2000-01-06) | |
| Janine and Joey are finally dating, only for Janine to tell Joey she doesn't like Monica and Chandler, forcing him to choose between them. Meanwhile, Rachel buys an apothecary table from Pottery Barn, a store that Phoebe hates, and pretends she got it at a flea market. Her plan is then thrown into jeopardy when Phoebe sees the same table at Ross's apartment. | ||||||
| 12 | 133 | "The One with the Joke" | Gary Halvorson | Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen | January 13, 2000 (2000-01-13) | |
| Chandler is upset when Playboy prints Ross's joke and so both he and Ross claim to have originated the joke. Meanwhile, Joey reluctantly takes a waiter job at Central Perk however is fired by Gunther when he closes Central Perk to go to an audition leaving Rachel to stand up for him. | ||||||
| 13 | 134 | "The One with Rachel's Sister" | Gary Halvorson | Story: Seth Kurland Teleplay: Sherry Bilsing & Ellen Plummer | February 3, 2000 (2000-02-03) | |
| Joey gives all the pretty female customers free stuff at the coffee house. Monica is sick and won't admit it. Rachel's sister Jill (Reese Witherspoon) shows up because she's been financially cut off and has to try to make it on her own. | ||||||
| 14 | 135 | "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry" | Kevin S. Bright | Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen | February 10, 2000 (2000-02-10) | |
| Chandler admits that not much makes him cry. Larry Joe Campbell makes an appearance as Phoebe's fan asking for her autograph and later tells Joey that he has watched all of her porn movies. Phoebe discovers that Ursula has been in pornographic movies under Phoebe's name, but Phoebe gets her own back by having all Ursula's paychecks sent to her address. Ross and Jill continue their relationship, although it soon becomes clear Jill is only persuing Ross due to the fact it irks Rachel. | ||||||
| 15 | 136 | "The One that Could Have Been, Part 1" | Michael Lembeck | Gregory S. Malins & Adam Chase | February 17, 2000 (2000-02-17) | |
| The gang ponders what might have been if Ross and Carol stayed married, Monica had still been fat, Chandler was a struggling writer, Joey still worked on Days of our Lives, Rachel had married Barry and Phoebe had become a stockbroker. | ||||||
| 16 | 137 | "The One that Could Have Been, Part 2" | Michael Lembeck | David Crane & Marta Kauffman | February 17, 2000 (2000-02-17) | |
| A continuation of the alternate reality. Rachel almost has an affair with Joey, and finds Barry cheating on her. Ross realizes Carol is a lesbian by partaking in a threesome with Susan only to find himself very much left out. Phoebe is very stressed because of her work; she gets a heart attack and is subsequently fired. The inexperienced Chandler and 30-year-old-virgin Monica decide to sleep together. | ||||||
| 17 | 138 | "The One with Unagi" | Gary Halvorson | Story: Zachary Rosenblatt, Teleplay: Adam Chase | February 24, 2000 (2000-02-24) | |
| Rachel and Phoebe take self-defense classes. Ross, who had previously practiced karate, tries to attack them by surprise and convince them that they lack unagi, supposedly a state of "total awareness". (In reality, as pointed out by Rachel and Phoebe, unagi is just a Japanese dish.) Chandler and Monica celebrate Valentine's Day several days after the actual date because of their schedules, but they forget to make each other home-made gifts: Monica gives Chandler one of Phoebe's "sock bunnies", and Chandler gives Monica a mixtape, which was originally a present from Janice. | ||||||
| 18 | 139 | "The One Where Ross Dates a Student" | Gary Halvorson | Seth Kurland | March 9, 2000 (2000-03-09) | |
| Ross starts dating a student from one of his paleontology classes much to his friends amusement. Rachel and Phoebe's apartment catches fire causing them to move in with Monica and Joey. At first it appears that Rachel gets to live with Monica and Phoebe is forced to live with Joey when it appears that Phoebe's candles caused the fire. However when it emerges that the fire was actually Rachel's fault, the two switch and Rachel finds herself preferring Joey's easygoing nature while Phoebe chafes over Monica's desire to keep her apartment clean. | ||||||
| 19 | 140 | "The One with Joey's Fridge" | Ben Weiss | Story: Seth Kurland Teleplay: Gigi McCreery & Perry M. Rein | March 23, 2000 (2000-03-23) | |
| Joey's refrigerator breaks, but he can't afford a new one so tries desperately to get one of his friends to pay for it. Ross's student girlfriend prepares to head to Miami for Spring Break and Ross tries to contain his paranoia over what she might get up to. | ||||||
| 20 | 141 | "The One with Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E." | Kevin S. Bright | Doty Abrams | April 13, 2000 (2000-04-13) | |
| Joey auditions for the lead in a TV show and Chandler almost rules him out of the part. | ||||||
| 21 | 142 | "The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad" | Michael Lembeck | Story: David J. Lagana, Teleplay: Scott Silveri | April 27, 2000 (2000-04-27) | |
| Ross is nervous when he meets Elizabeth's father Paul (Bruce Willis) for the first time; Paul shows interest in Rachel. Joey gets off on the wrong foot with the operator of his robotic co-star. Phoebe writes a book based on Monica and Chandler. | ||||||
| 22 | 143 | "The One Where Paul's the Man" | Gary Halvorson | Story: Brian Caldirola, Teleplay: Sherry Bilsing & Ellen Plummer | May 4, 2000 (2000-05-04) | |
| Paul tells Ross in no uncertain terms that he disapproves of his relationship with Elizabeth and threatens to have him fired if they continue seeing each other. Deciding to continue their relationship, Ross and Elizabeth sneak away to her family's cabin - not knowing Paul and Rachel have the same idea. The girls put their names down on a wedding list which gets back to Chandler, who promptly bolts. Eventually Monica finds him and calms him down... little realising that Chandler is actually planning to propose. | ||||||
| 23 | 144 | "The One with the Ring" | Gary Halvorson | Ted Cohen & Andrew Reich | May 11, 2000 (2000-05-11) | |
| Chandler and Phoebe go looking for an engagement ring, and Chandler finds the perfect one but does not have the money on him to purchase it. When he gets his hands on the money and returns to the store, he is dismayed to find Phoebe allowed the ring to be sold and tries to track it down. Meanwhile Rachel attempts to get Paul to open up emotionally but does too good a job when Paul starts crying and won't stop Joey and Ross are upset that it appears that Chandler prefers to spend time with Phoebe and decide to close Chandler out. | ||||||
| 24 | 145 | "The One with the Proposal, Part 1" | Kevin S. Bright | Scott Silveri & Shana Goldberg-Meehan | May 18, 2000 (2000-05-18) | |
| Chandler takes Monica out to dinner where he plans to propose. However as he starts to approach the subject Richard suddenly turns up at the same restaurant and the moment is lost. Returning to the apartment, Chandler starts to worry that Monica may be getting suspicious and, desperate to surprise her, makes out that he isn't interested in settling down. Ross finds himself rethinking his relationship with Elizabeth due to the fact she may be too immature, and when he finds himself in the middle of a water balloon fight his fears are confirmed and he breaks up with her. Joey accidentally buys a boat at a silent auction, and then falls in love with the idea of being a sailor and decides to keep it. | ||||||
| 25 | 146 | "The One with the Proposal, Part 2" | Kevin S. Bright | Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen | May 18, 2000 (2000-05-18) | |
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Richard reveals he's still in love with Monica and is willing to give her the marriage and kids she wants if she is willing to take him back. Chandler begins his attempts to make Monica believe he isn't interested in ever settling down however this backfires and she begins to reconsider their relationship. Eventually, Chandler is led to believe that Monica has left him but then discovers that she has planned the perfect proposal for him. Chandler finally asks Monica to marry him and she accepts. This is Tom Selleck's last appearance. | ||||||
References
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