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* TakeOurWordForIt: The audience never gets to hear the joke that Ross and Chandler are arguing about. All we know is that it involves a "Doctor Monkey" and that Monica considers it offensive to women, doctors ''and'' monkeys.
-->'''Monica:''' Now let it go! The joke ''sucks''!
-->'''Monica:''' Now let it go! The joke ''sucks''!
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Monica gets tired of Chandler and Ross fighting over who wrote the joke and gives them both a withering speech about how offensive the joke is and how they should feel sorry about inflicting it on the world.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Monica gets tired of Chandler and Ross fighting over who wrote the joke and gives them both a withering speech about how the joke isn't funny, is offensive the joke is to women and monkeys, and how they should feel sorry about inflicting it on the world.
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This is just plot happens.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Much has always been made of Joey needing to borrow money; [[Recap/FriendsS6E6TheOneOnTheLastNight an earlier episode]] even demonstrated he's surprised by how pricey the bills can be. Now that Janine has moved out, Joey is continually struggling to get by and having to prioritize what he spends his limited funds on, with cable among the first things to go. He really needs the job at Central Perk to stay afloat.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as a waiter.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as a waiter.
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* NeverMyFault: Gunther fires Joey for leaving work to go to an audition; while he himself went to get his hair dyed. The minute Rachel calls him out on this, he immediately rehires Joey on the spot.
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* SkewedPriorities: Gunther refuses to cover for Joey so he could go to his audition: because he's leaving to get his hair dyed. Rachel points out it's Gunther's own fault for briefly getting Joey fired because he left him in charge for an hour to go for a "personal errand" while Joey's only worked two days.
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* ContinuityNod: While explaining how he came up with the monkey doctor joke, Ross mentions how he once had a pet monkey back in season one.
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* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the episode, the girls ask the guys which of them would be their boyfriend. Ross and Joey decline, while Chandler automatically says Joey, thus potentially transferring the girls' argument to them.
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* InsultBackfire: After Phoebe calls Monica high-maintenance and Rachel a pushover, they respond by calling her flakey. Which she readily and happily admits.
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* AmbiguouslyBi / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* AmbiguouslyBi / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: AmbiguouslyBi: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Monica's constant efforts to fight being described as high maintenance just prove the point.
* OneTrueLove: Chandler feels their relationship works because Monica is so passionate about life, while he's the easy-going one that helps her feel better on those occasions when she's upset.
-->'''Chandler:''' So, they can say that you're high maintenance, but it's okay because I like... maintaining you.
* OneTrueLove: Chandler feels their relationship works because Monica is so passionate about life, while he's the easy-going one that helps her feel better on those occasions when she's upset.
-->'''Chandler:''' So, they can say that you're high maintenance, but it's okay because I like... maintaining you.
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* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as a waiter.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Much has always been made of Joey needing to borrow money; [[Recap/FriendsS6E6TheOneOnTheLastNight an earlier episode]] even demonstrated he's surprised by how pricey the bills can be. Now that Janine has moved out, Joey is continually struggling to get by and having to prioritize what he spends his limited funds on, with cable among the first things to go. He really needs the job at Central Perk to stay afloat.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as awaiter.waiter.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Monica is incensed about being called high maintenance and does everything possible to fight it. Ultimately, Chandler tells her she is high maintenance, but he sees it as her being passionate.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as a
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Monica is incensed about being called high maintenance and does everything possible to fight it. Ultimately, Chandler tells her she is high maintenance, but he sees it as her being passionate.
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* CompressedVice: Rachel's not exactl a pushover in the previous and following episodes.
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* CompressedVice: Rachel's not exactl exactly a pushover in the previous and following episodes.
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* IResembleThatRemark / ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rachel is called a pushover to make up for Phoebe saying Monica is high-maintenance. Rachel then spends much of the episode going along with what others say.
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* IResembleThatRemark / ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rachel is called a pushover to make up for Phoebe saying Monica is high-maintenance.high maintenance. Rachel then spends much of the episode going along with what others say.
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* RevengeIsADishBestServed: After learning that Jeoy is working at the coffee house, Rachel offers him some advice based on her years working there including serving "sneeze muffins" to rude customers. When Ross reminds Joey that he still hasn't been served his coffee Joey offers to make it up to him with a free muffin before sharing a wink with Rachel.
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* RevengeIsADishBestServed: After learning that Jeoy Joey is working at the coffee house, Rachel offers him some advice based on her years working there including serving "sneeze muffins" to rude customers. When Ross reminds Joey that he still hasn't been served his coffee Joey offers to make it up to him with a free muffin before sharing a wink with Rachel.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rachel screams "Who's a pushover now?" Then Phoebe tells her to leave her seat, and Rachel meekly says "Yes" and immediately carries out the order.
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* IResembleThatRemark: Rachel is called a pushover to make up for Phoebe saying Monica is high-maintenance. Rachel then spends much of the episode going along with what others say.
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* IResembleThatRemark: IResembleThatRemark / ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rachel is called a pushover to make up for Phoebe saying Monica is high-maintenance. Rachel then spends much of the episode going along with what others say.
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* AmbigouslyBi / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* AmbigouslyBi AmbiguouslyBi / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* AmbigouslyBi/ EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* AmbigouslyBi/ AmbigouslyBi / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* AmbigouslyBi/EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* AmbigouslyBi/EvenTheGirlsWantHer: AmbigouslyBi/ EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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*AmbigouslyBi/EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Phoebe and Chandler immediately have a passionate response when asked which same-sex member of the group they'd rather date. (It's Rachel and Joey, respectively).
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* ExtremeDoormat: Rachel's flaw of the episode.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rachel screams "Who's a pushover now?" Then Phoebe tells her to leave her seat, and Rachel meekly says "Yes" and immediately carries out the order.
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* OrphanedPunchline: We don't get to hear any part of the joke in question, just Ross trying to explain it to Joey. It apparently involves a monkey as a doctor.
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* OrphanedPunchline: We don't get to hear any part of the joke in question, just Ross trying to explain it to Joey. It apparently involves a monkey as a doctor.doctor and is sexist, according to Monica.
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* CompressedVice: Rachel's not exactl a pushover in the previous and following episodes.
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* RevengeIsABestServed: After learning that Jeoy is working at the coffee house, Rachel offers him some advice based on her years working there including serving "sneeze muffins" to rude customers. When Ross reminds Joey that he still hasn't been served his coffee Joey offers to make it up to him with a free muffin before sharing a wink with Rachel.
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* RevengeIsABestServed: RevengeIsADishBestServed: After learning that Jeoy is working at the coffee house, Rachel offers him some advice based on her years working there including serving "sneeze muffins" to rude customers. When Ross reminds Joey that he still hasn't been served his coffee Joey offers to make it up to him with a free muffin before sharing a wink with Rachel.
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* RevengeIsABestServed: After learning that Jeoy is working at the coffee house, Rachel offers him some advice based on her years working there including serving "sneeze muffins" to rude customers. When Ross reminds Joey that he still hasn't been served his coffee Joey offers to make it up to him with a free muffin before sharing a wink with Rachel.
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Ross gets a joke published in Playboy magazine, but Chandler claims he stole the joke from him. Rachel, Monica and Phoebe discuss who they would pick as a girlfriend from among the three of them and Monica gets angry when Phoebe picks Rachel. Joey's unpaid bills accumulate, so he gets a job at Central Perk.
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Ross gets a joke published in Playboy ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine, but Chandler claims he stole the joke from him. Rachel, Monica and Phoebe discuss who they would pick as a girlfriend from among the three of them and Monica gets angry when Phoebe picks Rachel. Joey's unpaid bills accumulate, so he gets a job at Central Perk.
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* IReadItForTheArticles: Ross talks about the variety of articles Playboy has. Monica says that argument didn't work with their parents.
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Gunther fires Joey for closing Central Perk to go to an audition. But as soon as Rachel complains to him about it, the lovelorn Gunther instantly hires Joey again.
* IReadItForTheArticles: Ross talks about the variety of articlesPlayboy ''Playboy'' has. Monica says that argument didn't work with their parents.
* IReadItForTheArticles: Ross talks about the variety of articles
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* NewJobEpisode: Joey gets a job as a waiter at Central Perk. He then loses his job when he closes shop to go to an audition, but Rachel convinces Gunther to rehire him.
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* NewJobEpisode: Joey gets a job as a waiter at Central Perk. He then loses his job when he closes shop to go to an audition, but Rachel convinces Gunther to rehire him.him.
* OrphanedPunchline: We don't get to hear any part of the joke in question, just Ross trying to explain it to Joey. It apparently involves a monkey as a doctor.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Monica gets tired of Chandler and Ross fighting over who wrote the joke and gives them both a withering speech about how offensive the joke is and how they should feel sorry about inflicting it on the world.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as a waiter.
* OrphanedPunchline: We don't get to hear any part of the joke in question, just Ross trying to explain it to Joey. It apparently involves a monkey as a doctor.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Monica gets tired of Chandler and Ross fighting over who wrote the joke and gives them both a withering speech about how offensive the joke is and how they should feel sorry about inflicting it on the world.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Joey can't pay his tab at Central Perk, so Gunther makes him work as a waiter.
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Ross gets a joke published in Playboy magazine, but Chandler claims he stole the joke from him. Rachel, Monica and Phoebe discuss who they would pick as a girlfriend from among the three of them and Monica gets angry when Phoebe picks Rachel. Joey's unpaid bills accumulate, so he gets a job at Central Perk.
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* IReadItForTheArticles: Ross talks about the variety of articles Playboy has. Monica says that argument didn't work with their parents.
* IResembleThatRemark: Rachel is called a pushover to make up for Phoebe saying Monica is high-maintenance. Rachel then spends much of the episode going along with what others say.
* NewJobEpisode: Joey gets a job as a waiter at Central Perk. He then loses his job when he closes shop to go to an audition, but Rachel convinces Gunther to rehire him.
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!!Tropes:
* IReadItForTheArticles: Ross talks about the variety of articles Playboy has. Monica says that argument didn't work with their parents.
* IResembleThatRemark: Rachel is called a pushover to make up for Phoebe saying Monica is high-maintenance. Rachel then spends much of the episode going along with what others say.
* NewJobEpisode: Joey gets a job as a waiter at Central Perk. He then loses his job when he closes shop to go to an audition, but Rachel convinces Gunther to rehire him.
