Heartwarming / Friends

After 10 seasons of ups and downs, they're FINALLY together.

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General

• Ross and Carol are on very good terms despite the circumstances surrounding their divorce. It's clear the two still care about each other deeply, it's just what happened was inevitable due to Incompatible Orientation. Ross himself doesn't hold any resentment towards her being a lesbian, he's just upset that he lost his wife and adding onto it the way that he lost her was seen as shameful at the time so he's more embarrassed about it.

Season One

101: TOW Monica Gets a Roommate

• Monica hasn't seen or heard from Rachel in years, and is clearly a little hurt that Rachel didn't invite her to her wedding, but doesn't hesitate for a single moment when it comes to Rachel moving in with her. She even lends Rachel her clothes, given how quickly Rachel is able to change out of her wedding dress. Monica really is a sweet and motherly person, especially since Rachel has no income at that moment in time. It's also lovely how both Monica and Rachel end up so close to one another again so quickly, a testament of how strong their friendship must have been in the first place.
• The group cheering Rachel on as she cuts up her credit cards, affirming that they support her new direction in life even if everyone else in her life doesn't and that she is making the right decision for herself. Most of them haven't known Rachel that long or haven't seen her in years, but they all embrace her as part of their circle.

102: TOW the Sonogram at the End

• Rachel returned her ring to pre-jerkass Barry. He was composed and civilized and showed no resentment for what she did to him. He also reassures her she did the right thing as they weren't happy which given the rough few days she's had, she desperately needed to hear.
• Ross, Carol and Susan's argument about the baby's name spills into an argument about how awkward their situation is. Overwhelmed by this, Ross starts to walk out of the room when he hears the baby's heartbeat over the sonogram. All three of them immediately drop the argument and grab each other's hands as they watch the screen in awe.
• During the end credits Ross proudly shows off the sonogram video to the gang. While the others make jokes Monica is very emotional about the fact that she's going to be an Aunt.

104: TOW George Stephanopolous

• The ending where Rachel (who has been freaking out about her "plan") looks at her new friends acting like dorks and gently says "I'm fine".

105: TOW East German Laundry Detergent

• Ross teaches Rachel how to do her laundry. He's never condescending about the fact a twenty-something year old woman doesn't know how to wash her own clothes, he just patiently explains what to do. When Rachel accidentally turns her clothes pink, Ross even goes out of his way to cheer her up. Rachel for her part is really grateful to Ross, and is surprisingly eager to learn how to do it by herself.

108: TOW Nana Dies Twice

• The Geller family reminisce about about Nana and her funny little ways. Nana's habit of stealing packets of Sweet n' Low comes up, and Ross later uncovers a stash of them in her cupboard while helping his mother and aunt look for an outfit for her to be buried in. Ross, who struggled to feel anything about his Nana dying earlier in the episode, is happy and sad as all the little sugar packets fall around him. The music that plays throughout is also incredibly touching.
• When Phoebe mentions that little yellow pencils remind her of her deceased friend (because said friend was struck by lightning while playing miniature golf), Rachel immediately gives her the pencil she uses for waitressing.
• While it ends up embarrassing Chandler and ruins his chances of chatting up the woman he's talking to, the fact that a drugged up Ross wants to let him know that he's totally okay with Chandler being gay is pretty sweet.

109: TOW the Underdog Gets Away

• The first Thanksgiving Episode. Monica going into full Team Mom mode and making Thanksgiving dinner when the others don't have anywhere else to go, including cooking four different kinds of specially-requested potatoes, plus buying extra supplies for Thanksgiving-hating Chandler.
  • Later, when the meal is ruined and Monica ends up in tears, it's Chandler who takes over and makes his grilled cheese sandwiches for everyone, admitting that it's actually been one of the best Thanksgivings for him because they're all together.
• The fact that after this the gang celebrate Thanksgiving together every year.
• Rachel fails to get an advance on her salary or make enough in tips to pay for a ticket to go skiing with her family. The rest of the gang decide to surprise her by chipping in to buy the ticket for her. While subsequent events mean she doesn't get to go on the trip it's sweet that the others tried to do something nice for her anyway.

110: TOW the Monkey

• Phoebe meeting David. He was so smitten with her... And she with him.
  David: I was just saying to my friend that I thought you were the most beautiful woman that I’d ever seen in my life. And then he said that Daryl Hannah was the most beautiful woman that he’d ever seen in his life. And I said yeah, I liked her in Splash, a lot, but not so much in- in Wall Street, I thought she had kind of a hard quality. And uh, while Daryl Hannah is beautiful in a conventional way, you are luminous with a kind of a delicate grace.

112: TOW the Dozen Lasagnas

• Phoebe telling Rachel that Paolo hit on her. Also sad, but the girls don't yell at each other, they even apologize for what the other had to go through, and the scene ends with Phoebe stroking Rach's hair.
• The episode ends with Rachel inadvertently revealing to Ross that he's having a son after Ross spent the entire episode struggling over whether he wanted to learn what his baby's sex would be. Rather than get upset over having it spoiled to him, Ross instead looks like he's going to start crying Tears of Joy. Monica, the first of the gang to find out, runs over and gives him a massive hug.

116-17: TOW the Two Parts

• Ross is worried about his ability to be a good father to his soon-to-be-born son. He goes to lunch with his own father who tells him a sweet story about when he was holding baby Ross who grabbed his finger, and that was the moment he knew he could be a good father.
• Phoebe "breaks up" with Joey impersonating her twin sister Ursula. Joey gives her one last kiss: the kiss reveals Phoebe to Joey, who appreciates the extent to which Phoebe went through to keep him as a friend.

118: TOW All the Poker

• Ross lets Rachel win because he twooly wuvs her. Aww nothing beats that! It's all the more meaningful in this episode, which pitted the three girls against the three guys. Especially this last game, in which everyone held stakes. They'd spent the whole episode snarking, and trading barbs (well the girls anyway, since they kept losing. In all fairness, they'd just started learning the game). But, in the end, when it's just Ross Vs Rachel, and Rachel's all upset because she didn't get a job she wanted, Ross throws his hand. And the look on his face, as he watches the girls celebrating... awwww.
  Joey: [to Ross] Ahhh, that's alright. Y'know, that's a tough hand to beat.
  Chandler: [to Ross] I thought we had them!
  Ross: Oh, well, when you don't have the cards, you don't have the cards, you know. (looks at Rachel) But, uh... look how happy she is. (smiles)
  (Chandler and Joey look at her, and then look back at him. They dive for Ross's hand to see what he had, and he tries to stop them from looking.)

123: TOW the Birth

• Throughout the episode, Ross and Susan are arguing more than ever and over the soon-to-be-born baby. They continue even when locked in a janitor's closet. Phoebe happens to be in tow and makes an observation.
  Phoebe: This is so great.
  Ross: You wanna explain that?
  Phoebe: I mean, well, cause when I was growing up, you know my dad left and my mother died and my stepfather went to jail, so I barely had enough pieces of parents to make one whole one. And here's this little baby who has like three whole parents who care about it so much that they're fighting over who gets to love it the most. And it's not even born yet. It's just, it's just the luckiest baby in the whole world. (beat) I'm sorry, you were fighting.
  • The fact that Ross and Susan chose Ben's name because of the jumpsuit Phoebe put on to get them out of the closet because of this speech.
• Chandler cutting off Monica's mother when she's criticizing her, holding Monica when she cries and offering her a Fall Back Children Pact if they're both still single at 40.
• The end, with a Ben's POV-shot of first Ross explaining that he'll always come back to see his child and then the gang cooing over the baby, is really adorable.
• Joey starting his running loyalty to pregnant ladies by being there for the woman whose husband only showed up after the baby was born.
• A minor one. At the end of the episode, Ross starts explaining to his newborn son about how he won't always be around, but will always come back. Chandler comes in and makes a joke about the signals he'll be making to Ben when they play baseball in the future. Is this just Chandler making another dumb joke and ruining the mood? Or can he just not wait for the day where he gets to play baseball with his Godson?
• Monica holding her baby nephew for the first time. She's so hesitant when she asks Ross if she can, and can barely keep from crying once Ben's handed to her.

124: TOW Rachel Finds Out

• Ross' thoughtful birthday gift, remembering how months ago she told him about her grandmother having a pin like it and how much she loved it.
• Rachel begins to waver over whether she does genuinely fancy Ross. Instantly Monica jumps to his defence.

Season Two

201: TOW Ross's New Girlfriend

• Ross seems genuinely happy with Julie. During the first season, Ross was perpetually downtrodden over his failed marriage. You can see in this episode, and up until meeting Mark, Ross genuinely realizes that Carol wasn't his only shot at love.

202: TOW the Breast Milk

• When Rachel tells Monica why she doesn't like her hanging out with Julie.
  Rachel: You don't get it. It's bad enough that she's stolen the guy who might actually be the person that I am supposed to be with, but now, she's actually... [starts crying] but now she's actually stealing you!
  Monica: Me?! What are you talking about?! Nobody could steal me from you! I mean, just because I'm friends with her doesn't make me any less friends with you! I mean, you're my... [also starts crying] We're, we're... Oh, I love you!
  Rachel: I love you too! [They hug]
  Phoebe: You guys, um, I know that this really doesn't have anything to do with me, but, um, I love you guys too! [Phoebe gets in the hug] Oh, I really needed that.

203: TOW Heckles Dies

• After they go down to Mr. Heckles' apartment to collect the stuff he left to them, Chandler is last out. He leans Mr Heckles broom against the door, turns the lights off and says "Goodbye Mr Heckles, we'll try to keep it down." Then quietly leaves.
• The girls comforting Chandler about not finding anyone and Monica promising he won't ever die alone. Made extra Heartwarming in Hindsight when you consider Monica and Chandler eventually get together.
• Joey trying to get Chandler away from Heckles's apartment by offering to take him out for breakfast. Possibly the only time when he actually offers to pay for someone else's fun.
• Even though Chandler's breakdown was Played for Laughs, not once during the episode is anyone annoyed by Chandler. Everyone was more concerned for him than anything else.

207: TOW Ross Finds Out

• Ross and Rachel's first kiss: the coffeehouse is closing, He's mad at her for revealing her feelings, whilst Rachel is mad at him for not talking about his crush before. Ross storms out and Rachel locks the door, furious with herself at what she has done. Ross, however, doesn't go away but stays at the door looking at her. When she gets up, she sees him and unlocks the door. Ross enters, grabs Rachel and kisses her.

209: TOW Phoebe's Dad

• Monica and Rachel give out Christmas cookies to their mailman, their paper boy, and the building's superintendent, Mr. Treeger, as a tip rather than extra money because they are currently broke (Rachel has her job as a waitress which she's never been able to do well at all in while Monica just recently lost her job). The first two are less than pleased and retaliate in Jerkass ways. Treeger initially seems to act like a Jerkass to them as well, but later on it turns out he actually liked the cookies and felt they were a very heartfelt gift.
• In the other plot, Joey and Chandler supporting Phoebe when she's scared about meeting her real dad and reassuring her when she can't do it. Both of them holding her hand through the taxi screen is especially nice.

211: TOW the Lesbian Wedding

• Ross talking Carol out of her doubts about getting married after her parents refuse to attend the wedding as they object to her marrying Susan. Despite Carol being his ex-wife and Ross being at first the least supportive of the wedding, he actually takes Susan's side in their argument, affirming that what matters is how she feels about Susan rather than how her parents react.
• The wedding itself, with Ross walking Carol down the aisle.
• Susan's obvious gratitude to Ross, and her asking him to dance, given that they all but hated each other in nearly every other episode.

212-13: TO After the Super Bowl

• The gang singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to get Marcel the monkey's attention. Great way of showing their support of Ross.
• Ross wants to spend time with Marcel, but the monkey is being kept too busy by the trainer and for the movie shoot. Ross feels down about it, but at the coffee shop, he looks over and sees Marcel knocking on a window. The little monkey ran off to spend time with him on his own. Awww...
• After Phoebe gets fired from the library for singing her "inappropriate" songs to school kids (about dying from old age, sleeping around, and animal slaughtering) the kids all track her down to Central Perk. It turns out they appreciate that her music speaks the truth rather than being mushy or sappy like most children's songs are.

214: TOW the Prom Video

• Ross and Rachel are again mad at each other. In this episode the friends decide to watch the video from the prom although Ross objects to everyone seeing the tape. Rachel seems to be stood up by her prom date, Chip Matthews, so after some persuading from Judy, Ross plans to take her to prom instead. He dresses up in a suit and finds a makeshift flower bouquet, but Rachel's date shows up before she learns of Ross' plans. The video ends with Ross looking disappointed and rejected. Rachel, touched by Ross's gesture, gets up and passionately kisses Ross, forgiving him for what happened between them.
  • The reactions of the fellow friends are heart-touching. Monica wipes her eyes, Chandler grins and looks around at the others in joy, Phoebe (true to her child-like personality) keeps clapping on the sofa ecstatically, and Joey has the most subtle yet no less powerful response of gazing at the scene with a loving smile and brimming eyes, glad that his best friend finally got what his heart had spent a year yearning for.
  Phoebe: See? He's her lobster!
• During the end credits we see that the tape includes a sweet moment of Monica dancing with her father. Jack is often Innocently Insensitive towards Monica but moments like this remind the audience that he does genuinely care about his daughter.

215: TOW Ross and Rachel... You Know

• Ross and Rachel's first time together. Especially when she says one of the highest praises someone can say to the person they love.
  Ross: Listen, I'm sorry I had to work tonight.
  Rachel: Oh, that's okay. You were worth the wait. And I don't just mean tonight.

216: TOW Joey Moves Out

• After becoming a successful actor on Days of Our Lives, Joey ultimately decides it's time to begin a new phase of his life and move out of his and Chandler's apartment. Chandler is very upset, but by the end of the episode they are able to patch things up. At the very end, Joey's things are all packed and he begins to leave... then suddenly comes back and gives Chandler a huge bro-hug.
• During Ross and Monica's plotline, we see just how serious Monica and Richard are about each other despite having just hooked up the previous episode. Richard is shown bragging about her to his friends and as Jack reveals, he even says he's falling in love with her. Monica spends the whole episode afraid of how her parents will react if they found out, but she's the one who tells them. Even better, it was her mom she told first, the one who had caused more problems for Monica of the two.
  • In general the show's attitude towards romances with an age gap was surprisingly positive. Monica and Richard and Frank Jr. and Alice were portrayed in a very positive light. To this day these types of romances are stigmatized especially if the older person had known the younger person as a child. Despite both romances meeting that criteria, they weren't portrayed predatory and were treated just as genuine as the romances without the age gap, even if they made the occasional joke about the age gap.

217: TOW Eddie Moves In

• Aside from Chandler and Joey missing each other, Phoebe's subplot. After "Smelly Cat" gets a ridiculously dramatic video with her voice dubbed over, her only concern is that the singing woman was treated badly because she wasn't pretty enough. Even when Rachel brings up Phoebe's mistreatment, she doesn't care one bit. Also the end with all of Central Perk singing the song with Rach cutely head-banging when it's over. You can also see Monica getting Chandler to sing along and smile as he's still miserable over Joey moving out.

218: TOW Dr Ramoray Dies

• The gang comforting Joey after they find out that his soap opera character got killed off.

219: TOW Eddie Won't Go

• Chandler is finally able to get rid of Eddie for good and Joey comes back. At the end Chandler and Joey are happy and they start jumping up and down in celebration while hugging.
• Ross and Joey are sweet too, with Ross trying to help his fired friend with actual realistic advice (even if Joey would rather Chandler's complete encouragement) ^note  Ross pretty much reminds him of how much money he owes after wasting all of his money on tacky decorations, telling him to take any job he can get, while Joey, being overconfident, thinks lower roles are beneath him. and buying the white dog for him when everything else is repossessed.

220: TOW Old Yeller Dies

• The end credits scene where Phoebe watches Sesame Street with Ben. A few seconds into a clip of Ernie losing Bert at the beach she pauses the tape to assure Ben that she's looked ahead and everything turns out fine "but there's something pretty rough going in there" and she's sure they can get through it together. When she starts the tape again she tells Ben she's glad he's here to watch with her. As a sweet bonus, Ben says "Bye-Bye, Phoebe" over the Vanity Plate.
• More generally, Ross and Susan are being much nicer to each other, having obviously left a good deal of animosity behind them after the wedding.

221: TOW the Bullies

• Phoebe (who has been putting off seeing her father for ages because she's scared) meeting her brother for the first time. It's a bittersweet scene, as she's just found out that Frank Sr left another family, but gets to be a big sister.

222: TOW the Two Parties

• Rachel talks to Chandler about her parents and how bad she feels about their divorce and the whole situation. Chandler consoles her, first in his arms, then in Ross'.

224: TOW Barry and Mindy's Wedding

• Small, but given how they were written in later seasons, Phoebe sincerely calling Chandler "the cutest" when he's being adorable with his online girlfriend.

Season Three

301: TOW the Princess Leia Fantasy

• Chandler has renewed his relationship with Janice and Joey can't stand her. She insists that they spend the day together and Joey claims to love her now. As soon as she leaves, Chandler sees through the ruse. Joey is genuinely sorry and upset, swearing, "I tried, man, I really did.", but then perks up, realizing that despite still disliking Janice, he was able to get through the day without killing her, meaning that he can at least tolerate her for Chandler's sake. Equally sweet is the fact that instead of dismissing Joey's dislike of her or using it to drive a wedge between him and Chandler, Janice reached out to him in a sincere effort to befriend him.
• At the end of the episode Jack comes to ask for a "Moni-cuddle" from Monica. He then tells her that Richard is doing terribly since their breakup, which finally gives Monica the closure she needs to get to sleep. Once she's passed out Jack tucks a blanket around her and gives her a kiss on the head.

303: TOW the Jam

• Monica plans to have a baby via sperm donor because she's desperate for children and believes she'll never find another boyfriend. After an episode of everyone saying it's a crazy idea, who gets through to her? Joey just by talking about how he imagined her and her future husband and kids all playing in their house and pool together. It's enough to make a tearful Monica realise she doesn't just want a baby, she wants a family, and the episode ends with Joey giving her a giant hug.
  • One of the details in Joey's story is a goofy poolside sign that Monica protests she'd never own - Joey replies that he's the one who gave it to her. Even in this imaginary future, Joey is sure they'll still be friends and in each other's lives.
  • Massive Heartwarming in Hindsight as Monica does get that husband and family - with Joey's best friend. And when she and Chandler buy the idyllic suburban house for the kids, they make sure to include a Joey room.

304: TOW the Metaphorical Tunnel

• Monica and Rachel comforting Chandler with his issues about Janice, giving him girl advice and bringing out the ice cream. Also in general terms, how he always goes to see the girls when he's having problems in early seasons is really nice.

306: TOW the Flashback

• A nice heartwarming moment between Ross and Phoebe, where the latter comforts the former following the revelation that Carol was a lesbian. This leads more to a hilarious What Could Have Been moment where the two almost have sex on the pool table, ultimately defused by how uncomfortable they feel in the setting. Still, it does a nice job of cementing the bond between the two of them, and especially stands out when you compare it the Vitriolic Best Buds relationship that they would share in the last few years of the show's run.
• Chandler comforts Monica about not having a boyfriend and telling her she's the most beautiful woman he's ever known [in real life] and one of his favourite people in the whole world. Given their later relationship it also doubles as Heartwarming in Hindsight.

308: TOW the Giant Poking Device

• When Chandler tells Janice to leave him and give her marriage another try. Borderline tearjerker as he really loves her at this point, but he doesn't want a kid to suffer what he went through with his parents divorced.
  Chandler: I think you should go back with Gary. I don't wanna be the guy that breaks up a family. You know when my parents split up, it was because of that guy. Whenever I would see him I was always think 'You're the reason, you are the reason why they're not together.' and I hated that guy.
• After the break up with Janice, Chandler's sitting in his chair devastated, listening to Lionel Richie's "Endless Love" on the headphones, and singing along. Phoebe walks in, sits next to him and joins the singing.

310: TOW Rachel Quits

• Ross accidentally breaks a little Brown Bird's leg, seemingly ruining her attempt to sell the most cookies in her troop to win a trip to Space Camp. To compound Ross' guilt, the girl, Sarah, reveals that her father cleans apartments for a living and gambles away most of his meagre salary, so they don't even own a TV on which she can watch the Space Shuttle launches. To make up for it, he attempts to sell as many of her Brown Bird cookies as possible, and when they are being counted and he hears that one girl has sold 300 more boxes than he has managed to sell, he buys another 300 boxes personally. Sadly, it's all for naught, as one of the other Brown Birds gave her uniform to her 19-year-old sister, who sold over 2,000 boxes to the crew of the USS Nimitz. So Ross recruits Joey and Chandler to set up their own "space camp" in their apartment especially for Sarah. The look on her face as they pretend to launch her into space is too adorable for words.
• Phoebe reacts with horror at Joey's new job where the old dying Christmas trees are tossed into the chipper if they're not sold. At the end of the episode Phoebe is surprised to find all the remaining old trees have been bought by the Friends and now reside in Monica's apartment, ready to fulfill their Christmas destiny.
  Chandler: It's like, "The Night of the Living Dead Christmas Trees".

313: TOW Monica and Richard are Just Friends

• Rachel and Joey swap books, she reads his copy of The Shining while he reads Little Women. While discussing the books Joey accidentally spoils the ending of The Shining for Rachel so she retaliates by telling him that Beth dies. At the end of the episode Joey shows up at Rachel's apartment visibly upset because Beth is sick and about to die. Rather than make fun of him or rub it in, Rachel hugs him and offers to put the book in the freezer^note Joey puts books that scare him in the freezer to get away from them.

316: TO the Morning After

• A small moment: when Monica and Phoebe try a new leg waxing method, it ends up being very painful. Hearing their screams, Joey and Chandler rush in the room with a pan and a tea kettle, thinking they have to rescue them.

319: TOW the Tiny T-Shirt

• Ross returning his old t-shirt to Rachel at the end of the episode.

321: TOW a Chick and a Duck

• Ross is supposed to be part of a Discovery Channel panel. Earlier that day Rachel broke a rib and attempted to write it off as no big deal. While Rachel was getting ready to go, Ross saw how much pain she was in, and decided to skip the panel to take her to the hospital.
• Chandler and Joey try to take their new chick back to the shelter but are horrified to hear it will probably end up being put down. Not only do they keep the chick but adopt an at-risk duck as well.

323: TOW the Screamer

• After everything they've gone through the past few episodes, Ross is genuinely concerned Rachel is dating a man with an explosive temper and even blows off his date to help her.

Season Four

401: TOW the Jellyfish

• Chandler and Monica's situation is both humorous and heartwarming. Chandler, still insisting he's boyfriend material, had peed on Monica to heal her jellyfish sting, and although Monica says they wouldn't work together she thanks him and gives an adorable speech which perfectly reflects their friendship at the time.
  Monica: Okay, all right. I think you're great, I think you're sweet, and you're smart... and I love you.

403: TOW the Cuffs

• Judy admitting she was wrong and apologizing to Monica.

405: TOW Joey's New Girlfriend

• Chandler has to listen to Kathy and Joey be together, and Monica is sick with the flu. He turns up at her door wrapped in blankets and pitifully asks if he can stay the night. She nods and they shuffle off together, arm in arm.

406: TOW the Dirty Girl

• Chandler, being not-so-secretly in love with Kathy, buys her a rare vintage edition of The Velveteen Rabbit because it was her favourite book as a kid. His friends then convince him that he cannot give it to her because Joey's present will be less meaningful. He then gives the book to Joey to give it to her because he wants her to have it and enjoy it. She loves it and figures out whose idea it was. Awww.

408: TOW Chandler in a Box

• Chandler proving how much he values Joey's friendship by staying in the box all day and agreeing to take it seriously.
  • He even stays silent when Kathy breaks up with him, only responding by waving goodbye through the hole. A platonic Act of True Love if ever there was one.
• Kathy saying how she doesn't want to come between him and Joey.
• Joey having a change of heart followed by one of the duo's best hugs, then everyone watching Chandler run after Kathy.
  Joey: ... ... ...open the box! (rushes over to the box)
  Rachel: (genuinely shocked) What?
  Joey: He can still catch her, okay, (pries the box open) c'mon, get outta there! (Chandler gets up) Get outta there!
• Rachel's box of sentimental things from her relationship with Ross.
• Even Phoebe and Rachel telling Chandler he doesn't have to try and be macho when Ross and Joey aren't around is sweet.

410: TOW the Girl from Poughkeepsie

• Monica gets a job as head chef. Only problem is the staff hate her and constantly pull mean pranks on her every day. To get them to fear and respect her, Monica and Joey hatch a plan where Joey will start working there and she'll fire him in front of everyone to assert her authority. However, Joey learns that the pay is pretty good, so when the time comes for Monica to fire him he's reluctant since he needs the money. Right after this, the staff prank Monica, leaving her covered in tomato sauce and almost in tears. Seeing how distressed she really is, Joey forgets the money and goes with the plan, so the staff will respect her.

411: TOW Phoebe's Uterus

• Right before things get awkward during the Truth-Telling Session at the museum, one of the scientists admits he moved to New York a month ago and is intimidated by the city. Everyone is fully supportive of him and assures him he'll acclimate fine.

412: TOW the Embryos

• Everyone is yelling about the apartment bet and Phoebe - who has been really worried about letting her brother and his wife down - announces she's pregnant. Cue delight and bouncy group hugs. (of course the bet is still on and Rachel and Monica still have to adjust to a gross apartment right after)

416: TOW the Fake Party

• Early on in her pregnancy, Phoebe freaks out because she's craving meat. She's very upset at the prospect of killing even more animals so Joey promises to stop eating meat until Phoebe's pregnancy is over.^note His logic being that she is only eating the animals that he would have eaten and thus no more are dying for food than there were before.
• Ross and Emily had agreed not to commit to anything beyond the two weeks she was spending in New York. Rachel, in a contrast to her usual Clingy Jealous Girl behaviour towards Ross, tells him that it's clear that he and Emily are really starting to care about each other and should give their relationship a chance.

419: TOW All the Haste

• The episode opens with Rachel being woken up by her neighbour singing a song about how great the morning is, which infuriates her. At the end of the episode, when the girls have switched the apartments back, Joey is woken up by the same man singing the same song, and even joins in with him, clearly delighted to be back with his singing neighbour.
  Singing Guy: I'll see you tomorrow morning!
  Joey: Okay!

422: TOW the Worst Best Man Ever

• When Ross made both Chandler and Joey his best men.
  Ross: I want you both up there with me. You guys are my best... Other guys would be lucky to have just one...
  Chandler: Thanks, man.
  Joey: I gotta go look at something. (Walks away to a corner.)
  Ross: What a baby.
  Chandler: Total wuss. (they both turn away and start wiping the tears from their eyes)

423-24: TOW Ross's Wedding

• The moment at Ross' wedding rehearsal that kicks off one of the most heartwarming relationships in the history of sitcoms:
  Monica: My mother's right. I'm never going to get married.
  Chandler: That's just... who wouldn't want you?

Season Five

501: TOW Ross Says Rachel

• It's hard not to get all gooey when Chandler and Monica are back in New York and making every excuse to keep their thing going before having the Big Damn Kiss.

503: The One Hundredth

• Chandler is visibly crushed when Monica is set up with another guy (their relationship is still a secret). In a defensive move he claims he was just 'goofing around', but later gives an adorable speech and admits for the first time that their relationship is serious. Made sweeter because Chandler is normally terrified of commitment but here he's the first to admit his feelings go deeper than sex. Bonus points for her You Are Better Than You Think You Are response.
  Chandler: Y'know, I don't know if you've ever looked up the term goofing around in the dictionary... Well, I have, and the technical definition is, two friends who care a lot about each other and have amazing sex and just wanna... spend more time together."

505: TOW the Kips

• Chandler/Monica moment: After a stupid fight, Chandler thinks they're broken up and comes round to say goodbye. Monica reassures him it isn't a big deal and they'll get over it. He's so thrilled that he gives one of the most delighted and adorable grins in the entire series. Followed by them officially admitting they're in a relationship for the first time.
  Chandler: (entering Monica and Rachel's apartment; Monica is on the sofa) Hey.
  Monica: (turning to face him) Hi.
  Chandler: I just came over to drop off... (long pause) nothing. (sighs) So, that weekend kinda sucked, huh.
  Monica: (stands up) Yeah, it did.
  Chandler: So... I guess this is over...
  Monica: (confused) What?
  Chandler: Well... y'know... you and me! I mean, it had to end some time.
  Monica: (even more confused) Why, exactly?
  Chandler: Because of the weekend! We had a fight!
  Monica: (laughs in disbelief) Chandler, that's crazy! If you give up every time you have a fight with someone, you'd never be with anyone longer than... (suddenly, Chandler's entire dating history falls into focus for her - and for Chandler) Ohhhh.
  Chandler: So... this isn't over?
  Monica: (laughs and walks around the sofa to Chandler) You are so cute! No! No, it was a fight. You deal with it and you move on! It's nothing to freak out about.
  Chandler: Really? Okay. Great! (Huge grin)
  Monica: Welcome to an adult relationship. (puts her hands on his shoulders and moves her face toward his)
  Chandler: (pushes Monica back, surprised) We're in a relationship?
  Monica: I'm afraid so.
  Chandler: Okay. (they kiss)
  • Shortly after this Joey works out that Chandler and Monica were in New Jersey together, forcing them to confirm they're secretly dating. As freaked out as he is by the secrecy Joey is also happy for them, telling them "this is great" in the middle of his panic.

508: TOW All the Thanksgivings

• Chandler telling Monica he loves her for the first time after she copies Joey's head-in-the-turkey joke to cheer him up.
• The reveal that Ross brought Chandler home for Thanksgiving every year while they were in College. Its very sweet when you consider Chandler, given his parents, apparently had nowhere to go. Even though he hated the day and didn't even eat Thanksgiving food Ross's gesture probably meant a lot to him.
• It's easy to miss under the studio audience's reaction but when Chandler insults Monica's weight Ross reacts with a clearly annoyed "Hey!". Chandler may be his best friend but that doesn't mean Ross is going to let him talk about his little sister like that
• When Monica walks away upset, Rachel can be seen running after her. This shows that even though Rachel was more popular than Monica in high school, she still treated Monica like a real friend.
• After Phoebe shares one of her Past-Life Memories, Joey mopes that he doesn't have any of his own. Phoebe tells him that it's because he's "brand new" which cheers him up.
• When Monica asks Chandler how his macaroni and cheese was, he half-heartedly tells her she should be a chef because it was that good. A year later, despite not knowing how much weight Monica lost in the interim, he asks her to make it again. Not only did he actually mean it, but it's the reason Monica got to where she is now.

511: TOW All the Resolutions

• It was sweet when Joey went to great lengths to make sure Chandler and Monica would get to kiss at midnight on New Year's Eve.

512: TOW Chandler's Work Laugh

• When Monica asks Chandler to stop sucking up to his boss because she respects 'real' Chandler more. Chandler just looks so surprised and proud that someone could actually respect him for who he is.
• When Chandler doesn't do his work laugh to suck up to his boss, the blank stare he gets from his boss is enough to make Monica help Chandler out of a tough situation when she realizes he had no choice but to suck up in the first place.
• When Chandler and Monica arrive at Chandler's work party, they both suddenly realize that because they're surrounded by Chandler's colleagues and none of their friends are present, they can, for the first time since their Secret Relationship started, be together in public as a real couple. The sheer, and very pure, delight they both show just from being able to hold hands and kiss each other on the cheek is incredibly powerful to watch.
• Rachel tells Monica that she heard the latter and Chandler having phone sex and Monica makes up an excuse to make it seem like it was something else. When Joey tells Rachel that Monica lied to her, Rachel goes to confront her and overhears Monica telling Chandler how much she hates not being able to tell Rachel about their relationship. Upon hearing this, Rachel decides to not confront them and let the two keep it a secret.

513: TOW Joey's Bag

• When Phoebe first meets her father, Frank Sr. and confronts him over walking out on her, Ursula, and their "mother" (actually just their adoptive mother), he sheepishly explains that he was an incompetent father even before he left, having burned their formula, put their diapers on backwards, and tried to get them to sleep with a song that just made them cry louder. He starts singing it... and it has the same melody as Phoebe's song "Smelly Cat". As awful as she may think he is for abandoning the family, part of her clearly latched onto whatever memories she had of him and continued to treasure them.
  Frank: Sleepy girl, sleepy girl,
  Why won't you go to sleep?
  Sleepy girl, sleepy girl,
  You're keeping me up.
• Monica is devastated to learn that she actually gives terrible massages. Chandler consoles her by assuring her that she gives the "best bad massages", perfectly appealing to her perfectionist nature.

514: TOW Everybody Finds Out

• The episode is a series of plans that culminate in Chandler and Phoebe trying to out-seduce each other. They're kissing in an utterly hilarious and the most awkward manner when Chandler breaks it off. It loses something in writing, but it's such a good conclusion to one of the show's greatest plots.
  Chandler: I can't do this!
  Phoebe: And why not?
  Chandler: Because I'm in love with Monica! [...] That's right! I. Love. Her! I love her!
  • After months of trying to downplay what his relationship with Monica means to both of them, Chandler blurts out that he is in love with her, and then proceeds to own it.
  • Phoebe's immediate reaction when Chandler professes his love for Monica. First, she's just smirking about the fact that she "won", but when Chandler says "I'm in love with Monica", she drops that entirely, genuinely surprised and happy about the revelation.
    Phoebe: I just thought you guys were doing it, I didn't know you were in love!
• Joey's behavior is surprisingly touching. When Phoebe and Rachel discover Chandler and Monica's secret affair and decide to take advantage of it by screwing with the two of them and make Chandler think that Phoebe's suddenly fallen in love with him, Joey on the other hand wants no part of it. Now if you remember, just a handful of episodes ago Monica and Chandler were covering up their relationship by making Joey a scapegoat for any of the odd things they did and completely humiliated him left and right, going so far that they even tried to convince the other friends that he was some type of sick sex offender. With the horrible and downright mean-spirited way they treated him in that one you'd think he'd jump at the chance to teaming up with Phoebe and Rachel and screw with the couple as some sort of revenge, but he doesn't even consider it and just wants everyone to come clean. Even when he does finally wind up helping Rachel and Phoebe out near the end of the episode it's only because he's sick of them and Monica and Chandler trying to out-bluff each other in their little game and wants it to be over with already. Really says a lot for the type of person he is the the thing he's primarily concerned about is one of his friends hurting another.

515: TOW the Girl Who Hits Joey

• The beginning of the episode. Ross storms over to Monica's apartment after seeing Chandler and Monica having sex through his window and is about ready to kill Chandler until they both confess that they're in love with each other. Ross's heart melts and he becomes elated over the fact that his best friend and sister are together. Punctuated by the fact he goes from shouting "My best friend and my sister!", clearly hurt and betrayed, to saying the same once he realizes how they feel, this time happy as can be. He then finishes by hugging them both.
• From the same scene: Ross' anger flares up again upon finding out he was the last to know about the relationship only to once again turn into a gooey mess after Rachel explains they only kept it from him because they were worried about how he'd react, clearly touched that his friends were actually thinking about how he felt for once.
• Chandler's commitment issues resurface leading to a fight with Monica, who says she's tired of 'tutoring' him in relationships. Chandler is so terrified of losing her that he proposes to prove his love. It's so stupid that Monica realizes how scared he is and reassures him that they're okay and she's happy helping him deal with his issues.
• Rachel realizing that the titular girl that was playfully punching Joey really was painful (after everyone teased him about it earlier on in the episode). She proceeds to help end the relationship by kicking her in response to her painful playful punches. Even better, Joey and Rachel share a hug immediately after the girl leaves.

516: TOW the Cop

• Blink and you'll miss it, but when Phoebe assumes they'll be going to prison and tells Chandler "good luck", he looks nervous and Joey protectively squeezes his shoulder.
• When Joey tells Monica about his dream about her, she doesn't freak out and instead tells Joey that it doesn't mean anything. He just wants what she and Chandler have not her specifically.
  • Joey's dream in general shows despite his frequent flings he genuinely wants a deep meaningful relationship.

517: TOW Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss

• Monica freaking out about her and Chandler's relationship (namely that they're not as hot as Phoebe and Gary) and Chandler reassuring her they're okay. They may not be in the all over each other phase, but they've moved onto a deeper relationship and that's incredibly precious to him. This episode and the previous one with Chandler's freak out back to back make it incredibly sweet, as you see how the pair support each other's fears.
• It's refreshing to see Ross be vindicated for the handyman incident two episodes prior with a tenant agreeing that they overreacted and he did nothing wrong.

519: TOW Ross Can't Flirt

• Ross hesitates before admitting that he likes the pizza delivery girl because he doesn't want to upset Rachel. Although she laughs and assures him that it's okay—"We broke up two years ago and you've been married since then. I think it's okay if we see other people."—it's still sweet that he wanted to consider her feelings.
• After Ross embarrasses himself when flirting with the pizza delivery girl, Rachel talks to the girl and tells her that Ross is a good person. It's really sweet considering that while Rachel can be very rude to Ross, she still cares about him and thinks highly of him. When she returns back to the apartment, she gives Ross the pizza girl's phone number.
• Phoebe finding Ross' knowledge about gas interesting after he bores the pizza delivery girl in his attempt to flirt.

520: TOW the Ride Along

• Chandler thinks Joey saved Ross over him. It's Played For Laughs but you can clearly see that Chandler, who never had anyone who really cared about him before the Friends, feels hurt. Joey reassures him that he'd always pick him and that they're like brothers.
• Even Joey's fake answer is heartwarming: saying that he knew Chandler could take care of himself and that Ross, being less physically inclined, would have needed more protecting in a crisis.

523-24: TOW in Vegas

• Chandler freaks out about Monica having lunch with Richard. When they talk about it, he says that he knows she loves Richard more, and (while he accepts it) that's why he doesn't want her seeing him again. Monica's response is incredibly sweet:
  Chandler: I was there. I know he's the love of your life.
  Monica: Not anymore.
  Chandler: Really?
  Monica: Really.
• Chandler and Monica, on a good run at the craps table, decide to get married if the next roll is a hard eight. One die shows a 4, the other rolls off the table and rests with the 4 and 5 showing, so Monica asks Chandler to decide which number is showing:
  Chandler: It's a four.
  [Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" begins playing]
  • As the two go around getting Old, New, Borrowed and Blue items for the wedding, Monica decides to shoplift a blue sweatshirt as her "something blue" and "something borrowed." After hiding it under her dress, she spends a few seconds cooing over how it makes her look pregnant. Instead of freaking out, Chandler lets her indulge a bit before calmly reminding her they should get married first.
• Joey finds Ross and Rachel heavily drunk in their room. While he mostly ignores their behaviour he does take a moment to express concern before he leaves.
  Joey: Hey, Rach, how you doin'?
  Rachel: I'm doing good, baby, how you doing?
  Joey: (sternly) Ross, don't let her drink anymore!

Season Six

601: TO After Vegas

• After Ross and Rachel get married while drunk, Monica and Chandler realize that going straight into marriage might be too big a change. Instead, Chandler asks Monica if she wants to live together. Monica yells yes and leaps over the couch and into his arms. The utter delight in his response is beautiful.

606: TO on the Last Night

• When Chandler and Monica separate from their old roommates (Joey and Rachel) and move into Monica's together. It's a sad episode, and you really see how close they were to their friends. But at the end Chandler finds Monica standing in Rachel's empty room and just goes to hold her and she kisses him. You realize no matter how hard the change is they are happy to be together.
• Monica and Phoebe help Rachel pack up her things as she prepares to move out. If you look in the background of Rachel's room while they're packing, you can actually see the Love Bug that Ross bought her so many seasons ago, before their huge break-up. Considering everything they've gone through in the show so far, it's touching to see that Rachel still kept one of his gifts.
• When Monica and Rachel start criticising each other they go back and forth, being snippy. Then Rachel makes a mean joke about Monica’s relationship with Chandler, resulting in Monica storming off, suggesting that making fun of Chandler was off limits for Monica. Even Rachel looks a little ashamed afterwards, as if she knows she crossed a line there.

607: TOW Phoebe Runs

• Chandler cleaning the apartment as a surprise for Monica. The others warn him about moving things around without Monica's express permission, but she isn't angry, just touched at what he did. She does want to put everything exactly the way it was, but that's just something for her to do.
  Monica: I know I have this weird thing where I want everything to be in the perfect place, but I'd never expect you to worry about that.
  Chandler: Really?
  Monica: Of course.

609: TOW Ross Got High

• Monica is reluctant to tell her parents that she and Chandler are living together because they dislike him (Ross said that Chandler was smoking pot in his parents' bedroom in college to cover his own butt). When the truth comes out, both about the pot and the relationship, Judy, of all characters, says that she doesn't understand why her daughter felt the need to hide such an important relationship from her parents, while also warming up to Chandler.
• Joey wants the Thanksgiving dinner to end quickly so that he and Ross can go and hang out with Janine and her dancer friends but when he finds out what Rachel put in her dessert, he tells Ross he’s worried that everyone is going to make fun of her. While Ross distracts Rachel, Joey fills everyone in, giving them a heads-up that the trifle is going to be awful, but they need to pretend to like it so Rachel won't be embarrassed. In the end, when she realizes how bad it was, Rachel seems genuinely touched that everyone was willing to eat it anyway (or at least pretend to) so they wouldn't hurt her feelings.

612: TOW the Joke

• Phoebe says that (hypothetically) she'd prefer to date Rachel over Monica because Monica is too "high maintenance". Monica is offended and spends the rest of the episode insisting that she's not high maintenance. When she tries to get Chandler to back her up, he tells her she is a bit high maintenance, but that it's not a bad thing.
  Chandler: You’re not easy going, but you’re passionate, and that’s good. And when you get upset about the little things, I think that I’m pretty good about making you feel better about that. And that’s good too. So, they can say that you're high maintenance, but it's okay, because I like... maintaining you.

613: TOW Rachel’s Sister

• Rachel defending and complimenting Ross when Jill calls him a geek.
• Jill mentions her father ordered her to go see Rachel and learn to be independent from "the one daughter he's actually proud of". Given the pushback Rachel got from her father when she first moved to New York, it's nice to confirm he now considers her a success, and Rachel is so touched to hear this she can barely focus on the issue at hand.

614: TOW Chandler Can't cry

• Joey thinks that Phoebe is a porn star after finding several porn movies that she apparently starred in. He rents them and shows them to the others, who insist on watching them, but Joey is the only one who sees it as utterly wrong to do that to Phoebe, going to so far as to turn away from the TV and call his friends 'sick bastards' for watching the tapes. It says a lot about their friendship that a rampant ladies' man like Joey would have so much respect for his friend (or at any rate, more so than the others do).

615-16: TO That Could Have Been

• Even in an alternate universe when Chandler is unemployed and Monica's fat they still fall in love and end up together. The writers admit this in the commentary.
  Kevin Bright: What it says is that these two were destined to be together. That it doesn't matter if they were skinny or large, or successful or not, these two had something in fate that was meant to be.
• There's a whole extra layer of heartwarming because Fat!Monica is a virgin, meaning none of her previous boyfriends, including those who claimed to love her, were interested. Granted some of them, like Pete, may not have met her in the alternate universe, but Richard certainly would have. And Chandler has been with a lot less women, apparently because he's unemployed and less successful. It really proves once and for all, that unlike any of their exes, they love each other no matter what.
  • Chandler telling Monica how he feels about her makes you forget he wasted medical professionals' time and resources.
    Chandler: You should be with me.
    Monica: What?
    Chandler: When you were talking about Roger last night, that was killing me. Things like last night don't just happen at least not to me. And with the other two women you know I couldn't just wait to be with my friends, but with you, I was already with a friend.
    Monica: Chandler...
    Chandler: And I know you don't want to be with me because I make too many jokes, and I've never been in a serious relationship, and I guess I'm not a doctor.
    (runs up to Chandler and passionately kisses him)
• The episode starts with Ross asking whether, if everything was different, would the gang still be friends. Cut to the last scene, and the alternate gang are sitting in the coffee house together.
• It's short, but reassuring to see that Ben was still born even if Ross and Carol never broke up.
• Joey moving out in Season 2 caused a huge rift between Chandler and Joey, this episode shows that even if Joey hadn't lost his job (which mended the rift in the normal timeline) they would've mended fences regardless and would've been as close as ever.
  • Then the Fridge Brilliance kicks in: in this timeline, Joey was the one who consistently had the money for their apartment. Joey probably never moved out because he wanted to keep providing for Chandler.
• During Ross and Rachel's fight at the end, Ross lets it slip what happened between him, Carol, and Susan, and Rachel quickly deduces she's a lesbian. After realizing both their marriages are dead, Ross and Rachel put aside their anger to comfort each other, with the ending implying the tragedy bonded them, and they began dating.

622: TOW Paul's the Man

• While visiting a museum with Phoebe and Rachel, Monica is persuaded to put her and Chandler's name on the two-year waiting list to hold weddings there, even though she and Chandler are not even engaged. When Chandler gets a phone call from a museum employee saying that they have had a cancellation, thereby opening an earlier spot on their calendar, he storms out of a planned dinner with Monica, but things are soon smoothed over as Monica promises that she isn't making imminent wedding plans, as she knows Chandler isn't ready yet. But just after she heads across to tell Joey that Chandler has returned from what she assumes was an extended walk to clear his head, it seems Phoebe knows something Monica doesn't...
  Phoebe: [exiting the guest bedroom]^note  Following a fire at Phoebe and Rachel's apartment in "TOW Ross Dates a Student", Phoebe moved in with Monica and Chandler while Rachel moved in with Joey. So, did she buy it?
  Chandler: [grinning] Totally.
  Phoebe: So, did Hildy show you the place?
  Chandler: Yeah, it's beautiful.
  Phoebe: I can't believe you're going to ask Monica to marry you!
  Chandler: I know. [they hug]

623: TOW the Ring

• When Chandler tells Joey and Ross that he's going to propose to Monica, Ross becomes overjoyed at the prospect of being Chandler's brother-in-law and they hug each other.

624: TOW the Proposal

• Monica and Chandler's proposals to each other were pretty wonderful. Heck, the episode was so heartwarming that the writers decided to completely ditch the usual zany antics and Laugh Track of the credits-scene, in favour of having them dance to Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight". It's as beautiful as it sounds.
  Monica: In all my life, I never thought I would be so lucky as to fall in love with my best...[crying] my best... there's a reason why girls don't do this!
  Chandler: Okay! Okay! [he kneels down along with her] Oh God, I thought... [he starts to cry too] Wait a minute, I-I can do this. ...I thought that it mattered what I said or where I said it. Then I realized the only thing that matters is that you... you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And if you’ll let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way. [he opens the ring box] Monica, will you marry me?
  Monica: Yes.
• The whole build-up to the scene. The episode had Chandler falsely claiming he didn't want to get married, Richard returning to say he did want to get married, and an upset Monica leaving to think things over. The end of the episode was very ambiguous at what she would do, Chandler came home utterly devastated... and found their apartment filled with candles, with Monica waiting to propose to him. Super heartwarming as Chandler was previously shown to be an Insecure Love Interest, and he worried that Monica loved Richard more than him. That gesture proved once and for all, that Monica had chosen Chandler, she would always choose Chandler and there wasn't anyone else she loved more.
  • Extra heartwarming: A few episodes earlier, Monica had been trying to make Chandler cry and he admitted he hadn't cried in years. Here their shared joyful tears at the prospect of being together forever don't leave the viewer dry-eyed, either.
• Moments before, Joey tells Chandler that Monica has left, but when he finds Monica ready to propose to him, Chandler looks back at Joey, who smiles and nods at him before quietly closing the door to give them a private moment. If there was ever proof that Joey was their biggest supporter, it's there. And after the proposal, the others come in and congratulate Chandler and Monica.
• Richard graciously accepting Monica is in love with Chandler and Chandler wants to be the man she's meant to be with.
• Throughout the episode Rachel and Phoebe have been mentioning that as happy as they are for Monica, they're both increasing degrees of jealous that she's getting engaged and they aren't. After Chandler and Monica finally make their engagement official, Rachel declares that she's "the least jealous I've ever been" and is just happy for them.
• During their fight over having a safety net, Rachel and Phoebe draw at random, Phoebe gets Ross and Rachel gets Joey. They want the other's instead.

Season Seven

702: TOW Rachel's Book

• The final scene with Chandler and Monica when they agree to spend the money on marriage and not only on a big fancy wedding, was very sweet and very touching. Chandler was particularly great, even willing to give up his dream for Monica, because he had promised to make her happy when he had proposed. The moment when he describes his dream home and dream family must be the sweetest thing ever. He wants to have four kids (a boy, twin girls and another boy), to live in a small place outside the city, where the kids could learn to ride their bikes, to have a cat with a bell on its collar so that they could hear it every time it ran through the little kitty door, and also to have an apartment over the garage where Joey could grow old.
• The Genius Bonus with a Shout-Out to Happy Days. Realising that Chandler basically sees Joey as Fonzie when he says he wants to have an apartment over the garage where Joey could grow old.

706: TOW the Nap Partners

• Rachel is a little thrown when Ross and Joey ask for her Maid of Honor speech during the contest but after a brief false-start she comes up with a sweet toast for the happy couple.
  Rachel: I've known them separately and I've known them together and to know them as a couple is to know that you are truly in the presence of love. So, I would like to raise my glass, to Monica and Chandler and the beautiful adventure they are about to embark upon together. I can think of no two people better prepared for the journey.
  • Phoebe wins the guys' contest so Rachel brings her the box of keepsakes she'd been preparing for Monica's wedding including a photo of them as kids with Monica dressed as a bride. After seeing it Phoebe agrees to let Rachel be Monica's Maid of Honor because it clearly means more to her.
• Chandler reassuring Monica he'll love her no matter her weight or size. Considering their whole relationship started with him labelling her Ross's 'fat sister' it's very sweet. With "TO That Could Have Been" proving this to be absolutely true, this exchange becomes even more heartwarming.
  Chandler: I don't think of you as a thin, beautiful woman...You’re Monica. Okay? And I am in love with Monica. So, you can balloon up or you can shrink down and I will still love you.
  Monica: Even if I shrink down to two inches tall?
  Chandler: I'd carry you around in my pocket.

709: TOW All the Candy

• Ross giving Phoebe a bike after learning she never got one during her childhood. And then teaching her to ride it. Being that Phoebe has a Dark and Troubled Past, she tends to be on the receiving end of these fairly often. It never gets old. Ross even goes to the trouble of finding a bike that looks almost exactly like the one Phoebe's childhood friend had, down to it having plastic daisies on the white wicker basket. The only real difference is the colour of the tassels. It shows that Ross really does listen to his friends, and is kind enough to realise that the small details matter.
• The very second Chandler sees the strain making all the candy for the neighbors has put on Monica, he immediately tells all the neighbors they are a bunch of Ungrateful Bastards and ends it. Monica's exhausted thank you seals it.

710: TOW the Holiday Armadillo

• Ross has custody of Ben during the Holidays, and is exited to celebrate Hanuka with his son, but Ben is more excited for Christmas, since Carol and Susan, who were raised in Christian households, celebrate Christmas at home with Ben. Ross comes up with the plan to dress up as Santa Claus and then teach Ben the story of Hanuka, but his plans are dashed when the costume shop is all out, and ends up dressing as "the Holiday Armadillo," which delivers presents to all the good children of the Southwest and Mexico. As he's about to tell Ben the story of Hanuka, Chandler arrives in a Santa suit he borrowed from one of his coworkers. Ross manages to convince Chandler to give back the costume because he really wants his son to connect with his Jewish roots, and as Chandler turns to go, Ben says he prefers to celebrate Christmas with Santa than listen to the story of Hanuka with the Holiday Armadillo. Defeated, Ross wishes Ben, Monica, and "Santa" a merry Christmas and prepares to leave the Bings' apartment, which is when "Santa" asks the "Holiday Armadillo" to stay, as he also wants to learn the story of Hanuka. Before he starts the story, Ross mouths a silent "thank you" to Chandler, who responds with a silent "you're welcome."
  • There's also the fact that Chandler dressed up in the first place. The snarkiest, most sarcastic member of the group, decided on his own, to dress up as Santa for Ben, purely because it was something Ross had wanted to do for his son.
  • Joey should also get credit too. Sure, Superman isn't exactly the most Christmassy character around, but it's still nice that these two went out of their way for Ross like that.

711: TOW All the Cheesecakes

• Joey comforting Phoebe after David leaves.

713: TOW Rosita Dies

• Phoebe spending her first day as a telemarketer convincing a depressed sales rep to not kill himself because she doesn't want him to do what her mother did. After Earl hangs up Phoebe tracks him down at his office to make sure he doesn't go through with it.
• Jack being genuinely devastated Monica's stuff was destroyed because of him and giving Monica his prized Porsche after realizing how insensitive he had been all these years.

714: TOW They All Turn Thirty

• Phoebe is devastated when Ursula tells her they're actually a year older than Phoebe thought, meaning she hasn't reached any of her "Before I'm 31" goals such as having the "perfect kiss". Joey follows her out of the coffee house, asks her to close her eyes and kisses her. Afterwards she agrees that she can at least cross that one off the list.

715: TOW Joey's New Brain

• Joey develops feelings for the actress he's replacing on Days of our Lives. Sadly, she gets a new job somewhere far, so their relationship never gets to fully take off.
• The subplot consists of Ross trying to convince Chandler and Monica to let him play bagpipes at the wedding, due to the former having Scottish blood. While they shoot him down, Chandler does at least say that they "appreciate the gesture".

716: TOW the Truth About London

• Joey comforting Chandler about Monica originally wanting to sleep with him.
  Joey: Yeah, she wanted me for like a half an hour one night! Chandler, she wants you for the rest of her life. You're so lucky! Look what I missed out on by not being there! Although you know what? It could never have worked like you guys did, 'cause you guys are perfect for each other. Y'know, we look at you and-and we see you together and it just...it-it fits. Y'know? And you just know it's gonna last forever.

717: TOW the Cheap Wedding Dress

• Monica giving up her perfect wedding dress so Chandler can have his band. Made extra heartwarming in that she doesn't even tell him about what she did just that the dress 'doesn't fit'. Considering how crazy she started about wedding planning it's a telling sign of her real priorities.
• Chandler's reason why he chose a band for their wedding reception. It was the music they were dancing to when he realized he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.
  Chandler: Well it's just while Monica and I were dancing to them it was... the first time I knew that you were the woman I wanted to dance all my dances with.

722: TOW Chandler's Dad

• Chandler inviting Charles to the wedding. After everything he went through: his parents splitting up, the humiliation of having an embarrassing father and all his subsequent insecurities, he steps up and essentially lets his dad know everything he suffered turned out okay and he still wants him in his life. Also, as Charles suffered a huge case of Trans Equals Gay, Chandler calling her "ma'am" for the first and only time (instead of usual male pronouns) and just how happy she looks at this.
• Monica insisting that Chandler invites his dad to their wedding is also heartwarming.

723: TOW Chandler and Monica's Wedding

• Monica and Chandler's wedding, all of it. Especially Chandler's vows to Monica given that he almost had cold feet. Even more than that, Chandler was introduced as a self-entitled "screw up". He was insecure, traumatized by his parents' divorce, betrayed by every woman he cared about (Janice, Kathy) and despite wanting commitment was terrified of hurting other people and himself. Yet he loved Monica enough to overcome it all and get married.
  Chandler: Monica, I thought this was going to be the most difficult thing I ever had to do. But when I saw you walking down that aisle, I realized how simple it was. I love you. Any surprises that come our way, it’s okay, because I will always love you. You are the person I was meant to spend the rest of my life with. You wanna know if I’m sure? (He kisses her)
• Chandler's vow is even more heartwarming when you consider that it was impromptu and from the heart (Ross tries to give him the funny vow he'd written earlier but he brushes it away).
• Monica's side in her wedding and marriage. She finally gets the marriage and life she's always wanted. And it's with her best friend.
  Monica: Chandler, for so long I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my soul mate. Then three years ago, at another wedding I turned to a friend for comfort. And instead, I found everything that I’d ever been looking for my whole life. And now... here we are—with our future before us... and I only want to spend it with you, my prince, my soul mate, my friend.
• During Chandler and Monica's wedding, Ross's comment that he's never walked down the aisle knowing it can't end in divorce. At first glance it's a little joke at Ross's three divorces... but then remember it's Chandler and Monica's wedding, Ross whole-heartedly believes that, despite Chandler running away earlier in a fit of panic, he isn't actually going to leave Monica. It's touching to know that despite the events of the episode so far, Ross has no doubts, Chandler and Monica really are going to make it together. This is a wedding that will not end in a divorce.
• Chandler gets cold feet a second time when he hears Monica is pregnant, but this time he's able to go back completely on his own.

Season Eight

801: TO After "I Do"

• When Phoebe realises that it's actually Rachel that is pregnant she immediately takes the blame instead on seeing that Rachel is clearly upset. She doesn't even hesitate to say that the pregnancy test belonged to her, and when she's able to, asks if Rachel's okay. Rachel herself tries to hide the fact she's pregnant because she doesn't want to upstage Monica's wedding. Monica only finds out because she notices that Rachel isn't drinking alcohol.
• To be sure on whether Rachel is pregnant, Monica and Phoebe ask her to take another test, and both women are with Rachel in the bathroom as she waits for the result, with Monica telling her they'll be there for her no matter what happens. It's sweet that she has them for the emotional support, while she goes from being upset when Phoebe tells her that the test was negative, to dissolving into Tears of Joy when Phoebe admits the test is positive in a Secret Test of Character to allow her to express her feelings about her baby; and her deciding to have the baby is a shared celebration between the three women.

802: TOW the Red Sweater

• Joey proposing to Phoebe (and then to Rachel!) when he thought she was pregnant, so she wouldn't be alone with the baby.
• To show a contrast between the relationship of Ross and Rachel with Chandler and Monica, when the latter couple encounter their first obstacle as a married couple (Chandler kissed another woman while Monica opened all the wedding gifts without him), instead of arguing who is in the right like Ross and Rachel to the point of destroying their relationship, Chandler and Monica immediately agree to call it even and put this issue behind them to ensure their marriage has a good start.

807: TOW the Stain

• Quickly verges into a joke, but Joey tells Rachel that if a woman he's hooked up with doesn't like the idea of being around a baby, then maybe she's not his kind of woman—his womanizing has limits, and that limit is making sure his friend and her as-yet-unborn baby come first.

808: TOW the Stripper

• Joey telling Chandler that he misses them hanging out together since he got married. The scene almost crosses into a Tear Jerker territory ^note  Try not to crumple at the delivery of Joey's: "You and me... we used to be inseparable" line. but is saved by Chandler admitting he misses them as well and agreeing to make more time for them. What sells the scene though is zero resentment towards Monica (Joey has always been the biggest Mondler supporter after all) or any implication she 'stole' Chandler from Joey. It's just the acknowledgment they're still important to each other. And the next scene is equally heartwarming with Monica giving a delighted Chandler a strip tease, saying basically it's fine to be Happily Married and have a Heterosexual Life-Partners.

810: TOW Monica's Boots

• Joey has a hard time accepting that his youngest sister Dina will be having a baby without marrying. She says that while she is scared, she thinks she can do it and asks Joey if her baby will have their uncle, to which Joey replies yes. It's also very sweet that despite the fact her baby's father is a bum, he at least guarantees to her that he will be there for the baby.

811: TOW Ross's Step Forward

• Chandler has to spend the day with his boss pretending he and Monica have broken up. When he comes home, he tells Monica how grateful he is to have her, and asks her to Grow Old with Me.
  Chandler: Y’know what the worst part was? I got to see what my life would be like without you...Please promise that you will never leave me, that we will grow old together, and be with each other for the rest of our lives.
  Monica: I promise.

812: TOW Joey Dates Rachel

• Many fans disliked the Joey/Rachel pairing, but it was still pretty sweet when he realized he was falling for her: she cuddles on his lap as they watch Cujo and asks "Aren't you scared?!" Meaning something else entirely, he quietly replies "Terrified."

816: TOW Joey Tells Rachel

• A cute one when Phoebe sets Monica up with a guy she thinks is her 'soulmate'. Despite not believing in soulmates, Chandler - being his usual insecure self - freaks out and tells Monica that if she wants to leave him, he won't stand in her way. Monica tells him she doesn't believe in soulmates either and she will always love Chandler.
• When Joey confesses his love to Rachel, it starts out funny when she thinks he's kidding or talking to someone behind her, but it gets sad when she gently rejects him and they hug for so long that onlookers think one of them is dying. They later end up dating for a short time, but the writers realized it was terrible and hurriedly broke them up.

821: TOW the Cooking Class

• When Joey takes the cooking class with Monica and actually succeeds at making cookies. When the teacher praises him for it, you could tell from the look on his face how much he appreciates finally excelling something at school
  Joey: I get an A? In school? Hey, I'm a dork!

823-24: TOW Rachel Has a Baby

• Many scenes related to the birth of Rachel and Ross' daughter Emma are very sweet, especially when she tells the doctor to write "Baby Girl Geller-Green" on the form and she and Ross share a sweet kiss.
• Rachel can't come up with a name for the baby but she likes Emma, the name that Monica wanted for her own child. So much that Monica gives it away.
  Rachel: Oh honey, but you love that name.
  Monica: Yeah, but I love you more.
• When Chandler tells Monica he's wants to start a family with her, because: "I'm crazy about us." Extra-heartwarming, as its obvious that, even though she's wanted kids for years, Monica has held off pushing Chandler about it, until he was ready. For all the jokes about Monica's baby obsession and controlling nature, she's very good at letting him make the big decisions.
• Monica tries to freak Chandler out by saying she wants a baby, only for Chandler to be 100% on board despite getting cold feet just a season earlier by the prospect of Monica being pregnant.

Season Nine

902: TOW Emma Cries

• Ross is upset that Rachel agreed to marry Joey. Even though he understands that Rachel was still mixed up between being sleep-deprived and still flooded with birth hormones, Joey's opinion that she would've married "anybody" doesn't help. Joey says the right thing, "for what it's worth with Rachel, I don't think you'll ever be just 'anybody'."

903: TOW the Pediatrician

• When Chandler has to leave for Tulsa, the plan had been that Monica was going to give up everything to go with him, even though it had become clear to both of them she wouldn't have a career out there at all. Then a very high-class restaurant headhunts her and she takes the job. Although Chandler accepts it and seems quite calm about it, it's left looking as though he believes in that the levels of importance to Monica are (least to most important): her old job > her husband >>>>>> her new job. They're given no time throughout the episode to resolve this point until the very end of the episode, where Monica abandons the rest of the gang to chase Chandler out the door, so that she can clarify to him that really it goes, old job > new job >>>>>>>>> husband. It's just something she has to do. Chandler simply smiles and reveals he knew all along what she had originally been trying to say.

904: TOW The Sharks

• As ridiculous as the "Monica thinks Chandler's turned on by sharks" subplot is, the fact that she was willing to try and indulge is a very sweet testimony to how much she loves him.

908: TOW Rachel's Other Sister

• Chandler is crushed when Ross and Rachel say they don't think he's capable of raising Emma by himself. (He and Monica want children and he's struggling to overcome his own upbringing). Monica finds him sitting alone and tells him he'll be a great father.
  Chandler: They're right. I'm not a strong father-figure and I never will be...Everything they said is exactly why I was worried about having a kid. And it's true! Everybody knows it.
  Monica: I don't know it! I want to have a kid with you because I think you're going to be an amazing dad. At the fun parts and at the hard parts.
• Doubly heartwarming later in the episode when Chandler takes charge by calling Rachel and Amy out on their childish behavior and making them apologize to Monica as well as each other, leading to Ross admitting he was wrong.

910: TOW Christmas in Tulsa

• When Christmas rolls around, a screw up means the Tulsa office is stuck missing both Christmas and the New Year having to work on deadlines that cannot be missed. Chandler's boss tells him if the deadlines aren't met, he'll be fired, even though it's the New York office's fault the screw up happened in the first place. Chandler, who can't stand the situation, sends his employees home to be with their families. One of his co-workers stays because she's hoping to have an affair with him (she's also married). When he rejects her on the grounds that he's happily married, she asks him why he's in Tulsa instead of with his wife. Not only does Chandler immediately drop everything and fly home to Monica, but he quits his job in the process so that he won't have to be separated from her again.
• Fridge Brilliance about Chandler and his job and Monica. Chandler admitted from the beginning of the series that he hated his job but was always too scared to quit. The fact that what finally pushed him into leaving was his love for Monica speaks volumes about how her support affected him as a person. Especially emphasized in a later episode where, as in Season 1, he considers going back for the job security but she tells him to do something he loves, and helps him find a job in advertising. It's a very subtle way of showing how their strong relationship boosted his confidence and empowered him to enter a whole new career (something early season Chandler would be terrified of).

915: TOW the Mugging

• When Phoebe, who mugged Ross when they were teenagers, returns his self-drawn comic "Science Boy."

916: TOW the Boob Job

• Chandler and Monica are facing money troubles, so Monica goes to Joey for a loan. Joey thinks loaning friends money is a bad idea (citing how he never paid back the money Chandler loaned him), but when told it's for the rent, he doesn't hesitate to write a check.
• When Phoebe is told Mike doesn't want to get married again, she comes to ask Ross about whether marriage is that important given his own failed experiences with it. After Ross confirms that she's serious, he admits to her that, despite being divorced three times, he genuinely supports the idea of marriage, as he loves being that committed to another person that he wants to promise forever even if his own efforts have failed.

917: TOW the Memorial Service

• Emma becomes very attached to Joey's stuffed penguin Hugsy but he keeps trying to take it back from her. Rachel eventually tries to persuade him to let her keep it by claiming it reminds Emma of her Uncle Joey who she loves so much. Joey is very touched to hear that Emma loves him... but still wants his penguin back.

918: TOW the Lottery

• Following breaking the wish-bone, Joey makes a wish. As lottery madness ensues, Chandler is waiting to hear about a job offer. He doesn't get it, but instead a much better one. Joey takes him aside and thinks he had a hand in it, saying he used his wish for Chandler.
• When it's revealed Monica was hoarding tickets, Chandler admits what she did was wrong, but he'll stand by her because he knows she only did it out of desperation not selfishness

921: TOW the Fertility Test

• A total tearjerker but the way Chandler and Monica react is an incredible affirmation of their strong relationship. Not only do they immediately go to comfort each other but Chandler instantly promises "we'll figure this out." Monica's response? "I know." No matter how devastated they are, neither they or the audience doubt that they'll get through the problem together.
• In the same episode, when Chandler gets nervous about failing the test, Janice comforts him and reassures him that he and Monica will definitely have biological children.
• Ross helping Joey when he and Charlie plan to go to an art museum despite the fact that he (Ross) likes Charlie. Also, when Charlie tells Ross that she thinks Joey isn't the right person for her to date, Ross tells her that she should give Joey a chance.

922: TOW the Donor

• When Chandler and Monica discover they're infertile, they try to find a sperm donor instead. Despite Chandler finding 'the perfect guy', Monica tells him she doesn't want to have children without him and they'll adopt instead.
  Monica: I don't care if he is the most perfect guy in the world. He's not you.
  Chandler: Yeah, he's better!
  Monica: No he's not. If I can't get pregnant by you, I don't want to get pregnant by him or anyone else.
• What makes this even sweeter is that Monica has always wanted biological children, and even broke up with her First Love Richard because of it. She wants an idyllic, perfect life with an idyllic, perfect family, and it would be easy for her - someone told all her life by her own mother that she wasn't good enough and having to work twice as hard to get half the praise - to see adoption as 'lesser' than natural childbearing. She lets go of the dream of that perfect ideal because raising a family with the man she loves is more important than just her getting pregnant.

Season Ten

1003: TOW Ross's Tan

• Rachel and Joey feel awkward trying to have sex and ask Chandler if he and Monica found it weird. Chandler replies that no, they just felt right together and wondered why 'we [hadn't] been doing this the whole time'. The complete confidence and happiness in his response is pretty heartwarming, especially as earlier in the episode he admitted he was 'crippled by fear and self-loathing' when he first slept with women. The whole exchange highlights how secure Chandler felt with Monica and the stability their relationship gave him.^note Though it does have the side effect of being the final torpedo that sinks the Joey/Rachel ship for good.

1004: TOW the Cake

• Monica and Chandler looking after Emma on her birthday, complete with Monica organizing her stuffed animals and Chandler imparting 'wisdom'. You already know they're going to make great parents.
  Monica: I want one.
  Chandler: Me too.

1008: TOW The Late Thanksgiving

• Monica and Chandler don't want to host Thanksgiving because of all the stress they were under while waiting to see if someone would pick them to adopt. They host it anyway, and work hard to make it even better than last year - and everyone else shows up late. Monica won't let them in, Joey gets his head caught in the door, and he crashes into the table and ruins all the food when they manage to pull the chain out. Monica comes back from answering a phone call, sees the mess, and says "I don't care." They find out they are getting a baby. Extra heartwarming because Chandler loathes Thanksgiving due to how much crap he's suffered that always manages to manifest itself on this day every year since he was nine years old and his parents announced their divorce to him. Finally getting confirmation that he and Monica can become parents after all, means that while family-related news ruined Thanksgiving for him for many years, it's family-related news that turns a disastrous day into one of the best Thanksgivings he's ever had.
  Chandler: What's going on?
  Monica: That was the adoption agency.
  Chandler: And?
  Monica: We're getting a baby!
  Chandler: Are you serious?!
  (They hug, and everyone else joins them, celebrating)
• Also look at the way Courteney and Matthew play the moment: Monica is crying when she throws herself into his arms, and Chandler clings to her and buries his face the crook of her neck for the rest of the scene to hide his tears. It's heartwarming in the best, most subtle way possible.

1009: TOW the Birth Mother

• A wacky misunderstanding leads Erica, the woman from whom Chandler and Monica are hoping to adopt, to reject them because they lied to her about being the couple she chose. Chandler appeals to her in private and promises that he'll learn to be a good father, but says Monica is already "a mother... without a child" and convinces her to trust them to be good parents. She does, and they end up adopting her twins.

1011: TOW The Stripper Cries

• Phoebe spends some time talking to the stripper, played by Danny DeVito, and suggests that while his time performing may be over, he can start a new dream of teaching others to strip. When he dejectedly notes that he didn't get to finish his final performance Phoebe asks him to finish it. Despite her initial disgust when he first showed up she actually enjoys his "last dance" and squeals "this is so hot!" to Monica and Rachel.

1012: TOW Phoebe's Wedding

• Phoebe's wedding. The girl who lost her parents as a child, lived homeless for a while and never had a proper serious relationship finally gets her happy ending. Made all the more heartwarming because Mike and Phoebe had previously broken up because he didn't want to be married again but he travelled all the way to Barbados to propose to her (though they didn't get engaged until a few months later).
• Phoebe asks Joey to give her away as her stepfather can't get out of prison to do it. Joey goes overboard and bugs Mike about his "intentions" towards her but explains that it's just because he cares so much about Phoebe and wants her to be happy.
  Joey: I want you to take this seriously! Phoebe is very very important to me, ok? And I wanna make sure that you are gonna take care of her.
  Mike: (gets up) Joe, I love Phoebe. She's the single most important thing in my life. I'd die before I let anything happen to her.

1014: TOW Princess Consuela

• Joey is distraught when Monica and Chandler announce they're moving to the suburbs. He worries about losing them but then they show him his 'Joey Room', because he'll always be a part of their family.
• When Monica and Chandler decide to move and have these plans for their future baby. Both had rather bad childhoods and were the unfavorite of their families. They want to be better parents than they had and give their child a good childhood.

1016: TOW Rachel's Going Away Party

• Rachel gives each of her friends an individual goodbye, except Ross leaving him hurt and wondering why she doesn't say goodbye to him. Rachel later reveals to Ross that with their history, it would be too hard for her to say goodbye to him.

1017-18: The Last OneThe entire episode is both heartwarming and tear-jerking.

• Chandler and Monica finally, finally holding their babies.
• Chandler and Monica decide to name the girl baby Erica after her mother. It also becomes a funny moment when Erica and later Joey are too dense to comprehend the reason behind the name.
• The fact that Monica names her son after her father, Jack, is not only incredibly sweet, it shows how much she thinks of her father despite what's happened over the years. It should be noted that while Jack has occasionally been thoughtless, e.g. using Monica's childhood things to try and protect his Porsche from water damage, he's always quick to make it up to her.
• When Ross is upset Rachel is leaving, Joey tells him it's for the best since maybe her being there is why he's been unable to move on. Ross hesitantly agrees but decides that he should at least try one last time, and if she says no then it's not meant to be, and Joey supports him 100% of the way. Whether or not they were destined to be together, Joey just wants it to turn out the way it's best for both of them.
• A Blink-and-you'll-miss-it example: when Chandler returns with Erica, Phoebe is the first one to notice the second baby while the rest are cooing at Jack.
• Chandler/Joey goodbye: "So, awkward hug or lame cool guy handshake?"
• Five simple words:
  Rachel: I got off the plane.
• The final scene with the six friends ending the series as it started, going to Central Perk for coffee together.
  "This was your first home. And it was a happy place..."
• According to the spin-off, Joey, all of his friends have settled down and had families and babies. Ross and Rachel made it.

Other

• The relationship between the real-life cast can fall into this, as they were incredibly close off screen. They openly said they used to watch the series together, ate lunch together every day, Jennifer Aniston is the godmother of Courteney Cox's daughter Coco and Matthew Perry mentioned going on holiday with the other two guys.
  • It got to the point where guest stars would comment on their No Sense of Personal Space, and sometimes feel left out as a result. (Tom Selleck commented on their pre-performance huddle and that in their first read through Cox was sitting on someone else's lap, something he'd never encountered in the industry before).
  • Plus watch any of their interviews. Their first 'final' interview with Oprah had Aniston crying almost all the way through and various members exchanging 'I love you's' and kisses.
• What makes it even cuter, is they're still close ten years down the line, with Cox and Aniston spending New Year together and the whole gang guest starring on each other shows. Awww...
• Their decision to negotiate for their salaries as a group. The rest of the cast attribute to idea to Schwimmer, who at the time of the negotiations, could easily have negotiated as the male lead (thanks to the Ross/Rachel focus) and demanded a lot more pay. Instead, he was more worried about any of the others being screwed over, and took a pay cut as part of the negotiations so everyone was equal.
• According to IMDB, when Perry was apparently getting threats from execs because he was gaining weight from the drug addiction, Aniston offered to be his personal trainer.
• Paget Brewster, who played Kathy in season 4, has mentioned several times that Aniston, Cox and Kudrow all banded together to get her character a more honorable exit than the cheating on Chandler storyline. While their efforts failed, she was nonetheless touched by their attempt all the same.
• The fact that Chandler and Monica's relationship was never supposed to go beyond a few episodes, but Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox had so much chemistry and genuine love between them that they couldn't bear to split them up (meaning it would have been worse than the heartbreaking "Ross and Rachel break up" storyline).
  • The Vegas storyline was also meant to have a scene where Chandler cheats on Monica after their fight, but Matthew Perry fought against it, pointing out that it would be out of character for Chandler to do it.
• Any time Ross' Big Brother Instinct kicks in. As much as they make fun of each other, Ross is actually super protective of Monica. In season 5, he almost kills Chandler when he sees them having sex and thinks he's just messing around with her. And in season 7, Ross threatens to hurt Chandler if he tries to run out of his wedding to Monica. Chandler laughs him off until Ross slams him to the ground when he thinks the groom is running away again.
• The lyrics of the show's theme "I'll Be There For You" by The Rembrandts which beautifully captures the friendship of the gang.
  It's like you're always stuck in second gear
  When it hasn't been your day, your week
  Your month, or even your year, but
  I'll be there for you
  (When the rain starts to pour)
  I'll be there for you
  (Like I've been there before)
  I'll be there for you
  ('Cause you're there for me too)
• Monica and Chandler get a 100% sincere love song in Friends! The Musical Parody:
  Could I be any more
  Could I be any more
  Could I be any more in love with you...?
• After Matthew Perry's death, Internet was filled up with tributes to him, most of them being videos of his work as Chandler Bing.
  • Also, the rest of the cast wrote messages that spoke of how much they loved working with him, and about their continued friendship even after the series ended.

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