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Recap / Friends S 4 E 17 The One With The Free Porn

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Chandler and Joey's television starts picking up free porn. Phoebe learns she is having triplets. Monica convinces Ross to tell Emily he loves her.

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  • All Men Are Perverts: Treeger mentions once lucking into a descrambled porn channel and likened it to finding free money, but after a while, he turned it off and lost it. Chandler and Joey are incredulous over anyone turning off free porn and insist on not doing anything to disrupt what they've got. They do eventually tire of it (see below) and turn it off, only to check to see if they still have it (and immediately celebrate upon finding that they do).
  • Bowdlerise: Since the free porn plotline is so integral to the episode there's really no way to cut it out. Channels that air reruns of the show in daytime slots will just skip this episode entirely instead.
  • Bow Chicka Wow Wow: Rachel gets this melody stuck in her head after spending so much time around the free porn. Apparently it's the theme tune to "Good Will Humping"
  • Brief Accent Imitation: Ross adopts an English accent when repeating what Emily's comments about just enjoying their relationship as it is. Monica immediately asks him to stop doing the accent.
  • Meaningful Echo: "Thank you."
  • Noodle Incident: After hearing Treeger yell while he's cleaning their shower drain Joey suggests it's because he found Chandler's flip-flop.
  • Parallel Porn Titles: "Good Will Humping" and "In and Out and In Again".
  • Pizza Boy Special Delivery: This not happening finally convinces Joey and Chandler they need to turn off the free porn.
    Joey: Woman pizza delivery guy comes over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves!
    Chandler: What, no, "Nice apartment, I bet the bedrooms are huge?"
    Joey: No! Nothing!
  • Playing Hard to Get: With Emily apparently interested in someone else back in London, Joey suggests Ross do this by moving to Tokyo.
  • Poor Man's Porn: Because Joey and Chandler got a porn channel descrambled by accident.
  • Punch a Wall: Ross claims he tried to do this after finding out Emily is also seeing someone else but it didn't end well for him.
    Ross: (to Monica) If I hadn't let you talk me into going to the airport in the first place, I never would've put my fist through the wall!
    Chandler: You put your fist through the wall?
    Ross: No, I missed and hit the door. But, it opened really hard!
  • Race for Your Love: Monica convinces Ross to chase after Emily, who's about to board a flight back to England, and declare his love for her. He makes it in time and says "I love you" but Emily responds with a "Thank you" and boards the plane anyway.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr. Treeger clearly doesn't care that Chandler and Joey have swapped apartments with Monica and Rachel.
  • Too Many Babies: Phoebe learns that of the five embryos she was implanted with three have successfully developed. Frank and Alice are, naturally, freaked out to learn they're getting triplets but resolve to make it work.
  • Wham Shot: Chandler answers the door and finds Emily standing on the other side.
    Chandler: Are we in London?

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