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Friends Season 9 Episode 23

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AIRED: 5/15/03

Chandler gives David advice that culminates in David deciding to propose to Phoebe. However, Phoebe is still in love with Mike. Monica meddles and calls Mike, who shows up in Barbados and interrupts David's marriage proposal with one of his own. Phoebe chooses Mike, although she doesn't accept his proposal. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Ross and Charlie when they spend some time together rewriting his speech, and Rachel struggles with the idea of telling Joey that she's crazy about him.moreless

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The 9th Season Ends With A Two-Part Finale. Ross Is Thrilled At Delivering A Key Speech At A Paleontologists' Conference In Barbados.

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By Matt16020-FIN, Jul 05, 2012

The penultimate episode of the 9th of "Friends" was very good. The idea of a trip to Barbados with the entire gang was excellent. The relationships between Joey and Charlie and Phoebe and David are a good part of the show and hopefully will continue in the next season. Speaking of that, this episode has a surprising twist for David and Phoebe. This episode has also a few laughs here. For example, Chandler ruining Ross's presentation and Chandler giving a piece of advice to David. Hank Azaria has done a very good job in the series as David. There are a number of terrific performances here by all cast members regular. Overall, a great episode. I look forward to part two. I certainly hope "Friens" can keep up the good work into the 10th season.moreless
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It's a shame Part 2 wasnt as strong as this one...

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By super_friend21, Jul 25, 2008

This episode sees the friends flying out to Barbados for Ross' paeleontology convention along with Charlie but before they jet off, Chandler gives David advice that culminates in David deciding to propose to Phoebe. However, Phoebe is still in love with Mike. Monica meddles and calls Mike, who shows up in Barbados and interrupts David's marriage proposal with one of his own. Phoebe chooses Mike, although she doesn't accept his proposal. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Ross and Charlie when they spend some time together rewriting his speech after Chandler accidentaly deleted it with a virus he opened, and Rachel struggles with the idea of telling Joey that she's crazy about him.moreless
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When Chandler gives advice to David, he decides he should propose to Phoebe, however Pheobe is still inlove with Mike, who also proposes after ariving in Barbados where the gang are staying. While things get romantic for Ross and Charlie.moreless

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By luvpuff, Jul 24, 2008

The main plot was Ross getting together with Charlie for a night and Phoebe getting back with Mike. I wouldn't rate it anything special though.

And the Rachel sub plot was minor. The focus was to show Ross and Charlie as an 'item', since Ross was alot smarter then Joey, it was obvious Joey and Charlie would never make it as a couple because of his lack of inteligence.

The Rachel part was her struggling to tell Joey her feelings for him.

This episode isn't a laugh out loud episode, more of a drama scene with David and Mike's proposal's.

On the subject, I must admit, i'm glad Phoebe didn't marry David as he was an unwanted additional character that's not fun to watch.moreless
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This is an amazing episode. This episode is a testement to how amazingly perfect season 9 was. This also has to be one of the most nerve-wracking episodes to watch, ever.moreless

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By SHUCKLEMAN, Feb 09, 2008

I can't describe how good this episode is. I'm not quite sure what makes this episode so good though. The cast is excellent. Hank Azaria makes his final appearance, over 200 episodes after his first appearance. Paul Rudd returns to the cast after quite a shocking turn of events. Aisha Tyler plays her part as a character involved in a love triangle very well too. It was quite ambitious of the writers to make a recurring character have feelings for two of the main characters, but they pulled it off, just like they did with Paget Brewster in season 4.

One thing I like about this episode is Phoebe's large role in it. Phoebe doesn't often get good storylines, but in this episode she does, and it works very well. Lisa's acting is fabulous too. I love it how she tries to cover up the fact that she said Mike's name instead of David's.

Monica's hair is also very funny. I love the many jokes Chandler makes about it.

Another thing I like about this episode is the Ross and Rachel hints throughout. Like when Ross and Rachel stand together in the hallway and sigh, and how Phoebe's mixing up of names makes the viewer think back to Ross's wedding to Emily in season 4. I also like the subtle 'It's raining, so we can't go outside.', which makes the viewers think back to the The One At The Beach, and what Ross and Rachel went through there.

Another thing I love about this episode is the drama. The build-up to the proposal spell-binding. There is the whole inevitability that something is going to happen. Chandler 'meddles' and David ends up wanting to propose to Phoebe, then Monica 'meddles' and tells Mike that Phoebe is in Barbados and that David is going to propose to her! Then Phoebe says that if David proposes to her, she will say yes! Then Mike appears just as David is going to propose, and he proposes first! The only thing that bugged me a bit was how David got rejected just like that. That must've been devastating for him. I think Phoebe could've been a little less harsh on him.

What makes this episode great is a perfect mix of drama and comedy.moreless
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Amazing acting!

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By nel50, Sep 01, 2007

This was a marvelous episode and I loved all the sets that were acted on. The did a wonderful job showing the rain outside.

Chandler accidently gives advice to David causing him to believe he should propose to Phoebe. Chandler tells Monica what he did and she thinks what he did was awful because Phoebe still loves Mike.

Meanwhile relationships are ending and some are beginning. Charlie is spending a lot of time with Ross and Rachel is struggling with what to do with her feelings for Joey. Monica calls Mike and tells him David is thinking about proposing. He is stunned and rushes to Barbados to stop it. Right before David proposed Mike interrupts saying he needs to talk to her. He proposes, but Phoebe says no because she never wanted a proposal she just wanted to know the relationship was going somewhere. David leaves.

Ross is reading his speech to Charlie and when finishes she says is great! Then Rachel, Joey, and Chandler walk in. Chandler wants to use the computer to check his emails and unknowingly opens a virus shutting down the whole computer. Ross doesn't have a hard copy and is furious. Charlie offers to help recreate it since she just heard it, but has to break off plans with Joey. Joey understand and ends up hanging out with Rachel.

Soon enough Charlie and Joey talk about how they are having fun but it seems as if it is not with eachother. They brake up.

Mike realizes that there is a ping-pong table in the game room and Monica decides to play him. They have a massively long match untill Monica hurts her hand. She finds out that she is too hurt to continue playing, Remember Monica hates losing so the love of her life, Chandler offers to play for her. He secretly has some skill and wins the game! Monica's hair is absolutely insane.

Joey seeks Rachel and talks about how Charlie broke things off with him. He says that he is always going after the wrong girl, but Rachel says that she disagrees. Joey doesn't realize that Rachel means that she likes him untill he leaves. He comes back and they chat about it and have an akward conversation. Joey says he could never do that to Ross.

Later on Ross and Charlie are flirting and hiding from a bunch of palentolagist. Eventually they kiss. He says it can't happen but then changes his mind. Joey comes across them kissing and realizes if Ross could do that to him then he made a mistake not trying things with Rachel. I feel Joey is right because Ross wasn't with Rachel for 6 years, Charlie and Joey have been apart for about a day. So it's a bigger deal on Ross' end and he is the one making the bigger mistake.

Joey then goes to talk to Rachel. He knocks on the door and she answers saying, "What are you doing here?" He goes in and kisses her. "Oh," whispers Rachel and they begin kissing again. End Scene.

I loved this episode but my ultimate favorite ending are in the airports they are always the best! I noticed some goofs and weird things while watching this episode. When Monica hurts herself while playing ping-pong it is obvious that all she does is hit the table with her racket. Also when Chandler wins at the end lmao the ball hits off the black thing behind Mike and hits him in the head. They immediatly change the shot because they didn't want to have Chandler make the winning point again, but it's so obvious haha.

Last but not least what the hell is Rachel wearing on her arm in all of this episode?????moreless
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Jennifer Aniston	Rachel Green
Courteney Cox	Monica Geller-Bing
Lisa Kudrow	Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc	Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry	Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer	Ross Geller

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Audrey Wasilewski	Sarah	Guest Star
Hannah Groves	Christina	Guest Star
Jane Edith Wilson	Jackie [DVD only]	Guest Star
Aisha Tyler	Charlie Wheeler	Recurring Role
Hank Azaria	David	Recurring Role
Paul Rudd	Mike Hannigan	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (4)
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- Goof: When Phoebe, Rachel, Chandler, and Monica arrive in Barbados, it is raining heavily. However, all of the friends enter the hotel completely dry and without umbrellas.
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- Goof: When Joey asks where the guy got the big pink drink, they shoot to the guy, but his drink is purple.
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- Goof: In this episode, Rachel has an unexplained bandage on her left forearm.
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- Trivia: In this episode Rachel steals a name tag from the pharmacist convention with the name Kate Miller on it. Kate Miller was the name of Joey's love interest in Season 3, played by Dina Meyer.
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QUOTES (19)
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- Ross: (About infecting Ross's computer with a virus) What did you do?
  Chandler: Someone I don't know sent me an email, and I opened it.
  Ross: Why, why would you open it?
  Chandler: Well, it didn't say "This is a virus!"
  Ross: What did it say?
  Chandler: Nude... (Ross looks at him)... pictures of Anna Kournikova.
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- Charlie: (About spending the day alone) So you'll be okay?
  Joey: Yeah, yeah. I've got tons of stuff I could do. I'm gonna hit the beach, go swimming.
  Ross: Uh, Joe, have you looked outside? (Opens curtains to reveal a storm)
  Joey: Oh man!
  Charlie: There's an indoor pool, you can swim there!
  Joey: I wasn't gonna swim, I was gonna dig a hole! (Pulls a plastic shovel out of his backpack)
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- Rachel: (Looking out the window) What's with the rain, Geller? I mean, when I signed up for Dino Week, nobody said anything about it being monsoon season.
  Charlie: Actually, the wet season is June to December.
  Rachel: It's not the time, Charlie.
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- Rachel: All right, I don't wanna alarm anybody, but Monica's hair is twice as big as it was when we landed.
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- Ross: You're never going to guess who I just saw downstairs!
  Joey: Oh! ah! eh... Britney Spears!
  Ross: Yeah, she never misses these conferences! (To Charlie) No, I just saw Dr. Kenneth Schwartz!
  Charlie: Oh my God! Did you talk to him?
  Ross: Yeah... what am I going to say to Kenneth Schwartz?
  Joey: You could say: "Hey Kenny, how come you're not Britney Spears?"
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- Monica: (To Chandler, about playing ping pong) Why not?
  Chandler: Because you know how competitive you get. And when I say it's cute, others disagree and I'm lying.
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- David: (To Phoebe) The time we spent apart was unbearable. Of course, the sanitation strikes in Minsk didn't help.
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- Chandler: (To David) I'm not very good at giving advice. You want advice, go to Ross. Go to Monica. Go to Joey if what you want is advice about pizza toppings or a burning sensation when you pee.
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- Phoebe: I think David will want to hear some of the lectures.
  Ross: Oh, because he's a scientist.
  Phoebe: No, because he's been in Minsk for eight years and if he gets too much direct sunlight, he'll die.
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- David: (To Phoebe) Maybe if I hadn't gone to Minsk, things would have worked out between us. And I wouldn't have ruined my career. Or lost that toe to frostbite. It was a good trip.
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- Rachel: (Joey puts a name tag on Rachel's breast) And that's the most sex I'll have this weekend.
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- Monica: (To Chandler) If you hadn't meddled to start with, I wouldn't have had to go in and meddle myself. Now, no matter how much we meddle, we'll never be able to unmeddle the thing that you meddled up in the first place!
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- Chandler: You know Ross, you and Monica have the same "I'm gonna kill you look." I can usually make it go away by kissing her. (Goes to kiss Ross)
  Ross: Get out!
  Chandler: Okay.
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- Joey: Everything is upside-down here! It rains all day long, nobody watches TV, and Ross is famous!
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- Joey: I play Dr. Drake Ramoray.
  Sarah: I'm sorry, I don't own a TV.
  Joey: You don't own a TV? What's all your furniture pointed at?
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- Ross: I have a surprise. I had to pull some strings, but I was able to get everyone passes to the entire conference. That's right. These babies will get you into all the paleontology lectures and seminars.
  Rachel: Do you have anything that will get us out of them?
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- Monica: Do you really think that marrying someone else is the right answer?
  Phoebe: Sure. Look, okay, bottom line. I love Mike. David!
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- Monica: David's going to propose to you tonight.
  Phoebe: Wow, really? That's fantastic.
  Monica: What, are you serious? You want to marry him? What about Mike?
  Phoebe: Oh, okay, you want me to marry Mike? Alright, well let's just gag him and handcuff him and force him down the aisle. I can just see it: "Mike, do you take Phoebe?" (Puts hand over mouth) "No, God no!" You know, it's every girl's dream!
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- Chandler: Aren't engagement rings supposed to have diamonds in them? Oh there it is.
  David: Well, being a failed scientist doesn't pay as well as you might think. That's one 70th of a carat. And the clarity is, is quite poor.
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- International Episode Title:
  France: Celui qui allait à la Barbade - 1ère partie (The One Who Goes To Barbados - Part One)
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- This is the first appearance of Cali and Noelle Sheldon as Emma Geller-Green. Although Emma appeared in 19 episodes of Friends, Cali and Noelle only played her in 10 episodes.
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- This is one of the few two-part episodes. These episodes were originally aired in their entirety, but written to be aired separately in syndication. These episodes are:
  "The One with Two Parts (1)"
  "The One with Two Parts (2)"
  "The One After the Super Bowl (1)"
  "The One After the Super Bowl (2)"
  "The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break (1)"
  "The One with the Morning After (2)"
  "The One with Ross's Wedding (1)"
  "The One with Ross's Wedding (2)"
  "The One In Vegas (1)"
  "The One In Vegas (2)"
  "The One with Rachel's Sister (1)"
  "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry (2)"
  "The One That Could Have Been (1)"
  "The One That Could Have Been (2)"
  "The One with the Proposal (1)"
  "The One with the Proposal (2)"
  "The One with Chandler and Monica's Wedding (1)"
  "The One with Chandler and Monica's Wedding (2)"
  "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (1)"
  "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (2)"
  "The One in Barbados (1)"
  "The One in Barbados (2)"
  "The Last One (1)"
  "The Last One (2)"
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- This episode is one of the few titles that doesn't begin with "The One Where..." or "The One With..." These episodes are:
  "The One After the Super Bowl (1)"
  "The One After the Super Bowl (2)"
  "The One At the Beach"
  "The One Hundredth"
  "The One in Vegas (1)"
  "The One in Vegas (2)"
  "The One After Vegas"
  "The One On the Last Night"
  "The One That Could Have Been (1)"
  "The One That Could Have Been (2)"
  "The One After "I Do""
  "The One in Barbados (1)"
  "The One in Barbados (2)"
  "The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss"
  "The Last One (1)"
  "The Last One (2)"
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- This episode received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Multi-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series or Special (Charlie McDaniel III, Dana Mark McClure, John Bickelhaupt).
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- This episode received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series (Stephen Prime).
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- This episode received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series (Nick McLean).
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- This episode received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series (John Shaffner, Joe Stewart, Greg J. Grande).
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- This episode runs 30:40 on DVD (a typical sitcom runs about 22:00).
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- This episode ran as part of one 70 minute episode when first aired.
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ALLUSIONS (7)
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- Rachel: I go play Tetris on someone else's computer.
  
  Tetris is a massively popular game that has been released on numerous platforms from Nintendo and other consoles as well as PCs and Macs.
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- Phoebe: (To Monica) Are you leaving the Supremes?
  
  This is an allusion to the singing trio The Supremes in which Diana Ross, who was known for her big hair, was the lead singer.
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- Chandler: Well, I tried Billie Jean King, but...
  
  Billie Jean King is a retired tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam single titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
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- Chandler: (About Monica's hair) That's why our honeymoon photos look like me and Diana Ross!
  
  Diana Ross, an American singer made famous as the lead in the girl group The Supremes, is known for very big hairstyles.
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- Ross: Nude pictures of Anna Kournikova? She's never even won a major tournament!
  
  Anna Kournikova is a Russian tennis player. Although she has never won a any singles tournaments, she won two Grand Slam titles while playing doubles with Martina Hingis. She has since retired from tennis due to injuries. Kournikova is tall, blonde and pretty and has also found success as a model for several large advertising campaigns.
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- Ross: It's a blanket, Joey. Not a cloak of invisibility!
  
  This is a reference to the Harry Potter series and Harry's invisibility cloak.
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- Phoebe: (To Monica) Don't look at me that way, Roseanne Rosannadanna!
  
  Phoebe is alluding to a character from the TV show Saturday Night Live, or SNL. The character of "Roseanne Roseannadanna" was created by Gilda Radner, a cast member from SNL in the 1970s, where Roseanne had a large brunette hairdo that looked very similar to Monica's.
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