Episode 801: The One After "I Do"
We first see Chandler & Monica sitting in the wedding chapel. Chandler says
something like « We got married RIGHT THERE !! » Then Monica says that
Chandler’s ring is missing, and they pick it up from the floor. Chandler says
: We’re off to a good start! ». Then the others walk in and congratulate the
happy couple. Ross starts a hilarious bit! He says that the wedding was great
cuz no one was drunk, there were no lesbians and no one said the wrong names. «
And on your first try !!!! (he cries) » It was VERY funny !!!!
Then they shot a scene where a photographer took pictures of Chandler &
Monica and the other guys. Ross lets it slip that Monica is pregnant : «
Monica’s pregnant!! » He says this in a hilarious high pitched voice, and
every time they did this scene (they re-set it a few times ) David delivered the
joke funnier and funnier. Joey asks if Monica and Chandler got married just
because she’s pregnant. Monica says that she’s NOT and Joey replies «
shooting blanks, huh ? ». The audience totally cracked up every time they did
this scene and Jim Bentley, the warm up guy, called us all perverts!!
Anyway, Mon states that she’s not pregnant. Pheebs, who’s been standing next
to them the whole time, looks at Rachel (who’s also been standing there
watching them) delivers this weird look back. Obviously she’s the pregnant
one. Phoebe being the good friend that she is, covers up for Rachel and says
that she’s the one who’s having a baby. She says «I’m with child » but
she cannot say who the father is, cause he’s famous. As a way of getting the
attention off herself, Rach urges Phoebe to say who the father is. Phoebe says
it’s James Brolin. Rachel thanks her and tells Phoebe that she’s not ready
to tell everyone who the father is.
Then, Mon’s parents come in, and they’re very excited especially her mom,
cause she thinks Monica’s pregnant. When she tells her she’s not, she says
« really ? », and Mon replies, « Yes, but I did get married today ! » Upon
which Judy says « Whatever »
Then we’re at the reception. They did a lot of different scenes, many of which
were cut up and occasionally out of order, but this will give you an idea of it.
Morgan Fairchild is in the episode (No Kathleen Turner). Her character has a
date with her to the wedding, a big Broadway guy (can’t remember name), whom
she calls a great lover. Chandler gets a little embarrassed of this and says
something like « great ! » or something (you get the idea), and she says that
Chandler’s always been shy. Chandler replies by saying « Thank you for
pleasing my mother so » (Excellent stuff ! ! ! ! ! !)
Of course Joey learns about this guy and introduces himself (Joey has now
ditched the WW1 costume on Monica’s request and sports an all white outfit of
shorts, socks, T-shirt and knitted sweater tied around the neck, kind of a
preppy, snobby tennis guy, that he found in the hotel gift shop. Joey asks Chan
to put in a good word for him.
Chandler tells Mon that he has taken dancing lessons to surprise her by dazzling
her on the dance floor. However he has brand new shoes and is struggling to stay
on his feet. He uses a fork to scratch up the soles (doesn’t work) and placing
double sided tape on them (no success either). Joey asks Chandler if he told the
producer guy about him, and is upset when Chandler tells him that he told him
about Joey’s work on DOOL, because Joey wants to show him that he has a great
range. If he gets a part in this guy’s new play, he will have done it all :
TV, movies and theater. Actually he says that all that’s left is radio, but
that’s just for ugly people (audience cracked up on this one !) Chandler asks
Joey what size shoes he has (answers 11 ˝), cause then he could borrow his
WW1 boots. Joey clearly doesn’t like this and tries to avoid it. Chandler
looks at Joey’s feet and says « Hey, those aren’t 11 and a half ». Joey
gives this stare to Chandler and loudly confesses, « Alright, I’m 7 ! ! But
everything else is big, I’ll show you ! ! !» SOOOOO funny ! ! ! ! Anyway,
Joey gets an idea on how to impress the guy, but more on that later.
Meanwhile, Ross is checking out the seating arrangements and meets a woman
called Mona who works at Monica’s restaurant. Ross does a bit where he holds a
name card like a mouth (like a puppet show) and says « Hello Mona, from
Monica’s restaurant » in a crazy voice (sounds corny, but it’s great !) He
says he likes her name, she says she always kind of hated it. Ross goes all «
No, come on, hey …Mona LISA, and uh..(gets stuck) Mona Kleffenaffener (sounds
like chandler’s flafenafner in tow unagi). She obviously have NO idea what
Ross is talking about, but he says she was a botanist (« well, she’s dead,
now.. »). Quite a hottie in the plant world, according to Ross (he’s in over
his head at this point). Anyway, he manages to impress her a little, and asks
her where she’s sitting for dinner. She shows him her card, and Ross says «
Me too !» (although he’s at M&C’s table) and he places himself next to
her, by switching a few cards. However his plan backfires when he learns that
she’s at table 9, not 6 (held her card upside down) like Ross thought. So he
ends up at the kiddy table with Ben and some other children.
In the mean time, Phoebe tries to find out who the baby’s father is. She
guesses Tag, Ross and Joey, with this great build up between the names. Rach
won’t give the name up though. Later Rach and a still clueless Monica, talks
about how Phoebe’s going to the raise the baby alone. However, Rach gives
herself away when she spits out the Champagne that the waiter giver her. Tries
to half-heartedly, say that that’s the way the French drink it, but Mon now
knows ! ! So the girls talk about Rachel’s pregnancy and Phoebe asks her if
she’s sure about being pregnant, and tells her to take it again to be sure.
Eventually she decides to do it, more on that later.
Joey’s making a toast for the happy couple, but it develops into an audition
for the Broadway producer’s play. He tries to include his entire range into
the performance. Anger, joy, sadness and fear (this is just great!!!) He also
includes his ability to do stage combat and willingness to do frontal nudity
(Lovely speech Joe!)!! In the first take he also does a hilarious singing bit,
but in the later takes they cut it out (even Matt commented on that), so we
don’t know if they’ll include that.
Ross, seated at the kid’s table, reaches for something, upon which the chair
makes a disgusting sound (remember the leather pants in tow all the
resolutions?). He goes over to Mona’s table and asks for a dance, however a
little girl from his table asks if Dr Geller could please dance with her. He
agrees, realizing that his sweetness impresses Mona, and the little girl goes on
top of Ross’ feet and they dance. Later another sweet little girl wants a
dance too, and Ross gives her the same treatment. Mona is watching and Ross goes
« I’m so gonna score!», The little girl says «what ?» and he says « Love
your bow!! ». Just as he is about to dance with Mona, this not so sweet, little
girl (much older than the others), wants a dance too. Ross asks her name, she
says it’s Girt and he say’s « It’s pretty! »(Actually, they tried it
with Ross saying « Of course it is, but they went back to the original in the
later takes, too cruel I guess). Ross reluctantly agrees, but can’t seem to
move much when the girl goes on top of his feet, actually he’s in great pain !
Meanwhile, Chandler’s still haven’t worked out the shoe thing when they’re
starting their dance. Monica suggests that he doesn’t move his feet at all,
but rather stands still and just move his upper body. Of course this means the
crazy Chandler dance where he moves his arms violently (you know what we mean !)
Jack cuts in and starts dancing with Monica (much in the same way Chandler did)
and Judy starts dancing with Chandler. Things seem to be going well, she even
says he can call her mom. However things go terribly wrong when Chandler loses
his balance, falls backwards taking Judy’s skirt with him ! ! ! Looking at
Judy from the floor he says « Sorry, mom » (FUNNY ! ! ! ! ! ! !)
Ok, approaching the end. Rachel and Phoebe are in the bathroom. Rachel having
just taken the pregnancy test when Monica walk in. When it’s time to check the
result, Rachel can’t look and asks Phoebe to do it. She says it’s negative
(the audience went all silent like «what the f*** is going on here ?! »). Rach
says « what ? ! » and Phoebe says again that it’s negative. Rachel tries to
be all brave about it, but she’s clearly disappointed. She says to Phoebe, »Are
you sure it’s negative ?» and she replies « No, it’s positive »(Audience
going crazy !!!) Rach says « Are you sure ? » and phoebe goes « Yeah, I was
lying before » (big laughter !!!!!) Group hug !
Last scene. Joey is helping Ross to the hotel room, cause Ross’ feet are all
messed up after dancing with Girt. Mona, sees Joey helping Ross and is all
impressed by his taking care of him. Ross goes Red Ross, when Mona tell Joey
he’s sweet ». « I’m the sweet guy ! I’m the one who danced with the kids
all night » Suddenly he looks sown and makes a comment on Joey’s small feet,
and then Mona looks at Joey and leaves. Audience loved it !!! That was it.
To sum it up :
1) Monica and Chandler did get married
2) Rachel is pregnant
3) We don’t know who the father is yet
Observations :
- Lisa entertained her son between takes, who didn’t seem too happy when mommy
had to go.
- Marta Kauffman’s husband Michael Skloff and Kevin Bright’s wife Claudia
were there.
- Bunch of kids running around on the set.
- Matthew at one point used one of the cameras (they have wheels) as
transportation from one set to another (funny Matthew! !)
- It was David Crane’s birthday and everyone sang « Happy Birthday » and he
got a huge chocolate cake with 5 candles on it.
- David Schwimmer seemed close to a lot of the kids as he helped them prepare
for their scenes
- Cole Sprouse was a lot smaller than he seems on TV
- Matthew Perry spent quite some time chatting with new executive producers
Shana Goldberg-Meehan and Scott Silveri.
- Matthew Perry left a half an hour before the rest of the guys, so he wasn’t
there for the curtain call.
- The girls changed for the curtain call, after having worn their wedding
clothes during the entire show.
- Only 3 sets were up : Chapel, Reception and Bathroom. No CP or M&C’s.
- The entire season 7 finale was shown prior to the taping.
- Actual taping only lasted 6 hours (5 PM – 11 PM), because of extended
rehearsals, no set changes and no costume changes (except for Matt).
- Warm up guy, Jim Bentley commented Matt’s great tan, that he had been
working on all summer.
- Lisa actually said she had twins, not triplets in one of the takes, which the
audience commented on. David Crane reassured everyone and said they were aware
of it, but thanked us all for paying attention. Jim called us 350
writer-producers, which gave David a laugh.
- They had to do the last scene quite a few times, cause David Schwimmer kept
cracking up