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"
The One Where the Stripper Cries" is the eleventh episode of season ten of the
television sitcom Friends.
First aired: February 5, 2004
Plot
Phoebe, who will soon be married to Mike Hannigan, invites the gang to her bachelorette party, but none of the guys can make it: Ross and Chandler are going to a college reunion, while Joey has been selected to be a contestant on the game show Pyramid.
Joey's stint on Pyramid is less than illustrious, as brain cells are a commodity Joey has always been a little bit short of. He quickly gets on his partner Gene's bad side ("I got a kid starting college. I've to get surgery on my knee. You just lost me ten grand!"), but rebounds at the winner's circle...only to fail on the very last question.
At their college reunion, Ross and Chandler run across Missy Goldberg, a girl that (as depicted in
flashbacks) both were attracted to, resulting in a
pact that neither would ever ask her out. Chandler gives Ross permission to break that pact, and he arranges a date with her, only to find out that "Chandler and I used to make out! A lot!" When confronted with this, Chandler points out that it was a long time ago, and that, furthermore, Ross broke a pact too: he kissed an Adrienne Turner, despite knowing that Chandler liked her. The scene flashbacks again, showing that this particular occasion was a Christmas party during their freshman year—not to mention
Rachel and
Monica's first college party. Chandler
then goes on to confess that he had his revenge: he successfully flirted with, and then kissed,
Rachel. Ross is very upset: that was, after all, the night
he first kissed Rachel... Only to discover that he had the wrong bed, and that the girl buried under all the coats was actually
Monica. "You were my Midnight Mystery Kisser?" "
You were my first kiss with Rachel?" "You were my first kiss
ever?" Chandler, appalled: "What did I marry into?"
Finally, Phoebe's staid, elegant party is a disappointment to her: "When's the dirty stuff starting? You know, the strippers, and the guys dancing, and you know, pee-pee's flying about." Rachel consults hurriedly with Monica, and the two hire the first male stripper in the phone book: Roy (Danny Devito), over-weight and middle-aged. He understandably inspires the girls to nausea rather than lust, and Phoebe turns him away without payment... At which point he bursts into tears. The girls suggest that he hang up his break-away jock strap for good and turn to teaching the next generation of male strippers, and then encourage him to finish his last dance.
Guest appearances
Quotes
- [When Joey, on Pyramid, is asked about something white]
Joey: Paper? Snow? A ghost?
- Joey: Man, these questions are hard. I mean, how can there be a ghost in my fridge?
