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The One With All The Jealousy

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"The One With All The Jealousy" is the twelfth episode of the third season of Friends, which aired on January 16, 1997. In it, Ross tries to hide his jealousy at Rachel's new co-worker while Joey lies about dance experience to get cast on A Tale of Two Cities.

Plot[]

Rachel loves her new job at Bloomingdale's, as she's working in the fashion field like she's always wanted to. But Ross is less than happy, mostly because her new colleague, Mark, is tall and handsome, and very kind towards Rachel, and he fears that he wants to take Rachel away from him. Out of jealousy, he covers Rachel's entire desk with love cards, flowers and musical bugs; he even sends a barbershop quartet to her workplace to sing her a song. Ross drops in to the office, and sees Mark embracing his girlfriend, and thinks it's Rachel by mistake.

Joey is about to get a part in the musical A Tale Of Two Cities, but the lie on his resume stating that he has a lot of experience in dance threatens to put the whole thing off. When Chandler and Phoebe see him perform an embarrassing dance, Chandler advises Joey not to go any further with the audition. Joey still attends the dance audition, but things get way out of hand when his director wants him to instruct a complex dance sequence to the other dancers. The result is a dozen actors dancing Joey-style, and Joey fleeing from the audition for good.

Chandler plans a bachelor party for his "weird" cousin Albert, and hires a stripper. Meanwhile, at the Moondance Diner, Monica forms a relationship with fellow worker Julio, who happens to be a poet. Monica finds him incredibly sexy and kisses him. When she tells the guys about him and brings a poem he wrote when he was with her, Phoebe reads between the lines and notices that Julio is calling Monica "an empty vase". Monica lashes out at him when she learns this from Phoebe, but Julio explains that her interpretation is wrong. Just as she's about to apologize to him, he tells her that The Empty Vase is about all women - "well, all American women". Out of anger, Monica sends Ross' barbershop quartet to Julio to ridicule him in front of everyone as he's hitting on another fellow worker.

Ross and Rachel discuss his jealousy, and she reassures him that she loves him, and wants to be with him. But it only takes one play date with Ross, Ben and the stripper from last night, together with her son, to make Rachel realize that in spite of her pride, she is also jealous.

Cast and Crew[]

Main Cast[]

Jennifer Aniston - Rachel Greene
Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
Lisa Kudrow - Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc - Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer - Ross Geller

Supporting Cast[]

Obba Babatundé - The Director
Steven Eckholdt - Mark Robinson
Carlos Gómez - Julio
Hillary Matthews - Nancy
Wendy Schaal - Jeanine (as Wendy Schall)
James Michael Tyler - Gunther

Crew[]

Directed By:
Robby Benson

Written By:
Doty Abrams

Quotes[]

Rachel (running in from her bedroom, wearing only a towel): Okay. Hey. Umm. Does everybody hate these shoes?
Chandler: Oh, yeah, but don't worry. I don't think anybody's gonna focus on that as long as your wearing that towel dress.
Rachel (to Ross): Tell him.
Ross (to Chandler): It's her first day at this new job. You're not supposed to start with her!

Chandler: I need you to come to this bachelor party for my weird cousin Albert, y'know, he's the botanist.
Ross: Oh God. Y'know, botanists are such geeks.
Chandler: Yeah. Is that a dinosaur tie?
Ross: Hmm? Oh, yeah. (he makes a growling sound)

Ross: Why am I invited to this again?
Chandler: Well, apparently, Albert has no friends. He's very excited about the bachelor party though. I think actually the only reason he's getting married is so he can see a stripper.
Phoebe: A stripper at a bachelor party, that is so cliché. Why don't you get a magician?!
Chandler: Well, if the magician can open my beer with his butt cheeks, then all right.

Joey: Guess who's in an audition for a Broadway musical.
Chandler: I want to say you, but that seems like such an easy answer.
Joey: It is me! It's a musical version of "Tale of Two Cities." So I think I'm gonna sing "New York, New York", and uh, oh, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
Ross: Ah, Joey, I don't think you get to pick the cities.
Joey: What?
Ross: Mr. Dickens gets to pick 'em.
Joey: Who?
Chandler: I'll get you the Cliff Notes.
Joey: The what?
Chandler: The abridgment.
Joey: Oh, okay. (to Ross) The what?

Mark (answers phone): Rachel Green's line, how may I help you?
Ross (on phone): Hi, is Rachel there?
Mark: And who may I say is calling?
Ross: This is Ross?
Mark: Ross of...
Ross: Of Ross and Rachel.
Mark: Oh, hi. It's, it's Mark.
Ross: Oh, hey, hey, Mark.
Mark: Hey, hold on a second.
Ross: Okay.
Rachel: Hi, honey!
Ross: Hi! What's, ah, what's Mark doing answering your phone?
Rachel: Oh, he's just goofing around.
Ross: Ohhhhh, yeah, that's, that's funny. Why, ah, why isn't he goofing around in his own office?
Rachel: Oh, honey, this is his office too. I told you we're Joanna's two assistants.
Ross: Why does Joanna need two assistants, how, how lazy is she?

(Ross, Joey and Chandler talk about how Ross is pushing Rachel to Mark)
Chandler: All right, fine, don't do anything, just sit here and talk to us. Meanwhile, she is talking to him about you. And he's being Mr. Joe Sensitive, and she starts thinking, "Maybe this is the guy for me because he understands me."
Joey: And before you know it, she's with him and you'll be all, "Oh man!" And he'll be all, "Yes!" And us, we'll be like, "Wh-whoa, dude!" And pretty soon you'll be like, "Hi." And, and, and, "I can't go. Rachel and Mark might be there." And we'll be like, "Man, get over it, it's been four years!"
Chandler: He paints quite a picture, doesn't he?

Rachel: Honey, why is it hard? I mean, we've been together for almost a year now.
Ross: Well, I was with Carol for, like, eight years and I lost her. And now, if it's possible, I think I love you even more. So, it's hard for me to believe that I'm not gonna, well, that someone else is not going to take you away.
Gunther: Let it be me! Let it be me!

Rachel (after a passionate kiss with Ross): Well, there's a kiss that he won't forget for a couple of hours, you know.
Chandler: Yeah. Either that, or you just turned him on and sent him off to a stripper.

Trivia[]

  • Mark requests the "Ralph Lauren" file from Rachel in this episode. As of two seasons from this episode, Rachel will be working at Ralph Lauren for five years, from "The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss" to "The One With Princess Consuela" in Season 10. Ross gets her job back at Ralph Lauren after she's fired by bribing her boss, Mr. Zelner.
  • This is the episode where cracks begin to form in Ross and Rachel's relationship.
  • For his audition for the musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities, Joey sings Pick a Pocket or Two, from Oliver!, a musical also based on one of Dickens' books.
    • An actual adaptation was produced on Broadway in 2008.
  • In this episode Chandler criticizes Joey's appalling dance moves, but actually Chandler's own dancing is worse. We see this in "The One With Chandler And Monica's Wedding". 
  • Ross tells Rachel he loves her even more than Carol. He also says he was with Carol for 8 years but in the flashback to 1988 in "The One With All The Thanksgivings", he tells his parents about Carol whom he's just started dating. They have divorced by 1994 so, like with Ross and Rachel, they must have been friends beforehand.
  • Rachel kisses Ross passionately before he goes off to his play date. In the DVD version, there's extra dialogue after Chandler tells Rachel "You've just turned him on and sent him to a stripper". Rachel pauses and then jumps up and runs after Ross yelling "Ross, Ross, I am jealous".
  • Phoebe says strippers are "so cliché" but demands one at her bachelorette party, leading Rachel and Monica desperately trying to find one in "The One Where The Stripper Cries".
  • Jennifer Aniston would later play a stripper in We're The Millers (2013).
  • This is the first bachelor party which Ross and Chandler attend in the series. The next one is Ross' towards the end of next season prior to his wedding to Emily.
  • Joey comments to Ross that his friends will say "it's been four years" (since Rachel and Ross were together). In around four years time, Ross and Rachel sleep together and conceive their daughter Emma.
  • Carlos Gómez who plays Julio returns as the director of Joey's new movie in the spinoff series Joey. He is one of the 4 actors to return in the spinoff. Other 3 are Matt LeBlanc, Adam Goldberg and Jennifer Coolidge.
    • Also, Gómez starred alongside Matthew Perry in the movie Fools Rush In from the same year.
  • Chandler and Joey warn Ross that his intense jealousy is making Rachel run into Mark as a close friend and confidant and that he'll use it as an opportunity to get together with her. Their worries are proven correct later in the season when Rachel reveals that Mark is a close friend she can share common interest in fashion with in "The One With Phoebe's Ex-Partner" and then when Mark reveals to Rachel that he has feelings for her and asks her out on a date after she and Ross break up in "The One With The Tiny T-Shirt".
  • Incidentally, in an episode the title and plot of which are about jealousy, Gunther wears a bright green shirt as he watches Rachel and Ross on the couch - he's literally "green with envy."

Goofs[]

  • In the opening scene, Ross turns around to face Rachel and the mug in Ross' right hand moves a few inches to the left between Chandler finishing the line ending "towel dress" and Rachel saying "tell him" yet he never turned back to the table.
  • When Chandler and Ross are discussing the stripper, he puts his mug down on top his paper but when he turns around, his mug is no longer on the paper.
  • When Rachel is telling Mark about the lovebug, she is holding it in her right hand but when camera angle changes she holds it in her left hand.
  • When Joey is warming up for the dance scene, the dancers behind him change their positions erratically between shots.
  • Much like the earlier episode "The One With the Jam", the DVD version lacks the executive producer credits.
  • When Phoebe and Monica are in the apartment and Monica is putting a ribbon around a vase, she ties it and stops to listen to Phoebe, but in the next shot, she is tying it again.
  • Major companies do not allow strangers to wander around employee only areas. Therefore, the quartet and Ross would not have been allowed in Rachel's work area.

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