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The One With Joey's New Girlfriend

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"The One With Joey's New Girlfriend" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of Friends, which aired on October 30, 1997. In it, Phoebe gets a cold and realizes she sings better when she's sick, Chandler falls for someone Joey is dating, which leads to disaster, and Rachel and Ross try to make each other Jealous.

Plot[]

When Ross gets Amanda's phone number, he shows it off in front of Rachel, hoping to make her feel jealous. She doesn't stand this, until Chandler blows Ross off by revealing to Rachel that he hasn't even kissed his date the one time that they went out. To get back at Ross, Rachel hooks up with Josh, a college soccer player. A real dating war starts between Ross and Rachel, but the two have clearly chosen the wrong dates to go out with - Amanda makes Ross babysit her son to go out with a man she's been crazy about, (Ross plots his revenge by saying he'll make lots of long-distance phone calls), while Josh turns out to be stealing from Rachel and Monica. Only when Monica points out everything to each other do the two realize that they are both petty to descend to such levels.

HideandSeek

Chandler playing hide and seek with the chick and duck.

Meanwhile, poor and unemployed Phoebe needs her singing at Central Perk to keep her spirits up during this difficult time, when, to cap matters, she also catches a cold. When she projects her first notes on the microphone, she falls in love with her new, sick, sexy voice. However, the new voice doesn't last long when she heals from her cold. When Monica catches a cold too, Phoebe accuses her of stealing it and does anything in her power to get her cold back, including stealing Monica's cold-covered napkins and licking her half-finished noodle soup, but this does nothing for her. When she catches Gunther sneezing at the coffeehouse, Phoebe kisses him fully on the mouth, which gives her a cold and a sexy voice again.

Chandler meets a woman called Kathy at Central Perk and feels an instant undeniable attraction. Unluckily for him, Kathy turns out to be waiting for a date, who enters the coffee house at that very moment. Chandler turns around to see that her date is Joey. That same night, he runs into Kathy while watching Ernie Kovacs reruns. He apologizes to her for hitting on her, and shows her a Wonder-Mop he has bought from a TV ad, which Kathy finds cool. Only the next day at Central Perk do the friends realize from his words that there might be something more than friendship that he wants with her. Chandler is in deep denial about this, but when he crosses half the city just to say 'hey' to Kathy when he sees her jogging, he starts to doubt his denial. Unfortunately, when Chandler admits his crush to the rest of the group (excluding Joey), it seems that no one can comfort him about this. When he watches TV in the living room (Joey and Kathy seem to be 'busy') he raises the volume so as not to hear his friend and date, but when this annoys Joey, he can't take any more of it and goes crashing on Monica's couch.

At the end of the episode, Gunther apologizes to Rachel for kissing Phoebe on the lips. Thoroughly confused, Rachel forgives him.

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[]

Paget Brewster - Kathy
Laura Stepp - Amanda
James Michael Tyler - Gunther
Brian Smith - Josh
Charles Thomas Allen - Ben
John Christopher Allen - Ben

Crew[]

Directed By:
Gail Mancuso

Written By:
Greg Malins & Michael Curtis

Quotes[]

Chandler (sees Kathy for the first time): Oh, she's pretty. Pretty, uh, pretty girl, the pretty... she's pretty.
Monica: Just go up to her and ask her out. (Chandler laughs) Oh, what's the worst thing that could happen?
Chandler: I could die.
Ross: Yeah, it's, it's tough being single. That's why I'm so glad I found Amanda.
Rachel: Ross, you guys went out once. You took your kids to Chucky Cheese, and you didn't even kiss her.
(Ross glares at Chandler.)
Chandler: I tell people secrets. It makes them like me.

Phoebe (performing while sick): My sticky shoes. My sticky, sticky shoes. Why you stick on me? Ba-aby. Thanks for the lights, honey.

Monica: You know what, I like Kathy.
Chandler: Oh yeah, me too, she's so cool and pretty.
Rachel: Yeah, she's...
Chandler: She's smart and funny, you know? We were up all last night talking, she said the funniest thing about... what?
Rachel: You love her.
Chandler: No, I don't.
Phoebe: Yes, you do. Chandler loves Kathy.
Ross: Come on, Pheebs, lay off him.
Chandler: Thank you, Ross.
Ross: Yeah, he's a little sensitive right now, 'cause he's so in love.
Chandler: All right.
Everybody: Oh!
Chandler: All right.
Monica (turns around and does that, "I'm making out with someone," thing with her hands): Oh, um, oh, Kathy! Kathy, I love you! Oh! (She turns around and sees Gunther staring at her and stops suddenly.)

Rachel: You know what else is really great about him? Oh, what is the word for the adult that doesn't have dinosaur toys in their bedroom?
Ross: Oh... (knocks his fists together at Rachel)
Rachel: What was that?
Ross: Monica knows.
Monica: It's this dumb thing that Ross made up 'cause he was trying to fool our parents. It's a way of giving the finger without actually having to give it. (to Ross) I remember I cried the night you made that up. 'Cause it was the first time that I realized that I was actually cooler than my older brother.
Ross: Well, I'm gonna go get ready... (knocks his fists at Monica)

Monica (sneezes): Phoebe, I think I caught your cold.
Phoebe: You mean you stole it! (Monica sneezes again) Don't cover your mouth when you do that!

Joey: I made an effort to like Janice. Now I think it's your turn to make an effort to like Kathy by going out to dinner with us. Right?
Chandler: Yeah, right.
Joey: Good. And hey, my treat. But, that's only because you're not eating anything, right?

Joey: What was that?
Chandler: What?
Joey: Kathy was being really nice and you just walked away. I thought we had a deal.
Chandler: Hey, look. What do you want from me?
Joey: I want you to like her! But if that's too damn difficult for you, then the least you can do is pretend!
Chandler: I AM pretending.
Joey: Well, then do it better.
Chandler: Okay, uh, what do you say I go over there and say how much I like her? (Joey gives Chandler a thumbs-up.) No, no, it'll be good. I can tell her how much I've been thinking about her. That I haven't stopped thinking about her since the moment I met her. That I'm so fantastically over-the-top wanna-slit-my-own-throat in love with her, that for every minute of every hour of every day I can't believe my own damn bad luck that you met her first!
Joey: Well, that's pretty good, but you might wanna tone it down a little.

Ross: So, uh, Amanda just, just dropped me off. Yeah, that's one of the things I love about her, she's... uh, she's old enough to drive. (to Monica) So, uh, I guess you're not going to mom and dad's tonight?
Monica: No, sorry.
Rachel: Well, where's Amanda?
Monica: Hey, Rach, could you get me some cough drops?
Rachel: I mean, you know, I'm thinking. You could bring her, and you guys could go up to your old room, and not make out.
Monica: Ross, cough drops, please?
Ross: At least I know she's not going out with me to get into R-rated movies.
Rachel: Why don't you just marry her? Oh, no, wait a minute. You can't. I'm sorry I forgot. She's not a lesbian.
Ross: You see, Amanda and I have a very special...
Monica (interrupting): You have nothing! You're not even going out! You're her babysitter! You have a 12-year-old girl's job!
Rachel (laughing) Oh, that is so sad.
Monica: And what are you laughing at, Miss "My-keg-sucking-boyfriend-is-stealing-from-me!"
(Ross starts laughing)
Rachel: Hey, so he stole a couple bucks from me! At least he bought me something with it! (Shows her, her ring)
Monica: That's mine! Now, would you both please start acting like adults? And get me my cough drops!
Ross: Fine.
Rachel: Sorry.
Ross: Here. (Hands her, her cough drops) (to Rachel) At least I made ten bucks in my relationship.
Rachel: You know... (She does Ross' little gesture. In response, Ross puts his hands behind his neck with his arms sticking straight out and starts flapping them together.)

Trivia[]

  • This is the first appearance of Ross' alternative to "the finger". Ross uses another version involving putting your arms behind your neck and flapping them like bird wings; this is only seen in this episode. During the remaining series all of the gang use it at least once except for Phoebe.
  • The 'RESERVED' notice is on the table where Rachel is sitting, the same one Ross sits at when Phoebe sings "My Sticky Shoes". Normally it's on the main table.
    • This is the same song that she sang with her ex-partner.
  • At the beginning of the episode, Joey and Monica are doing a crossword puzzle together. However, this was only shown in the uncut version.
    • This is the first time they do a crossword puzzle together. The next time, they do one is in Joey's dream in "The One With The Cop" (S5E16).
  • Monica has much shorter hair starting with this episode. This is because Courteney Cox had streaks in her hair from her role in Scream 2. The streaks did not go well with Monica's character. Hence the showrunners decided to give her short hair for the season.
  • In this episode, Rachel dates a guy named Josh. The name Josh is mostly known as the shortened version of the name Joshua. Coincidentally, Rachel has a brief relationship with a guy named Joshua later in the season.
  • Josh wears an N.Y.U. sweatshirt. Ross begins working there after getting fired from the museum in "The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance".
  • This is the first appearance of Kathy, who turns out to be his last real relationship before getting together with Monica.
  • Kathy wears Joey's starter New York Rangers jersey which was worn by him in "The One with George Stephanopoulos".
  • In the coffeehouse scene, Monica pretends that Chandler is being hugged and kissed by Kathy. This joke was previously used by Joey to show Chandler being hugged and kissed by Janice in "The One With Phoebe's Husband".
  • Rachel dates Josh, who is too young for her. Ross makes many jokes referring to this and 3 years later he becomes the butt of jokes when he starts dating Elizabeth, one of his students, in "The One Where Ross Dates A Student". Monica also dated a much younger person in "The One With The Ick Factor".
  • The common cold is a viral infection, Phoebe healed from it when her immune system overcame the virus. If exposed to the same strain of the virus (same season, same group of people) like Phoebe tried to do, a person with a normal immune system will not be "able" to "catch" it.
  • The book Rachel reads in the cold opening is Anthem by Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn.
  • When in the coffee shop, just before Chandler meets Kathy, Rachel is reading the October 1997 edition of "Wired" magazine.
  • Monica catches Phoebe's cold in this episode. In "The One With Rachel's Sister", she has a cold again but denies ever getting sick and tries to seduce Chandler to prove her point.
  • The location where Joey, Chandler and Kathy go for their meal is an Irish bar called Nicky St Martin, located in Stone St, Manhattan.
  • When Chandler dodges traffic trying to catch Kathy, the song playing is the theme song to The Mod Squad.
  • The late night movie that Chandler is watching at about 8:15 is an old B/W B-Movie called Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958).
  • This is the second episode to end with the title "The One With ... New Girlfriend". The first was Season 2's "The One With Ross' New Girlfriend".
  • This episode was used as "K is for Kathy" in the Nick at Nite Friends A-Z Event (January 2023).

Goofs[]

  • Ross' birthday is messed up again as Gunther asks Rachel for her birthday after which he mentions that his birthday is December... before Gunther cuts him off, when in "The One Where Emma Cries", he says his birthday is October 18. Also in "The One With George Stephanopoulos", Ross says his birthday was several months ago when Chandler and Joey take him to see ice hockey on his birthday.
  • When Monica is sneezing, Chandler is standing by the blue table but when Joey and Kathy enter he's by the TV.
  • When Chandler is playing hide and seek with the chick and the duck, the duck changes position between shots.
  • When Chandler, Joey, and Kathy are at the club, Kathy's right arm keeps changing position when the camera angle changes. First it's in front of Joey, and then it is on his back. It keeps changing between shots.
  • It's strange that Gunther would ask Rachel for her birthday, given that he was a guest at her birthday in "The One With The Two Parties".
  • While Chandler is chasing Kathy, he runs into a bunch of leashes with dogs at the end. The dogs can be heard barking, but the dogs are visually just walking around.
  • When Phoebe shows the shoes she makes by placing her foot on the coffee table, the boom mic is visible at the centre of the top of the screen.

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Episode Navigation[]

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Preceded by
"The One With The Ballroom Dancing" 		Season Four Episodes Followed by
"The One With The Dirty Girl"
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