The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss

The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss
Ross and Jen – Hot girl in his building.
Episode Information
Air date	March 18, 1999
Written by	Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen
Directed by	Shelley Jensen
Episode Guide
Previous	The One With The Cop
Next	The One Where Rachel Smokes

"The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss" is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of Friends, which aired on March 18, 1999. After a job interview, Rachel impulsively kisses her potential boss on the cheek. Joey tries to find a hot girl who lives in Ross' apartment but instead ending up in Ross' apartment. Phoebe and Gary vie for "steamiest-affair" with Monica and Chandler.

Plot

Phoebe talks with Monica about the good time she and Gary are having, which primarily consists of sex. Phoebe finds it hard to believe that she and Chandler are still all over each other sexually, which she voices out loud to Monica. This spurs in Monica the urge to beat Phoebe at "who's-having-sex-more-than-who", taking every chance to have sex with Chandler. Although he gladly helps her at first, he grows tired of all the competitiveness and admits to Monica how he's more excited about the relationship, which is by far the longest one he's ever been in, and that he's crazy about Monica.

Rachel has an interview for a job at Ralph Lauren. Although the interview goes well, she screws it up at the end, when her interviewer, Mr. Zelner, opens the door for her, leaning in a little in the process, and she kisses him on the cheek. Thinking that she's screwed up her chance, Rachel is bewildered to discover that Mr. Zelner has called her for a second interview. However, she enters Mr. Zelner's office with ink on her lip after biting a pen. When Mr. Zelner gesticulates his lip to try and alert her, she interprets this as a gesture for her to kiss him and stands him up, screwing the interview before it even starts. Eventually, Mr. Zelner calls her again for a third interview, which he warns her is being video-taped. Rachel tries to explain her actions, and Mr. Zelner decides to hire her. Things go in the wrong direction once again when Rachel tries to give him a handshake but ends up grabbing his crotch.

Rachel kisses her interviewer.

When Joey gets tired of watching Ross from his apartment, he sees a hot girl and flirts with her using gestures. She waves him over to her place, but Joey always runs into Ross every time he tries to go at her place. Desperate for her, Joey starts shouting "Hot girl!" in the hallways in the hope of meeting her, but instead ends up on the noticeboard as a pervert looking for girls. Ross meets the hot girl, Jen, at the noticeboard and she mentions him as "The Guy who wouldn't chip in for the Handyman". Ross is upset, but Jen actually sides with him and thinks it was unfair the way the other residents reacted and that he had just moved in. This cheers Ross up and he asks Jen out. Back at Monica's, Joey is about to give up on the girl, but Monica helps him point out the correct apartment (Joey failed to take into account that the ground floor is Floor 1 and that the window on the edge of the building was for the stairs, so he was one floor and apartment short). When he manages to find the correct door, Ross (about to go out with Jen) answers, freaking Joey out.

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

Michael Rapaport - Gary
Samantha Smith - Jen aka 'Hot Girl'
Steve Ireland - Mr. Zelner
Marc Goldsmith - The Man
Devyn La Bella - The Little Girl
Ralph Manza - The Old Man
James Michael Tyler - Gunther

Crew

Directed By:
Shelley Jenson

Written By:
Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen

Trivia

• Phoebe states that she and Gary violated Section 12 Paragraph 7 of the Criminal code by having sex in a public place. In fact, Section 12 Paragraph 7 is threats or violence with intent to obtain a confession or information of a crime.
• Monica hurts Phoebe's hand when she practices shaking it, a callback to "The One With Joey's Bag" (S5E13), when it is revealed Monica can't give good massages.
• It would seem Ross has redecorated his apartment since the "The One With The Girl Who Hits Joey" as the walls are no longer blue in color. Ironically in "The One With The Apothecary Table", Phoebe will urge Ross to let Rachel help him redecorate.
• The uncut DVD episode includes the extended scene when Monica tells Rachel she has a second interview. Rachel says "Monica, that's not funny!" to which Monica dances and repeats the message left for Rachel. When Rachel asks Monica if she is being serious, Monica says "You just told me to be funny!"
• In the uncut DVD episode, after Rachel walks out of her second interview she says to the next candidate waiting: "If you're going in there to see Mr. Zelner, I hope you're ready to put out!" and she responds by saying "I am!"
• This is Steve Ireland's first appearance as Mr Zelner. His last appearance is in "The One Where Estelle Dies" (S10E15) when Ross successfully bribes him into offering Rachel her old job back. Steve Ireland appears in seven episodes, having also played a coffee shop customer in The One With The Prom Video.

Goofs

• When Joey goes to Ross's apartment for the first time, when he is in the corridor knocking on Ross's door, his shirt is purple. But when the camera angle changes when Ross opens the door, Joey's shirt is black.
• When Joey goes to Ross's apartment for the second time, the corridor ends after his apartment. But after Joey knocks on the child's door there is a door and the corridor goes off to the right, just like all other times the corridor is seen.
• When Ross is doing his "watching TV bit," there is no one on the couch in the reflection on the TV.
• When Joey counts wrong as to where the "Hot Girl" is, he accidentally comes to Ross' apartment. When he knocks on the door, his arm is on the door jam. When the camera focuses on Ross, Joey's arm is down again.
• When Joey knocks on Ross' apartment door the apartment number, 3B as seen in "The One With The Girl Who Hits Joey", is missing. However in "The One Where Everybody Finds Out", it was numbered 201.

External links

• "The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss" at Google Drive, full episode, uncut
• The One with Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss at the Internet Movie Database

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Preceded by "The One With The Cop"

"The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss"

Followed by "The One Where Rachel Smokes"

<< Season 4		Season 5					Season 6 >>
#01	"The One After Ross Says Rachel"		#09	"The One With Ross' Sandwich"		#17	"The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss"
#02	"The One With All The Kissing"		#10	"The One With The Inappropriate Sister"		#18	"The One Where Rachel Smokes"
#03	"The One Hundredth"		#11	"The One With All The Resolutions"		#19	"The One Where Ross Can't Flirt"
#04	"The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS"		#12	"The One With Chandler's Work Laugh"		#20	"The One With The Ride-Along"
#05	"The One With The Kips"		#13	"The One With Joey's Bag"		#21	"The One With The Ball"
#06	"The One With The Yeti"		#14	"The One Where Everybody Finds Out"		#22	"The One With Joey's Big Break"
#07	"The One Where Ross Moves In"		#15	"The One With The Girl Who Hits Joey"		#23	"The One In Vegas, Part 1"
#08	"The One With All The Thanksgivings"		#16	"The One With The Cop"		#24	"The One In Vegas, Part 2"