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The One With The Stain

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"The One With The Stain" is the seventh episode of the eighth season of Friends, which aired on November 8, 2001. In it, Chandler hires a maid that Monica doesn't approve of, Rachel is apartment hunting but Joey tries to persuade her to stay, and Phoebe asks out her sister's ex fiance.

Plot[]

Chandler hires a maid, Brenda, to clean the apartment and after enough persuading, Monica agrees to give her a chance, but then believes that she has stolen her jeans that she lost. To prove it, Monica goes between her legs while she's cleaning behind the cabinets to look for a noticeable stain on the crotch, then leading Brenda to believe she's a lesbian. Later on when Chandler gets home, Monica tells him what she did but then thinks that Brenda is wearing her bra that also went missing. She persuades Chandler to see if it is and Brenda prominently quits just as Monica learns that Rachel took her jeans and that all along, she was in fact wearing that bra.

Rachel is looking for a new apartment and Ross tells her that a woman died in his building that morning. They go to check out the place but the woman's daughter says she was a fighter and managed to pull through. Ross pretends to know her and begins to learn Dutch, due to their Dutch lineage, he also gets verbally insulted by Gunther who is fluent in Dutch. Joey meanwhile, wants Rachel to stay and does his best to persuade her. After proving to her he'll be alright with the baby living there and even claims he'll not bring women home if they have a problem with the baby, Rachel decides to stay just as the woman does pass away and Ross fulfills her dying wish by kissing her.

Phoebe is asked out by Eric who breaks up with Ursula, upon learning she was lying to him in the previous episode. However, he can't stand to look at Phoebe because it reminds him of Ursula but manages to kiss her and they have fun until Phoebe has to leave. When she gets back she learns that Eric had sex with Ursula while she was gone, thinking it was Phoebe. The two agree they shouldn't see each other again.

Cast and Crew[]

Main Cast[]

Guest star[]

Arden Myrin - Brenda

Supporting Cast[]

Crew[]

Quotes[]

[Monica sees that her apartment has been cleaned up]
Monica: Oh my God! You cleaned! Look at these floors! You did the windows! Oh, I have been begging you for months and you did! You cleaned! And nagging works!
Chandler: You know, uh, I didn’t actually do this.
Monica: Oh, no. Was I cleaning in my sleep again?

Chandler: I know you don't like to relinquish control.
Monica: Oh, relinquish is just a fancy word for lose.

Rachel: I’m apartment hunting.
Ross: You’re moving?
Rachel: Yeah. I can't live with Joey once the baby comes. I don't want my child's first words to be, "How you doin'?"

Monica: She stole my jeans!
Chandler: What?
Monica: I have been looking for them all week and she is wearing them.
Chandler: So she stole your pants, and then she came back and wore them in front of you?
Monica: Don't you see? It's the perfect crime!
Chandler: She must've been planning this for years.
Monica: I will prove it to you. About a week ago, I was wearing those jeans. And I dropped a pen in my lap and it left an ink stain on the crotch. Now, when she comes back, I will find it and show you that stain!
Chandler: Honey, isn't it possible the company that sold the jeans made more than just the one pair?
Monica: I guess.
Chandler: So shouldn't we give her the benefit of the doubt before we go snooping around her crotch?

Phoebe: [Phoebe returns to Eric's apartment after having to leave] Can we pick up where we left off?
Eric: I don't know. I'm still pretty tired out from this afternoon.
Phoebe: Why?
Eric: Uh, the sex.
Phoebe: What sex?
Eric: Our sex!
Phoebe: We didn't have sex!
Eric: Well, if I didn't have sex with you, [realization dawns] I had sex with someone that looked an awful lot like...
Phoebe: Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!
Eric: [simultaneously as Phoebe] Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! No! No! No!
Phoebe: You - you... You had sex with Ursula?!
Eric: Uh, a little bit. She - she - she walked in and I thought she was you and I kissed her and...
Phoebe: You didn’t notice she was wearing different clothes?!
Eric: Well, I was just so excited to see you.
Phoebe: Oh! Ew, ew, ew! Ugh! You know what? This is too weird!
Eric: No, no, it’s not! I don’t want to lose you! It’s - it’s like I was saying to Ursula when I was making love to her and I thought she was you... Yeah, it is too weird.

[Brenda is wiping the coffee table, and Chandler is trying to look at her bra and leans over on the coffee table to get a good look]
Brenda: [noticing him] What are you doing?
Chandler: I’m leaning. This is where I lean.
Brenda: Okay.
[Brenda goes over and fluffs up the pillows on the couch]
Chandler: Brenda, a bee!
Brenda: What?
Chandler: Yes! It’s flown into your blouse and you’d better undo your buttons lest it sting you!
Brenda: I think I know what’s going on here.
Chandler: You do?
Brenda: Look, I know it must be hard that your wife is a lesbian, but it’s wrong. You’re married.
Chandler: I totally understand. [they both laugh] Can I just see your bra?

Trivia[]

General[]

  • It is revealed in this episode that Gunther speaks Dutch. Although the name Gunther is associated with Germany, it's origins also stem from France and likely the name spread to The Netherlands during the various European conflicts.
  • The Magna Doodle at the end has a fight scene with Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
  • Earlier in the series, it's said that Monica does not like that people clean her apartment because they change everything and yet in the beginning of this episode she is happy that Chandler cleaned. (Although since she was understanding about his past attempt to clean that ended with things not quite in the right place, she may have reached a point where she can accept others' input in her cleaning efforts.)
  • This is the first time Ross has suggested to Rachel she moves into his building since they were briefly roommates two years ago. Rachel actually moves in with Ross later in this season (resulting in Ross and Mona breaking up).
  • Rachel says "you gave the baby Hugsy" and Joey immediately removes it. He will have the same difficulty giving up Hugsy when Rachel and Emma live there next season.
  • Rachel is concerned that her child's first words will be "How you doin'?" if she still lives at Joey when her baby is born. In the next season, when Emma says her first word, which is "gleba", Rachel lives with Joey again.
  • At the end of the episode, Ross says; And because I'm such a strong, strapping alleenstaande. 'Alleenstaande' is also Dutch, it means single.
  • The book Eric is reading near the end of the episode is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
  • When Ross and Rachel visit the apartment of the Dutch lady, there are picture in frames behind her. If you look closely, they are photos that have been seen in Monica's apartment throughout the series.
  • This episode is dedicated to the memory of Pearl Harmon, but who she was and how she was relevant to the show is unknown (She was Matt LeBlanc's great grandmother, who died on October 26th 2001).

Goofs[]

  • While Monica is in her kitchen trying to spot the ink stain on the maid's jeans, you can see that she is wearing a bra with white straps; later in the episode, Rachel points out Monica's pink bra strap.
  • Monica tells Chandler that the pants and bra the maid supposedly stole from her have an ink stain and a rip, respectively. Monica wanting to keep these items seems somewhat out of character for her since she is neurotic about structure and cleanliness.
  • When Eric is taking out his contact lenses, he only takes out one.
  • When Monica grabs her top after the maid compliments it, you see that her bra strap is white. Later, Rachel points out her pink bra strap.
  • The maid says she is going to the laundry room, yet in Season 1 we learn that Monica and Rachel's building does not have a laundry room ("The One With The East German Laundry Detergent") It's possible that one has been installed since then or that she is going to the remote laundry room.
  • Ross says that he heard a woman died while he was on the elevator. In "The One With The Cop" in season 5, we learn that the building doesn't have an elevator (although it may have had one installed since then).
  • Chandler says to Monica, "If it's not her bra" to Monica about the maid, but he should be saying "If it's not your bra", instead of "her bra".
  • In this episode, Phoebe blows off Ross for lunch without hesitation in order to go on a date, but in "The One With All The Cheesecakes", a major plot point is that Phoebe believes this is very wrong and in fact she 'middle names' Joey for doing the same thing to her.

Dutch translations[]

Mrs. Verhoeven: Ik ben vereerd om een vriend van mijn moeder te ontmoeten.
Translation: I'm honored to meet a friend of my mother.
Ross: Bedankt voor de koffie
Translation: Thanks for the coffee
Gunther: Je spreekt Nederlands! Dat is te gek. Heb je familie daar?
Translation: You speak Dutch! That's awesome. Do you have any relatives living there?
Gunther: Jij hebt seks met ezels!
Translation: You have sex with donkeys!

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"The One With The Halloween Party" 		Series Eight Episodes Followed by
"The One With The Stripper"
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