The One Where Chandler Takes A Bath

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The One Where Chandler Takes A Bath
Friends episode
Promotional Image from NBC.
Season	8x13

Episode no.	183

Written by	Vanessa McCarthy

Directed by	Ben Weiss

Guest stars	Amanda Carlin - Dr. Long

Original airdate	January 17, 2002

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"The One Where Chandler Takes A Bath" is the thirteenth episode of the eighth season of Friends, which aired on January 17, 2002.

[edit] Plot

After his openhearted evening with Rachel, Joey finds it impossible to go back to thinking about her as just a friend, yet he can't talk about it, not even to Chandler. As Joey rambles, only shutting up when Phoebe enters make Monica concludes he must be in love with Phoebe. Considering baby names, parents to be Ross and Rachel find no word in common except 'veto'! They agree not to ask the child's sex, but Rachel has a moment of weakness and peaks at the file. Even though she didn't actually see the sex of the baby, Ross is convinced she did and calls the gynecologist to find out so that they both know. He then lets it slip that the baby is a girl even though Rachel didn't want to know. Monica tries to convince Chandler that he would like baths, and when he finally agrees to try it he loves it. Chandler then steals Monica's bath because he can't make one himself. Everyone gathers in the bathroom while Chandler is in the tub to share the news that Rachel and Ross are having a girl.

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[edit] Main Cast

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

[edit] Supporting Cast

Amanda Carlin - Dr. Long

[edit] Crew

Directed By:
Ben Weiss

Written By:
Vanessa McCarthy

[edit] Trivia

Joey with the Capt. Billy Burke shirt

Joey tells Phoebe he stayed up all night making a list of all the things he doesn't like about Rachel (although all he came up with was that she made him switch to light mayonnaise). Ironically, this is the second time that one of the friends makes a list containing the things he doesn't like about Rachel. The first was Ross's infamous pro/con list, in The One With The List.

In this episode Chandler asks Monica to have sex on the balcony, but Monica doesn't like that idea. However in The One With Phoebe's Husband, we learn that she had sex on the balcony with Fun Bobby.

Even though Friends never directly mentions the 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States, in the opening scene Joey is wearing a shirt with the emblem for the FDNY with the name Capt Billy Burke, a NYC firefighter who lost his life on September 11th, 2001 at the World Trade Center.

When Ross and Rachel are discussing baby names, Ross suggests Thatcher and Rachel suggest Sawyer. These are the last names of Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher from the Mark Twain novels.

Again, when Ross and Rachel are discussing baby names, Ross suggests Helen, however in The One With The Sonogram At The End he dislikes a name so similar to Helen Keller.
When Chandler is taking a bath and after Monica sugest a beauty treatment, he says embarsing: "I'm gonna need a bigger boat", this is a reference to Roy Scheider Jaws line: "You're gonna need a biger boat".