The One Where Rachel Smokes
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| "The One Where Rachel Smokes" | ||||
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 Rachel smoking along with her co-workers | ||||
| Season | 5x18 | |||
| Episode no. | 115 | |||
| Written by | Michael Curtis | |||
| Directed by | Todd Holand | |||
| Guest stars | Allen Twins as Ben Geller Joanna Gleason as Kim Judy Kain as The Casting Director Jane Sibbett as Carol Megan Ward as Nancy Matt Weinberg as Raymond Jim Wise as Kyle James Michael Tyler as Gunther | |||
| Original airdate | April 8, 1999 | |||
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"The One Where Rachel Smokes" is the eighteenth episode of the fifth season of Friends, which aired on April 8, 1999. Rachel takes up smoking at her new job as a way of making inroads with the boss. Ross's son Ben joins Joey on an audition for a soup commerical.
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Plot
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Added by BamboozledPhoebe and Monica organize a surprise party for Rachel one month ahead of her birthday, but organizing freak Monica takes responsibility over everything, leaving nothing for Phoebe, who points this out to her. To try and spare something, Monica gives Phoebe duties on cups and ice.
Ross' son Ben is about to become a star in a soup commercial, which Joey finds hard to accept. When he learns that the soup commercial also calls for the role of a dad, he volunteers himself for the audition. Both he and Ben are chosen for the callback, but the lack of similarity in looks makes the director cast them opposite to each other, so only one of them can be chosen for the commercial. As things end up, Joey has to audition with a famous commercial boy. He talks to Ross about the callback, but only to make Ben back out of the whole thing, which Ross finds crazy. The two end up fighting about it, but there's no time to hold grudges as the callback is held. Joey screws up the two-word line he has, which loses him the part.
Added by BamboozledOn the first day at her work, Rachel tries to get along with her new colleague and boss Nancy and Kim. The latter two are smokers, and go out on a cigarette break, which Rachel can't join as she doesn't smoke. However, to try and bond with them, she joins them and tries to smoke a cigarette with them. But Rachel's not very enthusiastic to fall into the bad habit, which is bad for her as Kim and Nancy bond during cigarette breaks. Rachel tries to talk Kim and Nancy into quitting, but fails when she catches them smoking behind her back. Kim warns Rachel that she'll fire her if she catches her with a cigarette, which shows how she prefers bonding with Nancy than with her.
Determined to make a good impression with cups and ice, Phoebe rises occasion spectacularly, and practically decorates the apartment with nothing but cups. As for the ice, she brings a whole variety for everyone to enjoy: crushed, cubed and dry ice, together with snow cones. Monica is almost inexistent in the party, and she realizes that she has underestimated Phoebe. Rachel arrives home, and is very surprised to find the party, especially since Chandler's birthday is before hers. Everyone tries to pass the party off as a surprise for Chandler which, unsurprisingly, doesn't work. Meanwhile, Ross tries to talk to Joey, who is still sad at losing the part at the callback. He ends up telling Joey that the real reason he messed up the part is because, deep down, Joey wanted Ben to get it, which Joey finds as a good excuse. When he asks Ross how Ben did, Ross tells him that Ben didn't get the part, and Joey replies: "Eh, what are you gonna do?", showing how little he cares about Ben's acting career.
Cast and CrewEdit
Main CastEdit
Jennifer Aniston - Rachel Green
Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
Lisa Kudrow - Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc - Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer - Ross Geller
Supporting CastEdit
Allen Twins - Ben Geller
Joanna Gleason - Kim
Judy Kain - The Casting Director
Jane Sibbett - Carol Willick
Megan Ward - Nancy
Matt Weinberg - Raymond
Jim Wise - Kyle
James Michael Tyler - Gunther
CrewEdit
Directed By:
Todd Holand
Written By:
Michael Curtis
TriviaEdit
GeneralEdit
- This is the final appearance of Charlie and Jack Allen as Ben Geller-Willick-Bunch. Although Ben appeared in 12 episodes of Friends, Charlie and Jack only played him in 5 episodes.
- Ironically, Jennifer Aniston is a smoker who says she wants to quit.
- When the casting director asks most of the actors to leave, you can see Harry Van Gorkum playing one of the fathers taking his son out of the room. Harry Van Gorkum plays Don, Monica's "soulmate" in "The One Where Joey Tells Rachel".
- On the Season 5 DVD, there are two extra scenes at the audition, one with Carol, and an extra scene at the party where Chandler is trying to sneak a cigarette.
ContinuityEdit
- Rachel's year of birth is inconsistent. Her 30th birthday in The One Where They All Turn Thirty (2001) implies that Rachel was born in 1971. However, her 29th birthday in The One Where Rachel Smokes (1999) implies that she was born in 1970. Also, Rachel says she is 28 in The One With The Fake Party (1998) implying she was born in 1970. But 15 months earlier in The One Where Rachel Quits (1996) Chandler says Rachel is 28, implying she was born in 1968.
- Rachel's birthday is inconsistent. In The One With Joey's New Girlfriend, Rachel tells Gunther her birthday is May 5, and this is consistent with the month of birthday parties thrown for her on the show in The One Where Rachel Finds Out, (which aired in May 1995) and in her one-month-early surprise party in The One Where Rachel Smokes, (which aired in April 1999). Rachel's 30th birthday, however, is celebrated in February in The One Where They All Turn Thirty, (which aired on February 8, 2001). Rachel also mentions that her birthday is after Valentine's Day in The One With The Girl From Poughkeepsie. A birthday in February is also consistent with Rachel's statement to a police officer in The One With Chandler's Dad that she is an Aquarius (January 21- February 19).
GoofsEdit
- When Joey is talking to Ross at the party, the flavoring on Joey's snow cone keeps changing between shots.
- In this episode Joey says that he had to teach Ross his bummed out bit, but Ross has been doing this bit since "The One With The Thumb".
- Rachel says that her dad hates smoking, but in "The One With The Two Parties", we see that her dad is a smoker. He does have tendencies of being a hypocrite, however.
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| Preceded by "The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss" | "The One Where Rachel Smokes" | Followed by "The One Where Ross Can't Flirt" |
