The One With The East German Laundry Detergent

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"The One With The East German Laundry Detergent"
Friends episode
Ross and Rachel wash their dirty laundry together.
Season	1x05

Episode no.	5

Written by	Jeff Greenstein & Jeff Strauss

Directed by	Pamela Fryman

Guest stars	Camille Saviola as The Horrible Woman Kim Gillingham as Angela Jack Armstong as Bob Maggie Wheeler as Janice

Original airdate	October 20, 1994

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"The One With The East German Laundry Detergent" is the fifth episode of the first season of Friends, which aired on October 20, 1994.

[edit] Plot

Chandler and Phoebe decide to break up with their partners Janice and Tony on the same night. Phoebe's goes well but Chandler has a bit of a challenge involved.

Rachel does laundry with Ross and he discovers that she’s never done it before. She accidentally dyes all her clothes pink.

Joey wants his ex-girlfriend Angela to break up with her boyfriend, Bob, so he can get back together with her and he arranges for Monica and him to double date with them... but he tells Monica that Angela and Bob are siblings so she doesn’t go for Bob.

[edit] Cast and Crew

[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

Camille Saviola - The Horrible Woman
Kim Gillingham - Angela
Jack Armstong - Bob
Maggie Wheeler - Janice

[edit] Crew

Directed By:
Pamela Fryman

Written By:
Jeff Greenstein & Jeff Strauss

[edit] Trivia

[edit] General

Ross's detergent Überweiss is German for "Super White."
The executive producer credits are moved to the end of the opening sequence, with the creator credits preceding them.

[edit] Goofs/Continuity

A sign in the laundromat reads "lost cloths" not "lost clothes," though a surprising number of laundromats have the same spelling error.
Rachel tells Ross that she can't even send back soup, but she sends back a drink in "The One With The Flashback". Chronologically that would have been a year earlier.
In this episode, Monica says she sees Ugly Naked Guy laying kitchen tile. It is impossible for Monica to see into his kitchen. As we see in Season 5 when Ross gets that apartment, the kitchen is in the upper right of the screen with a door. And when Phoebe finds out about Chandler and Monica at a straight on shot of the window in that apartment you can't see the kitchen.
In this episode Monica and Rachel must go to the laundromat because they do not have a laundry room in their building. However, in other episodes Monica and Rachel do have a laundry room, as they often come home with their laundry and are wearing pajamas. Episodes have also featured scenes there, such as "The One With The Football".If
If you look carefully, when Rachel yells to the horrible woman and says " You´re gonna have to take me with it", Ross is mouthing the line.