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Okay, Chandler, Mom, there's only one banana nut muffin left.
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Oh, well, I ordered mine first.
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Yeah, but I'm so much faster.
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Give it to me.
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No. Give it to me.
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Okay, you can have it.
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There you go.
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Enjoy your coffee.
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That was there when I got here.
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Hey, you guys, you will never guess who's coming to New York.
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Quick, Phoebe, tell us before you can swallow.
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Oh, okay.
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Ryan, that guy I went out with, who's in the Navy.
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You went out with a guy in the Navy?
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Yeah, I met him when I was playing guitar in Washington Square Park.
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Ryan threw in saltwater taffy because he didn't have any change.
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Hey, is that when you wrote saltwater taffy, man?
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No. No, he is my submarine guy.
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He resurfaces, like, every couple years, and we have the most amazing three days together.
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Only this time, he's coming for two weeks.
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Two whole weeks, which means yay!
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Oh!
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So, wait, this guy goes down for, like, two years at a time?
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Mm -mm.
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That'll teach you to lick my muffin.
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Yay!
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Isn't this great?
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Mm.
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Couldn't you just stay like this forever?
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Chandler couldn't you just stay here forever yeah here somewhere else
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you know wherever you okay yeah I'm cool casual what are
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you doing well just hanging out you know having fun you know with the girl that I'm seeing casually
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man I knew it I knew you were going to do this what get all freaked out
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because everybody was talking and just joking around about marriage
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and stuff well you you do want all that stuff right oh
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and you know what i want yes you want babies you have baby fever
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i do not have baby fever oh please you are obsessed with babies
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and and marriage and everything that's related to babies and and
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and marriage you know what i got a good idea why
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don't Why don't we turn the heat down on this Petra -Cooker?
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Have you lost your mind?
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Taylor, this isn't about me.
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This is about you and all your weird relationship commitment crap.
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Nuh -uh.
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I know you, okay?
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I know the thoughts that you have in the head in your head.
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You don't know everything.
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Did you know that I'm going out with Rachel tonight instead of you?
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And did you know that the only baby around here is you?
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And did you know that I can't even look at you right now?
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Yeah, well, I did not know that.
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This is gonna be okay, right?
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I mean, she's not gonna leave me.
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This is fixable.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
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Absolutely. By me.
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Oh, no. No, no. Well, unless you make some kind of big gesture.
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Yeah, big, though.
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Oh, shit, the missus.
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Here, can I get a coffee? To go?
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Come on, Kate.
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I'm still not done not wanting to talk to you.
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Just tell me what I need to do to make things right.
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What?
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Well, that's what we do, you know.
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I mess up, and then you tell me how to fix it, and then I do, and then, you know, you think I'm all cute again.
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I'm really tired of being your relationship tutor.
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You're gonna have to figure this one out for yourself, right?
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You know what?
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If you're too afraid to be in a real relationship, then don't be in one.
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hey dude some guy just called for you who was it
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i don't know how about thanks for taking the message jeez you know
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when you move in rachel's room's gonna be empty you want
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to talk about what we want to do with it sure
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okay i was thinking we should have a beautiful guest room right with a mahogany sleigh bed
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and bedside tables with flowers on it all the time.
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And then we could have, like, a roll -top desk with little comment cards so people can tell us how much they love staying here. Or whatever.
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You know, I really haven't thought about it that much.
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Well, I like that idea.
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Obviously.
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But I was thinking maybe, maybe, maybe it could be a game room.
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You know?
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I mean, you can buy old arcade games like, uh, like Space Invaders and Asteroids for $200.
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The real ones, the big, big, big ones.
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No. Okay, so you mean no as in, gee, Chandler, what an interesting idea.
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Let's discuss it before we reject it completely.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Of course.
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Yes, interesting idea.
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Talk about it, but no. So that's it?
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I just don't think that, you know, arcade games go in the beautiful guest room.
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The beautiful guest room is gonna be filled with antiques.
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Which is why Asteroids is perfect.
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It's the oldest game.
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What do you have against the beautiful guest room?
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Nothing.
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I don't have anything against the beautiful guest room.
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Especially since everybody that we know lives about 30 seconds away. Are you mocking me?
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No, I'm not mocking you or your beautiful game meme.
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Hey, what's up?
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Not that Monica and I had a stupid fight.
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But you're still moving in together, right?
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Because my ad came out today.
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Wanted female roommate, non -smoker, non -ugly.
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I love your breasts the way they are.
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Ugh, fascist.
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Well, my breasts are gonna get bigger whether you like it or not.
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And you know what?
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It's not just my breasts.
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My ass is gonna get bigger, too.
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Your ass?
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Man, don't be surprised if her hands and her feet get bigger, too.
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They do that?
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It's kind of a package deal.
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God, why?
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Why would you want to do that to yourself?
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I thought it was something that we both wanted.
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All right, look, if it means that much to you, I may be able to get on board with the big boobs, but the giant ass and the big clown feet?
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Oh, my God, Chandler.
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If you can't handle this, what are you going to be like in the hospital with the blood
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and the screaming and the little person that's shooting out of her?
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What?
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Would you look at them?
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Never gonna find a boyfriend again.
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Die an old maid.
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You're not gonna die an old maid.
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Maybe an old spinster cook.
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Thanks.
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Hey, now, besides, worse comes to worse, I'll be your boyfriend.
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Yeah, right.
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Why is that so funny?
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You made a joke, right?
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So I laughed.
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A little too hard.
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What am I, not a boyfriend material?
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No, you're Chandler.
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You know, Chandler.
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Okay, so we've established my name and hit me.
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But theoretically, you know, I mean, say we weren't friends.
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Say it's a blind date.
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I show up at your door, and I'm like, uh, hey, nice to meet you.
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Hey, hey.
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I'd probably be scared of the guy using a fake voice.
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Hi there.
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That's that weird voice again.
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Okay, okay, let me try it again.
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You're gonna want to date this next guy, I swear.
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Okay, come on.
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Hi, I'm Dorf Your date for the evening Oh, come on, Dorf, I'm dating?
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That's good stuff I've got it I have got it Pictures from your childhood This will get you going good Alright,
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what's going on there?
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Oh, that's Parents Day, first grade That's me with the The janitor, Martin Where are your parents?
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Oh, they didn't want to come.
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Oh, Chandler, poor thing.
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So that story doesn't make you cry?
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No, look, I don't cry.
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It's not a big deal, okay?
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No, it's not okay.
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It's not okay at all.
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You're dead inside.
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Hey, sweetie.
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Hey.
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Chicken soup for the soul?
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There's no back to this couch.
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Why are you reading this?
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You hate this kind of stuff.
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Yeah, I know.
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I figured I'd give it a shot.
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You know, I mean, maybe one of those stories would make me cry, and then you wouldn't think I was, you know, all dead inside.
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Aw, that's so sweet.
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Chandler, I don't care if you can't cry.
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I love you.
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Aw, that makes me feel so warm in my hollow tin chest.
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Stop it.
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No, I mean, come on, seriously.
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Think about it.
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We get married, I'm up at the altar, and I'm like this.
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I won't care.
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Because I know that you'll be feeling it all in here.
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Yeah?
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Yeah.
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And if we have a baby one day, and the doctor hands it to you in the delivery room, and you don't cry, so what?
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And if we take him to college, and we come home, and we see his empty room for the first time, You're welcome.
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and you got nothing, it won't matter to me.
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Okay.
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Well, I won't worry about this anymore, then.
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Yeah, and, you know, if I die from a long illness
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and you're writing out my eulogy and you open the desk drawer and you find a note from me that says,
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I will always be with you and you still can't shed one tiny tear,
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I know you'll be crying a river inside.
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Oh, I love you so much.
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What is wrong with you?
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What?
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Why is it?
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You can't shed a tear for your dead wife?
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I left you a note from the beyond.
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So you didn't mean any of that?
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No, you robot!
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I don't even know what to say.
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Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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Oh, my God.
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Are you crying?
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I just don't see why those two can't work things out.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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You know, I'm really glad we decided not to sleep together before the wedding.
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Oh, boy, me too.
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You know, I was thinking, if we had a big fight and we broke up for a few hours...
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Yeah?
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Technically, we could have sex again.
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What do you think, bossy and domineering?
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The wedding is off, sloppy and immature.
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That's me.
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Come on.
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Okay, okay.
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Oh, my cousin Cassie's in the guest room.
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We're supposed to have lunch.
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Well, get rid of her, obsessive and shrill.
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Shrill?
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The wedding is back on.
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What have I not told you?
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Oh, I don't know.
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Um, how about the fact
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that the underwear out there on the telephone pole is yours from
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when you were having sex with fun Bobby out on the terrace?
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What?
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Anybody?
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Who told you?
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You are dead meat.
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I didn't know it was a big secret.
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No, it's not big.
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Not at all.
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You know, kind of the same lines as, say, oh, I don't know, Oh, having a third nipple?
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What?
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You have a third nipple?
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You bitch.
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Whip it out.
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Whip it out.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, come on.
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There's nothing to see.
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It's just a tiny bump.
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It's totally useless.
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Oh, as opposed to your other multifunctional nipples.
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I can't believe you.
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You told me it was a nubbin.
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Joey, what do you think a nubbin was?
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I don't know.
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You see something, you hear a word.
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I thought that's what it was.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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I love my new job!
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Honey, you're screaming.
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You bet your ass I am!
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I just had the best first day ever.
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The kitchen, twice as big as Alessandro's.
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Oh, that's great.
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Yeah, and clean, not just health department clean, Monica clean.
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Awesome.
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Oh, and the people are so nice.
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There's this one guy, Jeffrey, he's the maitre d'.
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Chandler, you will love him.
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He is, without a doubt, the funniest guy I have ever met.
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Hey, did you tell Chandler that some guy from work is the funniest guy you ever met?
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Yeah, so?
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Wow.
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Really, do you not know Chandler?
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Is that why he's acting so weird?
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He's jealous?
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Oh, my God, that is crazy.
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It's not like I'm attracted to Jeffrey. So what?
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Being funny is Chandler's thing.
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You know, like Ross's thing is...
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Science?
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Academia?
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Being a good father?
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No. I can't believe he's that upset about this.
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Monica, you're going to have to do some damage control here, okay?
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Because he's feeling like...
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Hey.
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Hey, hey.
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What are you guys talking about?
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Uh, Rachel and I hired a male nanny.
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You got a man who's a nanny?
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You got a manny?
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You know, I don't mind male nanny but i do draw the line at male wetners oh you're on a roll mister
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if i'd known you guys were coming over i would have brought more pizza
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what is so funny about that i don't know it's it's well just the way you say it i mean you're funny.
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You got that funny thing.
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You're a funny guy.
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Did you tell her what we talked about?
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Yeah.
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So those were pity laughs?
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Pity laughs?
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Honey, listen.
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You have nothing to worry about with jeffrey oh yeah is
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he funnier than me well you're you're different funny i mean you're more sarcastic
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and and well he does bits and impressions and
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and limericks i i do limericks uh there once was a
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man named chandler whose wife made him die inside honey you know i think you're hilarious
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come on you know that joke you told me last week the one about jerry lewis
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and the girl with the lazy eye that slayed me hey i made up that joke and told it to you
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not knowing when to shut up yep that's my thing yep
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well i'm off to tulsa so
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if your maitre d friend has any funny oklahoma jokes tell him to email me at www .hahanotsomuch .com All right,
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honey, you can relax.
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Last night at work, Jeffrey told this really sexist joke.
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After that, not so funny anymore.
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Really?
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See, that's the thing.
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You gotta keep it smart, people.
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Okay.
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Was that polite?
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You know I love you.
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I love you, too.
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And I like you as friends.
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All right.
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See you later.
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See ya.
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Did the guy really make that joke?
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Nah, he still kills me.
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Last night he had me laughing so hard, I swear, a little pee came out.
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Okay.
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See?
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She stole my jeans!
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What?
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I have been looking for them all week, and she is wearing them!
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So, she stole your pants, and then she came back
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and wore them in front of you don't you see it's
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the perfect crime she must have been planning this for years
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i will prove it to you okay about a week ago i was wearing those jeans
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and i dropped a pin in my lap
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and it left an ink stain on the crotch now
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when she comes back i will find it and show you
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that same shouldn't we give her the benefit of the doubt before we go snooping around
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her crotch hey you guys check it out check it out guess what job i just got
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i don't know but donald trump wants his blue blazer black
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what blue blazer back he wants it back but you said black why would he want his blue blazer black Well,
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you know what I meant.
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No, you messed it up.
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You're stupid.
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Janice, how are you, Miss Hotshot Chef at the big fancy restaurant with the best chicken ever?
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I'm fine.
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Oh, what is that on your finger?
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I'm blind. So?
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who's the lucky guy oh I am
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so sorry sweetie are you okay you didn't tell her we're
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getting married did you well she saw the ring did she freak out well she was shocked
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when I told her but then again so were most people well she actually has a boyfriend of, you know, herself.
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Name's Clark.
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She also kind of invited herself to our wedding.
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Clark, too.
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You said no, right?
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Huh?
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You said no, right?
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Well, she cornered me.
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She asked me if the wedding was in town.
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I mean, what was I supposed to do?
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Lie!
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How odd is that?
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Your checks in the mail.
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Oh, your baby is so cute.
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I can't wait to read your book, Ross.
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Come on, so she comes to the wedding.
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I mean, we'll be so bad.
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What, do you think she's just gonna sit there quietly?
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You don't think she's gonna want to make a toast?
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You don't think she's gonna want to grab the microphone and sing part -time lover?
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Oh, my God, she's not gonna like the chicken that night either, is she?
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You know what?
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It's gonna be okay.
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You know what?
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She's probably not gonna even want to come.
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Really?
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No, that was a lie.
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See how easy that was?
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So, you would have just lied?
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Yes.
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Wouldn't it have really been that easy?
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Yes.
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Good, so do it Saturday night, because we're going to dinner with her and Clark.
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We're already late for Phoebe's birthday dinner, so you're going to put out that cigarette, and we're going to put this fight on hold, and go have sex.
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Fine.
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What?
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Sex!
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This is the last day that I'm ovulating, and if we don't do it now, then we're gonna have to wait till next month.
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You're serious?
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Oh, yeah.
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All right, fine.
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I'll do it, but no talking.
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And no cuddling.
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And no kissing your neck.
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Oh, good.
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I hate it when you do that.
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And lots of kissing your neck.
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Okay, let's see.
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Okay, the turkey's in the oven.
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The stuffing is ready.
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You know, you always cook this meal all by yourself.
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Let me help this year.
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Aw, Chandler, that's sweet.
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But you don't have to do everything Dr. Phil tells you to do.
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I'm serious.
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Let me do something.
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Just not the turkey or the stuffing.
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Nothing high -profile.
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Oh, the cranberry sauce.
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It's easy to make, and no one really cares about it.
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Tell me more.
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I'm gonna go check on something across the hall.
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You start by washing these.
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Okay.
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Not with soap!
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You obviously haven't tasted my Paul Mala potatoes.
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I'm serious.
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We should tell each other everything.
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I do not have any secrets from you.
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Really?
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Okay, so why don't you tell me what happened to Ross, junior year at Disneyland?
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Oh, no, no, I can't do that.
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If you tell me, I'll tell you what Phoebe said.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So, Ross and I are going to Disneyland, and we stop at this restaurant for tacos.
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And when I say restaurant, I mean a guy, a hibachi, and the trunk of his car.
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So Ross has about ten tacos, and anyway, we're on Space Mountain, and Ross starts to feel a little iffy.
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Oh, my God.
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He threw up?
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No, he visited a town a little south of throw -up.
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So what was Phoebe's secret?
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Nancy Thompson from Phoebe's old massage place is getting fired.
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That's it?
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I gave up my Disneyland story for that?
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That's right.
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You lose, sucker.
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How could you tell her?
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I had to, okay?
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We're getting married.
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Married couples can't keep secrets from one another.
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Oh, really?
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Well, I guess Monica should know about Atlantic City. Do -root!
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What happened to Atlantic City?
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Well, Chandler and I are in a bar.
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Did you not hear me say, do -root?
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And this girl is making eyes at Chandler.
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Okay, so after a while, he goes over to her and, uh, after a minute or two, I see them kissing.
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Now, I know what you're thinking.
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Chandler's not the type of guy who just goes to bars and makes out with girls, and you're right.
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Chandler's not the type of guy who just goes to bars and makes out with girls.
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You kissed a guy?
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You want to tell secrets?
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Okay, okay.
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In college, Ross used to wear leg warmers.
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All right, all right.
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Chandler entered a vanilla ice look -alike contest and won.
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Wasp came in fourth and cried.
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Oh, my God!
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Oh, is that funny?
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Oh, you find that funny?
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Well, maybe Chandler should know some of your secrets, too.
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I already told him everything.
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You shush!
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Once, Monica was sent to a room without dinner, so she ate the macaroni off a jewelry box she'd made.
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Ross used to stay home every Saturday night to watch Golden Girls.
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Monica couldn't tell time until she was 13.
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It's hard for some people. Of course it is.
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Chandler, once I wore my underwear to work.
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Hey!
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I'm sorry, I couldn't think of any more for Ross.
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In college, Chandler got drunk and slept with the lady who cleaned our dorm that was you
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this adoption stuff is so overwhelming there's inter -country adoption dependency adoption
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there's so many ways to go and this is like the biggest decision of our lives There's a hair in my coffee.
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Hey, guys.
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Hey.
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Hey, have you seen Frank Jr.? Because he's meeting me here with the triplets.
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You know, it's funny.
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Every time you say triplets, I immediately think of three hot, blonde 19 -year -olds.
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That's sweet.
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Drink your hair.
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Hey, what's all this stuff?
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Oh, they're brochures from different adoption agencies.
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Ooh, babies.
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Oh, this one is so cute.
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Get this one.
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that's not really how it works oh how does it work i don't know
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well if you're having a hard time you should talk to my friends bill
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and colleen they adopted a kid i'm sure they'd help you thanks
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that would be great hey honey wouldn't that be great
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i'm sorry i thought maybe i'd make some warm milk and it would help me sleep with a walk
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i thought you were gonna read my boring book to put you to sleep it got interesting damn you oprah
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here let me make the milk i'm up anyway hey you know what we could do you know now
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that we're up we could just like talk to each other all night long you know like we did
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when we were first going out it'd be fun okay
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that does sound fun yeah so i mean how bummed were you when the second sister died, huh?
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The second sister dies?
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No. No, I was talking about the book I was reading.
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The second sister dies in Archie and Jughead Double Digest?
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That's correct.
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What?
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What are you doing?
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Do you know what just happened?
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Yeah.
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We had sex, and then we fell asleep.
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No, we were in the middle of sex, and you fell asleep.
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No. No, that's not true.
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No, best time ever.
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Yeah, you rocked my world.
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Monica.
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What?
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I was giving you some of my best moves, and you missed it.
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So please wake up so we can do it right.
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Okay, okay, I'm ready.
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Come on, MacMillop.
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Give me the good stuff.
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Yeah.
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No, no, no, don't fall asleep.
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Okay, I'm going to make you some coffee.
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Well, I probably won't spill coffee grounds all over the kitchen floor.
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Okay, I'm up, I'm up.
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Chandler Bing.
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Hi, honey, we're all here.
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We just want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas!
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Oh, Merry Christmas, I miss you guys.
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Oh, is it horrible?
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Is everybody working really hard?
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Uh, well, no, it's just, uh, me and Wendy.
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Wendy?
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That sounds like a girl's name.
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it is did i not tell you about her about the time you told me about new year's eve
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where's everybody else i sent them home oh you are such a good boss is she pretty
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uh uh answer faster answer faster i don't know answer better answer better
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i don't think of her that way you know i mean she's a uh she's a colleague what does she do Oh, she's regional vice president.
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She's just below me.
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She did what?
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Below me.
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Uh, wait, is Wendy the runner -up Miss Oklahoma?
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What?
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Well, she didn't win.
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All right, well, maybe I should let you and the second prettiest girl in Oklahoma get back to work.
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Well, second prettiest that year i mean of all the girls in oklahoma she's probably oh chandler stop talking
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honey there's really nothing to worry about okay i'm serious okay merry christmas merry christmas merry christmas you guys Blah,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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The wife says hi.
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Ah, fun conversation.
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Ah, well, she's just got this weird idea that, uh, you know, just because you and I are alone, something's gonna happen.
549
Huh?
550
Really? That be so terrible?
551
This is probably the wrong thing to be worrying about, but You're getting ham on my only tie.
552
Okay.
553
Let's do it.
554
What?
555
Nothing.
556
I've just never seen your little stretchy pants before. And we're changing.
557
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
558
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
559
she's insane the woman is insane it's before work it's after
560
work it's during work she's got me doing butt clenches at my desk and now they won't bring me my
561
mail anymore no no no no no no
562
Monica it's Sunday morning I'm not running on a Sunday why not because it's Sunday.
563
It's God's day.
564
Hey, you say stop, and we stop.
565
Okay.
566
Stop.
567
No, come on.
568
We can't stop.
569
Come on.
570
We got three more pounds to go.
571
I am the energy train, and you are
572
onboard Monica it's 6 30 in the morning we're
573
not working out it's over we're working okay I don't I
574
don't mind the last pound okay in fact I kind of like the last pound okay
575
so don't make me do anything
576
that i'll regret oh what you gonna do fat boy huh
577
what nothing except tell you uh i think it's wonderful how
578
much energy you have wow thanks i mean especially considering how tough it's been for you to find work
579
you know you know i mean you can't tell your parents you were fired because they'd be disappointed.
580
Uh -huh.
581
And it's not as if you have a boyfriend's shoulder to cry on.
582
Well, no, but I...
583
I mean, if it were me, I think I'd have difficulty just getting out of bed at all.
584
You know, I try to stay positive. So you...
585
you feel like going for a run?
586
All right.
587
Because, you know, you don't have to.
588
If you want, you could just take a nap right here.
589
Okay.
590
Just for a little while.
591
Okay.
592
good work yeah yeah i'm just afraid i'd love him
593
don't worry we'll find you someone else
594
so i've been slowly phasing out the wine importing and focusing more on the um cheese side of things.
595
Cheese, you say?
596
That's some pretty smelly work, huh, Dot?
597
Excuse me?
598
Cheese.
599
It's smelly.
600
You must smell a lot of the time, too.
601
Uh, not really.
602
But when it comes to cheese, I'm one of those people who thinks the smellier the better.
603
Me, too.
604
Yeah, Chandler can't stand it.
605
He won't even allow me to have blue cheese in the house.
606
And you're still married to him?
607
I'd like to have Don and Phoebe over.
608
Wouldn't that be nice?
609
Sure.
610
Why don't you set it up?
611
I'll just be over here browsing through the personals. Are you okay?
612
You've been acting weird all afternoon.
613
Yeah, fine.
614
Fine.
615
Not perfect, but good enough.
616
Jeez, what is with you?
617
I'm sorry.
618
Did you say cheese?
619
All right.
620
What's going on?
621
Phoebe thinks that you and Don are soulmates.
622
And I don't believe in that kind of stuff, but then you two totally get along.
623
So, look, I won't stand in your way
624
if you want to run off with Dawn and live in a house of cheese.
625
Taylor, you don't believe in soulmates?
626
No, but I'm sure Tomatoes does.
627
I don't believe in soulmates either.
628
You don't?
629
No. I don't think that you and I were destined to end up together.
630
I think that we fell in love and we work hard at our relationship.
631
Some days we work really hard.
632
So you don't want to live with Donna in the cheese house?
633
No, I've had second thoughts about that.
634
Do you realize how hard that would be to clean?
635
Hey.
636
What's the matter?
637
Somebody on the subway licked my neck!
638
Licked my neck!
639
Oh, Willie's still alive.
640
What are you guys doing?
641
Oh, my mom called.
642
They're gonna run our engagement announcement in the local paper, so we're looking for a good picture of us.
643
Ooh, I'm afraid that does not exist.
644
That's not true.
645
They're great pictures of us.
646
No, they're great pictures of you standing next to a guy who's going like this.
647
Oh, my God, that's the creep that you're with at the Statue of Liberty.
648
I don't know what it is.
649
I just can't take a good picture.
650
Oh, here's a great one.
651
Yeah, I'm not in that.
652
No, but look at me all tan.
653
Hey, why don't you guys go get portraits done by a professional photographer?
654
It's a great idea.
655
I bet they have one of those wind machines, you know, like...
656
Yeah, that's great.
657
Next to that, Chandler won't look so stupid.
658
Chandler, what do you say?
659
All right, but I should warn you, I'm not going.
660
I'm going.
661
great that's great monica great now chandler you want to give us a smile okay
662
i'm sorry is the seat uncomfortable no i am
663
chandler i know you can do this okay you have a beautiful smile i do yeah
664
all right maybe you don't have to smile let's try something else let's try um Um, try looking sexy.
665
Okay. Or not.
666
I know.
667
Let's try a look of far -off wonderment.
668
Okay, we'll gaze into our future, and we'll think about our marriage and the days to come.
669
Okay.
670
Chandler, what is the matter with your face?
671
Wait, this picture's supposed to say Geller and Bing to be married, not local woman saves drowning moron.
672
Hey, don't laugh at him.
673
He's my drowning moron.
674
That's it, that's it.
675
Take it, take it.
676
I like this one.
677
It seems to say I love you, and that's why I have to kill you.
678
It can't all be bad.
679
Find the one where you make your bedroom eyes.
680
Oh, there it is.
681
Oh, my God, those are my bedroom eyes?
682
Why did you ever sleep with me?
683
Do you really want to pull at that thread?
684
Sweet.
685
That's a great smile.
686
Easy, natural.
687
Now, pretend I have a camera.
688
You're changing it.
689
I can't help it.
690
All right, all right, all right, all right.
691
You want to know what I do when I take resume shots?
692
Borrow money from me.
693
Yeah.
694
Okay.
695
First of all, you want to make it look spontaneous, right?
696
Okay, so here's what I do.
697
I look down, look down, keep looking down, then I look up.
698
See?
699
All right, now you try.
700
Look down.
701
You're looking down, keep looking down.
702
Why is the jelly on your shoe?
703
I had a donut.
704
Hey, there you are.
705
There I am.
706
You okay?
707
Yeah, Joey said I needed to relax, so he gave me an antihistamine.
708
What?
709
Yeah, and then I fell asleep on the subway and went all the way to Brooklyn.
710
Brooklyn is far.
711
Taylor, what were you thinking?
712
No, no, but don't worry, don't worry, because I know how to take a picture now.
713
Okay, see?
714
Look down.
715
Look down.
716
Look down.
717
Chandler?
718
Yeah.
719
Guys, check it out.
720
My mom sent me the paper.
721
Oh, let's see it.
722
Okay.
723
Oh, yeah, that looks good.
724
You guys make a very attractive couple.
725
Yeah, we look great together We really do Okay Wow, imagine what our kids would look like You know,
726
we don't have to imagine I'm marrying her We'll just see Well,
727
then you should look with us Why?
728
Chandler, aren't you worried about what to get Monica for Christmas?
729
No, I have a great idea for a present for her Oh, that's it?
730
A great idea, okay?
731
Chandler, that's not enough.
732
I mean, what if she gets you a great present, two medium presents, and then a bunch of little presents, and you've just gotten her one great present?
733
I mean, that's just gonna make her feel bad.
734
Why would you do that to her, Chandler?
735
Why?
736
Why?
737
If I helped, we could find him faster.
738
That's right.
739
Oh!
740
Oh, we have a live one!
741
Oh, it's a Macy's bag.
742
Yeah.
743
Oh!
744
Oh, who's it for?
745
Dear losers, do you really think I'd hide presents under the couch?
746
P .S.
747
Chandler, I knew they'd break you.
748
Uh -oh.
749
She may be on to us.
750
We are so gonna find them this year.
751
You know, you guys said you were gonna go across the hall and look.
752
You don't do that every year, do you?
753
Yeah.
754
You don't, like, go into the back of my closet and look under my gym bag or anything.
755
No, never do that.
756
Because that's where Joey gave me some sort of story that I've never seen before in my life.
757
I couldn't find anything in Joey.
758
Wait, wait, wait.
759
Yeah, we found them.
760
They were in the guest room closet behind some coats.
761
Yeah, and you have nothing to worry about because they're all crap.
762
Those are my gifts.
763
I got those for you.
764
Oh, thanks, Chandler.
765
They're great.
766
Well, Chandler, then what is this very weird, um, metal A -Z thing?
767
Those are bookends.
768
That's a great gift.
769
Oh, okay.
770
I'm sorry.
771
Thank you for my ass.
772
Oh!
773
Make sure you put all that stuff back in the closet, okay?
774
Yes, okay.
775
Oh, by the way, I just got to say, I think it's really nice of you that even after you've moved, you'll still keep storing that stuff for Joey.
776
Birds have a very good sense of direction, and I thought maybe they could help us find where the presents are hidden.
777
Yes, if the presents are hidden south for the winter.
778
Or we could just follow your clever jokes.
779
Any ideas?
780
No?
781
Didn't think so.
782
Okay.
783
Come on, guys.
784
Show us where the presents are.
785
Oh, the duck seems to think that Monica got me garbage.
786
I wonder what I can get Monica that's as good as garbage.
787
Hmm, how about my ass?
788
Hey.
789
This is hollow.
790
What?
791
This bench, it's hollow.
792
I can't believe I never knew that.
793
Oh, the presents!
794
Oh, no, don't look directly at them!
795
What?
796
All right, no, we could look at them.
797
Oh, this looks for me!
798
Oh, oh, this one's for Chandler.
799
Oh, wait.
800
And the big one's for me.
801
Oh, okay, let's open them.
802
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
803
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
804
We can't do this.
805
Why?
806
I don't want to know what Monica got me, you know?
807
I mean, look, I'm sure she worked really hard at getting me a present and wanting to surprise me, and you guys are gonna ruin that.
808
Look, we have to put these back.
809
This is not what Christmas is about.
810
Whatever, Linus, I'm opening mine.
811
Nobody is opening anything, okay?
812
Look, I don't know about you guys, but I want to see the look on Monica's face when I give her my present, and I'm sure she wants to see the look on my face when I get mine.
813
So please, please, can we just...
814
Can we put them back?
815
Will you get us better gifts?
816
Fine.
817
Hey, guys.
818
You found the presents?
819
Chandler, you let them find the presents?
820
Great.
821
Do you know how long it took me to find you that water purifier?
822
That's what you got me?
823
Oh, yes, I see what you mean.
824
That look is priceless.
825
Hey.
826
Hey.
827
Monica, can I talk you outside for a minute?
828
Oh, no, you guys just stay here.
829
I'm gonna go check your diaper.
830
Pheebs, you wanna come?
831
Oh, I'm kind of part of this.
832
Actually, Pheebs, it's more of a husband and wife kind of thing.
833
I knew I should have married Chandler.
834
okay what's up okay um you know how we always said
835
it would be fun to move to paris for a year you know you could study french cooking
836
and i could write Picnic along the Seine and go wine tasting in Bordeaux.
837
Oh, yes.
838
Okay.
839
You know how people say that Tulsa is the Paris of Oklahoma?
840
What?
841
Who says that?
842
People who have never been to Paris.
843
What's going on?
844
We're moving to Tulsa.
845
Excuse me?
846
Okay, Ms. McKenna, she kind of, uh, works above my boss.
847
She asked me to move to Tulsa and be the president of our office there, and I was sleeping and apparently said yes.
848
Tulsa, Oklahoma?
849
The Sooner State!
850
Whatever that is!
851
Taylor, I don't even want to see the musical Oklahoma!
852
Really?
853
Oh, what a beautiful morning?
854
Surrey with a fringe on top?
855
Are you trying to tell me that we're moving to Oklahoma or that you're gay?
856
All right, not that this matters, but did they at least offer you a huge raise?
857
No, no, but they are going to lease us a Ford Focus.
858
I'll get out of it.
859
Thank you.
860
What is wrong with Emma?
861
Oh, she misunderstood.
862
She thought she was moving to Tulsa.
863
And you know, if I get really hot,
864
I like to pick up this knife and I put the cool steel against, um, my body. Are you all right?
865
Yeah, yeah.
866
I'm fine.
867
It's...
868
What do we got here?
869
20 -year -old male.
870
He's got a severed toe on his right foot.
871
Could you please not do that feet first?
872
You know where his injury is.
873
Severed toe, you just said it.
874
It says here the knife went right through your shoe.
875
Of course it did.
876
They're made of wicker.
877
Did you bring the toe?
878
Oh, yes, I have it right here on ice.
879
Don't worry, son.
880
We'll just reattach it and then...
881
What?
882
What is it?
883
You brought a carrot.
884
What?
885
This isn't your toe.
886
This is a small, very cold piece of carrot.
887
You brought a carrot?
888
Oh, my God.
889
There's a toe in my kitchen.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 889 sentences and 6332 words to shadow. The speech runs for 47:52. The speaker talks at a steady 132 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| chandler noun | /ˈt͡ʃændlɚ/ | A person who makes or sells candles. |
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| merry adjective | /ˈmɛ.ɹi/ | Jolly and full of high spirits; happy. |
| asleep adjective | /əˈsliːp/ | In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. |
| adoption noun | /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ | The act of adopting. |
| desk noun | /dɛsk/ | A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a… |
| breast noun | /bɹɛst/ | Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males. |
| closet noun | /ˈklɑzɪt/ | A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. |
| hollow adjective | /ˈhɑloʊ/ | Having an empty space or cavity inside. |
| carrot noun | /ˈkæɹət/ | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. |
| pants noun | /pænts/ | An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. |
| bedroom noun | /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ | A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping. |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| look down verb | To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| make out with verb | See make out, with. | |
| throw up verb | To vomit. | |
| come over verb | To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been looking · You've been acting |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to wear · used to stay |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | Have you lost · haven't thought · we've established |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be filled · was sent · were fired |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 278 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shock /ʃɔk/, wash /wɑʃ/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, photographer /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like chandler, honey, merry.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.