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All right, where's that turkey?
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Joey, those are my maternity pants.
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No, no, these are my Thanksgiving pants.
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Well, that's it.
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I'm done.
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Whew.
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Oh, here come the meat sweats.
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Well, Joey, we're all very proud of you.
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Yes, I believe we can expect a call from the president any moment now.
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Is there anything we can do for you?
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No, just nobody press on my stomach.
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You can keep those pants, by the way.
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What do you got there? Is that pie?
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Yeah, you want some?
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Just cut me a little sliver.
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A little bigger.
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A little bigger.
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What are you, Fred?
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You gonna run out?
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Cut me a real piece.
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I'm so sorry we're late.
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Please let us in so we can have dinner together.
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No. Everything's cold.
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The turkey's dried out, and the stuffing's all soggy.
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Yeah, and there's a bowl of cranberry sauce that...
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What happens to cranberry sauce?
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Nothing.
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It's fine.
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Oh, thank God.
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Oh, I just remembered.
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We do have something to eat.
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Monica put something in our oven this morning.
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Oh, yeah.
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Hey, you touch that, and you will be sorry.
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Guys, I listened to her.
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The vein is bigger than I've ever seen it.
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Oh?
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Oh, my God, it's Brussels sprouts!
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That's worse than no food.
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Ha-ha!
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All you got was Monica's stinky Brussels sprouts.
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Stinky?
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Please let me stay on this side of the door.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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All right.
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Oh, it all looks so beautiful.
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The turkey, the stuffing.
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The cranberries.
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Enough.
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A monkey could have made him.
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Hey, listen, guys, we feel really terrible.
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He's doing that weird eye contact thing.
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Don't look at him.
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Don't look at him.
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Come on, you guys we want you to know we're very very sorry right guys i feel terrible
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but let's not ruin this day you worked
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so hard let's move past this
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and try to have a nice meal all together the floating
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heads do make a good point yeah they do seem to feel pretty bad so bad so So bad. So bad.
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Okay.
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Okay, you two go get the dessert and I'll let you in.
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Dessert?
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Yeah, I asked you and Phoebe to pick up the pies.
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You did remember, right?
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Pies?
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Oh, we thought you said prize.
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Here.
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Grand Supreme, little darling.
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Congratulations!
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Oh, my God, you forgot the pies?
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Well, I can't believe this.
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You forced me to make dinner, then you're an hour late, and you forget the one little thing that I asked you to do.
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Really, girls, not cool.
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Well, you manheads aren't any better.
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You lied about going to the game.
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You knew it would make you late, and you still went anyway.
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Hey, I'm getting a little tired of this, okay?
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We said we're sorry.
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It's Thanksgiving for Pete's sakes.
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A day of forgiveness.
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It's a day to be thankful.
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Don't make me come up there.
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It's too late for apologies.
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Fine.
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Let's just go.
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I don't need your stupid dinner.
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That would be a lot more convincing if you weren't drooling.
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Oh, is that what that is?
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Sorry.
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Come on, you guys.
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Let's just do our own Thanksgiving.
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Yeah, I'll cook.
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Yeah, let's go out.
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Hey!
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Yeah, you three have a nice Thanksgiving.
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The three of us?
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Yeah, you, Chan, and the vein!
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Nice try.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Look, Monica.
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This is not gonna work.
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I bet this will work.
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You are so great.
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I love you.
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What?
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Nothing.
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I said, I said, you're so great.
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And then I just, I just stopped talking.
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You said you loved me.
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I can't believe this.
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No, I didn't.
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Yes, you did.
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No, I didn't.
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You loved me.
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No, I don't.
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Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.
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Hey, hon, would you help me get the plates down?
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Yeah.
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Hey, here's an idea.
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Why don't we use our wedding china today?
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I think we should save our china for something really special.
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Like, if the Queen of England comes over.
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Honey, she keeps canceling on us.
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Take the hint.
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What if something gets broken?
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They're so expensive.
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What is the point of having them if we never use them?
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Okay, but if something gets broken and then the Queen comes over...
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I will explain it to her.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like, I'm gonna let you talk to the Queen.
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Well, the parade is really good this year.
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Man, those horses can crap.
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Next up is a marching band from Muskogee, Oklahoma.
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Muskogee?
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That's like four hours from Tulsa.
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Woo-hoo!
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And here's the float with the stars of the popular daytime soap, Days of Our Lives.
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Oh, my God!
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Aren't you one of the stars of the popular daytime soap, Days of Our Lives?
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Yeah!
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I forgot I'm supposed to be there.
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I can't believe I forgot.
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I usually write stuff like this down on my arm.
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Oh, stupid long sleeves.
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What are you gonna do?
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I guess I'm gonna have to come up with a really good reason why I wasn't there.
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The producers are gonna be so mad at me.
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They sat us all down yesterday and said, everyone has to be there, 6 a.m sharp.
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That means you, Tribbiani.
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Like I was some kind of idiot.
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Well, you proved them wrong.
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Yeah.
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Well, you were right.
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How can they do this to us?
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It's Thanksgiving.
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Okay, I tell you what.
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How about if I cook dinner at my place?
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I'll make it just like Mom's.
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Will you make the mashed potatoes with the lumps?
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You know they're not actually supposed to...
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I'll work on the lumps.
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Joey, you're going home, right?
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Yeah.
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And I assume, Chandler, you're still boycotting all the Pilgrim holidays.
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Yes, every single one of them.
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And Phoebe, you're gonna be with your grandma?
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Yeah, and her boyfriend.
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But we're celebrating Thanksgiving in December, because he's lunar.
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Mom, Chandler was just saying how beautiful your sweater is.
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Oh, thank you, Chandler.
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I just bought it.
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Oh, yes, well, it's very beautiful, and it's cream-colored and tight, and...
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I mean, tight.
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I mean, it's not too tight.
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Not that I was looking at...
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What's the matter with him? with him I think he's stoned
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again what dude I need to talk to you a sec
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okay I think I might know why my parents don't like
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you you do why okay remember we were young hey spring break sophomore year I got high in my bedroom
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and my My parents walked in and smelled it, and so I told them that you had gotten stoned and jumped out the window.
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What?
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Why did you do that?
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I don't know.
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Uh, yours was the first name.
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That popped into my head.
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I'm sorry.
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I didn't think it'd matter.
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How could it not matter?
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How was I supposed to know we'd end up being friends after college, let alone you'd be living with my sister?
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What about all that friends forever stuff?
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I don't know.
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I was all high.
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Mom and Dad just sent me in here to find out if you were trying to get Ross stoned.
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Your parents caught Ross smoking pot in college, and he blamed it on me.
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Ross, I can't believe you'd do that.
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The reason we haven't told them we're together is because they hate me.
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Okay, so will you fix this?
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Okay, okay.
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I'll tell them it wasn't Chandler who got high.
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Okay.
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Well, who should I say it was?
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You!
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It's not like it's a big deal.
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You don't still do it or anything.
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All right, all right.
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Now, who should I say tricked me into doing it?
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Let's go.
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Oh, yeah, about telling Mom and Dad, I was thinking about maybe writing a letter.
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All right, you know what?
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That's it.
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You've had your chance.
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Wha-what?
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Mom, Dad.
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Ross smoked pot in college.
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What?
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You are such a tattletale!
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Mom, Dad, you remember that time you walked in my room and smelled marijuana?
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Yes.
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Well, I told you it was Chandler who was smoking the pot, but it was me.
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I'm sorry.
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It was you?
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And Dad, you know that mailman that you got fired?
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Didn't steal your Playboys.
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Ross did.
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Yeah, well, Hurricane Gloria didn't break the porch swing.
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Monica did.
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Ross hasn't worked at the museum for a year.
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Monica and Chandler are living together.
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Ross married Rachel in Vegas and got divorced again.
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That's a lot of information to get in 30 seconds.
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All right, Monica, why you felt you had to hide the fact that you're in an important relationship is beyond me.
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And we kind of figured about the porch swing.
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Ross, drugs, divorced again.
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What happened, son?
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I-I, uh, I got tricked into all those things.
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Chandler, you've been Ross's best friend all these years, stuck by him during the drug problems.
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And now you've taken on Monica as well.
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Well, I don't know what to say.
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You're a wonderful human being.
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Thank you.
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No!
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Thank you!
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Monica and Ross, I don't know what I'm gonna do about the two of you.
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I'll talk to them.
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You're going out with him again.
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You know, I don't care how much he begs.
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I think his begging days are over now that he's going out with Nancy Branson.
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You know what?
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I've just had it with high school boys.
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They're just silly.
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They're just silly, stupid boys.
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I'm gonna start dating men.
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Uh, I'm sorry, Judy.
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I couldn't find that bowl you and Jack were looking for.
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Uh, call them mom and dad, you loser.
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Wanna cook?
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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 here.
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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
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to do you to do i'm serious let me do something just not the turkey or the stuffing nothing high profile
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oh the cranberry sauce it's easy to make and no one really cares about it
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tell me more okay i'm gonna go check on something across the hall you start by washing these not with soap No!
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You obviously haven't tasted my Paul Mahler potato.
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Oh, my God.
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The pages are stuck together.
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Chandler!
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Oh, my God, she made half an English trifle and...
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half a shepherd's pie.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm.
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Now, this is so good that I'm gonna go enjoy it on the balcony.
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So if I can enjoy the view whilst I enjoy my dessert.
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I'm gonna call my friend Mary and tell her how good this is for Monica's room.
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I'll help you dial.
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I'm gonna go into the bathroom
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so I can look at it in the mirror as I eat it okay now what was
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that all about is it does it not taste good let me try it oh All gone. So good.
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Maybe Chandler has some left.
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It tastes like feet.
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I like it. Are you kidding?
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What's not to like?
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Custard?
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Good.
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Jam?
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Good meat good a bird just grabbed it
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and then tried to fly away with it
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and then just dropped it on the street yes but
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if it's any consolation before the bird dropped it he seemed to enjoy it hello hello
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Phoebe?
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Joey?
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What's going on?
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What?
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Oh, my God!
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I know!
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It's stuck!
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Dad, how did it get on?
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I put it on to scare Chandler.
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Oh, my God!
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Monica's gonna totally freak out!
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Well, then help me get it off.
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Plus, it smells really bad in here really bad in here
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of course it smells really bad you have your head up a dead animal
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what are you doing is this must be funny no it's not supposed to be funny it's It's supposed to be scary.
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Give it off now.
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I can't.
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It's stuck.
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I don't care that that turkey has to feed 20 people at my parents' house, and they're not gonna eat it off your head.
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Hold on, okay?
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Let's just all think.
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Okay, I got it.
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Phoebe?
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All right, you pull.
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I'm gonna spread the legs as wide as I can.
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He, he, he, he.
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Joey, now is not the time.
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Sorry, guys.
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Okay, count to three.
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One, two, three!
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Oh!
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Ah!
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Is that coming here for Thanksgiving?
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I know.
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It's sick.
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Why is it sick?
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Because it's Richard's son.
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It's like inviting a Greek tragedy over for dinner.
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Come on, Phoebe, you understand, don't you?
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Yeah, I could see where I'd be your best shot, but no. Sorry, honey, I think it's twisted.
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Yeah.
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What's twisted?
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Ugh, me going out with Richard's son.
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Ew!
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Ew, ew, ew.
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Sounds like a really bad idea to me.
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Is he okay in there?
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He's fine.
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Hey, you know, Ma, if things work out between you and Richard's son, you'll be able to tell your kids that you slept with their grandfather.
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Fine, judge all you want to, but married a lesbian, left a man at the altar, fell in love with a gay ice dancer,
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threw a girl's wooden leg in the fire, live in a box! So how's the game?
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I have no idea.
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What?
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Yeah, I'm just pretending to watch the game, so I don't have to help out with stuff.
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I don't believe you!
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That is.. brilliant!
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And Monica has no idea?
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Nope.
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Every once in a while, I just yell and scream stuff at the TV.
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Hey, what?
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Oh, hey!
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Is your team winning, hon?
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Oh, yeah.
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Anderson just scored again.
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There's no Anderson.
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For once, I am gonna sit down and try to watch one of these things.
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Halftime.
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Hey, who wants to, uh, throw the ball around a little?
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Maybe get a little three-on-three going?
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Oh, that would be so much fun.
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Oh, can I play, too?
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I've never played football, like, ever.
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Great.
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You can cover Chandler.
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No, no, I don't really want to play.
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Come on, man.
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You haven't wanted to do anything since you and Janice broke up.
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That's not true.
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I wanted to wear my bathrobe and eat peanut clusters all day.
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I wanted to start drinking in the morning.
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Don't say that I don't have goals.
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Chandler, you have to start getting over her, all right?
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If you play, you get some fresh air.
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Maybe you'll take your mind off Janice.
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And if you don't play, everyone will be mad at you because the teams won't be even.
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Come on.
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All right, I'll play.
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Yay!
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Let's do it!
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Ross?
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What?
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Want to play football?
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Um, Monica and I aren't supposed to play football.
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Says who, your mom?
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Yes.
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Well, every Thanksgiving, um, we used to have a touch football game called the Geller Bowl.
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No, no, no. You say that proudly.
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Anyway, Ross and I were always captains, and, um, it got kind of competitive, and one year, Killer Bowl 6,
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I accidentally broke Ross' nose.
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It was so not an accident.
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She saw I was about to tag her, so she threw her big, fat grandma arm elbow in my face.
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Just kept running.
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To score the winning touchdown, by the way.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Uh, you did not win the game.
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The touchdown didn't count because of the spectacularly illegal...
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Oh, and by the way, Savage, nose-breaking.
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I won the game.
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Oh, yeah?
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Then how come you didn't get the Geller Cup?
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There was a Geller Cup?
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Yes, it was the trophy you got if you won the game.
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But our dad said nobody won that game, and he was sick of our fighting, so we took the trophy...
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threw it in the lake.
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And was the curse lifted?
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Anyway, that's when Mom said we were not allowed to play football again.
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You know what?
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I think we should play a game.
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I mean, come on, it's been 12 years.
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Can I see you for a second?
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What?
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All right, we're gonna play.
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Wait a minute, though.
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How are we gonna get there?
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Because my mom won't let me cross the street.
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Okay.
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You want to play rough?
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We can play rough.
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Let's get ready to rumble!
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Y'all ready for this?
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Ready?
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Ah!
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Come on.
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I love
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this game!
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Thank you.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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You know, Rachel, funny thing.
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Actually, the end zone starts at that pole, so you're five feet short, so we win.
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What?
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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So explain something to me, though.
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If nobody tagged Rachel, then isn't the play still going?
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Hey, everybody.
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Happy Thanksgiving.
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Hey, happy Thanksgiving.
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Thieves.
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Hey, what's going on, Joe?
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I need a good lie.
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Oh, okay.
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How about the whole man walking on the moon thing?
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You know?
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You can see the strings, people.
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No, no, no, no. I need a good lie to explain why I wasn't at a work thing today.
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Oh, honey, you stink at lying.
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Well, I do not.
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Oh, really?
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Okay, let me ask you something.
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Yesterday at the coffee house, I went to the bathroom, and when I came back, my muffin was gone.
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Who took it?
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Somebody opened the door to the coffee house, and a raccoon came around in the area and walked straight for your muffin.
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I said, hey, don't eat that.
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That's Phoebe's.
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And he said...
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He said, Joey, you stink at lying.
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What am I gonna do?
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Don't worry.
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Don't worry.
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We'll come up with a good lie.
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I'll help you practice it.
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Oh, great.
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That'd be great.
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Thank you.
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Sure.
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What was the work thing?
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Uh...
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Pick up Grandma at the airport?
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Oh, man.
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Terry, I know that I haven't worked here very long, but I was wondering, do you think it would be possible if I got a $100 advance on my salary?
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An advance?
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It's so that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family.
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See, every year we go skiing in Vail, and normally my father pays for my ticket, but I've sort of started this whole independent thing,
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you know, which is actually why I took this job.
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Rachel, Rachel.
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Sweetheart.
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You're a terrible, terrible waitress.
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Really, really awful.
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Okay, I...
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I hear what you're saying.
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I'm with you.
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Um, but, uh, but I'm trying really hard, and I think I'm doing better.
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I really do.
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Does anybody need coffee?
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Yeah, over here.
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Yeah, I do.
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And you know, if I get really hot, I like to pick up this knife,
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and I put the cool steel against my body. Are you all right?
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All right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'm fine.
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It's...
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What we got here?
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20-year-old male.
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He's got a severed toe on his right foot.
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Ow!
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Ow!
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Could you please not do that feat first?
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You know where his injury is.
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You just said it.
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It says here the knife went right through your shoe.
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Of course it did.
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They're made of wicker.
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Did you bring the toe?
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Oh, yes.
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I have it right here on ice.
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Don't worry, son.
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We'll just reattach it and then...
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What?
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What is it?
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You brought a carrot.
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What?
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This isn't your toe.
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This is a small, very cold piece of carrot.
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You brought a carrot?
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What?
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Oh, my God.
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There's a toe in my kitchen.
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Hello?
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Oh, he can't talk right now.
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Why not?
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What's going on?
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Well, he's trying to show Joey how much he means to him.
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What?
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By being in a box.
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Joey had reasons.
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They were threefold.
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Oh.
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Well, uh...
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You not being able to talk might actually make this easier.
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Listen, um...
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Listen, I don't want to be someone who comes between two best friends.
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I just, I can't stand seeing what this is doing to you guys.
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And I don't want to be the cause of that.
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So I don't think we can see each other anymore.
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I'm gonna go to my mom's in Chicago.
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I'm gonna stay there for a while.
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I think this could have been something really amazing.
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But, you know, this is probably for the best.
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You know?
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I'm gonna miss you.
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Goodbye, Chandler.
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Open the box.
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Also, just so you know, I'm not gonna make a turkey this year.
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What?
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Well, Phoebe doesn't eat turkey.
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Phoebe?
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Turkeys are beautiful, intelligent animals.
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No, they're not.
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They're ugly and stupid and delicious.
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All right, now, it's not just Phoebe.
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Will's still on a diet, Chandler doesn't eat Thanksgiving food, and Rachel's having her aversion to poultry.
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She is?
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Yeah, did you remember I had to leave the room the other day when you had that roast chicken?
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Yeah, but I thought that was just
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because I put the whole thing on my hand and made it walk across the table.
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Anyway, it just doesn't seem worth it to make a whole turkey for just three people, okay?
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It's just, it's a lot of work
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but you gotta have turkey on thanksgiving i mean thanksgiving with
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no turkey is like like fourth of july with no apple pie
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or or friday with no two pizzas all right fine
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if it means that much to you
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but just there's gonna be a ton left over no no they won't i promise i will finish
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that turkey you're telling me you can eat almost an entire turkey in one sitting that's right
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because I'm a Tribbiani this is what we do we may not be great thinkers
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or or world leaders we don't read a lot or run very fast but damn it we can eat
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everybody happy Thanksgiving what are we keeping Thanksgiving a secret this
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year no we are playing this game I learned at work you have to name all the states in six minutes.
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What?
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That's like insanely easy.
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No, it's a lot harder than it sounds.
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You always forget at least one or in some cases 14.
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It's a stupid game and it wasn't playing against other people so technically I didn't lose.
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What?
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You forgot 14 states?
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Nobody cares about the Dakotas.
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Oh, okay.
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Time's up.
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All right.
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I got 48.
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Oh, that's not bad.
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Bebs?
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Oh, I got tired of naming states, so I decided to list the types of celery.
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And I have one, regular celery.
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Okay, so Rachel's got 48, and Phoebe has the lead in...
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vegetables.
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Joey?
600
Say hello to the new champ of Chandler's dumb states game.
601
Wow, how many you got?
602
56. Done.
603
with time to spare.
604
Ooh, this may be a new world's record.
605
You know, I hate to lecture you guys, but it's kind of disgraceful that a group of well-educated adults and Joey...
606
can't name all the states.
607
You ever see a map?
608
Or one of those round, colorful things called a globe?
609
Hmm?
610
Uh, Magellan?
611
You got 46 states.
612
What?
613
That's impossible.
614
46. Well, who's well-educated now, Mr. I-forgot-ten states?
615
Okay, Ross, time is up.
616
No, just give me another minute.
617
Look, Ross, if you don't know them by now, you will never know them, okay?
618
That is the beauty of this game.
619
It makes you want to kill yourself.
620
This is crazy.
621
I can do this.
622
All right, uh, I bet I can get all 50 before dinner.
623
Okay, but if you can't, no dinner.
624
You're on.
625
All right, don't look at my list, Ross, because there's a lot on there that you don't have.
626
How can I not get this?
627
I'm a college professor.
628
I got $14.50 on my SATs.
629
$12.50.
630
Damn, I forgot you were here.
631
Ross, you need some help? From you?
632
Yes, please.
633
First of all, Utah?
634
Dude, you can't just make stuff up.
635
I hate America.
636
When I finish this game, I swear, I am moving.
637
Okay, maybe this is so hard because there aren't 50 states.
638
Let me tell you something.
639
I have 49 states states and there are no more.
640
I think I should be able to eat something.
641
It's up to you.
642
Delaware.
643
Delaware.
644
All right.
645
I want my turkey now.
646
You got it.
647
You got Nevada twice.
648
I know.
649
Yeah.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 648 sentences and 4023 words to shadow. The speech runs for 33:30. The speaker talks at a steady 120 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/ (noun) — The expression of gratitude.
- whoa /woʊ/ — Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
- pants /pænts/ (noun) — An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
- honey /ˈhʌni/ (noun) — A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
- pie /paɪ/ (noun) — A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie"…
- soap /soʊp/ (noun) — A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/ (noun) — Grandmother.
- dessert /dɪˈzɝt/ (noun) — The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
- carrot /ˈkæɹət/ (noun) — A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
- meal /ˈmiːl/ (noun) — Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- trick /ˈtɹɪk/ (noun) — Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- knife /ˈnaɪ̯f/ (noun) — 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…
- silly /ˈsɪl.i/ (adjective) — Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
- divorce /dɪˈvɔːs/ (noun) — The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- swing /ˈswɪŋ/ (verb) — To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — Come along with me; join me in going.
- look at (verb) — To observe or watch.
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verb) — To continue in extent.
- pick up (verb) — To lift; to grasp and raise.
- come over (verb) — To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
- come up with (verb) — To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
- get on (verb) — To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle.
- walk in (verb) — To come without an appointment to a place that would normally require one.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 193 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, thief /ˈθiːf/, bathrobe /ˈbæθ.ɹoʊb/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sharp /ʃɑɹp/, wash /wɑʃ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Long words — get the stress right: congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, marijuana /ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/
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 thanksgiving, whoa, pants.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you don't play, everyone will be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've ever seen · haven't told · You've had |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was just saying · was looking · was thinking |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | stopped talking · keeps canceling · start dating |
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.