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Hey, you guys.
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Check it out.
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Check it out.
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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?
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Blue blazer back.
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He wants it back.
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You said black.
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Why would he want his blue blazer black?
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Well, you know what I meant what I meant.
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No, you messed it up.
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You're stupid.
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Hey, new wallet, huh?
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Uh, yeah, it was time.
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The old condom ring in the leather.
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It just doesn't say cool anymore, you know?
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Rachel, you just put an empty carton back in the fridge.
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Yeah, I know, but the garbage was full.
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Have you ever taken out the trash?
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Well, I, uh, thought you liked doing it.
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Third door on the left.
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Right.
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Oh, hey, Mr. Trigger.
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Yeah.
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What are you doing?
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Um...
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Oh!
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Oh!
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I'm sorry.
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It's a little old, but...
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No. You're clogging up the chute.
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I just spent a half hour on clogging.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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I didn't...
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I don't come in here a lot.
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Oh, yeah, of course you don't.
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I know.
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Because you're a little princess.
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Daddy, buy me a pizza.
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Daddy, buy me a candy factory.
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Daddy, make the cast of Cats sing happy birthday to me.
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What, you think you can just come in here,
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make a mess of big man in the coveralls,
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or come and clean it up, huh?
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Well, why don't you think of someone else for a change?
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Okay, I'm sorry.
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God, you're gonna cry about it.
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Monica, I'm quitting.
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I just helped an 81-year-old woman put on a thong,
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and she didn't even buy it.
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I'm telling you, I'm quitting.
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That's it.
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I'm talking to my boss right now.
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Yes, I am.
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Yes, I am.
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Yes, I am.
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Yes, I am.
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Yes, I am.
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Okay, bye.
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Call me when you get this message.
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Oh, Mr. Waltham, I, uh,
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really need to talk to you.
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In a moment, please.
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I'm in the middle of a task.
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And you have a customer.
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Hi.
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Hi, I'm Joshua.
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Hi, I'm Rachel Green.
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What can I do for you, Joshua?
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Well, uh, I need a whole new wardrobe.
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My wife, well, my ex-wife.
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Oh, I'm so sorry.
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Anyway, she burned all of my clothes,
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so I got away with two things.
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This suit, it turned out to be a, uh, skirt.
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Oh, well, at least that's a great suit.
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Yeah, but it wasn't much fun dropping it off to the dry cleaners in the skirt.
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So I need everything down to underwear,
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so if you're willing, I'm, uh, I'm all yours.
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Okay.
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Rachel, you needed to speak to me.
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No, no, that wasn't me.
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Well, we should get started.
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Let me show you my underwear.
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The selection of underwear that we carry.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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It's this way.
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It's this way.
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It's this way.
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It's this way.
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Sorry.
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Yeah.
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Would you like to go to a basketball game with...
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No, no. You know, it's funny,
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basketball, because I happen to have tickets to the...
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No, no, no, no, no, no. Um...
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Likes the Knicks.
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Huh?
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What do you think?
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Oh, well, as a single woman...
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who is available.
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I think you look great.
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Huh.
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Yeah?
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Yep.
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Oh, yeah, you look great.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, this looks great.
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Um, so you like it?
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I do, I do.
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I love it.
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In fact, I think I'm gonna wear it home.
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Great.
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All right, well, thank you so much for all your help.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, I guess, uh, I guess this is it.
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See ya.
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Thanks.
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Maybe I'll see you in the spring,
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you know, with the, uh, for the bathing suits.
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Well, you don't wanna do that now?
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That's okay, you know.
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Oh.
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Anyway, hopefully I'll see you around sometime.
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Basketball!
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Sorry?
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I, uh, I have two tickets to the Knicks game tonight if you're interested,
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just as a thank you for this week.
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Wow.
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That would be great.
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Really?
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Yeah, that would be fantastic.
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My nephew is crazy about the Knicks.
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This is fantastic.
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Thank you so much, Rachel.
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Good morning.
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Hi.
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Okay.
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Okay, for next time, what do you say?
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I have an extra ticket.
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An extra ticket.
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Not two tickets.
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I have an extra ticket.
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So the first time you asked a guy out, he turned you down?
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He didn't turn me down.
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He's at the game, isn't he?
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I got the date.
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I'm just not on it.
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I can't believe I'm getting my nails done.
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And you said it was gonna be fun.
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Which you kind of is.
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Also, you said there were gonna be other guys here.
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There are no other guys here.
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Chandler, there's a guy right over there.
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That's a mailman.
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That's our mailman.
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Hi, how are you?
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Chandler, don't worry.
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This doesn't make you any less of a guy. That does.
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What am I sitting on?
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I'd hate to think what this woman was scratching when this broke off.
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Hey, you know who used to have nails like that?
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No. Oh.
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My.
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God.
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This is so nice.
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Thank you for doing this.
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Oh, please.
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Cooking soothes me. So dig in.
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Right.
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It all looks so good.
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Mmm.
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Mmm!
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, I know.
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My God, this is so.. this rice is so...
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I am so good.
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Behind you?
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Oh, yeah, sorry.
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They used to live here,
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and sometimes I migrate back over.
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Is there, uh, is there some way that they could,
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uh, not be here?
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It's just that, uh, farm birds really kind of freaked me out.
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Okay, okay.
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Okay, okay.
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
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Whoop!
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Whoop!
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Oh, there we go.
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There you go.
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Hey, how'd you do that?
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Oh, Glenn.
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So, farm birds, huh?
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Yeah, it's my only weird thing, I swear.
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And I would have told you about it,
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but I didn't know that they would be here.
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So, all right.
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Ahem.
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Okay.
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So, can I serve you a little of...
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What?
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What's...
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What?
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Nothing.
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I, uh...
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It's just that I know that they're still out there.
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But they're across the hall.
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I mean, that's two doors away.
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It's gonna take them a long time to peck their way back over here.
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That's not funny.
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Okay, you know, would you feel better if we went someplace else?
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I mean, we could pack all this stuff up and,
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you know, go to your apartment.
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Uh, they're working on it this week.
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It's a total mess.
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But, uh, I'm staying at my parents' house.
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We could go there.
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Your parents?
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Yeah, they're out of town.
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Oh.
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It's a huge place and it's got this gorgeous view of the park.
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It'd be very, very romantic.
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What do you say?
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Yeah, that works.
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Oh.
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They can smell the fear.
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Morning's here.
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The morning's here.
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Sunshine's here.
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The sky's clear.
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The morning's here.
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The morning's here.
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Hey!
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You have to do that.
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It's Saturday.
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Oh, come on!
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Morning's here!
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Morning's here!
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Morning's here!
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Sunshine is here!
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I hate this apartment!
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I hate the color of these walls!
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I hate the fact that this place still smells like bird!
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I hate that singing guy!
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Are you kidding?
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I love that guy.
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Morning's here, morning is here.
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Stop it!
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I will kill you.
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Morning's here, the morning's here.
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Sunshine is near, the sky is clear.
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Our morning's here Hey, you're back!
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Hey, get into gear Breakfast is near The dark of night has disappeared I'll see you tomorrow morning Okay
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So much is happening I know Ross is getting married Phoebe's making people Everybody's doing stuff Yeah,
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we just sit here I mean,
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if I died, the only way people would even know
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that I was here would be by the ass print on this chair.
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Look, we have to do something, okay?
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Something huge.
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We could climb Mount Everest.
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No, no, not something stupid, something huge.
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No, no, no, no, no,
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I saw an ad for this video.
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People climb that thing every day.
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We could totally do that.
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Why not?
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I mean, it's just, it's just climbing.
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It's just, it's just steep.
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We're going to Everest, okay?
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It'd be nice to leave an ass print on Everest.
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Hey!
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Hey.
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What's up?
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We're gonna climb Mount Everest.
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Yeah, baby!
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Really?
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I looked into that.
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Yeah, but, I mean, it costs like $60,000,
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and, you know, you could die.
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And.. and you would die.
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Oh, well.
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We could get that Everest video, though.
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Yeah, we could do that without,
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you know, risking our lives at all.
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And while we're down at the video store,
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you know what else we could rent?
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Die Hard! But you know what?
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I just remembered.
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That Everest thing is only available through mail order.
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Oh, well.
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So you guys will stay here and hang out with me?
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Yeah, yeah.
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But I'll tell you something.
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One of these days, we're gonna get off our butts and rent Die Hard again.
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Yeah, we are!
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We are.
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Oh, my God, you still have the chipper.
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A what?
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That's what we used to call your,
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uh, your motorcycle in high school.
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You know, a motorcycle is a chopper.
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And your chip.
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Never mind.
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Oh, I think it's cute.
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Wow.
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A lipper from a chipper.
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So, you still in touch with anyone from high school?
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Um, there's Rachel.
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And, um, I think that's it.
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How about you?
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Oh, yeah, I still hang with Simmons and Zaina.
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You know, and I see Spindler a lot, and Levine, Kelly.
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And I run into Goldie from time to time.
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Stick, Brown, Zolkoff, McGuire, JT, Beardsley. Is that all?
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Ah, you know, after high school,
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you just kind of lose touch.
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Oh, yeah, I ran into Richard Dorfman.
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Oh, how is he?
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Not so good.
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Me and Simmons gave him a wedgie.
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Isn't he an architect now?
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Yeah, they still wear underwear.
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That's weird.
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What?
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Your nails.
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Oh, I know.
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I never wear fake ones.
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I just did it so my mom wouldn't give me grief about biting them.
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Oh.
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No, I mean, it's weird that you only have nine now.
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Oh, my God.
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Wait a minute.
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I had him when I put...
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Oh, my God!
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It's in the quiche!
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Oh, my God!
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Okay, don't panic.
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I'm gonna go to the store.
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I'm gonna get you another set of nails.
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No one's gonna know, and you're gonna look great.
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Oh.
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Oh, it's because they're gonna eat.
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That's the problem.
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Honey, don't bite your nails.
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Okay, uh, please don't freak out.
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Um, but, uh, there's a blue fingernail in one of the quiche cups,
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and there's no way to know which one.
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And whoever finds it wins the prize.
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Did I make you take an oath?
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No, I made myself take one.
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Yeah, no fooling around with clients.
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And, um, always be prepared.
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Yeah, that one's actually from the Boy Scouts,
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but it just makes good sense.
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Why don't you just give them to somebody else?
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No, I can handle it.
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No, I'm a professional.
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Oh, Phibes, is that a new ankle bracelet?
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Well, and you got a pedicure.
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Your feet are all dressed up.
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Because that's the only part of you he can see when he's on the table.
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You're gonna do some feet flirting.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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Then how do you explain the toe ring?
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Because it's Arabian Princess Day at work, okay?
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Leave me alone.
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I don't think you heard me.
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Are you ready to party?
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No. Gandalf?
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Gandalf is coming to town?
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Kathy's with her parents.
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I have nothing to do,
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so tomorrow we are partying with Gandalf, dude!
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Dude, we are so gonna party.
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Wow, okay.
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Dude alert.
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And who is this guy?
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Mike Gandalf Ganderson.
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Only, like, the funnest guy in the world.
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I'm gonna call and get off work tomorrow.
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Oh, I'm gonna call after you.
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This is gonna be so cool, dude.
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We never party anymore.
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Whoo!
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All right, were you guys smoking something in the back of our van?
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Really?
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And what do you mean we never have fun anymore?
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You have fun with me.
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Remember the time we saw those strippers,
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and you paid me 50 bucks to eat that book?
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Joey, you are gonna love this guy.
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Gandalf is like the party wizard.
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Well, why do you call him Gandalf?
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Gandalf the wizard.
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Hmm.
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Hello, didn't you read Lord of the Rings in high school?
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No, I had sex in high school.
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I'm so, so sorry.
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I was gonna do it, really.
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But then I was standing there with $327 in one hand and $238 in the other hand,
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and I was thinking, Wow!
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It's been a long time since I had...
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$327 plus $238.
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Joey, we had a deal.
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That's why you're here.
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I've got to fire you.
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And I gotta pay rent.
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Look, how about this?
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You don't fire me.
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Instead, I stay here, I gain their trust,
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and then they'll start listening to all the nice things I've been saying about you.
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What kind of things you've been saying?
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Well, nothing yet.
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They really hate you, and I want to fit in.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Sorry I'm late.
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Did I miss anything?
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Well, Joey's stuffing 15 Oreos in his mouth.
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Fifteen?
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Your personal best.
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Oh, oh, oh. So, where were you?
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Oh, on a date.
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Yeah, I met this girl on the train going to a museum upstate.
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Oh, yeah, I didn't meet her. Which museum?
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No. Answer his.
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Okay, it was just me and her at the back of the train,
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and I sat near the door,
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so she'd have to pass by me if she wanted to, like, switch cars.
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She was totally at my mercy.
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Were you so late because you were burying this woman?
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I'm getting back now because she lives in Poughkeepsie.
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She seems really great, but she's like two and a half hours away.
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How can she be great if she's from Poughkeepsie?
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Okay, that joke would have killed in Albany.
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Don't.
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I did it.
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Who's stupid now, huh?
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Listen, can we watch cartoons on your television?
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We need a porn break.
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We spent the last two hours watching In-N-Out and In-Again.
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So why don't you just turn it off?
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Because then we'd be the guys who turned off free porn.
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Oh, good.
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You're here.
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Okay.
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Hi.
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What you got there?
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Oh, this?
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Well, I'm glad you asked.
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Now, don't you hate it when you have to cut a tin can with an ordinary steak knife?
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Ah.
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Now, I know what you're thinking.
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Pregnant woman slays four?
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Phoebe, they didn't make you pay for those knives, did they?
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No. Are you sure?
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No. Honey, you're not gonna make enough money to help Frank and Alice just by selling knives.
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No, no, I know that,
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but I just need to make enough money for the second part of my plan.
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What's the second part of your plan?
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My Saturn dealership.
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In this lesson, you will practice spoken English through engaging content from a popular scene in *Friends*. As you listen to the characters' dialogue, you'll focus on understanding conversational English, improving your pronunciation, and enhancing your overall speaking skills. This lesson is designed to help you grasp the nuances of everyday language, making it a fun way to prepare for your IELTS speaking practice. By shadowing the characters, you will become more comfortable with English conversation, including tone, rhythm, and inflection.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- empty carton: A container that has been completely used, relevant for discussions around waste.
- clogging up the chute: Refers to blocking a passage or exit, often used in conversation about common household chores.
- little princess: A term often used to describe someone who is spoiled or expects special treatment.
- clean it up: A common phrase meaning to tidy or remove mess.
- put on a thong: Refers to a specific type of undergarment, often used in humorous or casual contexts.
- why don’t you think of someone else: A phrase indicating the need for empathy or consideration for others.
- make a mess: To create disorder or chaos, often used in discussions about cleanliness.
Practice Tips
To get the most out of this lesson, try using the shadowing technique. Listen to the dialogue one segment at a time, pausing after each line. Repeat what you hear, mimicking the characters' pronunciation, tone, and rhythm. This method can be particularly beneficial when practicing at a pace that feels comfortable to you. The conversational speed in this *Friends* scene is relatively fast; therefore, start by slowing it down if necessary. Use a shadowing site or video playback features to help you set the pace that works for you. By shadowing the dialogues, you will not only improve your English pronunciation but also develop a better understanding of idiomatic expressions and social cues used in everyday conversations.
Emphasize intonation and stress as you practice, as they can significantly influence comprehension. Practicing these phrases will also aid in boosting your overall speaking confidence, making it easier to engage in discussions in the future. Consistent practice using these elements can lead to improvement in your English speaking abilities, especially valuable for achieving success in high-stakes tests like the IELTS.
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.
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