Set up a holiday viewing birthday celebration with these Christmas (or Christmas Eve eve) episodes of 'Friends.'
As Christmas approaches, you have to get your vacation watchlist all queued up. My private binge-watching selection this season can be Friends for 2 causes. For one, they have got an excellent slew of vacation eps, and second, while some sitcoms go the painfully cheesy path around Christmastime, Friends in point of fact comes thru with the laughs and feels that perfectly embrace the spirit of holiday cheer.
Plus, have fun! All of Friends is on HBO Max, so you'll watch episode after episode with out interruption.
Without additional ado, this is the definitive ranking of all of the Christmas (and Christmas Eve eve) episodes from everyone's favourite friends.
10. The One With Christmas in Tulsa (Season 9, Episode 10)
This Christmas episode is not the most exciting plot-wise, however it does deliver a cute compilation of each and every other holiday season the friends have spent in combination. This travel down reminiscence lane comes after Chandler reveals out that he will need to spend this Christmas away from the gang because of a work go back and forth to Tulsa, and reminisces on how great it's been to have fun the vacations in conjunction with his pals 12 months after 12 months.
In the end, the episode does take a flip for the easiest when Chandler manages to wonder the crew by way of quitting his job and coming home on Christmas Day. There's a lot of paintings drama around the holidays for these guys!
9. The One With All the Candy (Season 7, Episode 9)
Monica comes to a decision to make Christmas candy for everyone in her construction, and the sweet seems so scrumptious, there's quickly a mob outside her door clamoring for extra.
In an equally Christmasy (and arguably funnier) section of the episode, Ross buys Phoebe the pinkest, prettiest bicycle in the town and teaches her methods to ride one for the first actual time. Her blunders and Ross's patient lessons set the degree for many anxious laughs and heartwarming vacation cheer.
8. The One With the Girl from Poughkeepsie (Season 4, Episode 10)
As any New Yorker will tell you, relationship someone from any other borough seems like long distance in city terms. In this episode, Ross meets a woman he is interested by on the educate however doesn't to find out until past due of their experience that she lives in Poughkeepsie, which turns out to be the simplest drawback to this courting prospect.
Meanwhile, Phoebe is operating on a vacation track — person who rhymes each and every persona's name — which proves frustrating AF as a result of she can't assume of anything else just right that rhymes with "Monica." The tune she delivers in the end is an quick Christmas vintage, at least as far as I'm involved.
7. The One With the Inappropriate Sister (Season 5, Episode 10)
The vacations are a nice time to offer again, and Phoebe jumps aboard the altruism train when she volunteers for the Salvation Army as a bell ringer. She quickly reveals out that New York is a tough sell — even in the case of charity — after she witnesses one particular person throwing a cigarette into her donation bucket and another looking to scouse borrow the Salvation Army's change.
At the same time, Rachel is relationship any individual from the construction who has a shut and handsy dating with any other woman, who turns out to be his sister.
6. The One With Ross's Step Forward (aka The One with the Creepy Holiday Card) (Season 8, Episode 9)
You cannot in point of fact rush the step of sending holiday playing cards as a couple, as any Friends fan will recall from this episode. Mona suggests she and Ross ship a Christmas card together, which freaks Ross out because he thinks the relationship is moving too quickly.
Meanwhile, Monica and Chandler have an traumatic dinner with Chandler's boss, and a pregnant "randy" Rachel is able to connect to the first man she sees.
5. The One Where Rachel Quits (Season 3, Episode 10)
As I mentioned earlier, Christmas is continuously a time for process drama among the Friends team. And we all know, as scary as the vacations are, they can be even scarier if you end up on the lookout for paintings. Rachel reports this firsthand after quitting her task as a waitress and attempting to pursue her dream profession in type.
Joey's also were given a new gig on this episode working at the Christmas tree lot. Unfortunately, the cheery job ends up in a massive holiday blowout for Phoebe when she learns what occurs to undesirable Christmas timber.
(Spoiler: They end up in the chipper.)
4. The One With Phoebe's Dad (Season 2, Episode 9)
Poor Phoebe. In this episode, she in point of fact embodies all of the scaries and sads the vacations have to supply. After finding out her father continues to be alive (and now not the guy from the photograph frames), Phoebe takes Chandler and Joey on a road travel to seek out her dad.
The come upon doesn't moderately lead to the heat family cheer viewers would possibly expect from a holiday particular, but laughs abound nevertheless when Joey and Chandler are pressured to buy their buddies' Christmas presents at a fuel station.
3. The One With the Routine (Season 6, Episode 10)
Although it is frequently remembered as a New Year's Eve episode, let's now not fail to remember that "The One with the Routine" is, in reality, a Christmas special, with Rachel, Phoebe and Chandler teaming up to check out and in finding Monica's impeccably hidden gifts.
My favorite section of the hunt is when they in finding the outdated shoe with a observe from Monica pronouncing, "Chandler, I knew they'd break you."
Also, impressive dance strikes, Monica and Ross.
2. The One With the Holiday Armadillo (Season 7, Episode 10)
This is probably the first Christmas episode to return to the minds of avid Friends enthusiasts, which is sensible, because it's lovely improbable.
In an try to train Ben extra about Hanukkah and his Jewish roots, Ross clothes up as the "holiday armadillo," Santa's half-Jewish good friend. Chandler then shows up in a Santa suit and nearly steals the show, but the two organize to staff as much as get Ben hyped for the vacations.
Bonus personality: Joey displays up as Superman.
1. The One With the Monkey (Season 1, Episode 10)
Maybe as a result of I really like puppy monkeys, maybe as a result of I had a stuffed animal referred to as Marcel back in the day, but that is hands-down my favourite Friends Christmas episode, and maybe even my favorite vacation special of any show.
A younger Season-1 Ross introduces the gang to his roommate, Marcel the monkey, who's not anything quick of lovable. The pals also come to a decision to host a holiday celebration, and to ensure no person feels lonely, they make a pact that none of them will carry a date to the affair. Of direction, all the characters check out their hardest to renege on this promise throughout the episode, and in the end, in finding themselves alone anyway.
What a deep metaphor for lifestyles.
Merry Christmas and satisfied binge-watching!
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