Friends - The One Where Monica Sings

SEASON 9: NBC - January 30, 2003

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  1. Ross: OK, yeah, sure. OK, look, about what happened here last night?
    Chandler: Sure, me a second to get all huffy and weird like you. Do you believe that whoever did something over here last night did what they did or didn't do? I mean, come on!
    Ross: OK, you really don't know what I'm talking about?
    Chandler: No
    Ross: OK, Last night after the party I saw Rachel kissing that jerk from her office out on your balcony.
    Chandler: Our balcony? Seriously? That's so funny, because I told Monica lights on our balcony. And she said, "No, no it's too cold. out there." And I said, "Maybe if we put some lights out there ."
    Ross: Right. That's what I came over to talk about. I saw Rachel kissing some guy on your balcony .. even though there were no lights.
    Chandler: So to her?
    Ross: Why? Why ? I mean, if she wants to move on, that's fine.
    Chandler: Do you know when "That's fine" sounds true? When someone yells it and spits.
    Ross: No, I'm serious. I mean, if she wants to date people, fine. I don't care. But at least . You know, I've been putting my life on hold, and just concentrating on Emma, but if she wants to go out there kissing guys she barely knows, well then so !


  2. Joey: Hey, you guys something. new head shots taken tomorrow, right? And the photographer said that she thinks my eyebrows waxed. Is that weird for a guy?
    Phoebe: Well, it depends.
    Joey: On?
    Phoebe: On how far along he is in the sex-change process.
    Joey: What?
    Monica: No, I totally disagree. I think it's fine for a guy to do something like that -- especially an actor. I mean, not that . Your eyebrows are ...
    Joey: Wha...? OK, you guys. staring at .. You're freaking me out.
    Phoebe: Wow, your knuckles are kind of hairy, too.
    Joey: Oh man, now those done, too?!
    Phoebe: Wow, talk about high maintenance.
    Joey: Hey, hey! You dye your hair.
    Phoebe: I'm a woman.
    Joey: Ah! Double standards.
    Phoebe: Oh, before I forget, to Mike's piano bar tonight?
    Monica: Only if .
    Phoebe: But everybody sings! It's so much fun! Last time this adorable old man got up there, forgot all the words, flipped out, everyone booed him off the stage. It was so funny!
    Monica: I'm not good at singing.
    Phoebe: Oh, what's the matter? Scared? Afraid I'm a better singer? Are you afraid you at singing?
    Monica: Nope, nope, it's not working on me. Wow! !
    Phoebe: OK, fine. and support Mike. .
    Monica: Great. So , and there and pass judgment on others?


  3. Monica: So are you thinking of starting something up with this guy?
    Rachel: I don't know. It's so complicated. I work with this guy. You know .. I have the baby, and I have Ross. And I just ... I donŐt know what to do. And at the office and see Gavin in ten minutes.
    Monica: Wow. Sounds like about what you want, and talk to Gavin, and to Ross.
    Rachel: Or .. sick and not deal with it at all.


  4. Receptionist: OK, very good. a seat right over here Mr. Bing and right with you.
    Joey: OK, Thanks. ... I touched the stuff.
    Sonia: of it.
    Joey: Thanks. So, do you get a lot of guys in here?
    Sonia: Oh, absolutely.
    Joey: Oh, good!
    Sonia: (Are) you looking to meet somebody?
    Joey: All right. this.
    Sonia: to the wax in a minute. First I want to tweeze some of the strays, OK? Now just a little bit ...
    Joey: Please, I have an extremely high threshold .. holy mother of ... ! My face! ... I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. Just a bit of a shock, is all. But fine. again. I'm OK.


  5. Chandler: Well, about this the wrong way, you know? I mean, think about it: Single white male, divorced three times, two illegitimate children ... the personal ad writes itself.
    Ross: Yeah, that's funny. So, do you think again?
    Chandler: What are you doing? You know it out!
    Ross: Rachel just moved on and didn't say anything to me!
    Chandler: , you know. just an impulsive, one-time birthday thing.
    Ross: Oh, about a month ago she gave her number to some guy in a bar.
    Chandler: Did she go out with him?
    Ross: No. When he called I threw the message away.
    Chandler: Ah, the high road.
    Ross: Well, you know what? Enough. Enough talking. moving. Hey, check out those two blondes over there. Hey, with me.
    Chandler: Are you trying to get everybody divorced?
    Ross: Come on. anything. easier if it's the two of us .. like college. Remember? First you break the ice with some kind of a joke so they know you're the funny one. Then I swoop in with some interesting conversation, so that I'm the brilliant, brooding, sexy one.
    Chandler: I thought I got to make the jokes.
    Ross: at work?
    Chandler: Oh, come on! ... Ah, hello. Hi, my name's Chandler. This is my friend Ross, right here ..
    Ross: Hi
    Chandler: .. and we were wondering, you know, if you're up for it, we only need six more people for a human pyramid. .. (Swoop! Swoop!)
    Ross: So .. Oh, hey, I notice you're reading the paper. Another flood in Europe, huh? Here's a question: or be burned alive?


  6. Gavin: Right. Right. Ross. So what's the deal with you guys? I don't want to get in the middle of anything.
    Rachel: Oh, you're not. You're not. You're not getting in the middle of anything. about Ross, really. Really. .. Oh, , that's Ross! Hide! Hide!
    Gavin: But you said not to worry.
    Rachel: Well I lied! And I'm not sick, either. behind the curtain.
    Molly: Hi.
    Rachel: Oh, Molly. You're not Ross.
    Molly: No. I'm here to take Emma to your mother's, remember?
    Rachel: Right. Yes, yes.
    Molly: .
    Rachel: What?
    Molly: There's a man behind your curtain. I have mace in my purse.
    Rachel: No, that's OK. That's OK. No, no, no, no. This is my business associate, Gavin. He's just being silly. Gavin, from behind that curtain!
    Gavin: Hi, Gavin. Pleased to meet you. (It was my idea to stand there.)
    Molly: Oh, hello. get Emma.
    Rachel: OK.
    Gavin: So, why ?
    Rachel: I thought it was Ross.
    Gavin: So what if it was? I thought there was nothing going on between you two.
    Rachel: There isn't. There totally isn't.
    Gavin: You hear keys in the hall and you jump like a young bronco coming out of the chute for the first time .. a rodeo clown.
    Rachel: All right, look. Gavin, I guess I felt guilty that you were here, which . You know, Ross and I are not in a relationship but he is the father of my child, and, you know, we do live together, and plus there's just so much history, you know. It's just ... I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm just all over the place.
    Gavin: That's OK. Now, I know it's probably not my place, but you a piece of advice?
    Rachel: yes?
    Gavin: I think to Ross about all this.
    Rachel: People keep saying that. Oh, I'm sorry, Gavin.
    Gavin: . Just bad timing.


  7. Mike: Oh, she's my girlfriend. That's not just how we do it here. .. All right. a little break, and when we come back we've got Kenneth singing "I Touch Myself."
    Phoebe: .
    Monica: I told you .


  8. Ross: Hi. but notice, but that's an unusual necklace.
    Girl: You already hit on me an hour ago.
    Ross: Right. So that's a firm no? .. I don't believe this. I just keep striking out.
    Chandler: I don't get it either. I mean, you're obviously desperate, you're asking women how they want to be killed ..
    Ross: Oh, this is great. kissing guys until she finds the one she wants, and alone.


  9. Monica: Oh, wait, wait. in front of all these people.
    Phoebe: Just pretend they're not even here. It's OK, Monica. Once that spotlight hits you, it's so bright anyone anyway. Come on.
    Monica: Hi, I'm Monica and "Delta Dawn." (sings)
    Phoebe: through her shirt?
    Mike: Like an x-ray.
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    Joey: Hey, I need your help.
    Chandler: Wow, it seems serious. What seems to be the problem, Ashley Judd?
    Joey: Hey, look. new headshots taken, all right? So I went to get my eyebrows shaped.
    Chandler: I'm sorry. Moment to make fun of that, please.
    Joey: a sissy, but you into the ground. .. All right, look. It hurt so bad her do one eyebrow, and now they don't match.
    Chandler: It's like a baby caterpillar chasing its mama.
    Joey: Look, me out, OK? Look, I have a magic marker. I want you to fill in the skinny one so I don't look stupid for my picture.
    Chandler: OK. First of all, this is green.
    Joey: Well, what the hell ?
    Chandler: All right. , but me that anyone what you.
    Joey: What? What?
    Chandler: OK. You know how most kids get their allowance for mowing the lawn or taking out the garbage? Well, I earned mine by plucking the eyebrows of my father and his "business partners."
    Joey: Oh, my god!
    Chandler: Well, I guess you don't need my help, Victor/Victoria.
    Joey: No, no, no, no. I do. I need your help, but Chandler, I don't know if any more plucking. It hurts so bad!
    Chandler: Not with my combination of ice cubes, aloe vera, and my gentle, self-loathing touch.
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    Monica: I'm sorry. The song's over. ... Did you see me up there?
    Phoebe: Every little bit of you.
    Monica: I did that! I sang in front of people, and they liked me!


  10. Rachel: Listen, my mom is not bringing the baby back until nine o'clock. So I was hoping a chance to kind of ... is somebody here?
    Ross: Oh, yeah, yeah. That's Michelle.


  11. Rachel: Hi. And I'm also Emma's mother.
    Michelle: Oh. Who's Emma?
    Ross: Oh, I told you about my daughter.
    Michelle: This is your daughter?! your new mommy!
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    Chandler: And done!
    Joey: Oh my god! I didn't feel a thing! Hey, are you still looking for a job? Because circles around that sadistic bitch at the salon.
    Chandler: Thanks. Do you want to see what it looks like?
    Joey: Yeah, Yeah. Hey, they totally match! They look great! .. How you doing?
    Chandler: Yeah, yeah, I think it looks pretty good. I was a little bit worried that I was uncovering a birthmark right about there, but it turned out to be a little piece of chocolate.
    Joey: Hey, Chandler. Thank you so much.
    Chandler: No problem.
    Joey: Listen, that was a pretty "girly" hour we just spent. something manly to make up for it.
    Chandler: Yeah.
    Joey: Curl my eyelashes.
    Chandler: Yeah.
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    Monica: OK, for my next song I think something a little more upbeat, all right? Oh, how about the Pointer Sisters', "I'm So Excited."? And make it bouncy.
    Phoebe: You know, of that on your end.
    Chandler: I'm sorry I'm late. when you see Joey.
    Monica: Honey, you're just in time. another song.
    Chandler: Really?! In front of all these people?


  12. Phoebe: Oh, isn't that funny? I didn't see that before. I wouldn't have let her go up there.
    Chandler: this.
    Monica: Aw, who cares? They just love me.


  13. Michelle: Hey, do you want to go away this weekend?
    Ross: .


  14. Ross: OK. It's time to go.
    Michelle: Well, call me.
    Ross: OK
    Michelle: No wait. You don't have my phone number.
    Ross: You know what? If it's meant to be, it. Bye, bye.
    Rachel: Score!
    Ross: Oh, I'm sorry. Did you not like her? Because I was hoping to one of your kissing parties on the balcony.
    Rachel: Oh god. You know, you're making such a big deal about this. It was one kiss, one guy, one time.


  15. Rachel: Oh, god. You know what? I don't .. Who do you think you are? Who are you to decide what messages ?
    Ross: Who am I?
    Rachel: Yes.
    Ross: I'm the guy who's taking care of our baby while you're out at bars meeting guys.
    Rachel: Oh my god. you. You know, I actually came in here, hoping to have a mature conversation with you about us, but that with someone who hides my messages and brings crazy women back to my apartment!


  16. Rachel: And you know, we said that we would live together as long as this made sense, and, you know, sense any more.
    Ross: Yeah, . So what do you want to do?
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    Joey: Hey!
    Rachel: Hi. here for a while?


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