Rachel Kisses a Lesbian
Added 2020-09-16 23:21:44 +0000 UTC“The One with Rachel's Big Kiss” (April 26, 2001)
Welcome back Emelie Battaglia for another go-around with America’s favorite homophobic sitcom, Friends! This episode has “Chandler is gay” jokes aplenty, even if he’s about to marry Monica, but the focus is actually on Rachel, who encounters a college acquaintance (Winona Ryder) with whom she once shared a kiss. This episode features two more woman-on-woman kisses than the one where Carol and Susan get married — ahem — and Drew eagly reveals that Regina Phalange’s name literally translates as “finger queen.” Ahem.
Listen to our previous episodes: “Ross’s Lesbian Ex-Wife Gets Lesbian Married,” “Everyone Thinks Chandler Is Gay,” and for reasons that will become apparent if you listen to it, our episode about Living Single.
Here’s the Guardian interview with David Schwimmer were pulls a real Ross, and here is Erika Alexander’s response.
And here’s the news item that at least for 24 hours made people think Matthew Perry might be the next James Bond.
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Oh!! In this episode Glen mentions a post he saw online that said, “Remember when Ross from ’Friends’ could just say the word ‘lesbian’ and the audience would laugh?” WELL as a former Friends super fan (I was, like, 13), I listened to every commentary track on all ten seasons of the DVDs, and there’s one where series co-creator Marta Kauffman explicitly says something to the effect of, “We could always guarantee a laugh by having a character say ‘nipple or ‘lesbian,’ so if there was ever a scene that needed an extra joke we’d just stick one of those words in there.”
Jared Wolf
2020-10-21 03:39:26 +0000 UTCIt boggles the mind
Drew Mackie
2020-09-19 16:21:00 +0000 UTCYou know, I even like Matthew Perry well enough as an actor, but he would have been a HORRIBLE James Bond. I'd completely forgotten that rumour.
Autographedcat
2020-09-16 23:31:13 +0000 UTC
