Top 10 Favorite Friends “Food” Moments

6.

“The One with the Ride Along” (Season 5, Episode 20 – April 20, 1999)

When Phoebe’s cop boyfriend (Michael Rapaport) takes the guys out in his police car, a gunshot-like noise is heard and Joey lunges to protect his sandwich while covering Ross in the process. Ross assuming that Joey saved his life and him praising Joey as a hero was pretty funny.

Later on, we can see how food is serious business for Joey. After he tells Chandler about how he saved his sandwich — the best he’s ever had — instead of Ross. Chandler takes a bite and loves it, but Joey stops him before he goes for a second bite.

Watch how it started here.

5.

Jon Lovitz trolling Monica. Watch the clip above to see how it happened.

4.

“The One with Ross’s Sandwich” (Season 5, Episode 8 – December 10, 1998)

Ross brings his leftover Thanksgiving sandwich to work, but someone eats it. He finds out that it was his boss, who puts him on sabbatical and sends him to a psychiatrist for anger management therapy.

Watch how it happened here.

Rodrigo

YAM Magazine contributor, has a B. Sc. degree in Science/Pharmacy and is a very lazy person.

9 Responses

  1. Adrienne Lew says:

    I have a confession to make too: I love that chandler’s confession to monica actually tops the post.

    In a way, they both have OCDs (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders) of some sort:

    Monica’s — to expect the hell out of those who care about her
    Chandler’s — to give the heck of what he has for the one he loves

    And that’s what makes them a match made in heaven. ;>

    • Rodrigo says:

      @Adrienne Lew, I’m late to reply to this, but I love how you observe Chandler and Monica in the way they’re compatible. Flashbacks established Monica being the one who liked Chandler, but the way Friends did backstories and flashbacks varied according to time, lol.

      Still miles ahead of Ross and Rachel as a couple, and they weren’t drama-free. TV shows try to mold their couples a la R&R.

  2. amy says:

    Who doesn’t watch Friends’ reruns??? xD

    Hahaha! I usually roll my eyes with Joey now, but I agree with him. Don’t order a garden salad and then eat my fries xD

    I also agree with Ross, you don’t take other people’s sandwiches LOL

    But yeah, great list. Top 2 are perfect. Can’t argue with them. I wonder how I would react to Rachel’s meat dessert xD

    • Rodrigo says:

      @amy, I used to love Joey when the show was on the air. Later on, he was hit or miss for me (the worst was pairing him and Rachel), but nowhere near as hard to watch like Ross during the second half of the show. Joey is good on these food-related scenes due to his persona, though.

      I almost put Rachel’s dessert as #3, but after rewatching that scene and the Cheesecake parts, #2 was important considering how everyone reacted to it.

  3. Adrienne Lew says:

    To me, R&R vs. M&C represent two particular forms of love that could develop between the two sexes:

    a. The love that Ross has for Rachel is what I’d term as the “I love her FOR THE FACT THAT …” form. It’s mainly about her physical beauty, her personal taste level for all things beautiful, and so on.

    And that’s probably why it has been such a bumpy and rocky and winding road for them throughout the seasons. After all, it takes a lot of emotional and psychological adjustments on the part of Ross (and less so, but also true of Rachel towards Ross) to be able to continue loving his love after getting disillusioned.

    b. The kind of love that exists between C&M, however, is the “I love him/her IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT …” form.

    It is no secret that Monica is super high-maintenance and competitive; so does everyone knows and takes Chandler as a super ultra insecure and vulnerable guy. But in C&M’s eyes, somehow they see something beautiful and precious beyond the surface: C sees M’s rigor as the cure to his insecurity; M thinks of C’s “take all you can from me” attitude towards love to be so rare to come by. C is vulnerable not because he is born so … not just because he has been tortured by Janis before … but mainly becoz he is ready to give all his heart to the woman he finds comfort in.

    Hope I am not getting too analytic with this comment. :P

    • Rodrigo says:

      @Adrienne Lew, Ross and Rachel started on different positions, but both arrived to the pilot with scars from previous experiences and relationships. Ross started out as the guy who divorces his first wife after finding out she is a lesbian who got pregnant from him. Rachel was the girl who avoided a marriage out of fear of being tied to someone forever. Going to their past, young Ross crushed on young Rachel, but there was no way Rachel would acknowledge him in high school. On the pilot, now as adults and changed, both get a clean start. Ross and Rachel’s start was really good because of how they started.And it kept going up and down for all kind of reasons. Both (characters and actors) had their strengths and weaknesses, but David Crane (I’m mostly crediting him based on how Episodes and Joey went) managed to keep them going for 10 years.

      Other tv shows try to replicate R&R, but they mostly fail because they aim for the drama and romance aspects. There’s more to R&R than that.

      Lol, me talking a lot about R&R instead of C&M. And we’re not mentioning food that much.

      Interesting enough, Ross and Monica (brothers) had crushes on the persons they would eventually marry. Monica’s backstory might vary because of how the writing team chose to write their past in ways that sometimes defied logic (I can find some examples about this later).

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