The One with the Football

Episode aired Nov 21, 1996
TV-PG
22m

IMDb RATING

8.9/10

7.5K

YOUR RATING

Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)

Comedy Romance

Old sibling rivalry between Monica and Ross resurfaces and postpones Thanksgiving dinner when the gang decide to play a game of "touch" football.Old sibling rivalry between Monica and Ross resurfaces and postpones Thanksgiving dinner when the gang decide to play a game of "touch" football.Old sibling rivalry between Monica and Ross resurfaces and postpones Thanksgiving dinner when the gang decide to play a game of "touch" football.

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IMDb RATING

8.9/10

7.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The two children on the swings in this episode are Marta Kauffman's children.

Goofs
The accent of Margha is clearly not Dutch. (It's more a kind of Russian accent)

Quotes
Chandler: Hey Joey, where do Dutch people come from?
Joey: Uh... well the Pennsylvania Dutch come from Pennsylvania.
Chandler: and the other Dutch come from somewhere near the Netherlands right?
Joey: Nice try, see the Netherlands is this make believe place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from.

Connections
Featured in Friends: The One Where Chandler Gets Caught (2004)

Soundtracks
Get Ready for This
(uncredited)
Written by Phil Wilde, Jean-Paul DeCoster, Ray Slijngaard and Simon Harris
Performed by 2 Unlimited

User reviews19

Featured review

10/10

Top 5 episode.

Remember when friends was good ?? Before season 5. Anything after season 5 is unwatchable and 20 years later when it's being played on television I turn off when it's post series5.

Series 3 definitely when the show peaked. Quality episodes. Characters all had their roles and gags. The stories from episode to episode were light and funny and all seemed plausible.

Football one is class. Would be top 5 episode comfortably.

I see a lot of people don't like the Dutch girl hahahah it doesn't really matter plus the gag about netherlands / never land is great.

Class episode. All these years later.