The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion

It's interesting to watch this episode in 2017 in the context of the "Me too" movement. The whole butt-slapping boss plotline would never get by today.

The episode starts with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal popping in Central Perk. It was the best bit.

The second best bit was Monica's new boyfriend Pete (Jon Favreau) thinks he can be an Ultimate Fighting Champ despite having his butt repeatedly kicked. Pete is deluded enough to think he can bring his philosophy of succeeding in business to fighting. Either that or he was brain damaged from a punch.

Looking very much these days of sexual harassment. Chandler gets his butt repeatedly slapped by his boss. It has become so painful, he needs to put cream on it.

There were a few nice zingers that Friends is famous for. However at this stage, Matthew Perry looks too gaunt.

Hey, the producers probably though, let's have two top tier comedians cameo on the show to promote their new movie honing out the next day! Nothing could possibly go wrong!

Narrator: Things went wrong.

The opening scene where Robin Williams and Billy Crystal vie for a seat at the coffee house and then go on a long routine just isn't funny. It feels completely forced (which it was) and throws off the rhythm. And in the decades since, it looks more and more like an anomaly because the movie they were promoting, "Father's Day", was a flop and isn't really remembered all that well. So it was all a waste of time.