The One with the Invitation

All of these reviews about it being clips from previous shows....Uh...when this came out 20+ years ago...they weren't in syndication...no reruns...dvd box sets weren't a thing, i don't think. pretty sure it was vhs. wasn't in HD. If you missed an episode 20 years ago, you had to wait months for it to re air...and if you missed the re airing...good luck. You can wait a few years to see it again unless you rented the season on blockbuster once it came out...or bought an entire season...how much were they back then??? Like $50 a season? It was insane. This was fine.

All you gotta know is ross is trying to figure out if he wants rachel in his wedding or not. And then Rachel is trying to deciede if she actually wants to go.

Rest of the episode is only flashbacks of rachel-ross relationship moments.

This is the first of the 'Friends' flashback/clip episodes, and although I recognise the need for the producers to stretch the budget, there's a lazy quality to these episodes, and this one is no exception.

Yes, it's nice to see the most memorable moments of the Ross/Rachel relationship, but it doesn't necessarily make for the most interesting of episodes for the audience.

The linking scenes of new material are OK, but it's laboured stuff all round.

The beauty of DVD is that you can skip episodes like this and pretend they don't exist. I do.

This Friends episode is just a episode containing flashbacks of Ross and Rachel. The writers do a great job with these flashbacks, as they make it interesting. Like here with invitations, Joey's interview, Chandler and Monica's vows, etc. It also makes sense by saving the money for the season finales. Back in the day, people had to watch it on TV every week. It would be very easy to forget some of these scenes. And I get the argument of waiting a week or so for these types of episodes but I don't think fans of Friends would mind that much. It's actually a great trip down the memory lane.

Now would this arguably be the worst episode of Friends? Yes, probably but as a biased fan, I couldn't help but give it a 10.

So what if it's a compilation, mostly, of great scenes from prior episodes? Every now and then it was nice to look back at some quality stuff put together with a storyline...remember this was before streaming and many people didn't have season disc collections. So lighten up you givers of anything less than an "8"...or go watch Seinfeld...