The One with the Soap Opera Party
- Episode aired Apr 24, 2003
- TV-PG
- 22m
Joey throws a cast party on the roof of his building where he ends up making out with an attractive professor that Ross had a crush on.Joey throws a cast party on the roof of his building where he ends up making out with an attractive professor that Ross had a crush on.Joey throws a cast party on the roof of his building where he ends up making out with an attractive professor that Ross had a crush on.
- Monica Geller-Bing
- (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
- Joey Tribbiani
- (as Matt Le Blanc)
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Farah Fath
- (uncredited)
- Jan Rogers
- (uncredited)
- Alexis Thorpe
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFour stars of the real version of the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives (1965) had cameos, attending Joey's rooftop 'Soap Opera' party as themselves; Kyle Lowder who played Brady Black from 2000 to 2005 and Matthew Ashford who played Jack Deveraux from 1987 to 2012. Also, in the background, are Farrah Fath who played Mimi Lockhart, and Alexis Thorpe who played Cassie Brady.
- GoofsDuring Joey's party, all the clocks on the buildings in the background don't move.
- Quotes
Rachel Green: You are having a party tonight?
Joey Tribbiani: I am kind of having a thing for the Days of Our Lives people.
Rachel Green: And you weren't gonna tell us? How did you think you were gonna get away with that?
Joey Tribbiani: I do it every year.
Rachel Green: You do it every year?
Joey Tribbiani: I didn't have to tell you that!
Rachel Green: That's why you got us tickets to that play! To get rid of us!
Joey Tribbiani: Yeah...
Rachel Green: And last year, is that why you sent us to that Medieval times restaurant?
Joey Tribbiani: Yeah...
Rachel Green: And the year before that, when you set up that nightime tour of that button factory!
Joey Tribbiani: I can't believe you guys went for that one!
- ConnectionsReferences Vendetta (1950)
In a typical failed attempt to convey intelligence by someone who is not very intelligent, we are shown a character who is so smart that she only dates Nobel prize winners. And not just that, one of her boyfriends was a double laureate. Now, just to show how stupid the idea is, at the time of writing this, there were 892 individuals in history who have been awarded the Nobel prize, and only FIVE of them got two. No person got three. But to the clearly not very intelligent person who wrote this, Nobel prize is something similar to a participation trophy in an elementary school race, and it is handed to everybody who happens to be walking by. Never mind that there is no such thing as a Nobel prize for paleontology. But to a stupid person, the recipe for writing a smart character is connecting it to something smart they heard of, and then saying "But, wait, he doesn't have one smart thingy - he has ten smart thingies! Boy that is so smart! And so am I!" This episode also introduces Charlie, probably the worst of the recurring support characters in the history of the show. No doubt thrown in just because of the criticism for "the lack of diversity". Charlie was not interesting, her acting was weak, and on top of it all, she was just average looking, while she was supposed to be gorgeous. Then again, this is nothing new for this show. Just think of all the time different characters made a fuss about how gorgeous looking Phoebe is, which was funny for all the wrong reasons, when you consider Lisa Kudrow's looks.
- puzgolac
- Aug 8, 2023
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