The One After the Superbowl, Part One

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Friends season two
September 1995 - May 1996
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The One with Ross's New Girlfriend
  2. The One with the Breast Milk
  3. The One Where Heckles Dies
  4. The One with Phoebe's Husband
  5. The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant
  6. The One with the Baby on the Bus
  7. The One Where Ross Finds Out
  8. The One with the List
  9. The One with Phoebe's Dad
  10. The One with Russ
  11. The One with the Lesbian Wedding
  12. The One After the Superbowl, Part One
  13. The One After the Superbowl, Part Two
  14. The One with the Prom Video
  15. The One Where Ross and Rachel...You Know
  16. The One Where Joey Moves Out
  17. The One Where Eddie Moves In
  18. The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies
  19. The One Where Eddie Won't Go
  20. The One Where Old Yeller Dies
  21. The One with the Bullies
  22. The One with the Two Parties
  23. The One with the Chicken Pox
  24. The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding

"The One After the Superbowl, Part One" is the twelfth episode of season two of the television situation comedy Friends. It was first aired on January 28, 1996, after NBC's telecast of Super Bowl XXX, and was most watched episode of Friends ever to air, drawing 52.9M viewers.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

Ross sees a beer commercial with a monkey in it, and is reminded of his old pet monkey, Marcel. Wondering how Marcel is doing, he travels to San Diego to visit. When he gets there, however, zoo manager Mr. Lipson tells him Marcel has died. As he's readying to leave, a zookeeper tells him that Marcel was actually stolen from the zoo, forced into show business - and currently filming a movie in New York.

Joey gets his first piece of fan mail - which turns out to be from a stalker, Erika Ford. He goes to confront her, and learns she thinks he is actually his Days of Our Lives character, Dr. Drake Ramoray, and that the soap opera is Joey's real life (to the point that when she sees her beloved 'Drake' making out with a patient, she goes enraged to Joey's apartment to demand an explanation). They wind up dating for a short time, until Joey realises she's too crazy for his liking. So he tells her he's actually Drake's evil twin brother, Hans, which gets her to leave him alone.

Phoebe is hired to sing songs for kids at the local library. She starts dating the man who hired her, Rob Donnen - but he ends up firing her because parents complained her songs are too real. After her firing, the kids venture to Central Perk to hear her sing - they loved her realistic songs.

[edit] Trivia

  • Executives at NBC were very impressed with Brooke Shields' guest turn as Erika in this episode - so impressed, in fact, they created the sitcom Suddenly Susan for her based on her performance.

[edit] Additional cast

Mr. Lipson - Fred Willard
Zookeeper - Dan Castellaneta
Erika Ford - Brooke Shields
Rob Donnen - Chris Isaak
Kid - Tahj Mowry


Preceded by:
The One With the Lesbian Wedding		 List of Friends episodes Followed by:
The One After the Superbowl, Part Two
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