The One Where Underdog Gets Away

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Friends season one
September 1994 - May 1995
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The Pilot
  2. The One with the Sonogram at the End
  3. The One with the Thumb
  4. The One with George Stephanopoulos
  5. The One with the East German Laundry Detergent
  6. The One with the Butt
  7. The One with the Blackout
  8. The One Where Nana Dies Twice
  9. The One Where Underdog Gets Away
  10. The One with the Monkey
  11. The One with Mrs. Bing
  12. The One with the Dozen Lasagnas
  13. The One with the Boobies
  14. The One with the Candy Hearts
  15. The One with the Stoned Guy
  16. The One with Two Parts, Part One
  17. The One with Two Parts, Part Two
  18. The One with all the Poker
  19. The One Where the Monkey Gets Away
  20. The One with the Evil Orthodontist
  21. The One with the Fake Monica
  22. The One with the Ick Factor
  23. The One with the Birth
  24. The One Where Rachel Finds Out

"The One Where Underdog Gets Away" is the ninth episode of season one of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: November 17, 1994

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

This episode of Friends takes place on Thanksgiving. Monica and Ross decide to have Thanksgiving dinner together because their parents are away. Monica makes mashed potatoes creamy but Ross asks her to make some that are lumpy, "the way Mom makes it". She obliges.

Joey just got a job to be a model for a public health poster. However, while trying to hit on a woman on the subway, he sees the poster and finds out that he is depicted as a man with sexually transmitted disease. His family finds out and he is uninvited to Thanksgiving dinner with them. He asks to join Monica and Ross for dinner and requests that Monica make a special kind of potato (in the form of tater tots) to remind him of home.

Phoebe was planning to have dinner with her grandmother, but ends up going to Monica's dinner because her grandmother and her boyfriend will be celebrating Thanksgiving in December, because he is lunar. She also requests that her potatoes be made a certain way.

Rachel plans to go to Vail, Colorado with her family for skiing. However, before she leaves they all go to the roof of the apartment to see the Underdog balloon that got away from the Thanksgiving day parade. When they come back to the apartment, they realize they have locked themselves out. By the time they get inside, Thanksgiving dinner is ruined and Rachel misses her flight.

They end up eating grilled cheese sandwiches and Funyuns, which were originally for Chandler because he hates anything to do with Thanksgiving. Chandler is pleased that everyone's Thanksgiving is ruined so that they can share in his misery.

[edit] Trivia

  • This is the first thanksgiving the Friends are celebrating.


Preceded by
"The One Where Nana Dies Twice"		 List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One With the Monkey"
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