The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel

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Friends season three September 1996 - May 1997 List of Friends episodes
Episodes: The One with the Princess Leia Fantasy The One Where No One's Ready The One with the Jam The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel The One with Frank, Jr. The One with the Flashback The One with the Race Car Bed The One with the Giant Poking Device The One with the Football The One Where Rachel Quits The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister The One with All the Jealousy The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends The One with Phoebe's Ex-partner The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break The One the Morning After The One Without the Ski Trip The One with the Hypnosis Tape The One with the Tiny T-Shirt The One with the Dollhouse The One with a Chick. And a Duck. The One with the Screamer The One with Ross's Thing The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion The One at the Beach

"The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel" is the fourth episode of the third season of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: October 10, 1996

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Goofs
4 Additional cast

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Joey stars in an infomercial for a product called the "Milk Master 2000," much to the amusement of his friends. Later, Phoebe pretends to be his agent because she forgets to give him a message about an audition. She's so good at it, Joey asks her to represent him full time - but she turns him down, because she doesn't want to see Joey get rejected for roles.

Chandler starts freaking out because he and Janice are moving closer to a committed relationship - and he's scared of commitment. Joey convinces him to go through the metaphorical "commitment" tunnel and be the most committed guy there is. Chandler, however, becomes so committed, he ends up scaring Janice off when he suggests moving in together. He does a series of weird things - calls her to apologize in advance for chasing her down the street, and even throws a bag of barley at her in a grocery store. Monica and Rachel console him with ice cream. Chandler then decides to call Janice, who ends up forgiving him for his freakout.

Ross frets over Ben's favorite toy - which happens to be a Barbie doll. He then tries - with minimal success - to get him interested in more masculine toys. Monica then reveals that when Ross was a boy, he would dress up as a woman, have tea parties, and make people call him "Bea." He even had a song: "I am Bea, I drink tea. Won't you dance around with me?"

[edit] Trivia

Contrary to all descriptions of Monica's childhood weight problem (including an incident where they had to call sixth graders to teeter-totter with her when she was in kindergarten), young Monica in the home movie is thin.