The One with Phoebe's Dad

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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 With Phoebe's Dad" is the ninth episode of season two of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: December 14, 1995.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Monica and Rachel give out homemade cookies as tips to their mailman, paperboy, and superintendent because they're short on cash. However, the tips aren't very well received - the girls start getting smashed packages and mangled newspapers with the crossword already filled in. Ross points out that the paperboy isn't very good at the crossword, "unless 14-across - Gershwin musical - actually is 'bitemebitemebiteme.'" The knob on their radiator breaks, just before the girls are to host a Christmas party (Ross suggestes for a theme party: "Hey, here's a theme: Come on in, live like bacon.")

Trying to make amends for the List, Ross pesters Rachel to make a list about him. She does, but then he obsesses about her complaints. One of her complaints is that he doesn't ever "seize the day." At the party, he tries to do just that by tipping the super, Mr. Treeger, $100 in order to fix the girls' radiator since Ross thinks he hated their cookies. Mr. Treeger says the reason he hasn't fixed the radiator is because the part won't be in for a few more days, and he actually did like the cookies.

Phoebe confronts her grandmother about her father, demanding to know the truth. Grandma reveals he lives upstate, so Phoebe decides to go meet him - and brings Chandler and Joey along with her for moral support. However, when she pulls up to his house, she can't bring herself to knock on the door.

When the three come back from Phoebe's attempt to meet her father, they are surprised by the heat (Chandler says "Ho, ho, ho, holy crap is it hot in here!"), and Joey actually manages to turn the radiator off - just using the knob underneath. Since they went Upstate with Phoebe, Chandler and Joey didn't have time to buy Christmas presents for everyone, so they make do with things they picked up at the gas station. These gifts include windshield wipers and a bottle of "New Car Smell" for Rachel, a box of paper toilet seat covers for Phoebe (who actually liked her gift), a cola drink ("and a LEMON LIME!") for Ross, and condoms for Monica ("They're ribbed for your pleasure," explains Joey).

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Preceded by
"The One With the List"		 List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One With Russ"
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