The One with Unagi

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Friends season six September 1999 - May 2000 List of Friends episodes
Episodes: The One After Vegas The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel The One with Ross's Denial The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance The One with Joey's Porsche The One on the Last Night The One Where Phoebe Runs The One with Ross's Teeth The One Where Ross Got High The One with the Routine (a.k.a. The One With The Rockin' New Year) The One with the Apothecary Table The One with the Joke The One with Rachel's Sister The One Where Chandler Can't Cry The One that Could Have Been, Part 1 The One that Could Have Been, Part 2 The One with Unagi (a.k.a. The One With the Mix Tape) The One Where Ross Dates a Student The One with Joey's Fridge The One with Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad The One Where Paul's the Man The One with the Ring The One with the Proposal, Part 1 The One with the Proposal, Part 2

"The One With Unagi" is the seventeenth episode of season six of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: February 24, 2000

[edit] Plot

Joey, unhired by the acting industry, is making ends meet by working at Central Perk, a task at which he is singularly ill-suited, as he keeps getting distracted by his friends and drinking other people's coffee. Ross suggests some alternative form of employment, and Joey looks into medical studies at the local hospital. He finds one that pays $2,000 for twins, and hires a fake twin, Carl, at an audition. Unfortunately, Carl is Joey's twin in terms of brainpower, and the ruse fails miserably.

Chandler bursts into a panic when he remembers that he and Monica have agreed to make each other's Valentine's Day gifts this year ("She was working on Valentine’s Day so we’re celebrating it tonight"). Phoebe offers him a bunny rabbit composed of Rachel's socks, but Chandler insists on trying for himself. He ends up with a coat hanger and several paper cups wired together into a... Something. He ends up grabbing a cassette tape to stand in for a homemade mix tape. Monica, who also forgot, gives him Phoebe's sock-bunny and then launches into a furious campaign of please-forgive-me sex and homemade meals. Chandler, seeing a good thing, doesn't correct her misconception, but is discovered when the tape turns out to be a homemade mix tape—from Janice.

Finally, Rachel and Phoebe take a women's self-defense class together, and Rachel feels confident, which Ross scoffs at. It has taken him long years of karate lessons, he claims, to master the true essence of self-defense: "unagi", which Ross claims is an almost precognitive awareness of nearby danger. (Everyone else asks him, rightly, if it isn't actually a form of sushi.) To prove that Rachel and Phoebe haven't reached an "unagi"-infused state of mind, he sets up a number of "scary" ambushes on them, only to find out first-hand that if anyone doesn't have it, it's Ross himself.