The One with the Free Porn

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Friends season four
September 1997 - May 1998
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The One with the Jellyfish
  2. The One with the Cat
  3. The One with the 'Cuffs
  4. The One with the Ballroom Dancing
  5. The One with Joey's New Girlfriend
  6. The One with the Dirty Girl
  7. The One Where Chandler Crosses the Line
  8. The One with Chandler in a Box
  9. The One Where They're Going to Party
  10. The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie
  11. The One with Phoebe's Uterus
  12. The One with the Embryos
  13. The One with Rachel's Crush
  14. The One with Joey's Dirty Day
  15. The One with All the Rugby
  16. The One with the Fake Party
  17. The One with the Free Porn
  18. The One with Rachel's New Dress
  19. The One with All the Haste
  20. The One with the Wedding Dresses
  21. The One with the Invitations
  22. The One with the Worst Best Man Ever
  23. The One with Ross's Wedding, Part One
  24. The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two

"The One With The Free Porn" is the seventeenth episode of season four of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: March 26, 1998

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

In the teaser, Joey and Chandler, still in Monica's apartment (see The One With the Embryos), flip channels on their television and discover a pornography channel that is normally pay-per-view. The Super, Mr. Treeger, who has had the same experience, tells them that turning the TV off will probably cause them to lose the channel, so it remains on throughout the episode and is occasionally referenced in other subplots.

Phoebe is reminded by the porn channel that she needs to see her OB/GYN in relation to her pregnancy (see The One With Phoebe's Uterus); she discovers that she's carrying triplets. The babies' parents, Frank Jr. and Alice, are thrilled, but Frank Jr. will have to drop out of refrigerator college to support his new children. This leads to Phoebe attempting to make a few quick bucks as a knife salesman (and also by starting a Saturn dealership), but Rachel provides the brainstorm: they should form a combination taxi and massage parlor service by installing Phoebe's massage table in the van from Monica's short-lived catering business. Frank Jr. will drive while Phoebe massages. Rachel provides a name - Relaxicab. Phoebe prefers Relaxi-Taxi.

Ross Geller mopes over the end of his two-week fling with Emily Waltham, who is flying back to London. Monica urges him to confess his love for her at the airport boarding gate, but Emily's response is less than enthusiastic - "Oh. Thank you." After she arrives in London, she gives him a disturbing phone call - there's another man named Colin. Ross travels to London himself upon Monica's goading, and spends an unhappy night outside Emily's apartment, which she does not return to. Unexpectedly, she turns up outside Monica's apartment since she couldn't find him at his place. Ross overhears Emily's answerphone on which Emily tells him that she loves him too, and its all over between her and Colin. Ross scrambles to a nearby telephone kiosk and intercepts her. Emily says "Ross, I love you!", to which Ross responds with a "Oh! Thank you."

[edit] Additional cast

[edit] Trivia

  • This was the only Friends episode that was issued a certificate of 15 in the United Kingdom. All other Friends episodes were either a PG or a 12. This was most likely due to Chandler and Joey getting free porn in the episode, a small clip of the porn was shown but it didn't include any nudity.
  • The message on the Magna Doodle says "Clean bathroom" and later on "Knock, knock, who's there? PORN!"
  • One of the actors in the porn movie is actually Ron Jeremy.
  • The tune Rachel is humming is actually the ending of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas.


Preceded by
"The One With The Fake Party"
List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One With Rachel's New Dress"