The One with the Kips
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"The One With The Kips" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the sitcom Friends.
First aired: October 29, 1998
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[edit] Plot
Chandler and Monica decide to go away for a romantic weekend to Atlantic City. To make sure their relationship remains secret, they decide to say they are going on business trips.
Ross sits down to tell Rachel that the only way he could save his marriage to Emily was if he agreed to never see Rachel again. However, he puts it off because Rachel is so sad about her dog, LaPooh, dying.
At their hotel in Atlantic City, Chandler is only interested in a high-speed car chase on TV, while Monica (a clean-freak) insists on changing hotel rooms several times because of unclean glasses or a smelly carpet. Instead of "a whole lotta naked," the two just fight all weekend and return home angry at each other.
When Ross finally tells Rachel, she is so furious that he agreed to Emily's demand that she storms out of her own apartment. At Central Perk, Rachel tells everyone (minus Ross) that she is afraid of being Kip, Chandler's old roommate who was phased out of the group after he broke up with Monica and moved out of Chandler's apartment. Ross voluntarily becomes Kip, saying that he should step back from the group because he is the one making things change.
Chandler tells Joey that the weekend was a total bust, though he did get to see Donald Trump getting into an elevator. When the hotel calls to tell Chandler that he left an eyelash curler in his room, Joey asks Chandler if he went on a gay cruise, and eventually gets him to admit that he was with a woman.
Chandler assumes that his relationship with Monica is over: "We had a fight." "Chandler, that's crazy! If you give up every time you'd have a fight with someone, you'd never be with anyone longer than—Ohhh!" They agree to make up and keep trying ("Welcome to an adult relationship!"). However, they are nearly exposed when Joey - after hearing Monica saying that she saw Donald Trump getting on an elevator and asking to borrow Rachel's eyelash curler - puts two and two together and realizes (for the first time, he realises about it before anybody else) that Monica and Chandler were together over the weekend. Chandler manages to get him into Monica's bedroom before he can blab, and the two of them make Joey promise to keep the relationship secret.
[edit] Goofs
- Ross and Emily did not consummate their marriage. Therefore, Ross had no need for a divorce - under English law, the marriage could have been annulled (any previous sexual relationship would have been irrelevant).[citation needed].
[edit] Trivia
- The show that is playing after the car chase is ER.
[edit] Writer/Director
- Writer: Scott Silveri
- Director: Dana de Vally
| Preceded by "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS" |
List of Friends episodes | Followed by "The One With the Yeti" |
