The One with the Race Car Bed

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Friends season three
September 1996 - May 1997
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The One with the Princess Leia Fantasy
  2. The One Where No One's Ready
  3. The One with the Jam
  4. The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel
  5. The One with Frank, Jr.
  6. The One with the Flashback
  7. The One with the Race Car Bed
  8. The One with the Giant Poking Device
  9. The One with the Football
  10. The One Where Rachel Quits
  11. The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister
  12. The One with All the Jealousy
  13. The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends
  14. The One with Phoebe's Ex-partner
  15. The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break
  16. The One the Morning After
  17. The One Without the Ski Trip
  18. The One with the Hypnosis Tape
  19. The One with the Tiny T-Shirt
  20. The One with the Dollhouse
  21. The One with a Chick. And a Duck.
  22. The One with the Screamer
  23. The One with Ross's Thing
  24. The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion
  25. The One at the Beach

"The One with the Race Car Bed" is the seventh episode of season three of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: November 7, 1996

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

The gang sees a commercial for the Mattress King, the bed store owned by Janice's soon-to-be ex-husband. Seems the Mattress King is using their divorce to help sell his mattresses. The prices are so low, Monica can't resist the sale and decides to buy a mattress from the store. Monica isn't home when the bed is delivered, so Phoebe signs for it - but instead of the bed Monica ordered, they deliver a child's racecar bed.

Meanwhile, Joey gets a job teaching a community education class - "Acting for Soap Operas." He's glad to teach his students some of his "tricks of the trade" - looking evil by pretending to have a fishhook in your eyebrow, looking confused by doing long division in your head, etc. While teaching, he gets an audition to play a boxer on All My Children - and finds out that one of his students is also up for the part. When the student asks Joey for advice, Joey tries to fix the audition by telling him to play the boxer gay. Unfortunately for Joey, this backfires - the producers loved what the student did with the role, and awarded it to him instead.

In order to get her father to like Ross, Rachel arranges for the three of them to have dinner. The dinner is disastrous - Ross can't seem to make a good impression, and makes matters worse when he tries to leave their waiter a decent tip. The next morning, he tries to make things right over brunch, where he and Dr. Green finally find something to talk about - namely, some of Rachel's bad choices.

Joey and Monica go to the Mattress King showroom to return the racecar bed. Since "Monica" signed for the bed, the store won't take it back. Joey demands to speak to the Mattress King himself - but when he starts to storm into his office, he sees the King kissing Janice.

[edit] Trivia

  • When Phoebe signed for the racecar bed, she used the name "Monica Fallula Geller."
  • Rachel's chiropractor is named Dr. Robert Bobby.
  • One of Ross's allergies, lobster, is mentioned again in this episode.
  • Pheobe exhibits a degree of telepathy at the start of this episode, when she seems to be able to hear Joey singing in his head.

[edit] Additional cast


Preceded by
"The One With the Flashback"		 List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One With the Giant Poking Device"
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