The One with the Sharks

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Friends season nine
September 2002 - May 2003
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The One Where No One Proposes
  2. The One Where Emma Cries
  3. The One with the Pediatrician
  4. The One with the Sharks
  5. The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner
  6. The One with the Male Nanny
    (The 200th episode)
  7. The One with Ross's Inappropriate Song
  8. The One with Rachel's Other Sister
  9. The One with Rachel's Phone Number
  10. The One with Christmas in Tulsa
  11. The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work
  12. The One with Phoebe's Rats
  13. The One Where Monica Sings
  14. The One with the Blind Dates
  15. The One with the Mugging
  16. The One with the Boob Job
  17. The One with the Memorial Service
  18. The One with the Lottery
  19. The One with Rachel's Dream
  20. The One with the Soap Opera Party
  21. The One with the Fertility Test
  22. The One with the Donor
  23. The One in Barbados, Part One
  24. The One in Barbados, Part Two

The One with the Sharks is the fourth episode of season nine of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: October 17, 2002

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Ross and Phoebe are in Central Perk, as Phoebe is preparing for her date with Mike. Ross tells her that he is really impressed that she dates all these guys without having a serious relationship with any of them. This upsets Phoebe, as she realises that she's in her 30s and has never been in a long-term relationship. She begins to cry as a result, just as Mike arrives to pick her up.

Joey is checking out a girl in Central Perk, but is having trouble figuring out if she is attractive or not, since her back is to him. When she turns around, he sees that she is very beautiful and asks her out on a date, and she says yes. While on their date, he notices that everything in her apartment looks very familiar, and he figures that he must have slept with her before. He confronts her about this, but she says that he's wrong. Eventually, the girl's roommate comes back, and recognizes Joey, and he realizes that he slept with the roommate. This abruptly ends their date.

Ross, feeling bad about what he did, decides to go to Mike's apartment to talk about what happened with Phoebe. He tells Mike what he did, and Mike is okay with it; in fact, he had just asked Phoebe out on another date. When he asks Ross about whether or not Phoebe never been in a long-term relationship is true, Ross tells him that Phoebe had a serious relationship with a man named "Vikrum". Later, he tells Phoebe about her "six-year relationship" with "Vikrum" and that he is a kite designer who used to date Oprah. He wants her to go along with the story, but she refuses. She agrees to be honest with Mike, but when he shows up, she goes along Ross's story. As Phoebe continues to talk about Vikrum, she eventually decides to tell Mike the truth that there is no such person by that name; and that she's never been in a long-term relationship. Mike decides to give their relationship a chance. Ross then calls Phoebe's home pretending to be Vikrum.

Monica is disappointed that Chandler has to stay in Tulsa for the weekend, so Joey suggests that she go to Tulsa and surprise him. She agrees. Before she arrives, Chandler decides to watch some pay-per-view porn. As he is pleasuring himself, Monica enters the room, just as Chandler changes the channel to a documentary about sharks. Monica then calls Rachel and tells her that she thinks Chandler is aroused by sharks. Chandler arrives back in New York and Monica surprises him with a video documentary on sharks. Chandler becomes confused with why she is doing this, so she tells him that it turns him on. When she questions his actions from the previous day, Chandler tells her that he changed the channel when she walked in, and that he was just watching regular girl-on-girl porn. Monica becomes relaxed upon hearing this.

At the end, Joey and Phoebe are sitting in Central Perk and Joey is deciding whether he should approach a woman who enters the cafe (Joey: "Did I sleep with her, did I not sleep with her?"). Phoebe tells him that he's in his 30s and has never been in a long-term relationship, trying to make him feel as bad as she did when Ross told her that. It backfires as Joey concludes that he loves his life. He decides to go for it, but realizes that he's slept with her before and quickly sits back down.

[edit] Additional cast

Mike Hannigan - Paul Rudd
Hayley - Susan Ward


[edit] Quotes

  • Monica: (on the phone with Rachel) Yes! Chandler watches shark porn!
Preceded by
"The One with the Pediatrician"
List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner"