Episode 3 - 08: The One With The Giant Poking Device
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's,
Phoebe, Chandler, and Ross are there, Rachel is serving brownies.]
Rachel: Here you go Pheebs. Who else wants one of my
special homemade brownies?
Chandler: I will have one. (Ross and him both take one.)
(Phoebe takes a bite and spits it out and screams.)
Chandler: Okay, Im not gonna have one.
Ross: Neither will I. (they both put back the brownies.)
Phoebe: No, no, its just my tooth.
Chandler: All right Ill have one. (he and Ross take
another brownie,)
Ross: So whats a matter, you need a dentist? Ive
got a good one.
Phoebe: No thanks, I have a good one too. I just, I, I cant
see him.
Chandler: See that is the problem with invisible dentists.
Ross: Why? Why cant you go to him?
Phoebe: Because, every time I go to the dentist, somebody
dies.
Chandler: That is so weird, because every time I go to the
dentist, I look down the hygienists blouse.
Rachel: Phoebe, what? Umm...what?!
Phoebe: Yeah, yeah, first there was my aunt Mary, and then
there was umm, John, my mailman, and then my, my cowboy friend
Albino Bob.
Rachel: And all these people actually died?
Phoebe: Yes, while I was in the chair! Thats why I
take such good care of my teeth now, y'know, its not about
oral hygiene, I floss to save lives!
Ross: Pheebs, come on, you didnt kill anybody, these
people just happened to die when you went to the dentist. Its,
its, its just ah, a coincidence.
Phoebe: Well tell that to them. Oh! You cant, their
dead.
OPENING CREDITS
[Scene: Central Perk, Ross, Rachel, and Phoebe are there.]
Ross: Thanks, Gunther. (takes the plate Gunther serves him
and Rachel comes up and kisses him) (to Rachel) Hey! (to Gunther)
Umm, can I get a napkin too?
Gunther: Oh, like you dont already have everything.
Phoebe: (trying to bite into an apple) Ow! Ow! (drops the
apple in disgust.)
Rachel: Phoebe, your in pain, would you just go to the
dentist, just go.
Phoebe: All right, fine, fine, but if youre my next
victim, dont come back as a poltergeist and like suck me
into the TV set.
Rachel: I promise.
Phoebe: Although, dont feel like you cant
visit.
Joey: (entering with Monica) Hey, is, is, is Chandler
here?
Ross: (patting his clothes like he is looking for his
wallet) No, no hes not.
Monica: You guys, Joey just saw Janice kissing her ex-husband.
Ross: What? (to Joey) So what are you going to do? I mean
how, how are you going to tell Chandler?
Joey: Well, I was thinking about that and I, I think the
best way would be, to not.
Rachel: Joey, you cant keep this to yourself, if you
know about this, you have to tell him.
Joey: Itll kill him. I mean itll, itll
just kill him.
Phoebe: Well, you could wait til I go to the
dentist, maybe Ill kill him.
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, All are there except for Chandler.]
Joey: (looking out the window) Ewww! Ugly Naked Guy is
using his new hammock. Its like a Play-Doo Fat
Factory.
Phoebe: Well, Im going to the dentist, so listen,
okay, just be on the look out for anything that, that, that you
can fall into, or, or that can fall on you, or... All right, just
look out! Okay, And um, I also just wanna, I just wanna tell you
all that um...... (starts to cry and runs out)
Ross: Okay, I have a problem I have to go into work for a
few hours, some kids messed up the Homo Sapien display.
Joey: What did they do?
Ross: Well, they painted over the word Sapien
for one thing, then they rearranged the figures, lets just
leave it at that.
Monica: So, do you want me to watch Ben for you?
Ross: Yes, thats what I was going to ask, thank you.
Rachel: Whoa! Wait! Hello! What about me?
Ross: You? You! Want to watch Ben? (in the background
Monica mouths Dont worry, Ill be here the whole
time. to Ross.) Yes! Thatd be great, no, I just
wanted to ask Monica, because I know how empty her life is. (Monica
sarcastically mouths Yeah! and holds up her thumb.)
Joey: Hey-hey, Ross?
Ross: Yeah.
Joey: Ive got a science question.
Ross: Hmm?
Joey: If the Homo Sapiens, were in fact Homo-sapien,
is that why there extinct?
Ross: Joey, Homo Sapiens are people.
Joey: Hey-hey, Im not judging.
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Rachel are babysitting
Ben.]
Rachel: (holding Ben) Look Benny, spoon. (moves it back
and forth) Spoon. Come on! All right, y'know what I think hes
bored.
Monica: Here. Ben, do you wanna play the airplane game, do
you wanna show Rachel? Come here. (takes Ben) Were gonna do
something fun. Okay. (throws Ben up in the air a little bit and
catches him) Weee!! (moves into the living room and does it again)
Weee!! (starts to walk back into the kitchen as she does it
again, and hits Bens head on that wooden beam across the
ceiling.)
[cut to later]
Monica: (to Ben) Whos so brave, youre so
brave, yes you are, youre so brave.
Rachel: Okay. Okay honey, hes fine, hes fine,
lets just put him down. Come here, Ben. (sets him on the
couch) See thats a good boy. (to Monica) How could you do
that to him!! Ross trusted me, what is he going to say?!
Monica: Hes not gonna say anything, because were
not gonna tell him.
Rachel: Were not?!
Monica: No were not.
Rachel: All right, I like that.
Monica: Okay.
Rachel: So were okay, were okay, were
okay, (starts to exam Ben) arent we? No, were not
okay, were not okay, theres a bump, theres a
bump.
Monica: Oh my God! Well push it in! Push it in!
Rachel: I cannot push it in!
Monica: Okay, were gonna need a distraction.
Rachel: Okay, okay, okay.
Monica: I got it!
Rachel: Okay.
Monica: The second that Ross walks in that door, I want
you take him back to your bedroom and do whatever it is that you
do that makes him go, (high pitched) rweee!!
Rachel: Or. We could put a hat on his head.
Monica: A hat! Yes! We need a hat.
Rachel: We need a hat..
Monica: Where are we gonna find a tiny little hat?
Rachel: Oh, oh, oh, Ill get Rainy Day Bear!!
(runs to get him)
Monica: Because hell know what to do? (Rachel comes
out of her room with a bear thats dressed in a rain suit.)
Oh my God, youre a genius!
Rachel: Oh God, oh God, its sowed on though.
Monica: Give it. Give it.
Rachel: Okay.
(Monica takes the bear, grabs his hat, and rips off his head.)
Monica and Rachel: Oh!!
Rachel: Oh, its just like a bloodbath in here today.
[Scene: The street, Chandler and Joey are walking past a jewelery
store.]
Chandler: Hey! Hold on a minute, hold on a second. Do you
think these pearls are nice?
Joey: Id really prefer a mountain bike.
Chandler: Janices birthday is coming up, I want to
get her something speacial. Come in here with me.
Joey: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, whoa. Do you ah, want to get
her something speacial, get her flowers, get her candy, get her
gum, girls love gum.
Chandler: Thats a good idea, Dear Janice have
a Hubba-Bubba birthday. I would like to get her something
serious.
Joey: Oh, you want something serious. Y'know what you
should do, you should get her one of those um, barium enemas.
Those are dead serious.
Chandler: All right. Look, Im gonna go in here, and
you dont buy me anything ever. (starts to go into the store)
Joey: (stopping him) No, no, you cant, you cant,
okay, you cant, you cant buy her pearls, you just cant,
you cant, you cant.
Chandler: Why not?!
Joey: Oh God. Uh, okay, heres the thing, this is the
thing, okay, the thing is...
Chandler: What is the thing?
Joey: Okay. I went down to the Mattress King
showroom and, and I saw Janice, kissing her ex-husband.
Chandler: (shocked) What?
Joey: They were in his office.
Chandler: Well she, she wouldnt do that, shes
with, shes with me.
Joey: Im telling you man, I saw it.
Chandler: Yeah, well, youre wrong! Okay, youre
wrong.
Joey: Im not wrong! I wish I was. Im sorry.
Bet that barium enema doesnt sound so bad now, huh?
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Rachel are dressing up
Ben in the entire rain suit from Rainy Day Bear.]
Monica: It just makes more sense as an ensemble.
Rachel: Right.
Monica: Besides, it takes the focus off the hat.
Phoebe: (running through the door) No! Oh! Youre
alive! Youre alive!
Rachel: See Pheebs, I promised you no one would die, didnt
I?
Phoebe: Yeah, well, well see about that. Can I use
your phone? I just wanna call everyone I know.
Monica: Sure, we have no money, go ahead.
Phoebe: (on phone) Hey! Youre not dead! Okay,
see ya!
Ben: Monica.
Monica: Oh my God! He just said my name! Did you hear
that?
Ben: Monica bang!
Rachel: Okay, I heard that.
Monica: Did he just say Monica bang?
Rachel: Uh-huh.
Monica: Oh my God! Hes gonna rat me out!
Ben: Monica bang!
Monica: Oh-ho-ho, sweetie, sweetie, you gotta stop saying
that, now. Its no big deal, its not even worth
mentioning, you see we all do it all the time. See watch this,
Ben, Ben, Ben. (goes over and starts hitting her head on the post)
Ow, Monica bang! (does it again) Everybody bang. (repeats) Ben
bang. (repeats) Rachel bang. (repeats) Bang, Rachel bang! Oh, isnt
that fun?
Rachel: (goes over and hits her head on the post) Look at
that! (repeats) Look at that! (repeats) We all do it. (repeats)
Okay, Im stopping now.
Monica: You okay?
Rachel: Oh yeah! Y'know, if its not a headboard, its
just not worth it.
[Scene: Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is waiting for Janice to
arrive, and is angrily fllipping through a magazine.]
Janice: (entering) Hows my Bing-a-ling?
Chandler: Ah, I dont know, you tell me. Anything you
ah, wanna tell me, because, if you ah, you should, if you, you
would, tell me.
Janice: Why are your eyes so white?
Chandler: You tell me! Maybe, its because I was just
fooling with my ex! Oh no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no, that was you!!
Janice: Oh my God!!
Chandler: All right!
Janice: How did you know?
Chandler: Joey told me, he saw you two kissing.
Janice: In the park?
Chandler: No! In his office! How many kisses were there?
Janice: Just those two!
Chandler: Wh-wh-why, wh-why, why, why was there kissing!?
There should be no kissing!!
Janice: Oh, Im sorry honey, Im so, so, (nasally)
haaaaa! Im so, so sorry, I just (nasally) haaaaaa! But I,
oh what happened was, I-I-I cant breathe. Can you get me a
bag, or something?
Chandler: (giving her a bag) Here.
(Janice starts to breath into it and sucks in the reciept, and
then spits it out.)
Janice: The receipt.
Chandler: Ill take it! All right look, I gotta know.
Are you finished with me? (Janice shakes her head no) Are you
finished with him? (Janice shakes her head no) Do you still love
him? (Janice shakes her head yes) Do you still love me? (Janice
shakes her head yes) All right look, (grabs the bag) Im
gonna need an actual answer here okay, so which is it, him or me?
(his phone starts to ring)
Janice: I dont know.
Phoebe: (rushing in) Okay. If youre alive you answer
your phone!
COMMERCIAL BREAK
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, and Joey are
there.]
Monica: Okay, Ben, I wont tell your daddy that you
had ice cream for dinner, if you dont tell about our little
bonking incident.
Rachel: Monica, number one, I dont think Ben
understands the concept of bribery, and number two, I... (Joey
starts laughing in the background) (to Joey) What?!
Joey: You said number two.
Rachel: I also said number one.
Joey: I know. (giggles harder)
Ross: (entering) Hey! Everyone.
Rachel: Hi!
Ross: Hows my little boy?
Rachel: Hes perfect, hes never been better.
Ross: (noticing the outfit he is wearing) Whatd you
do, take him whaling?
Ben: Monica.
Ross: Oh my God, he just said your name, thats great!
Good job Ben.
Ben: Monica bang!
Monica: Oh thats right, thats what Id
sound like if I exploded.
Phoebe: Woo-Hoo! The curse is broken! I called everybody I
know, and everyone is alive.
Joey: Uh.
Phoebe: What?
Joey: Ugly Naked Guy looks awfully still. (Phoebe runs to
the window and gasps.)
[Cut to later, all except Chandler are staring out the window at
Ugly Naked Guy.]
Phoebe: Oh my God! I killed him! I killed another one! And
this curse is getting stronger too, to bring down something that
big.
Rachel: Well maybe hes just taking a nap.
Joey: Im tellin ya, he hasnt moved since
this morning.
Monica: All right, we should call somebody.
Ross: And tell them what? The naked guy we stare at all
the time isnt moving.
Rachel: Well, we have gotta find out if hes alive.
Monica: How are we gonna do that? Theres no way.
Joey: Well, there is one way. His windows open, I
say, we poke him.
[Scene: Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is throwing darts, as Joey
enters.]
Joey: Hey! Y'know how we ah, save all those chopsticks for
no reason we get when we get Chinese food?
Chandler: Yeah.
Joey: Well, now we got a reason.
Chandler: What?
Joey: Well, were fashioning a very long poking
device.
Chandler: All right.
Joey: Hey uh, whats a matter?
Chandler: I talked to Janice.
Joey: Oh my God, is she going back to him?
Chandler: She doesnt know. Says she loves us both.
Y'know I woke up this morning and I was in love, well I was happy.
Y'know it serves me right for buying that twelve pack of condoms.
And now I cant even return them, because she choked on the
reciept!
Joey: What are you ah, what are you gonna do?
Chandler: I dont know, y'know. What, what, would you
do?
Joey: Well, it doesnt matter what I would do.
Chandler: Come on, tell me.
Joey: All right, youre probably not gonna want to
hear this but ah, if it was me, and this is just me, (Chandler
gets ready to throw another dart) I would ah, I would bow out.
Chandler: What? (turns around quickly still ready to throw
the dart and Joey quickly ducks and hides behind the chair) What
are you, what are you talking about?
Joey: They have a kid together, y'know. Theyre like,
theyre like a family, and if, I dont know, theres
chance they could make that work, I know I wouldnt want to
be the guy who stood in the way of that. Are you okay? Do you
wanna ah, come poke a nude guy?
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Ross has just finished putting Ben
to sleep, and is entering from Rachels room.]
Ross: Well, hes finally alseep. About that ah, bump
on his head?
Rachel: Are you, are you, are you sure its ah, a new
bump? I mean, no offense, Ive always thought of Ben as a
fairly bumpy headed child.
Ross: Its okay if he bumps his head, kids bump their
heads all the time, y'know, it was your first time babysitting, I
figured you did the best you could.
Rachel: (confidently) I did!
Ross: I know! Im saying you have to watch them all
the time.
Rachel: I did!! I watched! I watched! I watched Monica
bang his head against that thing!
Ross: Monica did it?
(Monica runs into the kitchen from the terrace.)
Ross: Monica?
Monica: Yeah.
Ross: Umm, did you notice anything wierd about Ben today?
Monica: No. Why?
Ross: Well, I was just playing with him, and y'know we
were doing the alphabet song, which he used to be really good at,
but suddenly hes leaving out e and f.
Its like they just ah, I dont know, fell out of his
head.
Monica: Really?!
Ross: Oh, and also, hes, hes walkin kind
of funny, his left leg is moving a lot faster than his right leg,
and hes in there just sort of y'know... (walks around in a
circle)
Monica: Oh my God, I wrecked your baby!! (runs into the
bedroom)
Rachel: I hope its still funny when youre in
hell.
Monica: (coming out of the bedroom) You jerk! You know how
much I love that kid! (starts to chase Ross around the living
room)
Ross: Monica bang! Monica bang! (runs into one of the
posts) Ow!
Rachel: Ill get the hat.
[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler and Janice are there.]
Chandler: Janice, I have something I need to tell you, and
I want you to let me get through it, because its, its,
its not gonna be easy.
Janice: Okay.
Chandler: I think you should go back with Gary. I dont
wanna be the guy that breaks up a family, y'know when my parents
split up, it was because of that guy. Whenever I would see him I
was always think y'know Youre the reason, you are the
reason why their not together. and I hated that guy. And it
didnt matter how nice he was, or how happy he made my Dad.
Janice: Wow!
Chandler: Yeah, well. Its the right thing to do.
Janice: Oh! Youre right. Oh God. But, before I can
say good-bye, theres something I really need
you to know, Chandler. The way I feel about you, its like,
I finally understand what Lionel Richies been singing about.
Y'know, I mean what we have, its like movie love, youre
my soulmate, and I cant believe were not going to be
spending the rest of our lives together.
Chandler: Then dont leave me!
Janice: What?
Chandler: Forget what I said, I was babbling! Pick me!
Janice: No, you were right, you were right. I mean, I-I-Ive
got to give my marriage another chance.
Chandler: No you dont! No, no, no, I say you have to
give your divorce another chance.
Janice: (standing up) Im sorry. (hugs him)
Chandler: Ohhh. Dont go.
Janice: No, I-I-I gotta go. (she starts to walk away, but
Chandler doesnt let her go.)
Chandler: No. No! No! No!
Janice: Honey, honey, people are looking.
Chandler: I dont care! (turns around and to the
people watching them) I dont care!!
Janice: Yeah, um, Im, Im leaving now. (tries
to get her leg out of Chandlers grasp, she finally does,
but Chandler takes off her shoe.)
Chandler: You cant leave! I have your shoe!
Janice: Good-bye Chandler Bing. (walks out with one shoe)
Gunther: Rachel has those in burgendy.
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Joey, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, and
Ross are holding the giant poking device.]
Joey: All right now remember, something this big and long
is going to be difficult to manuver, fortunately I have a lot of
experience in that area.
Ross: Can we please focus here, a naked mans life
hangs in the balance!
Phoebe: Im telling you hes dead. What we are
about to have here is a dead fat guy on a stick.
Joey: All right, ladies and gentlemen, lets poke. (they
start to advance the giant poking device) Steady. Steady. Okay, a
little higher. Careful of the angle. Okay, okay, were
approaching the window (as he says this the camera cuts to their
view of Ugly Naked Guy, so that we actually see him!) Thread the
needle. Thread the needle.
(They thread the needle and start poking him, he then stirs.)
Phoebe: Hes alive! Hes a-live!!!
Monica: And yet, were still poking him.
Joey: Okay, retract the device, retract the device.
Ross: He does not look happy.
Rachel: Hey-hey, now hes showing us his poking
device.
Joey: Hey, thats never gonna make it all the way
over here, buddy!
CLOSING CREDITS
[Scene: Chandler and Joey's, Chandler is listening to a Lionel
Richie album]
Chandler: (singing) Ill hold you close in my
arms. (Phoebe enters) I cant resist your charms. And love....
Phoebe: (joining him) Love....
Chandler and Phoebe: Ill be a fool for you. Im
sure, you know I dont mind.
Chandler: (high pitched) No you know I dont
mind.
Chandler and Phoebe: Yes! You mean the world the
world to me. Oh..
Chandler: I know.
Phoebe: I know.
Chandler: Ive found.
Phoebe: Ive found....
Chandler and Phoebe: ...in you, my endless (Phoebe
goes high pitched, Chandler goes low pitched) love. (they
both look at each other.) My endless love. (once
again they dont match tones, and they just look at each
other)