Friends season 9The ninth season on DVD? check here: The ninth season episode guideThe One Where No One Proposes / season 9 - episode 1 Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) thinks she's engaged to Joey (Matt LeBlanc), but isn't sure she feels right about it. Rachel tells Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) about it, but Phoebe thinks Rachel is talking about Ross (David Schwimmer). Phoebe congratulates Ross and Ross is confused. Joey tries to fix the situation, but is too late. Joey, Ross and Rachel finally work things out all together, and then Joey leaves Ross and Rachel alone together with a nursing baby Emma. Ross and Rachel talk about trying to have a relationship again, but then Ross realizes that Rachel accepted Joey's mistaken proposal. Monica's (Courteney Cox) father busts her and Chandler (Matthew Perry) trying to make a baby in a closet in the hospital and tries to help them.
The One Where Emma Cries / season 9 - episode 2 Ross (David Schwimmer) stays mad at both Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) about the whole getting engaged thing. Joey tells Ross to hit him to make him feel better, but when Ross finally throws a punch Joey instinctively ducks and Ross breaks his thumb on a metal post. In the hospital, Ross admits to Joey that he realizes that Rachel just said yes to Joey because she was emotional and worried about raising the baby on her own, and his biggest fear is that she would say yes to getting back together with him for just the same reason. Rachel makes the mistake of waking up baby Emma when she's sleeping, and then can't get the baby to stop crying.
The One With The Pediatrician / season 9 - episode 3 Chandler (Matthew Perry) has resigned himself to moving to Tulsa, and Monica (Courteney Cox) is determined to go with him... until she gets the job offer of a lifetime in New York. They finally decide that Chandler will spend four days a week in Tulsa and three days a week with Monica in New York. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) decide to set each other up with friends and go out on a double date, but Joey forgets until the last minute and grabs a stranger from the coffee shop as his "friend." Phoebe figures out the ruse and is mad at Joey, but Joey's new "friend," Mike, turns out to be cute and sweet and asks Phoebe out on a real date that she accepts.
The One With The Sharks / season 9 - episode 4 Ross (David Schwimmer) accidentally tells Mike that Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) has never been in a long-term relationship, so then he makes up a serious ex-boyfriend for Phoebe named Vikram. Phoebe goes along with the lie, but when Mike is incredibly sweet, she tells him the truth and is pleasantly surprised when he doesn't run away. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) goes out with a cute girl he picks up in the coffee shop, but when he gets to her apartment he realizes that he's had sex there before.
The One With Phoebe's Birthday Dinner / season 9 - episode 5 Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) plans her birthday dinner on Halloween night at a fancy restaurant and invites her five best friends. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is the only one who shows up on time, and he and Phoebe wait, starving, guarding their table for six, for over an hour. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) stresses about leaving baby Emma alone with Ross's (David Schwimmer) mother, and freaks out even more when Ross, in his exuberance to get her to the restaurant on time, locks them both out of the apartment with baby Emma inside.
The One With The Male Nanny / season 9 - episode 6 Chandler (Matthew Perry) feels threatened when Monica (Courteney Cox) says that a guy at her new job is the funniest guy she's ever met. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and Mike give each other keys to their apartments to show their commitment to their relationship, but that same day Phoebe's lost love David comes back into town. Phoebe tells David she's with Mike now, but they can't resist a kiss, and Mike, using his new key to get into Phoebe's apartment, busts them. David leaves and Mike is surprisingly understanding about the whole thing.
The One With Ross's Inappropriate Song / season 9 - episode 7 Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) has dinner with Mike at his parents' posh Park Avenue apartment and tries desperately to make a good impression. Unfortunately, everything she does backfires, and Mike's parents end up hating her. Luckily, Mike comes to his girlfriend's defense and the two end up admitting for the first time that they're in love with each other. When Joey (Matt LeBlanc) thinks about buying an apartment, he and Chandler (Matthew Perry) visit Richard's apartment which is on the market. Chandler finds a videotape labeled "Monica" (Courteney Cox) and steals it.
The One With Rachel's Other Sister / season 9 - episode 8 Monica's (Courteney Cox) worst fears materialize when Chandler (Matthew Perry) convinces her to use their nice wedding china for Thanksgiving dinner and everything ends up broken. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) forgets that he's supposed to appear in the Macy's parade with the cast of Days of Our Lives and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) has to teach him how to lie. Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) sister Amy, who is incredibly self-centered and always says the wrong thing, stops by on her way to Thanksgiving dinner with her married boyfriend.
The One With Rachel's Phone Number / season 9 - episode 9 When Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) go out for a girls' night out, Rachel ends up giving her phone number to a charming guy in a bar and then panics when she realizes that Ross (David Schwimmer) could pick up the phone when the guy calls later that night. Meanwhile, Ross has invited Mike to hang out while the girls are out on the town, and the two men spend a torturous evening realizing they have absolutely nothing to talk about.
The One With Christmas In Tulsa / season 9 - episode 10 Chandler (Matthew Perry) is miserable, stuck working in Tulsa on Christmas Eve. One of his co-workers, a pretty girl named Wendy, asks him what he would be doing if he were back in New York, and he reminisces about past Christmases with his friends. When Wendy hits on him, Chandler turns her down and remembers how his relationship with Monica (Courteney Cox) started. Chandler goes back to New York to spend Christmas with his friends and his wife, and announces that he's quitting his job.
The One Where Rachel Goes Back To Work / season 9 - episode 11 Joey (Matt LeBlanc) gets Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) a job as an extra on Days of Our Lives because she's short on cash. To ease her nerves, Joey helps get her into the role, but then he can't get her out of it and she has to taken off the set by security. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) visits work and finds a stranger, Gavin, in her office and doing her job. Feeling threatened, Rachel decides to go back to work two weeks earlier than she originally intended, and tries to take over the presentation Gavin was working on.
The One With Phoebe's Rats / season 9 - episode 12 Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) still feuds with Gavin at work, but while she's pretending to be nice to him, Monica (Courteney Cox) mistakes it for real friendship and invites Gavin to Rachel's birthday party. Gavin makes a late appearance, when the party is already over, and not only brings Rachel a nice scarf as a gift, but gives her a romantic birthday kiss on Monica's balcony... which Ross (David Schwimmer) spots from his living room. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) is horrified when Mike kills the rat that lives in her kitchen, Bob, just after she discovers that Bob has baby rats.
The One Where Monica Sings / season 9 - episode 13 Joey (Matt LeBlanc) goes to get his eyebrows waxed for his new headshots, but it hurts so much that he only lets the woman do one, and then he's left uneven. Joey goes to Chandler (Matthew Perry) for help and finds out that Chandler used to make pocket change as a kid by plucking his father's and his father's friends' eyebrows. Chandler evens out Joey's eyebrows so that they're both elegantly pencil-thin. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) calls in sick to work to avoid seeing Gavin after their kiss, but Gavin comes over to talk to her.
The One With The Blind Dates / season 9 - episode 14 Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) purposely set up Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) on lousy blind dates so that they'll realize they should actually be together and be a family with Emma. Ross gets stood up, and becomes the subject of a bet by restaurant waiters, while Rachel ends up with a loser of a guy who constantly talks about what a loser he is.
The One With The Mugging / season 9 - episode 15 Joey (Matt LeBlanc) gets a part in a Broadway play by impressing the famous director with his I-have-to-pee performance. After Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and Ross (David Schwimmer) are mugged by one of Phoebe's old friends from her living-on-the-street days, it comes to light that Phoebe mugged Ross when she was 14 years old. Chandler (Matthew Perry) gets a job as an intern at an advertising agency. He feels like he can't possibly compete with the college students that share his lowly position, but he manages to impress his boss with ideas that come from life experience.
The One With The Boob Job / season 9 - episode 16 Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica (Courteney Cox), low on funds, each secretly go to Joey (Matt LeBlanc) to borrow money. When Chandler realizes that Monica borrowed money from Joey before he did, Joey lies to Chandler and says that Monica borrowed the money for a boob job. Chandler freaks out and, without revealing what Joey told him, tries to communicate to Monica that he likes her body just the way it is, but Monica misunderstands and thinks Chandler is worried about how her body will change when she gets pregnant.
The One With The Memorial Service / season 9 - episode 17 Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer) start posting silly things about each other on their college alumni web site, until Chandler takes it a step too far and posts that Ross has died. Ross is angry with Chandler until he realizes that no one has posted or called with condolences. Ross becomes obsessed with finding out if anyone would mourn him if he really died, and forces Chandler to host a fake memorial service for him.
The One With The Lottery / season 9 - episode 18 The friends decide to pool their money and buy a big block of tickets for the multimillion-dollar powerball jackpot. Ross (David Schwimmer) originally scoffs at the others for their lottery fever, but ends up getting caught up in it. Before they even know if they've won, the friends start to fight over the tickets, and when Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) tries to stop the fighting she loses half the tickets due to a stray pigeon the balcony.
The One With Rachel's Dream / season 9 - episode 19 Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) goes to work with Joey (Matt LeBlanc) to watch him do a love scene on Days of Our Lives, and later has a romantic dream about him. She consults Monica (Courteney Cox), and decides that she doesn't have a thing for Joey, she has a thing for Drake Ramoray, but questions this decision later when Joey talks about how he was in love with her. Monica is proud when her restaurant is booked solid for the next month, but when Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) uses the opportunity to play guitar for the restaurant patrons, Monica tells her friend that her music isn't classy enough for her restaurant.
The One With The Soap Opera Party / season 9 - episode 20 Joey (Matt LeBlanc) tries to trick his friends into going to a one-woman play while he secretly throws a party on the roof for his Days of Our Lives friends. Everyone finds out about Joey's duplicity except for Chandler (Matthew Perry), who ends up attending the horrible play by himself. Monica (Courteney Cox) makes a complete ass of herself when she meets all the soap opera stars at Joey's party. Ross (David Schwimmer) gets a new co-worker, a beautiful and brilliant female paleontologist named Charlie, and is immediately attracted to her, but he's intimidated by her Nobel laureate ex-boyfriends.
The One With The Fertility Test / season 9 - episode 21 Without telling their friends, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) go to get fertility tests and run into Janice at the doctor's office. The couple is devastated when they find out that they both have fertility problems. Although Ross (David Schwimmer) is still a bit bitter about losing Charlie to Joey (Matt LeBlanc), he helps Joey act smart enought to talk to Charlie, and even encourages Charlie to stay with Joey when she has her doubts about the relationship.
The One With The Donor / season 9 - episode 22 At Joey's (Matt LeBlanc) urging, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) takes Charlie shopping for new clothes. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) tags along because she's going to a party that night where she knows she's going to see Mike, and she wants to get a new dress. In the dressing room, Phoebe and Rachel talk about how Rachel feels about Joey, and Charlie overhears. Rachel is devastated, until it becomes clear that Charlie mis-heard and thought that it was Phoebe that had the crush on Joey. Rachel doesn't correct her.
The One In Barbados (1) / season 9 - episode 23 The whole gang goes to Barbados for Ross's (David Schwimmer) keynote speech at the paleontology conference. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) brings David, but accidentally calls him Mike. David decides he should propose to her since she broke up with Mike because he didn't want to get married. Monica (Courteney Cox) realizes that Phoebe still has feelings for Mike and calls Mike, who shows up and proposes to Phoebe in the middle of David's proposal. Phoebe says she doesn't want to marry him right away, but does love him and want to be with him. David bows out gracefully. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) continues to pine after Joey (Matt LeBlanc), as Charlie and Ross bond over recreating his speech after his computer eats it. Monica has big hair problems in the humidity.
The One In Barbados (2) / season 9 - episode 24 Because of the constant rain, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Mike end up in a ping pong battle. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) is turned on by Mike's competitive side. When Monica hurts her hand, Chandler (Matthew Perry) takes over for her because he knows how important it is to her to win, and he beats Mike in a sudden death match. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Charlie finally realize they have nothing in common and break up. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) admits to Joey that she has feelings for him, and he says he still has feelings for her, but they can't be together because of Ross (David Schwimmer). Charlie admits to Ross that she has feelings for him, and Ross tries to fight his feelings for her because of Joey, but fails. After Joey sees Charlie and Ross kissing, he goes to Rachel's hotel room and kisses her. Rachel is very happy that Joey changed his mind.
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