"Friends" season finale tonight!

[metmagic]

Rachel has the baby!!!:uhoh::biggrin:

or does she???? (well, the papers say "she goes into labor" but who knows if we'll see the baby....??)

so....will she and ross end up together-together or is joey still in the picture????:confused:

and what will they name the baby????? will it be a boy or girl?? (ok, i missed the last episode so i don't know if they mentioned any of these)


this should be a good one!:bigsquare

[metmagic]

OMIGOD IT WAS SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!:jump:

OMIGOD WHAT A CLIFFHANGER!!!! :uhoh::uhoh::uhoh:


ok, i won't discuss til i know all you Friends-watchers have already seen it.......


but wow, it lived up to the hype! i was surprised......

and i thought the first half was hilarious...all those couples in the room with Rachel..... excellent writing!:biggrin: i loved debra mazar (?) and her affectionate "you stupid bastard" rantings :rotflmao:

so who do you guys think will end up with rachel?????

and what did you think of the name???

[Baseball Guru]

I saw the last half hour and thought it was good....The baby scene was good....The kiss between Ross and Rach was was very nice...Those 2 should be together........The end made me mad....No way (you know who) better end up with her:ohno: He has to tell her....But she sure did say yes pretty quickly huh???

[I Are Baboon]

Originally posted by metmagic
OMIGOD IT WAS SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!:jump:

OMIGOD WHAT A CLIFFHANGER!!!! :uhoh::uhoh::uhoh:


ok, i won't discuss til i know all you Friends-watchers have already seen it.......


but wow, it lived up to the hype! i was surprised......

You really think so? I thought that was terrible. The writers of that show are really stretching to keep the show interesting and on the air. I watched it last night, and now I know why I have been watching "Family Guy" instead for the past few months.

[Baseball Guru]

LoL...Thats actually the 30 mins I have seen all season from that show as I used to be a loyal viewer...Now I watch WWE Smackdown:biggrin:

[Jade Sabre]

i thought it was good, and kinda funny how she's like, ok. woulda been better if ross woulda asked her though :ohno:

[Nymet31]

I have to agree with Cyn I thought it was great!!!



****IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET DO NOT READ ANY MORE*****








I loved the whole labor stuff and all the other couples!!! And JANICE oh my god!!!


I love the name Emma... very pretty!! How sweet was it that Emma is the name that Monica always wanted to giver her daughter and she let Rachel have the name... it brought a tear to my eye!!! The best was when she knocked Ross in the head while she was pushing!!

The end very cute...


I'm sure he'll tell her the truth, but Ross will probably see the two of them together... I'm hoping that Rachel and Ross don't get together... It's been done way to much... and I like the chemistry between Joey and Rachel anyways.

[Jade Sabre]

oh yeah, i loved when she knocked him out and he's like, u have no idea how much this hurts and they all look at him like he's a dumb@ss lmfao

[Baseball Guru]

Originally posted by ReyRey!
oh yeah, i loved when she knocked him out and he's like, u have no idea how much this hurts and they all look at him like he's a dumb@ss lmfao

LMAO:biggrin: That was a hysterical scene.....I was thinking the same thing:biggrin:

[metmagic]

I'm hoping that Rachel and Ross don't get together... It's been done way to much... and I like the chemistry between Joey and Rachel anyways.

i hear ya, kathleen....... it would be interesting to see joey & rachel........ but i guess we won't know til the fall!!:uhoh::ohno:


:biggrin:

[GaryMrMets]

Which TV rumor is most believable?
Rachel will marry Joey on 'Friends'
'Ally' gets married on series finale
Britney Spears join 'Sex & the City'
'Once & Again' comes back next season
Joey (Katie Holmes) leaves the 'Creek'

What was the biggest TV surprise of all time?
Who shot J.R. on 'Dallas'?
McLean Stevenson's death on 'M*A*S*H'
Richard Hatch winning 'Survivor'
'Vampire Slayer' Buffy's death
Who is Eric Cartman's father?
Which 'Friend' is pregnant?

Which character will you miss the most?
Dr. Mark Greene
Dana Scully
Fox Mulder
Ally McBeal
Felicity Porter
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After Birth

Rachel has the baby. But it turns out that the birth of Emma Geller-Green, says Ken Tucker, was the cliffhanger's red herring

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LABOR PARTY While Rachel delivers, Ross ponders

So Emma Geller-Green -- an impressively real, nicely scrunchy-faced baby -- made it into the world of ''Friends'' last night, despite last-minute rumors that maybe the season-ending cliffhanger would be Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) remaining in labor until September. As it was, it took 21 hours in ''Friends''-time, enough to slip four pregnant mamas-to-be in and out of Rachel's semi-private delivery room. Rachel at one point said there'd been five, but either she or I must have had the vapors, 'cause I counted a quartet, the final and best being Chandler's old girlfriend Janice (the audaciously over-the-top Maggie Wheeler), she of ''Oh... My... Gawd!'' infamy.

The subplot about Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) wooing a guy with a broken leg was funny only when it required Joey (Matt LeBlanc) to assume his soap-opera role of Dr. Drake Ramoray to help Phoebe find out more about the fellow. More amusing was the half-kidding, half-serious notion of Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica (Courtney Cox Arquette) trying for a baby of their own, trysting in a succession of locations throughout the hospital. (Or as Monica put it, ''OK, mister -- fertilize me!'')

The expanded, hour-long edition benefited, as we point out in this week's EW cover story on how to fix TV, from the active presence of the show's co-creators: Marta Kauffman and David Crane wrote the second, intricate half of the show, while Kevin Bright directed the whole magilla. Kauffman and Crane know how to make the series' occasional serious moments work without becoming mawkish, which is precisely what was needed once Rachel had given birth. The sweet scene in which Monica gives the baby name she'd wanted for her own eventual child to Rachel -- thus ''Emma'' triumphed over ''Isabella'' and ''Delilah'' -- was goose-pimply good.

And just when you thought the naming of kid would be the cliffhanger, the infant was dubbed Emma and the real cliffhanger emerged. Early in the hour, Ross' mom (Christina Pickles) gave her son a family heirloom, a wedding ring, in hopes that he'd make what they used to call a ''good woman'' out of Rachel by proposing. He sticks it in his pocket. Later, Ross realizes he really loves Rachel enough to venture a life together. In the closing seconds, Rachel is feeling bereft and vulnerable after Janice warns her and Emma, ''You two are on your own.'' Ross has gone off to buy Rachel flowers, but Joey, still in the room, kneels down to pick up the ring, which has fallen from Ross' abandoned jacket. Rachel sees him (on his knee, bearing ring) and says, ''OK'' -- that is, that she'll marry him. Joey's look is a perfect commingling of surprise, horror at Rachel's misinterpretation, and a hint of the joy he's kept contained the last half of the season, as he'd fallen in love with Rachel but dared not let his feelings be known. Meanwhile, cut to Ross advancing upon the room with a purple bouquet, presumably to propose.

Oddly, abruptly, yet (as always with this particular musician) eerily right, Bob Dylan on the soundtrack starts singing ''Sign on the Window,'' used for the line that capped the evening: ''Three's a crowd.'' Now what'll they do? You have until September to figure it out, when the final ''Friends'' unfurl.

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'Friends' Have Baby Daughter

.c The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - As expected, Rachel gave birth to a baby girl. Little Emma's father, Ross, assisted with the delivery.

Then, in an unexpected twist, the new mom accepted Joey's inadvertent marriage offer.

The season finale on Thursday of ``Friends,'' TV's top-rated series, drew an estimated 33.7 million viewers, its second largest audience ever. Only its post-Super Bowl airing in 1996 had a bigger audience, according to Nielsen Media Research.

``She looks so real!'' exclaimed none-too-bright friend Joey (Matt LeBlanc) on first glimpsing the infant.

``I'm so glad you guys got drunk and had sex,'' said Monica (Courteney Cox Arquette) to unwed parents Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Ross (David Schwimmer).

Then, inspired by the blessed event, Monica and hubby Chandler (Matthew Perry) retreated to a janitor's closet to try to make their own baby. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) flirted with an attractive bedridden patient.

At the fadeout of the hour-long episode, Joey, whose affection for Rachel was rebuffed earlier in the season, picked a ring off the floor dropped by Ross. Rachel tearfully accepted what she took to be his wedding proposal.

The Ross-and-Rachel storyline occupied much of the NBC sitcom's eighth and most successful season. Next year is expected to be the series' last.

05/17/02 14:46 EDT

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