The One After Joey And Rachel Kiss

"The One After Joey And Rachel Kiss" is the first episode of the tenth season of Friends, which aired on September 25, 2003.
==Plot==
Monica, Chandler and Phoebe find out that they can hear through the walls in their hotel rooms. Monica and Chandler cover the wall where they can hear Joey and Rachel kissing, and Phoebe covers the wall where they can hear Charlie and Ross kissing. Both couples put their relationships on hold while they wait to talk to the other before proceeding. On the plane home, Ross tells Joey about him and Charlie, but Joey doesn't tell Ross about him and Rachel in the effect that it might upset him. Monica decides to get rid of her poofy hair by getting corn rows. Back in New York, Rachel tries to tell Ross, but he gets mad over shampoo-explosion-related emergencies. Rachel and Joey decide to tell him together the next morning. But when an attempt to kiss each other goodnight turns into a make-out session between them, Ross walks in on them.
Meanwhile, Mike tells Phoebe that he has in fact been seeing another woman, Precious, but he will break up with her at their date that evening. Due to a miscommunication however, Precious heads to Mike's apartment and encounters Phoebe. Precious demands an explanation and Phoebe breaks up with her on Mike's behalf. Precious starts to freak out, which Phoebe unsuccessfully tries to stop with some tough love. Phoebe tries a different tactic and convinces Precious that Mike isn't worth it, pointing out that he was going to break up with her on her birthday, after not even telling her he was still in love with Phoebe and was flying to Barbados to propose. Precious takes the talk to heart, and, when Mike arrives, slaps him in the face before storming out.
==Cast and Crew==
===Main Cast===
* Jennifer Aniston - Rachel Greene
* Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
* Lisa Kudrow - Phoebe Buffay
* Matt LeBlanc - Joey Tribbiani
* Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing
* David Schwimmer - Ross Geller
===Supporting Cast===
* Anne Dudek - Precious
* Paul Rudd - Mike Hannigan
* Cali Sheldon - Emma Geller-Greene
* Noelle Sheldon - Emma Geller-Greene
* Aisha Tyler - Charlie Wheeler
===Crew===
Directed By: 
Kevin S. Bright
Written By: 
Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen
==Trivia==
*When the premiere originally aired on NBC, it was "super-sized" to 29 minutes, not including ad breaks.
**The DVDs present these episodes as first aired, however, the Blu-ray presents them in their edited syndicated cuts (though the original super-sized versions are available as a special feature). 
**As a result, the transition from one scene to another suffers when the episode is edited to 22 minutes.
*In the UK, when they are showing every episode on ITV2 from the start to finish, this episode was the first one to be produced in 16:9 widescreen using the high definition "remastered" effects.
*This episode is one of the few titles that doesn't begin with "The One Where..." or "The One With..."
*This is the last episode with the title "The One After..."
*Anne Dudek plays Precious, who gets dumped on her birthday. She goes on to guest star as Natalie on How I Met Your Mother, and again gets dumped on her birthday (twice) by the main character, Ted.
*Ross is the last one in the gang to find out about Joey and Rachel, much like he's the last one to find out about Chandler and Monica dating, Chandler and Monica's engagement, and Rachel's pregnancy.
*In the original aired version, there's an extra scene on the plane, where Ross and Rachel are talking.
*The syndicated version also omits Rachel's attempt to tell Ross in the apartment.
**Strangely enough, the Nick @ Nite version which is also syndicated features this footage.
*Despite repeated through-wall pans, the rooms are not adjacent sets. The effect was executed in post, and is not a clean transition.
*The room arrangement is non-physical. Ross' room cannot be located through the particular wall shown given its shape and the location of the doors and windows. Joey's room could be in the indicated position, but would need to be a much further distance via hallway than indicated, as his and Chandler and Monica's rooms would need to both be the last room on the end of two adjacent dead-end hallways. Furthermore in "The One In Barbados, Part 1" Ross and Rachel's rooms are in the same corridor opposite each other so there's no way that both rooms could be heard from Monica and Chandler's room. 
*The Five Card Charlie sign has moved back to the wall next to door, now on the opposite side.
*Rachel wears a t-shirt with the phrase 'Save the drama for your mama".
*This episode is currently missing from TBS U.S. reruns as of 2024.
==Goofs==
*In the room where Monica and Chandler are staying, you can sometimes see the top of the back set wall. Right before the scene where they board the plane, you can see the top of the wall, as well as a boom microphone and set lights. Just before Chandler sits next to Monica on the plane, you can see a cameraman on the left hand side.
*When Monica, Chandler, and Phoebe are listening through Ross' wall (before the theme song), the camera scrolls past the wall, showing it is just one wall dividing the rooms. In later shots, however (like when the door's open), you can see that they are divided by a hallway as well.
*While on the plane, Ross goes to talk to Joey about how he kissed Charlie. Before he says so, Joey says that he knows, causing Ross to awkwardly laugh. In the background, Jennifer Aniston can be seen laughing.
*When Rachel goes to Ross' apartment to tell him about her and Joey, Rachel puts down her handbag on the coffee table twice.
*When Ross and Charlie are sitting on the bed it shows Charlie fixing her T-shirt. In the very next shot her hands are on her lap.
*After Precious storms off after slapping Mike, Phoebe can be seen crossing her legs with the left leg on her her right, but on the next shot the legs switch places.
*At the end, Ross walks into Joey's apartment, he walks past the door. Next shot he is level with the middle of the door.
*Rachel's hair color is lighter than it was in The One In Barbados and her skin tone is darker. 
*When Ross walks in on Joey and Rachel at the end of the episode, the wall to the right of the door (facing the hallway) has a cutout and the hall can be seen through it. This is clearly intended for camera shots from that direction and the crew setting up the apartment forgot to cover it up.
*When Ross enters Chandler and Monica's hotel room, the bolt can be seen drawn across the door frame supposedly locking it which means Ross shouldn't be able to get in.
*When Mike is talking to Pheobe in the plane, you can see outside of the window that the plane's nose is facing the terminal which is behind Mike meaning the plane is positioned facing away from the terminal which is impossible if they are next to the other plane.
*When Ross walks into Joey's apartment, you can see a hole which leads into the corridor where the camera is positioned to get the shot of Rachel and Joey left in the view. 
== External links ==
* Transcript of the episode
* "The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss" at the Internet Movie Database
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