Season 3 Episode 465252 THE ONE WHERE NO ONE'S READY 8/7pm 9/26/96 EPISODE SHOT IN REAL TIME -- When Ross is invited to speak at a black-tie museum benefit, he asks the whole gang to come. For the next twenty-two minutes, he must nag at them to get ready so that he won't be late. Monica's a mess after she discovers a message from Richard on the machine -- but can't tell if it's new or old. She leaves him a message, then decides to erase it using his access code -- which is when she hears a message for him from another woman. Chandler and Joey battle over a chair in a fight that results in Joey wearing all of Chandler's clothes. Phoebe, on the other hand, looks great, until she spills wine on her dress and covers it with an ugly Christmas bow. Rachel, meanwhile, gets annoyed by Ross's "hurry up" tactics and refuses to get ready...until it's much too late. TV-14
As far as I'm concerned, all the good episodes were in the first three seasons. At the time, they were trying to subvert a lot of what made a standard sitcom. I admired their avoidance of standard sitcom plots. Then they just stopped caring, and, like so many show before it, lived years longer than it was actually entertaining.
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Date: 2004-04-02 01:47 pm (UTC)Season 3 Episode 465252 THE ONE WHERE NO ONE'S READY 8/7pm 9/26/96 EPISODE SHOT IN REAL TIME -- When Ross is invited to speak at a black-tie museum benefit, he asks the whole gang to come. For the next twenty-two minutes, he must nag at them to get ready so that he won't be late. Monica's a mess after she discovers a message from Richard on the machine -- but can't tell if it's new or old. She leaves him a message, then decides to erase it using his access code -- which is when she hears a message for him from another woman. Chandler and Joey battle over a chair in a fight that results in Joey wearing all of Chandler's clothes. Phoebe, on the other hand, looks great, until she spills wine on her dress and covers it with an ugly Christmas bow. Rachel, meanwhile, gets annoyed by Ross's "hurry up" tactics and refuses to get ready...until it's much too late. TV-14
As far as I'm concerned, all the good episodes were in the first three seasons. At the time, they were trying to subvert a lot of what made a standard sitcom. I admired their avoidance of standard sitcom plots. Then they just stopped caring, and, like so many show before it, lived years longer than it was actually entertaining.