friends season 1

a collection of allusions in Friends

Season 1

Episode 1

Mr. Potato Head

Rachel and others talked about the reason why she ran away from marriage. She said that it was because she suddenly found out that her fiance, Dr. Barry, looked like Mr. PotatoHead, a well-known cartoon character in the United States. If you have seen Toy Story, you will find him and his wife, Mrs．Potato Head, chattering and criticizing this and that image. Although "Mr. Potato Head" is cute, cartoons are cartoons after all. If you care about your fiance's appearance and he unfortunately looks like "Mr. Potato Head", you'd better run away like Rachel. : -)

Mento

Mento is short for Mentos. When Chandler and Joey comforted the divorced Ross, Chandler said that his relationship with Joey had never been "longer than chewing a mento". To comfort Ross to let go.

Billy don't be a hero

This is a famous anti-war song. There is a word in the song: "Billy, don't be a hero." Come back and let me be your wife. In the play, Joey advised Ross to forget his ex-wife Carol and find a new girlfriend. Ross was very dissatisfied. He asked Joey: What did the story "Billy, don't be a hero" inspire you? Here Ross compares finding a new girlfriend to going to war.

Barn raising scene in Witness

In Witness starring Harrison and Ford, Booker, a policeman who was forced to kill, was forced to hide in the countryside to escape the enemy. The scene of everyone working together to build a barn in the quiet rural life is a wonderful part of the happy life in the film. In Friends, Paul, who had just spent a good night with Monica, described his pleasure by saying that having sex with Monica was more than "the happiness of all birthdays, two graduation ceremonies and building a barn together in the Witness movie".

Pinocchio, Geppetto

This is the familiar puppet Pi Nuo Cao and his maker and old carpenter Gepeto. In the play, this is a play in which Joey once appeared.

Liza Minelli

In the last scene of the episode, Chandler once again mentioned his dream that he was "Liza minelli". Lisa is the daughter of Judy Galen, a famous actress who starred in The Wizard of Oz, and I won the Oscar for Best Actress in Cabaret in 1 9 7 3.

Episode II

Pink Flovd

Pink Floyd is a famous American singer, and his White Christmas is very popular. Chandler and others are discussing the different views of men and women on kissing 2. Chandler said, for men, kissing is like a stand-up comedian (it's like the stand-up comedy you have to sit through before pink comes out.).

The Enterprise

When old friends were looking at a scan of Ross's son in Carol's belly, Chandler said, "I think it will attack the Enterprise." This is Chandler's description that the fetus still in the belly looks like an alien, because Enterprise is the name of the first space shuttle in the United States.

episode 3

There was a crooked man

Monica's boyfriend Alan was well received by everyone, and Joey said that his smile was so cute. Phoebe quoted a children's song, saying, "There was a crooked man who had a crooked sMile and lived in a shoe ..." In fact, this is a popular children's song "The Ballad of Mother Goose" in the West, but Phoebe misquoted all the quotations. The original text is "Walking on a mile long". The people in the song live in a "twisted little room", not in shoes. So everyone is a little confused when Phoebe says this. But it may not be Phoebe's fault. Maybe Phoebe's mother taught it wrong from the beginning. Remember when Phoebe thought a movie about dogs really ended in a comedy?

David Hasselhoff

When praising Monica's boyfriend Alan, Chandler said that even Chandler wanted to marry him because of his "David Huynh Hasselhoff" expression. Chandler also learned an expression. David Huynh Sehoff is a famous singer and idol, who has starred in Knight Rider and Jack and Hyde.

Bugs Bunny

Ross and Alan went out to play ball, and Alan was athletic and appeared in all key positions. Ross described him as "Bugs Bunny" who played softball in the famous cartoon "Bugs Bunny", first base, second base and third base.

Episode IV

Mr. "The glass is half empty"

In English proverbs, pessimists see half a glass of wine and say "the glass is half empty", while optimists say there is still half a glass of wine. Chandler and Joey invite Ross to watch the game, but suspicious Ross suspects that they only have one extra ticket and don't know whether to invite the girl to watch the game. Chandler sneered at his pessimistic thoughts and said, Are we the kind of people who "say half a glass of wine is empty when we see it"?

FICA

Rachel got her first paycheck, but she was surprised to find that the amount was very small, and a guy from FICA took a lot of her money. In fact, Rachel, who has never worked, doesn't know the situation. FICA is not who, but the social security and medical insurance that employees must pay according to the Federal Insurance Contribution Act, which can account for about 7% of their income and have a great impact on low-income people.

Wild Kingdom

Rachel's old sisters came to see her, and they all screamed loudly. Monica sarcastically said to Phoebe on one side, I haven't seen birds like this in Wild Kingdom either. Wild Kingdom is an animal protection program as famous as National Geographic.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Rachel regrets running away from home, and Phoebe comforts her with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. This is a famous western fairy tale: Jack traded a cow for three magic beans, and his mother angrily threw the magic beans out of the window. The next day, the magic beans grew high into the sky, and Jack climbed up the magic beans, stealing gold coins from the giants and laying hens with golden eggs. Phoebe's intention is to tell Rachel that although you gave up the cow, you got the magic bean to live on your own.

George Stephanopoulos

Monica found that the pizza delivery man had delivered the pizza by mistake and delivered it to George stephanopoulos in the opposite building. Monica was excited about this because stephanopoulos was a famous person. In real life, stephanopoulos was a senior adviser to the President in charge of policy and political operation in the White House during President Clinton's time, and later left to teach at Columbia University. He was handsome and sexy, so Monica and Rachel were very excited.

episode 5

One Mississippi, two mississippi, three mississippi

Joey meets his ex-girlfriend Angela in the coffee shop, and Angela seems to have no feelings for him anymore. Joey decided to get to know her again, but in order not to appear anxious, he counted three times: One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, and then went forward. This is actually a way for rugby players to count before kick-off, and sometimes they have to count to Five Mississippi, so Joey says it's cool.

Brooklvn Heights Cleveland

Joey tells Monica that Angela and Bob are brother and sister in order to trick Monica into going on a double date with his ex-girlfriend Angela and Angela's current boyfriend Bob. But when Monica asked them where they grew up, Bob replied that they were in Cleveland, Ohio, while Angela said that they were in Brooklyn Heights, new york, and they were not far apart. So Monica asked, How did this happen?

episode 6

Raggedy Ann

everyone criticized Monica's cleanliness. Ross said that when they were children, everyone had the toy "Raggedy Ann", but yours was the only one that was not ragged. "Broken Doll" is an artistic image created by cartoonist Johnny Grouhel based on a broken doll of his daughter, which was born on Christmas Day in 1918. Because this broken doll was turned out from grandma's box, it is a very tattered image, but it caters to the trend of people seeking handmade toys, so it is very popular. The problem is that Monica really has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder when she wants to repair and dress such a "broken doll" perfectly.

Grinch's heart

Chandler meets Aurora, an Israeli female soldier. Aurora not only has a husband and a lover, but also a dew couple like Chandler. Obviously, Chandler can't be so avant-garde. He told Aurora: Every time he saw her, he fought between two selves. One said it was good, and you didn't lose anything. The other, like Grinch's heart has tripled, told him to end the relationship. "The Grinch of Christmas" was an image created by CBS in 1966. He was very jealous of people celebrating Christmas, but in the end, his heart tripled and he happily joined the celebration of Christmas. In recent years, Jim Carrey has made a film "Ghosts and Elves" based on this story.

Episode 7

It's a Small World After All

This is a tourism project of "Fantasy Kingdom" in Disneyland. People float along the waterway by boat, and there are mechanically controlled little people singing and dancing on both sides of the shore. The costumes and backgrounds reflect the scenery of all countries in the world. In the play, Ross chose this place when he recalled his weirdest sex place. In 1989, he and Carol went to Disney. Because of a mechanical failure, the "small world" stopped, so Ross and Carol climbed behind a group of Dutch little people to have sex, but in the process, the mechanical failure was fixed. As a result, Ross and Carol became unwelcome people in the "fantasy kingdom" and were asked not to go there again.

Bactine

Ross was scratched by a cat, and Monica sprayed him with a wound first aid spray made by Bayer Company. This is Bactine.

episode 8

Brent Musberger

At the funeral of Ross and Monica's grandmother, Joey put the portable TV in his clothes, and Chandler came over and said, Your coat sounds a bit like Brent Musburger, a famous sports announcer of CBS.

Mardi Gras

This is a grand carnival in some southern States of the United States before the Catholic Easter fast, and the correct date should be "the last day before Lent". Because we are about to enter the fast, people seize the last chance to party. In this carnival, many people will hold a parade with big heads and decorate them with paper mache heads, which is one of the happiest programs of the carnival. So, in the play, Chandler asks his gay colleague Lowell how the finance department is doing, and Lowell replies, "It's like Mardi Gras Carnival without a big parade." In other words, not so good.

episode 9

Vail

In the play, Rachel saves money and wants to go to Vail for a Thanksgiving holiday with her family. Weil is one of the two most famous ski resorts in America, near Denver. Its characteristic is that the ski slopes are close to the urban area, so you can go skiing by putting on ski shoes from home. In addition, it has concerts in summer, so it has become a holiday resort where the rich in the United States gather.

Yerte the turtle

A book read by Ross in the play, the classic fairy tale Yatir the Tortoise, is the work of Juss, a famous American fairy tale writer.

Episode 1

Dick Clark

dick clark is the host of the New Year ceremony in Times Square in new york every year, so Chandler said that he was "the victim of the dick clark Festival (that is, the New Year)" because he had no female companion to spend New Year's Eve with.

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah, a famous American blonde movie star, has appeared in The Mermaid and Wall Street, which is a favorite movie star of Phoebe's scientist friend Max, but Max thinks Phoebe is more beautiful than her.

An Officer and A Gentleman

the officer and the gentry, a business card starring Richard gere. Phoebe thinks her scientist friend is a lot like the characters in the play. However, in the film, two naval officers fall in love with a woman near the base in violation of regulations, which coincides with Phoebe's scientists going to Minsk soon, suggesting that this is a relationship that cannot last long.

Episode 11

Kung Pow Chicken

Chandler's mother who writes pornographic novels is accepting.