Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan.
Rachel Green: — Guess what.
Ross Geller: — You got a job?
Rachel Green: — Are you kidding? I'm trained for nothing. I was laughed out of 12 interviews today.
Chandler Bing: — Yet you're surprisingly upbeat.
Rachel Green: — Well, you would be too if you found Joan and David boots on sale... 50 percent off.
Chandler Bing: — Oh, how well you know me.
Rachel Green: — They're my new "I don't need a job or my parents. I've got great boots" boots.
Rachel Green: — So, like, you guys all have jobs?
Monica Geller: — Yeah, we all have jobs. See, that's how we buy stuff.
Joey Tribbiani: — Yeah, I'm an actor.
Rachel Green: — Wow. Would I have seen you in anything?
Joey Tribbiani: — Oh, I doubt it. Mostly regional work.
Monica Geller: — Unless you happened to catch the Wee One's production of Pinocchio.
Chandler Bing: — "Look, Geppeto. I'm a real live boy."
Joey Tribbiani: — I will not take this abuse.
Chandler Bing: — You're right. I'm sorry. Once I was a wooden boy, A little wooden boy...
— Do you think it would be okay if I ask you out sometime, maybe?
— Yeah. Maybe.
— Okay. Okay, maybe I will.
— I feel like someone grabbed my small intestine, pulled it out of my mouth... and tied it around my neck.
— Cookie?
Come on, Daddy, listen to me! It's like all of my life, everyone's always told me, "You're a shoe! You're a shoe! You're a shoe! You're a shoe!" Then today I stopped and said, "What if I don't wanna be a shoe? What if I wanna be a purse? You know? Or a hat?" I don't want you to buy me a hat, I am a hat. It's a metaphor, Daddy! <...> Well, maybe that's my decision. Well, maybe I don't need your money. Wait! Wait! I said maybe!
— Welcome back to the world. Grab a spoon.
— I honestly don't know if I'm hungry or horny.
— Then stay out of my freezer.
— My brother's going through that. He's such a mess. How did you get through it?
— He might try accidentally breaking something valuable of hers. Say her...
— Leg?
No. No, don't! Stop cleansing my aura. Just leave my aura alone, okay? I'll be fine. All right? Really.
Chandler Bing: — I'm back in high school, in the middle of the cafeteria... and I realize I'm totally naked.
Monica Geller: — I've had that dream.
Chandler Bing: — Then I look down and I realize there is a phone... there.
Joey Tribbiani: — Instead of...
Chandler Bing: — That's right!
Joey Tribbiani: — That one, I've never had.
Chandler Bing: — No. All of a sudden, the phone starts to ring. And it turns out it's my mother. Which is very, very weird because she never calls me.
