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4. Joey went on a second date with a girl just to get Rachel to make him pancakes
This theory is specifically about the season 7 episode ‘The One With Ross’s Library Book’. At the episode’s start, Joey leaves a one-night stand called Erin (played by Sex and the City‘s Kristin Davis) in his apartment with Rachel. He asks Rachel to let Erin down gently by telling her that he’s not looking for anything serious. He says that Chandler used to do this job for him, and would also make the girls pancakes, leaving extras for Joey. Rachel refuses, and Joey asks whether or not she’ll be making pancakes for Erin (and Joey) anyway.
Rachel does make the pancakes, but only for Erin. She gives her the impression that Joey likes her and wants another date, then forces him into a cinema date with her. But the tables are turned when Erin decides there’s no spark, asking Rachel and Phoebe to tell him that she’s not looking for anything serious.
At this point Joey ostensibly looks gutted, but seems to cheer up immediately when Rachel offers to make him pancakes. Our theorist suggests that Joey only pretended to like Erin so Rachel would feel bad for him and make him pancakes. “Isn’t it just a tiny bit possible that he had been orchestrating the entire thing, and he just couldn’t contain his excitement when it came to fruition? Maybe Joey’s smarter than he looks… he turned the tables of the entire subplot effortlessly.”
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5. Friends, Seinfeld and Mad About You are all in the same universe
As E! points out, these three NBC sitcoms are set in New York City. Friends and Mad About You are definitely set in the same universe: in both, Lisa Kudrow plays a waitress called Ursula (Phoebe’s twin), and in both, Helen Hunt plays a character called Jamie. In one episode of Friends, Jamie shows up in Central Perk and mistakes Phoebe for Ursula, resulting in a hilariously jarring exchange:
That’s a definite connection, but then in comes Seinfeld to mess things up. Kramer (Michael Richards), an odd guy from Seinfeld, shows up in a 1992 episode of Mad About You called ‘The Apartment’. This would suggest that Seinfeld, Mad About You and Friends all occur in the same ‘universe’, but a few more connections between the three shows throw that idea into doubt. Courteney Cox (Friends‘ Monica) also played Jerry’s girlfriend, Meryl, in a season 5 episode of Seinfeld. And there’s also an episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza and his wife Susan watch an episode of Mad About You in bed. So are they in the same universe or not? Maybe we’ll never know.
6. Monica only developed OCD after losing weight
Not exactly a theory that leads anywhere, but this one points out that in her youth and in the alternate timelines where Monica never lost weight in her adulthood, she isn’t such a clean-freak – in fact, she seems much less up-tight and controlling in general. The theory itself is actually slightly worrying – it suggests Monica’s OCD (and infertility) began because of hormone treatment she might have taken at ‘fat camp’ – but the difference in her personality is notable all the same.
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