FRIENDS of the Podcast: The One With the East German Laundry Detergent

We're launching our as of yet untitled Friends retrospective and could we be any more excited? Ian and Georgia are here on a Friends Friday to discuss all things Season 1 of the hit 90s sitcom that arguably transcends era.  Stories and plot continuity crashes are aplenty in our first episode as we discuss:

• The kind of retconning FRIENDS had to do to itself post-pilot to give the audience a longer chase with Ross & Rachel
• How Ross really had no better shot with Rachel in Season 1 than he does at the end of this episode
• How this episode may have been one of two shot and released out of order
• We introduce you to Mimi the Meanie, and we get our first glimpses of Maggie Wheeler as Janice, only, is she Janice?  When is Janice not Janice?
• The clever design of splitting the FRIENDS up into 3 twosomes
• We play 'how stupid is too stupid for Joey?'
• We also play 'how stupid is too stupid for Monica?'
• We discuss which parts of the episode are the best for water cooler discussion
• Ian comes up with arguably a better name for the episode

If you want to get in on the discussion, you can over on Twitter @bestfilmeverpod

Next up: The One With the Blackout (1.07)