‘The One That Could Have Been (Part 1)’
Season 6, Episode 15 - Aired February 17, 2000
The gang ponders what might have been if Ross and Carol had stayed together, Monica was still heavy, Chandler had become a struggling writer, Joey still worked on Days of our Lives, Rachel had married Barry, and Phoebe had taken a job as a stockbroker.
Quote from Joey
Roger: Here you go, one hazelnut latte.
Monica: Thank you.
Roger: You know, the hazelnut, actually not a nut. It's a seed.
Joey: Wow.
Roger: Can anyone else name a well-known seed that's been masquerading as a nut?
Joey: Oh, dear God. Let me think.
Quote from Chandler
Monica: What's the matter?
Chandler: I just got another rejection letter. They said my writing was funny, just not "Archie Comic" funny.
Quote from Chandler
Joey: Hey, sorry about that Archie thing. You need me to give you some money?
Chandler: Hey, I may have no money, but I still have my pride.
Joey: Really?
Chandler: Eh.
Quote from Ross
Monica: How long's it been since we've seen each other?
Ross: 1987, the day after Christmas. Sean McMahan's party. I played you one of my songs, you know, "Interplanetary Courtship Ritual".
Quote from Joey
Joey: All right, I gotta go to work. I'm delivering twins today, but only one is mine.
Quote from Monica
Phoebe: No, no! No!
Monica: Wait! You didn't just sit on my Kit Kats did you?
Quote from Ross
Phoebe: So what's going on with you?
Ross: Well, I've been doing a lot more of my karate.
Phoebe: Still going through that dry spell with Carol?
Ross: Yeah.
Phoebe: How long has it been since you've had sex?
Ross: Well, last weekend-
Phoebe: Oh, that's not so bad.
Ross: Will be two months, since I stopped trying.
Quote from Phoebe
Phoebe: Maybe you need to spice things up a little.
Ross: What do you mean?
Phoebe: I don't know. You could tie her up. She could tie you up. You could eat stuff off each other. You know, dirty talk, Ménage à trois, toys, role-playing. You could be the warden, she could be the prisoner. You could be the pirate, she could be the wench.
Ross: Okay, I think I got it.
Phoebe: Or you could be two stockbrokers, and you're rolling around naked on the trading floor and everybody's watching. It never happened.
Quote from Joey
Joey: And over there is Brady's Pub, where I unwind after a long day of "surgeoning."
Quote from Carol
Ross: Seriously, our sex life. I was thinking maybe, I don't know, we could try some new things, you know, for fun.
Carol: Like what?
Ross: Well, I don't know. What if we were to tie each other up? [coughs] Um, some people eat stuff off one another. Yeah. You know, we could try dirty talk. [nervous laugh] We could have a threesome.
Carol: I love that idea!