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The One with the Metaphorical Tunnel

‘The One with the Metaphorical Tunnel’

Season 3, Episode 4 -  Aired October 10, 1996

Chandler gets advice from Monica and Rachel as he worries his relationship with Janice is getting serious. Meanwhile, Phoebe pretends to be Joey's agent and Ross is upset that Ben is playing with a Barbie doll.

Quote from Rachel

Phoebe: Ooh, it's your audition from this morning. Can I use the phone?
Rachel: Yeah, sure, Pheebs. That's what it's there for. Emergencies and pretend agents.

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Quote from Chandler

Janice: So how come you wanted to eat in tonight?
Chandler: Because I wanted to give you this.
Janice: Aren't you a puppy. Contact paper. You never really know what to say when someone you're sleeping with gives you contact paper?
Chandler: Wait, there's more. See, the contact paper is to go in your brand new drawer. See, the drawer actually goes in my dresser.
Janice: Oh. You didn't have to do this.
Chandler: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because you're my girlfriend and that's what girlfriends should get.
Janice: Well, I gotta buy a vowel because, oh, my God! Who would've thought that someday Chandler Bing would buy me a drawer?
Chandler: Well, not me. But that's what's happened.

Quote from Monica

Rachel: Here you go, honey. This will help.
Chandler: So I finally catch up to her and she says this relationship's going too fast and we have to slow down.
Monica: That is never good.
Chandler: Then I got all ... needy and clingy.
Rachel: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Maybe it's not so bad. How did you leave it?
Chandler: She said she'd call me.
[Monica and Rachel groan]
Chandler: Oh, God.
Monica: Welcome to our side of the tunnel.
Chandler: This ice cream tastes like crap, by the way.
Rachel: Yeah, well, it's that low-cal-nondairy-soyamilk junk. We save the real stuff for the truly terminal cases.
Monica: You know, when you start getting screwed over all the time, you gotta switch to low fat.
Rachel: Yeah, you do.

Quote from Joey

Phoebe: I'm sorry. I quit.
Joey: No, no, you can't quit. You're the best agent I ever had. Look, Pheebs, rejection is part of being an actor. You can't take it personal.
Phoebe: Not personal? Okay, they said they'd never met an Italian actor with a worse Italian accent.
Joey: They actually said that?
Phoebe: Yeah. Oh, God, there's that face again. See? I can't do this job.
Joey: No, see, this is why you have to do this job. Agents always lie. Estelle just says stuff like, "They went another way." But this? I can use this. [in a bad Italian accent] I can work on a new accent.

Quote from Chandler

Chandler: I'm just, you know, picking up some things for a party.
Janice: Barley? What kind of party serves barley?
Chandler: Well, I'm sorry if my friends aren't as sophisticated as yours.
Janice: Where is this party?
Chandler: Here in Chelsea.
Janice: Whose party is it?
Chandler: A woman's.
Janice: What woman?
Chandler: Chelsea.

Quote from Phoebe

Phoebe: Okay, we got some more good rejections. Lots of stuff to work on.
Joey: Okay. Shoot.
Phoebe: Okay. Oh, the zoo commercial.
Joey: I didn't get it?
Phoebe: They said that you "weren't believable as a human being." So you can work on that.

Quote from Joey

Joey: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Did you just make all that stuff up to get out of being my agent?
Phoebe: Oh, he caught me. I am so busted.
Joey: [in a bad Italian accent] That's what I suspected.

Quote from Phoebe

Monica: See? Now, this is why I keep notepads everywhere.
Phoebe: Yep. And that's why we don't invite you to play.

Quote from Monica

Phoebe: I need a pen. Pen! [Phoebe writes on the back of Chandler's neck]
Chandler: Get the woman a pad! Get the woman a pad! A pad! A pad!
Monica: Oh, now you want a pad.

Quote from Chandler

Joey: Go for it, man. Jump off the high dive. Stare down the barrel of the gun. Pee into the wind.
Chandler: Joe, I assure you, if I'm staring down the barrel of a gun, I'm gonna be pretty much peeing every which way.

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