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The One with the Routine

‘The One with the Routine’

Season 6, Episode 10 - Aired December 16, 1999

When Janine lands a role as a dancer on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, she invites Joey, Ross and Monica to join her. Meanwhile, Phoebe, Rachel and Chandler try to find Monica's Christmas presents for them.

Quote from Ross

Monica: Excuse me, sir. Would it help if I weren't wearing underpants?
Ross: Monica! Would it?

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Quote from Monica

Ross: When the music starts up, I was thinking about maybe going into the robot.
Monica: Ross? I think we should stick to the routine. We don't want to look stupid.

Quote from Phoebe

Phoebe: Hey, look who I found.
Chandler: Oh, hi, guys.
Phoebe: You know, birds have a very good sense of direction, so I thought maybe they could help us find the presents.
Chandler: Yes, if the presents are hidden south for the winter.
Phoebe: Or we could just follow your clever jokes. Any ideas? No? Didn't think so.

Quote from Chandler

Joey: I had to get out of the apartment. Janine is, like, stretching all over the place. You know, everywhere I look she's like... [Joey poorly demonstrates some stretches]
Chandler: I can see why that's hard to resist.
Joey: I like her so much.
Monica: Oh, I'm sorry, sweetie, that she doesn't feel the same.
Joey: I know. And she's so sweet. I just want to feed her grapes and brush her hair.
Chandler: You are aware that she's not a monkey, right?

Quote from Chandler

Rachel: We are so gonna find them this year.
Chandler: You know when you guys said you were gonna go across the hall and look, you don't do that every year do you?
Rachel: Yeah.
Chandler: You don't, like, go into the back of my closet and look under my gym bag or anything?
Rachel: No. Never do that.
[Phoebe and Rachel start laughing]
Chandler: Because that's where Joey gave me stuff to store that I've never seen in my life. Okay, that did not just happen.

Quote from Phoebe

Chandler: Well, the duck seems to think that Monica got me garbage. I wonder what I could get Monica that's as good as garbage.
Phoebe: Hmm. How about my "az"?

Quote from Ross

Ross: Hey, I know what'll get us up on a platform.
Monica: What?
Ross: The routine!
Monica: Ross, we haven't done the routine since middle school.
Ross: Hey, when the snippy guy sees the routine he'll want to build us our own platform.
Monica: Was it really that good?
Ross: We got honorable mention in the brother/sister dance category.

Quote from Monica

Phoebe: Ooh, ooh. We have a live one.
Rachel: Oh, it's a Macy's bag.
Phoebe: Yeah. Ooh, who's it for?
Rachel: "Dear Losers, do you really think I'd hide presents under the couch? P.S. Chandler, I knew they'd break you."
Phoebe: Uh-oh. She may be onto us.

Quote from Monica

Ross: Wow. Monica's letting other people help decorate her tree? Did someone get her drunk again, or...?
Monica: Having a perfectly decorated tree is not what Christmas is about. It's about being with the people that you love.
Phoebe: That is nice. And we're done. Ta-da.
Chandler: I don't know what it is. It just doesn't quite feel like Christmas to me.
Monica: Oh, yeah.
[Monica rotates the Christmas tree so only the side she decorated is visible]
Chandler: See, now it feels like Christmas.

Quote from Ross

Ross: I am so over Janine. Yeah, at first I thought she was hot, but now she's like old news.
Janine: Hey, guys.
Ross: [enthusiastically] Janine!

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