Caroline

But Phoebe is Dickon, Ross is Colin, obviously.

No, Joey is Dick and Ross is Colin.

Joey is Dick and Ross is Colin.

Oh my God.

Monica is Martha.

Sure.

Okay.

Yes.

Yeah.

And he realizes that his relationship to the holidays is no longer what it was when he was a child, but what it is as an adult because of what he's made it with the people he loves and like the family he's made.

And then crucially, he ends the episode quitting his job because, and he literally says like,

why should I be the only person who doesn't get to do what they love?

And it's like this real thing of being like, oh, you have like been two feet into this like job that you hate, that no one understands for your entire adult life.

Your entire life was so unstable that you clung to the first stable thing you ever had, which was this horrible techie job.

You've broken the cycle.

And now you're like, and you know what?

I've decided that I love Christmas.

I love my family.

I'm going to get a new job that I like.

It's literally, it's a wonderful life.