Dr. Dolly Alderton

You are somebody that like people are obsessed with.

People love getting close to.

People ask a lot of and love being with and is cool and is fun.

But like you, like everybody have stuff to get through.

Like I have bits of that in me as well.

Just like I watched an episode last night where Rachel, first she's trying to take the garbage out and she refuses to empty the bin.

And Monica's like, just empty the bin.

Just go downstairs and go into the whatever, the trash room.

And then she's trying to shove a pizza box down the chute and she just won't break it down.

Yeah.

She just keeps shoving it And then That's the moments I just relate to her so much I relate to her so much And then she turns around And Trigger is there And he's just like You just You've never given a thought To any other person In your life I've spent a half an hour Unplugging that You don't think about anybody yet And she starts crying And I felt for her So I was like That's me Yeah It's not that I'm like It's not that I'm horrible I'm just self-involved Totally Totally

Okay, I will literally list you as Dr. Dolly Oliver.

Thank you.

And I think what's fascinating about that as I've been watching through and often when I've been doing these episodes, I have been like essentially picking a theme, gathering many episodes from across the series and then watching them in order.

So I'll watch something from season two, then season seven, then season nine or whatever.

And it's very interesting with Rachel because the first half of the show, it feels like it's all about her trying to beat this narrative, her trying to learn about the world, her trying to be a kind of a human being, being a fully rounded person and not just this kind of like...

girl who ornaments a room.

And then once she achieves that, it's all about mythologizing that fact that she did that.

So true.

Like when her sisters, Jill and Amy, who are Reese Witherspoon and Christina Applegate, respectively, come in, it's all about teaching those women how they can be more like Rachel.