Ella Risbridger

There's different stuff going on.

They want to take Emma to a beauty pageant.

By the way, a story that would never be Phoebe's line.

They obviously wanted to give it to Monica, but you couldn't have Phoebe doing the Christmas, the Thanksgiving cooking.

So fine.

But Joey is like, I got tickets for a game because Joey at this point, I can't remember what Joey's career is, but he's a guy who can get tickets to games.

They're always getting tickets.

Joey's an actor who's like, oh yeah, it would be great to see my friends.

But also I got given these free tickets for this thing and I don't see why we shouldn't go.

And it's a far cry from the beginning where it's like we have nothing and nobody else.

We have nothing to do and nobody else to see.

And we just are going to be in this one room clinging together like life rafts.

And I think a lot about that episode and I've been thinking a lot about it in terms of that, like, thanks, that parenting influencer saying a thing we like to do sometimes.

Because I think one reason I am very glad that Friends ended when it did.

is that it allows a graceful way for things to change.

Like there are some real moments of like change in friends that this is not a festive episode, but you know, when Monica moves in with, when Chandler moves in with Monica and she's like, and I have to live with a boy.

And I love to see that their friendship remains the same and as solid.

And I believe that their friendships will all remain the same and as solid as they ever were in different ways and in different shapes and different forms as they have kids or don't have kids.

And, you know, maybe there's a future where Ben and Carol and Susan and Ross and Rachel and Emma all move to Paris or like not to rehash the Ross apologist episode, which was very important as a Ross apologist.

But, you know, they have got a very unusual and very powerful relationship, those guys.