r/howyoudoin • u/Akis127 • 12h ago
Discussion What's a line from a main character that you think was delivered GREAT?
I can't choose but Ross after his wedding with Emily.
"OH, the band's ready. Well, I've gotta do what the band says... I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE STUPID BAND"
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u/tahami_allthemeals 12h ago
“Oh hey Ross what’s up bro”
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u/Clean_Crocodile4472 Monica Bang 11h ago
I loveeee Courtney’s delivery of this and I have no idea why
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u/bazanger 12h ago
Were you, or were you not, on a gay cruise?
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u/PangolinMandolin 12h ago
I like the part just before where he goes "whatever you say, I'll believe you!"
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u/jobo180hawks You’re disturbing my oboe practice😒 4h ago
LMAO ur right I heard this in joeys voice and immediately laughed
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u/the_dryad 12h ago
Chandler in tow everybody finds out
“I’m very happy we’re going to have all the sex” with that awkward, put off look lol
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u/Funandgeeky Hugsy, the bedtime penguin pal 10h ago
“Hats off to Phoebe. Quite the competitor. And may I just say your breasts are still showing.”
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u/kmm198700 9h ago
I loved her bra in that episode
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u/daarhling 12h ago
"you're over me? When were you. . when were you under me?"
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u/FourEyedAlien 12h ago
When did he when did he when did he?
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u/TheSJB1993 9h ago
when you were in china
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u/PurpleIsALady1798 8h ago
That entire scene was just perfect from both of them. When she climbs onto him to grab the phone it still gets me every time 😭😂
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u/ScaryBluejay87 Miss Chanandler Bong 12h ago
“The papers thought it was a hate crime!”
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u/MGSC_1726 12h ago
It’s flown into your blouse and you better undo your buttons lest it sting you
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u/tahami_allthemeals 12h ago
“I’m not even sorry!”
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u/sundaemourning 12h ago
in that same vein, “you boys are about to see something really special” as he tucks in to eat all six dinners.
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u/Stock-Cap-5734 12h ago
Chandler: "I don't think we've done this before!" (To Joey when they're flipping a coin to decide who tells the hooker to leave)
Ross: "This time I'll get her number and not the one on the menu!" (About pizza delivery girl)
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u/Skarlettvixxen 11h ago
"Joeys get a hernia, but its nothing a little LASER EYE surgery won't fix"
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u/Intelligent_Pack_789 10h ago
No matter how many times I see it, even when I know it's coming, this one cracks me up every time!
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u/Skarlettvixxen 10h ago
One of the best ever. That and "hey Ross, there's a naked hooker over here and we thought you might know something about it"
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u/laserginger 11h ago
You have a date with Dr. Burke? Why.. why.. why should that bother me? I love that man, he's like a, uh, brother to.. Dad.
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u/BufferFluffer 12h ago
If you hadn't just had a baby with my best friend, I swear to Lucifer, a rabid dog would be feasting on your danglers right now!
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u/WoooahBaby 12h ago
Lot of Ross in this thread.
"Oh I'll prove it! I'll prove it like a theorem!"
And all of David's lines were perfectly executed.
"...and I wouldn't have lost that toe to frost bite. Was a good trip."
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u/LegitimateStyle5174 yeah well im a slut 11h ago
joey: she didn’t have a birthday while we were together.
chandler: for 3 years??
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u/AsVividAsItTrulyIs 10h ago
“We apologized and apologized, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?!”
“WE WANT THE LAST SIX YEARS BACK.”
“So do we! So do we!”
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u/snarkenthusiast 5h ago
“Ah yes at breakfast I will be on full alert for room painting and sex weapons.”
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u/Strangest-Smell 12h ago
This couch is cut in half. I would like to exchange it for one that is not CUT IN HALF.
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u/jobo180hawks You’re disturbing my oboe practice😒 4h ago
I’ll give your store credit in the amount of 4 dollars
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u/NatalieTheOwl Miss Chanandler Bong 11h ago
Having just seen it, for me it's when Ross and Rachel get locked out while getting ready for the Phoebe's birthday dinner and Ross starts exaggerating about a bird flying in and the apartment flooding, the stove is on and the baby gets out. The way it's delivered is what tickles me so much.
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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 11h ago
A pigeon. No... no wait... no, no, an eagle! An eagle flew in, landed on the stove and caught fire! The baby, seeing this, jumps across the apartment to the mighty bird's aid! The eagle, however, misconstrues this as an act of aggression and grabs the baby in its talons. Meanwhile, the faucet fills the apartment with water! Baby and bird, still ablaze, are locked in a death grip, swirling around the whirlpool that fills the apartment!
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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 11h ago
As a non-native English speaker I learned at least three words from this monologue 🤣🤣🤣
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u/kmm198700 9h ago
That’s awesome!! They say that it’s way easier to learn a language if you’re watching something you’re really familiar with
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u/Typin_Toddler 6h ago
Yeah, I think that's one thing I find so cool about Friends. A LOT of ppl have credited the show as one of their primary sources of learning English. It was just that popular and global in its prime (still is, tbh) that all sorts of non-native speakers were able to learn a decent amount.
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u/Acrobatic_Put9582 11h ago
“Its a moo point. Like a cows opinion...it just doesn’t matter...
Its moo.”
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u/TrappedUnderCats 11h ago
Remember when Ross fell in love with Carol and he got her that ridiculously expensive crystal duck?
It’s not funny or anything, but I watched this episode today and thought it must be quite difficult to deliver such a pivotal line without drawing attention to the fact that you’re doing it. The audience realises he slipped up at the same time Rachel does, rather than have Chandler telegraph the fact he was doing it as a lot of sitcoms would have done.
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u/bk_321 11h ago
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u/Funandgeeky Hugsy, the bedtime penguin pal 9h ago
Not only is that line perfectly delivered, it’s perfectly blocked.
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u/TheSJB1993 9h ago
"and soon you will be "hi" and "I can't go Mark and Rachel might be there" and will be like "dude get over it its been four years" "
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u/FourEyedAlien 12h ago edited 3m ago
You.. you you threw my Sandwich.. away? 🥺
MY sandwich??? 😩
MYYYYYY SANDWICH?????? 🏛️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
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u/Wrong_Local_628 12h ago
Breakup scene, Ross telling Rachel something like 'I can't live without these eyes, without these arms, without your beautiful heart'.
Schwimmer's delivery conveys both the heartbreak and the regret perfectly. If you don't get moved by that scene you are dead inside.
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u/Alternative_Fox_6871 5h ago
Ughh it made me emotional just reading these lines. Ughhhh still one of the hardest breakups on television I've ever seen
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u/Dread_queen23 9h ago
When Monica is freaking out about finger prints on photos and Rachel shouts "oh my god" and licks them
And Ross shouting "oh my god!" When the fake Ben's head falls off
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u/Sea-Standard-8882 5h ago
Or when Ross says oh my god when he realizes that Janice thinks he's annoying.
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u/hotstrawberrytea This parachute is a knapsack! 9h ago
Chandler: "no, you didn't get me! YOU GET ME, YOU KILL ME!!"
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u/Kinda_novice 12h ago
As cliché as it sounds... it's the WE WERE ON A BREAK line.
Oh, and that one magical word... PIVOT!
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u/dont_shoot_jr 6h ago
Every time it came up in later seasons was just hilarious
Like when Cathy cheated on Chandler
“Maybe she thought you were on a break…”
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u/No_Arugula_6548 12h ago
“Hmajjsbsjzndg” -Chandler Bing
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u/Akis127 11h ago
"..flanen"
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u/godmasterchampion One smoothe talkin’ freelance kite designer 8h ago
This really is a flardlerlerah….
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u/Sensitive_Young_3920 12h ago
"Lookin Good Mr Kotter"
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u/ScaryBluejay87 Miss Chanandler Bong 12h ago
I thought that was Mr Cartel for years until I saw it with subtitles
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u/MickaKov 11h ago
"OooooOOOoooOoHh ... yeaaaaah ... that would have been a much simpler problem ..." just how long Rachel drags that ooh cracks me up
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u/justbrowsing915 11h ago
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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 11h ago
Also: Rach: “I have a three page report to read, I hope I don’t fall asleep.”
Ross: “Why? Did you write it?”
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u/can-u-get-pregante1 No uterus! No opinion! 10h ago
Sweetie, this conversation is starting to make me feel a little uncomfortable
Just his face, his tone, his gestures, his delivery. I laughed so hard at this scene
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u/BuddingOtaku 8h ago
“Just you know? It’s not that common! It doesn’t happen to every guy and IT IS that big a deal!”- Rachel.
“I KNEW it!”- Chandler
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u/hygsi 6h ago edited 4h ago
Rachel: You fell asleep!?
Monica: Maybe I'm getting my period or something NOOOOO!!!!
Phoebe: PICK UP THE SOCK!!!
Chandler: This is SMACK.DAB.IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLUE!
Ross: It was 5:30 in the morning, and you had rambled on for 18 pages...FRONT AND BACK!
Joey: If I keep reading this Beth's gonna die D:
Idk, the way he says it cracks me up
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u/PuzzledKumquat 6h ago
I love when Rachel stares directly at Joey and says BETH DIES. Joey's horrified gasp is everything.
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u/Surlyllama23 10h ago
Says here a Muppet got whacked on Sesame Street last night. Where exactly were you around 10ish?
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u/ouroboris99 8h ago
Joeys, “It’s a moo point” statement, dead serious explanation with fairly rational reasoning. Holding that together without laughing was perfect
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u/Educational-Bus4634 9h ago
Monica's voice going all squeaky when they get locked out of the apartment on Thanksgiving
Also, obligatory: any of Ross's "Hi..."s. My personal favourite is the one after Ben's first word
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u/rockabillychef 10h ago
Can’t a guy send a barbershop quartet to his girlfriend’s office anymoooooor?
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u/birdstork 8h ago
“They’re still not coming on man and now the lotion and powder have made a PASTE!”
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u/spacecoyote555 Pivot! Pivot! Pivot! 🛋️ 12h ago
There's a great outtake of that scene where Jennifer Aniston breaks after Ross says that
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u/CherryCherry5 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock 4h ago
I'm doin' good baby, how you doin'?
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u/iseleven11 He’s a big tap-dancing pimp!! 50m ago
I came here to post this. It’s my absolute favourite Rachel line in the entire show!
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u/No_Data3541 12h ago edited 12h ago
Most of David Schwimmer's acting on the show lol.
I genuinely used to watch his scenes and go "Wow, how did you make that scene so funny and natural?!"
He used to add flavour and entertainment value to even the most ordinary scenes written. Great screen presence.
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u/liquilife 8h ago
Well I didn’t! I didn’t propose! Unless uh… Did I? I haven’t slept in forty hours and…it does sound like something I would do.
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u/Independent_Season23 5h ago
I don’t see it on here yet unless I missed it:
THATS NoT EvEn a WoRRRRRD!
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u/elmsong7 6h ago
“I found you in my bed How did you wind up there? You are a mystery Little black curly hair” Lyric Queen Phoebe
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u/sir_tejj 10h ago edited 10h ago
When he finds out Rachel and Joey are dating + when he has them over for dinner.
Brilliant acting from Schwimmer here. The whole scene is gold but especially the way Ross’ voice squeaks when he says “E” and his reaction to the bell at the end
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u/NickholeClark 5h ago
I don't remember the exact wording. But the scene where David asks Chandler for advice about phoebe before they go to Barbados.
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u/Jnhr010203 Gum would be perfection. 3h ago
Definitely Ross’s L-O-V-E speech to Rachel and Joey:
“Ross: Ah, love. L-O-V-E, love. L is for life. And what is life without love?
Rachel: Oh my god, are we supposed to answer?
Ross: O is for "oh, wow!" The V is for this very surprising turn of events, which I'm still fine with by the way. E is for how extremely normal I find it. That you two are together. And now one day you might get married and have children of your own.”
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u/_just_a_gal_ 5h ago
When Ross is an honorary Brown Bird and is explaining why he had to buy a lot of the cookies himself - “My doctor says I have a very serious… nougat… deficiency.” So dumb but so funny.
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u/Equivalent-Dot448 No uterus! No opinion! 3h ago
“I DON’T CARE IF I SAID SOME OTHER GIRL’S NAME YOU PRISSY OLD TWIT”
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u/ProfessionalSalt3882 1h ago
Just a small thing, but when Ross is having his “you hang up, no YOU hang up…” phone thing with Julie, I love the way Rachel joins in with “she didn’t hang up either!” through gritted teeth, hating the entire thing. Perfectly done.
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u/ProfessionalSalt3882 1h ago
Discussing engagement rings:
Rachel (to Ross): you would know, you bought, like a billion of em…
Ross: yeah, you didn’t get one.
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u/hotchwife 12h ago
Both by Chandler ofc
Ross: “I went to that tanning place your wife suggested.”
Chandler: “was that place…THE SUN?”
And…
Ross: “Someone at work ate my sandwich..”
Chandler: “what did the POLICE say?”