It was a soap opera, but every actor with the exception of DiCaprio (he didn't come close to pulling off the streetwise Parisian hustler artist) was spot-on perfect. Billy Zane is still my favorite movie villain.

The fact that Ross has become such a rageball that he's suspended from work, then while trying to convince his boss he's ready to come back explodes with the GET OFF MY SISTER outburst is the capper to a great ep, for sure.

Susan completely lorded her relationship with Susan over Ross, no two ways about it. She was pretty much smug and condescending every time they interacted. If she'd been another guy I have to think she'd have been seen as a villain. Susan was consistently fantastic except when Ross was being a whiny punk, when she…

Pretty much everyone except Joey did something pretty seriously selfish over the course of the run; Ross' insecurities just made him the worst culprit.

The Break Up is not a great film, but she was characteristically hilarious (and sexy) in it

While not her best performance per se (the situation didn't call for it), the old prom home video may be my favorite scene from the whole show.

There were actually little nipple implants sold so that women could get the Friends look through their bras. I shit you not.

I don't know, I feel like they pulled Monica back from the edge at the last moment, and Chandler had a lot to do with that.

Joey's delivery of "Chandler is a complex fellow, and one unlikely to take a wife" is beyond priceless.

#3 candidate for laser removal treatments.

Him wearing Rachel's dad's jacket, glasses and cigarette was great physical comedy. Her mom's disgusted reaction to seeing him like that was priceless. "Oh my god, you're dating your father"

I laugh uncontrollably every time at that scene.

My guess is the break meant something more concrete to Rachel at the time she suggested it, then much less when she realized she was being too harsh and discovered what he'd done. I agree with other posters that's the genius in the writing; there's no "right" answer.

Nope. "He just came by to platonically comfort me. In my apartment." has a hollow ring to it.

I think waking up the next morning and feeling self-loathing for what you've done is less than an excuse but at least does acknowledge acceptance of badly fucking up.

"OK driver, everyone's accounted for and onboard the bus. Pick me up 9AM tomorrow at the Phoenix airport."

Monica's character mellowed nicely after a turn into full-on shrew territory, mostly thanks to Chandler's even temperament. She risked becoming completely unlikable there for a while.

Fucking Gunther, man. Ross should have put his teeth through the back of his head.

And that's precisely because it's entirely possible the person who did the breaking up quickly comes to regret it, a la Rachel in this situation. Running right to the first person willing to provide you some physical comforting is laying the groundwork for some serious complications. The only way it's reasonably…

That's an interesting movie in that she's basically the villain despite not necessarily being a bad person. She's just kind of emotionally blank; married too young to a slacker husband, cheats with a silly teenager at her Wal-Martesque job, which leads to agreeing to even worse behavior in order to keep her husband…