1. Plot

2. Reception

3. References

• Story by: Zachary Rosenblatt
• Teleplay by: Adam Chase

"The One with Unagi" is the seventeenth episode of Friends{{'}} sixth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on February 24, 2000.

Plot

Joey, unhired by the acting industry, is making ends meet by working at Central Perk, a task at which he is singularly ill-suited, as he keeps getting distracted by his friends and drinking other people's coffee. Joey donates his sperm when he is low on cash. Ross suggests some alternative form of employment, and Joey looks into medical studies at the local hospital. He finds one that pays $2,000 for identical twins, and hires a fake twin, Carl, at an audition. Unfortunately, Carl is Joey's twin in terms of brainpower, and the ruse fails miserably.

Chandler panics when he remembers that he and Monica have agreed to hand-craft Valentine's Day gifts for each other this year ("She was working on Valentine’s Day so we’re celebrating it tonight"). Phoebe offers him a bunny rabbit composed of Rachel's socks, but Chandler insists on trying for himself, creating a coat hanger and several paper cups wired together into a... Something. He ends up grabbing a cassette tape to stand in for a homemade mix tape. Monica, who also forgot, gives him Phoebe's sock-bunny and then launches into a furious campaign of please-forgive-me sex and homemade meals. Chandler, happy with the attention, doesn't correct her misconception, but his deception becomes clear when Monica actually plays the cassette tape—a homemade mix tape from Chandler's ex-girlfriend Janice (her only appearance in this season).

Rachel and Phoebe take a women's self-defense class together; Rachel feels confident about her mastery of the topic, which Ross scoffs at. It has taken him long years of karate lessons, he claims, to master the true essence of self-defense: "unagi", which Ross claims is an almost-precognitive awareness of nearby danger. (Everyone asks him, rightly, if "unagi" isn't actually a form of sushi.) To prove that Rachel and Phoebe have not reached an "unagi"-infused state of mind, he sets up a number of "scary" ambushes on them, only to find out they are stronger than him, as in one failed ambush Rachel and Phoebe sit on him, not letting him go. Ross goes to their instructor to ask how to fight them off, but he doesn't explain the situation properly, making him look like someone who enjoys attacking women, especially his ex-wife. Later, Ross sees the backs of two blonde-haired women near Central Perk, thinking they're Rachel and Phoebe and attacks them from behind, only to be attacked back. As he is running away from them he pauses for a second to see Rachel and Phoebe staring at him from a window in Central Perk and he runs away in fear as he realizes the unknown women are chasing him.

Reception

References

• Rachel Bay Jones
• Rachel Bazinet
• Rachel Bean
• Rachel Beasley Ray
• Rachel Beliveau
• Rachel Bell (disambiguation)
• Rachel Bendayan
• Rachel Ben Natan
• Rachel Bentley
• Rachel Berry (Miss Oregon)
• Rachel Bettmer
• Rachel Bianchi-Quarshie
• Rachel Bland
• Rachel Blaney
• Rachel Blankenship
• Rachel Borovik
• Rachel Bourchier, Countess of Bath
• Rachel Brand
• Rachel Brathen
• Rachel Brooks Gleason
• Rachel Brouwer
• Rachel Brown (chemist)
• Rachel Browne
• Rachel Brown (flautist)
• Rachel Brown (flutist)