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"The One Where They're Up All Night" is the twelfth episode of Friends{{'}} seventh season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on January 11, 2001.^[2]

Plot

Ross drags the gang, including Tag, up onto the roof to look at the "Bapstein-King" comet, but no one is entirely interested. Rachel and Tag escape to go "watch a movie," with Phoebe; and Chandler and Monica retire to get some sleep. This leaves Ross on the roof with Joey, who is far more interested in scoping out ladies through his binoculars than in any "Burger King comet."

Monica falls asleep quickly, but Chandler can't, and continually wakes her up in his attempts to put himself to sleep (first by reading one of Monica's books, and then by digging pots out of the cabinet to warm some milk for himself). Monica finally warms it for him, only to discover him snoozing. Finally they end up in bed, and start to have sex... but Monica falls asleep halfway through it. Chandler decides to make her coffee, but this turns out to be unnecessary: a mention that he'll probably spill coffee grounds on the floor has her wide awake in moments. Finally, as the episode ends, a satisfied Monica notes that they have seven minutes before she has to get up for work. With Chandler's (unknowing) agreement, she breaks out the vacuum cleaner and furniture polish.

Rachel and Tag are about to retire for a night of similar festivities when Rachel asks if Tag mailed out a set of contracts to Milan. She insists she placed them on his desk, while he insists they were nowhere in sight. Eventually they raid the office, where Rachel discovers Tag was right, but works out a subterfuge so that she can sneak them into his desk drawer. However, when she tells Tag to look there, the contracts are nowhere in sight—they've magically appeared back on Rachel's desk. Also, throughout this time, Rachel continually jokes about how Tag keeps his cellular phone in his pants—"you are talking on the phone with your crotch!"—only to check if her breasts have any similar capabilities.

Phoebe is kept from sleep by the insistent beeping of a smoke detector. She is unable to get it to stop, despite taking such drastic measures as: beating it with a shoe; yanking it from the wall; and throwing it down a trash chute wrapped in a blanket. It is from this misadventure that it is returned to her by a helpful fireman: "The next time you want to dump a fire alarm in a trash chute, don’t wrap it in a blanket that says, 'Property of Phoebe Buffay not Monica.'" When asked how to get the thing to stop beeping, the fireman suggests the reset button on the unit's plastic case... which Phoebe finds, not on the case, but on the floor.

Finally, Ross and Joey take turns spying on neighbors with the binoculars. Joey, at one point, hands over the binoculars and starts looking through a pipe instead. This pipe turns out to be the one that was propping the roof door open; Joey and Ross are now stuck on the roof in the dead of night. The two attempt to climb down the fire escape, but discover that the bottom-floor ladder, which is supposed to slide down to the ground, will do no such thing; eventually, Joey serves as the bottom segment of the ladder, and Ross climbs down him. He loses his grip, falls and (evidently) sprains his ankle, but is rewarded for his adventures when he discovers a quarter on the ground (which they used before to decide who gets to jump).

Deleted scene

Reception

Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy also ranked the #214 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes, and wrote that the episode "all feels a bit convoluted".^[5]

References

1. ^https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/friends/episode-12-season-7/the-one-where-theyre-up-all-night/100168
2. ^https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/friends/episode-12-season-7/the-one-where-theyre-up-all-night/100168
3. ^https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/one-with-the-deleted-scenes.html
4. ^https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/13745603.the-definitive-ranking-of-all-236-friends-episodes
5. ^https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/g24617/friends-episodes-best-ranked-every-all