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Rachel and Monica can't stand the apartment anymore and want to trade it for basketball season tickets. Emily leaves again for London and Ross wants to ask her to move to New York. Chandler and Joey thinks it's outrageous because Ross has only known her for 6 weeks. The guys don't want to give up the apartment but agree to bet with the girls. Phoebe makes up a game no one understands so they cut a deck of cards and the guys win. Ross asks Emily to marry him and she says yes! While Joey and Chandler are at the game the girls move their stuff back into their apartment. Chandler wants to get the girls' apartment back but the girls offer to kiss for one minute in return for the apartment and the deal is settled.

And..I checked imdb to check out goofs and trivia and read other reviews.

I gave this a 9.

I didn't think too much about it.

It was easily an 8..but I enjoyed it so much, very easily.

I have a smattering of episodes rated.

So...rest of season 4 is downhill.

This is the last gasp of the show where it is still old school classic friends. This turns into going to england and Chandler and Monica getting together and the show morphs into something completely different that i don't like.

I dont have another one rated this high until the one where everybody finds out.

And that's what friends becomes. Hit or miss..and some are really really really miss.

So this is kind of saying good bye to an old friend. Things arent gonna be the same the rest of season 4, into season 5 and onwards.

Thank you for the laughs. There will be some flashes of its once greatness, but trending down steadily going forward.

Can't ever go back.

Good bye old friend.

Most of the episode it is about the apartment issue. I like how they were pulling cards to bet both the tickets and the apartment. The funny thing is that Joey didn't even get at the end that they still had the apartment. And how sneaky were the girls to just move everything while the guys were away, I am not even surprised that it was Phoebe's idea. And first I wasn't sure if the deal that they made was convincing, but then I thought of course, these are Joey and Chandler!

And in this time we also see Ross's and Emily's relationship moving forward very fast, which is not surprising, they needed to do something about the distance. Very well done was the moment when Rachel hears about their engagement.

Emily and Ross lie in bed together and make out. His bed looks so comfortable. Emily gets up to pack but Ross tells her not to. He pulls her back into a hug.

Ross asks Emily to stay and she can become one of those foreigners who take jobs from Americans.

Rachel gives the guys tickets after losing a bet. While they were at the game, the girls switched the furniture. Monica and Rachel offer a thank you gift by making out for one minute. The guys go to their side of the apartment and immediately go to their bedrooms, saying good night when clearly they are going to be masturbating.

Ross proposes to Emily.

The rush is clearly on for the writers to engineer the Ross/Emily romance to a wedding in time for the end of the series. And much like the story line, the writing is a bit rushed too. However, it is well played out by David Schwimmer and Helen Baxendale.

As with a few episodes towards the end of this series the show seems to break its trend of having three story lines, and sometimes that works and others it doesn't. Perhaps this was due to the fact that Lisa Kudrow was pregnant and couldn't commit to doing as much understandably.

I liked the fact that the girls were trying to win back their apartment, and there was some good comic interplay within this story.

A fun episode.