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In this episode Ross moves in to his new apartment and already gets into trouble with his neighbours. Although he is absolutely right. It is pretty funny though how he plans to throw a party for everyone to learn how great he is or how he eats the cake and is caught doing it because of all the cream on his lips

Monica and Chandlert have a conflict. And I don't see how he is wrong at it. Monica is indeed obsessed with marriage and babies. She dumped a guy she "loved" because the idea of kids is more important to her than being with someone she loves. So why should Chandler believe that she sees him as something else than potential sperm donor? Of course at the end he showed how whipped and dumb he is when he proposed to her....

And there is some nice humor in the tiny girlfriend of Joey that hits him. Especially in the scene where her and Rachel are hitting each other and Rachel ends up kicking her!

Ross has found out about Chandler and Monica's relationship and is angry. Although, when he finds out that they are in love with each other he is happy with their relationship. Joey is dating a girl that keeps on hitting him (although the hitting is friendly, they punches are still quite hard). Ross finishes moving into his new apartment and the President of the Tenants Committee asks for a $100 donation (for the handyman who is retiring), as a thank you. Ross does not want to give the money as he just moved in and it's against his principles. Because everyone in the building now hates Ross, he decides to have a party to get the people in the building to like him again, but no one comes. Chandler gets all worried about commitment when everyone is joking about him and Monica getting married and having children so he gets into a fight with Monica about commitment. To say sorry he proposes to Monica but Monica makes him realize how stupid that is. Joey eventually breaks up with Katie.

For a person who doesn't think too deeply about the movies/TV he consumes... I was kind of bothered by how the Monica/Chandler storyline had the potential to be really emotionally interesting but wasn't in the end, at all.

I've always been invested in Chandler, one of the few self-aware and self-critical characters on the show, and for this reason I've always found it a bit frustrating every time a story has him fail to be emotionally mature, in a way that ends up hurting him and those he cares about. (Like yeah, I know, it's a sitcom, and I certainly wouldn't expect any introspection or growth out of the other characters.) So when he reflexively puts barriers up at the prospect of long-term commitment and it hurts Monica - who makes it clear that his behaviour has consequences and explicitly challenges him to sort out his issues - there was potential! I mean, this is supposed to be the relationship we're all cheering for, that's supposed to bring out the best in both of them, right?

But no, they found a silly denouement that ends up ensconcing them in their existing roles. It becomes accepted that Monica has to babysit her boyfriend. It's disappointing.

Domestic violence is not funny imagine Joey hitting her and the character would be written out,Plus Ross was 100% right in not giving money he had just moved in and they treat him like crap.

There are 3 separate stories running concurrently throughout this episode and every one of them is a dud.

Firstly Ross has just moved into his new apartment and hasn't even had time to settle in before the head of the tenants committee comes knocking and informs Ross about the retirement of the Handyman who's been working in the building for 25 years so everyone is apparently chipping in $100 and Ross is expected to just follow suit. Naturally he balks at the idea and this makes Ross a pariah with the rest of the tenants. As if this wasn't bad enough, none of his so called friends is willing to back him on this issue and instead it's suggested he just give in. Seriously? None of this is funny and I think the fact he was even asked is the height of rudeness. For some reason it's supposed to be funny for Ross to throw his own "partay" where he intends to sit everyone down and point out his principals. Really? The whole segment just really got under my skin.

Secondly Joey is dating a girl who's into this whole ridiculous playful hitting/punching thing that girls sometimes do. In this instance, the punches are not really playful, they're painful blows that are landing in the one spot on Joey's arm or shoulder and of course it hurts. So not only is joey made fun of by the group, as soon as this girl does the same thing with Rachel, she realises that these punches do indeed hurt and Rachel ends up kicking her in the shin. After Joey refuses to do anything about it, the relationship effectively ends as the girl walks out. I never got the whole punching thing and why it was ever considered funny. I always thought it was a stupid storyline. Joey feeling the need to wear 6 sweaters at the one time for protective padding is also not funny, it's dumb.

Thirdly we have Chandler acting more immature than usual in that he feels Monica has "baby fever" and starts to distance himself from the whole "pressure cooker" as he calls it and they end up fighting. He approaches Monica with the idea of "tell me what to do, I'll do it and you'll think I'm all cute again". It's stupid, it's not funny and while we can agree that Chandler may not be the most mature man, this episode just paints him as nothing more than a child. The funniest thing in the whole segment is when Chandler runs in to the apartment desperately seeking Monica and she's sitting in plain view the whole time. The scene really isn't that funny but it's the only part in the episode that I could at least smile at. Monica referring to Ross simply as "two divorces" is really a low act and perhaps my most hated line in this episode.

The whole episode is just dull and badly written from start to finish. None of the storylines make any sense and while comedies generally take situations to the extreme in order to make them funny, this just takes generally annoying sets of circumstances and desperately tries to make them funny. It tries too hard to be funny and it never ceased to amaze me how this supposedly close-knit group of friends never really supported each other. With friends like these you won't need enemies.

Aside from the very beginning of the episode being pretty funny and the Monica/Chandler plot being at least decent, I honestly kind of hated this episode. I hated the Ross plot cause when Ross understandably doesn't pay $100 to some handyman he doesn't even know, everyone treats him horribly for doing so. It's just frustrating to watch and the Joey plot isn't much better. Joey gets a new girlfriend who hits him too hard and when he tells his friends about it, they're making fun of him for it. Rachel kicking Katie was satisfying and funny though. Overall, with 2 awful plots and 1 decent one, it's pretty clear that this is one of the worst episodes of Friends.

Ross is asked to chip in a hundred dollars for the building's handyman's retirement gift. Ross says he does not even know the guy. This causes the whole building to dislike him.

Joey has a new girl who likes to hit him. Rachel says she is a cute little thing that you can put in your pocket.

Chandler proposes to Monica. The gang makes him think again and they all laugh about it.