User Reviews

I love this episode. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes, from season 5 and the entire series. I love the Thanksgiving episodes and this one is just awesome.

In this episode, it's Thanksgiving and everyone is telling their worst Thanksgiving stories. Chandler's is of course, when his parents told him they were getting a divorce because his Dad liked the house boy a little too much. Phoebe's worst Thanksgiving is in a past life, where she got her arm blown off in battle. Rachel tells the story of when Joey ended up wearing the turkey on his head. But then we find out that Monica's worst Thanksgiving is actually when she got back at Chandler for calling her fat the year before, by accidentally cutting off his toe.

Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Freaking Ridonkulous.

And here is again one of the best episodes, absolutely brilliant.

We start with Chandler's Thanksgiving when he finds out that his father left him for the houseboy and Phoebe's past life Thanksgiving.

The next ones they try to figure out the worst Thanksgiving that Monica had. The very first one is pretty funny. We see Joey with a turkey on his head and it just very silly, especially great is the part where he is laughing at Chandler while pointing into a different direction But the last two Thanksgivings are absolutely great! The flashbacks are just perfect! Ross and Chandler's outfits are great in both of the stories. It is too funny how Ross tries to impress Rachel by acting adult. And also how Monica is trying to seduce Chandler with macaroni and carrots.

I must say pretty much every idea, line and acting is high class in this episode

It's Thanksgiving and all the Friends are together again.

Chandler is the only one who doesn't like Thanksgiving, since he has terrible memories from when he was young on this time of the year. (His parents were always fighting with each other, not to mention the horrible Houseboy with ugly accent.)

All the Friends talk about their worst Thanksgiving, and Monica tells them that her worst Thanksgiving was the one she met Chandler, because he was rude to her, calling her fat. (Monica was already interested in Chandler on that time.)

Chandler, in this episode,finally tells Monica that he loves her.

The gang sits around the coffee table feeling absolutely stuffed. It is Thanksgiving.

Joey is grateful for a nice fall breeze that blew up a girl's skirt and showed her thong. He marvels at thongs - they make you wonder if they are there or not there.

The gang reminisces their worst Thanksgivings.

One Thanksgiving when they were in high school, Ross in college - Ross comes back and asks Rachel if things are different now that he is gone off to college. Rachel says no.

The next Thanksgiving Rachel got a nose job and Mr. Geller compliments her on the surgery. Monica is the star of the show in a sexy black off-the-shoulder dress. She walks away so beautifully to the kitchen. Rachel demonstrates with a towel how to be sexy and seduce. Chandler and Monica are alone in the kitchen and Chandler smiles to be with a beautiful girl. Monica tries to seduce Chandler and drops a knife, cutting off his toe.

After Monica's Thanksgiving turkey dinner, the Friends elaborate on Chandler's traditional sob-story about his gay father causing a parental break-up, since then he always hated the holiday. His status as 'king of misery' is challenged, first by Ross' seasonal marriage with Emily divorced in record-time. Phoebe can only cheat with an 'earlier life', at the front-line in the Secession War. Rachel brings up the time that Joey and Monica ended up wearing the turkey on their heads, but that's easily topped by the early one from her fat youth, when Ross introduced her to Chandler at the Geller home. Chandler called her fat. Yet even worse, was the failed revenge the following year, when Chandler accidentally lost a toe, which got lost again.

10 star reviews?? I think people are being generous.

This is a good, but not spectacular episode, that hastily seems to retcon the characters back stories in order to accommodate the Monica/Chandler romance.

It's got some nice moments, but rather than just stick him with a turkey on his head (which the show nicked from a Mr Bean episode prior) wouldn't it have been nice to instead see what Joey's life was like before he met the gang?

Good, not great overall.

Friends is epic. Seasons 1-5'ish are some of the best television for my generation--even kept NBC's Thursday nights up after Cheers and Seinfeld made NBC must watch TV. However, the story line of Monica and Chandler ruined the show as a whole. It still had funny bits, a few funny episodes, but generally started a decline that I cannot believe lasted 10 seasons.

If I had to pinpoint an episode that put Friends on the springboard to jump the shark it was this episode. Prior to this episode, there were two "flashback" episodes that totally stayed in the lanes of the storyline (the Prom Video, and the Flashback). This flashback episode though, totally places plot holes in the storyline; subsequent flashbacks get further and further as time goes on, but this is ground zero.

Chandler and Monica had such a deep past that included him having only 9 toes and this is first discussed here...? Chandler knew who Rachel was...? Chandler was the lead singer of Ross' band...? They quit the Gellar Cup football game...?

I mean, I get that Chandler and Monica had been tossed around for years before being written into the show and all, but to have this moment in the past where Monica was in awe of Chandler--to him being the point of her choosing a cooking career, and doing the weight loss thing in one calendar year is just ridiculous for the rest of the series, but hey at the time of this episode, Monica and Chandler were taking off so I guess they thought it was cute to give them a sudden backstory...?

Go take time to watch three episodes in this order: Prom Video (s2), Flashback (s3) and then this one. Then tell me how this is a great episode. This would have been better served up in like season 8 or 9 when they were struggling to keep the series afloat, but for the "golden years", c'mon...?

First of all: I love "Friends". For me, it is one of two best TV series ever. The level of it's jokes is much above the average. Only rarely happens something awkward, even disgusting. Maybe it is the difference between the cultures - European and American, but here, in the Europe, the fart/gas/barf jokes are not appreciated. All the "Friends" quality of jokes is much, much better, so it is very painful that the producers decided to go for inferior standards sometimes. Anyway, when it happens, usually it is just 10 seconds, it is bearable, and we can still enjoy the show. But THIS episode is... Well, the first 3/4 is OK. But the finale is just awful. Disgusting. I mean, specifically, Monica with a turkey on her head (1), wearing a fez (2). I do not know, how the Turks feel about it, but I would NEVER show, e.g. a pig in a cowboy hat, wittily implying a connection to the Americans. It is the same level of joke. Very, very low. And again: This is the only episode I hate. All the rest has 8-10.