TEXT: Originally written by Transcribed by Joshua Hodge Minor additions and adjustments by Dan Silverstein. [Scene: Chandler and Joey's apartment. Joey and Chandler enter with Chandler covering his eyes and Joey leading him.] JOEY: Alright, no peeking. No peeking, no peeking, no peeking. CHANDLER: Alright, alright, but you better be wearing clothes when I open my eyes. JOEY: Alright open your eyes. [opens his eyes to see two black leather recliners and a big screen TV] CHANDLER: Sweet mother of all that is good and pure. JOEY: Huh? Days of our Lives picked up my option. CHANDLER: Congratulations! JOEY: I know. chandler: Now we can finally watch Green Acres the way it was meant to be seen. JOEY: Uh-huh. CHANDLER: So uh, which one is mine? JOEY: Whichever one you want, man. Whichever one you want. [Chandler starts to sit in one of the chairs] Not that one. CHANDLER: [sits down] Ohh yes. JOEY: [sits down] Ohh yeah, that's the stuff. CHANDLER: [reaches for the footrest lever] Do we dare? JOEY: We dare. BOTH: [both extend the footrests] Aaahhhh. [both recline their chairs] AAAAHHHHHH. OPENING TITLES [Scene: Chandler and Joey's apartment. Chandler and Joey are sitting in their recliners watching TV. Monica, Ross, and Phoebe are there.] PHOEBE: I can't believe two cows made the ultimate sacrifice so you guys could watch TV with your feet up. CHANDLER: Well they were chair-shaped cows. They never would have survived in the wild. ROSS: This screen is amazing, I mean Dick Van Dyke is practically life-size. ALL: Woah! MONICA: Rose Marie really belongs on a smaller screen, doesn't she? [Rachel enters] RACHEL: Hi you guys.
SUMMARY:
Joey buys a big screen TV and two leather recliners with his soap opera salary, turning him and Chandler into "coach potatoes" who spend days watching TV and never getting out of the chairs. Monica has a catering job for handsome Dr. Richard Burke (Tom Selleck), an ophthalmologist, who is an old family friend. He and Monica are mutually smitten and later go on a date. Ross and Rachel attempt to have their first real date, though Rachel has difficulty adapting to their new romantic relationship, breaking into giggles at inappropriate times. Just before their next date, Ross has a museum emergency, so Rachel goes along. They spend the night in a museum exhibit, waking up nude and under an animal skin, to visitors gawking at them. The episode introduces Tom Selleck in a recurring guest role that led to an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2000.