Series 6, Episode 1
The One With The Circus Monkey
Written by Ryan & Justin, courtesy of J and Ryan Ltd.
Writers Note:
This is our first script of series 6 that we think would be really cool, just to recap Monica is still with Chandler, and nothing else much has changed. We decided to write this script because we like Friends so much and we would like to see if we could write a script as good as some others that have been written by Friends fans - like Chris Freestone. His 3 scripts so far are brilliant and they inspired us to write this.
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Skill@justin88.freeserve.co.uk[Scene: Rachel and Monicas Apartment, Phoebe and Ross are there as well]
Ross: Hey, wheres the cheese and tomato pizza I asked for?
Phoebe: Ooh, I thought you wouldnt mind if I swapped with you because when you and Rachel were going out...(Luckily Rachel is at work)
Ross: Hey look, dont bring back the past, and anyway I could never eat a Cheese, Chive, Pickle and-Frogs intestines anyway.
Phoebe: Well I find it tasty
Ross: Ok look, Ive had enough of this, yknow me and Rachel, yknow we were over like ages ago and shes moved on and so have I yknow?
Phoebe: But youre her lobster
(Rachel enters)
Ross: However much I want it to happen, yknow, at one time maybe but now, I dont think shes interested anymore.
Opening Credits
[Scene: central perk, Joey & Chandler as Rachel enters]
Rachel: Hey you guys
Joey: Hey
Chandler: Hows my favourite girl?
Rachel: Ok, listen you guys, last night I walked in on Ross as he was talking to Pheebs and guess what he said?
Chandler: He got stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre?
Rachel: No that was you
Joey: Youre so stupid
Chandler: Ok, youre the one...
Rachel: Ok, guys, guys, this is really important!
Chandler: What - you mean he did get stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre?
Rachel: No, ok he said that he still loved me
Chandler: He said the same thing to me last night, dont be fooled
Rachel: No, what should I do, I need your help, Monicas at work and Phoebes somewhere and I cant talk to Ross
Chandler: Well, Im glad after all of them, you came to us
Joey: Well, in this situation I think the best thing for you to do would be to go to China
[Scene: Monica at work at the restaurant, serving man reading newspaper]
Monica: Ok sir, here is your soup of the day with a crusted loaf, oh my god, Richard
[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler & Joey as Monica enters ]
Chandler: Hey Mon.
Joey: Hey
Monica: Guess what happened to me today?
Chandler: Ok, Ive done this one before, ok oh got it, you got stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre?
Monica: Look, what is it with you and Jill Goodacre!
Chandler: Hey like you have to ask that one
Monica: I was at the restaurant and guess who I saw
Chandler: J...
All: Chandler!
Chandler: I was going to say Joeys dad (He picks up his coffee and drinks some)
Monica: Anyway, I saw Richard
J & C: And?
Monica: Well he wants me to go to dinner with him
J & C: Oohh no, no, no, no .
Joey: You remember what happened last time
Chandler: Yeah and you dont wanna start dancing again
Joey: Look, the main thing is you didnt say yes
Chandler: You didnt YOU did
[Scene: Rachel and Monicas, the gang are there]
Monica: I heard about the Ross thing
Rachel: Yeah?
Monica: Well arent you going to speak to him
Rachel: Why?
Monica: The last time you kept things in, they slipped out another way
Rachel: Yknow your right, Im going to go out there and ask him straight
Monica: Good for you (She starts to leave the room with the others)
Rachel: So Ross emm
Ross: Emm what? (He says sarcastically)
Rachel: Well this morning you sounded if you needed to go out somewhere
Ross: Well now you come to mention it, I wouldnt mind going out
Rachel: Good
(To Monicas bedroom)
Chandler: So, whats this about "Twinkle Toes"
Monica: Shut up a minute, She didnt tell Ross
Joey: Oh man, we could be in here for weeks
Monica: Thats it, Im going out there to tell him what she was going to say!
Phoebe: Look what are you going to say
Monica: That he still loves her!
Phoebe: Look I was in the room, all I said was she was his lobster
Monica: So what I want know is, did he say he still loved her
Phoebe: This is exactly what he said (She puts on her Ross voice) However much I want it to happen, yknow, at one time maybe but now, I dont think shes interested anymore.
Joey: Great voice Pheebs
Monica: Okay, Ill have a word with Rachel about what he really said and maybe shell wanna get back with him
P, C & J: Whhoooow!
[Scene: Central Perk, Monica, Rachel, Chandler, Joey & Phoebe (Rachel is waiting for Ross to come and pick her up)]
Monica: Look Rach, about Ross
Rachel: Yknow he is such a great guy
Chandler: Yeah, he must have taken after me
Joey: How can he of taken after you, he would of ended up with a bad sex life, he definitely took after me
Monica: Could you two be quiet!
Phoebe: Yeah because youre both wrong, he took after me
(Ross enters)
Ross: Hey
All: Hey
Ross: Rach are you ready
Rachel: Yeah but Monica was going to tell me something (She looks at her)
Monica: It doesnt matter (Then under her breath she say) Just dont say the L word
Chandler: Well done Monica, another master plan works out
Phoebe: Looks like you pulled a Monica!
Monica: Phoebe!
Phoebe: Oh yeah, we changed that didnt we
Monica: Yes MOM
Commercial Break
[Scene: Joey, Chandler & Rosss Apartment]
Chandler: So Joe Ive been wondering, you remember back in London...
Joey: LONDON BABY!
Chandler: do you remember
Joey: B-B-BODDINGTONS! (High fives)
Chandler: No, listen, that brides maids you meet up with?
Joey: You mean Felicity?
Chandler: Yeah that one
Joey: Of course I remember her, Ive been writing and phoning her since we left London, and since then her and I have been planning to meet up sometime
Chandler: You mean all this while you didnt tell me?!
Joey: Well yknow you and Monica were all
Chandler: Oh no, I forgot that she going to dinner with Richard
Joey: And what about it?
Chandler: Well they may have a little dance, make a little love, well pretty much get down tonight
Joey: Well I have one thing to ask
Chandler: What?
Joey: Are you two still going out with her?
Chandler: Well I think we are
Joey: What about what Monica thinks
Chandler: I dont know
Joey: Maybe she thinks your on a
Chandler: Oh no, we are not doing a Ross and Rachel
Joey: Well, if you go and see her before she lives and ask her what going on
Chandler: Thanks, Im going in
(Swap into Rachel and Monicas Apartment when Chandlers comes in)
Chandler: Wow Monica, you look great
Monica: Thanks
Chandler: Yknow, me and you, are we still together because yknow your going out with one of someone youve been out with before
Monica: Ross and Rachel did it
Chandler: Thats the problem. Look if you do that, whats the excuse going to be?
Monica: That we were on a break?
(Joey barges in)
Joey: Oh NO way!
Monica: Joey!
Joey: Look, I dont my friend to turn out like like a lesbian lover, ten-time ex-wife low down on a breaker person
(Phoebe pokes her head around the corner)
Phoebe: Ooh, what a speech
[Scene: A restaurant in middle of the city, Rachel and Ross are there, ordering the main course]
Waiter: What may we be having for the main course?
Ross: So Rach, have you decided what you are having?
Rachel: Yes Ill have the Phss Phssl Phsslp. Ill have the stuff that begins with a P.
Waiter: Yes Madam, and Sir what would you be having?
Ross: Ill have the Chicken Curry
Waiter: What about any drinks?
R & Rch: No thanks
(The waiter exits)
Rachel: So Ross, the other day, I realised when I came in I heard you talking about me. You said that that you still had feelings for me
Ross: Well I said something like that
Rachel: Well did you or didnt you?
Ross: Well I did say that I had feelings for you but I thought that you had got back together with Joshua
Rachel: Joshua! Him and me were over ages ago, where have you been the last three months!
Ross: Im so sorry, I had no idea, I havent on track lately.
Rachel: What has been happening lately?
Ross: Well Carol and Susan are now deciding to move away to an apartment near were Carols parents and they have decided to take Ben with them.
Rachel: Oh no, I what are you going to do?
Ross: I dont know
[Scene: Central Perk, Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler & Joey are there.]
Joey: So how did the date with Ross go
Rachel: Well you dont wanna know
Monica: Why, what happened?
Rachel: You mean you dont know?
Monica: Know what?
Rachel: I dont know if he wants me to tell you
Chandler: If hes told you he must have been drunk
Rachel: He didnt tell me about the feelings for me but he said that Carol and Susan are moving to an apartment near were Susans parents live
Joey: And?
Rachel: And theyre taking Ben with them
Joey: Oh man, I love that guy
(Ross enters)
Ross: Hey
All: Hey
Ross: Guess what?
All: What?
Ross: You remember my pet monkey Marcell?
All: Yeah
Ross: Well Ive got tickets to watch him in the circus in Santiago
Monica: Wow Ross, are you going?
Ross: Yeah of course and Ive got seven tickets and Im taking you guys with me
Joey: So Ross, who is the seventh person going to be?
Ross: Well I thought you would of known. Because Ben is going away, I think he should be the seventh person.
Phoebe: Thats great
Ross: I thought Rachel would've told you that Ben was going away
Chandler: Oh yeah, she told us
[Scene: Santiago Circus, the gang and Ben are there]
Joey: This is great, Marcell is really good
Ross: Oh no, they havent
All: They HAVE!
Ross: Hes doing the humping thing again
Phoebe: I thought that was just a phase
Chandler: Oh yeah it was, until Rachel gave it something to play with on the Plane
Rachel: How was I to know
Monica: Oh look hes got a girl friend
Joey: Oh no hes humping that too
[Scene: Chandler, Joey and Rosss Apartment]
Joey: Yknow that man was very good at putting his head in Marcells mouth
Ross: He didnt put hes head in Marcells mouth, he put it in Marcell the man eating Lions mouth
Joey: Oh
(Theres a knock at the door)
Chandler: Ill get it, its probably some nice women to take me away
C, R, & J: Marcell! (Marcells sitting there with two suitcases)
Chandler: Well hes not quite the nice women to take me away-in fact hes quite the opposite
Joey: Do you reckon that hell get on with the chick and the duck?
Ending Credits
[Scene: Central Perk, everyone is there]
Joey: wouldn't it be cool if monkeys weren't monkeys?
Chandler: what would they be then?
Rachel: maybe they would be nothing, the whole world full of non-monkeys!
Chandler: no, they would definitely turn into little hairy Joey's!
Joey: really, that is so cool!
Monica: oh please
[long silence]
Rachel: Why is it cool if monkeys weren't monkeys anyway?
Joey: That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard!
The End
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