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Friends season 2
Friends season 2
Season 2
	Friends Season 2 DVD cover
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 21, 1995 –; May 16, 1996
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The second season of Friends, an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 21, 1995. Friends was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The season contains 24 episodes and concluded airing on May 16, 1996. TV Guide placed the season 31st on their list of television's 100 all-time greatest seasons, being one of the series's three on the list.

Season synopsis

Unlike the Brady Bunch-esuqe first season, this season features more serialized storylines; it begins when Rachel discovers that Ross "dumped" her for Julie, a woman he knew from grad school. Julie returns for several episodes early in the season. Rachel's attempts to tell Ross she likes him mirror his own failed attempts in the first season, but she accidentally lets it slip out on a phone call. When Ross finds out, he dumps Julie, but Rachel is angry because of a list of bad things that he wrote about her to help him decide between the two of them. Eventually, a prom video reveals that Ross intended to take Rachel to the prom when her date was late. This makes Rachel forgive him and they begin a relationship that lasts into the following season.

Joey, a struggling actor in the first season, gets a part in a fictionalized version of the soap opera Days of Our Lives but loses the part soon after when he angers the writers by saying in an interview that he writes many of his own lines. Tom Selleck begins a recurring guest role as Dr. Richard Burke. Richard, a friend of Monica and Ross's parents who is recently divorced and with grown children, is 21 years older than Monica but despite this they date for the second half of the season. In the season finale, they end the relationship when they realize that he does not want any more children and she does.

The second season also served to deepen Chandler and Joey's friendship. This becomes especially apparent in the episodes in which Joey temporarily moves out and a man named Eddie Menuek moves in. Chandler is disgusted that Eddie does not like what he likes, and has trouble bonding with the him, so he allows Joey to move in and pretends that Eddie never lived there. Eddie's mental illness causes him to believe that he really has never met Chandler when Chandler insists this is the case and leaves him alone. Another surprise comes when Chandler falls in love with a woman over the Internet and when he goes to meet her at Central Perk, when Janice his ex walks in. Despite this, they decide to get back together, for real this time.

This is the only season (excluding the final season) of the entire series in which the season finale does not lead to the immediate beginning of the first episode of the following season.

Cast and characters

(In particular, Characters of Friends#Introduced in season 2 or #Only in season 2)

Main cast

Recurring cast

Episodes

No(s). in series	No(s). in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code(s)	U.S. viewers (millions)
25	1	"The One with Ross's New Girlfriend"	Michael Lembeck	Jeffrey Astrof & Mike Sikowitz	September 21, 1995 (1995-09-21)	457301	32.1^[1]
26	2	"The One with the Breast Milk"	Michael Lembeck	Adam Chase & Ira Ungerleider	September 28, 1995 (1995-09-28)	457302	29.8^[2]
27	3	"The One Where Heckles Dies"	Kevin S. Bright	Michael Curtis & Gregory S. Malins	October 5, 1995 (1995-10-05)	457303	30.2^[3]
28	4	"The One with Phoebe's Husband"	Gail Mancuso	Alexa Junge	October 12, 1995 (1995-10-12)	457305	28.1^[4]
29	5	"The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant"	Ellen Gittelsohn	Chris Brown	October 19, 1995 (1995-10-19)	457304	28.3^[5]
30	6	"The One with the Baby on the Bus"	Gail Mancuso	Betsy Borns	November 2, 1995 (1995-11-02)	457306	30.2^[6]
31	7	"The One Where Ross Finds Out"	Peter Bonerz	Michael Borkow	November 9, 1995 (1995-11-09)	457307	30.5^[7]
32	8	"The One with the List"	Mary Kay Place	David Crane & Marta Kauffman	November 16, 1995 (1995-11-16)	457308	32.9^[8]
33	9	"The One with Phoebe's Dad"	Kevin S. Bright	Jeffrey Astrof & Mike Sikowitz	December 14, 1995 (1995-12-14)	457309	27.8^[9]
34	10	"The One with Russ"	Thomas Schlamme	Ira Ungerleider	January 4, 1996 (1996-01-04)	457311	32.2^[10]
35	11	"The One with the Lesbian Wedding"	Thomas Schlamme	Doty Abrams	January 18, 1996 (1996-01-18)	457312	31.6^[11]
36–37	12–13	"The One After the Superbowl (sic)"	Michael Lembeck	Part 1: Jeffrey Astrof & Mike Sikowitz Part 2: Michael Borkow	January 28, 1996 (1996-01-28)^[a]	457313/457314	52.9^[12]
38	14	"The One with the Prom Video"	James Burrows	Alexa Junge	February 1, 1996 (1996-02-01)	457310	33.6^[13]
39	15	"The One Where Ross and Rachel...You Know"	Michael Lembeck	Michael Curtis & Gregory S. Malins	February 8, 1996 (1996-02-08)	457315	32.9^[14]
40	16	"The One Where Joey Moves Out"	Michael Lembeck	Betsy Borns	February 15, 1996 (1996-02-15)	457316	31.1^[15]
41	17	"The One Where Eddie Moves In"	Michael Lembeck	Adam Chase	February 22, 1996 (1996-02-22)	457317	30.2^[16]
42	18	"The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies"	Michael Lembeck	Story: Alexa Junge Teleplay: Michael Borkow	March 21, 1996 (1996-03-21)	457318	30.1^[17]
43	19	"The One Where Eddie Won't Go"	Michael Lembeck	Michael Curtis & Gregory S. Malins	March 28, 1996 (1996-03-28)	457319	31.2^[18]
44	20	"The One Where Old Yeller Dies"	Michael Lembeck	Story: Michael Curtis & Gregory S. Malins Teleplay: Adam Chase	April 4, 1996 (1996-04-04)	457320	27.4^[19]
45	21	"The One with the Bullies"	Michael Lembeck	Brian Buckner & Sebastian Jones	April 25, 1996 (1996-04-25)	457321	24.7^[20]
46	22	"The One with the Two Parties"	Michael Lembeck	Alexa Junge	May 2, 1996 (1996-05-02)	457322	25.5^[21]
47	23	"The One with the Chicken Pox"	Michael Lembeck	Brown Mandell	May 9, 1996 (1996-05-09)	457324	26.1^[22]
48	24	"The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding"	Michael Lembeck	Story: Ira Ungerleider Teleplay: Brown Mandell	May 16, 1996 (1996-05-16)	457323	29.0^[23]

Notes

^ These episodes originally aired as a single double-length episode but are sometimes split into two episodes for syndication, reruns and DVD presentation.

References

External links

Friends (season 2) on IMDB

[DVD-12] These episodes originally aired as a single double-length episode but are sometimes split into two episodes for syndication, reruns and DVD presentation.

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v t e Friends
Seasons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Characters	Chandler Bing Phoebe Buffay Monica Geller Ross Geller Rachel Green Joey Tribbiani
Music	"I'll Be There for You" "Smelly Cat"
Related shows	Mad About You Hello Friends Joey Friends: The Reunion
Other	Awards and nominations The One with All the Trivia The Friends Experience The Rachel
Category Task force

v t e Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
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