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Friends season 4
Friends season 4
Season 4
	Friends season 4 DVD cover
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 25, 1997 –; May 7, 1998
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The fourth season of Friends, an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 25, 1997. Friends was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The season contains 24 episodes and concluded airing on May 7, 1998. It was one of three seasons included on TV Guide's list of the Top 100 TV Seasons.

Season synopsis

In the Season 3 finale, Ross enters a room greeting either Rachel or Bonnie. In the Season 4 premiere, it is revealed that he was actually saying "hi" to both of them, as he finds Rachel spreading Bonnie's bald head with lotion. He decides to break up with Bonnie to get back together with Rachel, who writes a letter to him. Rachel writes that she is willing to reconcile with Ross only on condition that he accepts accepts full responsibility for their previous break-up.

However, Ross is too tired to read a 36-page letter in the early hours of dawn ("18 pages – front and back"), but his desire to get back with Rachel is such that he accepts the letter without realizing what he has agreed to. When he does actually read the letter, he changes his mind. Thanks to Rachel's continuous reference to the letter after they have sex, they break up again.

Meanwhile, Chandler and Joey are with Monica at the beach, where she gets stung by a jellyfish. Joey, who saw a feature on the Discovery Channel, suggests peeing on the sting, but gets stage fright, so Chandler has to do it.

Having learnt the truth about her birth mother, Phoebe is extremely disappointed about her and the fact that she never tried to find out about her. Phoebe storms off, never wanting to see her again. After tracking her down, however, Abbott starts off an uncomfortable but moderately friendly rapport with her daughter (albeit with some initial struggling). During this season, Lisa Kudrow (who plays Phoebe) becomes pregnant. This is written in the show as her surrogate pregnancy which she goes through for her brother and his new wife (who also get married in this season but the audience meet for the first time in the third season).

Joey starts dating an actress named Kathy, who Chandler has a crush on. However, Chandler and Kathy kiss while she still sees Joey. Uncomfortable about Joey finding out about her and Chandler, Kathy breaks up with Joey, but he still finds out about the kiss from Chandler, whose guilt is so great that he buys new furniture for their empty apartment. He becomes so angry that he starts sending off the stuff Chandler bought, until Chandler resolves the issue by spending Thanksgiving in a box (The One With Chandler In A Box). Thanksgiving this year is awkward for Monica, who invites Dr. Timothy Burke, Richard's son, and kisses him, a brief lip contact which reminds her of her ex-boyfriend, but Joey and Chandler make up on this day. Chandler starts dating Kathy, but breaks up with her after she sleeps with her fellow actor, who Chandler sees having simulated sex with his girlfriend in a play.

Monica starts a catering business with Phoebe, but after reviewing Alessandro's restaurant and accepting a job as head-chef there, she and Phoebe break the catering business up. Her new rapport with her fellow workers is quite difficult at first, but following Chandler's suggestion, she fires Joey in a set-up and gains control of the kitchens. She and Rachel also lose their apartment to Joey and Chandler in this season (as a bet with a quiz with personal questions about each other). To make matters worse for Rachel, her boss Joanna dies, and as a result she gets shunted in Personal Shopping at Bloomingdale's, where she meets Joshua, who she has a crush on. After several incidents which prevent Rachel from expressing her true feelings to him (including an unplanned opera visit which ends up with Rachel introducing Ross to his new girlfriend, Emily), she starts dating Joshua.

However, Ross and Emily, who are crazy over each other, move on quite fast, and agree to get married in London. This sets off Rachel in a competition with Ross, and proposes to Joshua, who is still in the process of getting his divorce final. She scares him off so much that he breaks up with her. Ross sends out the invitations for his London wedding (The One With The Invitation), and naturally he invites all his friends, but struggles to invite Rachel after Emily's remarks. He decides to invite her anyway, but she is too worried of being highly uncomfortable seeing Ross marry another woman, so she RSVPs as not coming.

The friends all go to London (The One With Ross' Wedding). Monica helps Ross with the preparations for his wedding, but between the torn-down chapel, the hurried guests menu and other stuff, she almost puts the wedding off by suggesting to Emily to postpone the ceremony; she then helps Ross solve the problem. The rehearsal dinner is a disaster for everyone: Ross can't get his parents and new in-laws to settle their arguments about payments for the wedding, Chandler can't deliver the toast, Joey gets homesick (until he meets one of Emily's bridesmaids, Felicity), and between her mother's cynical remarks and a drunken guest mistaking her for Ross' mother, Monica falls in a depression about being single. In USA, Phoebe, who can't travel by plane because she in her third trimester of pregnancy, has Rachel staying with her. Phoebe helps her re-discover her feelings for Ross.

Ross' wedding day (and the second part of the season finale) contains a few surprises: Ross almost catches Monica and Chandler, who slept together; Rachel rushes off to London to tell Ross she still loves him (only to find him kissing his wife-to-be and realize that Ross is happy to marry Emily); and Ross has all his friends as guests to his wedding. The ceremony starts, Emily says her vows, and Ross starts saying his. But he stops mid-stream when he calls Emily "Rachel", putting an end to the fourth season.

Cast and characters

(In particular, Characters of Friends#Introduced in season 4 or #Only in season 4)

Main cast

Recurring cast

Episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code	U.S. viewers (millions)
74	1	"The One with the Jellyfish"	Shelley Jensen	Wil Calhoun	September 25, 1997 (1997-09-25)	466601	29.4^[1]
75	2	"The One with the Cat"	Shelley Jensen	Jill Condon & Amy Toomin	October 2, 1997 (1997-10-02)	466602	25.5^[2]
76	3	"The One with the Cuffs"	Peter Bonerz	Seth Kurland	October 9, 1997 (1997-10-09)	466603	24.0^[3]
77	4	"The One with the Ballroom Dancing"	Gail Mancuso	Ted Cohen & Andrew Reich	October 16, 1997 (1997-10-16)	466604	24.3^[4]
78	5	"The One with Joey's New Girlfriend"	Gail Mancuso	Gregory S. Malins & Michael Curtis	October 30, 1997 (1997-10-30)	466605	24.4^[5]
79	6	"The One with the Dirty Girl"	Shelley Jensen	Shana Goldberg-Meehan & Scott Silveri	November 6, 1997 (1997-11-06)	466606	25.7^[6]
80	7	"The One Where Chandler Crosses the Line"	Kevin S. Bright	Adam Chase	November 13, 1997 (1997-11-13)	466607	26.4^[7]
81	8	"The One with Chandler in a Box"	Peter Bonerz	Michael Borkow	November 20, 1997 (1997-11-20)	466608	26.8^[8]
82	9	"The One Where They're Going to Party!"	Peter Bonerz	Ted Cohen & Andrew Reich	December 11, 1997 (1997-12-11)	466609	23.9^[9]
83	10	"The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie"	Gary Halvorson	Scott Silveri	December 18, 1997 (1997-12-18)	466612	23.2^[10]
84	11	"The One with Phoebe's Uterus"	David Steinberg	Seth Kurland	January 8, 1998 (1998-01-08)	466610	23.7^[11]
85	12	"The One with the Embryos"	Kevin S. Bright	Jill Condon & Amy Toomin	January 15, 1998 (1998-01-15)	466611	27.1^[12]
86	13	"The One with Rachel's Crush"	Dana DeVally Piazza	Shana Goldberg-Meehan	January 29, 1998 (1998-01-29)	466613	25.3^[13]
87	14	"The One with Joey's Dirty Day"	Peter Bonerz	Wil Calhoun	February 5, 1998 (1998-02-05)	466614	25.1^[14]
88	15	"The One with All the Rugby"	James Burrows	Story: Ted Cohen & Andrew Reich Teleplay: Wil Calhoun	February 26, 1998 (1998-02-26)	466617	24.4^[15]
89	16	"The One with the Fake Party"	Michael Lembeck	Story: Alicia Sky Varinaitis Teleplay: Scott Silveri & Shana Goldberg-Meehan	March 19, 1998 (1998-03-19)	466615	23.1^[16]
90	17	"The One with the Free Porn"	Michael Lembeck	Story: Mark Kunerth Teleplay: Richard Goodman	March 26, 1998 (1998-03-26)	466616	23.2^[17]
91	18	"The One with Rachel's New Dress"	Gail Mancuso	Story: Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen Teleplay: Jill Condon & Amy Toomin	April 2, 1998 (1998-04-02)	466620	21.7^[18]
92	19	"The One with All the Haste"	Kevin S. Bright	Scott Silveri & Wil Calhoun	April 9, 1998 (1998-04-09)	466618	21.8^[19]
93	20	"The One with All the Wedding Dresses"	Gail Mancuso	Story: Adam Chase Teleplay: Gregory S. Malins & Michael Curtis	April 16, 1998 (1998-04-16)	466621	21.9^[20]
94	21	"The One with the Invitation"	Peter Bonerz	Seth Kurland	April 23, 1998 (1998-04-23)	466619	21.5^[21]
95	22	"The One with the Worst Best Man Ever"	Peter Bonerz	Story: Seth Kurland Teleplay: Gregory S. Malins & Michael Curtis	April 30, 1998 (1998-04-30)	466622	23.2^[22]
96–97	23–24	"The One with Ross's Wedding"	Kevin S. Bright	Part 1: Michael Borkow Part 2: Teleplay: Shana Goldberg-Meehan & Scott Silveri Story: Jill Condon & Amy Toomin	May 7, 1998 (1998-05-07)^[a]	466623/466624	31.6^[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

[DVD-23] 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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