THE ONE WITH UNAGI

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'"The One With Unagi"' is the seventeenth episode of season six of the television situation comedy ''Friends''.

★ First aired: February 24, 2000

★ Writer: Adam Chase

★ Director: Gary Halvorson

★ Story: Zachary Rosenblatt

Contents
Plot
Additional cast

Plot


Joey, unhired by the acting industry, is making ends meet by working at Central Perk, a task at which he is singularly ill-suited, as he keeps getting distracted by his friends and drinking other people's coffee. Ross suggests some alternative form of employment, and Joey looks into medical studies at the local hospital. He finds one that pays $2,000 for twins, and hires a fake twin, Carl, at an audition. Unfortunately, Carl ''is'' Joey's twin in terms of brainpower, and the ruse fails miserably.
Chandler bursts into a panic when he remembers that he and Monica have agreed to make each other's Valentine's Day gifts this year ("She was working on Valentine’s Day so we’re celebrating it tonight"). Phoebe offers him a bunny rabbit composed of Rachel's socks, but Chandler insists on trying for himself. He ends up with a coat hanger and several paper cups wired together into a... Something. He ends up grabbing a cassette tape to stand in for a homemade mix tape. Monica, who also forgot, gives him Phoebe's sock-bunny and then launches into a furious campaign of please-forgive-me sex and homemade meals. Chandler, seeing a good thing, doesn't correct her misconception, but is discovered when the tape turns out to ''be'' a homemade mix tape—from Janice.
Finally, Rachel and Phoebe take a women's self-defense class together, and Rachel feels confident, which Ross scoffs at. It has taken him long years of karate lessons, he claims, to master the true essence of self-defense: "''unagi''", which Ross claims is an almost precognitive awareness of nearby danger. (Everyone else asks him, rightly, if it isn't actually a form of sushi.) To prove that Rachel and Phoebe have not reached an "unagi"-infused state of mind, he sets up a number of "scary" ambushes on them, only to find out first-hand that if ''anyone'' does not have it, it is Ross himself.

Additional cast


Carl Louis Mandylor
The Receptionist Jill Matson
The Doctor Ron Recasner
The Instructor Mongo Brownlee
Janice (voice only) Maggie Wheeler


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