Ranking the Friends Thanksgiving Episodes from Worst to Best

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Hop successful a BarcaLounger, drawback a Nestlé Toulouse cooky and settee in, due to the fact that we're taking a person look astatine the Friends Thanksgiving episodes.

Even though Friends has been disconnected the aerial for 18 years, the NBC comedy's vacation episodes are inactive our favourite mode to commemorate Turkey Day. Every season, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer) celebrated with hilarious precocious jinks, quotable moments and notable impermanent stars. Sometimes they were adjacent educational!

For instance, acknowledgment to the ninth occurrence successful play six, "The One Where Ross Got High," we all learned however not to marque an English trifle. Sorry, Rachel, but we're definite it truly did sensation similar feet.

And successful the play 5 Thanksgiving episode, we learned however Chandler mislaid a toe. And that's lone a tiny sensation of what Friends offered up arsenic Thanksgiving contented implicit its 10-season run. 

So the existent question is, however bash the episodes comparison to 1 another? For our authoritative ranking of the Friends Thanksgiving episodes, keep reading:

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Season 2, Episode 8: "The One With the List"

This Friends occurrence is astatine the precise bottommost of our ain database due to the fact that it's lone technically a Thanksgiving episode. "The One With the List," which aired up of the November holiday, doesn't diagnostic a Thanksgiving dinner, but it does person Monica making "Mocklate" treats for a caller occupation opportunity.

The remainder of the occurrence centers astir Ross and Rachel warring implicit the paleontologist making a pros and cons database to decided betwixt Julie and Rachel.

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Season 10, Episode 8: "The One With the Late Thanksgiving"

This was the past Thanksgiving occurrence of the series and not its strongest. The occurrence centers connected the gang, erstwhile again, demanding that Monica marque Thanksgiving dinner, lone for Ross, Phoebe, Joey and Rachel to get precocious for the meal. (Shout-out to Emma's triumph astatine the Grand Supreme Little Darling competition).

What saves the episode? Ross, Joey, Rachel and Phoebe each poking their heads into Monica and Chandler's flat to apologize. Oh, and the Bings find retired they've been selected to follow a baby.

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Season 7, Episode 8: "The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs"

Dogs marque everything better, unless you're Chandler Bing.

This play 7 occurrence has the group's nonmigratory funnyman admitting the information astir his stance connected dogs erstwhile Phoebe brings a canine person over: He doesn't similar him. "Don't bash it," Joey begs Chandler arsenic helium braces himself to uncover his truth.

Chandler goes connected to request that the canine Phoebe is pet-sitting permission the apartment, but, successful emblematic Friends fashion, the pack sneaks the pup backmost in. This causes a full clump of confusion, arsenic a blameworthy Chandler goes to cheque connected the dog, who is present expected to beryllium astatine Ross' apartment. This has him reasoning that the carnal is missing, which inspires Phoebe to archer a hilarious faux rescue story.

An honorable notation from the episode? Chandler's states game.

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Season 4, Episode 8: "The One With Chandler successful a Box"

Joey and Chandler's relationship is tested successful the play 4 Thanksgiving episode when it's revealed that Chandler kissed Joey's woman Kathy. As punishment, Joey makes his roommate walk Thanksgiving time successful a box. Eventually, Joey realizes that Chandler didn't mean to wounded him but was conscionable genuinely successful emotion with Kathy, and each is forgiven. Heartwarming, right?

This occurrence is debased connected our database due to the fact that we're honestly creeped retired by the subplot of Monica kissing her ex Richard's son. Ugh.

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Season 1, Episode 9: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away"

The gang's archetypal Thanksgiving was an unconventional one. After leaving the flat to spot a runaway Macy's Day Parade balloon, the radical returns to Monica and Rachel's apartment, lone to recognize they are locked out. While it's unclear whether this concern is Monica oregon Rachel's fault, Joey and Chandler effort to assistance by trying each spare cardinal they person successful their apartment—which is simply a lot.

They yet marque it inside, but meal is ruined and Rachel has missed an important flight. The time is saved acknowledgment to grilled cheeses and the astonishment cameo of Ugly Naked Gal, their bare neighbor's woman friend.

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Season 3, Episode 9: "The One With the Football"

"The One With the Football" is 1 of the much recognizable Friends Thanksgiving episodes, which is wherefore it kicks disconnected our apical five. In the episode, Ross and Monica person the radical to enactment successful a Thanksgiving contented from their childhood: A interaction shot crippled successful which the victor receives the prized Geller Cup.

As the sibling rivalry intensifies, the crippled becomes a conflict of the sexes with the women facing disconnected against the men. Highlights of the occurrence see Rachel, who had been ignored for astir of the game, almost scoring the winning touchdown, Joey not knowing wherever Dutch radical travel from and Monica and Ross' bickering.

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Season 9, Episode 8: "The One With Rachel's Other Sister"

A scheduling struggle made it impossible for Reese Witherspoon to reprise her relation of Jill Green for the play 9 Thanksgiving episode. Instead, we met an arsenic unpleasant Green sister: Amy, played by the superb Christina Applegate.

In the episode, Amy is outraged that Rachel and Ross don't program to fto her rise babe Emily—reminder the child's sanction is really Emma—after they die. She gets adjacent much offended erstwhile she learns that Rachel has a immense discount astatine Ralph Lauren and refuses to fto her usage it. This sparks a hilarious hair-pulling fight, which anyone with a sister knows each excessively well.

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Season 5, Episode 8: "The One With All the Thanksgivings"

The cleanable faux-flashback episode! "The One with All the Thanksgivings" helped soma retired the backstories of respective characters, arsenic it covered Monica and Chandler's archetypal meeting—and chaotic 2nd meeting—Joey hilariously getting a turkey stuck connected his caput and a peek astatine Phoebe's war-torn past lives.

This occurrence is peculiarly adjacent and beloved to us, arsenic it's the archetypal clip Chandler says "I emotion you" to Monica.

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Season 8, Episode 9: "The One With the Rumor”

From Joey's nutrient sweats to a hilarious impermanent quality by Brad Pitt, this 1 has it all. But we're getting up of ourselves. "The One With the Rumor" starts disconnected with Monica declaring that she isn't going to navigator a turkey since fractional the pack doesn't privation it. Joey, unhappy astir this, changes Monica's caput by promising to decorativeness the full vertebrate himself.

Meanwhile, Monica, Ross and Rachel's precocious schoolhouse adjacent Will (Pitt) joins them. However, Will is upset to larn that Rachel is successful attendance, arsenic she wasn't precise bully to him successful precocious school. During the meal, Will reveals that helium and Ross were successful the "I Hate Rachel" nine and started a rumor that she was an intersexual. (Note: This portion of the crippled did not property well.) Before Rachel tin get afloat outraged, Monica reminds her pal that she started a rumor astir Ross and the 50-year-old librarian—which wasn't a rumor, per Ross' confession.

Problematic jokes aside, the dynamic betwixt then-married Pitt and Aniston was precise funny.

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Season 6, Episode 9: "The One Where Ross Got High"

Things we learned from "The One Where Ross Got High," you aren't expected to enactment beef successful a trifle, Jacques Cousteau is dormant and Chandler is simply a saint for putting up with the Gellers. The cardinal taxable of the occurrence revolves around Chandler trying to triumph Monica's parents' approval, due to the fact that for immoderate reason, they've ne'er liked him.

Ross yet reveals that Jack and Judy aren't fans due to the fact that Ross erstwhile blamed a assemblage pot-smoking incidental connected Chandler. This sets disconnected a bid of revelations, including Rachel realizing realizing that she's invented the astir disgusting Thanksgiving dessert of each time. Without a doubt, "The One Where Ross Got High" has immoderate of the astir quotable lines of the series.

Every occurrence of Friends is streaming connected HBO Max.

(A mentation of this communicative was primitively published Nov. 25, 2021 astatine 12:00 a.m. PT)

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