The One Where Underdog Gets Away
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The One Where Underdog Gets Away is an episode of the television situation comedy Friends.
First aired: November 17, 1994
This episode of Friends takes place on Thanksgiving. Monica and Ross decide to have Thanksgiving dinner together because their parents are away. Monica makes mashed potatoes creamy but Ross asks her to make some that are lumpy, "The way mom makes it". She obliges.
Joey just got a job to be a model for a public health poster. However, while trying to hit on a woman on the subway, he sees the poster and finds out that he is depicted as a man with sexually-transmitted disease. His family finds out and he is uninvited to Thanksgiving dinner with them. He asks to join Monica and Ross for dinner and requests that Monica to make a special kind of potato (in the form of tater tots) to remind him of home.
Phoebe was planning to have dinner with her grandmother, but ends up going to Monica's dinner because her grandmother and her boyfriend will be celebrating Thanksgiving in December, because he is lunar. She also requests that her potatoes be made a certain way.
Rachel plans to go to Vail, Colorado with her family for skiing. However, before she leaves they all go to the roof of the apartment to see the Underdog balloon that got away from the Thanksgiving day parade. When they come back to the apartment, they realize they have locked themselves out. By the time they get inside, Thanksgiving dinner is ruined and Rachel misses her flight.
They end up eating grilled cheese sandwiches and Funyuns, which were originally for Chandler because he hates anything to do with Thanksgiving. Chandler is pleased that everyone's Thanksgiving is ruined so that they can share in his misery.
| Preceded by: The One Where Nana Dies Twice | List of Friends episodes | Followed by: The One With the Monkey |