Friends (TV Series) The One at the Beach (1997) User Reviews

The One at the Beach

[Lady_Targaryen · 8/10 · 16 May 2008]

Phoebe finds a woman who knew her parents and was a big friend of her mother Lilly. The name of her mother's friend is Phoebe. She lives at the beach, and since Phoebe has a client who has a house at the beach, she invites all Friends to go there with her. When she meets her mother's friend, she sees a suspicious picture in Phoebe's Sr. refrigerator, and she discovers that her mother's friend knows where her father is.

Rachel cannot stand Bonnie anymore, since she is jealous of Ross' relationship with her. When Bonnie go meet Ross at the beach' house,Rachel gives her the idea of shaving her head again.

Chandler insists to Monica that he would be a great boyfriend. Monica laughs all the time he mentions the word ''boyfriend'' to her.

The One With A Holiday

[devashishparnami · 9/10 · 9 October 2018]

Phoebe finds out about an old friend of her parents, Phoebe Sr., so she decides to go and ask her about her father. All the friends go to the beach together looking for her, but Ross's girlfriend Bonnie can't come. While Phoebe is away, Rachel flirts with Ross, Chandler tries to convince Monica that he is boyfriend material and Joey wants to get everyone to play strip poker. They end up playing strip Happy Days game. Phoebe Sr. doesn't know where Phoebe's father is, but she reveals to her that she is her biological mother. Rachel convinces Bonnie to shave her head and tells Ross about her feelings. He has to choose between the two girls.

Optimistic

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 16 August 2021]

This would have been a great episode to end the season. And the show.

The One at the Beach

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 4 July 2011]

Phoebe goes with her friends to the beach house to meet old friend phoebe of her mother in hopes she will tell her where her father is. This leads to some great fun story. This Phoebe is a very special character and at the end she tells Phoebe an amazing secret

And it gets interesting between Rachel and Ross again. They have a conversation after Rachel convinces Bonnie to shave her head again. It is kind of sad to be reminded again that Friends are a shallow close minded, conservative crowd for whom a woman shaving her head is such a big deal. But the sad truth is that out of all of them Phoebe is the only one who didn't get brainwashed by the society. But this shallowness leads to something good. We get to hear a great dialogue between Ross and Rachel. And at the end we get a nice cliffhanger when Ross chooses whose room to go into and we don't know whose it is

A fun end to series 3

[studioAT · 6/10 · 31 May 2017]

This episode is a fun way to end the third series of the show, with the door being left open for a Ross and Rachel reunion.

The Pheobe story line though important for the character overall isn't that funny, despite Lisa Kudrow giving her all as always.

I liked the Monica and Chandler scenes too, and it's interesting to look back at this episode knowing what happens with these characters later on.

I wouldn't say that this is the best episode of the show ever, but it is an improvement on a couple towards the end of series 3 and was enjoyable.

Poker and Deeper Arcs

[vivianla · 30 May 2020]

Rachel and Mon sit at the bar watching Ross and Bonnie. Rachel dislikes Bonnie talking about her sex life and all the men she slept with including in what countries. Joey loves it.

Phoebe invited the gang to the beach where she has a free stay from an acquaintance who is a strange male. She hopes to find answers about her parents.

There is sand indoors and the gang is bored. Phoebe closes her eyes and spins to come to Chandler and points. Chandler repeats what Joey suggested - strip poker.

They play strip poker with cards instead. They gang up on Joey to his boxers. Mon gets up and we see she stripped off her bottoms. She walks to Rachel in the kitchen making margaritas. Rachel is so beautiful in this particular scene - she gushes about the lovey atmosphere.

Bonnie arrives to the dismay of Rachel and the audience. She takes off her top to catch up and reveals a bra.

Ross and Bonnie come down the next morning having had sex the night before. The gang heard. Joey is asleep with sand shaped to make him have a mermaid's tail and breasts. Joey wakes up and likes the breasts.

Bonnie goes out in a black bikini top revealing everything. Rachel pushes her to shave her head. The gang is shocked to see her bald and the boys make comments. The moonlight is shining off her head and she does not have a single hair on her head.

Their beach outfits are cute.

We see Ross go upstairs to the bedrooms and enters the left one. We don't know if it is Rachel's or Bonnie's.

Season 3 end

[thorodinson-50130 · 24 July 2021]

After so long, gap, blah blha i finished s3 and i will watch s4 after finishing The Office s3.