Two of my favorite episodes of Friends are ones about money, who has it and how it’s going to be used.
“The One With Five Steaks and an Eggplant”:
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Chandler plans a birthday party for Ross at an expensive restaurant. Phoebe, Joey, and Rachel don’t have very much money, but
they grudgingly go along with the plans. Once there, they order the cheapest things they can find. When the bills comes, and
Ross wants to split it equally, they rebel.
ROSS: So five of us is, $33.50 apiece.
PHOEBE: No, huh uh, no way, I’m sorry, not gonna happen.
CHANDLER: Whoa, whoa, prom night flashback.
PHOEBE: I’m sorry, Monica, I’m really happy you got promoted, but cold cucumber mush for thirty-something bucks? No! Rachel just
had that, that, that salad, and, and Joey with his like teeny pizza! It’s just…
ROSS: Ok, Pheebs! How ’bout we’ll each just pay for what we had. It’s no big deal.
PHOEBE: Not for you.
MONICA: All right, what’s goin’ on?
RACHEL: Ok, look you guys, I really don’t want to get into this right now. I think it’ll just make everyone uncomfortable.
PHOEBE: Fine. All right, fine.
JOEY: Yeah.
CHANDLER: You can tell us.
ROSS: Hello, it’s us, all right? It’ll be fine.
JOEY: Ok, um, uh, we three feel like, that uh, sometimes you guys don’t get that uh, we don’t have as much money as you.
MONICA: Ok.
ROSS: I hear ya.
CHANDLER: We can talk about that.
PHOEBE: Well, then…Let’s.
ROSS: I, I just never think of money as an issue.
RACHEL: That’s ’cause you have it.
ROSS: That’s a good point.
So for the next event, they make sure to include everyone…
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