Friends (TV Series) The One with the Butt (1994) User Reviews

Matthew Perry Knocks It Out Of The Park

[slightlymad22 · 8/10 · 16 November 2014]

Matthew Perry knocks it out of the park in this episode. Whilst he is not the focal point if the episode, he steals it.

Plot In A Paragraph: After appearing in a dire play about Freud, Joey (Matt Le Blanc) lands a part as Al Pacino's butt double in a new movie. Meanwhile Chandler (Matthew Perry) starts dating Aurora, a girl who has a complicated love life, and Monica (Courtney Cox) tries to prove she can be laid back after Rachel (Jennifer Aniston cleans the apartment.

Once complaint in this episode is that when Le Blanc is in the shower you can see his shadow, and you blatantly see his is wearing shorts, but that is more than made up for by a fantastic turn by Perry.

Perry's performance is superb, as he deals with both the joy of the no strings attached relationship and the the jealousy that comes with such a relationship.

The One where joey will work as a butt double

[Lady_Targaryen · 8/10 · 20 October 2007]

This episode starts with Joey working in a funny play called FREUD!, where he sings a ridiculous (but funny) song. He meets Estelle Leonard, an actor agent, for the first time, and she signs him. He eventually gets hired to be Al Pacino's butt double (And that's one of the funniest moments in the series), but even with such job, he gets fired.

Chandler meets a beautiful Italian woman called Aurora, who he invited to go out with him. She accepts and they start an affair, but the problem is that she is more complicated that he would thought: Besides being married with a guy named Rick, she also has a boyfriend named Ethan!

By the way, in this episode, we see more clearly how Monica is obsessed with cleaning her house and excessively organized and perfectionist with everything.

Show already pulsating in top form only a handful of episodes in

[hupholland2014 · 9/10 · 5 December 2014]

And just like that Friends is already pumping out solid and top notch episodes on a weekly basis with only five episodes behind them. It took Seinfeld 10-12 to really find itself. Remarkable achievement, especially with six leads vying for camera time, but it's helped out by yet another excellent script, this time by Adam Chase and Ira Ungerleider. Matthew Perry is given even more room to stretch out in this one and does a magnificent job coming off innocent and scornful, elated and dejected. It's easy to see why he would continue to be a feature actor in movies and other TV shows after the success of Friends. Swiss actress Sofia Milos, a German speaking and ethnically Greek vixen, plays the swinging, liberal and promiscuous Euro stereotype without a fuss and with panache. Friends has already hit its stride in record time.

The One Where Monica's OCD...

[taylorkingston · 9/10 · 31 October 2015]

I know what you're thinking. "There's only one episode where Monica is OCD?" I know, you're right. There are many episodes where Monica seems OCD, but this episode is probably the first to really show it. And since I didn't have a better summary title, I thought, "Why not?"

In this episode, Joey's new play isn't what he'd hoped, but he is soon ecstatic about his new role. He gets to be the butt double for Al Pachino, in his new movie. That's pretty cool. Meanwhile, at the play, Chandler meets a girl who he really likes, but once he finds out that she's dating multiple people, and is married, Chandler re-thinks the relationship. Until she says they can just hook up, then he's cool. But then he changes his mind, again. And Monica tries to deal with her obsessiveness, and cleanliness, after Rachel cleans the apartment, and dares Monica not to clean anything her way.

Best part of the episode: Monica.

Overall, I give this episode a 9 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Amazing.

The One with the Butt

[ComedyFan2010 · 9/10 · 5 June 2011]

Joey is absolutely the star of this episode. The highlights of it are his Freud song in the beginning which is absolutely hilarious, him getting a part in Al Pacino movie as....his butt double! And then losing this part by acting too much with that butt We also meet Estelle, Joeys agent. And we see Monica from her crazy cleaning side. At this part of the show it is still funny since she doesn't become to annoying with it I didn't really like Chandler's storyline. Can't even point the finger on what is wrong with it, but this is something I would rather fast forward through these days. I guess I don't like the actress too much

The One With The Beautiful Woman

[devashishparnami · 9/10 · 6 February 2018]

It was a really hilarious episode with Joey starting the episode with a really funny musical sort of thing and later getting a break into the movies by playing a butt double. The scene in which he was taking a shower was brilliant and the last scene with Monica not able to sleep was also really nice. The girl who was with chandler was really pretty and I'm sure that's one relationship ever guy wants.

Joey acts with his butt

[ttapola · 9/10 · 17 May 2007]

In my opinion, first signs of classic elements: Joey "acting" and Monica being obsessive-compulsive. Joey's shower scene as Al Pacino's butt double is hilarious: he tries to express emotion through his butt, but the director does not want it. Monica's scenes involving the slippers lying on the floor are the funniest: she denies being obsessive-compulsive but has to fight with herself to not show signs of it. Chandler's scenes with the woman who has many simultaneous relationships are funny, but nothing classic. They do keep the laughs coming, though. His bumbling introduction of himself to the beautiful woman is hysterical.

The first episodes were nothing special but now the show is starting to shine.

The sheer stupidity of joey

[McQueen1980 · 6/10 · 11 August 2019]

This episode is amusing in spots but how could joey be so stupid as to lose his job as a butt double? And chandlers brief romance with aurora doesn't make sense is not funny or touching. Not the best

Hoot

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 13 November 2020]

I like the bit where Monica is a bit funny and something funny happens due to her condition

THE BEST SCENE.

[shafihapatel · 8/10 · 4 July 2021]

JOEY PLAYS AL-PACINO'S BUTT: I'll say Joey is star of this episode where he plays part as Al Pacino's butt. When he tells to everyone they made fun of him. When joey said "it's big break for me." Ross said "so you're gonna invite us all to the big opening." that was so funny everybody was laughing.

One of the worst episodes of the series.

[natashajamos-01315 · 2/10 · 17 July 2022]

Chandler deserved better than Aurora. There's only one name I call someone who is married and has a boyfriend and getting some all at the same time. A big s***. Luckily they only last the episode.

I hate this episode.

#6!

[Analog_Devotee · 9/10 · 13 June 2021]

This is an absolutely wonderful Joey-centric episode. We meet the wonderful side-character Estelle Leonard, who becomes his acting agent.

Oh, and we see Monica become more obsessive about cleanliness.