"The One Where Everybody Finds Out" is an episode of Friends that earned two Emmy nominations. It's indisputably now not considered to be one of the worst episodes of the show, nor does it comprise any controversy that fans may not even know about.
If you can't take into account, Rachel and Phoebe end up finding out about Chandler and Monica. Wishing that they were told the truth in their dating, Rachel and Phoebe attempt to get them to come clean via a series of manipulations that come with Phoebe seducing Chandler... This causes Monica off and will get her to drive Chandler into exposing the incontrovertible fact that Phoebe and Rachel know about them... It's principally all summed up in one memorable line... "They don't know that we know they know."
Perhaps the episode's good fortune was once due to the clever plotting and distinctive angle show creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane took in telling the rest of the characters that Monica and Chandler were together... which was one thing that wasn't even intended to happen.
Here's the secret truth of all of it...
Monica And Chandler Were Never Meant To Be... So The Creators Used It To Their Advantage
While Phoebe and Joey were supposed to end up together, unexpected pairings weren't really a factor on Friends... Until Chandler and Monica.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the co-creators, creatives, and forged of the show went into element about the starting place of Monica and Chandler's courting and how they orchestrated the make known to the rest of the forged in that very good episode.
"Our intention was not for them to be as serious as they became," Marta Kauffman explained. "One of the fun things about doing a show that has years of legs on it is that it begins to tell you what it should be. When we were shooting the scene in London where we find out that Monica and Chandler have slept together, we were in front of a live audience and the reaction was so stunning…. We didn’t expect applause to last for two minutes. We kind of went, “Huh, this is such an unexpected duo, let’s play with it for a little while."
Eventually, Monica and Chandler's courting evolved and, one-by-one, the rest of the characters came upon about it... And all of them treated it very otherwise.
Using Phoebe To Get The Information Out Of Chandler And Monica
Phoebe, particularly, used to be unhappy that she wasn't informed about their love so she full-in flirted with Chandler to get him to come blank about it... It was once considered one of the episode's funniest moments... At least, the solid definitely thought so...
"I don’t think we ever got through it in rehearsal," director Michael Lembeck mentioned. "Lisa [Kudrow] was always the first one to break. She and Matthew [Perry] really enjoyed this week playing off of each other. Because this particular element of sexual tension had never been there before and them discovering comedically how to go about the business of succeeding at that was, again, just a hilarious event."
It's this flirtation that tipped Monica off and causes her to retaliate in opposition to her via forcing Chandler to call Phoebe out on her bluff.
"That’s what sticks out to me, was trying to write it and see how many twists we could make without getting confused," Marta Kauffman claimed.
Then, after all, Joey steps in to take a look at and get the two aspects to forestall looking to manipulate each other into telling the truth... So, he snaps Phoebe's shirt open, exposing her bra. In his thoughts, this is able to end things by way of causing Chandler to cave. "Chandler's afraid of bras, can’t work ’em."
"We almost had to rig Matt’s fingers to make it work!" Marta Kauffman said of the second Matt LeBlanc's Joey tears open Phoebe's shirt.
"As Matt talked through what he wanted to do, it became a technical exercise: Show the costumer what you want to do and see if she can rig the dress," Michael Lembeck claimed.
Eventually, they had to make use of a Velcro blouse so that you could get Joey to efficiently snap Phoebe's shirt open in a single swoop of his hand. It made for glorious comedy... But not as superb as Phoebe's mating dance... which used to be fully choreographed by means of Lisa Kudrow herself.
"Lisa moves in a certain way. She is a bit rhythmically challenged, so I wanted to really take advantage of that," Michael claimed. "And all week, me, as her director, and her cast just kept encouraging her to do more because we found it so damn funny. And you can see Matthew’s little grin. There’s a moment when his head goes back when she starts doing it. If you keep your eye on him, you can see the twinkle. You can see Matthew — while Chandler is curious, Matthew is enjoying."
Finally, Phoebe and Chandler kiss in a dreadfully uncomfortable second that reasons him to come back clean about the proven fact that he "loves" Monica.
While the creators of Friends could've published this truth in a sappier and less creative method, they selected to use their characters to pressure it out in a super turn of occasions. But when you don't plan on doing one thing like this from the start, it opens up all forms of possibilities.
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