Friends From A to Z

Here we have perhaps the biggest disparity so far between what Adele and Zoe think and what the IMdB and Ranker.com data says the people think. Zoe is so excited to show she knows the answer to a question that she can't get her words out and there's a debate about Lisa Kudrow's decision to never have Phoebe get any better at the guitar. 

This one has a storyline that resonates so strongly and is done so well that it’s almost too uncomfortable to watch. Adele thinks Tinder would have ruined one storyline if it happened today and for the first time in Friends From A to Z history both Zoe and Adele have the same favourite joke!

In this episode there's a debate about the required suspension of disbelief, in a scene where even Zoe would have been seduced by Rachel's not-so-subtle advances. We get the first ever mid-epidimerick exclamation and there's an enlightening discussion about the nature of 90s porn. 

Deep discussions of science, death, life and lamps in this episode. Also: could Chandler and Janice be happily married in a parallel universe? Does Chandler have a problem understanding maths or biology? And have you ever put a jacket on so vigorously that you broke a sea-shell lamp?

This episode raises a topic that's still dividing opinion in 2018. Zoe and Adele differ on the way the audience laughs at a joke - is the tone of it positive or negative? Elsewhere, there are echoes of episodes yet to come, some (too much?) suspension of disbelief is required and a question of why the name Todd is considered so bad. 

It's Season Two!! Zoe's favourite season kicked off with a cracker of an episode back in 1995, here in 2018 find out why Adele's improved trivia game earns her a Liz Lemon eye-roll. There's a show of love for a new, improved Joey, Zoe (maybe) invents a new game and see where you land in the debate about an ethically questionable but unquestionably funny storyline.

Play along as Zoe tests Adele with a fiendish Season One quiz and find out why Adele's spreadsheet of Friends From A to Z data reveals that Zoe is perhaps the nicer person. Zoe thinks the podcast has uncovered an extreme talent and Adele puts to bed a few of the unanswered questions that were raised over the season. All in all, it's a fitting farewell to Season One and gets us all ready...

Zoe has a strong reaction to this final Epidimerick of Season One. In this slightly extended edit there's a delicate discussion about exactly what Joey is being super dim about, for some reason Adele is looking at herself with disgust and the long awaited crystal duck moment and all that comes with it has them in a Friends-related flap.

A few surprises in store - not only does the power go off in New York, but there's a shock for Adele's Epidimerick and the people's scores create excitement. They also find the first real-life influence of Friends culture in Friends Thru a Lens that has endured for the decades since. What could it be? Only one way to find out!

Zoe has an idea for how to improve the Netflix episode summaries and Adele has an unconventional nominee for her Best Friend. More Emmy trivia is revealed and there's a big debate about Chandler's 'gay quality' storyline, including whether it birthed another term that's made it into today's vernacular.

An onion of an Epidimerick kicks this one off. Several questions to resolve here: is 'Got the keys' second only to 'We were on a break' for misunderstandings in Friends history and is it easier to resolve? How often do you say 'Only dogs can hear you now?' to a distressed friend? What's Mario not telling you? And is $100 a big amount of money or a small amount of...

Mixed opinions here with Zoe fiercely opposed to the rest of the global population (sort of). Find out which US TV star Zoe thought was a swear word, who Adele Googles to see them with their shirt off and why Zoe thinks Adele has come up with her favourite ever Friends Thru A Lens.

Coma guy continues to cause a rift between pals twenty years later as Adele and Zoe disagree about how good a storyline it is. Zoe spots a background reference that makes Adele very happy and there's a debate about whether, when it comes to Ross and Mrs Bing, there's a obvious clue of who came on to whom.

Get ready for the best worst Netflix episode summary of Season One. Zoe thinks she's found a hidden numerical code, there's a huge amount of 2018 shock at Paolo's behaviour in Friends Thru A Lens and Adele ends up in a total tiz over how the apartment numbers have traveled through time PLUS find out which biggest Laugh Out Loud moment has made it into Zoe's Rank Bank of all ten...

The episode that popped Zoe's Friends cherry way back in 1994 - what a way to have started! There's a lot of love for everything about this episode but also some questions: why is Zoe so sceptical of Adele's trivia fact about Joey's parents? Why is Adele's favourite joke the grimmest line of the episode? Any why is Rachel behaving like Donald Duck?

Adele and Zoe fall head over heels for the Chandler/Janice storylines in this episode, the Valentine's gift that keeps on giving. Adele has a fixation with Benihama and one particular discussion risks unintentionally upsetting one potential listener.

It's Zoe and Adele against the data here as they stand together in stark contrast to the imdb viewer ratings. They also play Rank Bank snap when something from this episode features in each of their Best Laugh Out Loud Moments of all ten seasons - but which part is it?

We're in some unfamiliar territory here where two of the three storylines are left tantalisingly unresolved ahead of Part Two but more shocking is a Chandler storyline Adele and Zoe both find it difficult to get on board with. Zoe does some shipping of the Friends couple that never was and Adele admits to something about the magical tricks of TV technology that Zoe quite rightly ridicules.

As fans of fairy lights at any time of year, both Adele and Zoe are sorry Rachel has to take them down but very happy about what unfolds as a result. Adele is told about a deleted scene, Zoe compares the ending to a Quattro Formaggi and Adele totally cheats by getting away with having two favourite friends.

Adele, Zoe and the audience ratings go all in with their opinion on this episode, will you agree? Shockingly Adele can't bear a particular friend she's previously been a big fan of and instead identifies with the annoying traits of another one. Zoe is surprised to hear a famous line has been cut from repeated screenings on TV and unwittingly shows off her varied knowledge of card games.

Adele and Zoe are logging all the signs moving us along the Rachel and Ross road to the crystal duck moment - and there are lots of them in this episode. In Friends Thru A Lens they discuss some of the undeniably uncomfortable themes that crop up but, despite that, it's in Zoe's top ten for ticking three of her boxes and Adele remains inexplicably obsessed with apartment door numbers.

Adele writes an Epidimerick that only works in a Northern English accent and gives Zoe the gift of explaining a joke neither of them had got for almost twenty five years. Chandler’s storyline reminds them of a 90s Oprah Winfrey show, Zoe’s shipping Monica and Chandler years before the writers get there and who IS actually Rachel’s best friend? Does Zoe also spot a plot hole in the girls’ supposed...

There is some disagreement about whether there is a deeper meaning in the Fake Monica storyline and even more debate about the next occasion when we see Monica drunk. Zoe makes a point that Adele finds double excellent but also makes a number of references that leave her worrying slightly about Zoe's personal finances.

There’s a big positive reception to Friends going meta with Chandler in this episode and Zoe shocks Adele with information on the real life age of one of the cast members. There is plenty of discussion about the symbolism and importance of Rachel’s triple sex dreams and a Friends Thru A Lens that’s about something so obsolete two people who were actually around in the 90s can’t explain it.

A classically bad, point-missing episode summary from Netflix kicks us off. Opinions differ from the audience data and Zoe reckons she's figured out one of the major reasons why. This penultimate episode shows another side to a so far relatively two-dimensional character for Zoe, brings a tear to the eye on more than one occasion and - to top it all off - features a Rank Bank Laugh Out Loud m...