"The One With the Creepy Holiday Card" (also titled "The One With Ross' Step Forward") is the tenth Christmas episode of the NBC sitcom Friends, produced and aired as the eleventh episode of the show's eighth season.
Synopsis[]
Ross and Mona took pictures of themselves at Rockefeller Center and now Mona wants to send the picture as a Christmas card to friends. Ross panics at the thought of them sending out Christmas cards together because they've only been dating a couple of months. He tries to avoid having "the conversation" about where the relationship is going, so he wants to make a gesture instead, resulting in him giving Mona a key to his apartment even though he doesn't want to and it is the only key. He then has the locks changed and Mona is confused. He then tells her that he loves her (he doesn't mean it though) and she replies that she loves spending time with him too, letting him know that she isn't in love with him either.
Chandler's boss, Doug, has divorced his wife and invites Chandler and Monica to dinner, but she strongly dislikes him for drunkenly urinating on their ice sculpture at their engagement party, so Chandler decides to tell Doug that they split up so that Monica won't have to come. Doug, who is clearly depressed after divorcing his wife, takes Chandler to a series of bars and strip clubs to help him forget Monica, and he has a miserable time with Doug but later tells Monica that the worst thing of all about that night was seeing a glimpse of how he would end up if he ever lost her, and asks her to promise him she will never leave and grow old with him, and she does.
Rachel's pregnancy hormones cause her to lust after any and every guy she sees, and she finds herself wanting to sleep with Joey and Ross. To satisfy her craving, Phoebe brings a random guy called Roger to the apartment who says he'll have sex with her, but she refuses the offer.
Availability[]
The episode was made available on the Friends: The Complete Eighth Season DVD set, released on November 9, 2004.
See also[]
- "The One With the Monkey"
- "The One With Phoebe's Dad"
- "The One Where Rachel Quits"
- "The One With the Girl from Poughkeepsie"
- "The One With the Inappropriate Sister"
- "The One With the Routine"
- "The One With All the Candy"
- "The One With the Holiday Armadillo"
- "The One With Monica's Boots"
- "The One With Christmas in Tulsa"