Home > Friends > Season 5 « TV Series Page Friends: Season 5 (1998 - 1999) SEASON: Season 5 Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7 Season 8 Season 9 Season 10 Want to see Episode List Season 5 Friends Critics Consensus No consensus yet. 100% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 6 96% Audience Score User Ratings: 423 See score details Rate And Review Submit review Want to see Edit Submit review Super Reviewer Verified Super Reviewer Verified Edit Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit How did you buy your ticket? Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Episodes 1 The One After Ross Says Rachel Air date: Sep 23, 1998 Ross and Emily get married, but Emily cannot forgive him for calling her Rachel during the vows. Rachel ends up going on the trip that Ross and Emily intended to be their honeymoon. After agreeing that they would stop seeing each other upon returning home, Chandler and Monica search for a place to have sex. More 2 The One With All the Kissing Air date: Sep 30, 1998 Chandler kisses both Rachel and Phoebe in order to cover up a kiss he gave to Monica. Rachel finally tells Ross her feelings, but he replies that this isn't the appropriate time since he is now married to Emily. Phoebe goes into labor. More 3 The One Hundredth Air date: Oct 7, 1998 Phoebe goes into labor and is stuck with a doctor who is obsessed with the show "Happy Days." While Phoebe delivers triplets, Joey experiences his own pain from kidney stones. Monica plans a date with a male nurse to spite Chandler. More 4 The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS Air date: Oct 14, 1998 The gang discovers that Phoebe hates PBS after Joey agrees to help out with a pledge drive. Emily tells Ross she'll give him a second chance only if he cuts all ties with Rachel. More 5 The One With the Kips Air date: Oct 28, 1998 Chandler and Monica plan a trip to Atlantic City for some private time. When Joey discovers that they are dating, they swear him to secrecy. Ross has to tell Rachel that he can't be friends with her anymore, due to Emily. More 6 The One With the Yeti Air date: Nov 4, 1998 Phoebe is surprised to discover that she enjoys wearing mink. Ross confronts Emily and refuses to stop associating with Rachel and the other friends. Emily demands a divorce. Monica and Rachel are afraid of a hairy new neighbor--until they find out how handsome he is with his hair cut. More 7 The One Where Ross Moves In Air date: Nov 11, 1998 After getting kicked out of his apartment, Ross moves in temporarily with Chandler and Joey, driving all three of them crazy. Phoebe dates a health inspector who keeps closing down all the gang's favorite restaurants. More 8 The One With the Thanksgiving Flashbacks Air date: Nov 18, 1998 It's Thanksgiving, and the gang remembers former terrible Thanksgiving experiences. Chandler tells Monica that he loves her. More 9 The One With Ross's Sandwich Air date: Dec 9, 1998 Ross becomes upset when someone at work takes his sandwich from the refrigerator and eats it. Joey finds himself in a terrible mess when he tries to cover for Chandler and Monica's dating. More 10 The One With the Inappropriate Sister Air date: Dec 16, 1998 Phoebe collects money for the Salvation Army during the holidays. A bored Ross creates havoc in Joey and Chandler's lives. Rachel is disturbed by her date's inappropriate relationship with his sister. More Show More Episodes Friends: Season 5 Photos View All Photos (23) Tv Season Info Ross becomes upset when someone at work takes his sandwich from the refrigerator and eats it. Joey finds himself in a terrible mess when he tries to cover for Chandler and Monica's dating. Genre: Comedy Network: NBC Premiere Date: Sep 24, 1998 Episodes 1 The One After Ross Says Rachel Air date: Sep 23, 1998 Ross and Emily get married, but Emily cannot forgive him for calling her Rachel during the vows. Rachel ends up going on the trip that Ross and Emily intended to be their honeymoon. After agreeing that they would stop seeing each other upon returning home, Chandler and Monica search for a place to have sex. More 2 The One With All the Kissing Air date: Sep 30, 1998 Chandler kisses both Rachel and Phoebe in order to cover up a kiss he gave to Monica. Rachel finally tells Ross her feelings, but he replies that this isn't the appropriate time since he is now married to Emily. Phoebe goes into labor. More 3 The One Hundredth Air date: Oct 7, 1998 Phoebe goes into labor and is stuck with a doctor who is obsessed with the show "Happy Days." While Phoebe delivers triplets, Joey experiences his own pain from kidney stones. Monica plans a date with a male nurse to spite Chandler. More 4 The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS Air date: Oct 14, 1998 The gang discovers that Phoebe hates PBS after Joey agrees to help out with a pledge drive. Emily tells Ross she'll give him a second chance only if he cuts all ties with Rachel. More 5 The One With the Kips Air date: Oct 28, 1998 Chandler and Monica plan a trip to Atlantic City for some private time. When Joey discovers that they are dating, they swear him to secrecy. Ross has to tell Rachel that he can't be friends with her anymore, due to Emily. More 6 The One With the Yeti Air date: Nov 4, 1998 Phoebe is surprised to discover that she enjoys wearing mink. Ross confronts Emily and refuses to stop associating with Rachel and the other friends. Emily demands a divorce. Monica and Rachel are afraid of a hairy new neighbor--until they find out how handsome he is with his hair cut. More 7 The One Where Ross Moves In Air date: Nov 11, 1998 After getting kicked out of his apartment, Ross moves in temporarily with Chandler and Joey, driving all three of them crazy. Phoebe dates a health inspector who keeps closing down all the gang's favorite restaurants. More 8 The One With the Thanksgiving Flashbacks Air date: Nov 18, 1998 It's Thanksgiving, and the gang remembers former terrible Thanksgiving experiences. Chandler tells Monica that he loves her. More 9 The One With Ross's Sandwich Air date: Dec 9, 1998 Ross becomes upset when someone at work takes his sandwich from the refrigerator and eats it. Joey finds himself in a terrible mess when he tries to cover for Chandler and Monica's dating. More 10 The One With the Inappropriate Sister Air date: Dec 16, 1998 Phoebe collects money for the Salvation Army during the holidays. A bored Ross creates havoc in Joey and Chandler's lives. Rachel is disturbed by her date's inappropriate relationship with his sister. More Show More Episodes Critic Reviews for Friends Season 5 All Critics (6) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (0) Of all the returning series, only a handful remain in consistently good form: "Friends" stays witty despite Ross and Rachel's endless seesawing. Jun 28, 2018 | Full Review… Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe Top Critic Season five is the best because it's Chandler and Monica trying to keep their relationship under wraps, which improbably stayed funny over the course of fourteen episodes and STILL managed to pay it off with the best episode of the series. Jun 27, 2018 | Full Review… Joe Reid The Atlantic Top Critic Season 5 showcased the acting ensemble at their peak, making plenty of room for the blend of humor and heartfelt emotion that made the show a hit for 10 seasons. Jun 27, 2018 | Full Review… Maureen Lee Lenker Entertainment Weekly Top Critic Season five had some incredible bits. It also had Emily, but never mind. Jun 27, 2018 | Full Review… Catriona Wightman Digital Spy The writers didn't rush [the Monica and Chandler] relationship to its conclusion...and it's this comedy mined from their sneaking around and trying to keep their relationship a secret that makes Season 5 one of the show's best. Jun 27, 2018 | Full Review… Adam Chitwood Collider David Schwimmer pulls some comedy magic out of Ross' downward spiral. Jun 26, 2018 | Full Review… Louisa Mellor Den of Geek View All Critic Reviews (6) Audience Reviews for Friends: Season 5 Jun 26, 2020 Perfect season, one of my favorites Rafael B Jun 15, 2020 Thought they will go downhill after this season but nope they still got that. 'The one where everybody finds out' is still my favourite episode. Resolution and Thanksgiving episode were memorable My full review of entire series- I am a gen z 2000s kid and have heard a lot about 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'. Never gave it a try because it looked the most 90s show ever, and yes it is. Pandemic happened and everybody is worrying and panicking, so I said I will try to watch a sitcom to forget about all the sh!t around me. I watched friends as it had the highest ratings. God was I addicted, 236 episodes in 65 days, people have done better than me but for me this is a lot. Even when I wasn't watching the show I was laughing while playing the clips in my head. Many complain for the use of laugh-track but I see no problem with that, it is a scientific fact that if others laugh around you, you too break into laughter ( I am pretty sure this was the reason old sitcoms had those) My most laugh-out-loud moments that I felt didn't reach high internet fame were -Chandler and Joey with Ben, and Chandler says 'what kind of scary-a$s clown came to your party' -Joey going to Rachel Boss and asking why he wanted to buy Rachel's daughter -Janice showing up In all these scenes I fell from the place I was sitting in laughter I have already made so many great memories with the show, Janice showing up as she dates Ross, I screamed Ohh Myy Goooddd! in the most Janice way possible. My parents on the other room starts scream as to what happened to me. I remember a time when I was having great agony and started watching an episode and just forgot everything I was going through. It actually felt like having Friends in Real life. I knew everything, every secret, every little detail that another friend knows. Loved every stereotypical roles they had, Joey getting dumber as seasons progress was a wise decision as Dumb Joey had more comedic moments that will stick with me forever. Early Jo felt a weaker version of Chandler's Sarcasm. Phoebe being the different friend was fantastic as she brought something different, idk what but she's different and love these kind of characters I relate to mostly Chandler's comedy Ross's geekness Joey's idiotic remarks ( I still regret some of my idiotic moments) Definitely ganna rewatch the show in future and ganna watch it with more time so I live in the friends world for longer One the best time passing shows I have ever seen. All I know is that I will always have Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Dr.Drake Ramoray and Ragina Phalange to make to laugh. Zuhayr M Apr 08, 2020 I like friends but I did like Emily in the season sondre o Mar 17, 2020 Ross's sandwich was REALLY funny! David Schwimmer was awesome! Definitely should check this season out! Watch the whole show! BTKB B Nov 19, 2019 The chandler and Monica relationship was what made this season really really good and Ross has many hilarious moments, not as good as the previous two seasons but yet again another fantastic season, with hardly anything to complain about Jake B Nov 01, 2019 Friends Fifth season is a great one with plenty of funny moments and the Chandler/Monica relationship arc is very memorable and funny as them trying to keep their relationship secret are some of the best moments in the season due to some brilliant acting from Perry and Cox. The rest of the cast do a very good job as usual. The finale while not as good as the season 4 one was still a very memorable one with Las Vegas being a good setting to end a memorable season on. Yannick D Sep 01, 2019 Decent season. Funny in parts. Reece B Jul 24, 2019 Lots of comedy comes from Monica and Chandler sneaking around and Ross becomes less serious and it works. Russell H Jun 26, 2019 Uma das melhores temporadas. Samuel D Jun 12, 2019 Season 5, episode titled ‘The one with all the resolutions' goes through each of the characters thoughts and opinions on creating a New Years Resolution. The characters decide to participate in the activity and each create a resolution. Voss vows to try something new each day, Phobe wants to fly a plane, Rachel ends all her gossiping and Joey decides to take guitar lessons from Phobe. Although they started off with good intentions everyone ends up falling down the 7 step formula of Slapstick as each of their resolutions start to take a turn. Through this process comedic use of Dramatic irony is strongly present near the end where Phobe and Joey have a misunderstanding of what Chandler is doing with Rachel. Voss's experience was covered by him deciding to wear leather pants for a day. This backfires when he is at his girlfriends house. The pants that he initially though would be a good change ended up causing him great discomfort. Voss rushed to the bathroom to seek a kind of relief, but in the process of taking them off and putting them on they get stuck at his thighs. Voss calls Chandler for help but instead gets the worst advice in the world and ends up making the situation even worse. How Voss performed in this scene made it most enjoyable to watch, as he suffered and ached in pain as the pants tighten up and his girlfriend knocked on the door. The episode was well structured and enjoyable and I would watch it again. 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