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The One With The Two Parties


Trivia

General

This episode appears on the Friends - The One With all the Birthdays DVD.
Rachel hypothesizes that her father will get a condo and her sister will decorate it in wicker. In "The One With Rachel's Other Sister" (S9E8), Rachel's sister Amy mentions she decorated their father's office.
The name of Rachel's sister Jill is confirmed in this episode; Jill later appears in "The One With Rachel's Sister" (S6E13).
This is the only episode in which both of Rachel's parents appear. This is also the first appearance of Rachel's dad.
Despite Joey telling Ross that he "broke the code" by making out with Chandler's mom in "The One With Mrs. Bing" (S1E11), he kisses Rachel's mom at the end of this episode. It's also true, however, that as the guys are avoiding making her and her ex-husband meet at any cost, this wouldn't count as a genuine gesture on his behalf but only a desperate measure to call for in desperate times.
Ross is shown not to bond very much with Rachel's dad - especially when the former makes a fool of himself and is then caught wearing the latter's glasses and having one of his cigarettes in his mouth. Only at the end of the seventh episode of Season 3 do the two bond a little. However, the bonding is very temporary and following the Season 3 episode, Ross and Dr. Greene fall back to disliking each other onwards.
Rachel's habit of exchanging gifts is mentioned again when Ross tells her "now you can exchange them (the earrings) if you want". He says a similar thing to her in "The One With Christmas In Tulsa".
This is the only time either of Rachel's parents are seen at any of her birthdays.
It is sometimes speculated that Rachel is Jewish. When talking with Chandler about divorce in the hallway, she lists holidays where her family is now going to be separate and she lists Christmas.

Goofs

In this episode Rachel's dad smokes. However, in "The One Where Rachel Smokes", Rachel has stated she does not smoke because 'her dad is a doctor and he has told her many horror stories about smoking' alluding to the fact that her dad wouldn't smoke either due to his profession and the advice he gave Rachel. However, it's possible that he made up those stories because he didn't want Rachel to smoke like he does.
Gunther wears a wedding ring while talking to Phoebe about leaving Monica's party.
Monica shouts in Joey and Chandler's "Hey, You and you, you are meant to be at my party!!", while Rachel's father was there. However, they didn't want him to know about the other party. Although it is possible that he did not hear Monica over the music.
Chandler briefly looked at the camera when Monica called Joey out for staring at her fake boobs. (At around 0:46 minute mark.)
When Phoebe is talking to Gunther she has two red pens as well as a red and blue pen. The shot changes and the red pens have gone.
Several goofs involving the characters arms are shown:
When Phoebe is planning to get the people out of Monica's party, when she says "There isn't time!" her right arm's position change between shots.
When Ross, Rachel and her mom are discussing smoking, it changes from her right hand near her face to her left when the shot changes to show Ross' face. (This is because Rachel can be seen laughing at the cigarette popping out of the cigarette carton.).
When Rachel's mom says "You've chosen a boyfriend exactly like your father." her arms change between these shots.
Later, when Rachel is talking to Chandler, she says "My mom there, my dad there. Thanksgiving, Christmas." the position of her left arm also changes between shots.
In the staircase when Chandler gives Rachel a hug, the apartment door is open. In the next shot the same door is fully closed and Ross opens it. Not an error because the door is shown being closed, then in the next shot Ross opens it. The first scene stops before the door closes completely, but someone is clearly closing it.
When Rachel, Ross and Chandler are talking about her parents, Rachel twists briefly away from Ross then the shot changes and she's making the same twist again.
When Phoebe attempts to distract Monica, Rachel can be seen standing up in the foreground but when Ross enters she's still sitting down and stands up to come and talk with Ross and her mom.