Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2329 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-25
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 550 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Seemingly low-key but as wittily crafted as the first two series, this season develops minor characters--Gunther, Central Perk's proprietor, who is in love with Rachel; Phoebe's half-brother Frank (played by rising-star Giovanni Ribisi); the chick and duck--who will play key parts later on while the foundations for crucial story lines developed in Series 4 are laid down. The most momentous story arc covers Rachel and Ross splitting up when she suggests they take a "break" and he sleeps with the girl from the copy shop. Phoebe gets to know her little brother Frank who falls in love with the much-older Alice, for whom Phoebe will bear triplets in a later series. Monica pines after Richard and then starts dating the millionaire Pete, although towards the end Chandler is trying to persuade her he's good boyfriend material--clearly an omen of things to come. --Leslie Felperin

DVD Description
Includes the following episodes:

• The One With The Princess Leia Fantasy
  
• The One Where No-one's Ready
  
• The One With The Jam
  
• The One With The Metaphorical Tunnel
  
• The One With Frank Jr.
  
• The One With The Flashback
  
• The One With The Racecar Bed
  
• The One With The Giant Poking Device

Special Features

• Rembrandts music video
  
• Internet hyperlink

DVD Technical Information:

• Total Running Time: 525 mins
  
• Disc Format: Double Sided/Single Layer
  
• Region Code: 2
  
• Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, English for the hearing impaired, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish

Customer Reviews

Favourite Friends' Moments, Now with extra footage!
Definitely one of the best and most exciting seasons of Friends, it's the season where Ross and Rachel are; still dating, break-up, and eventually decide to get back together by the season's end. In between lots of events take place, e.g. Monica gets a new boyfriend (Pete the millionaire) and Joey &Chandler buy birds (a chick and a duck). The season features some of the all-time favourite Friends episodes! I love the packaging! You take it out of the cover and the DVD version is like a folder. It opens up into like 6 pages with the DVDs and episodes listings. You can also choose to have subtitles (choice is from 4 different languages) or you can choose to have none.

The episodes are:
Disc 1:

The one with the Princess Leia Fantasy- Ross' secret fantasy doesn't stay secret for long after he confides in Rachel. Chandler begins to rekindle his relationship with ex-girlfriend Janice.

The one where no one's ready- Ross gets riled when his friends fail to be ready on time for a museum fundraiser.

The one with the jam- Monica tries to get over Richard by making jam but she gets obsessed. Se decides to get a sperm from a bank to have her own baby.

The one with the Metaphorical tunnel- Ross and Rachel encourage Chandler to commit to Janice.

The one with Frank Jr.- Phoebe invites her bro over for a visit. Ross makes a list of celebrities he's allowed to sleep with and one of them shows up.

The one with the flashback- Janice asks them if they've ever dated each other, they say no but they start thinking of the past (when Joey hits on Monica by stripping and when Chandler tries to make something happen between him and Rachel).

The one with the racecar bed- The 'Mattress King store' sends Monica a wrong bed, a kid's bed.

Special features: Audio commentary by the executive producers.

Disc 2:

The 1 with the giant poking device- Phoebe thinks she has killed 'ugly naked guy' so everyone joins in to poke him.

The 1 with the football- the friends play football (Ross and Monica fight like cats and dogs, Rachel hangs along, Phoebe makes t a game of a lifetime for herself, and Joey and Chandler fight over the same woman).

The 1 where Rachel quits- Seeking advice from Chandler, Rachel finally quits her job at Central Perk.

The 1 where Chandler can't remember which sister- Rachel has an interview at Bloomingdales. Chandler sleeps with Joey's sister.

The 1 with all the jealousy- Ross gets really jealous of Rachel's co-worker Mark.

The 1 where Monica + Richard are just friends- they bump into each other at the video store. They do everything they did when they were dating except they say they're 'just friends'.

Special features: audio commentary.

Disc 3:
The 1 with Phoebe's ex-partner- Phoebe’s old partner returns to Phoebe's life but not for long, she ends up stealing Phoebe’s 'smelly cat'. Chandler dates a woman with an artificial leg.

The 1 where Ross+ Rachel take a break- Rachel thinks it's a break; Ross thinks it's a break-up. This is where it started.

The 1 the morning after- Rachel finds out about Ross' one-night stand with the Xerox girl.

The 1 with the ski trip- Rachel invites the gang (excluding Ross) to a ski trip, Ross goes to Carol.

The 1 with the hypnosis tape- Rachel gives Chandler a tape to quit smoking. It works too well but it's for a woman, "you're a strong and confident woman" and Chandler starts to act like 1.

The 1 with the tiny t-shirt- Rachel returns Ross' belongings to him. Ross asks for his t-shirt back in spite. But later Rachel gets it back.

Special features: audio commentary.

Disc 4:
1 with the dollhouse- Monica inherits a Victorian dollhouse. But she has competition from a cardboard house that Phoebe has.

1 with the chick and the duck- this is where they get them. They buy a chick and end up with a chick and a duck. Pete wants Monica to be the head chef at his new restaurant.

1 with the screamer- Ben Stiller dates Rachel but he's a loud, angry, malicious maniac and Ross tries to tell everyone.

1 with Ross’ thing-Ross finds a 'thing' on him. He goes from doctor to doctor but no one can tell him what it is. It is referred to as a 'coundas' and 'the Ross'. Phoebe plays the field.

1 with the ultimate fighting champion- Pete gets beaten up in public, but he refuses to listen to Monica.

The 1 at the beach- Every1 goes to the beach. Ross and Rachel flirt, Bonnie becomes bald, Chandler wants to know why Monica won't date him, Joey wants to play poker, and Phoebe wants to know her father's location but she finds out her mother's alive.

Special features: This disc has the best special features' options. You can take in an Open house at Joey and Chandler's Bachelor Pad with the interactive menu (you can even flip through a 'Friends' scrap book). 2nd- you can leaf through the Friends of Friends Guest book (e.g. Billy Crystal). 3rd- You can learn what's up with your friends with video guides. 4th- You can do a Rachel-Ross trivia quiz: every right answer brings them closer to each other and every wrong answer moves them apart.

I highly recommend this season. Not only is the season extremely funny but also I love the packaging and everything. The episodes also have extra footage that you've never seen. Every episode has at least 1 line that had to be cut-off because of limited time when it was aired.

"We were on a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Possibly the best series ever with every episode as memorable as the next! The One Where No One's Ready is my personal favourite with Joey's "Hey, I'm Chandler. Could I BE wearing any more clothes?!" one of the funniest lines EVER!!!! The lunges which follow are a hysterical finish to a very funny scene.
Other events which take place are Monica replaces Richard (boo!) with a millionaire, Chandler and Joey get a chick and a duck, the friends all play football on thanksgiving (brilliant episode!)!! Of course any one who knows anything about Friends will know that the series headline news comes in The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break and The One The Morning After when the two split. The morning after episode is so well made with the rest of the gang all in Monica's bedroom listening in. It breaks up the tension created by Ross and Rachel in the living room. Superb!
With the characters firmly developed in the previous two series the writers really let fly with the creativity and jokes in this series making it a truelly hysterical journey through the highs and lows in the lives of the Friends. Highly recommended and excellent fun!!! Get the popcorn in!

Great price and great series..shame about the extras though!
This is definitely up there with the best series' of friends (along with series 4 and 6), it's a time when the stories are still fresh but the awkwardness between the characters (particularly evident in the first half of season 1) has completely disappeared. It also contains the post popular Friends episode according to the British public; 'The one with the football'. Other classic episodes of the series include, 'The one where no one's ready', 'The one without the ski trip' and 'The one at the beach'. There's no 'filler' episodes that began to appear in the 7th series and the laughs are consistent throughout. One major downside is the lack of extras. It seems that Warner have completely neglected to add any extras to the DVDs and the extras described by one reviewer are only available on the Region 1 versions. Each episode is the standard length and not the longer versions that also appear on the Region 1 DVDs. Still worth buying, but if you are a huge Friends fan i would suggest getting it imported on Region 1.