Friends: Ranking Every Thanksgiving Episode From Worst To Best

2. The One With The Football (Season 3)

Friends The One With All The Football
NBC

What's Thanksgiving without a little (American) football? The rest of the group propose tossing around the pigskin in a friendly game while waiting for dinner to cook, only for Ross and Monica to reveal that they aren't allowed to play because of how competitive they were growing up, even having a tournament called the Geller Cup. Because of course they did.

This is an episode that frequently appears in 'best of' lists when it comes to Friends in general, not just Thanksgiving, and it's easy to see why. All of the friends are clearly having a lot of fun within the game of football, from Joey and Chandler competing over the Dutch girl to Rachel completely sucking, it encapsulates better than any of the other Thanksgiving episodes the prominence of football in the holiday, but most importantly it perfectly showcases the sibling rivalry between Ross and Monica.

Quote: "Nice try, see the Netherlands is this make believe place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from." - Joey

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