Friends: The Best Episode From Every Season

10. Season One: The One With The East German Laundry Detergent

The driving force of Friends comes from the relationship of Ross and Rachel, who spend over two-hundred episodes falling in and out of love with effective results. This endless will-they-won't-they starts here, in the show's fifth episode The One with the East German Laundry Detergent.

Recently cut off from her father and committed to living life on her own, Rachel lets slip she doesn't know how to do laundry, and so Ross joins her on her crusade to learn a life skill.

Their time together is sweet and witty in the way much of Friends' early run was, and allows Rachel to grow in a subtle but big way. Alongside this, the episode is boosted to greatness by an hysterical subplot involving Chandler, who attempts to break-up with Janice but in his endearing awkwardness can't seem to pull it off.