Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 9 Review – “The One Where Underdog Gets Away”
Friends’s first holiday episode is also its first great episode.
Author: Randy Dankievitch
Randy is the founder of Processed Media and The Mid-Season Replacements Podcast, and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved TV critic. He's written about TV and culture across the internet since 2010, and also writes a monthly column for UpPortland Magazine.
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