lxxix this question, Joey thinks that it is an invitation for him to do the
threesome with Ross and his wife. He seems quiet shocked and answers the question with a soft rejection. That makes the audiences laugh and
surely, Ross denies it at once. He tells Joey that he does not intend to invite him to do the threesome, the reason he asks him about it is that, he
had just had one the night before. He just wants to know whether Joey understands about the threesome since what he had just had the previous
night was very disappointing. This humor belongs to the mistaken identity since it is portraying an ignorant person or simpleton, who seeing or
hearing something for the first time, mistaking it for something else.
1.7. RELAPSE
The comic relapse is the counterpart of the comic recovery. A person does something cunning or says something clever but discovers that it is really a
blunder.
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[Scene: Silvercup Studios, Joey is showing Rachel around the set.] Joey
: All righty, what do you say we head back to my place? Rachel
: laughs Wow Umm, y’know, I-I would really love to, but I-I shouldn’t.
Joey : Why? In Drake’s voice. Why can’t the world stop
turning, just for a moment? Just for us? Rachel
: awestruck, then not Isn’t that a line from the show? Joey
: Uh, yeah but uh, In Drake’s voice I may have said those things before but, I never truly meant them.
Until now.
Rachel : That’s a line from the show too
Joey : Okay, you watch too much TV.
lxxx Rachel admires Joey very much in his television’s show as Dr.
Drake Remoray. When Joey notices that, he starts to approach her. That makes Rachel very delighted. She never thinks before that her idol star
would like to invite her to his studio. While Joey, who is actually a playboy, uses this chance to have a date with her as Rachel is a beautiful
girl. Here, he tries to imitate the character he plays in the film in order to impress Rachel. Joey does the relapse by saying what Dr. Drake Remoray,
the film character, usually says to attract the women. Yet, as Rachel always watches every show of it, she can remember that Joey’s words are
one of the lines from Dr. Drake’s dialogues. However, Joey does not give up. He still tries to say other sentences to attract Rachel, but Rachel still
can find out that it is one of the lines from the show. Finally Joey gives it up by saying that Rachel watches too much.
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[Scene: The hospital, Ross and Monica are in Phoebe’s room. Phoebe is in the bathroom and Monica notices smoke coming out from underneath the
door.] Monica
: Phoebe, why is smoke coming out of the bathroom? Phoebe
: Oh yeah, the doctor said that could be one of the side effects.
Monica : Phoebe Put that cigarette out
Phoebe : No It’s not a cigarette The smoke is coming out of
me Monica
: Put it out Phoebe is staying in the hospital as she is having a heart attack.
Although she has got a heart attack, she still cannot stand to leave her bad habit, that is smoking. Once, when her friends are not waiting for her, she
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comes and sees that there is a smoke coming out from the bathroom. The relapse happens when Poebe tries to cover her attitude by saying that the
smoke is one of the side effect of the illness. Certainly, Monica does not believe it and realizes that Phoebe must have been smoking. She orders her
to turn off the cigarette and gets out of the bathroom. However, Phoebe still tries to convince her that the smoke is coming out of her body. That
makes Monica annoyed then comes into the bathroom and pulls the cigarette out of Phoebe.
1.8. REPARTEE
