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The one to binge on Turkey Day
Los Angeles Times
|November 27, 2025
'Friends' regularly marked Thanksgiving with hilarity. Here are all 10 episodes, ranked.
NBCUniversal CHANDLER (Perry, center) reveals his secret in "The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs."
Thanksgiving really needs a better marketing team. Sure, it gets coverage - all those stories on how to brine/deep fry/spatchcock a turkey, all that advice on how to survive your family (preferably without the spatchcocking) - but where's the cultural fanfare?
The soundtrack, the decorations, the "very special episodes"? Filmmakers are oddly disinterested - name five Thanksgiving-themed films (and "American Gangster" doesn't count). Hallmark Channel celebrates with Christmas movies, and even most long-running television series take a sporadic approach.
JON RAGEL NBC THE CAST of "Friends": Courteney Cox, clockwise from left, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow.Which is yet another reason to love "Friends." From its first season to its last, "Friends" has celebrated Thanksgiving with the high jinks, hilarity and occasional pathos it deserves.
Available to stream and download on HBO Max, each of the 10 episodes clocks in at less than 25 minutes, perfect for an air-travel or Thanksgivingeve chronological binge. But if your time and/or attention is limited, here is a highly subjective ranking:
10. 'The One With the List' (Season 2, Episode 8)
This story is from the November 27, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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