Sitcom · 2000s
Friends
The One with Christmas in Tulsa
Chandler quits his job to get home for Christmas. Who wouldn't?
- American
- Family-safe
- Good for kids
Content note: Mild innuendo; fine for most of the family.
NBC
2002
First shown 12 Dec 2002
- First shown
- 12 December 2002
- Channel
- NBC
- Runtime
- 22 mins
- Genre
- Sitcom
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Poor Chandler. While everyone else is cosy in New York, he is stranded in Tulsa on Christmas Eve for work. Noticing his colleagues look thoroughly miserable, he sends them home, but a woman from the office stays behind and things get awkward when Monica gets suspicious. By the end he has had enough, quits his job and legs it back to Monica and the gang in time for Christmas. The episode is also a clip show, so the others look back on their old festive moments. It has the same snow-globe sentimentality as a good festive Corrie. Cheesy, cosy and exactly what the season is for.
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