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Ross & Chandler: We'll be starting with apples. Stop that now.


Joey bets he and Chandler can name each item in a Rachel's bag. Ross takes a role of a judge and comments in a some showman's manner:

 Ross:
- Challenge accepted.
Joey:
- All right, we'll start with... apples.
Ross:
- We'll be starting with apples.
Chandler:
- Stop that now.

What is this voice? He is clearly moking some famous TV-show persona. Is that a specific one? Or at that time all the games that had this anticipation element would require the kind of voice, Ross was using?

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  1. Katie25 August 2016 at 06:53

    Hey! So here is the clip if you need to hear that voice for yourselves:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2ZwdQjtCs

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  2. zombie-d0g23 September 2016 at 10:22

    I think it was 'all the game shows of that time,' personally. They all had that kinda emphasis and "OOOH THIS IS SO EXCITING" feel. I think it was just an unnecessary affectation for Ross to use, considering the only people around were his ordinary friends. It felt a little awkward, you know? And the only thing Chandler hates more than his own constant awkwardness is when OTHER people are awkward.

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    1. zombie-d0g23 September 2016 at 10:24

      OH and, he'd been repeating everything in the same voice.
      "Challenge… EXTENDED…"
      "Challenge… ACCEPTED…"
      "We'll be starting… with APPLES…"

      Kinda slowing stuff down, right? XD

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    2. Katie1 October 2016 at 21:13

      I like what you said about that there is no need for that unnecessarily 'exciting voice' Ross borrows from the challenge type tv shows. Indeed even if it was for the sake of underlining the similarity of the bag contents guess to those shows, Ross overdid it with '...we'll be starting with APPLES..' either way)

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