Every Friends Joke

What is Sweet’n’Low? Rachel is telling her run-away-from-the-wedding story, when a waitress brings her coffee. Rachel pauses the story to ask waitress for some artificial sweetener. Rachel: "Sweet N Low?" The joke seems to be quite translatable, if you know that Sweet’N’Low is a sugar substitute. But I kept sensing something extra about it. So I dug into my research and it appeared that the tiny pink baggie hides a whole arc of Rachel's character. Get yourself ready for a story here!

What does having some hormones mean? Ross is very upset that his lesbian wife has left him. Joey comes up with his strip-joints advice. Which is also followed by Joey:  Have some hormones! What is "have some hormones" phrase about? Is it some kind of idiom? Hormones Joey is referring to are called testosterone. In men, testosterone is thought to regulate sex drive (libido), muscle mass and yeah the production of sperm. Joey sees the only way to work through the hurt feelings over a woman is to numb them with more women. In the 90-ies it was a matter of a joke if a sensitive guy like Ross wanted to process his sadness differently. The advice itself  has a strange,  that is a bit hard to translate for my Russian ear. Yet there is a way to understand the joke. So there is a form of wishing things to a person one's talking to. Say you are scared to ask a guy you like out, your friend may tell you: - Have some courage! Say you are mad at kids for pointing and la...