which episode?

[ugotslimed]

I saw this episode on youtube a while back and all I can remember is that for some reason Jill is bringing Ross coffee -Ross is grateful that she does this-and then either the camera breaks or the ceiling starts to fall down or something-I don't know if I'm mixing two episodes together in my mind -but does anyone know if this episode exists? And why is Jill bringing Ross coffee? it has to be a latter episode if she's in it -maybe its an 89 episode?

[TheLockerMonster]

It was the Malfunctions episode. Jill bringing Ross coffee was meant to distract him from what was going on. Stephanie was on set doing a skin match for the cameras, one of which Ted had broken earlier in the episode. When Ross turned his head to receive the coffee from Jill, Stephanie got up and was replaced by Ted, who then proceeded to break all three cameras by making ugly faces.

[MarcD]

Yeah I always thought Jill bringing Ross coffee in that scene was a nice touch. I know it caused the distraction that let Ted get his mug on camera, but it's something that would never have been shown in 1985 - the kids wouldn't willingly bring Ross anything - but by 89-90 the relationship between the kids and Ross had changed a bit. He wasn't so much the overbearing bully anymore.

I'm not sure if this was conscious decision by the writers, or just sort of a natural evolution of the cast...but there are several examples in the later shows of more of a comraderie between Ross and the kids. Whereas in the early seasons it's pretty adversarial.