The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies

"The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies"
Friends episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 18
Directed by	Michael Lembeck
Teleplay by	Michael Borkow
Story by	Alexa Junge
Production code	457318
Original air date	March 21, 1996
Guest appearance(s)
Tom Selleck as Richard Burke
Episode chronology

"The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies" is the eighteenth episode of season two of the television situation comedy Friends and 42nd overall.

Plot

Joey does an interview with Soap Opera Digest, wherein he claims that he makes up most of his lines on Days of Our Lives. The writers get wind of this, of course, and decide to exact revenge: they kill off Joey's character, Dr. Drake Ramoray, by having him fall to his death down an elevator shaft. Meanwhile, Monica and Rachel both intend to have sex with their respective boyfriends, Richard and Ross, but argue with each other when they find out they have only one condom.

Reception

This episode forms the basis of a study published in Pediatrics on "the impact of condom-efficacy messages in an episode of Friends on teens".^[1] During a discussion about v-chips, Connecticut senator Joseph Lieberman told series co-creator Marta Kauffman that he was appalled by the scene where Monica and Rachel fight over the last condom and turned off his television. Kauffman dismissed Lieberman's comments because he misunderstood the scene; the characters were advocating safe sex by agreeing that whoever did not have the condom could not have sex.^[2]

References

↑ Collins, et al (November 2003). "Entertainment Television as a Healthy Sex Educator: The Impact of Condom-Efficacy Information in an Episode of Friends". Pediatrics 112 (5): pp. 1115-1121.
↑ Wild, David (2004). Friends ...'Til the End. London: Headline. p. 216. ISBN 0-7553-1321-6.

External links

The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies at the Internet Movie Database

Friends

Characters

Episodes

Season 1	"The Pilot" (1.01) "The One with the Sonogram at the End" (1.02) "The One with George Stephanopoulos" (1.04)

Season 2	"The One with the Lesbian Wedding" (2.11) "The One After the Superbowl" (2.12–2.13) "The One with the Prom Video" (2.14) "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies" (2.18)

Season 3	"The One Where No One's Ready" (3.02)

Season 4	"The One with the Embryos" (4.12) "The One with Ross's Wedding" (4.23–4.24)

Season 5	"The One After Ross Says Rachel" (5.01) "The One Hundredth" (5.03) "The One with All the Thanksgivings" (5.08) "The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey" (5.15) "The One Where Rachel Smokes" (5.18) "The One Where Ross Can't Flirt" (5.19) "The One with the Ride-Along" (5.20)

Season 6	"The One After Vegas" (6.01) "The One with the Apothecary Table" (6.11) "The One with the Proposal" (6.24–6.25)

Season 7	"The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" (7.23–7.24)

Season 8	"The One with Rachel's Date" (8.05) "The One with the Rumor" (8.09)

Season 9	–

Season 10	"The Last One" (10.17–10.18)

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