Friends Episode "The One with Phoebe's Rats"
Friends Episode: The One with Phoebe's Rats By: Lucy Waszak The best piece of comedy I have seen recently is this particular clip from the popular comedy T.V show, "Friends". In this episode, Phoebe is raising rats with her boyfriend. She accidentally brings them along to a party and her friend, Rachel, opens the box of them thinking it is a gift, but is surprised to discover a family of rats. This is typical of the character Phoebe and fits with her character's personality very well, especially when she sets bedtimes for the rats and treats them like her own children. She continues to treat it as if she is fostering children, instead of rats, for the entire episode even when she is giving them up. This is what makes the whole situation even more ironic and funny because they are just rats. This could somewhat go along with the incongruity theory of comedy because the idea of raising rats as children and treating it so seriously just does not m...