s1e1p4 - in: the apartment
rachel's relationships: being the new girl in town, the show moves to a snowglobe to showcase what is going to be her new life. ross: continues to be an asshole, tears rachel down while she is actively having a very intense and emotional conversation with her father. as he will continue to, ross treats rachel as if she is a stupid little girl. pheobe: 'i helped!', the deep trust that develops between these two starts here, where rachel sees phoebe's good intent and handles it as kindly as she's capable of joey: he wants to fuck her, she isn't uninterested in joey as much as she's put off by his approach. chandler: the only interaction we get from them is chandler being 'very excited' /s about putting together ross' furniture. he jokes to rachel like nothing is wrong, rachel responds by ignoring him perfect monica: service oriented best friend, rachel relies without question on monica's willingness to maintain their relationship and pick off where they left is ie; their emotional closeness. [which probably speaks to the fact rachel has had no other real friends, sad ]. monica is happy to be the Martyr, the Hostess, even if she plays it as bitter resignation to the gang. and so, their relationship picks up where it left off, including rachel showing that she is less selfish than we may expect, urging her to leave rachel alone in her state to go out with the infamous and unremarkable Wine Guy












