[S4E5] The One With Joey's New Girlfriend

Chandler starts to fall in love with Joey's new girlfriend, Kathy, after he flirted with her in the coffee house, unaware Joey was dating her as well. Rachel becomes jealous of Ross's relationship and ends up dating a college student, who turns out to be stealing from her. Phoebe's voice becomes stuffy after she catches a cold, which gives her a new voice for singing and finds that she likes her "new" singing voice better.

One of the funniest Friends episodes of all time came in the final season, when Ross had to process the news that his best friend, Joey and his ex-girlfriend, Rachel were seeing each other. Ross claimed that he was fine with the information, but his actions and vocal inflection said otherwise.

He then spent the entirety of the episode trying to prove how okay he was with their relationship, insisting that the new couple come over to his apartment for a double date with his girlfriend, Charlie. Ross got drunk off margaritas rather quickly, and made fajitas, though he burned his hands on them. Ross was the star of the episode, and his comedic timing was unmatched.

A student at Hawkins High School, he was best friends with Tommy Hagan and Carol Perkins and the boyfriend of Nancy Wheeler. When Nancy's best friend, Barbara Holland, disappeared, she became distant and Steve thought she was cheating with Jonathan Byers. Following a few ignorant actions, Steve had a change of heart, told his friends off, and set out to make things right. By coincidence, he ended up heroically saving the day and reconciled with his girlfriend.

In 1986, Steve was still working at Family Video with Robin and he was still finding it difficult to find a new girlfriend. He learned about the murder at the Forest Hills Trailer Park of Chrissy Cunningham from the news on TV in the store. Later, after finding out more information about the victim from Max Mayfield and Dustin, they then trace down Eddie Munson, who was the prime suspect in Chrissy's death. Steve along with Max, Robin and Dustin went to Reefer Rick's house (Eddie's drug dealer) where he learned about the dark wizard of the Upside Down named Vecna. While investigating Vecna with his friends, Steve started to grow closer to Nancy again. After being dragged into the Upside Down and nearly being killed by a swarm of Demobats, Steve was saved by Nancy, Robin, and Eddie before they managed to escape the Upside Down where Nancy discovered Vecna's true identity as Henry Creel and One, the first child test subject of Hawkins National Laboratory. With these discoveries, Steve and his friends formulated a plan to kill Vecna and stop him from opening four gates across Hawkins. However, Steve, Nancy, and Robin were only able to severely injure Vecna and could not prevent him from opening the gates.

Steve Harrington was born on April 29th, 1967 to Mr. and Mrs. Harrington, presumably in Hawkins, Indiana. His father owned an unknown business and the family was relatively wealthy. The Harringtons lived in a large house with a backyard swimming pool. Mr Harrington, however, had a poor relationship with his son. Steve refers to his father as a "grade A asshole". Steve began attending Hawkins High School around 1981, eventually befriending Tommy Hagan and Carol Perkins. His growing popularity landed him many girlfriends, including Laurie, Amy, and Becky. However, Steve has alluded that they were merely superficial.

As Dustin eats some ice cream, he recounts his time at Camp Know Where to Steve, while revealing that he managed to pick up a girlfriend named Suzie who in Dustin's opinion, is "hotter than Phoebe Cates." Though Steve is unsure of Suzie's existence, he tells Dustin how proud he is of him, not wanting to hurt Dustin's feelings. As they converse more, Steve becomes shocked to hear that Dustin's friends ditched him yesterday, but made an amazing discovery: he had intercepted a secret Russian communication through his homemade Cerebro. Steve becomes interested when Dustin proposes that they could be American heroes with Steve getting all the girls and agrees to help Dustin translate the message.

While working at Family Video the next day, Steve listened to Robin describe her brief talk with Vicki last night during the basketball game where she laughed and agreed with Tammy singing like a Muppet. Steve then listened to Robin discuss how she was nervous on how to speak to Vicki as she knew she had a problem in talking too much and being unable to stop talking until someone tells her to stop. After Steve pointed she was doing it right now during their talk, he made her feel better by saying he felt hopeless too in trying to find a new girlfriend. He then heard Robin expressed how she wished she and Steve could just "combine" so their problems would be solved as Robin had trouble with interacting the girl of her dreams while Steve had trouble figuring what type of girl he wanted despite going on lots of dates. When Robin picked out Doctor Zhivago as Family Video's morning movie, Steve disagreed as it was a double VHS until Robin pointed out the movie was about doomed love, something which they were both experiencing. Before they could the movie on the store's TV, Steve and Robin watched a live news coverage of a Hawkins High School student being found dead at Forest Hills Trailer Park this morning.

In 1986, Steve began working at a local movie rental store Family Video, with him finding it difficult to find a suitable girlfriend for himself and started developing romantic feelings towards Nancy again. He also helped Robin deal with her crush, Vickie, and advised her to pursue her as he wanted Robin to be happy. He became jealous of Eddie and Dustin's growing friendship as he felt Eddie was taking over his brotherly role. However, Steve later softened when Eddie told him Dustin was always talking about him and worshipped him. When formulating a plan to kill Vecna, Steve had a heart to heart about his dreams with Nancy, having five or six kids and traveling around in an RV and he later told Nancy the dream included her.

Six months later, in the summer of 1985, Steve and Dustin have grown to be best friends, with Steve being especially giddy upon Dustin's return from Camp Know Where and greeting him at his job at the Starcourt Mall, Scoops Ahoy. Steve's advice for girls had shown to score Dustin a girlfriend from the camp named Suzie Bingham from Salt Lake City, Utah. Explaining that he picked up Russian communication on his homemade radio, Dustin recruited Steve to help him translate it after insinuating that their fame to stop the Russians could score him women. When their attempts to translate fails, Steve's sarcastic co-worker, Robin Buckley, offered her help due to being fluent in multiple languages, eventually discovering Russians delivering packages in the back of the mall with high security. As their attempts to decipher the code continue, Dustin encouraged Steve to ask Robin out, noting that he shouldn't have to worry about his popular status now that he was out of high school. After getting into the room with Erica Sinclair's help, Dustin stayed by Steve's side as Steve opens a box of unknown chemicals, not wanting him to die, which touched Steve. When they are spotted by the Russians, Steve, along with Robin, helped Dustin and Erica escape before Dustin told him that he'd come back for him. Eventually, Dustin came to Steve and Robin's rescue and helped them escape the Russian base while looking out and protecting them as they were drugged with truth serum. After Steve and Robin were cured, Steve revealed to Dustin that he told the Russians his name while being drugged, much to Dustin's shock, as Steve apologized. When Dustin revealed Suzie's existence by contacting her on Cerebro, Steve was shocked as he secretly did not believe that she existed and awkwardly listened to Dustin and Suzie singing Neverending Story together.

In Season 4, Episode 5 ("The One With Joey's New Girlfriend"), we met Kathy (Paget Brewster), Joey's beautiful new girlfriend. Unfortunately, Chandler fell for Kathy immediately, even before knowing she was with his roommate, and one of the biggest "Friends" storylines was born. Despite seeing another girl at the same time, Joey had feelings for Kathy and revealed to Chandler that he wanted to give their relationship a real shot. 781b155fdc