December 1, 2010
108. The One Where Nana Dies Twice [Scene: Chandler Office, Chandler is on a coffee break. Shelley enters.]
Break: break
-Shelley: Hey gorgeous, how it going?
[gorgeous: A beautiful girl / guy from Urban Dictionary]
Hi, handsome, how are you?
-Chandler: Dehydrated Japanese noodles under fluorescent lights … does it get better than this?
dehydrated: dehydrated noodle: noodles fluorescent: fluorescent
< br /> Japanese instant noodles to eat in Yinghuo lamp … I can have better?
-Shelley: Question. You e not dating anybody, are you, because I met somebody who would be perfect for you.
date: date
< br /> have a question. You do not dating, is not it, because I get personal for you perfectly.
-Chandler: Ah, you see, perfect might be a problem. Had you said o-dependent or elf-destructive …
co- dependent: interdependent self-destructive: self-destruction
ah, yes ah, but “perfect” may be a little inappropriate. You can say “interdependent” or “self-destruction.”
-Shelley: Do you want a date Saturday?
Saturday you want to date?
-Chandler: Yes please.
Yes ah please say.
-Shelley: Okay. He cute, he funny, he -
cute: cute
good. He was very handsome, very funny, he –
-Chandler: He a he?
He is a man?
-Shelley: Well yeah! … Oh God. I-just-I thought-Good, Shelley. I just gonna go flush myself down the toilet now … (backs out of the room) Okay, goodbye …
flush: flooded toilet: toilets back out of: Exit
Well right! … Oh my God. I – just – I thought – well, Shelley. I just want to burst into the drains themselves … … good bye … …
[Scene: Monica and Rachel , everyone is there.]
-Chandler: Couldn enjoy a cup of noodles after that. I mean, is that ridiculous? Can you believe she actually thought that?
ridiculous: absurd actually:
from the fact then no mood to eat noodles. I mean, it was not ridiculous? Can you believe she really did want to do?
-Rachel: Um … yeah. Well, I mean, when I first met you, y now, I thought maybe, possibly, you might be …
uh … the, uh, I mean, when I first saw you, you know, I think perhaps, it may, you may be … …
-Chandler: You did? < br />
you originally thought?
-Rachel: Yeah, but then you spent Phoebe entire birthday party talking to my breasts, so then I figured maybe not.
entire: the whole of all of the breast: chest , Breast figure: that
Yes, but then you Phoebe entire birthday party talks are staring at my chest. So I think maybe not.
-Chandler: Huh. Did, uh … any of the rest of you guys think that when you first met me?
grace. Well, uh … you see other people for the first time when I did thought about it?
-Monica: I did.
I thought.
-Phoebe: Yeah, I think so, yeah.
Yes, I think so, yes.
-Joey: Not me.
I did not.
-Ross: Nono, me neither. Although, uh, y now, back in college, Susan Sallidor did.
y now = you know. college: University of
No, no, I did not. Although, uh, you know, in college, Susan Sallidor as thought.
-Chandler: You e kidding! Did you tell her I wasn ?
kid: joke
kidding! You tell her I was not it?
-Ross: No. No, it just ause, uh, I kinda wanted to go out with her too, so I told her, actually, you were seeing Bernie Spellman … who also liked her, so …
go out; out
No, no, just because, uh, I want her out a bit, so I told her that in fact, when are you and Bernie Spellman … … that is another guy like her, so … …
(Joey congratulates Ross, sees Chandler look and abruptly stops.)

congratulate: Congratulations abrupt: a sudden
-Chandler: Well, this is fascinating. So, uh, what is it about me?
fascinating: the charming

Well, this is really strange. So, uh, I in the end what?
-Phoebe: I dunno, ause you e smart, you e funny …
cause = because funny: funny
I do not know, because you are smart, you funny … …
-Chandler: Ross is smart and funny, do you ever think that about him?
smart: smart , the beautiful
Ross smart funny, how do you not think he is?
-All: Yeah! Right!
is! On!
-Chandler: WHAT IS IT?!
what? !
-Monica: Okay, II d now, you-you just-you have a quality.
quality:
good temperament, I – I do not know, you – you just – you have a temperament.
-All: Yes. Absolutely. A quality.
Yes, absolutely, a temperament.
-Chandler: Oh, oh, a quality, good, because I was worried you guys were gonna be vague about this.
worry: worry vague: fuzzy
Oh, oh, temperament, good, because I was worried you guys would do this it is not clear.
-Joey: you know, Chandler, I think it is going to work for you.
work for: the effectiveness of …
Chandler, I think it is useful to your role
-Chandler: Excuse me?
what?
-Joey: sure, sure, women find you less threatening, they let their guards down, they boom, you are like a stealthy hetersexual.
threatening: threat guard: vigilance boom: the development of stealthy: stealing touch of heterosexual: heterosexual < br />
Yes, yes, women have found no threat to you, put your guard, you simply touch a steal to heterosexuals.
(Phone rings; Monica gets it) < br />
-Monica: Hello? Hello? Oh! Rachel, it Paolo calling from Rome.
Hello? Hello? Oh! Rachel, is Paolo calling from Rome.
-Rachel: Oh my God! Calling from Rome! (Takes phone) Bon giorno, caro mio.
Oh my God! Calling from Rome! Bon giorno, caro mio. (Italian)
-Ross: (to Joey) So he calling from Rome. I could do that. Just gotta go to Rome.
He called to Rome. I can just go to Rome.
-Rachel: Monica, your dad just beeped in, but can you make it quick? Talking to Rome. (Showing
off to Phoebe and Chandler) I talking to Rome.
beep: beep show off: to show off
Monica, your dad had just come in, but you can hurry it? And Rome call it. I was and Roman call.
-Monica: Hey dad, what up? (Listens) Oh God. Ross, it Nana.
nana: [child language] grandmother, grandmother
< br /> Hey, Dad, how? Oh, my God. Ross, is a grandmother.
[Scene: The hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Geller are there, along with Aunt Lillian. Ross and Monica enter and everyone says hi and kisses.]
hospital: Hospital
-Monica: How you doing?
you all right?
-Ross: Hey, Dad. So, uh, how she doing?
Hi, Dad. So, uh, how she is?
-Aunt Lillian: The doctor says it a matter of hours.
a matter of: (on …) the question about

The doctor said she did not have much time.
-Monica: How-how are you, Mom?
you – are you, mother?
-Mrs. Geller: Me? I fine, fine. I glad you e here. … What with your hair?
I? I am very, very good. I glad you come here. … You how the hair?
-Monica: What?
what?
-Mrs. Geller: What different?
how?
-Monica: Nothing.
no.
-Mrs. Geller: Oh, maybe that it.
Oh, maybe.
(Monica strides over to Ross, who is making coffee, and talks to him aside.)
stride: walk
-Monica: She is unbelievable, our mother is …
unbelievable:
incredible incredible, our mother … …
-Ross : Okay, relax, relax. We are gonna be here for a while, it looks like, and we still have boyfriends and your career to cover.
career: career
Well, relax, relax. We want to stay here a while, so it probably is, and we will discuss your work and your boyfriend what to pass the time.
-Monica: Oh God!
Oh, my God!
(They hug.)
hug.: hug
[Cut to the hospital, later. Everyone is talking about Nana.]
-Monica: The fuzzy little mints at the bottom of her purse.
fuzzy: fuzzy, slightly hair-covered mint: coins bottom: the bottom of the purse: wallet
the bottom of her bag that moldy old coins.
-Ross: Oh! … Yeah, they were gross. Oh, you know what I loved? Her Sweet Los. How she was always stealing them from-from restaurants.
gross: nausea and steal: steal restaurant: Hotel
Oh! … … Yes, disgusting. Oh, you know what I like it? Her sugar substitute. How she always from – some of them steal from the restaurant.
-Mr. Geller: Not just restaurants, from our house.
not only from the restaurant, but also from our home.
-Nurse: Mrs. Geller?
Mrs. Geller?
(Everyone stands up. Cut to Ross and Monica in Nana room.)
stand up stand up
-Ross: She looks so small .
She looks so small.
-Monica: I know.
I know.
-Ross: Well, at least she with Pop-Pop and Aunt Phyllis now.
Well, at least now she has a Pop-Pop and Aunt Phyllis accompanied a.
-Monica: Aunt Philillis is dead?
Philillis aunt died?
-Ross: Yeah, for about six years
Yes, about six years
-Monica: where?
where?
-Ross: Can we focus, please?
focus: focus, together
We do not stray from the point, right?
-Monica: Goobye, Nana. (She kisses her on the forehead.)
forehead: forehead
Goodbye, Grandma.
-Ross: Bye, Nana.
Goodbye, Grandma.
(He goes to kiss her but she moves. Monica screams. Ross shouts and stares in disbelief. Monica runs out of the room.)
scream: scream disbelief: do not believe
-Monica: Ross!
Ross!
(Ross runs out too.)
-Mrs. Geller: What is going on?!
how is it? !
-Ross: Y now how-how the nurse said that-that Nana had passed? Well, she not, quite ..
pass: died quite: complete; all; very
nurse you know how to say grandmother passed away yet? Well, she had not completely.
-Mrs. Geller: What?
what?
-Ross: She not-past, she present, she back.
present: there, the existing
she did not – death, She still, she came back to life.
-Aunt Lillian: (reentering) What going on?
reenter: re-entering the
how is it?
-Mr. Geller: She may have died.
she may have died.
-Aunt Lillian: She may have died?
she may have died?
-Mr. Geller: We e looking into it.
look into: investigate, observe
We are observing.
(Monica returns with the nurse and they go into Nana room.)
-Ross: I, uh, I l go see. (He goes in)
I, uh, I going to see.
-Nurse: This almost never happens!
This is almost never had to do!
(Nana passes for the second time and the nurse pulls the blanket over her. Ross and Monica go to tell the family)
blanket: blanket
-Ross: Now she passed.
now she died.
[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, and Rachel are there.]
-Chandler: I just have to know, okay. Is it my hair?
I just have to know, okay. Is my hair?
-Rachel: (exasperated) Yes, Chandler, that exactly what it is. It your hair.
exasperated: annoyed
Yes , Chandler, entirely correct. Your hair is.
-Phoebe: Yeah, you have homosexual hair.
homosexual: gay
Yes, you had a gay-style long hair.
(Monica and Ross enter.)
-Rachel: So, um, did she …
So, uh, she … …
-Ross: Twice.
twice.
-Joey: Twice?
twice?
-Phoebe: Oh, that sucks!
suck: nausea
Oh, really bad!
-Joey: You guys okay?
you okay?
-Ross: I dunno, it weird. I mean, I know she gone, but I just don feel, uh …
dunno: (I) do not know
I do not know. Too strange. I mean, I know she died, but I just did not feel, uh … …
-Phoebe: Maybe that cause she not really gone.
Perhaps that because she has not really left.
-Ross: Nono, she gone.
No, no, she is gone.
-Monica: We checked. A lot.
check: check
we checked. A lot of times.
-Phoebe: Hm, I mean maybe no-one ever really goes. Ever since my mom died, every now and then, I get the feeling that she like right here, y now?
now and then: sometimes, from time to time
Well, I mean that perhaps no one has really left. Ever since my mother died, I occasionally feel as if she was here, you know!
(She circles her hand around her right shoulder. Chandler, sitting on her right, draws back nervously)
shoulder: shoulders draw back: withdraw, to recover the circle: a circular motion nervously: nervously
Oh! And Debbie, my best friend from junior high got struck by lightning on a miniature golf course.
strike: (forces of nature, or supernatural forces) destroyed , destroying miniature: small-scale golf course: Golf
there Debbie, my best friend in junior high school, playing mini-golf was struck by lightning.

I always get this really strong Debbie vibe whenever I use one of those little yellow pencils, y now? … I miss her.
miss: miss each
times with a small yellow pencil bird can be a strong sense Debbie, you know? … … I miss her.
-Rachel: Aw. Hey, Pheebs, want this? (Gives her a pencil)
Europe. Hi, Pheeb, to this?
-Phoebe: Thanks!
Thank you!
-Rachel: Sure. I just sharpened her this morning.
sharpen: so … sharp, sharp turns that really
. I am only then she sharpened.
-Joey: Now, see, I don believe any of that. I think once you e dead, you e dead! You e gone! You e worm food! (realises his tactlessness) So Chandler looks gay, huh?
dead: dead worm: worms realise: = realize aware; comprehend tactless: inappropriate gay: gay ex
I do not believe them. I think once dead, is dead! You left! You are the food of insects! So Chandler looks like homosexuality, is it?
-Phoebe: Y now, I dunno who this is, but it not Debbie. (Hands back the pencil)
Well, I do not know who this is, but not Debbie.
[Scene: Nana house, Ross, Mrs. Geller and Aunt Lillian are going through clothes.]
go through: Find
-Monica : Dad, let us make s decision.
Dad, we make a decision right.
-Mr. Geller: You are right, it is crazy, it is going to the ground. we should get the most basic thing.
basic: Basic
You e right, this is crazy, to put it buried in the ground, we what should be the basic things right.
-Monica: The non-protective corrugated fiberboard with white laminate. Dad, we can not bury
Nana a dresser from kea.
Non-protective: non-protective corrugated: corrugated fiberboard: fiberboard laminate: thin bury: buried kea :
carnivorous parrot above the white sheet, unprotected corrugated fiberboard. Dad, we can not wear like a flesh-eating grandmother parrot.
-Mr. Geller: This is why your mother buys all my clothes, I hate to shop, I hate it
This is why your mother to buy me all the clothes I hate shopping, hate it.
-Monica: Dad, isn more about the fact that once you make a decision like acknowledging Nana actually gone?
father, the fact is that once you make a Grandma passed away like that decision.
-Mr. Geller: No, I really hate to shop
No, I really hate shopping
[Scene: Nana house, Ross, Mrs. Geller and Aunt Lillian are going through clothes.]
go through: Find
-Ross: I thought it was gonna be a closed casket.
< br /> casket:
coffin coffin I will cover.
-Mrs. Geller: Well, that doesn mean she can look nice!
Well, this does not mean she can not wear nice point!
(They open a cupboard which, amongst other things, contains a chest of drawers)
cupboard: cupboard chest of drawers: chest of drawers, wardrobe chest: wardrobe
-Mrs. Geller: Sweetie, you think you can get in there?
child, you think you can dig into it?
-Ross: (sarcastic) I don see why not.
sarcastic: Ironically
I do not understand why not.
(He tries pushing against the chest of drawers. Then he opens one of the drawers and climbs into the closet using that; he falls behind the chest of drawers with a shout.)
< br /> push: push the climb: climbing closet: closet
-Ross: Here my retainer!
retainer: braces
This is my braces!
[Scene: Monica and Rachel , Monica is talking to her father.]
-Mr. Geller: I was just thinking. When my time comes-
I was just thinking. To my death, when –
-Monica: Dad!
Dad!
-Mr. Geller: Listen to me! When my time comes, I wanna be buried at sea.
bury: buried
listen to me say! When I die, I want to be buried at sea.
-Monica: You what?
you?
-Mr. Geller: I wanna be buried at sea, it looks like fun.
I want to be buried at sea, it looks very interesting.
-Monica: Define fun.
define:
define the definition of what “interesting.”
-Mr. Geller: C on, you l make a day of it! You l rent a boat, pack a lunch …
make a day of it: (happy to) play it all day; dry the entire day rent: rent pack: pack
do so, you have to take off that day! You should rent a boat, bring lunch … …
-Monica: And then we throw your body in the water … Gee, that does sound fun ..
gee: surprise when the fat sound sound: sounds
and then thrown into the water … you should … damn, this is called fun.
-Mr. Geller: Everyone thinks they know me. Everyone says ack Geller, so predictable Maybe after I gone, they l say uried at sea! Huh! < br />
predictable: predictable
everyone thought they understood me. Everybody says “Jack Geller, behave.” Maybe I dead, they say, “burial at sea! Ah!”
-Monica: That probably what they l say.
Probably: probably, perhaps
they might say.
-Mr. Geller: I like that.
I like that.
[Scene: Chandler Office, Shelley is drinking coffee; Chandler enters.]
-Chandler: Hey, gorgeous.
gorgeous.: very good
Hey, beautiful.
-Shelley: (sheepish) Hey. Look, I sorry about yesterday, I, um-
sheepish: timid Hi
. You see, yesterday, something I sorry, I, uh –
-Chandler: No, nono, don -don worry about it. Believe me, apparently other people have made the same mistake.
apparent: a clear mistake: error
No, no, no, do not – do not mind. Believe me, obviously others will make the same mistake.
-Shelley: Oh! Okay! Phew!
phew: yo; Pooh; cough; Oh (expressed disgust, surprise, anxiety, relief, fatigue, etc.)

Oh! Good! Puff!
-Chandler: So, uh … what do you think it is about me?
So, uh … you think I caused that area?
-Shelley: I dunno, uh … you just have aa …
dunno = do not know
I do not know, uh … you just kind of … …
-Chandler: … Quality, right, great.
quality:
temperament temperament, Yes, great.
-Shelley: Y now, it a shame, because you and Lowell would e made a great couple.
shame: shame, regret for couple: husband and wife < br />
you know, what a shame, because you and Lowell would have been very with a pair of children.
-Chandler: Lowell? Financial Services Lowell, that who you saw me with?
financial: financial service: service to help
Lowell? accounting department Lowell, he is with me you think that?
-Shelley: What? He cute!
how? He is very cute!
-Chandler: Well, yeah … o Brian in Payroll.
payroll.: payroll
Well, the … … not the cashier department of Brian.
-Shelley: Is Brian …?
Brian is not …?
-Chandler: No! Uh, I d now! The point is, if you were gonna set me up with someone, I like to think you set me up with someone like him .
set up: supply, supply
not! Uh, I do not know! The point is that if you match the words to help me, I like you and me together with people like him.
-Shelley: Well, I think Brian a little out of your league.
out of your league: [Spoken] with a different type of person
< br /> Well, I think you deserve a little Brian.
-Chandler: Excuse me? You don think I could get a Brian? Because I could get a Brian. Believe you me. … I really not.
< br /> What? Brian did you think I deserve it? I fit the bill. Believe me … I really do not deserve.
[Scene: Nana Bedroom, Ross is holding a dress out from inside the closet.]
-Ross: (holding a dress out from inside the closet) This one?
this one?
-Aunt Lillian: No.
not.
-Ross: I have shown you everything we have. Unless you want your mother to spend eternity in a lemon yellow pant-suit, go with the burgundy.
eternity: Eternal lemon: Lemon pant: pants burgundy.: purple
I have to read all your clothes. Unless you want your mother always dressed in lemon yellow with purple trousers clothes.
-Aunt Lillian: You know, whatever we pick, she would e told us it the wrong one.
pick: you choose
know, no matter what we choose, she will tell us that is wrong.
-Mrs. Geller: You e right. We l go with the burgundy.
right. We choose purple.
-Ross: Oh! A fine choice. I coming out. (Starts to climb over the furniture)
Oh! Well chosen. I want to come out.
-Aunt Lillian: Wait! We need shoes!
and more! We have shoes!
(Ross falls back inside)
-Ross: Okay. Um, how about these? (Holds out a pair)
good. Well, this how?
-Mrs. Geller: That really a day shoe.
it is definitely only wear shoes during the day.
-Ross: And where she going everyone else l be dressier?
dressier: on the well-dressed people
that she goes Everyone dressed it?
-Aunt Lillian: Could we see something in a slimmer heel?
slim: slender heel: with
can see fine with children shoes?
-Ross: (forages around) Okay, I have nothing in an evening shoe in the burgundy. I can show you something in a burgundy silver that may work.
forage : shuffle burgundy: purple silver: silver
Well, I did not find the purple evening shoes. I can give you a look at the silver shoes, and perhaps appropriate.
-Aunt Lillian: No, it really should be burgundy.
not, must be purple.
-Mrs. Geller: Mm. Unless we go with a different dress?
go with: with clothes
Well, except for the other clothes.
-Ross: No! Nonono, wait. I may have something in the back.
not! No, no, wait. I can look in the back.
(He finds a shoebox (out of shot), pulls it down and opens it. It is full of Sweet Lo .)
shoebox: shoebox < br />
-Ross: Oh my God ..
Oh my God.
-Mrs. Geller: Is everything all right, dear?
okay dear?
-Ross: Yeah, just … just Nana stuff.
stuff.:
thing is just … … just something grandmother .
(He reaches up higher and knocks down another shoebox lid. Sweet Lo rain down on him)
knock down: knocked lid: lid rain down: tilt vent
[Scene: Monica and Rachel , Monica and Rachel are preparing to leave for the funeral.]
prepare: prepare leave for: Go funeral: funeral
-Ross: (entering) How we doing, you guys ready?
how, you ready?
-Monica: Mom already called this morning to remind me not to wear my hair up. Did you know my ears are not my best feature?
remind: to remind wear up : roll up feature: the appearance of the morning
mother had made a telephone call to remind me not to tie the hair. You know my ears not my best part of it?
-Ross: Some days it all I can think about.
There was a time I think so.
-Phoebe: (entering) Hi, sorry I late, I couldn find my bearings.
bearings: a sense of direction
Hi, sorry I late, I can not find a direction.
-Rachel: Oh, you-you mean your earrings?
earring: earrings
Oh, you – you can not find the earrings?
-Phoebe: What I say?
I just say?
-Rachel: (sticking her foot out) Hm-m.
grace.
-Monica: Are these the shoes?
this is that pair of shoes?
-Rachel: Yes. Paolo sent them from Italy.
对. Paolo from Italy sent.
-Ross: What, we-uh-we don have shoes here, or …?
what we – uh – here we do not shoes? Or …?
-Joey: (entering with Chandler) Morning. We ready to go?
Good morning. We are ready to start it?
-Chandler: Well, don we look nice all dressed up? … It stuff like that, isn it?
dress up: dress up
Well, then we are not dressed good-looking? … … Or to dress up, is not it?
(They all leave.)
[Scene: The cemetary, after the funeral.]
cemetary: cemetery
-Monica: It was a really beautiful service.
very solemn ceremony.
-Mrs. Geller: It really was. Oh, come here, sweetheart. (Hugs her) Y now, I think it might be time for you to start using night cream.
c ere = come here.night cream: Cream
it is. Oh, come here, child. Know, I think you should start with a night cream to the time.
(Joey listens to his overcoat for a second and sighs, then notices Chandler watching)
overcoat: coats sigh: sigh
-Joey: What?
what? Because it is about to enter the fast, so people seize the last chance to carnival. In this carnival, many people want to hold the bulk of the procession, with papered bulk (paper mache heads) decoration, this is the happiest carnival one of the programs.