It's not even baseball season but we're in a weather delay, so long-time followers know what that means! Time for some tweets about a hare-brained sitcom theory I have!
Today's theory: Let's discuss how long Rachel was actually pregnant for in season 8 of Friends.
Ok. So TOW Monica and Chandler's Wedding aired May 17, 2001. Rachel already knew she was pregnant then. And TOW Rachel Has A Baby aired May 16, 2002. That's about a 378-day pregnancy, assuming conception two weeks before the test. About 98 days too long. Let's make this add up.
BUT! We know from TOW The Embryos in season 4 Phoebe took a pregnancy test the same day she was implanted as a surrogate and get the positive results.
So let's assume Friends exists in a parallel universe where the only difference is speed of pregnancy tests. Fair enough.
Still, we know Emma was born 8 days late. So that's gotta be factored in too. So the two weeks we get back from the parallel universe theory is cut down to six.
Seems like we have to make up 92 days the old-fashioned way.
The last episode in season 8 anchored to a holiday is TOW The Birthing Video. It's on Valentine's Day, which is approx. two weeks before what Emma's birthday would be if she was 8 days late and conceived the week of Monica and Chandler's wedding. The following episodes:
If we assume my timeline is right, Rachel was pregnant with Emma for 291 days. An average pregnancy is 280 days long. So it works!
The problem isn't that she was pregnant too long. It's that the show fit two weeks worth of in-show timeline into three weeks of real-world time.
Anyway, we might play football tonight and I hope you have enjoyed a thing I spent entirely too much time thinking about for like a week in 2018 when I'd just moved to Oxford and didn't have any real friends yet so I invested all of my time into theorizing about my sitcom ones
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