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Roberts plays Susie Moss, a childhood classmate of Chandler Bing’s. The set-up is classic sitcom irony: Chandler, the king of sarcasm, once played a cruel prank on Susie in the fourth grade, humiliating her by pulling up her skirt and revealing her underpants to the entire school. Now, years later, Susie has transformed from a bespectacled, awkward girl into a glamorous movie star (a wink to Roberts’s own real-life stardom). Chandler, unaware of her identity, is immediately smitten. The genius of the episode lies in the tension between Chandler’s present-day desperation to impress a beautiful woman and Susie’s long-simmering, meticulously planned revenge.
The script, written by Adam Chase and Ira Ungerleider, wisely uses Roberts’s star persona as a weapon. When Susie first appears, the studio audience erupts, and the characters on screen are equally starstruck. But Roberts plays against her luminous “America’s Sweetheart” image, infusing Susie with a cool, calculating edge. She accepts Chandler’s clumsy advances, not out of affection, but as a chess move. The climax occurs at a high-end restaurant, where Susie excites the waiter by claiming she’s with a “famous neurotic.” She then manipulates Chandler into taking off his pants and underwear in the men’s room, leaving him trapped at the table, exposed and humiliated—a perfectly symmetrical, and arguably more devastating, revenge for the fourth-grade incident. friends episode with julia roberts
January 28, 1996 (aired immediately after Super Bowl XXX). Roberts plays Susie Moss, a childhood classmate of