Friends' top 30 episodes – from worst to best 10. "The One with the Morning After"

Season three, episode 16

The break-up episode to rule them all. When Rachel finds out that Ross slept with someone else shortly after they decided to take a break from their relationship, she makes it clear there’s no going back. Seeing the two of them split (for valid reasons!) after trying to find each other for so long is a bitter experience, but the point of no return occurs when Rachel realises the other woman was there when she visited Ross’s apartment. Not to sound overly involved in the lives of these two entirely fictional people, but it’s impossible to watch and not feel it all: Rachel’s anger, Ross’s despair as he tries and fails to fix the unfixable, and the sadness of two people who tried, tried and tried again to make it work but couldn’t.

Netflix / Warner Bros Television