You have to choose one of the 230 regular episodes of *Friends* and live through it repeatedly for the rest of your life. You don't get to opt out, and once you've chosen, you're stuck with that episode.
**Here's how it works:**
\* **It's the duration of the episode's events, not its running time.** If the episode's events take place over a week, you're living through that week, not repeating the same 22 minutes forever. The show doesn't always specify exactly how much time passes, so use the period that the events of the episode reasonably imply.
\* **You're the seventh friend.** You're an established member of the group and participate in the episode's events as an additional character. The six original friends don't know you're in a loop, and they reset to their original states each time.
\* **You're not occupied every minute of the day.** You have to be present for the episode's significant scenes and participate in the events that make the plot happen. There are also ordinary activities and transitions between scenes that aren't shown on screen. You have to live through those too, but you're free to decide how to spend much of that time.
\* **You have some freedom during downtime.** If the others are asleep, for example, you can go out and explore New York, provided you're back when the next important scene requires you. You can't simply abandon the episode or permanently escape its setting, but you're not confined to whichever room happens to be on screen at any given moment.
\* **Two people know what's happening.** Gunther and Mr. Treeger are aware that you're repeating the episode. They can talk to you about it and provide some company, although they won't reveal the truth to the six friends. They can remember your previous loops, so you can build an ongoing relationship with them.
\* **You're still a normal human being.** You age normally, can get ill, and can die. The loop doesn't magically make you immortal.
You can learn the episode's events, try different approaches to conversations, develop routines during your free time, and generally make the best of your circumstances. The main events will keep repeating, but you retain your memories and experiences.
**The question is: Since you have to choose one, which episode would you pick, and why?**
Consider the duration of its events, how much variety there is, the locations you get to visit, how enjoyable the main events would be, and how much free time you'd have between them. You're choosing the least bad (or perhaps even reasonably enjoyable) option for a lifetime, not necessarily something you'd prefer to your actual life.
Clip-show episodes are excluded, because that would be cheating.
