How To Speak Fast English With The TV Show Friends Fast English Training Lesson
When you make a pact, do you keep it? Today we’re
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Friends. It’s December and a New
Year’s Eve pact has been made.
You’re going to break the pact.
She’s going to break the pact.
No. No. No. No. No. No.
Does she?
We’re going to do an in-depth analysis of
this scene from Friends to study the rhythm,
linking, and reductions. All the things that make
American English sound American. You’re going to
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Last week, we studied a clip where
they made a pact for New Year’s.
I say this year, no dates. We make
a pact, just the six of us, dinner.
In today’s scene, that pact starts to
fall apart. First, we’ll watch the scene,
then we’ll do an in-depth analysis.
I just want to be with him all the
time. You know? Day and night, and
night and day, and special occasions.
Wait a minute. Wait, I see where this is
going. You’re going to ask him the New Year’s,
aren’t you? You’re going to break the
pact. She’s going to break the pact.
No. No. No. No. No. No.
Yeah, could I just?
Yeah, ’cause I already asked Janice.
Come on! This was a pact! This was your pact!
I snapped, okay? I couldn’t
handle the pressure and I snapped.
Yep, but Janice, that was like
the worst breakup in history.
I’m not saying it was a good
idea. I’m saying I snapped.
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this January. Now, let’s do that analysis.
I just want to be with him all the time.
What do you think is the most
stressed word in that sentence?
I just want to be with him all the time.
I’m feeling the most stressed word to be ‘all’.
I just want to be with him all the time. Now we
do have some other words that have some stress.
I would say I, she’s stressing herself and this is
her boyfriend she’s talking about. I just want to
be with him, be with him, a little bit of stress
there, all the time, and some stress on time, but
I think all has the most. I just want to be with
him. Let’s look at these words, all of the words
leading up to our peak of stress for the sentence,
all. Let’s just listen to those words together.
I just want to be with him..
I just want to be with him, I just want to be
with him, I just want to be with him. Said pretty
quickly and everything links together, doesn’t it?
Let’s talk about that linking, that’s so natural
in American English. I just want to– just want
to– She drops the T in just, it’s very common
when we have an ending cluster like ST or CT and
the next word begins with a consonant, it’s very
common to drop that T, and that’s what she does
here, the S right into the W. Now she doesn’t say
‘want to’ she says that very common reduction
‘wanna’. Now if you’re wondering what vowels
should I put in there, you have a couple options.
I would say UH as in butter, wuh, wuh, wanna,
would be the best choice for that
first syllable. I just want to– and
then the final syllable should be the
schwa. I just want to, I just want to.
I just want to,
be with him.
Be with him, be with him, be with him. So for
the word with, that’s the unvoiced TH and the
word him, it’s very common to drop the H there.
Be with him. Be with him. But I do hear that she
is saying the H, it’s just unstressed, it’s said
quickly. For this unvoiced TH, you can actually
see her tongue tip does come through, it’s a
little bit grainy but we can see the tongue.
Be with him..
all the time.
All the time, all the time. So the word all,
we have a dark L there. You don’t need to lift
your tongue tip, it’s not: all, all. But all,
uhl, uhl. That sound is made with the tongue
tip down and the back part of the tongue
pressing down and back. All, uhl, uhl.
Then just go into your TH sound for the
word ‘the’. Do not lift your tongue tip. All
the, the, the, the. An unstressed word like this
that begins with the voiced TH, you don’t need to
bring your tongue tip through like you did for the
unvoiced TH. Unvoiced TH have to bring your tongue
tip through, voiced TH, you don’t necessarily
have to. And if it’s an unstressed word like the,
then you can get away with not bringing the tip
all the way through, but just touching the tongue
to the backs of the teeth. The, the, the, the. The
tongue might show through the cracks a little bit,
but you don’t have to make the effort to put the
tongue tip through. That takes a little bit more
time than we want for this unstressed word, so
make sure it’s not dd– with the tongue tip at
the roof of the mouth coming down but: the, the,
the, the, the, the tongue poking straight forward
and coming back. The, the, the, the, all the,
all the, all the, all the, all the, all the time.
All the time.
And the word ‘time’ starts with the true T,
then we have the AI diphthong, and
the M consonant. Time, time, time.
Time.
You know?
You know? You know? You know? You know?
This can be said really quickly and unclearly,
like she does. The word ‘you’ reduces to:
ye, ye, ye, ye. You know? You know? You know?
Pitch goes up, it’s a yes no question, even though
she’s not expecting anyone to answer it. You
know? You know? You know? See how quickly and
sloppily you can make that, it’s not: You know?
Way less mouth movement than that. You know?
You know? Try to simplify your mouth movements.
You know?
Day and night.
Two stressed words with an
unstressed word in between. Day
and night. Stop T at the end, that’s
because it’s the end of the thought group,
the word ‘and’ is not pronounced, and, with a
full AA vowel, N, D sound. How is it pronounced?
Day and night.
And, and, and, and, and very quickly, the D is
dropped. I don’t think the vowel reduces. It’s not nn, nn.
day and– day and night, but it’s day and, and,
and, and, and, day and night, and, and, and.
Day and night,
and night and day.
Now here she does reduce the vowel in the word
‘and’ so she doesn’t say an– but she says nn, nn, nn, nn, nn.
And I would write that schwa N, and
night and day. Now here she does do
again a more clear pronunciation. The
D is dropped but it is the AA vowel,
so there are a couple different
ways you can reduce the word and,
you can reduce it by dropping the D, which
she does here, and here, or you can reduce
it by dropping the D and reducing the vowel,
which is what she does in the middle one.
And night and day,
And night and day, and night and day.
So more reduced the first time,
less reduced the second time in this sentence
fragment. And she does do another stop T here,
she doesn’t link them together with
a flapped T. And night and day.
And night and day…
and special occasions.
Special occasions. And, and, and, and, again said
quickly but without the vowel reduction. That
would be: and, and, but she says: and, and,
and, and, and. So a lot of examples here of
the and reduction, and most of the time you will
hear the vowel reduced but not always of course.
And special occasions.
And special, first syllable stress there.
And special occasions. So the word occasions,
in IPA, that first syllable is a schwa.
She gives it more of an OH pronunciation,
that’s not the pronunciation of the word but this
does sometimes happen with beginning syllables,
when they’re vowels, and they’re unstressed,
sometimes Americans will over pronounce them
a little bit, like in this case occasions,
it’s not occasions, it’s occasions, occasions.
Occasions.
I’ve noticed
this also with the word effect. The first syllable
unstressed is the IH vowel but sometimes
Americans will say effect, switching out
the vowel sound. So the pronunciation, the only
pronunciation listed in the dictionary is IH here
and schwa here, but sometimes native speakers
do switch that out. Anyway, the important thing
to know is that she says occasions but
it’s actually occasions with the schwa.
Occasions..
Special, CI here makes the SH sound. Special. Now
here we have a dark L but it links into a vowel,
so you can lift your tongue tip there to help
link them together. Special occasions. And here
the letter S along with the letter I makes the
zsh– sound like in measure. Special occasions.
Special occasions.
Wait a minute. Wait.
Wait a minute. Wait. Wait a minute. Wait. Both
times they have that up down shape of stress.
Wait a minute. Wait and the
words a in a minute come in here
on the downward shape of
the stress. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
The T in wait is a flap T linking the word
wait into the schwa. Wait a, Wait a, Wait a–
Wait a minute. Stop T because the
next word begins with a consonant.
Wait a minute.
Wait, I–
Wait a minute. Wait, I– Wait, I– He also does
a flap T linking the T into the AI diphthong.
And just like he did in last week’s video he’s
running his sentences together with no breaks.
Wait, I–
Wait, I– Wait, I– So both of
those words have that stress feeling with
that up down shape. Wait, I– Wait, I–
Wait, I–
see where this is going.
And again, we have some of the up down
shape on ‘see’. Wait, I see where this is
going. And then some up down shape on the stress
syllable of going. I see, I see where this is,
where this is, where this is, where this, is where
this is. These three words, a little bit flatter
and they really link together, don’t they? Where
this is, where this is, where this is, where this
is. The word this begins with that voiced TH,
this, but because it’s in an unstressed word,
we’re not going to bring the tongue tip through,
we’re not going to make that much of that sound.
It can just quickly touch the backs of the teeth
where this, where this, where this, where this,
where this, where this, where this, where this,
where this is, where this is, where this is going.
Simplifying that mouth movement
will let us say it more quickly.
Where this, the R sound right into the TH, the S
sound of this linking right into the vowel, IH of
is. This is, this is, this is, this is, this is.
Where this is–
I see where this is going. You’re going to–
Again, no break between sentences,
he just keeps right on going, linking words
together, energy of the voice going forward.
I see where this is going. You’re going to–
ask him to New Years, aren’t you?
You’re going to ask him to New
Years, You’re going to ask him–
A little bit on ‘you’re’.
You’re going to ask them to New
Year’s, compound word, the most stress will
happen on the first word, new, New Year’s.
You’re going to ask him to New Years–
And actually, this should have an apostrophe
here. It’s short for New Year’s eve,
the night before New Year’s day. So you are
going to ask him to New Year’s, becomes:
You’re going to ask him to New Years,
You are becomes you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re,
you’re, just the Y sound and then the R sound:
you’re, you’re, you’re going to, going to,
going to, of course becomes gonna, such a common
reduction. You’re going to ask him– and that
schwa links right into the a vowel very smoothly.
Gonna ask him– Now what’s
happening here with ask and him?
Ask him–
Ask him– ask him– ask him– ask him–
The H is dropped, the K links lightly into the
him reduction. You can think of that
as being an IH vowel M or schwa M,
doesn’t matter. It’s said very quickly. Ask him–
ask him– ask him to– ask him to– ask him to–
What happens to the word to?
Ask him to–
It also gets a reduction. That T becomes
a flap T. Ask him to– rarararrarara–
And the vowel of OO reduces to the
schwa. Ask him to– ask him to–
Ask him to–
New Years, aren’t you?
Aren’t you. How does he pronounce that?
Aren’t you?
Aren’t you? Aren’t you? Aren’t you?
What? He’s getting is CH? Yes. That
happens with the NT contraction,
or really any word that ends in T when the
next word is you or your, that can become a CH.
Aren’t you?
Aren’t, aren’t, we can write that with the
AH as in father vowel like in car, the AW,
R combination. Car, rrrrr– aren’t you? Then the
CH sound, ch–, and the schwa. Aren’t you? Aren’t
you? Aren’t you? Stress on the first syllable
there, on the first vowel R, are– aren’t you?
Aren’t you?
And You know The Z sound of New Year’s? You
can link that into the vowel. New Year’s,
aren’t you? New Year’s, aren’t you? New
Year’s, aren’t you? To help smooth that out.
New Year’s, aren’t you?
You’re going to break the pact.
She’s going to break the pact.
Again, two syllables, no break whatsoever,
this is part of Chandler’s character.
No breaks, no stopping when speaking.
Let’s look at the first sentence.
You’re going to break the pact.
You’re going to, you’re going to, so the vowel
reduces, but it still has a stressed feel. You’re,
you’re, when I write that reduction, I write
it with schwa R, but when it’s stressed,
it has a feel like the UR as in
bird vowel R. You’re, you’re,
you’re going to break the pact. Three stressed
words there, going to of course becomes gonna.
Listen to that audio three times,
think about how smooth that is.
You’re going to break the pact.
And the word ‘the’ remember that voiced TH on
an unstressed word. You don’t need to try to
bring your tongue tip through, but try to
keep it away from the roof of the mouth,
we don’t want it to go up and release,
that will sound like a D, dd–
try to make it: the, the, the, the, the,
lightly touching the backs of the teeth,
and the teeth can be slightly parted.
The, the, the, the, break the pact.
Break the pact.
Break the, break the. Notice it’s not
break the. That K is not released,
it’s a stop consonant so he puts
his tongue into position for the K,
back of the tongue against the soft palate, break
the. But then rather than releasing the air,
he releases right into the next sound. Break
the, break the, break the, break the pact.
Now pact. We have an ending cluster.
He does not put a break, so it links into the next
word, that is a consonant, that T gets dropped.
Break the pact.
Pact she– pact she– pact she–
So he completely drops the T.
Break the pact. She–
She’s gonna break the pact.
She’s going to break the pact. She’s going to
break– again, a stop K not released. Break the
pact. Now let’s see here, it’s
the end of a thought group,
he’s not linking in. Does he make a T sound there?
She’s going to break the pact.
I don’t hear it. Pact is all I hear. Break
the pact. I don’t even really hear a release.
So that’s a little unusual, it should
be pact, most commonly I would say,
when it’s at the end of a thought group. But he’s
just dropped the T, and so he drops it here too.
And of course again ‘going to’ much more natural
in spoken English to say ‘gonna’ I wouldn’t ever
recommend writing the word gonna, even if it’s in
something casual like a text. Definitely people
do it but I would say when you’re writing, just
write ‘going to’ because there are definitely
cases where writing ‘gonna’ like in a more
formal situation would be really frowned upon.
For example, in a cover letter for a job,
you would never want to write gonna. But in
the job interview, it would be perfectly fine
to say ‘gonna’ as part of your spoken answer.
She’s going to break the pact.
No. No. No. No. No. No.
Okay so then she says no many
times in a row. N consonant,
OH diphthong linking into N consonant,
OH diphthong. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No
Yeah, could I just?
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Quick up down shape. Yeah.
Yeah,
could I just?
Could I just? Could I just?
Stress there, I would say on I,
remember the L there is silent.
Could, could, could, could, could
I– D links into the AI diphthong,
make everything smoothly connected. Could
I just– what happens to the T here?
Could I, just?
Absolutely dropped, no T at all. So You know That
we drop the T in an ending cluster like CT or ST
when the next word begins with the consonant,
but we’ve just here now seen two examples of
native speakers dropping the T there even at
the end of a thought group. So it does happen.
Could I, just?
Yeah, because I already asked Janice.
Yeah. Yeah. Holds that out a little
bit. Yeah, ’cause I already asked
Janice. And then two up down shapes of stress
there. Because I– that gets reduced, doesn’t it?
Yeah, ’cause I already asked Janice.
’Cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I.
K schwa Z. The Z linking into the AI diphthong.
Cause I, cause I , cause I , cause I.
Keep it flat, keep it simple. Cause
I, cause I, cause I, cause I already–
’Cause I already,
Already, already. So it’s pretty common to drop
the L in already. I do it too. Already, already,
I would say he’s doing the AH as in father
sound right into the R. Already. Already.
’Cause I already, ’
The word ‘already’ has second syllable stress but
he gave it first syllable stress here. I already–
and i’ve noticed I do that too sometimes.
It’s not listed in the dictionary as one
of the pronunciations but it definitely happens
sometimes when we’re really stressing that word
that we change the stress to the first syllable.
Cause I already asked Janice. Cause I already.
Cause I already asked Janice.
The ending E vowel links right
into the AA vowel of asked.
Now let’s look at this word asked, we
have a bunch of consonants in a row:
S, K, T, the ED ending here makes T, and
then we have the jj- J sound of Janice.
Now we know that we drop the T sometimes between
other consonants. Let’s see what’s happening here.
I already asked Janice.
I already asked Janice. I already asked Janice.
I’m hearing both the T and the K as dropped.
So basically, it’s the AA vowel S
consonant linking right into the J
consonant. I already asked Janice.
I already asked Janice.
Janice, the name, we have the AA as in bat
vowel followed by N, and when that happens
it’s not pure, it’s not an, aa– an, but it’s
Jauh– aauh– So you can think of that being
the UH as in butter vowel, or the schwa in
between as the tongue relaxes. Jan– Janice,
Janice. Unstressed syllable, IH as
in sit, and the S consonant. Janice.
Janice.
Come on! This was a pact!
Come on! Come on! Phrasal verb.
The peak of stress there is on
on. Come on! And the M
links right into that vowel.
Come on!
The vowel in ‘on’ can be written with either AW
as in law, or AH as in father. Come on! Come on!
Come on!
I would say he is doing the AH as in father
vow– the AW as in Law vowel. Come on! Come on!
Come on!
This was a pact!
This was a pact! Stress on this, this was a– and
I would say it’s a scoop up and down. This was a
pact! Going up to that up down shape of stress
on pact. Now he really clearly pronounces the CT
cluster, he puts a little bit of extra energy in
his P, he does a hand gesture on the word pact,
he’s really stressing that word. This was a,
was, and a, said quickly. The Z links into the
schwa. Was a, was a, was a, was a. This was
a, this was a, this was a. This was a pact!
This was a pact!
This was your pact!
I snapped.
This was your pact! This was, was, was
reduction. This was your pact! And then
his ending consonants get lost because Chandler
starts talking. Let’s talk about the word your.
This was your pact.
Your pact! So he doesn’t reduce it, he doesn’t
say: Your pact! He says: Your– AW as in law
vowel plus R. The R changes this vowel a little
bit, it’s not pure, it’s not law, yaw– yar–
but it’s yo, oh, or– lips round more. Tongue
shifts back a little bit more. This was your pact!
This was your pact.
I snapped, okay?
I snapped, okay? I snapped, okay? Pitch going up,
he’s going to say a little bit more. Snapped. The
ED ending here is a T sound, so we have an ending
PT cluster. The next word begins with a vowel,
so we do hear that T lightly released into the OH
diphthong. Snapped oh– d oh– d oh– d oh– okay?
I snapped, okay?
Really, really light T sound. I’m
wondering if you can even hear it. I
hear it super subtly. It doesn’t sound
dropped to me. But it’s very subtle.
I snapped, okay?
Snapped. It has a couple of
different meanings, idiomatically.
Um it can mean to go crazy like: she snapped and
started yelling at everybody. But in this case,
it’s more like to snap under pressure, to try not
to do something, but oh my gosh there’s too much
pressure so you do do it. So he was feeling all of
the pressure of the New Year’s eve holiday. Even
though he had these dinner plans with his friends,
in his head, it just got built up into this
thing where you should have a date, and it built
up, and it built up, and it weighed on him, and he
didn’t want to do it, but he snapped, and he did
do it, he did invite a date to New Year’s eve.
I snapped, okay?
I couldn’t handle the pressure and I snapped.
Snapped, okay? I couldn’t–
Again the two sentences
linking right together. Okay links
right into I, okay, I couldn’t,
and then he has up down shape of stress
on couldn’t. Couldn’t handle the pressure.
I couldn’t handle the pressure–
and I snapped.
Couldn’t handle the pressure and I snapped.
And I snapped. More up down shape of stress.
And here we do clearly hear that PT cluster
being released at the end of the thought group.
I couldn’t handle the pressure and I snapped.
I couldn’t handle– couldn’t han– so the N
apostrophe T there, there are a couple different
pronunciations. I think he’s dropping the T.
Couldn’t– the D and the N, he doesn’t bring the
D down, he doesn’t bring the tongue down for the
D, he puts it up for the D and then makes the N.
Couldn’t han-
And then that releases right into
the hh consonant. Couldn’t han,
han, han, that’s just like Jan–
Janice. AH vowel plus N, not pure.
UH as in butter kind of sound as the
tongue relaxes in the back. Aauh– handle–
I couldn’t handle–
the pressure.
Handle the, dle the, dle the, dle the, the two
unstressed syllables simply, quickly, that’s
a dark L. You don’t need to lift your tongue
tip for that. That would take too much time.
Handle, uhl. Just make that dark sound. It’s like
a vowel. Handle the, the, the. Then the tongue tip
through the teeth for that, not through the teeth,
sorry, touching the backs of the teeth for that
voiced unstressed TH. You don’t need to
bring the tongue tip all the way through.
Handle the pressure. Double S there
makes the SH sound. Pressure and I–
Handle the pressure and I–
Pressure and I– Now here we do have the
and reduction where the vowel changes.
Pressure and– The R links right into the schwa,
the N consonant links right into the
AI diphthong, pressure and I snapped.
Pressure and I snapped.
Yeah–
Yeah– Yeah– Yeah– Yeah– Yeah–
Quick up down shape, drop abruptly
cut off, isn’t it? It’s not yeah, but:
yep yep yep. She stops the air in her throat.
Yeah–
but Janice–
But Janice– but Janice– Her pitch is
high. She’s very surprised. But Janice,
three syllable, mini phrase there, stop T in But:
but Janice. And then the peak of stress on
the stress syllable of her name: but Janice.
But Janice–
That, that was like the worst breakup in history.
That, that, that, that, that both of those
words that with a stop T. That, that, that,
that, that was, was, not was, was, was,
was, was like the worst breakup in history.
Let’s look at the word worst. We have an ending
cluster here. Next word begins with a consonant.
What do you think she does naturally
to link those words together?
That, that was like the worst breakup in history.
I was expecting it to be dropped, but it wasn’t. I
do hear a true T release. She surprises me there.
Okay, so she’s really stressing the word worst.
So maybe that’s why they both got pronounced:
worst breakup, worst breakup. It would
be very natural to drop it. Worst breakup,
wors breakup. But I am hearing the
T. Worst breakup. Worst breakup.
Worst breakup.
Worst, W consonant and then the UR as in
bird, vowel R combination. Worst, worst.
Worst–
The worst
breakup in, breakup in, breakup in, breakup in.
Link those words together P into
EE vowel. P in, p in, p in, break
up in, break up in, break up in history.
Now the word ‘history’ can
have two pronunciations.
She gives it the three syllable pronunciation.
History. She’s really stressing that word.
Worst breakup in history. I mean that’s an
exaggeration, of course. So she’s bringing
a little bit more stress to those words. She
is exaggerating what she’s saying. You might
also hear sometimes history as two syllables. But
here, she does history. History. Three syllables.
Worst breakup in history.
I’m not saying it was a good
idea. I’m saying I snapped.
I’m not saying it was a good idea. Stress
on i’m. I’m not saying it was a good idea.
Stress on good, an idea going up,
he’s going to finish his thought.
I’m not saying it was a good idea.
I’m not saying it was a good idea.
I’m saying I snapped.
Good idea. I’m saying I snapped. And then
all of those go up to our peak of stress
on the word snapped. And again, PT
cluster released and we hear the T.
I’m saying I snapped.
I’m not, not, not, that’s going to be a stop
T because the next begins with a consonant.
And the M links right into the N, no break, I’m
not saying it was a– linking together smoothly.
NG constant into IH. Stop T, just a quick lift,
saying it was, it was, it was, the word was,
is not pronounced was, it’s pronounced was,
faster than that, and the Z links into the schwa.
So much linking and smoothness. I’m not
saying it was a, I’m not saying it was a.
I’m not saying it was a–
good idea. I’m saying I snapped.
Good idea. I’m saying I snapped.
And then a hand gesture on that last
and stressed word. But everything
links together really smoothly.
Good idea. I’m saying I snapped.
Let’s listen to this whole
conversation one more time.
I just want to be with him all
the time. You know? Day and night, and
night and day, and special occasions.
Wait a minute. Wait, I see where this is
going. You’re going to ask him the New Year’s,
aren’t you? You’re going to break the
pact. She’s going to break the pact.
No. No. No. No. No. No.
Yeah, could I just?
Yeah, ’cause I already asked Janice.
Come on! This was a pact! This was your pact!
I snapped, okay? I couldn’t
handle the pressure and I snapped.
Yeah, but Janice, that was like
the worst breakup in history.
I’m not saying it was a good
idea. I’m saying I snapped.
Phoebe and Chandler have broken the
pact. Next week, we’ll study this clip.
Tell me something. What does the
phrase ‘no date pact’ mean to you?
Look, I’m sorry, okay? It’s just that
Chandler, has somebody, and Phoebe has
somebody, I thought I’d asked fun Bobby!
Fun Bobby? Your ex-boyfriend, fun Bobby?
Yeah!
Okay, so on our no date evening,
three of you now are gonna have dates.
Uh, four.
Four?
Five.
Five.
Sorry! Paolo’s catching an earlier flight.
Okay, so I’m gonna be the only one
standing there alone when the ball drops?
Oh, come on! We’ll have, we’ll have a big
party and no one will know who’s with whom.
Who’s with whom. It looks like Ross is the
only one without a date, so they decide to
throw a big party instead and it even ends with
a countdown. We’ll study this scene in two weeks.
In 20 seconds, it’ll be midnight.
And the moment of joy is upon us.
Looks like that no date pact thing worked out?
Happy New Year!
You know? I just thought I’d throw this out here,
I’m no math whiz but I do believe there
are three girls and three guys right here.
Oh, I don’t feel like kissing anyone tonight.
I can’t kiss anyone.
So I’m kissing everyone?
No. No. No. You can’t kiss Ross,
that’s your brother.
Oh yeah.
Well perfect, perfect. So now
everybody’s gonna kiss but me?
All right, somebody kiss me. Somebody kiss me!
It’s midnight! Somebody kiss me! It’s midnight!
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