First off, FRIENDS is one of my all time favorite shows and re-finding this episode and seeing it riddled with fallacies is just great. Quick synopsis of the episode, Joey breaks his fridge and is trying to pass blame to others so that they will pay for a replacement fridge. Throughout this episode he uses various fallacies to place blame. The first of which occurs with Rachel between 0:40 and 0:45 he states that he has had the fridge for a very long time with no troubles and then Rachel shows up and it is broken. This is the false cause fallacy in which Joey is presuming that their is a relationship between Rachel moving in and the fridge breaking, well, a perceived relationship. He just doesn't want to pay for it. This continues throughout the episode. Joey then makes a false analogy when Chandler comes in the apartment. He makes the analogy that if they were a divorced couple (since Chandler is moved out he makes the comparison that they are now like divorced parents) and one had custody and the kid died (hopefully just hurt) that the other would have to help pay, so why isn't this the same for replacing the fridge. Basically Joey tries every edge to get that 400 dollars until Phoebe says yes but only if Joey pays her for the 600 dollars worth of good vibes she sent him during his auditions. He then gave up. As you can see, fallacies are very bad at convincing others to help you or do something because a lot of the time they are just ridiculous.
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