1. FRIENDS “The One About the Rugby Game” Beat Sheet C: Ross wants to show his Emily how tough he really is.

2. Premise: Ross takes offence in hearing Emily say that he's not tough enough. So Ross is going to show her how tough he really is by playing rugby. When playing this rough game, Ross looks ridiculous, gets injured, scared, and almost killed. Feeling miserable at the end, Ross stops carrying about what Emily thinks about him. Ross takes offence in hearing Emily say that he's not tough enough. So Ross is going to show her how tough he really is by playing rugby. When playing this rough game, Ross looks ridiculous, gets injured, scared, and almost killed. Feeling miserable at the end, Ross stops carrying about what Emily thinks about him.

3. Conceptualization of a sitcom episode and stages of the writing process 2. Premise 3. Beat sheet 4. Scene description 5. Dialogues, script Down Top 1. Springboard

4. Beat sheet structure Beat 1 Action / eventCharacter’s reaction Beat 2 Action / eventCharacter’s reaction Beat 3 Action / eventCharacter’s reaction Beat 4 Action / eventCharacter’s reaction Beat 5 Action / eventCharacter’s reaction

5. Beat 1 WWhen Ross is invited to play Rugby => hhis new girlfriend Emily doubts that he can play this rough sport.

6. Beat 2 RRoss wants to prove Emily wrong and show her that he can be tough enough to play this game => RRoss looks ridiculous, beaten up, tired, scared and miserable on the field during the game.

7. Beat 3  Ross’ friends beg him to stop =>  But he hangs in there because he doesn’t want to show Emily how miserable he really is.

8. Beat 4  Emily advises Ross how to inflict pain on other players =>  Ross takes her advice to finish the game, all dirty, tired and beaten up.

9. Beat 5 EEmily shows Ross her love and respect for him which proves too painful for him to bear => RRoss proves not even tough enough to deal with Emily’s tenderness.