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The Emblematic Kiss

With the premise of "what is the best Ross and Rachel kiss?", encountered on Reddit's community "howyoudoin", by the user bokatan778, I started to think, based on my Friends' experience and interpretation, what is, according to every moment between Ross and Rachel, the most emblematic - along with other possible adjectives - kiss scene between the two (out of six) protagonists from the sitcom premiered on 22 September of 1994.

In a first instant of introspection about what could really be, along the ten seasons of Friends and according to the intimacy, chemistry, and narrative background and construction, the most corresponded romantic lips touching between the two previously protagonists here referred were the first one where both, Ross and Rachel, intended consciously to kiss each other – since the episode five of season one, named "The One with the East German Laundry Detergent", Rachel surprises Ross with a genuine and unexpected kiss (which also represents, for me as a mere viewer, a really sweet and extraordinary moment of their lore).

With a cast highly synchronized with each other and an excellent production team (with a special mention to the writers), there was much more unique scenes that can be fairly chosen and debated as answers to the initial question, but the night were Rachel was finishing her work day and closing the Central Perk, while everyone, besides Ross – that was gone to the Café's bathroom –, was leaving, is indubitably one of my uncountable favourite Friends' moment.

Contextually, the last act of episode 15 of season two (called "The One Where Ross and Rachel... You Know") happens after Rachel finds out on her birthday and thanks to Chandler (last episode of 1st season), while Ross was getting a flight to China for work, that Monica's brother was in love with Rachel. Nonetheless, when Ross discovers that Rachel is beginning to have feelings for him, he has just started a healthy relationship with Julie, a former Ross's colleague from university.

After the "divorced guy" of the group of six finds out, due to a Rachel's drunk voicemail addressed to him, the palaeontologist starts questioning itself and his feelings, putting his most ethical and, maybe, rational decision against his heart, his first and unforgettable crush, or, as I like to call, a real but, at the same time, fictional dream since the 9th grade.

In the night when Mrs. Green and Mr. Geller kiss, they argue with each other about the wrong timing both went when they wanted to express their feelings, complaining about never finding the "right" moment to do it – being that an Italian guy, an ex-fiancé or a Chinese sweet and empathetic woman that everyone, excepts Rachel, loves. Tired of that unfair context of his and hers, Ross finishes the discussion with Rachel leaving, in a first moment, the Central Perk by saying that its ship has already sailed and he was happy with Julie. Right after that, the, at time, waitress of Central Perk shuts the entrance door with frustration, locking it in her most pragmatically way possible. However, what seemed to be the final action of the last act of the 15th episode of Friends' season 2, was, in fact, the previous moment before the emblematic low light and raining night kiss between Rachel Green and Ross Geller occur.

Within the background of the text and its premiss, I think the chosen and described moment between these two protagonists to answer the question in the first paragraph is, besides other possible equivalent significant scenes, a harmonious joint of sensorial and physic ambient, chemistry, romance and history of both protagonists individually and as a potential romcom couple force.

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