Ross's Extremely Possible Story

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpgmGiW8pE

   In this scene, Ross and Rachel, who are married, are locked out of their apartment which their daughter Emma is in. Emma is sleeping in her crib and Rachel is scared that something might happen to her even though the chances are quite low. Ross mentions that his mother is going to be there in a minute and she has the keys, but Rachel says that she cannot wait that "long". Ross says that everything is going to be fine, because in a minute she is still probably going to be sleeping. Rachel, as a normal mother, starts to think about impractical possibilities and says that Emma could jump out of her crib. Ross responds in a sarcastic tone by saying "Can not hold her head up, but yeah jumped". Then, Rachel starts to panic and says she left the faucet on or wonders if she left the stove on. Ross mentions that the last time she cooked was 1996. When Rachel mentions that a bird could fly in through the window she left open, Ross becomes extremely sarcastic and begins his exaggerated story first by telling her a pigeon just flew into the apartment, then says it was an eagle who went on the stove and caught fire. Ross is being completely sarcastic and using his story as a way to make Rachel realize how absurd she sounds. Ross continues his story by saying that the baby jumps out of her crib and goes all the way across of the apartment to the eagle and makes the eagle angry. Ross continues by mentioning that while all of this is occurring, the faucet is overflowing, but the eagle and the baby continue to fight while swirling in a whirlpool.
    Ross was being completely sarcastic during his story to calm Rachel down and tell her that in a minute it would be impossible for their baby to be in any danger. Ross uses a great deal of exaggeration when he says that their baby jumped out of their crib and began to fight with the eagle who was "caught on fire". The use of satire by Ross was effective because Rachel realized that she also was exaggerating and everything she listed seemed not likely to occur.