On “Friends,” 14-year-old Monica got a pencil stuck in her ear.
The fact is revealed during the lightning round of the apartment trivia contest in “The One with the Embryos,” the twelfth episode of Season 4. Ross asks Joey and Chandler where Monica got the pencil stuck, and Chandler whispers an incorrect, embarrassing guess to Ross. Monica then confirms the real answer: her ear.
The scene is part of the contest that pits Monica and Rachel against Joey and Chandler. The questions test oddly specific details about the friends, including Monica’s towel categories, Joey’s imaginary childhood friend, and Chandler’s age when he first touched a girl’s breast. The guys answer most of their questions correctly, but Monica’s pencil story is one of the memorable misses.
A common mix-up is confusing the answer with the question about Chandler, for which Rachel guesses 14; Ross corrects that answer to 19. Monica’s age—14—belongs specifically to the pencil incident, while the location is her ear.