Friends - The Complete Ninth Season (DVD)

One more season to go and Warner Bros. is going to have to start searching for more ways to sell "Friends" on DVD as Season 9 hits shelves leaving only the tenth and final season of friends yet to be released.

Season 9 finds our six favorite friends getting closer and closer to their final destinations as Chandler and Monica are desperately trying to have a baby, Ross and Rachel are up and down in their relationship, Joey is still eating two pizzas a day and Phoebe is finally getting her love life straight as Mike enters her life.

This season also saw its shares of celebrity guests as Selma Blair shows up for an episode as the sex-starved hussy out for Chandler's affection in Tulsa, Freddie Prinze Jr. is the male nanny, Hank Azaria makes a short appearance a couple of times as Phoebe's long lost love David, Jon Lovitz is classic in "The One with the Blind Dates" where he is chosen by Phoebe to be Rachel's blind date and even Jeff Goldblum shows up as the master actor to which Joey is longing for his approval.

The ninth season set also offers up the longest featurette that I can remember from the last three season releases with about a 20-minute look at the costumes of "Friends" from season one on through. On top of that is a little DVD quiz game to figure out who is your "Best Friend" and of course the Gag Reel, the unnecessary producer commentaries and a really bad music video by the Flaming Lips titled "Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots."

Rating this season of "Friends" on a comparative level to its prior this is certainly where the show really started to string things out in order to squeeze one more season in. Nothing of interest really happens and the love triangle of Rachel, Joey and Ross never even got anywhere even though it looked as if it was going to be tackled head-on from the beginning.

While season nine offers up plenty of laughs and enough humor to make it watchable there were certainly far better seasons, but if you have gone this far in your "Friends" collection who is going to stop you from adding one more to the pile?