LogFAQs > #904285383

In the ninth season finale of Friends, the group goes to Barbados to attend a paleontology convention where Ross is the keynote speaker. He has this speech prepared about bringing some prehistoric era into the twenty-first century. But before he can make the speech, things go awry. Chandler asks to use Ross' computer, where his speech is saved, in order to check his e-mail. Then Chandler opens a spam e-mail promising but not delivering sexy images of some celebrity, which in turn wipes the computer's hard drive. This becomes the catalyst for the part of the episode where Charlie helps write Ross' speech from scratch. Now my question is: Why does Chandler suddenly not know how to tell a spam e-mail from a regular e-mail? He used to work in a data processing company, where he works with computers all the time, and it seems like the type of job where he would have his e-mail and would know how to deal with spam all the time. It just doesn't feel logical. I get that the writers wanted a catalyst, but why did they simply not let Joey go on some porn site? Why did they make Chandler OoC for this scene only?