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Season 1
S1 · E1 The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Rachel walks out on her wedding and moves in with Monica, Ross copes with his wife leaving him for another woman, and Monica sleeps with a date who lied to her.
- Ross arrives at the coffee house wrecked because his wife Carol has just moved her things out, having left him for a woman.
- Rachel turns up in a wedding dress, explains that she bolted before marrying Barry, and admits Monica is the only person she knows in the city.
- Rachel telephones her father, refuses to go through with the marriage, announces she will live with Monica, and tells him she does not need his money.
- Joey pushes Ross to start dating again, arguing that his marriage ended young and the world is full of other women.
- Over dinner Paul tells Monica he has been unable to have sex for two years since his ex left, and Monica agrees to a fifth date.
- Paul walks out of Monica's bedroom the next morning, making it plain to everyone that the evening was a real date.
- Monica's colleague Frannie reveals that Paul told her the same two-year story, and Monica realises the confession was a line.
- Rachel is turned down by twelve employers in one day and buys expensive boots on a credit card her father pays.
- The others talk Rachel into cutting up her credit cards, and she starts cutting while they cheer her on.
- Ross tells Rachel he had a crush on her in high school and asks whether he could take her out, and Rachel says maybe.
S1 · E2 The One With the Sonogram at the End
Ross learns his ex-wife Carol is pregnant with his child, Rachel gives Barry back his engagement ring, and Monica's parents visit and criticise her while praising Ross.
- At the museum, Carol finds Ross at work and tells him she is pregnant.
- Rachel discovers her engagement ring is missing and works out that she dropped it into the lasagne Monica made for her parents.
- Ross tells the group about the baby, and explains that Carol and Susan have left it up to him whether he joins them at the sonogram.
- Over dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Geller praise Ross's career and pick at Monica's, dismissing her ambitions as something she is better off without.
- Ross finally tells his parents that Carol is a lesbian, is pregnant, and plans to raise the baby with Susan, and Mrs. Geller immediately turns on Monica for keeping it from them.
- Ross helps Rachel clean up and asks about her meeting with Barry, then quietly leaves his hand where she has leaned back on it.
- At the clinic, Ross asks Carol how decisions will be made and objects to the name she and Susan have already settled on.
- Barry tells Rachel he took their honeymoon in Aruba with her maid of honour Mindy and is happier now, and Rachel hands back the ring.
- The argument over whose surnames go on the baby pushes Ross to say he cannot be part of it, until the sonogram image appears and stops all three of them.
S1 · E3 The One With the Thumb
Monica finally introduces her boyfriend Alan to her friends, who adore him, and then dumps him because she feels nothing; Chandler starts smoking again, and Phoebe gives away a bank's mistaken thousand dollars and finds a thumb in her soda.
- While coaching Joey through an audition scene, Chandler takes the cigarette himself and is back on them after three clean years.
- Phoebe discovers an extra five hundred dollars in her bank account and decides she cannot keep money she did not earn.
- The others catch Chandler smoking in the coffee house, and he tells them that this time he simply will not quit.
- Monica admits she is seeing a man named Alan and refuses to let any of her friends meet him.
- Monica relents and brings Alan upstairs, and instead of tearing him apart the group turns out to love him completely.
- Phoebe hands the whole thousand dollars and the free football phone to Lizzie, a homeless woman she knows, and accepts only a soda in return.
- Phoebe opens the soda Lizzie bought her and finds a severed thumb floating inside.
- Monica tells Paula that her friends feel something for Alan she does not, and decides to break up with him.
- Monica announces the break-up to the group, who mourn Alan far harder than she does.
- Chandler walks out to buy cigarettes, and Phoebe stops him by offering the seven thousand dollars if he never smokes again.
S1 · E4 The One With George Stephanopoulos
On the anniversary of his first night with Carol, Ross is dragged to a hockey game and ends up in the emergency room, while Rachel's first paycheck and her old friends' good news send her into a crisis about her new life.
- Phoebe keeps falling asleep at the coffee house because her grandmother's new boyfriend keeps her up all night, so Monica invites her to sleep over.
- Joey and Chandler hand Ross hockey tickets as a fake birthday present, and Ross works out that today is the anniversary of the first time he and Carol slept together.
- Rachel opens her first paycheck and discovers that the money left after tax is almost nothing.
- Three of Rachel's old friends turn up at the coffee house and announce a pregnancy, a partnership at a law firm and an engagement.
- Joanne asks Rachel when she is moving back home, and Rachel defends a waitressing job whose duties amount to the specials board and the dead flowers.
- The credit card company calls because Rachel has stopped spending, and Rachel breaks down about having given up everything to fetch coffee for other people.
- A puck hits Ross in the face at the game, and Chandler and Joey take him to an emergency room where the receptionist makes them wait.
- A pizza arrives at the wrong apartment, revealing that George Stephanopoulos lives across the street, and Monica fetches binoculars to watch him.
- Pushed to explain why the date matters, Ross admits that Carol was the only woman he has ever slept with.
- Chandler answers a second call from the credit card company, and Rachel takes over and tells them she is fine.
S1 · E5 The One With the East German Laundry Detergent
Ross turns Rachel's trip to the laundromat into a first date, Chandler and Phoebe pair up to dump their partners, and Joey passes Monica off as his girlfriend to steal his ex Angela back from Bob.
- Chandler admits he has been putting off ending things with Janice, and Phoebe proposes they break up with their partners side by side, since she is finished with Tony.
- Ross invents a rat problem in his own building so that he can join Rachel and Monica at the laundromat that night.
- Angela tells Joey she is seeing a man named Bob, so Joey invites them both to dinner and claims he has a girlfriend of his own.
- Joey talks Monica into playing that girlfriend by telling her Bob is Angela's brother, admitting he wants Angela back.
- Ross takes back the washer an aggressive stranger stole from Rachel, and Rachel confesses she has never done her own laundry before.
- Angela mentions sleeping with Bob, and Monica works out that the two of them are a couple rather than siblings.
- Chandler finally tells Janice he wants to stop seeing her, and Janice takes it badly.
- A stray red sock turns all of Rachel's whites pink, and Rachel decides her father was right that she cannot manage alone.
- Monica confronts Joey over the lie, and Joey persuades her to help him split Angela and Bob so each of them can take the one they want.
- Rachel refuses to give up her cart to the same stranger, stands her ground, and wins.
S1 · E6 The One With the Butt
Chandler starts sleeping with Aurora, who already has a husband and two boyfriends, Joey is cast and then fired as Al Pacino's butt double, and Monica admits she is compulsively tidy.
- Chandler spots Aurora at the theatre, the others talk him into approaching her, and she agrees to a date.
- An usher passes Joey a talent agency's card, and Joey hopes the agency wants to sign him.
- Chandler recounts the date, during which Aurora mentions a husband named Rick and then a boyfriend named Ethan.
- Chandler tells the others he is seeing Aurora again because he gets the pleasure without any obligation.
- Rachel moves the green ottoman while cleaning, and Monica quietly puts it back where it was.
- The others list Monica's tidiness rituals until she accepts that she has turned into her mother.
- Joey's new agent gets him a role in an Al Pacino film, and Joey admits the part is Pacino's butt double.
- Aurora reveals a fourth man named Andrew, Chandler asks her to drop the others, and Aurora leaves rather than agree.
- Joey reports that he was fired for overacting, and Phoebe convinces him that his chance is still ahead of him.
- Monica deliberately leaves her shoes out overnight, then lies awake plotting to retrieve them before anyone notices.
S1 · E7 The One With the Blackout
A citywide blackout locks Chandler in a bank vestibule with a lingerie model while Ross keeps failing to tell Rachel how he feels, and she ends the night with a stranger named Paolo instead.
- A blackout cuts off Phoebe's set at Central Perk and seals Chandler inside a bank's ATM vestibule.
- Chandler works out that the woman shut in with him is the model Jill Goodacre.
- Rachel admits that Barry never gave her any real passion, and Ross assures her that passion is coming for her.
- Joey warns Ross that he has waited so long that Rachel now sees him only as a friend, and pushes him to ask her out tonight.
- Joey blocks Monica from going outside by inventing a surprise party, and Phoebe's protest at always being told last reveals that Monica once had a crush on Joey.
- Ross starts his confession on the balcony, but a stray kitten drops onto him before he can say it.
- Rachel tracks down the kitten's owner and returns with Paolo, an Italian neighbour who speaks almost no English.
- Chandler chokes on a piece of gum and Jill saves him with the Heimlich manoeuvre.
- Ross tells Paolo that he and Rachel are involved, then insults him using a word Paolo cannot understand.
- The power returns, Jill kisses Chandler goodbye, and Chandler asks the bank to send him the security footage.
S1 · E8 The One Where Nana Dies Twice
Ross and Monica's grandmother dies twice in one afternoon and the family gathers for her funeral, while Chandler discovers that his coworkers and his own friends have always assumed he is gay.
- Chandler accepts a blind date from his coworker Shelley and then works out that the person she has in mind is a man.
- Chandler questions the group and learns that Monica, Phoebe and Rachel all took him for gay when they met him, and Ross admits he once exploited that assumption to keep a woman in college for himself.
- Monica takes a call from her father and learns that Nana is dying.
- A nurse pronounces Nana dead, she briefly revives while Ross and Monica are saying goodbye, and then she dies a second time.
- Jack Geller tells Monica he wants to be buried at sea so that people will stop thinking of him as predictable.
- Shelley tells Chandler the man she meant was Lowell from Financial Services, and Chandler insists he could have attracted someone better.
- Ross, stuck inside Nana's closet, finally gets his mother and Aunt Lillian to settle on the burgundy dress for the burial.
- Ross walks away from the burial praising how alive the day feels and drops straight into an open grave.
- Ross, dazed by his mother's painkillers, announces at the wake that he would not mind if Chandler were gay, which convinces a guest that her friend had read Chandler correctly.
- Monica presses her mother to admit that Nana criticised her constantly, her mother decides some things are better left unsaid, and she then compliments Monica on earrings that turn out to have been Nana's.
- Lowell tells Chandler that gay men can usually tell and that Chandler is not one, and adds that Brian from Payroll is gay and well beyond him.
S1 · E9 The One Where Underdog Gets Away
Everyone's Thanksgiving plans collapse, and while the group is on the roof watching a runaway parade balloon, they lock themselves out and Monica's dinner burns, so the six of them eat grilled cheese instead.
- Monica tells Ross that their parents have accepted an invitation to Puerto Rico and will not be home for Thanksgiving.
- Monica offers to cook the holiday dinner herself, promising Ross the lumpy mashed potatoes their mother made, and Phoebe invites herself along.
- At Carol and Susan's apartment, Ross learns that Susan reads aloud to the unborn baby every day and refers to him only as the sperm donor.
- Monica hands Rachel an envelope of cash the group has collected so she can afford the plane ticket to Vail.
- Chandler explains that he avoids the holiday because his parents announced their divorce over Thanksgiving dinner when he was nine.
- A woman on the subway walks away from Joey after spotting the free clinic poster behind him, and his family concludes he has a venereal disease.
- Joey demands tater tots and Phoebe wants peas and onions, so Monica agrees to make three separate batches of potatoes.
- Chandler reports that the Underdog balloon has broken loose over the city, and everyone follows him up to the roof.
- The group returns to find the door locked, nobody holding the keys and the oven still running, so Joey starts testing a tray of spare keys.
- Ross sings to Carol's stomach and the baby kicks for the first time, which Susan feels too.
- The burnt dinner is thrown out and Rachel misses her flight, and Chandler carves grilled cheese sandwiches and toasts the fact that everyone's plans failed.
S1 · E10 The One With the Monkey
Ross adopts a monkey named Marcel, the six friends make a no-date pact for New Year's Eve and every one of them breaks it, and Phoebe sends her scientist boyfriend David off to a three-year post in Minsk.
- Ross brings home a monkey called Marcel, rescued from a lab, because his apartment has been empty since Carol left.
- Joey loses the department store Santa job to another actor and is demoted to playing one of the elves.
- Chandler proposes that the six of them spend New Year's Eve together with no dates, and everyone agrees to the pact.
- A physicist named David interrupts Phoebe's set to tell her she is the most beautiful woman he has seen, and she abandons the song to go and talk to him.
- Chandler admits he has already broken his own pact by inviting Janice, his worst ex, to the party.
- Phoebe asks David outright why he has never kissed her, and he clears his desk and kisses her on it.
- Monica, Joey and Rachel all turn out to have dates for the party too, leaving Ross as the only one facing midnight alone.
- David's lab partner Max tells Phoebe they have won a three-year funded position in Minsk that starts on the first of January.
- David refuses to choose between the grant and Phoebe and asks her to decide for him, and she tells him to stay.
- Max leaves for Minsk without him, so Phoebe talks David into going after all and walks him through their goodbye line by line.
S1 · E11 The One With Mrs. Bing
Ross gets drunk at dinner with Chandler's visiting mother and kisses her, then confesses to Chandler, while Monica and Phoebe compete over a comatose stranger and Rachel starts writing a romance novel.
- Phoebe goads Monica into whistling at a man on the street, and the man ends up in a hospital coma.
- Monica and Phoebe keep visiting the nameless man, inventing a personality for him and treating themselves as responsible for his condition.
- Chandler's mother, the erotic novelist Nora Tyler Bing, promotes her book on a talk show and announces her New York trip on the air, which is how Chandler learns she is coming.
- Rachel turns up late to the dinner with Paolo, and Ross reacts by starting on the tequila.
- Mrs. Bing works out that Ross wants Rachel, tells him Paolo is a disposable minor character, and assures Ross that he is the one worth choosing.
- Ross kisses Mrs. Bing, Joey walks in on them, and Joey refuses to treat it as nothing.
- Monica and Phoebe discover that each has been visiting the coma patient alone, and their shared vigil turns into a rivalry.
- Ross confesses the kiss to Chandler, who is furious with Ross for doing it and with Joey for hiding it, and walks out.
- Rachel begins writing a romance novel of her own, inspired by Mrs. Bing.
- The patient wakes with no interest in either woman, so Monica and Phoebe abandon him.
- Chandler finally tells his mother what he thinks of her mothering rather than only the kiss, feels better for it, and makes peace with Ross.
S1 · E12 The One With the Dozen Lasagnas
Phoebe tells Rachel that Paolo propositioned her during a massage, and Rachel throws him out, while Ross avoids learning his baby's sex and Chandler and Joey buy a table together.
- Rachel announces that she and Paolo are spending the weekend at her sister's place in the Poconos, and Ross complains that the relationship was supposed to be brief.
- Carol tells Ross the amniocentesis results are healthy and offers to tell him the baby's sex, but Ross decides he would rather be surprised.
- Chandler and Joey argue over who owes the other a new table and agree to buy one jointly, which makes Chandler nervous because his last roommate left after they shared a purchase.
- Paolo books a massage with Phoebe on Rachel's recommendation and undresses completely.
- Monica admits she asked Carol and already knows the baby's sex, then whispers it to Joey while Ross protests.
- Phoebe tells the group that Paolo came on to her, and Ross and the others insist she owes Rachel the truth.
- Phoebe establishes with Rachel that she never lies and then tells her what Paolo did.
- Rachel throws Paolo's clothes off the balcony and ends the relationship, and Monica sends him away with one of her spare lasagnas.
- Ross comforts Rachel and hints that she deserves someone better, but Rachel says she is finished with men entirely.
- Rachel lets slip that Ross is having a boy, and Ross ends up delighted rather than annoyed.
S1 · E13 The One With the Boobies
Chandler walks in on Rachel undressed and she demands an equal look in return, Joey discovers his father has a mistress and confronts him, and Phoebe's psychiatrist boyfriend analyses the whole group until she ends it.
- Chandler lets himself into Monica and Rachel's apartment without knocking and accidentally sees Rachel topless when her towel slips.
- Phoebe's new boyfriend Roger, a psychiatrist, tells Chandler that his jokes are a way of holding people off, then correctly guesses that Chandler is an only child of divorced parents.
- Joey grabs the phone from his visiting father and works out that he is talking to a woman named Ronni, and his father admits to a six-year affair.
- Rachel catches Chandler staring at her chest and decides he now owes her a look at him, and Ross backs her up.
- Roger suggests that Ross sabotaged his own marriage to spare Monica, which sets Ross and Monica arguing about which of them their parents preferred.
- Ronni turns up at the apartment, and Joey refuses to let his father share a hotel room with her and orders him to either end the affair or tell his mother.
- Rachel sneaks into Joey and Chandler's apartment to catch Chandler in the shower, and walks in on Joey instead.
- Joey's mother arrives and reveals that she has known about Ronni for years, and that she is angry with Joey for pushing her husband to come clean.
- Joey reports that his parents have gone back to exactly how they were, and concludes that he has to let them make their own mistakes.
- Phoebe breaks up with Roger, admitting to the others that she disliked him too.
S1 · E14 The One With the Candy Hearts
On Valentine's Day, Chandler is set up with Janice again and sleeps with her before dumping her, Ross's date collapses when he invites Carol over, and the women burn their ex-boyfriends' keepsakes.
- Joey and Chandler push Ross into approaching a neighbour he barely knows, and Joey holds Chandler to a double date he has already promised.
- At the restaurant, Chandler learns the woman Joey has lined up for him is Janice, whom he has dumped twice.
- Phoebe proposes a cleansing ritual to break the bad-boyfriend pattern, and Monica and Rachel agree to burn what their exes gave them.
- Lorraine takes Joey home, so Joey abandons Chandler at the table and leaves his credit card to cover dinner.
- Chandler and Janice run up Joey's card on champagne, and Chandler wakes the next morning with Janice in his bed.
- Chandler tries to get Janice out quietly, but Monica, Rachel, Joey and Ross all find out she is back.
- The bonfire catches on Paulo's grappa and burns out of control, and firemen arrive to put it out.
- Susan is called away to work, so Ross invites Carol to join his date with Kristin.
- Chandler ends it with Janice, and Janice tells him calmly that he will seek her out again.
- Ross finds that Kristin has walked out, asks Carol to try again with him, and Carol turns him down.
- The firemen ask Monica, Rachel and Phoebe out, then admit among themselves that they are married.
S1 · E15 The One With the Stoned Guy
Chandler quits his data-processing job and then takes it back with a promotion, Monica cooks an audition dinner for a restaurant backer who arrives stoned, and Joey coaches Ross through talking dirty to a new girlfriend.
- Chandler is offered a promotion to processing supervisor and quits on the spot rather than admit the job is his career.
- Phoebe offers Chandler a head chef post at her client Steve's new restaurant, and when Chandler turns it down Monica claims it.
- Chandler pays a career counsellor, and a full day of tests concludes that he is ideally suited to data processing for a large corporation.
- Monica lands an audition and arranges to cook dinner for Steve at the apartment on Monday.
- Monica hires a waitress from work for the dinner instead of Rachel, which offends Rachel.
- Celia asks Ross to talk dirty during their date and he panics and blurts out a clinical anatomical term.
- Joey drills Ross in dirty talk until Ross gets going, and Chandler walks in on the two of them mid-practice.
- Chandler's old boss keeps calling with better offers, and Chandler ends the call by agreeing to return on Monday.
- The waitress cancels, and Monica bargains Rachel up to twenty dollars an hour to serve the dinner.
- Steve turns up high, raids Monica's cupboards instead of waiting for her courses, and Monica throws him out and loses the job.
- Ross tells Joey the dirty talk worked, though he and Celia only ended up cuddling again.
S1 · E16 The One With Two Parts, Part 1
Joey starts dating Phoebe's estranged twin sister Ursula, Chandler asks out the employee he has been ordered to fire, and Ross discovers at Lamaze class that he is about to become a father.
- At a restaurant Joey and Chandler mistake their waitress for Phoebe and learn she is her twin sister Ursula.
- Chandler tells Phoebe about the encounter, and Phoebe admits the two of them have not spoken in years because Ursula was always treated as the pretty one.
- Joey asks Phoebe whether he can take Ursula out, and Phoebe reluctantly gives him her blessing.
- Carol misses Lamaze class, so Susan wins a coin toss against Ross and he has to lie down and play the mother.
- Chandler's boss orders layoffs and picks him to fire Nina, and Chandler asks her out to dinner instead.
- Joey has Phoebe try on a cardigan he bought for Ursula, and Phoebe takes back her approval and quarrels with Joey about the date.
- A childbirth video terrifies Carol, and Ross leaves the class shaken and tells the others he has finally grasped that he is going to be a father.
- Chandler papers over his lie with an invented raise, his assistant exposes the story to Nina, and after he confesses Nina staples his hand.
- Phoebe explains that Ursula broke her things as a child and stole the boyfriend who was her best friend, then goes to talk to Joey and finds Ursula already at his apartment.
- Rachel climbs onto the balcony railing to take down the Christmas lights, falls, and ends up hanging outside Mr. Heckles's window.
S1 · E17 The One With Two Parts, Part 2
Monica lets Rachel use her health insurance after a fall, so the two swap identities for a pair of doctors, while Ross panics about fatherhood and Joey takes Ursula out on Phoebe's birthday.
- Rachel arrives at the emergency room with a hurt ankle and no insurance, so Monica reluctantly agrees to let her use hers.
- Monica asks the admissions nurse for a fresh form and pretends she wrote her own details on it by mistake.
- Joey learns that Ursula's birthday falls on Phoebe's and decides to take Ursula out anyway.
- Monica and Rachel answer to each other's names for the two doctors treating them, and Rachel accepts a date for both of them over Monica's objection.
- Phoebe walks into her surprise party, is delighted by it, and immediately asks where Joey is.
- Ross asks his father when fatherhood first felt real to him, and his father describes the morning after Ross was born.
- The dinner turns into a fight in which Monica and Rachel insult each other while still playing each other, and Monica tells Rachel's father on the phone that Rachel slept with Billy Dreskin.
- The hospital calls only about an unsigned form, and Rachel admits that Monica was right that the whole deception was not worth it.
- Phoebe finds out from Ursula that Ursula has ended things with Joey and has no intention of telling him.
- Marcel swallows a Scrabble tile, Ross carries him into the emergency room, and Dr. Mitchell agrees to treat the monkey.
- Phoebe dresses as Ursula to break up with Joey for her, and Joey works out who she really is.
- Marcel comes through the procedure, and Chandler tells Ross that stepping up for him was the act of a father.
S1 · E18 The One With All the Poker
Rachel hunts for a job and loses the one she wants at Saks, while the women learn poker to take on the men and Ross's feelings for Rachel drive him through three games.
- Rachel sends out job resumes and Ross spots a typo she has copied onto every one of them.
- The women learn the men have a regular poker game, object to being left out of it, and talk the men into teaching them.
- The women lose the first game, insist on paying up, demand a rematch, and Ross warns Rachel that he plays to win.
- Chandler and Joey tell Ross that his tough talk gave him away and that he is still in love with Rachel.
- Rachel opens her mail and finds she has an interview for an assistant buyer job at Saks Fifth Avenue.
- Monica brings in her Aunt Iris, a lifelong player, who coaches the women and opens by bluffing them about a car accident.
- Rachel reports that the interview went well and reveals she can shuffle expertly, but the women lose the second game anyway.
- In a third game at the apartment, Rachel beats Ross's flush with four sixes and starts a pile of the chips she has won from him.
- A call tells Rachel she did not get the Saks job, and she insists on playing on and raises the bet well past the agreed limit.
- Ross borrows money from Chandler and Joey to stay in the hand, loses to Rachel's full house, and takes the defeat happily because it cheers her up.
S1 · E19 The One Where the Monkey Gets Away
Rachel loses Ross's monkey Marcel while babysitting him, and the hunt through the building brings in an Animal Control officer the women snubbed in high school, right as Ross is preparing to confess his feelings.
- A country club newsletter tells Rachel that her former fiancé Barry is now engaged to her old maid of honour, Mindy.
- Rachel tells Ross she wants a man who is both her best friend and a source of passion, and Ross is starting to suggest such a man might be nearby when Monica walks in.
- Ross tells Joey and Chandler that he will bring wine to the apartment that evening and finally make his feelings clear to Rachel.
- Marcel soils one of Monica's shoes, and when Rachel carries the mess out as a spiteful engagement gift for Barry, she leaves the door open and the monkey slips away.
- Rachel confesses to Ross that she has lost Marcel, and when she mentions calling Animal Control he tells her that Marcel is an illegal exotic pet who will be seized if they find him.
- The officer turns out to be Luisa, a classmate Monica and Rachel ignored for four years, and she refuses to help and claims the monkey for herself if she catches him.
- Monica and Phoebe find Marcel in the building, but Luisa's tranquiliser dart misses him and hits Phoebe instead.
- Ross and Rachel follow a delivery of bananas to Mr. Heckles, who insists the monkey is his own pet named Patti, and Luisa arrives and locks Marcel in her cage.
- Rachel pleads with Luisa and then threatens to report her for shooting Phoebe, which wins Marcel back.
- Ross apologises to Rachel, dims the lights and begins to explain how he feels, and Barry walks in to announce that he cannot marry Mindy because he still loves Rachel.
S1 · E20 The One With the Evil Orthodontist
Rachel meets her jilted fiancé Barry again, sleeps with him in his office, and then joins his fiancée Mindy to dump him, while Chandler waits by the phone after a first date.
- After a first date he calls one of the greatest ever, Chandler refuses to phone Danielle, then gives in to Phoebe and hangs up on her answering machine.
- Rachel comes back from a warm lunch with Barry, admits she never told him to leave her alone, and promises to end things with him that afternoon.
- Rachel and Barry have sex in his dental chair instead.
- Barry offers to break off his engagement to Mindy and asks Rachel to go away with him to Aruba for the weekend.
- Monica notices dental floss in Rachel's hair, the affair comes out to the group, and Ross walks out when Rachel compares it to him and Carol.
- Mindy asks Rachel to be her maid of honour, then admits she slept with Barry while he was engaged to Rachel, and Rachel offers her arm so Mindy can smell the perfume Barry bought.
- Joey gets the peeping neighbour's name from a doorman and calls to complain, only to find that Sidney is a woman who has been admiring them.
- Rachel and Mindy confront Barry together, but Mindy tells Rachel afterwards that she still means to marry him.
- Rachel tells Monica that walking out on Barry at the wedding was the right choice and she no longer wonders about it.
- Danielle comes to the coffee house to check that Chandler is all right, and Chandler decides that the effort makes her too needy.
S1 · E21 The One With the Fake Monica
Monica finds the woman using her stolen credit card, befriends her and starts living her bolder life, until the woman is arrested; meanwhile Ross learns he has to send Marcel to a zoo.
- Monica goes through a credit card bill and sees how much the thief has spent in her name.
- Monica, envying a stranger who is doing more with her life than she is, phones the school on the bill and enrols in the tap class the thief signed up for.
- At the class Monica is partnered with the thief herself, and gives her a false name rather than confront her.
- The vet tells Ross that Marcel has reached sexual maturity and will turn aggressive, so Ross has to give him away.
- Rachel and Phoebe reveal they took the thief to lunch instead of calling the police, and Monica defends her to Ross.
- Joey discovers that the stage name he chose already belonged to a Russian dictator, and asks Phoebe for a new one.
- A zoo in San Diego accepts Marcel, and the friends see him off at the airport while Ross says his goodbye.
- Monica comes home drunk, refuses to go to work, and then hears that the other Monica has been arrested.
- Visiting her in jail, Monica thanks her for the past weeks, and the woman tells Monica she will go straight back to being herself.
- Monica returns to the tap class alone and keeps dancing badly rather than quit.
S1 · E22 The One With the Ick Factor
Monica dates a college senior who turns out to be a high school student, Phoebe temps as Chandler's secretary and learns his staff resent him, and Ross waits on his beeper for Carol's labor.
- Rachel confesses that she had a sex dream about Chandler, which unsettles Ross more than it does anyone else.
- Phoebe explains that she taught her massage clients to massage themselves and now needs work, so Chandler offers her his secretary's desk for a few weeks.
- Ross shows off a beeper he is carrying so that Carol can reach him the moment she goes into labor.
- Monica admits that the man she is seeing is a college senior and that she has told him she is twenty-two rather than twenty-six.
- Phoebe tells Chandler that she hid their friendship at the office because his staff have disliked him since his promotion.
- Monica asks Ethan to stay the night, and Ethan warns her first that he is a virgin who has been waiting for her.
- After they sleep together Monica admits her real age, and Ethan then admits that he is a senior in high school.
- Chandler takes Phoebe's advice and goes to a staff party, and Phoebe reports afterwards that the mockery has only changed shape and that these people cannot be his friends.
- Ethan argues that they belong together, and Monica ends the relationship because the age gap disgusts her.
- Ross's beeper goes off with Carol's emergency code, and he tells Rachel the baby is coming.
S1 · E23 The One With the Birth
Carol gives birth to Ross's son Ben, while Ross and Susan spend most of the labour shut in a broom closet arguing, and Joey helps a stranger deliver her baby down the hall.
- Ross frets in the waiting room until Carol and Susan finally turn up, late because they stopped at the gift shop.
- Rachel brings Carol ice chips and starts flirting with her obstetrician, Dr. Franzblau.
- Joey bickers about basketball with a pregnant stranger named Lydia, then walks her to a delivery room when her contractions start and learns the father is not coming.
- Monica says she wants a baby, and Chandler offers her a deal that if they are both single at forty they will have one together, which she takes as an insult.
- Ross discovers Carol and Susan have settled on a name he never agreed to, and Carol orders both of them out of the room mid-labour.
- Phoebe hauls the two of them into a broom closet to break up the fight, and the door locks behind them.
- Joey coaches Lydia through the birth, then hangs back in the hall when her baby's father turns up after all.
- Locked in, Ross admits he is afraid of being left out and Susan points out there is no holiday for what she will be, and Phoebe tells them the baby is lucky to have three parents fighting over it.
- Phoebe climbs into the ceiling vent, a janitor opens the door, and Ross and Susan reach Carol in time to watch their son be born.
- Ross suggests the name Ben, taken from the janitor's uniform Phoebe borrowed, and Carol and Susan agree.
S1 · E24 The One Where Rachel Finds Out
Chandler lets slip that Ross is in love with Rachel, Rachel decides she wants him back, and Ross returns from China with a new girlfriend on his arm.
- Joey admits he is earning seven hundred dollars from a medical school fertility study whose rules bar him from sleeping with Melanie until it ends.
- Ross tells the others he is flying to China for a week to fetch a bone for the museum, and asks Monica to show Ben his photograph.
- Ross hears that Rachel is out with Carl, Joey and Chandler tell him to give up on her, and Ross leaves her birthday present with Chandler.
- Rachel opens Ross's gift, an antique pin she once admired, and Chandler blurts out that Ross has been in love with her.
- Rachel decides she cannot wait a week to speak to Ross and leaves for the airport without knowing what she will say.
- An attendant refuses to let Rachel onto the jetway and delivers her message to a stranger instead, so Ross flies to China knowing nothing.
- Joey spends the night attending only to Melanie, and Melanie tells him he is the most generous man she has met.
- A week later Rachel tells Monica she has decided against Ross because the group would be dating him too, then buzzes Carl up.
- While Carl talks at her on the balcony, Rachel imagines Ross arguing that they are right for each other, and she admits she cannot stop thinking about him.
- Rachel abandons her date and waits at the gate with flowers, and Ross comes off the plane with a new girlfriend, Julie.
Season 2
S2 · E1 The One With Ross's New Girlfriend
Ross comes back from China with a new girlfriend, Julie, and Rachel misses her chance to tell him how she feels, while Phoebe botches Monica's haircut and Joey's tailor turns out to be groping his customers.
- Rachel scrambles through the airport to meet Ross and finds him getting off the plane with Julie, whom Ross introduces as they collect the bags.
- Rachel arrives home ahead of them and tells the others what she saw, blaming Chandler for encouraging her.
- Julie explains that she and Ross were in graduate school together and that she was running the dig he flew out to join.
- Rachel sends Chandler to find out where Ross stands, and Chandler comes back with the news that Ross has moved on and is happy with Julie.
- Monica asks Phoebe to cut her hair, and Phoebe turns her down on the grounds that Monica is too much of a control freak.
- Ross draws out a phone call with Julie in front of Rachel, and Rachel tells Monica she cannot stand it and walks out.
- Paulo comes out of Rachel's bedroom the next morning, and Rachel admits to the others that she slept with him because she was upset about Ross.
- Phoebe gives Monica the haircut but styles it after Dudley Moore, having misheard the name, and Monica is left with a cut she hates.
- Chandler reports that Frankie groped him during the fitting, and Joey realises that his family's tailor of twelve years has been measuring him wrong all along.
- Rachel takes Ross onto the balcony to tell him Paulo means nothing, but Ross praises her by comparing her to how happy he is with Julie, and Rachel drops what she was going to say.
S2 · E2 The One With the Breast Milk
Monica secretly befriends Ross's girlfriend Julie and wounds Rachel until the two make peace, while Joey battles a rival cologne salesman for his department store floor and Ross refuses to taste Ben's breast milk.
- Carol feeds Ben at the table, Chandler and Joey retreat to the kitchen, and Ross tells them to get used to it and ask Carol anything they want.
- Julie offers the group a friend's staff discount at Bloomingdale's, Monica accepts, and the others warn her that Rachel will take the trip as a betrayal.
- Joey tells a new salesman that everything up to the escalator is his section, and the man immediately wins a customer in front of him.
- Phoebe and Joey both taste the breast milk Phoebe has warmed for Ben, and Ross refuses to try it and asks them to stop.
- Rachel finds a lunch receipt in the jacket she lent Monica, Monica admits she spent the day with Julie, and Rachel walks out on her.
- Joey is reassigned to the rival's cologne and talks about leaving the job, but Chandler convinces him to hold his ground instead.
- Rachel breaks down and tells Monica that losing her to Julie is the worst part, the two reconcile, and Rachel agrees to give Julie a chance.
- The new salesman sprays a customer in the eyes and is finished at the store, so Joey reclaims his section and asks Annabelle to coffee, and she accepts.
- Rachel sits down with Julie, hears that Julie is intimidated by her, admits she resented her, and accepts an invitation to a movie before insulting her once Julie has gone.
- Ross gives in, drinks from Ben's bottle, and admits the taste is not bad.
S2 · E3 The One Where Heckles Dies
Mr. Heckles dies and leaves everything to Monica and Rachel, and Chandler, recognising his own habit of rejecting women in the dead neighbour's life, panics that he will end up alone.
- Mr. Heckles dies downstairs while sweeping his ceiling, and Mr. Treeger breaks the news to the group.
- Phoebe tells Ross she does not accept evolution, and Ross sets out to convert her.
- Heckles' lawyer reveals a will leaving all of the dead man's belongings to Monica and Rachel, whom he named only as the loud girls upstairs.
- Rachel claims a seashell lamp from the inheritance, Monica refuses it houseroom, and Rachel accuses Monica of still treating the flat as hers alone.
- Chandler discovers from Heckles' yearbook that they were both class clown and both played clarinet, and the resemblance unsettles him.
- Chandler sits up all night in Heckles' robe going through photographs of women Heckles rejected for trivial faults, and concludes he is on the same path.
- Chandler telephones Janice as a last resort, and she turns up pregnant and married to someone else.
- Ross concedes to Phoebe that he might conceivably be wrong, whereupon Phoebe admits she was only testing him and mocks him for abandoning his position.
- Monica breaks Rachel's seashell lamp and insists it was an accident, then makes peace by giving Rachel the pin-up clock she wanted.
- Chandler asks out a colleague, Alison, despite the size of her head, then spends the date unable to think about anything else.
S2 · E4 The One With Phoebe's Husband
Phoebe's husband Duncan turns up asking for a divorce and reveals he is straight, while Rachel, unable to stomach Ross and Julie together, first talks Ross out of sleeping with Julie and then talks him back into it.
- A stranger knocks at Rachel's door, leaves flowers and asks her to tell Phoebe that her husband came by.
- Phoebe explains that she married Duncan, a gay Canadian dancer, so he could stay in the country, and Monica insists Phoebe was in love with him at the time.
- Monica retaliates for an exposed secret by telling everyone about Chandler's third nipple, and Chandler responds by revealing that Joey once appeared in a pornographic film as a repairman.
- Phoebe dresses up to watch Duncan skate at the Garden and tells Monica she is going in order to put her old feelings behind her.
- Ross admits to Rachel that he and Julie have not slept together, and Rachel encourages him to hold off indefinitely.
- Ross thanks Rachel but tells her he took Joey's opposite advice and plans to sleep with Julie that night.
- Duncan asks Phoebe for a divorce and tells her he is straight and marrying a woman named Debra.
- Rachel stalls the evening by demanding that Julie tell the group her entire life story, starting with her childhood.
- Phoebe signs the divorce papers, stops herself from asking Duncan whether she could have been the one, and parts from him warmly.
- Rachel reverses her advice and describes to Ross exactly how she would want to be kissed, Ross goes back inside to Julie, and by morning he reports it happened twice.
S2 · E5 The One With Five Steaks and an Eggplant
The three friends who earn less admit they cannot afford the group's spending, and the rift splits everyone over Ross's birthday concert, while Chandler impersonates a stranger's ex to get a date.
- Chandler screens his calls, hears a woman named Jade leave a message for an old boyfriend called Bob, and picks up pretending to be Bob so he can arrange a meeting at Central Perk.
- Chandler tells everyone they each owe sixty-two dollars for Ross's birthday, and afterwards Rachel, Joey and Phoebe agree privately that the others never notice how much less the three of them earn.
- Monica arrives with news that she has been made head lunch chef and put in charge of purchasing, and the group decides to celebrate at an expensive restaurant.
- Ross pushes Chandler to confess at the coffee house, but Chandler instead tells Jade he sensed she had been stood up and sits down with her as a sympathetic stranger.
- Ross divides the restaurant bill evenly and excuses Monica from paying, and Phoebe refuses outright to cover a share far larger than the soup she ordered.
- Joey tells Monica, Ross and Chandler that the three of them cannot keep up financially, and Ross cancels the concert tickets that were meant to be his birthday present.
- Monica and Chandler turn up with free steaks and six concert tickets they have paid for, Joey calls the gesture charity, and Phoebe, Rachel and Joey drop out while the other three go to the show without them.
- Chandler tells Ross that he slept with Jade, and Jade then phones the machine to report that her new man was nothing next to Bob.
- Monica recognises a boy she once babysat who now works for the band's law firm, he takes the three of them backstage, and the hickey Monica brings home exposes the party and reopens the argument.
- Monica's manager phones to say the free steaks from the meat supplier count as a kickback, and she is fired.
S2 · E6 The One With the Baby on the Bus
Joey and Chandler borrow Ross's baby son to meet women and leave him on a city bus, while Ross lands in hospital with an allergy and Phoebe loses her Central Perk slot to a paid musician.
- Ben cries every time Monica holds him and stops the moment anyone else takes him, which convinces Monica that her own future child will hate her.
- Ross discovers that Monica's pie is made with kiwi rather than key lime, his throat swells, and she makes him go to the hospital.
- Ross reluctantly leaves Ben with Joey and Chandler after Joey points to his seven sisters as proof he can handle a baby.
- Terry tells Rachel he is hiring a paid professional for Sunday afternoons and leaves it to Rachel to break the news to Phoebe.
- Rachel talks Terry into giving Phoebe an unpaid slot after Stephanie, and Phoebe refuses it and takes her guitar out to the pavement instead.
- Ross gets his injection only by gripping Monica's hand, and he squeezes hard enough to bruise the bone and cut her with her own ring.
- Joey's plan to attract women with Ben lands them two girls at a bus stop, and Joey and Chandler step off the bus without the baby.
- Health Services returns Ben, but Joey and Chandler cannot tell him from another baby and settle it with a coin toss.
- Phoebe admits that playing for money has spoiled the songs for her, and Rachel tells her the one request she got was for Smelly Cat.
- Ben stays calm in Monica's arms at last, and Ross notices a Health Services stamp on his son and goes after Joey and Chandler.
S2 · E7 The One Where Ross Finds Out
Rachel leaves Ross a drunken phone message saying she is over him, and when he plays it back the two of them finally admit their feelings and then fight about them.
- Chandler comes home from a party convinced nobody finds him attractive, and Monica, out of work and bored, talks him into letting her train him.
- Phoebe tells the others that Scott still will not sleep with her, and she rejects Joey's theory that he is gay.
- Rachel spots Ross kissing Julie outside the window and announces she has given up on being jealous and has a date that night.
- Ross mentions that he and Julie are adopting a cat together, and Rachel makes a sour joke about how long it will live before walking out.
- Rachel gets drunk on her date with Michael, who tells her she needs closure, so she borrows a stranger's phone and leaves Ross a message declaring she is over him.
- Ross stops by the apartment for the cat toy the next morning, checks his machine from Rachel's phone, and hears the message.
- Rachel admits she has had feelings for him, Ross learns that Chandler told her about his own feelings while he was in China, and Ross leaves with Julie rather than deal with it.
- Phoebe takes Joey's advice, asks Scott what the problem is, and they end up sleeping together the same day.
- Ross tells Rachel at the coffee house that he did not get the cat and that she spoke up too late, they argue about the year he never said anything, and he comes back to the locked door afterwards.
- Chandler ends the training by reminding Monica of everything going wrong in her life until she is too deflated to run.
S2 · E8 The One With the List
Ross breaks up with Julie for Rachel, but a list of Rachel's flaws that Chandler typed up reaches her, and Rachel refuses to forgive him; Monica takes a job inventing recipes with a synthetic chocolate.
- Rachel tells Monica and Phoebe about the kiss with Ross, and it clearly went well.
- Ross admits to the others that he feels guilty about Julie and cannot decide between her and Rachel.
- Julie joins the group at the coffee house, and Phoebe performs a song about a man choosing between two women while everyone squirms.
- Monica interviews with Mr. Rastatter, secretly hates the taste of his synthetic chocolate, and takes the job creating Thanksgiving recipes with it anyway.
- Chandler talks Ross into typing a pros-and-cons list on his new computer, and Ross catalogues Rachel's faults while the only mark against Julie is that she is not Rachel.
- Ross ends things with Julie and tells Rachel it was always going to be her.
- Rachel spots her own name on Chandler's screen, refuses the excuses the three men invent, and snatches the printout.
- Rachel reads the faults Ross listed, including his dismissal of her career, and walks out on him.
- Ross climbs the fire escape and reads out the reasons he loves her, but Rachel tells him she would never have made a list at all and shuts him down.
- Mr. Rastatter loses his approval for the synthetic chocolate, pays Monica off, and asks whether eating it has hurt her.
S2 · E9 The One With Phoebe's Dad
Phoebe learns the photo she believed was her father is a stock picture, gets his real address upstate, and then sits outside his house without knocking.
- Monica admits that she and Rachel are broke and tipped the building's staff with homemade cookies instead of cash.
- Phoebe spots the man in Ross's new picture frame and insists he is her father, though the others tell her it is the stock photo that came with the frame.
- Phoebe's grandmother confesses that the photos were her mother's invention, that her real father is a pharmacist somewhere upstate, and hands over a genuine picture of him.
- Ross talks Rachel into listing his faults, and she leaves the argument feeling better about him.
- The grandmother admits she has known the address all along, gives Phoebe the street and town, and lends her the cab.
- Ross snaps the knob off the radiator, and the apartment starts cooking hours before Monica's party.
- Phoebe drives Joey and Chandler to her father's house, then cannot make herself get out of the cab.
- Ross hands Mr. Treeger a hundred dollars in tips to prove he can seize the day, and learns the knob cannot be replaced until Tuesday and that Treeger liked the cookies anyway.
- Phoebe tells Joey and Chandler she would rather not knock than discover her real father is the man who abandoned her mother, and they agree that reaching the mailbox counts.
- Joey shuts the heat off from underneath the radiator, fixing after the party what Ross could not fix before it.
S2 · E10 The One With Russ
Rachel dates Russ, a man who is an unnoticed double for Ross; Monica gets Fun Bobby to stop drinking and finds him dull; Joey turns down a casting director's offer and lands a soap role.
- The newspaper reviews of Joey's play attack his performance, and he announces that he is quitting acting.
- After counting five empty wine bottles, the friends work out that Fun Bobby drinks constantly, and Monica tells him she is worried until he agrees to try quitting.
- Rachel tells the others that she no longer has any feelings for Ross and arrives with a date named Russ, who talks exactly like him.
- After his callback for Days of Our Lives, Joey tells his agent Estelle that the network's casting director made a pass at him, and Estelle confirms he will only get the part if he sleeps with her.
- Sober Fun Bobby turns out to be tedious, and Monica decides she cannot leave him because she is the one who made him quit.
- Ross learns that Rachel is dating again, Rachel confirms that she and Ross are not seeing each other, and Ross dismisses Russ without noticing how alike the two of them are.
- Phoebe tells Rachel that Russ is a substitute for Ross, and Rachel refuses to believe it until she sees the two men arguing side by side and is repulsed.
- Monica starts drinking heavily to make Fun Bobby's stories bearable, and he breaks up with her because he thinks she has a drinking problem.
- Joey refuses to sleep with the casting director, and she then offers him a bigger part as a recurring neurosurgeon on the soap.
- Russ reports that Rachel has dumped him, and Phoebe tells him he reminds her of Bob Saget.
S2 · E11 The One With the Lesbian Wedding
Carol and Susan get married with Monica catering, and Ross, who refused to attend, ends up talking Carol out of calling it off, while Rachel's mother announces that she is leaving Rachel's father.
- Carol and Susan tell Ross that they are getting married, and Ross insists he is delighted for them.
- Monica takes over the catering for the wedding after Carol and Susan's caterer is badly injured.
- Ross tells his friends that he will not be going to the wedding.
- The group watches Joey's first appearance on Days of our Lives as the neurosurgeon Drake Ramoray.
- One of Phoebe's clients dies on her massage table, and Phoebe becomes convinced that the woman's spirit has moved into her.
- Rachel's mother visits and tells Rachel that she is considering leaving Rachel's father.
- Mr. Adelman tells Phoebe that his wife had wanted to see everything before she died.
- Rachel confronts her mother, who explains that Rachel got out of the marriage she herself stayed in.
- Carol tells Ross that she is calling off the wedding because her parents refuse to come, and Ross convinces her to go through with it.
- The spirit leaves Phoebe during the ceremony, and afterwards Susan thanks Ross and gets him onto the dance floor.
S2 · E12–13 The One After the Superbowl (Parts 1 & 2)
Ross discovers the zoo lied about Marcel's death and tracks the monkey to a film set in New York, while Joey extracts himself from a stalker and Phoebe loses a library job.
- Joey shows off his first fan letter, and Monica notices there is no stamp on it, meaning the writer was inside their building.
- Rob Dohnen offers Phoebe a paid job performing her songs for children at the city libraries.
- A zoo administrator tells Ross that Marcel got sick and died, and offers him zoo dollars by way of apology.
- A zoo janitor tells Ross that Marcel was stolen in a break-in and now works in entertainment, and Ross identifies him as the monkey in the beer commercial.
- Joey admits to Erica that he is an actor, and the others convince her he is Drake's evil twin Hans so that she leaves to find the real Drake.
- Rob tells Phoebe the library board has fired her after parents complained about the content of her songs.
- Ross finds Marcel filming a movie in New York and gets the monkey to recognize him by singing to him on the set.
- Susie Moss recognizes Chandler on the set as a fourth-grade classmate and asks him to take her out to dinner.
- Rachel approaches Jean-Claude Van Damme to tell him Monica likes him, then accepts a date with him herself.
- Susie persuades Chandler to wear her underwear to dinner, then strips him in the restaurant bathroom and walks off with his clothes to pay him back for fourth grade.
S2 · E14 The One With the Prom Video
Rachel tells Ross there is no future for them, but an old home video of their prom night reveals that Ross once dressed up to take her when her own date was late.
- Joey repays Chandler the money he has borrowed over the years and adds an engraved gold bracelet, which Chandler puts on only after Joey insists.
- Monica walks out of a cooking job interview when the interviewer turns her running commentary on making a salad into something lewd.
- Ross takes a phone message from another man Rachel is seeing, and Phoebe assures him that Rachel is his lobster and they will end up together.
- Monica refuses a loan from Ross, so Ross tells her to ask their parents for the money instead.
- Chandler complains loudly at Central Perk that the bracelet is hideous, Joey walks in behind him and hears it, and Joey stops speaking to him.
- Ross interrupts Rachel's conversation with a customer by pretending to be her blind date, and Rachel tells him she does not need saving.
- Rachel tells Ross plainly that there will never be anything between them and that he has to accept it.
- Monica admits to her parents that she was fired, her father offers nothing but confidence in her savings, and Ross quietly writes her a check.
- Chandler pays four hundred dollars for a replacement bracelet, Rachel returns the lost original, and Chandler gives the spare to Joey, which ends the fight.
- The friends play an old tape and watch prom night, in which Ross puts on his father's tuxedo to escort Rachel after her date fails to arrive, only to come downstairs as she leaves with Chip.
- Watching the video, Phoebe points to Ross's gesture as proof that he is Rachel's lobster.
S2 · E15 The One Where Ross and Rachel... You Know
Ross and Rachel's first date collapses into nervous laughter, so Ross stages a second one at the museum planetarium where they finally sleep together, while Monica begins dating her parents' friend Dr. Richard Burke.
- Joey's soap contract is renewed, so he buys two leather recliners and a huge television and gives Chandler his pick of the chairs.
- Rachel discovers she has booked her first date with Ross on the night she promised to waitress Monica's catering job, and Phoebe offers to take the shift.
- At the party Dr. Burke fails to recognise Monica because she has lost so much weight, and he tells her that he and his wife have separated.
- Phoebe tells Monica she is infatuated with Dr. Burke, and Monica admits she has booked an eye appointment she does not need.
- Rachel keeps laughing while she and Ross are kissing, and the date ends with Ross too self-conscious to touch her.
- Rachel apologises to Ross the next day and proposes a second date of dinner and wine followed by her apartment.
- Monica tells Ross she is going out with Richard Burke, and Ross is appalled that his sister is dating a friend of their father.
- Monica and Richard face the twenty-one year gap and his grandchildren, agree to end it, then kiss and decide not to decide yet.
- Ross's museum work runs so late that the restaurant closes, so he lays out a fur pelt in the planetarium and improvises the date there.
- Rachel does not laugh this time, and the two spend the night in the museum, waking to find a church youth group watching them.
S2 · E16 The One Where Joey Moves Out
Joey decides to move into his own apartment after a fight with Chandler, Monica tells her parents she is dating Richard, and Rachel gets a tattoo while Phoebe backs out of hers.
- Rachel and Phoebe plan to get tattoos and keep it from Ross, who walks in and says he finds tattoos pointless and permanent.
- Monica refuses to tell her parents about Richard until she knows how serious he is about her.
- Joey's soap opera co-star offers him his large apartment because he is moving somewhere bigger.
- Rachel nearly abandons her tattoo because of Ross, and Phoebe talks her into going through with it.
- Hiding upstairs, Monica overhears her father say that Richard has told a friend he is falling in love with the woman he is seeing.
- Joey admits he wants to live alone at last, the argument turns real, and Chandler tells him to take the apartment.
- Monica reveals to her parents that she is the woman Richard is seeing, and defends the relationship to her furious mother.
- Phoebe shows Rachel a bare shoulder and confesses she was too frightened of the needle to get her lily.
- Joey confirms the move is not just talk, and he and Chandler agree to play foosball for ownership of the table.
- Ross sees Rachel's tattoo and reverses himself, telling her he finds it attractive.
S2 · E17 The One Where Eddie Moves In
Joey finds living alone lonely and decides to ask Chandler about moving back in, but Chandler has already taken a new roommate named Eddie, while Phoebe learns another singer's voice was used on her music video.
- Joey shows off the apartment he has decorated himself and notices that Chandler is the only one who did not come.
- Phoebe tells the others that a small record company wants to record Smelly Cat and shoot a video for it.
- Monica loses patience with Ross, who is staying at her apartment and monopolising her bathroom.
- Chandler phones Joey to apologise for missing the housewarming, and the two of them end up watching Baywatch together from separate apartments.
- Joey admits to Monica and Phoebe that living alone is duller than he expected and wonders whether Chandler would take him back.
- Ross and Rachel tell Chandler that Joey has settled into his new place, and Chandler accepts that the two of them are only friends now.
- Joey comes over to raise moving back and finds Chandler packing boxes for Eddie, a man Chandler met days earlier at the supermarket.
- Joey picks a fight over Eddie's eggs and the empty juice carton, and Chandler answers that Joey left, so he was entitled to find someone new.
- Monica tells Ross that she hated him when they were children but loves him now, and the two of them agree to stop needling each other.
- Phoebe discovers from a release form that the record company dubbed another woman's voice over hers on the video.
S2 · E18 The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies
Joey brags in a magazine about rewriting his lines, so the writers kill his character down an elevator shaft; Monica and Richard compare their pasts and say they love each other; Eddie accuses Chandler of sleeping with his ex.
- Phoebe pushes Chandler to get to know Eddie and then leaves the two of them alone, and Eddie's account of his breakup with Tilly leaves Chandler unnerved.
- Monica invites Richard to spend the night at her apartment, and Phoebe's toast tips Richard off that Monica has dated a great many men.
- Tilly drops a fishtank off for Eddie, and Eddie comes home and accuses Chandler of sleeping with her.
- Joey shows Phoebe a magazine profile crediting him with writing his own lines, one of the show's writers reads it, and Joey's next script has his character fall down an elevator shaft.
- Rachel lists her four previous partners for Ross and calls what she had with Paolo purely physical, which wounds Ross.
- Richard tells Monica her number does not bother him and admits he has only ever slept with women he loved, and Monica tells him she loves him too.
- Monica and Rachel find only one condom in the apartment and Rachel wins it at rock-paper-scissors, so Monica puts her night with Richard off until tomorrow.
- The friends watch the episode without Joey and see his character plunge to his death down the elevator shaft.
- Joey shuts himself in his apartment and tells the others that the soap was the best thing that ever happened to him.
- Eddie presents Chandler with a replacement fish that is really a goldfish cracker and tells him he has named it after Chandler.
S2 · E19 The One Where Eddie Won't Go
Chandler cannot get his unnerving roommate Eddie to move out, Joey loses his furniture to credit card debt after refusing a small part, and a book about female empowerment turns Phoebe, Monica and Rachel on each other.
- Chandler wakes to find Eddie sitting in his bedroom watching him sleep, throws him out, and Eddie promises to be gone by the next evening.
- Phoebe and Monica press a book about women reclaiming their wind from men on Rachel, and Phoebe reads Joey offering pastries as proof of the theory.
- Joey's agent Estelle lines up an audition for a two-line cab driver, and Joey turns it down as beneath a former soap opera neurosurgeon.
- Rachel finishes the book, refuses to leave for the film with Ross, and accuses him of stealing her wind.
- Joey opens a credit card bill for thousands spent on ceramic animals, and Ross telling him to take the cab job turns into a fight that sends Ross home.
- Eddie is still in the apartment dehydrating fruit with no memory of agreeing to leave, so Chandler orders him out a second time and Eddie pockets the goldfish on his way.
- Joey goes to the cab driver audition after all and talks himself out of the part by lecturing the casting director.
- The book's questionnaire turns into Monica, Phoebe and Rachel dredging up old betrayals over boyfriends, and the three stop speaking.
- Movers repossess Joey's collection, Ross apologises for being harsh and admires Joey for taking the risk, then buys back the porcelain greyhound as a gift.
- Rachel brings Monica and Phoebe cake at the coffee house and the three make peace.
- Eddie turns up remembering none of it and inventing a trip to Las Vegas with Chandler, so Chandler and Joey pretend Eddie has the wrong apartment and Joey moves back in.
S2 · E20 The One Where Old Yeller Dies
Ross gets Ben for a whole weekend and tells Rachel he has their next twenty years planned, Richard becomes Joey and Chandler's new favourite person, and Phoebe learns her mother hid the sad endings of movies from her.
- Phoebe watches the real ending of Old Yeller for the first time and finds out the dog is shot.
- Monica talks Joey and Chandler into giving their spare Knicks ticket to Richard, and they accept once they hear about his Jaguar.
- Ross learns from Carol and Susan that he missed Ben pulling himself up, and asks to keep Ben for a full weekend, which they grant immediately.
- Phoebe's grandmother explains that her mother used to hide the endings of sad films from her, before her mother killed herself.
- Joey and Chandler come back from the game devoted to Richard, who let them each drive the Jaguar.
- Joey takes up a cigar and Chandler grows a moustache in imitation of Richard, and Monica discovers that the guys Richard keeps going out with are Joey and Chandler.
- Ross tells Rachel about the two children and the house in Scarsdale he has planned for them, and Rachel invents an errand and walks out.
- Rachel tells Ross she refuses to have her life decided for her, Ross refuses to stop planning theirs, and the two of them say they love each other for the first time.
- Joey tells Richard he is cooler than their fathers, and Richard goes home feeling ancient rather than one of the guys.
- Rachel changes Ben's diaper and Ben says his first word to her, then says goodbye to her as well, while Ross misses both.
- Phoebe sits Ben down with a Bert and Ernie tape and warns him in advance that the frightening stretch ends well.
S2 · E21 The One With the Bullies
Two men bully Ross and Chandler out of their seats at Central Perk and steal Chandler's hat, Monica gambles her savings on the stock market, and Phoebe drives out to meet her birth father.
- Phoebe reads a run of coincidences as signs and decides she has to go and meet her birth father.
- Two men order Ross and Chandler out of their seats at Central Perk and take Chandler's hat as a joke.
- Monica comes back from an interview at a fifties theme restaurant that would have her cooking in costume, with $127 left in the bank.
- Monica watches the stock with her initials rise and decides to put every dollar she has into the market.
- A dog drives Phoebe back into the cab before she reaches the door, she loses her nerve and asks to go home, and the cab hits the dog on the way out.
- Ross asks Gunther to settle the seat dispute, and the two men punish the tattling by barring Ross and Chandler from the coffee house.
- Monica loses all her money on the market and accepts that she now has to take the diner job.
- Phoebe returns the stitched-up dog and learns from the woman at the house that her father walked out four years ago.
- The young man at the house works out that Phoebe is his half-sister, and Frank asks to call her so they can talk again.
- Ross and Chandler go back to the coffee house anyway, and the fight ends when a stranger steals the hat holding everyone's keys and watches, leaving the four men friendly.
S2 · E22 The One With the Two Parties
Both of Rachel's divorcing parents turn up for her birthday, so the friends run two separate parties across the hall from each other to keep the two of them apart.
- Monica plans a formal party with poached salmon, and when the others object she tells them to throw whatever party they want instead.
- Rachel returns from her sister's graduation, where her divorcing parents fought in public, so the group decides to invite only her mother.
- Mr. Greene arrives uninvited, and Monica fails to convince him that nothing is going on.
- Mrs. Greene arrives while her husband is still in the bedroom, so Monica hides the coats and sends the men to hold a second party across the hall.
- Rachel is surprised twice, realises both parents have come, and decides to split herself between the two parties rather than call it off.
- Monica's quiet party drives Gunther toward the door, and Phoebe offers to sneak him out.
- Ross fetches Mr. Greene's scotch, cigarettes and glasses to keep him occupied, and is caught wearing the glasses.
- Phoebe smuggles a group of guests across to the other party, and Monica catches her doing it.
- Mrs. Greene tells Rachel to see a therapist because she has chosen a boyfriend just like her father.
- Rachel breaks down in the hallway with Chandler over what her parents' divorce means for her, and Ross takes over comforting her.
S2 · E23 The One With the Chicken Pox
Phoebe catches chicken pox just as her submariner boyfriend Ryan arrives for two weeks, Joey takes a temp job at Chandler's office and plays it as a character, and Monica frets that Richard has no neurotic habits of his own.
- Phoebe tells the others that Ryan, a Navy boyfriend who surfaces every couple of years, is coming to New York for two whole weeks.
- Ross reports that Ben has chicken pox, and Phoebe, the only one who has never had it, spots a red bump on her arm.
- Monica admits to Richard that she remakes the bed so the tag and the flower blossoms sit correctly, and Richard tells her he loves her more for it.
- Chandler offers Joey an entry-level processing job at his office and tells him to play the part like a role.
- Ryan admits he has never had chicken pox either, then decides the spots are not going to keep him away and kisses Phoebe.
- Joey builds his processor character a whole family, giving Joseph a wife named Karen and two daughters.
- Joey, staying in character as Joseph, takes Mr. Douglas's side against Chandler, and Chandler loses the extra time he had asked for on the systems report.
- Monica duct-tapes oven mitts onto Phoebe's and Ryan's hands to stop the pair scratching themselves into scars.
- Chandler tells Joey he is letting both him and Joseph go, and Joey agrees to look for other work.
- Richard wakes Monica to tell her he must sleep on the west side of the bed so the ocean stays where he grew up with it, which delights her.
S2 · E24 The One With Barry and Mindy's Wedding
Rachel goes to Barry and Mindy's wedding as maid of honour and survives public humiliation, Monica and Richard split over whether to have children, and Chandler's online romance turns out to be Janice.
- Joey learns Warren Beatty is directing the film he auditioned for, and that Beatty rated his kissing poorly.
- Chandler tells everyone he has spent the night talking online to a woman he likes enough to drop his defensive joking.
- Monica asks Richard whether children are in his future, and Richard says he does not want to raise another family at his age.
- Phoebe has Chandler ask his online woman about birth control, and the answer reveals that she is married.
- Rachel discovers that Barry's parents told the guests she abandoned the wedding because syphilis had driven her mad.
- Phoebe talks Chandler out of dropping the married woman and he decides to meet her in person.
- Ross stands up at the reception, announces himself as Rachel's boyfriend, and tells the room she left Barry because she did not love him.
- Rachel refuses to walk out, takes the microphone, and leads the room in the song she once fled from in school.
- Richard offers to have children for Monica's sake, and Monica turns him down because he only agreed out of obligation.
- Chandler's online woman arrives at Central Perk and is Janice, and Ross finally kisses Joey for practice after the audition has already been lost.
Season 3
S3 · E1 The One With the Princess Leia Fantasy
Ross tells Rachel his Princess Leia fantasy, then loses it after Chandler shares a fantasy involving his own mother, while Joey tries to tolerate Janice and a sleepless Monica grieves Richard.
- Monica has not slept in three nights since her breakup with Richard, and finding one of his cigar butts has set her off again.
- Joey assumes Chandler is about to dump Janice, but Chandler insists he is staying with her because she makes him happy.
- Rachel asks Ross for a fantasy of his own and he describes Princess Leia in her gold bikini from Return of the Jedi.
- Chandler asks Joey outright to say he likes Janice, and Joey admits he cannot stand being near her.
- Ross is furious that Rachel repeated his fantasy to Phoebe, and Rachel argues that close friends tell each other everything.
- Janice confronts Joey about hating her and proposes a whole day out together for Chandler's sake.
- Ross tries sharing with Chandler, and Chandler ruins it by describing how his mother appears in his head during sex.
- Joey comes back from the day with Janice still unable to like her, but sure he can now be around her to keep Chandler.
- Monica's father visits and tells her Richard is taking the breakup badly, which finally lets her fall asleep.
- Rachel arrives in the Leia costume, but Ross now pictures Chandler's mother in her place and blames Chandler for wrecking it.
S3 · E2 The One Where No One's Ready
Ross has a museum banquet to get to, and none of his friends will finish dressing; his temper drives Rachel out of the evening until he agrees to drink a glass of congealed fat.
- Ross arrives in his tuxedo and finds that Joey and Chandler have not started getting dressed.
- Chandler comes back from the bathroom, finds Joey in the chair he had been sitting in, and Joey refuses to give it up.
- A message from Richard plays on the answering machine, and Monica cannot work out whether it is old or new.
- Joey flings dip at Chandler during their fight and stains Phoebe's dress with hummus.
- Monica leaves Richard a message, then uses his machine code to replay it and hears a woman thanking him for the day before.
- Chandler hides Joey's underwear because Joey took the chair cushions, and Joey leaves promising to do the opposite to him.
- Phoebe gives up on borrowing a dress and covers the stain with a large Christmas ribbon instead.
- Ross loses his temper at Rachel over her choice of shoes, and Rachel tells him she is no longer going to the banquet.
- Ross agrees to drink the glass of fat to prove he wants Rachel there, and Rachel stops him and says she will come.
- Monica erases Richard's messages and accidentally records her rambling apology as his outgoing greeting.
S3 · E3 The One With the Jam
Monica abandons her jam business and decides to have a baby using donor sperm, Phoebe dates the man who has been stalking her twin, and Chandler's sleeping trick lands Janice in a cast.
- Monica has been up since before dawn making jam, and says the business is how she plans to get past Richard.
- Phoebe confronts the man trailing her and learns he has mistaken her for Ursula, then talks him out of his shame and asks him for coffee.
- Chandler asks Ross and Rachel how to handle Janice, and Ross teaches him a move for escaping a cuddler by hugging her and rolling her back to her own side.
- Phoebe tells the others the man is called Malcom and that a restraining order kept him away from her, and she admits she likes him while insisting she only wants to cure him of Ursula.
- Monica works out that each jar would have to sell for seventeen dollars, drops the business, and announces she will have a baby alone using a sperm bank.
- Chandler attempts the roll on the sleeping Janice, gets his arm trapped, and yanks it free hard enough to fling her off the bed.
- Malcom surrenders his binoculars, night vision goggles and surveillance log to Phoebe, and the two of them kiss.
- Reading donor profiles aloud, Monica hits one that is unmistakably Joey, who admits he sold a sample after a university sex study.
- Phoebe follows Malcom into a subway station and catches him hiding from Ursula, so she ends the romance but offers to let him stalk her instead as a substitute.
- Joey paints Monica a picture of the husband and three children she might have had, which leaves her deflated about the donor plan.
S3 · E4 The One With the Metaphorical Tunnel
Chandler tries to cure his fear of commitment by rushing Janice, Phoebe poses as Joey's agent after losing his audition message, and Ross tries to get Ben to trade his Barbie for a boy's toy.
- Joey discovers that Phoebe took a message about an audition and never passed it on, so she telephones the casting director pretending to run an agency and books him a new appointment.
- Carol and Susan drop Ben off carrying a Barbie doll, and Ross starts offering him other toys to trade it away.
- Chandler explains that sharing a meal with Janice set off his panic about being a couple, and Joey advises him to beat the fear by becoming the most committed man alive.
- Chandler gives Janice a drawer in his dresser and raises the idea of moving in together, and Janice is frightened enough to leave.
- Chandler reports that Janice wants to slow down, and Monica and Rachel prescribe an accidental-on-purpose meeting where he behaves as though he does not care.
- Phoebe passes on a cruel rejection and tries to resign as Joey's agent, and Joey convinces her that blunt reasons are more use to him than Estelle's polite ones.
- Chandler corners Janice in a grocery store with a fake British accent and a made-up party, and Janice tells him he is either cheating or pathetic.
- Joey decides to go back to Estelle, and Phoebe cheerfully admits that she invented the insulting rejections to get out of the job.
- Janice telephones, Chandler apologises for his recent behaviour and admits he is crazy about her, and the two say they love each other.
- Carol and Susan return to find Ben clutching a G.I. Joe, and Monica embarrasses Ross by recalling that he dressed in their mother's clothes as a child and called himself Bea.
S3 · E5 The One With Frank Jr.
Phoebe spends a weekend with her half-brother Frank Jr. and struggles to find anything in common, while Joey's homemade entertainment unit drags him into retiling Monica's bathroom and Ross finalises a list of celebrities he may sleep with.
- Joey starts building an entertainment unit with a mail cubby in it and tells Chandler the job will take a single day.
- Phoebe waits outside the coffee house for Frank and tells Rachel that he is her last remaining chance at having a family.
- Chandler explains that he and Janice have each named five celebrities they are allowed to sleep with without the other getting angry.
- Phoebe introduces Frank to everyone, and his plans for their weekend turn out to be buying ninja stars and photographing a prostitute for a friend.
- Joey talks Monica into hating her bathroom floor, gouges a tile loose, and Monica orders him to retile the entire room.
- Phoebe hunts for a trait she shares with Frank, but he can roll his tongue and she cannot, and their birthdays are months apart.
- Phoebe is called in to work and invites Frank along to the massage parlour for a free massage from one of the other women.
- Frank gropes the masseuse because he assumed his sister worked at a brothel, and Phoebe angrily corrects him about what her job is.
- Frank apologises and tells Phoebe he can talk to her because she is his sister, and Phoebe decides that conversation is her favourite part of the weekend.
- Ross approaches Isabella Rossellini with his laminated list, and she turns him down once she sees that Chandler talked him into cutting her from it.
S3 · E6 The One With the Flashback
Janice asks whether any of the six have ever come close to sleeping together, and the answer plays out in a flashback to three years earlier, when almost every pair of them nearly got together.
- Janice asks the group whether any of them have ever nearly slept with each other, and the friends change the subject rather than answer.
- In a flashback to three years earlier, Chandler overhears Rachel telling her friends she wants one meaningless fling with the next man she sees, and he drops a cue ball near her table to be noticed.
- Still in the flashback, Monica recognises Rachel from high school, admires her engagement ring, and afterwards bets Chandler that she will never run into her again.
- In the flashback, Mr. Heckles convinces the photographer Chandler chose that the room is already taken, so the photographer leaves and Joey moves in instead.
- In the flashback, Monica invites Joey in for lemonade, Joey takes his clothes off because he reads the invitation as an offer of sex, and both of them are mortified.
- In the flashback, Phoebe finally admits she moved out weeks ago because Monica's tidiness left her no room to spill anything, and the two of them make up.
- In the flashback, Chandler finds Monica upset about being left alone, hugs her in her towel, and tells her she is the most beautiful woman he has met in person.
- In the flashback, Ross tells Phoebe at the bar that his marriage is finished because Carol is a lesbian, and he realises Carol's new gym friend Susan is her lover.
- In the flashback, Phoebe's comforting kisses turn into a real kiss with Ross, but his foot gets stuck in the pool table pocket and the balls get in the way, so nothing comes of it.
- In the flashback, Rachel daydreams while driving home that she returns to the bar and asks Chandler to sleep with her, then tells her friends she was thinking about Barry.
S3 · E7 The One With the Race Car Bed
Rachel makes Ross have dinner with her disapproving father, Phoebe signs for a delivery as Monica and saddles her with a race car bed, and Joey sabotages the student he is coaching for a role he wants.
- Rachel tells Ross her father is coming to dinner, and Ross agrees to come only after she bargains with him.
- Monica shops at the Mattress King despite the store belonging to Janice's ex-husband, and Phoebe drops her objection once she tries the mattress.
- Phoebe signs the delivery form in Monica's name, then gets caught up boxing with Joey and lets the movers carry a race car bed into Monica's room.
- Ross secretly adds a twenty to cover Dr. Green's four percent tip, and Dr. Green catches him, tears up the bill and leaves Ross to pay for the whole dinner.
- One of Joey's acting students asks Joey to coach him for the boxer part on All My Children, the same role Joey is auditioning for.
- Rachel breaks down over the idea of keeping Ross and her father apart, and Ross agrees to try again at brunch.
- Monica finds the race car bed, Phoebe admits she signed for it as Monica, and the store will not take it back.
- Joey admits to the others that he told his student to play the boxer as gay because he wanted the part for himself.
- At brunch Ross and Dr. Green finally get along by agreeing that Rachel's chiropractor is a fraud and that she needs renter's insurance.
- Monica goes back to the store to undo the sale, Joey pushes past the clerk to demand the king, and Janice is in the back room.
S3 · E8 The One With the Giant Poking Device
Phoebe fears her dentist visits kill people and the group builds a chopstick pole to poke a motionless neighbour, while Monica hides banging Ben's head and Chandler learns Janice has been kissing her ex-husband.
- Phoebe tells the others she avoids her dentist because someone she knows dies every time she goes.
- Joey tells Monica and the others that he saw Janice kissing her ex-husband, and he decides to say nothing to Chandler.
- Monica knocks Ben's head against a ceiling beam while babysitting, and she and Rachel agree to keep it from Ross.
- Joey stops Chandler from buying Janice pearls and admits that he saw her kissing her ex-husband.
- Janice admits to two kisses and tells Chandler that she loves both men and cannot choose between them.
- Phoebe declares the curse broken until Joey points out that Ugly Naked Guy has not moved all day, and Joey suggests poking him.
- Joey advises Chandler to step aside rather than stand between Janice and her family.
- Rachel blurts out to Ross that Monica is the one who banged Ben's head.
- Chandler tells Janice to go back to her husband, then begs her to stay, but Janice leaves anyway.
- The poking device reaches Ugly Naked Guy through his window, and he proves to be alive.
S3 · E9 The One With the Football
A Thanksgiving touch football game restarts Ross and Monica's childhood rivalry over the Geller Cup, while Chandler and Joey compete for a Dutch spectator and Rachel fights to be given a real part in the game.
- Joey proposes a game in the park and talks a moping Chandler into playing as a way of getting past his breakup with Janice.
- Ross and Monica explain that their mother banned them from football after Monica broke Ross's nose at Geller Bowl VI and their father threw the Geller Cup into a lake, and Monica talks Ross into playing again.
- Monica and Ross make themselves captains and pick teams, and Ross leaves Rachel until last, which she takes badly.
- A Dutch woman named Margha returns their stray ball, and both Joey and Chandler stop the game to introduce themselves before she asks to stay and watch.
- Chandler admits he wants Margha's number, Joey tells him he would have no chance without permission, and Chandler turns it into a contest between them.
- Phoebe scores as the timer sounds, Ross and Monica deadlock over whether the play counted, and Monica declares a tie at halftime and produces the Geller Cup as the prize, revealing that she swam into the lake and recovered it years ago.
- Monica trades Joey to Ross for Rachel to prove she can still win, turning the second half into the men against the women.
- Ross demands that Margha choose between Chandler and Joey, she picks Chandler, and then withdraws her answer when Chandler celebrates over Joey.
- Rachel insists that Monica let her throw instead of running deep, and her throw hits Monica in the face.
- Rachel's touchdown is ruled five feet short of the end zone, the others give up and go home to Thanksgiving dinner, and Ross and Monica are left wrestling over the ball in the dark park as it starts to snow.
S3 · E10 The One Where Rachel Quits
Rachel quits her waitressing job to force herself toward fashion and lands one after a bad interview, while Ross sells Brown Bird cookies for the girl whose leg he broke.
- Ross swings a racquet on the stairs to show off and knocks a Brown Bird named Sarah down, breaking her leg.
- Ross visits Sarah and learns she wanted to win a trip to Spacecamp by selling the most cookies, so he takes over her route.
- Phoebe apologises to Joey for judging his tree lot, then sees a dead tree fed into the chipper and is horrified.
- Chandler and Joey tell Rachel that keeping a job she hates removes any reason to find a better one, and Rachel gives Gunther her notice.
- Ross has sold five hundred and seventeen boxes by working late crowds and university dorms, and Monica begs him for more cookies.
- Joey tells Rachel his father heard of an opening at Fortunata Fashions and offers to get her an interview.
- At the Brown Bird tally Ross comes second, beaten by a nineteen-year-old who borrowed her sister's uniform.
- Rachel admits she ruined the interview, and finds that Terry has already hired a new waitress in her place.
- Joey and Monica surprise Phoebe with the discarded trees they rescued, and Rachel takes a call telling her she got the job.
- Ross brings Sarah to Joey and Chandler's apartment, which the three of them have decorated as a private Spacecamp for her.
S3 · E11 The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister
Chandler wakes from Joey's birthday party knowing he fooled around with one of Joey's seven sisters but not which one, while Rachel trades a menial job untangling hangers for one at Bloomingdale's that makes Ross jealous.
- Monica complains about her loud upstairs neighbor, and Phoebe marches up to confront him but comes back charmed by him.
- Chandler arrives miserable after seeing Janice skating happily with her husband.
- Mr. Kaplan promises Rachel a project closer to fashion and then hands her a closet full of tangled hangers.
- A customer at the diner named Mark tells Rachel about an opening at Bloomingdale's, and Rachel gives him her number.
- Ross decides Mark is only helping Rachel because he wants to sleep with her, and Joey agrees with him.
- A hungover Chandler admits he fooled around with one of Joey's seven sisters at the party and cannot remember which one.
- Joey finds out the sister is Mary-Angela and is delighted, Chandler claims he could fall for her, and Ross makes Chandler end it in person rather than by letter.
- Monica pushes Rachel to call Mark herself instead of waiting, and Rachel wins an interview.
- At the family dinner Chandler kisses Mary-Theresa by mistake, the sisters expose him, and Joey forgives him but lets Cookie punch him.
- Rachel gets the Bloomingdale's job and hugs Mark instead of Ross.
S3 · E12 The One With All the Jealousy
Ross's jealousy of Rachel's co-worker Mark pushes him to smother her new office with gifts, while Phoebe convinces Monica that Julio's poem is an insult and Joey's faked dance résumé catches up with him.
- Mark picks up Rachel's office phone, and Ross presses her until she explains that she and Mark share the office as Joanna's two assistants.
- Joey earns a callback but learns it includes a dance audition, and Chandler discovers that the years of dance training on Joey's résumé are invented.
- Monica brings the friends a poem Julio left behind, and after she goes, Phoebe reads it as an insult and decides Monica is the empty vase of the title.
- Ross buries Rachel's desk in flowers and a musical toy and sends a barbershop quartet to sing about her loyal boyfriend in front of her colleagues.
- Rachel tells Ross the gifts are him marking his territory, and mentions that Mark has been explaining Ross's behaviour to her.
- Ross turns up at the store, sees Mark kissing a woman and shouts at him, then covers by pretending he is an unserved customer shopping for a tie.
- The director's dance captain cannot make it, so he hands Joey the group and tells him to teach the other dancers the combination.
- Monica accuses Julio of calling her empty, and he tells her the poem is about American women in general, which does not comfort her.
- Ross apologises and admits he fears losing Rachel the way he lost Carol, and Rachel tells him that trust leaves no room for jealousy.
- Ross mentions a play date with the stripper from the bachelor party, and Rachel, who has just lectured him, becomes jealous herself.
S3 · E13 The One Where Monica and Richard are Just Friends
Monica meets Richard again and they try being friends who sleep together, until she asks for more and he still does not want children; Rachel and Joey swap favourite books, and Phoebe's new boyfriend keeps falling out of his shorts.
- Monica runs into Richard at the video store, where he covers her late fee and she notices that he has shaved off his moustache.
- Richard asks Monica out for a burger as friends, and she says it is too soon before going anyway.
- Phoebe arrives with roller blades and explains that a man she met in the park, Robert, is teaching her sports.
- Monica tells the others she is seeing Richard again and insists they can only be friends, because he still does not want children and she does.
- Rachel dares Joey to read Little Women while she reads his beloved copy of The Shining, and Joey takes the trade.
- Chandler spots that Robert is hanging out of his shorts, and Ross confirms it by peering under the coffee table.
- Richard turns up at Monica's door mid-phone-call, they sleep together, and they decide they can be friends who also sleep together.
- Joey and Rachel ruin the endings of each other's books, and Rachel lies that Beth dies purely to wound him.
- Phoebe tries to break things off with Robert, who sits down and exposes himself again, until Gunther tells him to cover up.
- Monica hides in Richard's bedroom while he shows his blind date around, then asks him to be exclusive, and when he repeats that nothing has changed she walks out for good.
S3 · E14 The One With Phoebe's Ex-Partner
Phoebe's former singing partner Leslie wants to work together again, Chandler dates a woman whose artificial leg Joey once burned, and Ross follows Rachel to a fashion lecture to prove he belongs in her new life.
- Phoebe sulks through a new singer's set at Central Perk until the singer turns out to be Leslie, her old singing partner, apologising in song for walking out on her.
- Leslie asks Phoebe to reform the act, and Phoebe turns her down twice without hesitating.
- Chandler meets a woman named Ginger coming out of the men's room and gives up his place in line to keep talking to her.
- Ross learns that Mark has quit Rachel's office for a better job, then hears Mark confirm plans to see Rachel on Saturday.
- Joey admits to Monica and Phoebe that he once mistook Ginger's artificial leg for firewood, threw it on the fire, and ran.
- Ross confesses he minds Rachel going to the fashion lecture with Mark and volunteers to go with her instead.
- Phoebe admits to Monica that she misses playing with Leslie, then joins Leslie onstage and improvises a song with her.
- After the lecture Ross tells Rachel he feels shut out of her new life, and Rachel explains she wants her work kept separate from him.
- Ginger tells Chandler his discomfort about her leg is his to sort out, then walks out on him the moment she discovers his third nipple.
- Leslie sells Smelly Cat to a kitty litter company behind Phoebe's back, so Phoebe ends the partnership and writes a new song about her.
S3 · E15 The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break
Ross and Rachel fight over her job on their anniversary, Rachel asks for a break from the relationship, and Ross ends the night drinking and dancing with a copy-shop clerk named Chloe.
- Phoebe asks Monica for an atlas because she has a date with a diplomat whose country she cannot find and who speaks no English.
- Chandler talks Joey into going to the copy shop with him to see Chloe, and she invites them both to a club where her coworker is playing records.
- Ross learns that Rachel is stuck at work with a shipping crisis and is cancelling their anniversary dinner.
- Ross turns up at Rachel's office with a picnic, distracts her, sets a small fire with his candle, and Rachel throws him out.
- Rachel and Ross fight at home about her job and about Mark, and Rachel says they should take a break, meaning a break from each other.
- Ross arrives at the club, where Chloe greets him as a regular customer and he tells Chandler and Joey that he and Rachel are breaking up.
- Mark comes over with Chinese food, and Rachel admits to him that she does not actually want the break.
- Ross phones Rachel to say they should work things out, hears Mark in the apartment, and hangs up on her.
- Mischa resigns his post and takes Monica off to another club, leaving Phoebe and Sergei to work out a few words on their own.
- Chloe gets Ross onto the dance floor after he tells her he would rather drink than dance.
S3 · E16 The One the Morning After
Ross sleeps with a woman from the copy shop on the night he and Rachel break up, then spends the day trying to keep her from finding out, and Rachel ends the relationship once Gunther tells her.
- Rachel tells Monica that she and Ross broke up on their anniversary, and that after talking to Mark she has decided she wants to make the relationship work.
- Ross wakes at his apartment with Chloe there and plays a message from Rachel saying she loves him and will come by at half past eight.
- Ross hurries Chloe out, hides her behind the door when Rachel arrives early, and agrees to take Rachel back while Chloe is still in the apartment.
- Ross tells Chandler and Joey what he did, and they talk him out of confessing to Rachel.
- Joey warns Ross to think about who might pass the news along, and Chandler works out the chain from Chloe through Isaac and Jasmine to Phoebe and then Rachel.
- Monica and Phoebe try out the leg-waxing kit Monica bought from an infomercial and discover that it hurts a great deal.
- Ross visits Chloe, Isaac and Jasmine in turn to buy their silence, and learns that Jasmine's roommate is Gunther and that Gunther has already told Rachel.
- Rachel throws Ross out and refuses to look at him, while Monica, Phoebe, Chandler and Joey listen from Monica's bedroom and Monica discovers the men knew.
- Rachel works out that Chloe was still in the apartment when she arrived that morning, and Ross defends himself by saying he believed they had already ended.
- Ross begs Rachel to find a way past it, and Rachel tells him he has become a different person to her and that the relationship is over.
S3 · E17 The One Without the Ski Trip
The group leaves Ross behind for a ski weekend at Rachel's sister's cabin, breaks down on the way, and has to be rescued by Ross himself, who then forces a truce with Rachel.
- Rachel invites the group to a lingerie show, and they turn her down because Ross claimed that night first.
- Chandler is caught smoking again and blames his parents' divorce for starting him on it.
- Rachel returns and asks the group first about a ski weekend at her sister's cabin, and they all accept.
- Ross learns the group is leaving for the weekend and refuses every offer to stay behind with him.
- Rachel slams the cab door at a rest stop and locks the keys inside.
- Phoebe surrenders her bra so Joey can use the underwire to open the door, and then the cab runs out of gas.
- Ross turns up at Carol's, interrupts her anniversary dinner with Susan, and settles in to talk about the breakup.
- Phoebe phones Ross for help, Ross refuses, and Carol hands him her keys and shames him into going.
- Ross arrives at the rest stop, Rachel refuses to let him join the trip, and the fight reveals that Monica and Joey have been taking his side.
- Phoebe makes Ross and Rachel promise to be civil for the group's sake, and Ross drives home alone rather than spoil the weekend.
S3 · E18 The One With the Hypnosis Tape
Frank turns up engaged to his much older former Home Ec teacher, and Phoebe talks Alice out of the wedding while a rich customer buys his way into a date with Monica.
- Rachel gives Chandler a hypnosis tape and tells him it made a colleague of hers stop smoking.
- Frank arrives at the coffee house and tells Phoebe he is getting married, which delights her.
- Frank introduces Alice, who is decades older than he is and taught his Home Economics class, and she says the two of them want children immediately.
- Phoebe cannot bring herself to object to Frank's face, so she asks Ross and Joey to talk him out of the marriage for her.
- Monica shows the others the twenty thousand dollar tip her customer left her, and Chandler recognises him as the millionaire behind a piece of office software.
- Frank's account of loving Alice wins Ross and Joey over completely, and they come back as his best man and his ring bearer.
- Phoebe lures Alice to her flat with a stained tablecloth and then asks her to call the wedding off.
- Pete destroys the cheque in front of Monica and gets her to agree to a single dinner by promising her ten thousand dollars if she has a bad time.
- Frank tells Phoebe that Alice has ended the engagement, and when Phoebe admits she caused it he turns on her.
- Phoebe brings Alice over to justify the breakup to Frank, the two of them start kissing instead, and Phoebe gives up and lets the relationship stand.
S3 · E19 The One With the Tiny T-Shirt
Ross and Rachel divide their belongings after the breakup and fight over an old T-shirt, Monica tells Pete she is not attracted to him, and Joey's feud with his co-star Kate turns into attraction.
- Mark tells Rachel he has wanted to ask her out since before she was single, and Rachel says she will think it over.
- Monica tells the others that Pete is generous and funny but that she feels no physical attraction to him at all.
- At the first rehearsal Kate dismisses Joey as a soap actor and recognises him from an infomercial, which humiliates him.
- Rachel hands Ross a box of the things he left behind, and Ross retaliates by demanding his book and the T-shirt she sleeps in.
- Ross squeezes into the undersized old T-shirt and walks out wearing it rather than let Rachel keep it.
- Monica admits to the group that she is only ever drawn to men who have no future with her.
- Ross watches Rachel's date with Mark through the peephole, and Chandler physically stops him from interrupting and makes him accept that the relationship is finished.
- Rachel calls off her date with Mark partway through, telling him she only agreed to it to hurt Ross.
- Monica tells Pete plainly that she is not attracted to him, and Pete replies that he expects her to change her mind.
- Chandler tells Joey that his constant complaining about Kate is a crush, and Joey concedes he has been imagining her sexually.
- Joey kisses Kate properly during the rehearsal and asks her out for coffee, but she leaves with the director instead.
S3 · E20 The One With the Dollhouse
Monica inherits her late aunt's dollhouse and shuts Phoebe out of playing with it, Rachel sets Chandler up with her boss Joanna, and Joey sleeps with Kate, who tells him afterwards that it meant nothing.
- Ross tells Monica that their Aunt Silvia has died, and their father is giving Monica the dollhouse she was never allowed to touch as a child.
- Joanna meets Chandler at Rachel's office and asks Rachel to find out whether he is available.
- Phoebe furnishes the dollhouse with an oversized dog, a ghost and a dinosaur, and Monica bans all of them, so Phoebe walks out.
- Phoebe comes back with a dollhouse she built herself, complete with a slide, an edible room and bubbles, and Ross and Rachel abandon Monica's house for it.
- Chandler tells Rachel the date was dull, while Joanna tells Rachel it went perfectly and asks to be put through when he calls.
- Kate and Joey rework their scene by inventing a far more physical version of it, and end up acting it out together.
- Joey tells Ross and Monica that he slept with Kate and describes watching her sleep afterwards.
- Kate refuses to tell the director anything happened and tells Joey it meant nothing to her.
- Phoebe arrives to find her dollhouse burned to a shell, and Ross explains that the fire started in the incense room.
- Rachel twists Chandler's nipple until he admits to Joanna that he will not call her and that it is over.
S3 · E21 The One With a Chick and a Duck
Joey buys a baby chick that he and Chandler end up keeping, Monica accepts Pete's offer of a head chef job and then walks away from it, and Ross misses a television appearance for an injured Rachel.
- Monica practises roller skating outside Central Perk and crashes into Rachel, hurting her ribs.
- Pete comes back from his trip and tells Monica he has bought a restaurant and wants her as head chef.
- Monica tells Rachel she cannot take the job because Pete has feelings for her that she does not return.
- Joey brings home a baby chick and gives it to Chandler as a present.
- Pete says he met a journalist named Ann on the plane, so Monica accepts the job and quits the diner.
- Phoebe works out that Ann does not exist, and Pete admits he invented her and makes Phoebe promise to keep quiet.
- Chandler and Joey argue like exhausted parents over who looks after the chick and agree to take her back.
- Rachel refuses to go to the hospital before her boss's dinner, so Ross stays behind to help her get ready.
- The store and the shelter both refuse the chick, so Chandler keeps her, and he later brings home a duck as well.
- Pete admits he still loves Monica, she turns down the job and ends the friendship, then kisses him.
- Ross tells Rachel he skipped his Discovery Channel panel to be with her at the hospital, and she is moved.
S3 · E22 The One With the Screamer
Rachel dates a man who screams at strangers, and Ross is the only one who sees it, while Joey spends a night with his co-star Kate just before she leaves for a job in Los Angeles.
- Ross announces he is bringing a date from work to Joey's premiere, and Rachel instantly claims she is bringing someone too.
- At the theatre Rachel's date Tommy tears into a couple sitting in the wrong seats, then turns pleasant again, leaving Ross badly rattled.
- The director reads out the review, which mocks Kate's performance and his own direction, and he insults the cast and walks out.
- Kate tells Joey that the director dumped her over the review, admits she always picks the talented man over the kind one, and then passes out on him.
- Joey tells Monica that he and Kate talked until morning, and Monica convinces him that the two of them are now a couple.
- Ross warns Rachel to stop seeing Tommy, and Rachel and Chandler treat the warning as jealousy and mock him.
- Tommy corners Ross over a nearly spilled cup of coffee and screams at him where none of the others can see.
- Tommy loses his temper at the chick and the duck in front of everyone, and he ends things with Rachel on his way out.
- Kate tells Joey she will not stay in New York for him, and Joey says goodbye to her through his lines on stage.
- After two days on hold Phoebe finally gives in to the others, slams the phone down and breaks it.
S3 · E23 The One With Ross's Thing
Ross tries to get an unidentifiable growth removed from his backside, Phoebe secretly dates two men at once, and Monica mistakes Pete's news for a marriage proposal.
- Ross drops his trousers in Chandler and Joey's apartment and asks them to identify a growth he found in the shower.
- Phoebe brings her fireman boyfriend Vince to the coffee house and then admits to the others that she is also seeing a kindergarten teacher named Jason, and that neither man knows about the other.
- Ross reports that his doctor calls the growth harmless but refuses to cut it off, because he cannot say what it is.
- Monica finds a message from Pete saying they need to talk when he returns from Atlanta, and decides he is ending the relationship.
- A room full of doctors is assembled to examine Ross, and the one treating him admits that twenty-three years of practice have left him with no answer.
- Pete tells Monica over his video-phone that his news is good, and Joey then finds a fifty thousand dollar cheque made out to a ring designer, which convinces the group that Pete intends to propose.
- Phoebe chooses Jason and goes to the fire house to end things with Vince, but Vince weeps and mentions his journal, so she does not go through with it.
- Monica looks at a bridal magazine with Rachel and admits that she has already imagined saying yes and that the idea makes her happy.
- Phoebe's herbalist fails with a salve, then removes the growth by accident when it snags on his watch.
- Pete finally explains his news, which is that he wants to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion and had the ring designer build him a training octagon.
- Jason turns up while Phoebe is performing, Vince confronts him, Phoebe confesses to dating both, and each man walks out on her.
S3 · E24 The One With the Ultimate Fighting Champion
Monica breaks up with Pete when he refuses to quit ultimate fighting, Chandler asks his boss to stop slapping his backside, and Rachel regrets letting Phoebe set Ross up with Bonnie.
- Monica tells the group that Pete's big news is not a proposal but his decision to enter an ultimate fighting contest.
- Chandler's new boss Doug enjoys one of his jokes, welcomes him to the team, and slaps him on the backside.
- Phoebe asks Rachel for permission to set Ross up with her friend Bonnie, and Rachel agrees because she remembers Bonnie as bald.
- Rachel meets Bonnie, discovers she has grown her hair back, and accuses Phoebe of leaving that out.
- Pete loses his first fight badly and tells Monica he will not stop competing until he is the champion.
- Ross tells Phoebe that he liked Bonnie far more than he expected and has arranged a second date.
- Chandler finally tells Doug that the slapping makes him uncomfortable, and Doug respects him for raising it.
- Rachel spots Ross and Bonnie together and admits to Phoebe that she did not expect Ross to be happy again this quickly.
- Pete turns up in a body cast still refusing to quit, so Monica ends the relationship rather than watch him get hurt.
- Doug slaps every other man on the team and shakes Chandler's hand instead, and Chandler admits he wants the slap after all.
S3 · E25 The One at the Beach
Phoebe leads the group to a Montauk beach house to question her mother's old friend, who turns out to be her birth mother, while Rachel talks Ross's girlfriend Bonnie into shaving her head.
- Phoebe shows the others a photograph of her mother's high school best friend, also named Phoebe, and proposes a weekend trip to the woman's house by the beach.
- Monica frets about being single, and Chandler offers himself as a hypothetical boyfriend, which she treats as a joke.
- Phoebe introduces herself to Phoebe Abbott, who says she lost touch with everyone after high school and cannot help find Frank.
- Phoebe quietly pockets a photograph from the older woman's fridge and tells the others she thinks it is her father, so the woman must be lying.
- Monica accuses Rachel of flirting with Ross, Rachel admits she feels something, and Bonnie arrives early from work.
- Rachel tells Bonnie that she looked wonderful bald and pushes her to shave her head again, and Bonnie agrees to do it.
- Phoebe Abbott cancels their dinner and leaves town, so Phoebe decides to search the house for anything about her father.
- Ross works out that Rachel handed Bonnie the razor, and the argument turns into both of them admitting they still love each other.
- Phoebe breaks in, learns the man in the photograph is a stranger, and Phoebe Abbott tells her that she is her mother.
- Ross climbs the stairs, weighs the two bedroom doors, and goes through the one on his right.
Season 4
S4 · E1 The One With the Jellyfish
Ross leaves Bonnie for Rachel, then wrecks the reunion by admitting he never finished her letter, while Phoebe confronts the woman who gave her up and Monica is stung by a jellyfish.
- Ross picks Rachel's door, kisses her, and goes off to end things with Bonnie that same night.
- Phoebe Sr. explains that she was eighteen and frightened when she gave the baby away, and Phoebe tells her she never wants to see her again.
- Ross comes back single, and Rachel hands him an eighteen-page letter she wants answered before they get back together.
- Ross falls asleep over the letter, pretends at dawn that he read it twice, and tells Rachel his answer is yes.
- A jellyfish stings Monica on the beach, and Joey insists the only cure is for someone to urinate on the sting.
- Ross finally reads the part he missed, learns he has agreed to take all the blame for the breakup, and lets Chandler talk him into keeping quiet.
- Ursula tells Phoebe that their mother's suicide note named their birth mother in Montauk, and that she never mentioned it.
- The three of them confess what happened on the beach: Monica could not reach the sting, Joey froze, and Chandler had to do it.
- Phoebe Sr. turns up at the coffee house, the two of them discover they like the same things, and Phoebe agrees to go and eat with her.
- Rachel praises Ross for owning up, Ross snaps that he never finished the letter, and the two of them break up again.
S4 · E2 The One With the Cat
Phoebe adopts a stray cat she believes holds her dead mother's spirit, Joey and Chandler get robbed while selling their entertainment center, and Monica finally dates her high-school crush Chip and finds him unchanged.
- Chandler rips his coat on the entertainment center again and talks Joey into selling it.
- Chip Matthews leaves Monica a message, and Rachel calls him back assuming it was meant for her.
- Phoebe picks up a stray cat at Central Perk and decides it carries the spirit of her mother Lily.
- Rachel objects to Monica dating Chip, then relents after Monica describes how invisible she felt in high school.
- Rachel brings in a flyer showing the cat belongs to a little girl in Soho, and Ross orders the others to tell Phoebe.
- Joey bets a buyer he can fit inside the unit and climbs in to prove it.
- Chandler comes home to an emptied apartment and lets Joey out of the unit the thief locked him into.
- Monica learns Chip still works at the multiplex and lives with his parents, so she dumps him.
- Ross tells Phoebe the cat is only a cat, and after she pushes back about losing a parent he apologises to the cat and she agrees to return it.
S4 · E3 The One With the 'Cuffs
Chandler dates Rachel's boss Joanna, who handcuffs him to a chair in her office and leaves, forcing Rachel to bargain for his release, while Monica caters a party for her mother.
- Rachel finds Joanna in Chandler's apartment and makes him promise to end the relationship.
- An encyclopedia salesman convinces Joey that the books would fill the gaps in his knowledge, and Joey invites him in.
- While catering her mother's party, Monica loses a fake nail into the quiches, and Mrs. Geller opens the freezer to show the backup lasagnas she bought expecting Monica to fail.
- Chandler breaks up with Joanna, who handcuffs him to her chair and then leaves the office for hours.
- Rachel lets herself into the locked office with a key Mark gave her, finds Chandler cuffed, and frees him only after he agrees to stop seeing Joanna.
- Phoebe persuades Monica to go back downstairs and serve a dish of her own instead of her mother's lasagna.
- Joey cannot afford the twelve-hundred-dollar set, so he spends his only fifty dollars on the single volume V.
- Rachel wins Chandler's cooperation by promising to spread flattering rumours about him.
- The guests eat Monica's casserole and leave the lasagna alone, and Mrs. Geller admits that she was wrong about her.
- Rachel arrives the next morning to find Joanna handcuffed to her own chair, and Joanna declares the relationship finished.
S4 · E4 The One With the Ballroom Dancing
Joey gets Monica and Rachel evicted by confronting the superintendent, then wins them a reprieve by becoming Treeger's ballroom dance partner, while Phoebe loses her job over a client she kisses.
- Rachel jams a pizza box into the trash chute that Mr. Treeger has just spent half an hour clearing, and he calls her a pampered princess until she cries.
- Chandler admits he has been paying for a gym he never attends and cannot make himself cancel, so Ross agrees to go along and stiffen his resolve.
- Joey demands an apology, and Treeger answers by threatening to tell the landlord that Monica is illegally subletting her grandmother's apartment.
- Phoebe confesses that her next client is a man she is attracted to, and she refuses to hand him to another masseuse.
- Joey reports that he has got the women evicted, and Monica orders him back downstairs to grovel.
- Chandler loses his nerve at the membership office, and while he is inside, Maria signs Ross up as a member.
- Joey offers to do anything to keep the women in the apartment, and Treeger's price is that Joey partner him for a superintendents' dance so he can impress a woman named Marge.
- Ross and Chandler go to close the bank accounts funding the gym, get handed to another beautiful employee, and leave with a joint checking account instead.
- Phoebe tells Rick about her crush, he offers to switch masseuses, and her boss walks in on them kissing and fires her.
- Joey and Treeger finally land the routine, Treeger decides he is ready to dance with women, and Joey turns down the invitation to come along.
S4 · E5 The One With Joey's New Girlfriend
Chandler falls for Kathy, the woman Joey has started dating, and hides it badly, while Ross discovers his evening with Amanda is a babysitting job and Rachel takes up with a college student who robs her.
- Chandler works up the nerve to introduce himself to a woman at the coffee house, and Joey walks in and kisses her, revealing that Kathy is his date.
- Chandler and Kathy both get up in the middle of the night for the same television programme and spend it laughing together in his living room.
- Phoebe's cold leaves her singing voice husky, and she decides she sounds better and sexier than she ever has.
- Rachel brings home a college soccer player named Josh, kisses him in front of Ross, and praises him for everything Ross is not.
- Ross arrives at Amanda's flat expecting a romantic evening and learns that she has hired him to watch her son while she goes out with another man.
- Chandler tells Monica, Ross and Phoebe that he is in love with Joey's girlfriend and cannot stop thinking about her.
- Joey reads Chandler's avoidance as dislike of Kathy and makes him come to dinner with them to make an effort.
- At the restaurant Chandler pours out everything he feels for Kathy to Joey, framing it as an example of what he could say, and Joey hears it as him faking enthusiasm.
- Monica loses patience and tells Ross he is a babysitter, mocks Rachel for a boyfriend who steals from her, and points out that the ring Josh bought Rachel belongs to Monica.
- Phoebe's cold clears and her voice goes back to normal, so she kisses Gunther to catch his.
S4 · E6 The One With the Dirty Girl
Ross dates a beautiful paleontologist whose apartment is buried in garbage, Chandler secretly buys Kathy a rare book and lets Joey pass it off as his own, and Monica and Phoebe become catering partners.
- Ross says goodnight to his date Cheryl outside Central Perk, and the others learn she is a paleontology doctoral candidate he works alongside.
- Chandler shows off a rare early edition of Kathy's favourite childhood book, and after Ross points out it will humiliate her actual boyfriend, Chandler decides to make sure Joey's gift is good too.
- Monica has turned down a funeral catering job because she cannot afford the food and equipment, so Phoebe lends her five hundred dollars.
- Ross goes up to Cheryl's apartment and finds it piled with garbage, and when he suggests his own place instead, Cheryl tells him it smells strange.
- Chandler fails to find a better present, so he hands the book to Joey and asks him to give it to Kathy as his own.
- Phoebe interrupts the grieving widow's singing and refuses to leave until the bill is settled, and the widow goes to fetch her bag.
- Ross returns to Cheryl's couch, panics at something moving under the rubbish and swats it, then learns he has killed a rat rather than her hamster.
- Monica proposes that she and Phoebe become catering partners, with Phoebe handling the money, and Phoebe agrees.
- Kathy thanks Chandler for the book, having worked out that he was the one who found it.
- Monica arrives at Cheryl's door after the relationship has ended and asks to clean the apartment, and Cheryl turns her down.
S4 · E7 The One Where Chandler Crosses the Line
Chandler, secretly in love with Joey's girlfriend Kathy, spends an evening alone with her and kisses her, then confesses to Joey and loses his friendship, while Ross plays his private keyboard music in public.
- Chandler tells the group he has just walked in on Kathy naked and admits he is in love with his roommate's girlfriend.
- Chandler discovers that Joey is dating Casey as well as Kathy, and he pushes Joey to settle on one woman.
- Monica and Phoebe talk Ross into playing his private keyboard compositions, and the friends praise the result while privately finding it dreadful.
- Joey's car breaks down after his date with Casey, leaving Chandler alone with Kathy, who cuts his hair and then comes back to the apartment for her purse.
- Chandler and Kathy break off a kiss and agree to pretend it never happened, then kiss again at the door.
- Ross performs at Central Perk and empties the room, and Phoebe refuses to take the stage after him because she feels outclassed by his talent.
- Chandler fills the apartment with expensive new furniture out of guilt, and Joey, taking Chandler's advice about choosing one woman, decides to commit to Kathy.
- Chandler tells Joey he has feelings for Kathy, and Joey reveals that Kathy has already ended things with him and gives Chandler his blessing.
- Chandler admits he has already kissed Kathy, and Joey turns on him and refuses to use anything in the apartment.
- Ross gives up his slot to Phoebe and then reveals that he had been playing badly on purpose.
S4 · E8 The One With Chandler in a Box
Joey refuses to speak to Chandler for kissing Kathy, so Chandler spends Thanksgiving inside a wooden box to prove the friendship matters, while Monica dates Richard's son and Ross learns Rachel exchanges his gifts.
- Phoebe suggests a secret Santa to save money, and Chandler trades to get Rachel before learning that she exchanges every present she is given.
- Monica gets ice in her eye and has to call Richard's practice, where she is offered the on-call doctor instead.
- Joey tells Ross he intends to punish Chandler for five years and offers Ross the vacant best-friend position, which Ross immediately uses to push Joey toward talking to Chandler.
- The on-call doctor turns out to be Tim Burke, Richard's son.
- Joey packs to move out, and Chandler offers to shut himself in a wooden box for six hours to prove what the friendship means to him.
- Tim tells Monica her cornea is scratched and that his girlfriend has left him, and Monica invites him to Thanksgiving dinner.
- Ross catches Rachel having traded his gold necklace for store credit, and she answers by showing him a box of keepsakes she has saved from their relationship.
- Monica and Tim kiss on the balcony, and both admit the kiss reminded them of Richard.
- Kathy arrives and ends the relationship through the closed box, telling Chandler she is leaving for her mother's in Chicago.
- Joey opens the box, forgives Chandler, and sends him out to catch Kathy.
S4 · E9 The One Where They're Going to Party!
Monica's savage restaurant review gets her hired as that restaurant's head chef, while Rachel's boss Joanna wrecks her promotion interview, then creates the job for her and is killed by a cab before filing the paperwork.
- Monica takes a weekly food critic slot at a local paper, and Phoebe agrees to it once she hears the free dinners are shared.
- Chandler tells Ross that their old party-wizard friend Gandolf is coming to town, and both of them arrange to skip work for it.
- Rachel asks Joanna for permission to apply for an assistant buyer opening, and Joanna, who sits on the hiring committee, tells her to go ahead.
- In front of the committee, Joanna reduces Rachel's work to fetching bagels and hints that she sleeps around with designers.
- Monica's brutal review of Allesandro's brings the owner to her door demanding a retraction, and she ends up cooking him a sauce to prove her point.
- Rachel confronts Joanna, who admits she sabotaged the interview to keep her assistant, then invents an assistant buyer position for her with an office, a raise and Sophie.
- Allesandro offers Monica the head chef job, and when she tells Phoebe she is stepping back from catering, Phoebe walks out.
- The night out Joey organises without Gandolf leaves all three of them worn out over decaf, and Chandler declares that at twenty-nine he wants an early bedtime.
- Phoebe hears Monica's list of alternative van businesses, realises how badly Monica wants out, and tells her to take the chef job.
- Rachel arrives for her first day as assistant buyer and learns that Joanna was hit by a cab the night before, having sent no paperwork through.
S4 · E10 The One With the Girl from Poughkeepsie
Chandler sets Rachel up with a colleague and ruins it twice by telling him the wrong thing, Monica fires Joey to win her kitchen's respect, and Ross sleeps through his stop on the way to a breakup.
- Ross tells the others about a woman he met on a train, and admits she lives two and a half hours away in Poughkeepsie.
- Rachel says she is sick of being single and would settle for a fling, so Chandler offers to set her up with someone from his office.
- The restaurant staff burn an insult onto Monica's chef's hat, and on Chandler's advice she hires Joey purely so she can fire him in front of everyone.
- Rachel returns thrilled from her date with Patrick and wants something serious, and Chandler admits he had already told Patrick she only wanted a fling.
- Monica finally raises her voice at the waiters, but Joey stays silent rather than lose his tips, and he talks her into keeping him on instead of firing him.
- Phoebe tells Ross, who still cannot choose between the Poughkeepsie woman and the one uptown, to end both relationships in a single train trip.
- Patrick breaks up with Rachel after Chandler tells him she wants a serious relationship, and Chandler apologises and invites her to a hockey game.
- Ross falls asleep on the train and rides past Poughkeepsie while the woman calls up to his window from the platform.
- Locked in the walk-in and covered in sauce, Monica comes out, fires Joey in front of the staff, and starts giving orders the kitchen actually follows.
- Ross wakes at the end of the line in Montreal and agrees to coffee with a woman who then mentions she lives a two-hour ferry ride away.
S4 · E11 The One With Phoebe's Uterus
Phoebe's brother Frank and his new wife Alice ask her to carry their baby, and after a trial run with a puppy she agrees, while Chandler worries about following Joey into Kathy's bed.
- Frank and Alice tell Phoebe they eloped, then ask her to be the surrogate for the child they cannot conceive themselves.
- Joey turns up in a blazer as a museum tour guide, a job Ross got for him, though Joey has the dinosaur facts wrong.
- Phoebe tells the group she has already decided to do it, and the friends press her to think the pregnancy through first.
- Chandler admits he has been stalling on sleeping with Kathy because Joey dated her first and the walls between their bedrooms are thin.
- Phoebe's birth mother hands her a puppy to keep for three days, arguing that giving up a child is a regret that never lifts.
- Joey discovers the scientists and the guides never share a table, and Ross walks past the seat Joey saved to sit with the white coats.
- Chandler reports that he and Kathy have finally slept together, that it went fine rather than well, and asks Monica for instruction.
- Monica draws Chandler a diagram of seven erogenous zones and talks him through varying the order instead of rushing to one spot.
- Ross throws his lab coat on the cafeteria floor and sits with Joey at a middle table, and other staff start shedding coats and confessing things.
- Phoebe finds she cannot part with the puppy, gives it to Frank and Alice anyway, and seeing their happiness tells them she will carry their baby.
S4 · E12 The One With the Embryos
Chandler and Joey bet Monica and Rachel that they know them better, and the quiz Ross writes ends with the women losing their apartment, while Phoebe has Frank and Alice's embryos implanted.
- The chick next door turns out to be a rooster and its crowing wakes Monica and Rachel before dawn.
- Chandler and Joey claim they know the women better than the women know them, and Chandler correctly names the cookies hidden in Rachel's shopping bag.
- The four bet ten dollars on the rest of the groceries, and Chandler and Joey guess every item.
- Monica demands a rematch for a hundred dollars with personal questions, and Ross agrees to write the quiz.
- The doctor tells Phoebe her uterus is ready, but explains there are five embryos with only a one in four chance, and Frank and Alice admit they can afford a single attempt.
- The quiz runs close, and Rachel loses a point by giving Chandler's real name instead of the one on the magazine label.
- Phoebe speaks to the embryos in the dish before the doctor implants them.
- A tie forces a lightning round, and Monica keeps raising the stakes until Chandler offers the birds against the women's apartment.
- Monica and Rachel cannot name Chandler's job and lose the game with it.
- Rachel refuses to move out, but Monica insists the bet stands and starts packing.
- Phoebe takes the pregnancy test Frank and Alice brought and tells them it worked.
- Both pairs finish unpacking in each other's old apartments.
S4 · E13 The One With Rachel's Crush
Chandler decides Kathy is sleeping with her co-star because their onstage chemistry faded, and the accusation pushes her into bed with him, while Rachel, demoted to personal shopping, tries to ask out a customer.
- At the premiere of Kathy's play, Chandler and Ross watch her strip down and simulate sex with her good-looking co-star.
- Rachel tells Monica and Phoebe that Bloomingdale's cut her department and moved her into personal shopping.
- Joey tells Chandler that two actors who are sleeping together lose their heat onstage, so visible chemistry means Kathy is faithful.
- Rachel is handed a newly divorced customer, Joshua, who needs an entire wardrobe, and she is instantly taken with him.
- After a second performance Chandler sees no heat between them, accuses Kathy of cheating, throws their own beginnings back at her, and she walks out on the argument.
- Monica bribes the group with cookies and a magazine, fails to keep them, and admits she invented the big-apartment rule to punish Joey and Chandler for the swap.
- Following Joey's advice, Rachel offers Joshua two Knicks tickets, and he thanks her and takes them both to the game with his nephew.
- Chandler goes to Kathy's apartment and apologises for the fight, then spots Nick's trousers lying on her chair.
- Monica unveils the apartment she has spent two days scrubbing and refinishing, then collapses while insisting the others stay.
- Chandler reports that Kathy had not been sleeping with Nick until now, and blames himself for never calling her after the fight.
S4 · E14 The One With Joey's Dirty Day
Joey comes back from a fishing trip too foul-smelling to work alongside Charlton Heston, Rachel hands her opera evening with Emily to Ross so she can chase Joshua, and Ross ends up in Vermont with Emily.
- Monica urges Joey to stay with Chandler after the Kathy breakup, but Joey leaves for the lake and promises to be back for the strip-club stage of Chandler's recovery.
- At the store, Mr. Waltham asks Rachel to spend the evening with his visiting niece Emily at the opera, and Rachel agrees.
- Joshua then invites Rachel to the opening of a nightclub he has invested in on that same evening, and puts her name on the guest list.
- Joey comes home from three days on the lake smelling appalling, and finds Chandler still in the same chair and the same sweat pants.
- Rachel begs Ross to take Emily to the opera in her place, and Ross gives in after she appeals to how far the two of them have moved on.
- Rachel reports that the club turned her away over a mistaken name on the list, that she never saw Joshua, and that she punched a woman who grabbed her umbrella.
- Ross telephones from a bed and breakfast in Vermont, where he has gone with Emily, and Rachel works out who Emily is.
- Charlton Heston catches Joey using the shower in his dressing room and, after lecturing him about actors and self-doubt, orders him never to do it again.
- At the strip club Chandler reaches his third stage only once Monica, Rachel and Phoebe start describing which dancers they found attractive.
- Ross returns from Vermont and thanks Rachel for Emily, and the two of them trade harder and harder punches while each insists on being pleased for the other.
S4 · E15 The One With All the Rugby
Ross plays rugby with Emily's English friends to prove he is tough, Chandler pretends he is being transferred to Yemen to escape Janice, and Monica hunts for whatever a mysterious light switch controls.
- Rachel takes Chandler to a nail salon for a manicure, and the two of them run into Janice there.
- Monica becomes fixated on a light switch in Joey's apartment that appears to do nothing, and Joey tells her he has never cared.
- Once Janice leaves, Chandler admits he cannot stand her and decides to end the romance before it properly starts.
- Emily's friends Liam and Devon invite Ross to their rugby match, and Ross accepts after Emily laughs at the idea of him playing.
- Chandler's attempt to let Janice down fails, so he tells her his company is sending him to Yemen the next day.
- Janice turns up at the apartment to help Chandler pack, and Joey learns the move is a lie.
- Ross explains that he took the match because Emily's old boyfriend is a rugby player and he wants to prove himself to her.
- After Ross refuses to quit at halftime, Emily tells him each player's weak spot, including her friend Liam's bad knees, and Ross charges back in.
- Rachel discovers Monica has drilled holes in the apartment wall chasing the switch's wiring and hung pictures to cover them.
- Janice refuses to leave the airport until the plane takes off, so Chandler buys a real ticket and boards the flight to Yemen.
S4 · E16 The One With the Fake Party
Rachel throws Emily a fake going-away party so she can seduce Joshua, and the night ends with a split lip, a confession, and Joshua asking for time, while Ross decides Emily is worth more than two weeks.
- Phoebe, pregnant and vegetarian, discovers that Joey's bologna sandwich is the only thing she wants to eat.
- Rachel writes a note for Joshua and plans to hide it in the pocket of a coat she sells him.
- Ross tells the others that Emily flies back to London in two days, and that they agreed from the start on two weeks and nothing more.
- Joshua mentions his first date since his divorce and says he is not ready to see anyone, so Rachel takes the note back and tears it up.
- Rachel stages a surprise going-away party for Emily purely as an excuse to invite Joshua, and Emily thanks Ross for a party he had no part in.
- Phoebe gives in and eats meat, and Joey offers to stop eating it himself until the baby is born so that her total stays even.
- Rachel changes into her old cheerleading outfit and performs a cheer for Emily, then falls and loses a tooth.
- Rachel fails to get her bra off in front of Joshua and admits she lured him there to seduce him, and Joshua says he likes her but needs time after his marriage.
- Rachel points out to Ross that Emily spent the evening learning about him, and Ross realises he does not want the two weeks to be the end.
- Joshua comes back, tells Rachel that nothing he said has changed but he wants to see her anyway, and they go inside for coffee.
S4 · E17 The One With the Free Porn
Ross tells Emily he loves her before her flight and then follows her to London, while Phoebe learns she is carrying triplets and Chandler and Joey stumble onto a free porn channel.
- Joey presses something on the remote and unlocks a free porn channel, and Treeger warns that switching the television off will lose it for good.
- Ross tells Monica that Emily has left for the airport, and Monica decides he loves her and pushes him to go after her.
- An ultrasound picks up three heartbeats, and Phoebe learns she is carrying triplets.
- Frank tells Phoebe he will drop out of refrigerator college and take a job to support three children.
- Ross reaches Emily at the gate and tells her he loves her, and Emily thanks him and boards the plane.
- Emily phones Ross from London to admit there is another man, Colin, and that she cannot choose between them.
- Monica reminds Ross that he never fought for Rachel, and Ross agrees to fly to London and surprise Emily.
- Phoebe announces a massage business run out of a van with Frank driving, which lets Frank stay in school.
- Emily turns up in New York and leaves Ross a message saying Colin is over and she loves him, and Ross calls her back to hear it directly.
- Chandler and Joey decide the porn is ruining their expectations of women and switch the television off, then find the channel is still there.
S4 · E18 The One With Rachel's New Dress
Rachel's seduction dinner with Joshua ends with her meeting his parents while wearing a nightie, as Phoebe decides between Joey and Chandler for a baby name and Ross panics about Emily and Susan in London.
- Alice asks Phoebe to choose the name for the third baby.
- Emily and Susan hit it off and plan a week of theatre and sightseeing in London, and Ross admits he dislikes Susan.
- Joey and Chandler each pitch themselves to Phoebe as the baby's namesake.
- Rachel prepares to sleep with Joshua for the first time, while Monica does the actual cooking for the dinner.
- Joey attacks the name Chandler as barely a word, and Chandler is genuinely wounded by it.
- The chick and the duck frighten Joshua, who confesses that farm birds scare him, so Rachel packs up the meal and they move to his parents' empty apartment.
- Joshua's parents return early from Europe just as Rachel appears in a nightie, and she covers by claiming it is a Milan dress she is testing for Bloomingdale's.
- Mr. Burgin insists they all go out to eat, with Rachel still wearing the nightie.
- Phoebe, Rachel and Monica tell Ross that Carol leaving him made him jealous, and warn him not to ruin what he has with Emily.
- Chandler says he will change his name at the courthouse, so Phoebe agrees to name the baby Chandler if he keeps his own, and Joey realises Chandler staged the whole crisis.
S4 · E19 The One With All the Haste
Ross proposes to Emily after six weeks together rather than lose her to London, while Monica and Rachel bet the apartment against a pair of Knicks tickets, lose, and take the apartment back anyway.
- Rachel complains about the noise and cramped rooms of the smaller apartment, and Monica admits that she hates the place too.
- Emily, who talked Ross into getting his ear pierced, packs for her flight home while Ross tries and fails to make her stay another day.
- Rachel offers Chandler and Joey her mother's courtside Knicks season tickets in exchange for the apartment, and Chandler refuses.
- Ross tells Chandler and Joey that he wants Emily to move in with him, and the two of them talk him out of asking.
- Rachel talks Chandler and Joey into a winner-takes-all bet on a single card, and Joey draws a king that wins them the tickets and the apartment.
- Emily turns down the idea of moving because her family and her job are in London, and Ross cannot move there because Ben is in New York.
- Emily raises marriage as a hypothetical, Ross takes it seriously and proposes, and Emily accepts.
- Chandler and Joey get back from the game to find that Monica and Rachel have moved into the big apartment and will not give it up.
- Monica and Rachel keep the apartment by kissing each other for a minute, and Chandler takes the deal.
- Ross brings Emily to the apartment to announce the engagement, and Rachel tells him she is happy for him.
S4 · E20 The One With All the Wedding Dresses
Ross announces that he and Emily will marry in a month, Rachel reacts by proposing to Joshua and being turned down, and Chandler forces Joey to a sleep clinic over his snoring.
- Chandler, worn out by Joey's snoring, tells Joey to see a sleep specialist, and Joey refuses.
- Ross asks Rachel how she feels about his engagement, and Rachel insists that her four dates with Joshua amount to a serious relationship.
- Ross proposes that he and Emily have dinner with Rachel and Joshua on Sunday, and Rachel agrees.
- Monica collects Emily's gown from the bridal shop, gives the saleswoman Emily's name, and tries the dress on herself.
- Ross tells the others that the wedding is a month away, because the place Emily wants is about to be torn down.
- Rachel asks Joshua to marry her, and Joshua turns her down, citing his unfinished divorce and how briefly they have dated.
- Chandler introduces himself to a woman named Marjorie in the sleep clinic waiting room while Joey sleeps through it.
- Monica and Phoebe practice catching a bouquet in their wedding dresses at home, then admit to each other how sad they have become.
- Rachel tells Monica and Phoebe that Ross's wedding is what upsets her, because she had assumed she and Ross would end up together eventually.
- Joshua comes to the apartment, finds Rachel in a wedding dress, and leaves at once.
S4 · E21 The One With the Invitation
Ross and Emily address their wedding invitations while Emily makes clear she would rather Rachel not be there, and Rachel, once the invitations arrive, decides she cannot watch Ross get married.
- Chandler and Joey decide that everyone else is doing something with their lives and resolve to climb Mount Everest.
- Phoebe tells them the climb costs a fortune and would kill them, so Chandler and Joey give up and stay where they are.
- Ross and Emily address their wedding invitations at his apartment, and Ross tells Emily he has included one for Rachel.
- Emily says she would not want an old lover of hers at the wedding, and Ross, offered the choice, tells Emily to invite whoever she wants.
- In a clip from an earlier season, Rachel praises Ross for taking the blame for their breakup, and Ross erupts that they were on a break.
- The invitations arrive, and Monica, Joey and Phoebe open theirs and admire the London wedding.
- Phoebe learns that a woman in her third trimester cannot fly, which means she will miss the wedding entirely.
- The others try to hide their invitations when Rachel walks in, and Rachel finds one and insists she is happy for Ross.
- Monica asks Rachel to come to London, and Rachel agrees only to think about it.
- Rachel tells Monica she is not going, offering excuses about staying with Phoebe before breaking down.
S4 · E22 The One With the Worst Best Man Ever
Ross names Joey his best man instead of Chandler, and Joey's bachelor party ends with Ross's grandmother's wedding ring missing, while Monica and Rachel throw Phoebe a baby shower that goes badly wrong.
- Joey complains that Chandler was best man at Ross's first wedding, and Ross settles it by giving the job to Joey.
- Joey refuses to invite the women to the bachelor party, so Monica and Rachel invent a baby shower for Phoebe on the spot.
- Ross tells Joey to keep the party quiet and hire no strippers, and Joey decides to book one anyway.
- Monica and Rachel choose shower gifts Phoebe cannot touch until after the birth, and Phoebe turns on them furiously at the party.
- Joey invites the stripper to stay the night, and wakes to find her gone and the ring box empty.
- Joey finally admits the loss to Ross, and the three men lure the stripper to Chandler's office under fake names, where she denies taking anything.
- Phoebe has a contraction over tea at Monica and Rachel's, which turns out to be false labour.
- Working out that nobody in the apartment took the ring, the men realise the duck swallowed it.
- Phoebe admits she dreads giving up the babies, and Monica and Rachel convince her that being their aunt is worth having.
- The vet recovers the ring, and Ross tells Joey and Chandler he wants both of them as his best men.
S4 · E23–24 The One With Ross's Wedding (Parts 1 & 2)
The friends fly to London for Ross's wedding, where the venue is torn down early and Emily nearly calls the whole thing off, while Rachel finally recognises that she still loves Ross.
- Ross asks Rachel to come to the wedding, and Rachel turns him down, telling him that work will not let her.
- Ross, Emily and Monica arrive at the wedding hall and find it already half demolished, several days ahead of schedule.
- Phoebe mentions in passing that Rachel is still in love with Ross, and Rachel works out that the whole group has known for a while.
- Emily wants to put the wedding off, Ross refuses outright, and Emily walks out on him saying they may not marry at all.
- Monica tells Ross how long Emily has been imagining this day, and Ross asks his sister to help him repair the damage.
- Monica and Ross bring Emily back to the wrecked hall and describe the wedding they could still hold in it, and Emily accepts.
- Rachel packs a bag for London and tells Phoebe that she is going to declare her feelings to Ross before he marries.
- Jack Geller reads the bill for his half of the wedding, finds home renovations listed on it, and sends Ross to confront Emily's father.
- Ross bursts in to celebrate with Chandler without noticing Monica hiding in the bed, and Chandler and Monica are left awkward about the night they have spent together.
- Rachel reaches the church, and instead of telling Ross how she feels she congratulates him on the marriage.
Season 5
S5 · E1 The One After Ross Says Rachel
Ross says Rachel's name during his vows, marries Emily anyway, and loses her before the reception ends, while Monica and Chandler keep sleeping together in London and Rachel ends up flying to Athens in Emily's place.
- Ross uses Rachel's name instead of Emily's during the vows, the minister starts the ceremony over, and Ross and Emily are married anyway.
- At the reception Emily shuts herself in a bathroom and tells Ross she hates him, and Ross pretends to the others that she is only fixing her makeup.
- Chandler and Monica agree that they will keep sleeping together for as long as they are in London and stop the moment they are home.
- Rachel mentions climbing out of a bathroom window at her own wedding, and Ross opens the door to find the window gone and Emily with it.
- Rachel tells Monica and Chandler she is certain the slip proves Ross still loves her, and they hurry her downstairs so they can be alone.
- Chandler and Monica sneak into the empty honeymoon suite, Ross walks in and decides to stay put until Emily finds him, and the two of them sit up with him all night.
- Emily's parents arrive to collect her things and say she is hiding from Ross, and Ross sends word that he will be at the airport, insisting in front of Rachel that she is only a friend.
- Back in New York Monica and Chandler thank each other for the one night and part, then Chandler comes straight back arguing that he is still on London time and they start kissing.
- At the London airport Rachel talks Ross into taking the honeymoon alone, and Ross then offers her the second ticket to Athens.
- Ross runs back for his jacket and finds Emily at the airport after all, and the plane pulls away with Rachel on board and Ross left behind.
S5 · E2 The One With All the Kissing
Rachel, back from Greece and freshly humiliated, lets Monica run her love life, then ignores her and tells Ross she is still in love with him while Chandler covers his secret romance with Monica by kissing everyone goodbye.
- Chandler and Monica share a bath in secret and Chandler shouts Joey out of the bathroom to keep the relationship hidden.
- Rachel tells Ross she is not angry about being left on the plane, then admits to the others that Greece humiliated her and puts Monica in charge of her love life.
- Ross sends seventy-two roses to Emily's parents' house because nobody will tell him where Emily is.
- Chandler kisses Monica goodbye and then kisses Rachel and Phoebe as well, so that kissing Monica looks like a habit rather than a secret.
- Monica orders Rachel to approach a man at the coffee house, and Rachel comes back with a date for the following night.
- Rachel invites Dave in, finds Ross with the roses returned as mulch, and cancels the date to sit with Ross instead.
- Rachel tells Monica she wants to say she is still in love with Ross, fires Monica as her decision-maker, and locks her out of the apartment.
- Monica gets Rachel to promise she will find one person who thinks the confession is a good idea before she makes it.
- The others plan a picnic to make up for Phoebe missing London, and when Phoebe calls it worthless they upgrade the trip to Atlantic City.
- Rachel tells Ross she still loves him without finding anyone to back her, Ross says he does not know what to do with it, and the two of them settle it by agreeing he is married.
- Phoebe's water breaks as the group leaves for Atlantic City, and they take her to the hospital instead.
S5 · E3 The One Hundredth
Phoebe gives birth to her brother's triplets, decides she wants to keep one and is quietly refused, while Joey passes kidney stones and Monica's date with a nurse forces Chandler to define their affair.
- Phoebe checks into the hospital to deliver the triplets and tells the nurse that her brother is the father.
- Ross and Rachel report that Phoebe's own doctor has injured herself and will not be coming, so a replacement named Dr. Harad takes over.
- Rachel arranges dates with two male nurses for herself and Monica, and Monica tries to refuse without giving a reason.
- Chandler tells Monica he is fine with the date because the two of them are only fooling around, so Monica decides she will go out with the nurse after all.
- A doctor diagnoses Joey with kidney stones, ending the assumption that his pain was sympathy for Phoebe.
- Phoebe admits to Rachel that she wants to keep one of the babies and asks Rachel to sound Frank out about it.
- Rachel raises the size of the family with Frank, and his delight at having three makes it clear he will not part with any of them.
- Phoebe delivers all three babies, and the child Frank and Alice had expected to name Chandler turns out to be a girl.
- Chandler tells Monica that what they are doing means more than fooling around, and Monica goes to cancel on the nurse.
- Rachel tells Phoebe she never asked Frank, and Phoebe says goodbye to the babies alone and settles for being their aunt.
S5 · E4 The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS
Ross persuades Emily to come to New York, but only by agreeing never to see Rachel again, while Phoebe hunts for a selfless good deed and Chandler discovers Monica rates him her best ever.
- Rachel walks in on Monica in her bedroom and Monica covers by claiming she is seeing a shy waiter from the restaurant.
- Joey lands a job on a PBS telethon and tells Phoebe that no good deed is truly selfless, so Phoebe sets out to prove him wrong.
- Emily telephones Ross to demand he stop pestering her relatives, then admits she misses him too.
- Rachel mentions that Monica called the secret boyfriend the best sex she ever had, and Chandler realises she means him.
- Ross tells the others that Emily is willing to repair the marriage, but only if he moves to London.
- Joey arrives at the telethon and learns he is not the host at all, only a volunteer answering pledge phones.
- Ross refuses to leave Ben behind and Emily agrees to come to New York instead, on the condition that he never sees Rachel again.
- Phoebe pledges two hundred dollars to the telethon while staying angry about it, but her donation puts Joey on camera and the happiness ruins her selfless deed.
- Chandler tells Monica she is the reason he is any good in bed, and she forgives the gloating and takes him back.
- Rachel, not knowing what Emily has asked for, urges Ross to give his wife whatever she wants, and Ross telephones Emily to accept.
S5 · E5 The One With the Kips
Chandler and Monica take a secret weekend in Atlantic City and have their first fight, while Ross tells Rachel that Emily's condition for saving the marriage is that he stop seeing her.
- Monica and Chandler admit they are sick of hiding and plan a weekend away under separate cover stories.
- Monica and Chandler each announce a trip to New Jersey at breakfast, and Phoebe remarks on the coincidence.
- Ross tells the others that Emily is coming to New York and that he needs to speak to Rachel first.
- Ross's attempts to explain are derailed by the news that Rachel's childhood dog has died and then by her nosebleed, so his half-finished confession leaves Rachel thinking they have simply agreed not to meet.
- In Atlantic City, Monica makes them change rooms over dirty glasses while Chandler stays fixed on a televised car chase.
- After several more room changes, Monica and Chandler argue about the ruined weekend and he compares her to his mother.
- Ross finally tells Rachel that Emily demanded he stop seeing her and that he already agreed, and Rachel storms out of her own apartment.
- Rachel tells the group she will be pushed out of it the way Chandler's old roommate Kip was after his breakup with Monica.
- Ross comes to Rachel and says that since the choice was his, he should be the one to step away from the group.
- Chandler assumes the fight has ended things, and Monica explains that couples fight and that the two of them are in a relationship.
- Joey works out from a lost eyelash curler that Chandler and Monica are together, and they make him promise to keep it secret.
S5 · E6 The One With the Yeti
Ross sells his furniture and agrees to move uptown to please Emily, but when she phones and learns Rachel is at dinner she admits she cannot trust him, and the marriage ends.
- Phoebe's mother sends her a family heirloom that turns out to be a mink coat, which appalls her.
- Ross puts up a flyer to sell every piece of furniture Rachel ever touched because Emily wants everything new, and Gunther buys the lot.
- Monica gets the others to agree that they will keep their opinions about Emily to themselves for as long as Ross says he is happy.
- Monica and Rachel go down to the storage room for a waffle iron, panic at a hairy man, and Rachel sets off a bug bomb at him.
- Ross announces that Emily has found them a sublet far uptown and that he is giving up his apartment too.
- Joey works out that the man they fogged is Danny, a neighbour who has just moved in downstairs after months trekking in the Andes.
- Phoebe plans to have the coat cremated, then puts it on in front of the mirror and decides she likes it.
- Ross admits he would rather not move, Joey seizes on it and tells him the group thinks Emily is unreasonable, and Ross storms out.
- A shaved and shorn Danny accuses Rachel of judging by appearances, she turns the charge back on him, and he asks her out for pizza.
- Ross tells Emily that Rachel is at the dinner, Emily says she cannot trust him, and Ross comes back inside to tell the others his marriage is over.
S5 · E7 The One Where Ross Moves In
Ross loses his sublet after the divorce and moves in with Chandler and Joey, who quickly plot to get him out, while Phoebe dates a health inspector and Rachel turns Danny's party into a power contest.
- Emily's cousin takes back the apartment Ross was subletting, and Joey and Chandler invite him to stay with them.
- Danny mentions his housewarming party in front of Rachel without inviting her, and Rachel decides that asking for an invitation would hand him the control.
- Phoebe's dinner date with Larry the health inspector ends early when he shuts the restaurant down over the violations he spots on the way past the kitchen.
- Danny comes by and invites both women, and Rachel turns him down by inventing a regatta gala she has to attend.
- Joey complains that Ross has taped over his Baywatch tape and pushed the foosball table out of the living room, and he and Chandler agree that Ross has to go.
- Chandler and Joey steer Ross toward a circled listing that is available immediately, and Ross puts in an application for the tiny studio even though its kitchen and bathroom are the same room.
- Phoebe asks Larry to stop being an inspector on their dates, and he lets Gunther off with a warning instead of a citation.
- The building manager calls for a reference and Chandler talks Ross out of the apartment by describing him as a tap-dancing pimp with a loud dog.
- Rachel sneaks downstairs in her coat so she can arrive at the party as though she is coming home from the gala, and Danny promptly tries to set her up with his friend Tom.
- Ross reports that his application failed and says he will stay with Phoebe, and Chandler and Joey talk him into staying with them instead.
S5 · E8 The One With All the Thanksgivings
The friends trade their worst Thanksgiving stories, and flashbacks reveal that Chandler once insulted Monica's weight and that she later severed his toe; in the present he accidentally tells her he loves her.
- Ross calls this the worst Thanksgiving of his life because of his divorce and his eviction, and Chandler insists his own history is worse.
- In a flashback to his childhood, Chandler's mother tells him over dinner that she and his father are divorcing because his father prefers the houseboy, and Ross concedes the title to Chandler.
- In a flashback, Phoebe finds Joey with his head stuck inside the raw turkey he put on to frighten Chandler, and Monica is furious because that bird has to feed twenty people.
- Phoebe realises Rachel meant a different year, and in a flashback to 1987 Ross brings his college roommate Chandler home, where a heavier Monica offers to cook him macaroni and cheese.
- Still in the flashback, Chandler tells Ross he does not want to be left alone with Ross's overweight sister, and Monica overhears him.
- In a flashback to the following year, Monica has lost the weight, and Chandler stares at her openly in front of her parents.
- Monica tells Rachel that revenge is not enough and that she wants Chandler stripped and humiliated, so Rachel coaches her to act as though everything around her is arousing.
- Monica's attempt at seduction ends with a dropped box and a falling knife that takes off the tip of Chandler's toe, and at the hospital she produces a carrot instead of the toe, so the doctor cannot reattach it.
- Back in the present, Chandler learns that his lost toe was the result of his remark about Monica's weight and walks out.
- Monica wins him back by dancing with the turkey on her head in a hat and sunglasses, and Chandler blurts out that he loves her.
S5 · E9 The One With Ross's Sandwich
Joey keeps taking the blame for Chandler and Monica's secret until he claims he slept with Monica, while Ross unravels over a stolen sandwich and Rachel fakes her way through Phoebe's literature class.
- Phoebe pulls a pair of men's underwear out of the couch and Joey claims it as his own to cover for Chandler and Monica.
- Joey tells Chandler and Monica he is done lying for them, and they talk him into continuing because they believe the secrecy is why the relationship is working.
- Ross turns up wrecked because a colleague ate his Thanksgiving leftover sandwich, and Monica offers him the ingredients for one more.
- In Phoebe's literature class Rachel, who never read the novel, repeats Phoebe's reading of it to the teacher as her own, and Phoebe accuses her of taking it.
- The threatening note Phoebe wrote works, and Ross finds that intimidating his colleagues gets him deadlines and reports on his own terms.
- Ross's boss admits he ate the sandwich and threw most of it in the bin, and Ross screams at him.
- Phoebe pays Rachel back by telling her that Jane Eyre is a cyborg, and Rachel repeats it to the class.
- Ross tells Chandler and Monica that a psychiatrist has put him on a tranquilliser and the museum has made him take time off.
- Rachel catches Joey looking at a naked photograph of Monica and accuses him in front of everyone.
- To protect Chandler and Monica, Joey says he slept with Monica in London, and Monica takes the blame for the underwear, the camera and the photograph.
S5 · E10 The One With the Inappropriate Sister
Ross, bored on sabbatical, forces Joey onto a writing schedule for a movie he can star in, while Rachel dates Danny and discovers his visiting sister is disturbingly close to him.
- Ross reorganises the apartment fridge out of boredom and tells Joey he is on sabbatical rather than unemployed.
- Phoebe signs up to ring a charity bell for the holidays and is given a prime corner outside Macy's.
- Monica arranges a Friday date between Rachel and Danny on Rachel's behalf, and Rachel drops her plan and accepts.
- After Joey loses a role that suited him, Ross suggests Joey write his own movie and offers to keep him to a daily schedule.
- Joey and Chandler invent a fire-based ball game instead of working, and Ross returns to find a single sentence written.
- Rachel meets Danny's sister Krista and realises she is the girl from the subway, then watches the two of them wrestle.
- Chandler accuses Ross of riding Joey only because he is bored, and Ross tears up the hockey tickets to end the argument.
- Phoebe turns hostile towards donors, and her supervisor pulls her off the Macy's corner and hands it to another collector.
- Rachel calls off her second date with Danny over his closeness to Krista, and leaves when Krista summons him to a shared bath.
- Joey finishes his pages, and the script turns out to be a scene forcing Ross and Chandler to apologise to each other and thank him.
S5 · E11 The One With All the Resolutions
Ross resolves to do one new thing every day, which puts him in leather pants he cannot get back on halfway through a date, while Rachel and Joey work out that they both know about Monica and Chandler.
- Ross announces he will do one thing he has never done before every day, then bets Chandler fifty dollars he cannot go a week without making fun of his friends.
- Joey decides to learn the guitar so one skill on his resume is real, and Phoebe appoints herself his teacher.
- Monica suggests Rachel gossip less, and Rachel reluctantly makes that her own resolution.
- Ross counts asking out a woman named Elizabeth Hornswoggle as his new thing for the day, and Chandler has to sit on the joke to protect the bet.
- Ross turns up in leather pants, Chandler walks out rather than lose the money, and everyone else tells Ross the truth about them the moment he is gone.
- Phoebe catches Joey learning the real names of the chords, Joey tells her the whole method is stupid, and he quits to find a professional teacher.
- Rachel picks up the phone and hears Monica making plans to sneak over to Chandler.
- Ross calls Joey from Elizabeth's bathroom because the sweat has shrunk his pants, and Joey's advice about powder and lotion leaves him coated in paste before Joey hangs up on him.
- Rachel and Joey circle each other until both admit they know about Monica and Chandler, and Joey is relieved to finally have someone to talk to.
S5 · E12 The One With Chandler's Work Laugh
Monica meets Chandler's colleagues and comes to dislike the fawning laugh he uses at work, Rachel works out that Monica and Chandler are sleeping together, and Ross spends a few days dating Janice.
- Ross announces that his ex-wife Emily is getting married again, then flattens his scone on the table.
- At his office party Chandler introduces Monica to his boss Doug, and Monica notices the fake laugh Chandler saves for work.
- At the doubles match Monica refuses to go easy on Doug and Kara, so Chandler deliberately misses shots to hand them the win.
- Monica tells Chandler she cannot stand the sucking-up version of him that comes out around his boss.
- Ross stays out all night and will not explain, and then Janice arrives at the apartment with the scarf he left behind.
- Ross defends the night with Janice as something the two of them have in common, and tells the others he intends to see her again.
- Rachel confronts Monica with the phone call she overheard, and Monica invents a nickname explanation to bury it.
- Chandler finally refuses to laugh at one of Doug's jokes, and Monica rescues him by pretending he simply misunderstood it.
- Rachel catches Monica coming out of Chandler's bedroom, accepts the story that Monica is being paid to clean it, and hugs her in tears.
- Janice ends things with Ross because his complaining has worn her out, which leaves Ross oddly delighted.
S5 · E13 The One With Joey's Bag
Phoebe's grandmother dies and the father who abandoned her turns up at the memorial, while Joey's new shoulder bag costs him an audition and Chandler finally admits he hates Monica's massages.
- Monica's massage leaves Chandler in real pain, and he tells Joey he would rather lie about it than damage his first serious relationship.
- Phoebe tells the group that her grandmother collapsed and died at the market that morning.
- Rachel dresses Joey for an audition and adds a shoulder bag, which Joey decides suits him.
- Phoebe brings the news to Ursula, and Ursula refuses to come to the memorial service.
- A stranger at the memorial gives his name as Frank Buffay, takes it back and hurries out, and Phoebe realizes she has just met her father.
- Monica's massage makes Phoebe cry out in pain, and in front of everyone Chandler admits he has been pretending to enjoy them.
- The casting director asks Joey to read without the bag, and Joey argues about the bag until the audition is cut short.
- Chandler tells Monica the truth and then talks her round by naming her the best bad masseuse there is.
- Frank Sr. asks Phoebe to deliver a note to Lilly, and Phoebe tells him that Lilly died seventeen years ago and that she is his daughter.
- Frank Sr. apologizes for leaving, and Phoebe takes his hand but tells him she is not ready to forgive him yet.
- Joey learns the bag lost him the part, and Rachel agrees with the others that he should give it up.
S5 · E14 The One Where Everybody Finds Out
Phoebe spots Monica and Chandler through a window, and she and Rachel torment the couple with a fake seduction until Chandler cracks and declares he loves Monica, while Ross fights for Ugly Naked Guy's apartment.
- When the friends notice Ugly Naked Guy packing up, Ross decides to apply for his apartment across the street.
- Phoebe sees Monica and Chandler having sex through the window, and Rachel admits that she and Joey have known for a while.
- Joey wants everything out in the open, but Phoebe wins Rachel over to a plan to torment the couple instead, and she starts by openly flirting with Chandler at the coffee house.
- Ross learns that a hundred people have applied for the apartment and that his bribe, a small basket of mini-muffins, has bought him nothing.
- After Phoebe pinches Chandler, Monica works out that Phoebe knows about them and is playing a game.
- Joey confesses that Phoebe and Rachel both know, and Monica and Chandler decide to turn the trick back on them.
- Chandler phones Phoebe and invites her over for sex, and Joey then admits to Rachel that the couple know they have been caught.
- Ross strips naked to charm Ugly Naked Guy into giving him the apartment, and the others spot him through the window.
- Chandler surrenders during the date rather than kiss Phoebe, shouting that he is in love with Monica, which surprises Phoebe, who assumed it was only sex.
- Ross shows his new apartment to his boss, who offers him his museum job back, and then Ross sees Chandler with Monica through the window.
S5 · E15 The One With the Girl Who Hits Joey
Ross learns Chandler and Monica are together, and Chandler panics into a proposal that Monica turns down, while Ross's new neighbours shun him over a retirement collection and Joey loses a girlfriend who punches him.
- Ross pounds on the door after seeing Chandler and Monica through the window, and Chandler tells him he is in love with her, which delights Ross rather than angering him.
- Rachel admits that she and Joey have known about the relationship for a while, and Ross forgives them when they explain they were worried about how he would take it.
- Joey brings his new girlfriend Katie to the coffee house, and after she punches him several times he quietly tells the others that she is genuinely hurting him.
- A neighbour named Steve asks Ross to contribute a hundred dollars towards the retiring handyman, and Ross refuses on the grounds that he has only just moved in.
- Rachel tells Chandler that Monica wants marriage and children, and Chandler's attempt to argue that the woman he is dating is a different person collapses under his own questioning.
- Chandler starts calling Monica a woman he is seeing casually and accuses her of baby fever, and Monica cancels their evening and walks out.
- Monica refuses to tell Chandler how to fix the argument, saying she is finished acting as his relationship tutor and he must work it out alone.
- Ross's housewarming party for the building draws no guests at all, and he discovers Phoebe celebrating at the handyman's party across the hall after donating the hundred dollars herself.
- Rachel punches Katie back and then kicks her, and when Katie demands that Joey take her side he declines, which ends the relationship.
- Chandler proposes to Monica in front of everyone, Monica turns him down and tells him the pressure never came from her, and both agree he is not ready to handle the relationship by himself.
S5 · E16 The One With the Cop
Joey dreams about Monica, decides he wants a relationship built on friendship first, and propositions Rachel, while Phoebe impersonates a police officer with a badge she finds and Ross destroys a new couch trying to get it upstairs.
- Joey watches Chandler and Monica finish a crossword together late at night, and then dreams that Monica is his own girlfriend doing the puzzle with him.
- Phoebe digs a police badge out of the coffee house furniture while hunting for tip money and decides to hand it in.
- Ross buys an enormous couch, refuses to pay a delivery charge nearly as high as the couch itself, and drafts Rachel to carry it home.
- Ross tells the salesman that he and Rachel used to date and admits he counted every time they slept together, which Rachel finds pathetic.
- Phoebe flashes the badge at a woman stubbing out a cigarette on a tree and bullies her into apologising to it.
- Joey admits the dream to Chandler and Monica, who convince him he wants their kind of closeness rather than Monica, and Chandler tells him they were friends before dating.
- Phoebe waves the badge at a man blocking the coffee house entrance, and he turns out to be Gary, the real officer who lost it, so she throws it back and runs.
- Joey asks Rachel to move their friendship into a romance, and Rachel refuses and tells him to befriend someone new before asking them out.
- Ross recruits Chandler and Rachel to carry the couch up the stairwell, where his shouted instructions get it wedged solid.
- Gary traces Phoebe through the fingerprints on his badge, chooses not to arrest her, and asks her to dinner instead.
- Ross returns the couch sawn in half and settles for four dollars of store credit.
S5 · E17 The One With Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss
Rachel accidentally kisses her Ralph Lauren interviewer, then mistakes ink on her lip for a sexual advance and accuses him, before talking her way into the job anyway.
- Rachel tells the others she has an interview at Ralph Lauren to coordinate the women's collection.
- Joey flirts through the window with a woman in Ross's building, counts the floors, and knocks on Ross's door instead of hers.
- Phoebe describes how physical she and Gary are, and Monica insists she and Chandler are just as passionate.
- Rachel admits she kissed the interviewer goodbye by mistake, and Monica arrives with news of a second interview.
- At the second interview Rachel reads Mr. Zelner's pointing as a demand for sex, refuses him and walks out.
- Back home, Ross tells Rachel she has ink on her lip, and she understands what Mr. Zelner was doing.
- Ross meets Jen in the lobby, apologises for nothing, and she agrees to go for coffee with him.
- Monica shows Joey he has been counting the lobby and stairway windows, and when Joey finds the right door Ross opens it, there for his date with Jen.
- Rachel returns to apologise, argues her own case, and Mr. Zelner hires her.
- Monica admits she is sad the early phase is over, and Chandler tells her he prefers the relationship they have now.
S5 · E18 The One Where Rachel Smokes
Rachel starts smoking to stay in the decisions her new boss makes on cigarette breaks, Joey ends up auditioning against Ben for the same soup commercial, and Phoebe buries Rachel's surprise party in cups.
- Carol and Ross tell the others that a casting director spotted Ben in the park and wants him to audition for a commercial.
- Rachel tells her new boss Kim that she does not smoke, and then learns that Kim and Nancy settled the day's decisions during their cigarette break without her.
- Monica turns up having planned Rachel's surprise party entirely on her own and leaves Phoebe in charge of nothing but cups and ice.
- Rachel takes a lit cigarette off a stranger and joins Kim and Nancy on the balcony, claiming she has smoked all along.
- At the callback the casting director pairs Joey with a different boy, so Joey is now competing directly against Ben.
- Joey pretends he will drop out, and when Ross accepts the offer, the two of them argue over whose child should step aside.
- Rachel talks Kim and Nancy into quitting together and throws their cigarettes and lighters into the bin.
- Rachel catches Kim and Nancy smoking again, Kim threatens to fire her if she smokes, and Nancy gets the Paris trip.
- Phoebe decorates the party with cup hats, cup garlands and three kinds of ice, and Rachel is surprised a month before her birthday.
- Ross tells Joey he ruined his audition because he cared more about Ben than the part, and admits that Ben did not get it either.
S5 · E19 The One Where Ross Can't Flirt
Ross tries to charm the pizza delivery girl and ends up lecturing her about gas, Joey hides from his grandmother that Law & Order cut him, and Rachel loses one of Monica's earrings.
- Chandler, dressed for his ten-month anniversary dinner with Monica, jokes around with Caitlin the pizza delivery girl at the door.
- Ross accuses Chandler of flirting and admits that he wants Caitlin for himself.
- Phoebe discovers that the earrings Monica wants for the evening are the ones Rachel borrowed and lost half of.
- Monica says she flirts constantly and means nothing by it, which unsettles Chandler, while Rachel tells Ross he was never any good at flirting, so Ross orders another pizza to prove otherwise.
- Joey sees that the show cut him down to a body in a bag, and makes everyone keep smiling so his grandmother will not realise.
- Joey slips out of the apartment mid-commercial, leaving Chandler to entertain his grandmother.
- Phoebe takes the blame for the earring and Monica forgives her warmly, then Rachel confesses and Monica turns on her.
- Ross greets Caitlin and talks at her about gas until she abandons the payment and flees.
- Rachel catches Caitlin on the street, explains that Ross is nervous rather than strange, and comes back upstairs with her phone number.
- Joey distracts his grandmother, swaps in a tape of an old scene of his, and passes it off as the episode.
- Monica hunts for a matching replacement earring with Rachel and Phoebe, and Chandler admires the pair she wears without noticing.
S5 · E20 The One With the Ride Along
Ross, Joey and Chandler ride along with Gary on patrol, where a backfiring car sends Joey diving over Ross, while Rachel erases a message from Emily asking Ross to call her before her wedding.
- Monica tells the others to keep Ross distracted, because Emily is getting married the next day.
- Phoebe mentions that Gary took her out in his patrol car, and Ross, Joey and Chandler all get themselves invited along for that night.
- Rachel knocks over the last box of Monica's unnumbered photographs, then heads to Ross's apartment to fetch his blender.
- Emily leaves a message on Ross's machine admitting she has doubts about her wedding and asking him to call her back, and Rachel hears all of it.
- Monica wants the message wiped so Ross cannot go back to Emily, Rachel refuses on principle, and then erases it herself by pressing the wrong button.
- A car backfires outside the witness's house and Joey throws himself over Ross, which Gary treats as an act of courage.
- Back home, Chandler admits he is hurt that Joey protected Ross instead of him, and Joey confesses he was really shielding his sandwich.
- Joey tells Chandler he thinks of him as a brother and hands him the sandwich, then takes it back after one bite.
- Rachel finds Ross convinced he has survived a brush with death, and tells him what Emily's erased message said.
- Ross decides he should call Emily, but Rachel persuades him the day is about escaping her rather than seizing anything, and he drops the idea.
S5 · E21 The One With the Ball
Phoebe moves in with Gary despite her doubts, then ends the relationship when Gary shoots a bird, while Rachel loses money on a savage hairless cat and Ross and Joey keep a ball in the air for ten hours.
- Gary tells Monica he intends to ask Phoebe to move in with him, Monica passes it straight on to Phoebe, and Phoebe asks Chandler to frighten Gary out of the idea.
- Rachel brings home a hairless show cat she paid a thousand dollars for, expecting it to be as sweet as her grandmother's was.
- Chandler goes to the precinct to talk Gary out of living with Phoebe, and Gary's answer talks Chandler around instead.
- Monica joins the marathon game of catch that Ross and Joey have been keeping alive for hours, and telephones work to say she is ill so she can keep playing.
- Rachel arrives covered in scratches, because the cat attacks her rather than playing with her.
- Chandler reports back that Phoebe should move in with Gary, and Phoebe is furious that he failed at the one thing she asked of him.
- Gary asks Phoebe to move in, Phoebe tells him it is too soon, and then she says yes anyway because he looks so wounded.
- Gary confronts Phoebe with the apartment listings she pretended not to find, Phoebe admits she has doubts, and after Gary offers to drop the whole plan she agrees to move in for real.
- Rachel gets rid of the cat by selling it to Gunther for fifteen hundred dollars, more than she paid.
- Gary shoots a bird singing outside the bedroom window, Phoebe ends the relationship over it, and she puts the ball down in front of the others, finishing their game.
S5 · E22 The One With Joey's Big Break
Joey lands the lead in a low-budget film and drives to Vegas, fighting with Chandler on the way, while Rachel fights everyone over her eye drops and Ross learns why Phoebe is angry.
- Rachel's left eye is red and sore, Monica pushes her toward an eye doctor, and Ross exposes her terror of anything approaching her eyes.
- Joey announces he has the lead in an independent film shooting in the desert near Las Vegas and asks Chandler to drive out with him.
- The doctor abandons the glaucoma test, diagnoses a minor infection, and only gets Rachel to accept the drops by threatening her with a glass eye.
- Joey admits the production pays him nothing up front and gives him a share of the profits instead, which he is certain will make him rich.
- Chandler tells Joey he doubts the film is a real break, and Joey stops the cab on the bridge and puts him out.
- Joey phones the apartment, hangs up rather than speak to Chandler, and Monica suggests Chandler send him something as an apology.
- Ross uses the quick-answer game on Phoebe and gets his answer, and Phoebe realises the insult she is angry about happened in a dream.
- Joey reaches the desert and the producer tells him the film has shut down for lack of money, with no date for restarting.
- Joey tells Monica by phone that he has a dressing room and that Chandler was wrong, while actually working as a costumed photographer at Caesar's.
- The whole group ambushes Rachel in the apartment, holds her down, and finally gets the drops into her eye.
S5 · E23–24 The One in Vegas (Parts 1 & 2)
Monica and Chandler's Vegas anniversary trip turns into a wedding bet at the craps table, while Ross and Rachel drink through the night and get married, and Joey works as a casino gladiator.
- Monica tells Phoebe she ran into her ex Richard and had lunch with him, and asks her to keep it from Chandler before their anniversary.
- Monica surprises Chandler with tickets to Vegas so they can see Joey, and Phoebe invites herself along.
- Rachel enjoys the empty apartment with her clothes off, Ross sees her from his window and arrives expecting sex, and both are left humiliated.
- Joey admits his film ran out of money and he now works at the casino, and Chandler, who heard about Richard from Phoebe on the flight, argues with Monica until they separate for the night.
- Ross gets back at Rachel on their own flight by loudly telling the cabin that he will not sleep with her.
- Joey loses his hundred dollars at blackjack, then decides the dealer's identical hands are worth a fortune.
- Ross draws a beard on Rachel while she sleeps, and she reaches the casino before she finds out.
- Monica catches Chandler heading home and promises never to see Richard again, and the two make up.
- Monica goes on a winning craps run, Chandler tells her they will marry that night if she rolls a hard eight, and they agree the die that fell off the table is a four.
- Phoebe's feud with a slot machine lurker ends with a security guard removing her from the casino.
- Chandler and Monica wait their turn at the chapel and watch a drunk Ross and Rachel come out of it already married.
Season 6
S6 · E1 The One After Vegas
Ross and Rachel wake up married after a drunken night in Vegas, and Ross quietly keeps the marriage instead of annulling it, while Chandler and Monica call off their own wedding and move in together.
- Joey and Phoebe rush into the chapel expecting a Ross and Rachel wedding, Chandler and Monica pretend that is why they are there too, and Monica tells Phoebe a Vegas marriage is binding everywhere.
- Ross and Rachel wake up in bed together with no memory of the night, and Ross stands up with "Just Married" written across his back.
- Joey learns his film has been shut down, and Phoebe makes him drive her cab home with her so the two of them can repair their friendship.
- Chandler tells Joey the near-wedding proved he and Monica are rushing, and Monica separately tells Phoebe she thinks it is too soon as well.
- The group breaks it to Ross and Rachel that the two of them actually got married, and Ross insists on an annulment rather than a third divorce.
- Chandler and Monica agree to let a dice roll decide the wedding, Monica rolls an eight, and they seize on it being the wrong kind of eight to call the whole thing off.
- Joey sleeps through almost the entire drive despite promising Phoebe a fun trip, then takes the wheel and picks up a hitchhiker while she is asleep.
- Ross tells Rachel he has decided not to annul the marriage, because he refuses to be a man with three failed marriages.
- Rachel refuses to stay married and threatens to file for the annulment herself, and Ross gives in and agrees to handle it.
- Monica and Chandler agree they do not want a wedding, and Chandler asks to move in with her instead, which she accepts.
- Ross tells Rachel the annulment is done, then admits to Phoebe that he never filed it and swears her to secrecy.
S6 · E2 The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel
Ross secretly skips the annulment because he cannot face a third divorce, while Monica and Chandler tell Joey and Rachel they are moving in together and Rachel has to move out.
- Ross quietly tells Phoebe that he never went through with the annulment and that he and Rachel are still married.
- Phoebe puts Rachel in a cab so she can press Ross, who admits he cannot bear a third divorce, and she agrees to keep the secret.
- Chandler tells Joey he is moving out, and Joey, close to tears, ends up calling Chandler the best roommate he has had.
- Monica tells Rachel that she and Chandler are moving in, and Rachel happily assumes the three of them will be living together.
- At Phoebe's impromptu panel of women, Meg says she would not date Ross because he is plainly still in love with Rachel.
- Monica reports that Rachel took the news calmly, and is hurt that her best friend showed no emotion at all.
- Ross's lawyer tells him an annulment requires witnesses and Rachel's own testimony before a judge, so he cannot do it behind her back.
- Monica confronts Rachel, who admits she never believed the move would happen, and once convinced she breaks down and the two of them hug.
- Ross arrives to confess about the marriage, finds Rachel crying over the move, and hugs her instead of telling her.
S6 · E3 The One With Ross's Denial
Ross, who has still not told Rachel they are accidentally married, invites her to move into his apartment, then tries to talk Monica and Chandler out of moving in together so she has nowhere else to go.
- Rachel asks to move in with Phoebe and discovers Phoebe already has a roommate named Denise, and she turns down Joey's spare room as well.
- Phoebe confronts Ross for keeping the marriage from Rachel and tells him he has fallen for her again, which Ross denies.
- Monica wants Rachel's old room turned into a guest room and Chandler wants it filled with arcade machines, and Chandler leaves the argument unresolved.
- Ross passes Rachel a sublet from a colleague at the museum, but she calls and learns the place is already taken.
- Ross offers Rachel his own apartment on the spot and she gratefully accepts.
- Monica and Chandler apologise to each other, then fight again over his recliner, and Chandler storms out saying he will bring nothing of his own.
- Rachel tells Ross that Monica and Chandler have called off the move, which means she can stay put, and Ross pretends to be pleased.
- Ross hauls Chandler across the hall and lectures the couple until both say aloud that they still want to live together.
- Rachel tells Ross that living together means watching each other date other people, and proposes a signal on the door.
- Ross reverses himself and tries to frighten Monica and Chandler out of moving in, they ignore him, and Joey then offers Rachel his spare room instead.
S6 · E4 The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance
Joey's health insurance lapses and he gets a hernia he refuses to pay to fix, while Ross panics into a fake British accent at his first NYU lecture and Rachel finds out they are still married.
- Rachel packs up her kitchen things to move in with Ross, and Phoebe accuses Ross of hoping Rachel will fall for him before she learns they are still married.
- Ross is invited to guest lecture at NYU on the strength of a published paper, and Phoebe almost gives away the marriage in front of Rachel before passing it off as a joke.
- Phoebe tells the others that her psychic has given her one week to live, and she decides to spend it doing whatever she likes.
- Chandler opens Joey's mail and finds that Joey's health insurance has expired because he worked too little last year, so Joey goes to his agent for work.
- Joey gives himself a hernia lifting weights, and he refuses to see a doctor because he can no longer afford one.
- Monica and Rachel slip into the lecture hall early and catch Ross teaching in a British accent, which he admits he adopted out of nerves.
- Monica and Rachel fight over the disputed candlesticks and settle it by each keeping one.
- Phoebe announces that her own psychic has died, which she takes as proof the reading was wrong and she will live.
- Joey wins the part of a dying man and plays it in real pain, and Chandler gets the child actor to cry on cue by making him look at Joey's hernia.
- Ross's divorce lawyer phones the apartment and Rachel learns she is still married, and she storms into his lecture to confront him just after he has confessed to the class that the accent is fake.
S6 · E5 The One With Joey's Porsche
Ross's failure to file the annulment becomes public, and Rachel's false court forms leave the pair needing a divorce instead, while Joey borrows a stranger's Porsche keys and Phoebe babysits Frank and Alice's triplets.
- Rachel tells the others that Ross never filed for the annulment and that the two of them are still married.
- Joey finds a set of Porsche keys left at Central Perk and goes off to leave a note on the car.
- Phoebe asks Monica and Chandler to help her babysit, admitting only after they agree that the charges are Frank and Alice's triplets rather than puppies.
- Rachel, with nowhere to live, agrees to move in with Phoebe while Phoebe's roommate Denise is away.
- The owner of the Porsche turns up and takes his keys back, leaving Joey without the car.
- Chandler concedes that his action figure is unsafe for the babies, having swallowed one of its parts while trying to prove otherwise.
- The judge reads Rachel's invented claims about Ross, rules that the pair do not qualify for an annulment, and tells them to file for divorce.
- Joey keeps up the pretence by dressing head to toe in Porsche clothing.
- Phoebe minds all three babies alone and wrecks Monica's apartment doing it, and Chandler defends the mess as the price of her success.
- Rachel signs the divorce papers and admits that marrying in Vegas was her own idea.
S6 · E6 The One on the Last Night
On Rachel's last night in the apartment, Monica and Rachel fight instead of packing, while Chandler invents a card game to slip Joey the money he refuses to accept.
- Chandler hands the bills over to Joey ahead of moving out and offers to cover him for a while, but Joey turns the money down flat.
- Chandler tells Phoebe he wants to get about fifteen hundred dollars to Joey by tricking him into taking it, so that Joey's pride survives.
- Monica discovers Rachel has not packed a thing, and Rachel presents the whole job to her as a parting gift.
- Ross gets out of helping by claiming he has Ben with him, then goes home to build a fake Ben out of a pumpkin.
- Phoebe suggests the women list what they will not miss about each other, and the exercise turns into genuine complaints about phone messages and the phone pen.
- Chandler invents a card game called Cups and makes up rules on the spot so that Joey keeps winning money.
- Rachel starts unpacking and announces she is not moving out, and the argument turns into Monica chasing her around the table.
- Phoebe says she no longer wants to live with Rachel, so Monica sells Rachel as a roommate by listing her kindnesses and breaks down about losing her.
- Joey loses fifteen hundred dollars to Ross at Cups, refuses Chandler's help again, and gives him the big white dog as a goodbye.
- Rachel hands Monica back her key and leaves the apartment for good.
S6 · E7 The One Where Phoebe Runs
Joey's new roommate Janine turns him down after he tries not to flirt with her, Rachel is embarrassed by Phoebe's flailing running style, and Chandler rearranges Monica's apartment while cleaning it.
- Joey brings home Janine as his new roommate, and Monica learns he never interviewed her beyond asking when she could move in.
- Monica, Ross and Chandler talk Joey out of asking Janine out, and Monica warns him against flirting with her too.
- Rachel takes Phoebe running in the park, where Phoebe runs with her arms flapping and her legs splayed, and Rachel is embarrassed to be seen with her.
- Rachel tells Phoebe that Monica hurt her ankle rather than admit the real problem, and Phoebe later catches Rachel sneaking out to run alone.
- Chandler cleans the apartment and moves Monica's things out of place, and Ross convinces him that Monica will be furious about it.
- Joey asks Ross and Chandler to teach him how to repel women, and the two of them list their own worst habits for him.
- Rachel apologises and tells Phoebe the truth about the running, and Phoebe calls her uptight rather than change how she runs.
- Joey tells Janine that they cannot date because they live together, and Janine replies that she was never interested in him that way.
- Rachel tries running Phoebe's way in the park, decides she loves it, and makes up with Phoebe.
- Monica spots every object Chandler moved but tells him she appreciates the cleaning and never expected him to match her standards.
S6 · E8 The One With Ross's Teeth
Ross over-whitens his teeth before a date with Monica's assistant chef, Phoebe makes out with a copy-room worker who claims to be Ralph Lauren, and Joey tries to keep Janine's decorating out of the living room.
- Chandler sees how much of the apartment Janine has redecorated and tells Joey to stand up for himself.
- Phoebe tells Rachel she kissed Ralph Lauren in the copy room at Rachel's new office.
- Joey lists everything of Janine's he objects to and then accepts each item in turn.
- Ross arrives with badly over-whitened teeth, having left the gel on an extra day before his date.
- Phoebe fails to recognise Ralph Lauren's photograph, and Rachel works out that the man was Kenny from the copy room.
- Kim tracks the copy-room keycard to Rachel and accuses her of sleeping with Ralph Lauren to take Kim's job.
- Chandler confronts Joey over the flower arranging, and Joey's hurt reaction convinces him that Chandler is right.
- Hillary's black light lights up Ross's teeth, and the date ends with her demanding an explanation.
- Rachel invents an affair with Ralph Lauren and a tearful break-up, and Kim believes her and comforts her.
- Joey tells Janine to clear the living room, then asks her to move each item into his bedroom instead.
S6 · E9 The One Where Ross Got High
Monica's parents come for Thanksgiving not knowing she lives with Chandler, and the college lie of Ross's that made them dislike him comes out along with everyone else's secrets while Rachel serves a beef trifle.
- Monica admits to Chandler that she has never told her parents they are dating because her parents dislike him, and Chandler decides to charm them into approving before they confess.
- Janine invites Joey and Ross to a Thanksgiving party with her dancer friends, and the two of them plan to eat quickly at Monica's and slip away.
- Rachel takes on an English trifle as the dessert, and Monica tells her she trusts her enough not to prepare a backup.
- Phoebe tells Rachel about a dream in which Jack Geller rescued her from a fire, and she now finds Monica's father attractive.
- Ross and Joey discover the pages of Rachel's recipe were stuck together and she has built half a trifle and half a shepherd's pie, and Ross talks Joey into saying nothing so they can still leave for the party.
- Judy assumes Chandler is stoned, and Ross privately confesses that in college he blamed his own marijuana on Chandler, which is why the Gellers have disliked him for years.
- Joey changes his mind and wants Rachel warned, so Ross instead agrees to coach everyone into pretending the dessert is good while he keeps Rachel out of the room.
- Rachel misreads Ross stalling her as an attempt to get back together and tells him she is not interested.
- Monica, Chandler and the Gellers each fake enjoyment and carry their servings out of the room to dump them, and Chandler tells Rachel a bird stole his off the balcony.
- Monica loses patience and announces Ross's pot smoking, the siblings expose each other's secrets including Monica and Chandler living together, and the Gellers end up thanking Chandler for putting up with both of them.
S6 · E10 The One With the Routine
Ross and Monica dance as extras at a taping of Dick Clark's New Year's show and revive their middle school routine, while Joey plans a midnight kiss for Janine and Phoebe and Rachel hunt for Monica's hidden Christmas presents.
- Janine is booked as a dancer on Dick Clark's New Year's special, asks Joey to be her partner, and invites Ross and Monica along.
- Rachel tells Joey the invitation was not a date, so Joey decides to kiss Janine at the midnight countdown and blame the occasion if it goes badly.
- Phoebe and Rachel search the apartment for the presents Monica has hidden, and Chandler joins the hunt once Rachel convinces him that one good gift will not be enough.
- Under the couch the searchers find a note from Monica instead of presents, saying she expected Chandler to give in.
- At the taping Ross and Monica keep missing the cameras and learn that only the dancers on the platforms are being filmed.
- The director splits Joey and Janine up and assigns each of them a different partner, and Joey cannot talk him out of it.
- Ross persuades Monica to perform the dance routine they did in middle school, and the director is impressed enough to put the two of them on a platform.
- The countdown is taped and the director calls cut at midnight, so Joey never gets his kiss.
- Rachel discovers the presents inside the hollow bench, and Chandler talks Phoebe and Rachel into putting them back by promising to buy them better gifts.
- Monica walks in and lets slip that she bought Chandler a water purifier, ruining his own surprise.
- Back at their apartment Janine kisses Joey and admits she was disappointed they missed the countdown, and Joey tells her he wanted to kiss her too.
S6 · E11 The One With the Apothecary Table
Rachel hides that her new apothecary table came from Pottery Barn because Phoebe despises mass-produced furniture, while Joey's new girlfriend Janine tells him she cannot stand spending evenings with Monica and Chandler.
- Joey announces to the group that he has kissed Janine, then admits he left her sitting alone to come and tell them.
- Rachel's Pottery Barn catalogue arrives with the apothecary table she ordered, and after Monica warns her that Phoebe loathes the chain, Rachel decides to pass the table off as an antique.
- The two couples come home from a double date and arrange another dinner, but once inside Janine tells Joey she finds Chandler dull and Monica too loud to take two nights running.
- Phoebe admires the table and Rachel invents a flea market origin for it, a price of one and fifty dollars, and a history in White Plains.
- Rachel arrives at Ross's flat to find he has bought the identical table, and she persuades him to drape it with his Pottery Barn sheets before Phoebe turns up.
- Joey tells Monica and Chandler that Janine is too ill for dinner, Janine walks out on her way to a play, and Joey confesses what she really said about them.
- Phoebe puts her feet on the covered table, drags the sheet off along with a glass of wine, and Rachel salvages the lie by claiming Pottery Barn copied their antique.
- Ross finds the flat filled with Pottery Barn furniture that Rachel has given Colonial histories, so he hands her sixty dollars and sends her and Phoebe to the flea market.
- Phoebe recognises her own living room in a Pottery Barn window, Rachel confesses, and Phoebe buys the lamp she wants on the excuse that Rachel would otherwise move out.
- Janine and Monica come to blows in the hallway, Joey tells Janine his friends matter too much to lose, and he ends the relationship and she moves out.
S6 · E12 The One With the Joke
Ross and Chandler each claim the joke Playboy printed as their own, Joey runs out of money and takes a waiting job at Central Perk, and Phoebe names an unflattering trait in each of the three women.
- Ross shows off a joke of his that Playboy has printed, and Chandler insists he invented it first.
- Chandler discovers that Joey's cable and phone have been cut off for non-payment, and Joey turns down the offer of a loan.
- Monica asks Phoebe and Rachel which of the group they would date, and Phoebe chooses Rachel over Monica.
- Joey cannot pay his coffeehouse bill, so Gunther offers him work and Joey decides to take it.
- Phoebe explains that she picked Rachel because Monica is high maintenance and Rachel is easily walked over, and Rachel bars Phoebe from lunch to prove otherwise.
- Joey admits to the group that he works at Central Perk now, and says going from actor to waiter embarrasses him.
- Gunther leaves Joey in charge to get his hair dyed, and Joey shuts the coffeehouse so he can go to an audition.
- Ross and Chandler make Monica settle the dispute, and she rules that the joke is bad and offensive and that neither of them should want credit.
- Chandler tells Monica she is high maintenance but that he enjoys looking after her, and she forgives him.
- Joey loses both the part and his job, and Rachel confronts Gunther and gets Joey rehired.
S6 · E13 The One With Rachel's Sister
Rachel's sister Jill arrives in New York after their father cuts her off, and Rachel's insistence that Ross is worth dating pushes Jill into going out with him.
- Joey starts handing out free coffee and food to attractive customers in exchange for dates, and buys off Phoebe's objection with a free scone.
- Monica is sent home from work with a bad cold and refuses to admit she is sick.
- Jill explains that their father cut her off for buying a boat, and Rachel sets her a plan of finding a job, finding an apartment and staying with Phoebe meanwhile.
- Jill turns up with bags of new clothes charged to her father's card number, and Ross and Phoebe pretend the shopping was theirs.
- Rachel sees through the act and confiscates everything, but Ross quietly holds one bag back and gives it to Jill.
- Phoebe warns Rachel that she noticed something between Ross and Jill, and Rachel spirals over the idea of her sister and her ex.
- Jill calls Ross too bookish to date, and Rachel argues for him so hard that Jill decides to ask him out.
- Gunther catches Joey singing happy birthday to twenty different women in one day and bars him from giving away any more muffins.
- Ross thanks Rachel for the blessing and tells her he would never have considered Jill without it.
- Monica finally admits she is ill and asks Chandler to rub Vicks on her chest, which arouses him enough to abandon his rule about sick people.
- Rachel watches from Monica's window as Ross brings Jill back to his apartment and closes the drapes.
S6 · E14 The One Where Chandler Can't Cry
On Valentine's week Rachel makes Ross break off his date with her sister Jill, Jill retaliates by kissing him, and the friends discover a porn actress is trading on Phoebe's name while Chandler admits he cannot cry.
- Ross tells Rachel that nothing happened with Jill beyond a slideshow of his fossils, and that Jill has asked him out again for Valentine's Day.
- Rachel says she cannot handle Ross dating her sister, and Ross agrees to phone Jill immediately and call it off.
- Watching a film with the others, Chandler admits he never cries at anything, not even a photo of the parents' day his own parents skipped, and Joey pronounces him emotionally dead.
- Rachel confesses to Jill that she is the reason Ross cancelled, and Jill accuses her of jealousy and storms off.
- Joey brings home a pornographic tape credited to Phoebe Buffay, and Rachel spots an ankle tattoo proving the performer is Ursula, just as Phoebe walks in.
- Chandler reads a book of sentimental stories hoping to force out a tear, and Monica loses her temper when he stays dry through her invented deathbed scenario.
- Phoebe confronts Ursula mid-shoot, turns down her offer of thirty dollars for twin scenes, and orders her to stop using her name.
- Jill arrives at Ross's apartment for another slideshow and kisses him after Rachel phones to warn him he is being used.
- Ross tells Rachel he stopped the kiss because anything with Jill would rule out ever getting back together with her, and Rachel thanks him.
- Chandler finally breaks down in tears over Ross and Rachel, then cries again when Jill leaves for good.
S6 · E15–16 The One That Could Have Been (Parts 1 & 2)
The friends wonder how their lives would have gone if a few key things had broken differently, and the episode then plays out that imagined version, in which Rachel is married to Barry, Ross is still married to Carol, and Chandler never quit his job.
- At Central Perk, Rachel reports that Barry and Mindy are divorcing, which sets everyone naming the turn their own life might have taken instead.
- In the imagined version, Ross runs into Rachel at a newsstand, learns that she is married too, and takes her along to see Monica.
- In that version, Chandler is a broke unpublished writer, and Monica talks Joey into hiring him as his assistant so he can take the money without shame.
- In the imagined version, Phoebe is a stockbroker, loses thirteen million dollars on a trade, and has a heart attack in front of Monica and Chandler.
- In that version, Ross tells Carol their sex life has stalled and offers ideas, and Carol seizes on the threesome.
- In the imagined version, Rachel admits she wants to sleep with Joey despite being married, and Monica lets slip that she is a thirty-year-old virgin.
- In that version, Monica's date is called away to the hospital, so Monica and Chandler agree to sleep together as friends, and Monica loses her virginity to him.
- In the imagined version, Rachel drinks herself sick at Joey's apartment, nothing happens between them, and Joey gives her a prop ring as proof she did not cheat.
- In that version, Ross describes his wife's night with another woman to Rachel, and Rachel's reaction makes him understand that Carol is gay.
- In the imagined version, Chandler pages Monica's boyfriend away under a fake emergency and tells Monica he wants to be with her.
S6 · E17 The One With Unagi
Ross insists Rachel and Phoebe are unprepared and starts ambushing them, Chandler passes off a found mixtape as a handmade Valentine's gift, and Joey hires a look-alike to pose as his identical twin for a paid medical study.
- Joey pressures his friends for a bigger tip because he needs money for new head shots, and he decides to sign up for paid medical research again.
- Rachel and Phoebe come back from a self-defense class certain they can fight anyone off, and Ross tells them real safety requires a state of constant awareness he calls unagi.
- Chandler admits he has nothing for the handmade Valentine's gift he and Monica promised each other, and he asks whether anyone else has made something he could claim as his own.
- The research clinic tells Joey the only study open is a two-thousand-dollar trial that accepts identical twins alone.
- Ross hides in the hallway and jumps out at Rachel and Phoebe to prove they were not ready for an attack.
- Chandler finds an old tape in a closet and gives it to Monica as a romantic compilation he made himself.
- Chandler recognises that Monica's sock bunny is one of Phoebe's, and Monica confesses she forgot and promises to cook and do whatever he wants to make up for it.
- Joey introduces Carl, the look-alike he hired to pose as his twin, and the doctor at the clinic refuses them because the two men are obviously not identical.
- Monica plays the tape and hears Janice's birthday message on it, which exposes Chandler's gift as a leftover from an ex-girlfriend.
- Ross charges at two women outside the coffee house believing they are Rachel and Phoebe, while the real Rachel and Phoebe watch from a window and leave him to it.
S6 · E18 The One Where Ross Dates a Student
Ross starts dating a student who praised him on an anonymous evaluation and finds out too late that it could cost him his job, while a fire drives Rachel and Phoebe out of their apartment.
- Joey asks Chandler to trade on an old college friendship with the director Dana Keystone and get him an audition before Thursday.
- Rachel phones for her messages, a firefighter answers, and she learns that her apartment has burned.
- Elizabeth admits she is the student who called Ross attractive on his evaluation, and Ross accepts a date once she points out that he is no longer her teacher.
- The bedrooms are gutted, and Phoebe, certain her candles caused the fire, hands Rachel the one spare room at Monica's and takes Joey's place herself.
- A second inspector reports that a hair straightener started the fire, which means Rachel is to blame rather than Phoebe.
- Rachel gets Joey to telephone Phoebe posing as the inspector so that Phoebe goes on believing the candles did it.
- Two meetings pass without Chandler raising the audition, so he fakes a broken heart and gets Dana to schedule Joey for Thursday out of pity.
- Ross introduces Elizabeth to his colleagues as his girlfriend and they tell him that dating a student is grounds for dismissal.
- Ross reads the rule in the handbook and ends things, then he and Elizabeth find the forbidden angle exciting enough to carry on anyway.
- Joey, still at home eating pizza, realises that Thursday has arrived and that he has missed the audition.
S6 · E19 The One With Joey's Fridge
Joey tries to bill everyone $400 for a new fridge, Rachel's friends compete to set her up for a charity ball, and Ross worries about Elizabeth going to Daytona for spring break.
- Joey's fridge dies and he demands that Rachel, now his roommate, hand over $400 for half of a replacement, which she refuses to pay.
- Rachel tells the group she needs a date for a charity ball her employer is attending, and asks them to find her one.
- Ross brings Elizabeth to the coffee house to meet his friends, takes their jokes about her age, and explains that she is twenty and wants nothing serious, which suits him.
- Phoebe picks a candidate for Rachel, Monica and Chandler pick a different one, and the three of them turn it into a contest over whose man is better.
- With the fridge dead, Joey eats his way through all the spoiling food and then tries to charge Chandler $400 as well, on the grounds that Chandler used to live there.
- Ross, convinced Elizabeth is about to invite him on a trip, tells her they are moving too fast, and learns she was only mentioning that she is going to Florida.
- The others tell Ross that spring break in Florida means drinking and hooking up, and Ross begins to worry about what Elizabeth will do there.
- Rachel arrives with Sebastian, a man she met on her own, and Phoebe, Monica and Chandler interrogate him until he leaves without giving her his number.
- Phoebe and the couple ambush Rachel with both candidates at once, and Rachel walks out declaring she will go to the ball alone.
- Ross admits he hid Elizabeth's bathing suit and sees her off at the airport, and afterwards he calls the others to watch her on MTV from Daytona.
S6 · E20 The One With Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.
Joey auditions to star in a detective show with a robot partner, and Chandler forgets to finish a phone message in Joey's apartment, costing Joey the part until a second call brings it back.
- Phoebe runs lines with Joey and decides mid-scene that she is a gifted actress, which annoys Joey enough to end the rehearsal.
- Joey explains that the pilot casts him as a detective working with a robot sidekick, admits he doubts he is good enough, and Rachel tells him he is a fine actor.
- Joey pretends at the coffeehouse that the audition went badly, then admits it went well and that the part is down to him and two other actors, with the callback set for five o'clock the next day.
- Joey tells Ross and Chandler that their jobs carry nothing like this pressure, and Ross takes offence.
- Chandler, alone in Joey's old apartment, answers the phone and learns the audition has moved to half past two, but Monica hurries him out before he finishes writing the message on the board.
- Joey finds out he missed the callback and that the actor from the allergy commercials got the part, and he blames Chandler for it.
- Chandler admits he ruined it, argues that everyone is entitled to one mistake, and Joey stays angry.
- Monica and Rachel try to console Chandler, who confesses he has already forgiven himself, which Rachel finds too quick given what he did.
- Chandler answers Joey's phone again, hears that the actor cast as Mac was attacked by his own dog and that Joey is wanted at two, and this time he writes the whole message down.
- Joey fakes not having seen the message, then reveals he went to the audition and got the part, and the two of them make up.
- Phoebe and Ross both overact while helping Joey rehearse the new script, and Joey cuts the session short and takes their pages away.
S6 · E21 The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad
Elizabeth's father Paul tells Ross he disapproves of the age gap, Rachel starts dating Paul herself, and Joey discovers the technician who operates his robot co-star can have him fired.
- Ross tells his friends that Elizabeth's father wants to meet him and asks them to be there to make him look good.
- Joey meets C.H.E.E.S.E. on set, calls the robot unimpressive, and offends Wayne, the man who built and operates it.
- Paul tells Ross outright that he does not want him seeing his daughter, then gives him two minutes to change his mind.
- Rachel catches Paul at the coffee house, learns he raised Elizabeth alone after his wife died, and finds herself attracted to him.
- Joey's agent offers him an audition for the lead in Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E., which is the part Joey already has.
- Ross walks in on Rachel kissing Paul, and Rachel proposes a double date where she will use her new access to sell Ross to him.
- At dinner Rachel's flattering stories keep backfiring, and she accidentally exposes both of Ross's failed marriages.
- Phoebe reveals she wrote Monica and Chandler's mix-up over the movie time into her book and said nothing while they missed it.
- Wayne offers to save Joey's job if Joey teaches him how to talk to women, and Joey agrees.
- Elizabeth tells her father she will keep seeing Ross whatever he thinks, and Paul settles for agreeing with Ross that neither of them likes Ross.
S6 · E22 The One Where Paul's the Man
Paul orders Ross to stop seeing Elizabeth, then Ross ends up trapped in Paul's cabin during Paul's romantic weekend with Rachel, while Chandler hears a message about a wedding venue Monica put her name down for.
- Paul tells Ross that he has changed his mind and wants him to stop seeing Elizabeth, and threatens to have the university fire him.
- Joey asks the dry cleaner to put his photograph back on the celebrity wall, and the cleaner refuses until the new show is actually on the air.
- At the museum Rachel and Phoebe talk Monica into adding her name to the two-year wedding waiting list, and both of them add their own names as well.
- Elizabeth leaves the cabin to buy condoms, and Paul arrives at the very same house with Rachel for his surprise weekend.
- Chandler hears the museum's message about a cancellation for the Bing-Geller wedding and picks up the phone.
- Rachel discovers Ross hiding under the couch, and after stalling Paul with drink requests she pushes Ross into a bedroom that turns out to be Paul's.
- Joey takes the clerk at the dry cleaners out for drinks to get his picture hung, and the cleaner defaces the photograph and throws him out because the clerk is his wife.
- From his hiding place Ross watches Paul give himself a pep talk in the mirror, admire his own chest and sing about being a love machine.
- Paul catches Ross and fires him, so Ross repeats the mirror routine back at him, and Paul drops the threat and shows him to the guest room.
- Monica apologises and Chandler accepts, but once she leaves he tells Phoebe the whole panic was an act because he is preparing to propose.
S6 · E23 The One With the Ring
Chandler secretly shops for an engagement ring with Phoebe's help, loses the ring he wants to another buyer, and gets it back by conning that man out of it at his own proposal dinner.
- Chandler asks Phoebe to help him choose an engagement ring for Monica and keeps the plan from everyone else, since she only knows because she walked in on him.
- To explain why she and Chandler slipped away, Phoebe tells Ross that Chandler is angry about being left out of a Knicks game.
- Rachel pushes Paul to talk about his feelings, and he unloads childhood misery until he is too upset to go to dinner.
- Chandler picks a 1920s ring, settles on eight thousand dollars, and leaves Phoebe to guard it while he goes to get his credit card from Joey.
- Ross and Joey decide to patch things up by getting Chandler a ticket to another game, and Joey pays the coffeehouse bill with Chandler's card.
- Phoebe tries on the store's jewelry instead of watching the ring, another customer buys it, and she is caught in the security gate chasing him.
- Phoebe admits the ring is gone and talks Chandler into buying a different one, which he agrees to only reluctantly.
- When Chandler refuses the Knicks ticket, Ross and Joey decide to stop speaking to him and name themselves best friends instead.
- Rachel tells Paul she cannot listen to any more of it, he apologizes, and they go to bed, where he cries again.
- Chandler and Phoebe find the buyer at the restaurant where he means to propose and trick him into swapping rings by claiming Phoebe is dying.
S6 · E24–25 The One With the Proposal (Parts 1 & 2)
Chandler's restaurant proposal to Monica is derailed when Richard reappears and tells her he still wants to marry her, while Ross ends his relationship with Elizabeth and Joey accidentally buys a sailboat.
- Chandler shows the others the engagement ring and lays out his plan to propose to Monica over champagne at her favourite restaurant that night.
- The group tells Ross that the twelve-year age gap between him and Elizabeth is a real problem, which he had assumed was only teasing.
- Joey treats the charity silent auction as a guessing game and ends up committed to a twenty-thousand-dollar sailboat he cannot pay for.
- Richard arrives at the same restaurant with a date, the two tables are pushed together for the evening, and Chandler never gets to propose.
- Rachel talks another bidder into taking the boat off Joey's hands, and then Joey decides he wants it himself and will pay in instalments.
- After Phoebe and Joey almost give the surprise away, Chandler decides to throw Monica off by convincing her that he is frightened of marriage.
- Ross breaks up with Elizabeth outside her dormitory, and she leans out of her window to insult him.
- Richard comes to Monica's restaurant kitchen and tells her that he still loves her and that he wants to marry her and have children with her.
- Rachel asks Ross to be her backup husband and finds out that Phoebe has promised the same arrangement to both Ross and Joey.
- Chandler comes home to find Monica down on one knee, takes over from her with the ring, and she accepts.
Season 7
S7 · E1 The One With Monica's Thunder
Monica and Chandler get engaged, and Monica's celebration falls apart when Rachel, unhappy about her own prospects, kisses Ross in the hallway and Monica accuses her of stealing the night.
- Chandler tells Ross that he and Monica are engaged, while Monica stands out in the street shouting the news at strangers.
- Monica decides the group should dress up for champagne at The Plaza, and Joey mentions an audition for a nineteen-year-old that nobody believes he can win.
- Chandler and Monica start to have sex before they leave, and Chandler cannot go through with it.
- Rachel tells Ross that the engagement makes her think about her own future and offers him one night together with nothing attached, and Ross turns her down.
- Chandler confesses the failure to Joey, who says it happened to him once and that he carried on regardless.
- Monica buys Phoebe's cooperation by promising her a song at the wedding, then opens the door and finds Ross and Rachel kissing in the hallway.
- Monica tells Ross and Rachel they have stolen her thunder, and Phoebe walks in on the argument and spreads the news about the kiss.
- Joey loudly defends Chandler's bedroom trouble in front of everyone, exposing it, and learns about the kiss in return.
- Chandler tells Joey he is thirty-one rather than thirty, and Monica calls off the trip to The Plaza and refuses to talk to Rachel.
- Monica drags up Rachel's behaviour at her sixteenth birthday and taunts her for still being unmarried, so Rachel storms off with Ross to spite her.
- Rachel and Ross only pretend to sleep together, and Rachel admits she acted out of sadness, which ends the fight with Monica.
S7 · E2 The One With Rachel's Book
Monica's parents admit they spent her wedding fund on a beach house, so Chandler's savings become the only budget, while Joey finds Rachel's erotic novel and Phoebe moves in with Ross.
- Monica shows off her engagement ring and hauls out the wedding planning binder she has kept since the fourth grade.
- Phoebe interrupts one of Ross's lectures with an emergency that turns out to be a request to move in with him for a few days.
- Ross comes home to a naked stranger on a massage table and tells Phoebe she cannot see clients in his apartment.
- A woman drops her elderly father off for his appointment, and Ross tells her he is a masseur because he finds her attractive.
- Over dinner, Jack and Judy tell Monica that her wedding fund paid for the beach house years ago.
- Chandler writes down how much he has saved, Monica wants all of it spent on the wedding, and Chandler refuses.
- Phoebe confronts Ross for massaging her client with kitchen utensils and losing her the business, and Ross apologises.
- Chandler changes his mind and offers the whole sum, then describes the house and children he had been saving for, and Monica decides she would rather have that than the wedding.
- Rachel stops Joey's teasing by aggressively coming on to him until he is frightened.
S7 · E3 The One With Phoebe's Cookies
Monica asks for Phoebe's grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe as an engagement present, and after the original burns she spends two days trying to rebuild it from a single frozen cookie.
- Monica asks Phoebe for her grandmother's cookie recipe as an engagement present, and Phoebe agrees despite a deathbed promise to keep it in the family.
- Joey admits he never takes his boat out of the marina, and Rachel offers to teach him to sail.
- Ross invites Chandler to play racquetball with Mr. Geller, and Monica warns Chandler that he has to let her father win.
- Phoebe reveals the recipe burned in the apartment fire and hands over her last frozen cookie, so Monica decides to reverse-engineer it by taste.
- Rachel drills Joey on sailing terms he cannot answer and tells him he would die at sea, and Joey stops enjoying the lesson.
- Joey eats what is left of the cookie, leaving Phoebe and Monica with a single crumb.
- In a flashback, Chandler takes off his fogged glasses in the steam room and sits down in Mr. Geller's lap.
- Joey tells Rachel he is done sailing with her because she is mean, and Rachel apologises and promises to stop yelling and bossing him around.
- Rachel loses her temper again during the second lesson, Joey quits, and Rachel realises she has turned into her own father.
- Phoebe names her great-grandmother as Nesele Toulouse, and Monica works out that the recipe is the Nestle Tollhouse one printed on the chocolate chip bag in her cupboard.
S7 · E4 The One With Rachel's Assistant
Rachel is promoted at Ralph Lauren and hires an unqualified but handsome assistant, Joey loses both of his television jobs and wins one back, and Chandler's no-secrets rule with Monica drags out his and Ross's worst college stories.
- The friends watch Joey's robot show and quietly divide up which weak compliment each of them will offer, until Phoebe's wordless dodge tells Joey the show is bad.
- Rachel and Joey talk over each other with their news: Ralph Lauren has made Rachel a merchandising manager with a raise and an assistant, and Days of Our Lives wants Joey back as Drake's twin brother.
- Rachel interviews the experienced Hilda, then meets Tag, who has no office experience, and she photographs him on a pretext.
- Chandler declares that married couples keep no secrets and trades Ross's humiliating Disneyland story for what Phoebe whispered to Monica, then finds the trade worthless.
- Terry tells Joey he has to audition like everyone else, and Joey insults him and walks out of the soap job.
- Rachel hires Tag instead of Hilda and sends him downstairs to send Hilda home.
- Ross works out that Chandler told Monica, and retaliates by revealing that Chandler once kissed a man in an Atlantic City bar.
- The producers cancel Joey's robot show, leaving him with no work at all after his outburst at the soap.
- Joey goes back and apologises to Terry, and the next scene shows him shooting a hospital scene as Dr. Stryker Ramoray.
- Tag tells Rachel that men have been asking him out and that he is not gay, then admits he wants to date Phoebe, so Rachel tells him Phoebe is gay.
S7 · E5 The One With the Engagement Picture
Chandler cannot smile for the engagement photograph, Rachel meddles in her assistant's social life to protect her own crush, and Phoebe and Ross date a divorcing couple who then reconcile.
- Phoebe tells the others that the coffeehouse regular has asked her out, and admits he is married but in the middle of a divorce.
- Rachel confesses she has a crush on her new assistant Tag and insists she will never act on it, then reacts badly to the idea of him seeing someone else.
- Rachel asks Joey to take Tag out for an evening so the young man will have a friend in the city, and Joey agrees.
- Monica loses her temper at the photographer for laughing at Chandler, defends him, and the affection makes him smile long enough for a picture.
- Phoebe hands Ross her ballroom dancing tickets to distract Kyle's ex-wife Whitney, and the next morning Ross has Whitney at his apartment for breakfast.
- Phoebe repeats Kyle's warnings that Whitney is difficult and controlling, and Ross dismisses them as an ex-husband's bias.
- Tag comes to work bragging that Joey helped him collect twenty phone numbers, so Rachel bribes Joey with ten shirts to talk Tag out of chasing women.
- Tag tells Rachel he is done with bars and wants a relationship, then reveals he means reuniting with his ex-girlfriend, which Rachel misreads as interest in her.
- Kyle and Whitney turn up together to say they are reconciling, dumping Phoebe and Ross, who agree they are better off.
- The published announcement shows Monica posing with Joey rather than Chandler, and both of them like how they look together.
S7 · E6 The One With the Nap Partners
Rachel and Phoebe compete to be Monica's maid of honor through an audition judged by Ross and Joey, while Chandler apologises to an old girlfriend he dumped for gaining weight and Joey and Ross discover they nap well together.
- Monica tells Rachel and Phoebe about a rotating arrangement in which each of them serves as maid of honor for the others, and leaves the choice of her own to the two of them.
- Phoebe asks Rachel to be her maid of honor and says she has never held the job herself, so Rachel concedes Monica's wedding to her.
- Ross and Joey fall asleep on the couch together after the film, wake up appalled, and agree never to mention it again.
- Chandler recognises the woman who mocked Monica's engagement as Julie Grath, a girlfriend from summer camp he dropped after she gained weight.
- Joey mentions that Phoebe has been a maid of honor before, her lie collapses, and he offers to settle the fight with an audition that he and Ross will judge.
- Joey presses Ross until Ross admits the nap was the best he has ever had, and Ross then rules out a second one.
- At the audition Rachel talks Joey out of his pretend cold feet and delivers a warm toast, while Phoebe tackles Ross as the drunk uncle and then claims she and Rachel shower together.
- Monica, reminded of a boy who rejected her as a child, sends Chandler to apologise to Julie, who had never known weight was his reason, and Chandler then tells Monica her size would not change how he loves her.
- Rachel shows Phoebe the wedding keepsakes she has been saving for Monica, and Phoebe, who won the audition, hands her the job.
- Ross and Joey nap together again, and this time Joey is the one who wakes up outraged.
S7 · E7 The One With Ross's Library Book
Ross patrols the library aisle where couples keep having sex in front of his dissertation, Rachel talks Joey into taking Erin seriously just as Erin loses interest, and Janice invites herself to Monica and Chandler's wedding.
- Joey leaves his date Erin in the bathroom and asks Rachel to warn her off him before he goes to work, and Rachel refuses.
- Ross takes Chandler to the university library to show off his shelved dissertation, and the two of them interrupt a couple having sex in the same aisle.
- The customer rejecting Monica's chicken turns out to be Janice, who spots the engagement ring and gets herself and her boyfriend Clark invited to the wedding.
- Rachel and Phoebe spend the day with Erin, decide she is perfect for Joey, and push him to keep seeing her while Joey insists it is going nowhere.
- The head librarian tells Ross the library is too understaffed to add security, so Ross decides to guard the Paleontology stacks himself.
- Clark stands Janice up at dinner, and Chandler's attempt to talk the wedding down to family only convinces Janice that she counts as family.
- Erin tells Rachel and Phoebe there is no spark and asks them to let Joey down for her, using the same loner excuse Joey had wanted used on her.
- Ross confronts a woman in the stacks and finds she is the one person who borrowed his book, and the two of them end up on the floor in front of it.
- Rachel breaks the news to Joey, who takes it calmly and asks that next time she check the woman actually likes him.
- Janice turns up wanting to stay the night, and Monica gets rid of her by claiming Chandler still has feelings for her, which also loses them her at the wedding.
S7 · E8 The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs
Phoebe hides a dog in the apartment on Thanksgiving, Chandler admits he is frightened of dogs rather than allergic, and Rachel tells her assistant Tag that she has a crush on him.
- Chandler runs a game in which everyone has six minutes to name all fifty states, and Joey wins by listing fifty-six.
- Ross bets Chandler that he can name every state before dinner, and agrees to go without food if he fails.
- Phoebe tries to leave with a moving bag, and a dog puts its head out in front of everyone.
- Tag turns up after all, having broken up with his girlfriend that morning, and Rachel invites him in.
- Phoebe reveals the dog has been living there for three days without Chandler reacting, so Chandler confesses that he simply hates dogs.
- Chandler tells the group it is the dog or him, and Monica and Phoebe move Clunkers to Ross's apartment.
- Rachel asks the others how soon she can approach Tag, and Monica tells her to be a friend to him instead.
- Joey shouts from the window that Tag likes Rachel back, Rachel admits her crush, and Tag spots his car being stolen before he answers.
- Chandler goes to fetch Clunkers back for Monica and believes he has lost her, only to find the dog already returned to the apartment.
- Tag tells Rachel he was only upset by her saying nothing could happen between them, and he kisses her.
- Ross arrives late at night with Delaware and claims his dinner, though Chandler points out he listed Nevada twice.
S7 · E9 The One With All the Candy
Ross buys Phoebe her first bicycle and finds she cannot ride it, Rachel's joke evaluation of Tag reaches Human Resources, and Monica's holiday candy for the neighbours draws a mob to her door.
- Phoebe tells the others she never owned a bicycle as a child and only got the empty box the neighbour's bike came in.
- Monica starts making holiday candy to hang outside her door, hoping to learn the names of neighbours she and Chandler have never met.
- The basket empties within a day, and Monica is thrilled enough by the neighbours' appetite to start another batch.
- Ross buys Phoebe a bicycle like the one she described, and she calls it the best present anyone has given her.
- Tag has forwarded Rachel's joke evaluation to Human Resources unread, and Rachel admits she praised his body and drew a crude sketch on it.
- The others work out that Phoebe has only been wheeling the bicycle around, and she topples over the moment she tries to ride it.
- Ross lets go of the bicycle during a lesson, Phoebe falls, and she storms off accusing him of breaking his promise.
- Ross threatens to take the bicycle back unless Phoebe learns to ride, and she agrees to try again.
- Mr. Zelner confronts Rachel and Tag about the evaluation, and Tag saves Rachel's job by claiming he wrote it himself.
- A crowd jams the hallway demanding candy, Chandler sends them all home, and Monica thanks him for ending it.
- Phoebe rides the bicycle on her own, though training wheels are now fitted to it.
S7 · E10 The One With the Holiday Armadillo
Ross gets Ben for the holidays and invents the Holiday Armadillo to teach him about Hanukkah, while Phoebe tries to sabotage Rachel out of Joey's apartment and Chandler fails to bribe a maître d'.
- Ross learns he has Ben for the holidays and decides to teach him about Hanukkah rather than dress up as Santa.
- Phoebe announces her apartment is nearly ready, and Chandler lets slip that Rachel has been enjoying living with Joey, which sends Phoebe out worried.
- At the restaurant Chandler tries to bribe the maître d' for a faster table and botches it by holding the money in the wrong hand.
- Ben decides Santa must be angry with him, so Ross abandons the Hanukkah plan and promises him Santa is coming.
- Phoebe gives Joey a tarantula hoping to make the apartment unbearable, but Rachel is delighted by it while Joey hides in his room.
- Phoebe admits she is angry because she thinks Rachel prefers Joey, and Rachel promises they are still moving in together.
- With no Santa costume left two days before Christmas, Ross buys an armadillo suit and arrives as the Holiday Armadillo.
- Chandler turns up in a borrowed Santa costume, Ross asks him to leave, and Ben insists on Santa until Ross gives up and lets Chandler stay.
- Phoebe and Rachel find the dividing wall gone and a new skylight, so Phoebe keeps the one-bedroom alone and Rachel stays with Joey.
- Ross finishes the story of Hanukkah for Ben, who is thrilled, and the group gathers to light the menorah.
S7 · E11 The One With All the Cheesecakes
Chandler and Rachel repeatedly steal a neighbour's misdelivered cheesecake, Monica forces Ross to take her to a cousin's wedding she was not invited to, and Phoebe double-books Joey against David's one night back from Russia.
- Chandler eats a cheesecake that was delivered to Mrs. Braverman downstairs, and Rachel calls him a thief before helping herself to it.
- Ross asks Monica about driving to cousin Frannie's wedding the next night, and Monica discovers she was never invited.
- Phoebe confronts Joey for abandoning their dinner for a date, tells him friendships outlast girlfriends, and Joey apologises and rebooks for the following night.
- Aunt Sheryl confirms the snub was deliberate, so Monica makes Ross cancel his date with Joan and bring her instead.
- Chandler and Rachel find the cheesecake they returned still sitting outside Mrs. Braverman's door and carry it back upstairs.
- Phoebe runs into David, in town from Russia for one evening only, and decides to rush her dinner with Joey so she can meet David at nine.
- At the reception Monica interrogates the other guests at her table about how they know Frannie.
- Joey learns at dinner that Phoebe has a date afterwards, accuses her of breaking her own rule, and Phoebe walks out to meet David anyway.
- Rachel makes Chandler split the cheesecake in half, then drops her piece on the hallway floor and knocks his out of his hand.
- Monica confronts Frannie at the reception and learns that Frannie has married Stuart, a man from Monica's past, which explains the missing invitation.
- David flies back to Minsk, and Joey finds Phoebe crying and comforts her instead of scolding her.
S7 · E12 The One Where They're Up All Night
Ross and Joey get locked out on the roof after a comet washout, Rachel blames Tag for contracts she misplaced herself, Chandler cannot sleep, and Phoebe battles a beeping smoke detector all night.
- Ross brings the group to the roof to watch a comet, and one by one they get bored and go back inside until only Ross and Joey are left.
- Ross realises Joey has pulled the pipe that was propping the door open, and the two of them are shut out on the roof.
- Chandler cannot sleep and keeps waking Monica with questions, so she sends him out to the living room.
- Phoebe is woken by a beeping smoke detector, and it keeps beeping even after she tears it off the wall and pulls the battery.
- Rachel accuses Tag of failing to send out the Milan contracts, and when he insists she never gave them to him, the two of them head to the office to settle it.
- Rachel finds the contracts sitting on her own desk, sends Tag off to search the copy room, and hides the folder in his bottom drawer.
- Phoebe wraps the detector in a blanket and drops it down the trash chute, and a fireman brings it back, points out her name on the blanket and tells her about the reset button.
- Chandler wakes Monica to tell her she fell asleep during sex, and insists they do it again properly.
- Tag catches Rachel out when she names the drawer the folder is in, and she abandons the blame rather than admit the mistake.
- With the fire escape ladder stuck, Ross climbs down Joey's body and drops to the ground, twisting his ankle.
S7 · E13 The One Where Rosita Dies
Rachel breaks Joey's favourite chair and Chandler secretly swaps his own in, the Gellers sell the family house after ruining Monica's childhood boxes, and Phoebe's first telemarketing call reaches a man planning to kill himself.
- Rachel snaps the back off Joey's chair while trying to move it, then talks him into going out for a replacement.
- Monica shows Ross a property listing and they realise their parents are selling the house they grew up in without telling them.
- Ross suggests telemarketing to a broke Phoebe, and she takes a job selling toner without knowing what toner is.
- Chandler sits on the broken chair, assumes he wrecked it, and quietly swaps in his own barcalounger.
- At the garage, Mr. Geller admits he used Monica's boxes to stop flood water reaching his Porsche, ruining everything inside them.
- Phoebe's cold call reaches Earl, who tells her he is going to kill himself because nobody at his office knows he exists.
- Joey finds the chair whole again, declares it a miracle, and orders Rachel out of it when she doubts him.
- Ross and his father pack Ross's old belongings into fresh boxes and pass them off as Monica's memories.
- Monica recognises her brother's things among the fakes, learns her boxes were sacrificed for the car, and storms out.
- Rachel and Chandler compare stories, the chair swap comes out, and Rachel claims the expensive new recliner for herself.
- Phoebe turns up at Earl's office in person and argues him out of suicide by insisting the universe cares about him.
- Mr. Geller hands Monica the keys to his Porsche as an apology, leaving Ross with nothing.
S7 · E14 The One Where They All Turn Thirty
Rachel turns thirty, panics over her timetable for marriage and children, and ends things with Tag, while flashbacks show how Ross, Monica and Phoebe each handled their own thirtieth birthdays.
- Rachel refuses to come out of her room on her thirtieth birthday and emerges only for the presents she picked from a list she handed round.
- In a flashback to Phoebe's thirtieth, Phoebe rides a hippity-hop for a mile and completes the list of things she wanted to do before thirty.
- In a flashback to Ross's thirtieth, Ross buys a sports car and insists to the others that he has always been a car enthusiast.
- In a flashback to Monica's thirtieth, Monica arrives drunk after a night out with the bus boys, and Chandler coaches her to fake surprise for the formal party waiting inside.
- In a flashback to Phoebe's thirtieth, Ursula produces a birth certificate proving the twins are thirty-one, and Phoebe realises she has lost an entire year.
- Monica and Chandler's card calls Rachel a grandmother, and Rachel breaks down because she has neither a husband nor children.
- Rachel builds a timetable for having three children and works out that it requires her to have already met the man she will marry.
- In a flashback to Monica's thirtieth, Monica abandons her speech and announces to her parents that she is drunk, then falls over.
- In a flashback to Phoebe's thirtieth, Joey follows Phoebe outside and kisses her, giving her the perfect kiss she wanted.
- Rachel ends the relationship with Tag, who admits he is twenty-four, and the two of them part on good terms.
S7 · E15 The One With Joey's New Brain
Joey learns his comatose soap character will wake up carrying Jessica Lockhart's transplanted brain, so he gets coaching from the actress being written out and ends up sleeping with her, while Phoebe and Rachel fight over a stranger's forgotten phone.
- Joey tells the others that his soap character is coming out of his coma and will receive the brain of a female character the writers are killing off.
- Phoebe and Rachel spot an attractive man in the coffee house who leaves his cell phone behind, and each of them wants to be the one who returns it.
- Monica and Chandler track a terrible noise to a window across the street and realise Ross is learning the bagpipes for their wedding.
- Phoebe takes the phone out of Rachel's purse, answers the owner's call herself and arranges for him to collect it at her apartment.
- Cecilia confirms to Joey that she really is being written out, and she agrees to teach him how to play Jessica.
- Monica and Chandler forbid the bagpipes at their wedding, and Ross persuades them to sit through one real performance before they decide.
- The coaching session turns romantic when Cecilia demonstrates a stage kiss on Joey and pulls him down onto the couch.
- The man who turns up for the phone is the owner's boss, and Rachel hands him to Phoebe in return for a favour owed.
- Ross performs his bagpipe version of a party song for Monica and Chandler, who refuse it anyway.
- Joey shoots his first scene as Jessica, and Cecilia praises his work before telling him she has taken an eight-month film job in Mexico.
S7 · E16 The One With the Truth About London
Joey gets ordained online to marry Monica and Chandler, and while planning the ceremony Monica admits that in London she came looking for Joey that night, not Chandler; meanwhile Rachel teaches Ben practical jokes.
- Ross is called to a meeting at the university and leaves Ben with Rachel, who has never looked after him alone.
- Phoebe tells Monica and Chandler that anyone can be ordained over the Internet, and Chandler turns down both her and Joey.
- Rachel entertains Ben by teaching him the pranks she used on her sisters, including a coin blackened to leave a line down someone's face.
- Joey argues that a friend should perform the ceremony rather than a stranger, and Monica and Chandler agree to let him do it.
- Ross comes back angry that Ben has covered a toilet seat in plastic wrap, forbids Rachel from teaching him pranks, and does not notice the line on his own face.
- Phoebe reads the side effects on the pills Monica gave her and becomes convinced she is suffering all of them.
- Joey asks how Monica and Chandler first got together, and in a flashback to London Chandler comforts Monica after a bad night and she kisses him.
- Phoebe pushes Monica into admitting she went to that room looking for Joey, and a hurt Chandler takes the wedding away from Joey.
- Rachel goes to Carol's to make Ben promise to stop, Ross finds her there, and she wins the argument by pointing out that Ben now enjoys her company.
- Joey tells Chandler that he and Monica are made for each other, and Chandler asks him to say exactly that at the wedding.
S7 · E17 The One With the Cheap Wedding Dress
Monica has to choose between the discount wedding dress she fought a stranger for and the swing band Chandler wants, while Ross and Joey find out they are dating the same new neighbour.
- Ross carries a heavy box for Kristen, a woman moving in down the street, and she agrees to have dinner with him that night.
- Monica finds her wedding dress at a bridal shop and tells a bride called Megan about the discount sale at Kleinman's in Brooklyn.
- Joey helps Kristen with her boxes without knowing Ross has met her, and she agrees to go out with him the following night.
- At the Kleinman's sale Monica grabs the dress and finds Megan holding the other end, so Monica pins her down and sends the dress out of the store with Phoebe and Rachel.
- Chandler works out that Ross and Joey are seeing the same woman and gets them both to say her name at once.
- Ross and Joey agree that each of them gets one more date with Kristen and that she will choose, with a hundred dollar limit on what they spend.
- Megan phones Monica to say she has booked the Swing Kings for Monica's wedding day and will only release them in exchange for the dress.
- Monica, Phoebe and Rachel try to turn Chandler against the band, but he says dancing to them was the moment he knew he wanted Monica, so she gives up on the dress.
- Joey shows up at the restaurant during Ross's date and the two of them expose each other's worst history until Kristen walks out on both.
- Monica tells Chandler she is returning the dress and has booked the Swing Kings, and he insults the dress to make it easier for her.
S7 · E18 The One With Joey's Award
Joey is nominated for a soap opera award, loses, and walks off with the trophy he accepted for an absent winner, while Ross learns that a student's declaration of love is a ploy for a better grade.
- Joey tells the others his soap work has earned him a Soapie nomination and picks Rachel as his date.
- Ross tells his student Ned Morse he has failed the midterm, and Morse blames it on being in love with Ross.
- Rachel catches Joey rehearsing a victory speech with a syrup bottle and coaches him on how to look gracious if he loses.
- Monica realises the wedding means giving up first kisses and anyone new, and it unsettles her.
- Rachel describes her own teenage crush on a teacher, and Ross decides to go easy on Morse.
- Joey loses the award to Gavin Grant, then presents the next category and accepts the winner's trophy on her behalf.
- Back home, Joey admits he has kept the trophy and props it above the television so visitors assume it is his.
- Rachel argues that a stolen award is worthless and Joey agrees to return it.
- Another student, Lewis, tells Ross that Morse has a girlfriend and has run the same con on three other teachers.
- Jessica Ashley tosses the trophy aside as beneath her, so Joey and Rachel decide to take it back.
S7 · E19 The One With Ross and Monica's Cousin
Joey lies about being uncircumcised to land a nude film role, Ross develops a crush on his visiting cousin Cassie, and Rachel and Phoebe throw Monica a bridal shower they forget to invite her to.
- Joey's agent calls with a callback for a period film, then adds that the part requires him to appear fully naked.
- Monica lets slip that she is expecting a surprise bridal shower, and Rachel and Phoebe realise they have not planned one.
- Rachel works out that the only open date is Friday, two days away, so she and Phoebe start making the decisions on the spot.
- Monica tells Ross that Cassie has to move into his apartment because Chandler cannot stop staring at her.
- The casting director tells Joey the director insists on an uncircumcised actor, and that his agent has already promised he qualifies.
- Joey admits to Monica that he lied, and Monica offers to build him a prosthetic rather than let him drop the part.
- Monica brings Joey a tray of prototypes to try on, and Joey settles on the one made of Silly Putty.
- Ross reads Cassie's behaviour as an invitation and lunges at her, and after she pulls away he tells her how long it has been since he had sex.
- Monica arrives at Phoebe's to find the shower already over and the guests gone, then decides she prefers it this way because she still gets the presents.
- Cassie moves in with Phoebe, and Phoebe finds herself just as attracted to her as Ross and Chandler were.
S7 · E20 The One With Rachel's Big Kiss
Rachel runs into an old sorority friend and insists the two of them once kissed in college, and when Melissa denies it Rachel kisses her again to prove it, while Chandler and Ross compete over celebrity tuxedos for the wedding.
- Rachel bumps into Melissa Warburton, a friend from her sorority, at Central Perk and is talked into having dinner with her.
- Monica tells the others that Rachel and Melissa were once involved, and Rachel admits to one drunken night of kissing in senior year.
- Joey discovers his parents were never invited to the wedding, and Chandler talks Monica into rearranging the seating to fit them in.
- Rachel shows Chandler the tuxedos returned by celebrities, and Chandler decides he has to be married in the one Pierce Brosnan wore.
- Phoebe refuses to believe the story and calls Rachel too vanilla for it, so Rachel brings her along to dinner to hear Melissa confirm it.
- Ross turns up with a tuxedo he believes Val Kilmer wore in Batman, and Chandler asks him not to wear it because it would spoil his own.
- Joey reports that his parents feel unwanted and are staying home, so Monica telephones his mother and blames the post office for a lost invitation.
- At dinner Melissa insists she has no memory of the kiss ever happening.
- Chandler finds a premiere invitation in the jacket pocket and works out that Kilmer wore the tuxedo to a romance film premiere, not in Batman.
- Rachel kisses Melissa outside the restaurant, and Melissa admits she remembers it and loves her, then takes it all back and leaves in a cab.
S7 · E21 The One With the Vows
With the wedding four weeks away, Monica and Chandler struggle to write their vows, lean on the other four for help, and Chandler finally passes off a copy of Monica's as his own.
- Monica reminds Chandler the wedding is four weeks off and hands him paper to write his vows, and Chandler decides from how fast she writes that she must love him more than he loves her.
- Chandler asks Joey and Ross for help and gets nothing he can use, beyond Ross recalling the promise he once made to Carol.
- Monica summons Rachel and Phoebe as an emergency and admits that all she has produced so far is a drawing of herself in the wedding dress.
- Ross and Rachel each offer an opening about knowing from the start, Chandler and Monica both reject the line as untrue, and Phoebe suggests writing instead about what they taught each other.
- In a clip from an earlier season, Monica teaches Chandler that there are seven erogenous zones rather than three.
- In a clip from an earlier season, Chandler proposes to Monica that the two of them have a baby together at forty if neither has married, then panics when she asks why he assumes she will be single.
- In clips from earlier seasons, Chandler accidentally tells Monica he loves her, asks to move in with her, and proposes on one knee after she breaks down mid-speech.
- At the coffee house the others compare notes, and Ross explains that Chandler threw him and Joey out because Joey's suggestions were crude while Phoebe reports Monica is getting nowhere.
- Phoebe argues that the marriage will pull Monica and Chandler away from the group toward kids and the suburbs, and Joey admits he does not want anything to change.
- Monica and Chandler let the others read the finished vows, the reactions expose Monica's as heartfelt and Chandler's as a string of jokes, and Chandler rewrites his by stealing Monica's and swapping the name.
S7 · E22 The One With Chandler's Dad
Monica takes Chandler to Las Vegas to face his drag-performer father and invite him to the wedding, while Rachel talks her way into driving Monica's Porsche and Joey tries on women's underwear.
- Rachel learns that Monica has let Ross, Joey and Phoebe drive the Porsche while lying to her about it, and Monica says the real reason is that Rachel is a terrible driver.
- Monica notices no reply from Chandler's father and Chandler admits he never sent an invitation, because he has not seen the man in years and does not want a drag performer at the wedding.
- Rachel refuses to hand over the keys and starts the car, so Ross climbs into the back seat rather than let her drive off alone.
- Joey introduces himself properly to Phoebe's boyfriend Jake and invites him to a basketball game, then sees that Jake is wearing women's underwear.
- Monica packs suitcases for Vegas and tells Chandler he will regret it forever if his father misses the wedding, and Chandler agrees to go for her sake.
- Phoebe tells Joey that the underwear was her dare and that she is wearing Jake's, then says only a man secure in himself could do it and that Joey could not.
- Rachel reveals that her licence has expired, a trooper pulls the Porsche over, and she flirts her way to a warning that leaves Ross driving.
- Chandler admits to Monica that his father has written, called and visited for years and that he has refused him every time, just as his father takes the stage as Helena Handbasket.
- Joey shows Phoebe that he is wearing a pair of Rachel's panties and admits he likes the silk and the choices.
- Chandler tells his father from the audience that he and Monica are engaged and asks him to come to the wedding, then thanks Monica for pushing him into the trip.
S7 · E23–24 The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding (Parts 1 & 2)
Chandler panics the day before his wedding and disappears, Ross and Phoebe hunt him down, Joey is stranded on a film set, and Phoebe finds a positive pregnancy test in Monica's bathroom bin.
- Ross warns Chandler, speaking as Monica's older brother rather than as his friend, that he will come after him if he ever makes her unhappy.
- Joey learns he has been given the World War I movie role he was turned down for, and shooting starts that same day.
- Joey's co-star Richard Crosby sprays him with spit on every take, and Joey covers for him by telling the director that the face-wiping is a character choice.
- Ross finds a note in which Chandler apologises to Monica, and the friends agree to search for him while keeping Monica in the dark.
- Phoebe pulls a positive pregnancy test out of the bathroom bin and concludes that Monica is pregnant, and Rachel swears her to secrecy.
- Ross and Phoebe track Chandler down at his office, where he admits he is afraid of becoming his parents, and Ross persuades him to come back one small step at a time.
- Richard arrives on set drunk, the director refuses to release Joey until the scene is finished, and Joey misses the start of the wedding.
- Rachel talks a Greek Orthodox priest from another wedding at the hotel into standing in as minister.
- Chandler slips away again but returns calm, explaining that he overheard the friends discussing the pregnancy and bought a baby outfit for Monica.
- Joey turns up in costume and marries them, and when Chandler tells Monica he knows about the baby she says she never took the test.
Season 8
S8 · E1 The One After "I Do"
At Monica and Chandler's wedding reception, Rachel turns out to be the pregnant one, Phoebe covers for her, and a second test confirms it before Rachel decides to have the baby.
- Ross congratulates Monica on a pregnancy in front of Joey, and Monica tells them both that she is not pregnant.
- Phoebe, who found the positive test in the trash, claims the baby is hers and names the actor James Brolin as the father.
- Chandler tells Monica he secretly took six weeks of dancing lessons, then finds his new shoes too slippery to dance in.
- Rachel tells Phoebe she will not name the father to anyone until she has told him herself.
- Ross introduces himself to Mona, invents a famous botanist to make her like her own name, and swaps a place card to join her table.
- Monica, still believing Phoebe is pregnant, lists how hard raising the baby alone will be, and Rachel starts to cry.
- Monica interrupts Phoebe's story about Brolin and tells her that Rachel is the one who is pregnant.
- Dennis Phillips turns Joey down for the Broadway show because the cast is entirely Chinese.
- Phoebe lies that the second test is negative, watches Rachel's reaction, then admits it is positive, and Rachel decides to have the baby.
- A heavy girl leaves Ross unable to walk after their dance, and Mona praises Joey instead as the genuinely nice one.
S8 · E2 The One With the Red Sweater
Chandler loses the wedding cameras and stages replacement photos at a stranger's wedding, while Phoebe wrongly pins Rachel's pregnancy on Tag before a red sweater reveals that Ross is the father.
- Monica is glum that the wedding is over, so Chandler promises to collect the disposable cameras from the tables and have them developed.
- Chandler discovers that Ross never took the cameras and that they are now missing from the hotel.
- Rachel confirms to Monica and Phoebe that she is pregnant, and she decides to tell the father that same day.
- Ross suggests that they put their tuxedos back on, buy new cameras, and fake the pictures at the next wedding in the same ballroom.
- Believing that Phoebe is the pregnant one, Joey proposes marriage to her, and Monica stops the engagement by revealing that Rachel is the one expecting.
- Joey produces a red sweater left behind by the man who spent a night with Rachel, and Phoebe decides that it identifies the father.
- Tag proves to own a different red sweater, and after asking Rachel to get back together, he leaves the moment she tells him about the baby.
- Joey offers to marry Rachel so that she will not raise the child alone, and Rachel turns him down.
- Chandler shows off the staged photographs, Monica reveals that she found the real cameras in a bag, and the couple trade his kiss with a stranger against her opening every present alone.
- Ross recognises the red sweater as his own, and Monica and Phoebe realise that he is the father.
S8 · E3 The One Where Rachel Tells Ross
Rachel tells Ross she is pregnant with his baby, Ross proposes marriage and she turns him down, while Monica and Chandler chase honeymoon perks and Joey and Phoebe cover up a broken door.
- Rachel announces that she is telling the father today, and the others reveal they have already worked out that it is Ross.
- Joey and Phoebe realise Monica and Chandler took both of their spare keys, so Joey phones the building manager and invents a gas leak to get inside.
- Ross tells Joey and Phoebe about the one night he spent with Rachel and decides she wants to restart the relationship.
- A fireman smashes the apartment door open for Mr. Treeger, and Joey and Phoebe are left with the wreckage.
- Ross sits Rachel down and lets her down gently before she can speak, and Rachel tells him she is pregnant, which leaves him silent and staring.
- Ross channels the shock into a furious complaint to the condom manufacturer, and Rachel slips out of the apartment while he is on hold.
- At the resort, Monica confronts the rival honeymooners who have been handed every perk ahead of them, and Chandler accepts the honeymoon suite the couple offers up.
- Joey phones Monica with a fresh gas-leak story and gets her to authorise breaking the door down, then fakes the noise with a chair.
- At the doctor's office Ross apologises, promises to be present for everything, and proposes marriage, which Rachel refuses because neither of them is in love.
- Rachel admits she lied about seeing the baby on the sonogram, and Ross points it out to her on the screen.
S8 · E4 The One With the Videotape
Ross accidentally records the night Rachel got pregnant, and when the group watches the tape it proves Rachel made the first move using a seduction story that Joey invented.
- Monica and Chandler come home from their honeymoon thrilled about a married couple they met on the way back, and admit to Joey and Phoebe that they brought back no souvenirs.
- Rachel and Ross argue in front of everyone over which of them started the night Rachel conceived, and Ross lets slip that he has the evening on videotape.
- Monica keeps reaching a delicatessen when she dials the couple, and the others tell her that Greg and Jenny gave them a fake number.
- In a flashback, Ross tells Joey he has gone six months without sex, and Joey lends him a romantic story about backpacking near Barcelona to use on a date.
- In a flashback, the story collapses because Ross's date has lived in Barcelona, so Joey blames his delivery and lends him a video camera to rehearse into.
- In a flashback, Rachel bursts in while the camera is still running, and Ross forgets about it and records the whole night.
- Ross gives Rachel the tape to destroy, but she decides to watch it precisely because he does not want her to.
- The tape shows Rachel confessing she never sent Monica's wedding invitations and then spilling wine on them, and Chandler realises the ruined ones are the pair he had framed.
- The tape shows Rachel using the backpacking story on Ross, settling that she made the first move and revealing Joey as the story's author, after which Ross tells Rachel he would have started it himself anyway.
- Monica finds the couple's real number in the phone book and badgers Greg until he agrees to meet them in January.
S8 · E5 The One With Rachel's Date
Rachel dates one of Joey's soap co-stars and it ends when she mentions the pregnancy, while Ross realises his old picture of family life must change, and Monica and Phoebe both try to get rid of Tim first.
- Monica introduces Phoebe to Tim, her new sous chef, and pushes the two of them into a date.
- On the soap set, Joey introduces Rachel to his co-star Kash, and Rachel embarrasses herself with how much she knows about him.
- Monica tells Phoebe she has to fire Tim for being incompetent, and Phoebe persuades her to give him one more chance.
- Joey admits he turned Kash down on Rachel's behalf because she is pregnant, so Rachel orders Joey to have Kash call her and keep the pregnancy quiet.
- Chandler talks his boss out of transferring Bob to the eleventh floor, because Bob has called him Toby for five years and Chandler has never corrected him.
- Monica decides to fire Tim the same day Phoebe plans to dump him, and the two of them argue over who gets to go first.
- Ross learns Joey set Rachel up on a date and starts panicking about the men his baby will be around.
- Ross tells Joey his picture of Sunday mornings with a wife and child no longer has Rachel's face in it, and Joey tells him to build a new picture around the baby.
- Monica fires Tim and Phoebe dumps him at the same moment, and Tim's gracious reply shames Monica into giving him his job back.
- Rachel tells Ross the date collapsed once Kash heard she was pregnant, and Ross comforts her with what the baby will be like.
S8 · E6 The One With the Halloween Party
Monica throws a costume party where Phoebe meets Ursula's fiancé and exposes the lies Ursula told him, while Ross and Chandler arm wrestle over which of them is stronger and Rachel fails at handing out candy.
- Monica announces a last-minute Halloween party with mandatory costumes, and Joey refuses to dress up.
- Ursula tells Phoebe she is getting married next week, offers her a place at the wedding, and accepts an invitation to the party.
- Phoebe meets Eric, Ursula's fiancé, a nervous second-grade teacher who mistakes Phoebe for her sister.
- Phoebe praises Eric to Monica, and Monica tells Phoebe she has a crush on her sister's fiancé.
- Eric tells Phoebe he and Ursula met two weeks ago and share a career and a stint abroad, while Ursula silently signals Phoebe to say nothing.
- Joey's speculation about who would win a fight reaches Chandler, Monica names Ross as the stronger of the two, and Mona proposes an arm wrestling match.
- Rachel argues with a boy in a cape who wants money instead of candy, and she keeps telling him to be quiet until he cries.
- Phoebe confronts Ursula in the hallway, and Ursula admits she invented a shared past because Eric enjoyed it.
- Ross admits to Chandler that he needs to look strong in front of Mona, and Chandler deliberately loses the match.
- Phoebe empties Ursula's purse in front of Eric and produces a restaurant nametag and a driver's licence, and Eric accepts that Ursula has been lying to him.
- Rachel pays the crying boy fifty dollars, tells Joey she is hopeless with children, and Joey's attempt to reassure her collapses.
S8 · E7 The One With the Stain
Monica accuses Chandler's new maid of stealing her clothes, Joey talks Rachel out of moving away before her baby comes, and Phoebe's date with Ursula's ex collapses when he sleeps with Ursula by mistake.
- Chandler admits that the spotless apartment is the work of a maid he hired, and Monica grudgingly agrees to give her a chance.
- Eric calls Phoebe to tell her he has broken off his engagement to Ursula, and Phoebe agrees to have lunch with him.
- Rachel tells Ross she is looking for a new apartment before the baby arrives, and Ross suggests the unit of a neighbour he believes has just died.
- Ross and Rachel learn at the door that Mrs. Verhoeven is still alive, and Ross bluffs a friendship with her while Rachel asks how many bedrooms the place has.
- Monica decides that the maid is wearing her stolen jeans, and Chandler persuades her to hold off until she has proof.
- Ross mentions the apartment hunt to Joey, and Joey realises for the first time that Rachel intends to move out.
- Eric tells Phoebe that Ursula came by and he slept with her thinking she was Phoebe, and Phoebe calls the relationship off.
- Rachel admits she took the jeans and points out that Monica is wearing the missing bra, and Brenda quits on the spot.
- Joey shows Rachel the corner he has set aside for the baby and asks her to stay, and Rachel agrees.
- Ross arrives with the news that the apartment is finally free, and Rachel tells him she is staying with Joey.
S8 · E8 The One With the Stripper
Rachel tells her father she is pregnant, panics and invents a wedding date, which sends him raging to Ross's apartment in front of Ross's new girlfriend, while Monica accidentally hires Chandler a hooker.
- Phoebe recognises a man in the coffee house as the stripper from Monica's bachelorette party, and Chandler learns Monica had one after they agreed to skip such parties.
- At dinner Phoebe blurts out Rachel's pregnancy, and Dr. Green demands a wedding until Rachel invents a date in February to calm him.
- Ross admits to Chandler and Joey that he has not told Mona about Rachel or the baby, because he is afraid of losing her.
- Monica, guilty about the bachelorette party, books a dancer for Chandler, and Chandler reluctantly agrees to the evening.
- Rachel takes back the wedding and tells her father there will not be one, then lets him believe Ross is the one refusing.
- The woman Monica hired walks straight into the bedroom and undresses, and Joey and Chandler work out that she is a prostitute rather than a stripper.
- Dr. Green arrives at Ross's apartment mid-date and shouts about the pregnancy, so Mona finds out everything at once.
- While arguing over who should send the woman home, Joey tells Chandler he misses their old closeness, and the two agree to set aside time for each other.
- Rachel comes to Ross's apartment and convinces Mona that she and Ross will not reunite, and Mona forgives Ross for hiding it.
- Rachel finally tells her father the truth, and leaves him ranting into an abandoned phone that Joey later picks up.
S8 · E9 The One With the Rumor
Monica's Thanksgiving guest Will turns out to hate Rachel, and the dinner uncovers the high school rumour that he and Ross spread about her, along with the rumour Rachel spread about Ross.
- Monica tells the others she has invited Will, a classmate from high school who has since lost a great deal of weight.
- Monica plans to skip the turkey, and Joey talks her out of it by promising to eat an entire one by himself.
- Chandler admits to Phoebe that he only pretends to follow the football game so that Monica will not ask him to help, and Phoebe adopts the same trick.
- Will turns on Rachel at the table, Monica explains that Rachel was cruel to him at school, and Rachel apologises while Will gives up his diet for the yams.
- Will reveals that he and Ross ran a club at school devoted to hating Rachel.
- Ross admits he co-founded the club because he was in love with Rachel and handled it badly.
- Ross and Will confess they invented a rumour that Rachel had both male and female anatomy, and Monica and Chandler confirm that the whole school believed it.
- Monica reveals that Rachel spread a rumour about Ross and the elderly school librarian, and Ross admits that it really happened.
- Monica persuades Ross and Rachel to let the old feud go, and Ross tells Will that he and Rachel are having a baby.
- Joey returns in Phoebe's maternity trousers and finishes the whole turkey.
S8 · E10 The One With Monica's Boots
Monica buys boots she can neither afford nor walk in, Joey's youngest sister tells him she is pregnant, and Phoebe schemes her way toward Sting concert tickets through Ben's school.
- Monica shows Chandler a pair of boots that cost more than their rent and refuses to take them back.
- Ross tells Phoebe he cannot get the Sting tickets she wants, because Ben and Sting's son are enemies at school.
- Dina cuts off Rachel's careers talk and admits she came for help because she is pregnant.
- Dina tells Joey about the pregnancy, and Joey walks out rather than look at her.
- Phoebe passes herself off as Ben's other mother to a new teacher and gets Sting's home contact details.
- Monica finally admits the boots have crippled her, and Chandler agrees to carry her home on his back.
- Joey brings Bobby to the apartment and starts marrying him to Dina, until Rachel stops the ceremony and tells Joey they are adults.
- Sting's wife Trudie refuses Phoebe any tickets once she works out the scheme, and sets off a silent alarm.
- Dina tells Joey she was more frightened of him than of their parents, and Joey promises to be the baby's uncle.
- Ross turns up with two Sting tickets, and Phoebe checks the seats are far enough back to keep her legal.
S8 · E11 The One With the Creepy Holiday Card
Ross overcorrects with Mona at every step, agreeing to a joint holiday card, handing over his only apartment key and finally declaring love, while Rachel's pregnancy hormones run wild and Chandler tells his boss his marriage is over.
- Rachel admits to Phoebe that she is attracted to every man she passes, and Phoebe tells her the fourth month of pregnancy sends the hormones haywire.
- Mona shows Ross the photographs from their skating trip and asks him to send one out as a joint holiday card, and Ross agrees without wanting to.
- Chandler's boss Doug announces his divorce is final and invites the couple to dinner, and Monica tells Chandler afterwards that she will not spend an evening with him.
- Ross tells Mona he is not ready for the card, and when Mona responds by asking where the relationship is heading, Ross panics and agrees to the card after all.
- Ross asks Monica and Phoebe for a gesture that signals commitment without a conversation, rejects every suggestion they offer, and settles on having the talk instead.
- Chandler runs out of excuses and tells Doug that he and Monica have separated, and Doug immediately takes him to a strip club.
- Ross fumbles the conversation with Mona so badly that he hands her the key to his apartment, which turns out to be his only one.
- Phoebe brings a friend named Roger to the apartment as a partner for Rachel, and Rachel refuses to sleep with a stranger.
- Mona arrives to find a locksmith changing Ross's locks, and Ross covers the contradiction by telling her he loves her.
- Chandler confesses the whole evening to Monica and asks her to promise she will never leave him, and Monica agrees.
- Rachel describes to Joey exactly the kind of night she wants, both of them retreat to their rooms, and they come back out to agree that nothing was asked and nothing will happen.
S8 · E12 The One Where Joey Dates Rachel
Joey takes a pregnant Rachel out on a date to cheer her up and afterwards finds he has feelings for her, while Ross struggles with a class across town and Phoebe's arcade gift takes over Monica and Chandler's living room.
- Phoebe gives Monica and Chandler a Ms. Pac-Man machine as a wedding present, and it is too heavy to move out of the living room.
- Rachel says she misses dressing up and going out, so Joey offers to take her on a date and she accepts.
- Ross learns that his new advanced class is on the other side of the city and arrives so late that the bell rings as he introduces himself.
- Over dinner Joey and Rachel compare the tricks they use on dates, and Joey is impressed that Rachel simply asks her date about his childhood.
- Chandler stays home all day and takes every score in the top ten under crude initials, and Monica tells him to wipe them before Ben visits.
- Rachel demonstrates her end-of-night move on Joey at the door, kisses him goodnight, and Joey is left rattled.
- Joey and Rachel both admit the date left them feeling strange, and Rachel decides the lobster was to blame.
- Joey is too distracted on his next date to follow the conversation, and the woman excuses herself from the table.
- Joey comes home early, sits with Rachel through Cujo, and holds her while she hides against him.
- Ross collapses in front of his class after running there, then makes the next lecture on time by wearing in-line skates.
S8 · E13 The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath
Joey admits to Phoebe that his feelings for Rachel have not gone away, Ross and Rachel learn their baby is a girl, and Monica turns Chandler into someone who loves taking baths.
- Joey tells himself his feelings for Rachel are gone, then buckles the moment she walks in and greets him.
- Joey tries to raise the problem with Chandler by hinting about rules and London, gets nowhere, and asks him to forget the whole conversation.
- Phoebe settles the baby-name argument by proposing that Ross and Rachel each get five vetoes, and both agree.
- Monica talks Chandler into the bath she has run for him, and he comes out converted.
- At the doctor's office Ross and Rachel decline to be told the baby's sex, then Ross catches Rachel sneaking a look at the file.
- Monica and Chandler pool their odd conversations with Joey and decide he must be in love with Phoebe.
- Monica tells Phoebe that Joey likes her, and Phoebe decides to turn him down rather than risk the friendship.
- Phoebe tells Joey she knows, Joey names Rachel instead, and he seizes on Phoebe's suggestion that it is only a crush.
- Ross phones the doctor for the baby's sex and then accidentally tells Rachel they are having a girl.
- Joey walks in on the others in the bathroom and his feelings for Rachel come out in front of Monica and Chandler.
S8 · E14 The One With the Secret Closet
Chandler forces open Monica's locked closet and discovers she secretly hoards junk, while Joey, after rushing Rachel to the hospital, decides she should move in with Ross instead of him.
- Phoebe discovers that Monica is getting a massage from another masseuse after claiming to hate massages, and storms out.
- Rachel bursts into Joey's room and has him feel the baby kick for the first time.
- Chandler finds the closet by the bathroom locked, and Monica refuses to tell him what she keeps inside.
- Monica admits she would feel exposed being naked in front of a friend, then agrees to let Phoebe massage her.
- Rachel gets frightening pains, Joey takes her to the hospital, and the doctor diagnoses harmless Braxton-Hicks contractions.
- The doctor assumes Joey is the father and praises him, while Ross tells Joey he wishes he had been the one to bring Rachel in.
- Phoebe tells Monica she makes sexual noises during a massage, and the two agree to try another session anyway.
- Joey proposes that Rachel move in with Ross so the father is not left out, and Rachel agrees.
- Chandler takes the door off its hinges, finds the closet crammed with junk, and Monica confesses she hides her mess.
- Rachel has moved out, and Joey insists he is fine before admitting he is lonely and letting Chandler hug him.
S8 · E15 The One With the Birthing Video
Chandler mistakes Phoebe's birthing video for pornography and is left traumatised, Mona breaks up with Ross for hiding that Rachel has moved in, and Joey finally tells Ross which woman he has fallen for.
- Ross sets off to tell Mona that Rachel has moved in, and Phoebe asks him to carry home a video of a friend's labour.
- Phoebe lends Joey a borrowed dog to pull him out of his misery over Rachel.
- Chandler finds the tape at home, assumes Monica has bought him pornography for Valentine's Day, and watches a woman give birth instead.
- Monica explains the tape belongs to Phoebe, sees a few seconds of it herself, and their romantic evening collapses.
- Mona laughs at the idea of a man letting his pregnant ex move in, so Ross says nothing about Rachel.
- Phoebe finds the dog subdued and blames Joey for talking his own gloom into it.
- Mona asks Rachel to go back to her own place and give them privacy, and Rachel tells her that she lives there.
- Rachel takes shelter at Monica's while Mona ends things with Ross, and the three of them watch the tape through to the birth, which finally settles Chandler and Monica.
- Joey asks Ross for advice about wanting a woman who belongs to a friend, and once Ross urges him to speak up, Joey names Rachel.
S8 · E16 The One Where Joey Tells Rachel
Joey tells Rachel over dinner that he is in love with her and she cannot return it, while Phoebe introduces Monica to a man she is convinced is Monica's true soul mate.
- In a recap of the previous episode, Joey admits to Ross that the woman he cannot stop thinking about is Rachel.
- Phoebe tells Chandler and Rachel that the man she is dating, Don, is really Monica's soul mate, and Chandler denies that soul mates exist.
- Monica visits Ross and warns him that Joey is so shaken he is talking about leaving town, so Ross agrees to go and see him.
- Phoebe brings Don to the coffee house, where Monica and Don discover a shared taste in restaurants and Monica tells Phoebe afterwards how much she likes him.
- Ross goes to Joey's apartment to say he is not angry, and Joey lets slip that his feelings for Rachel go as far as love.
- Ross tells Joey to find out where Rachel stands, and says his own discomfort should not stand in the way if she feels the same.
- Joey loses his nerve outside Rachel's door and asks her to dinner instead of telling her anything.
- Chandler admits to Monica that he is afraid she will leave with Don, and Monica tells him she believes their marriage is work rather than destiny.
- Joey tells Rachel at dinner that he has fallen in love with her, Rachel cannot say it back, and Joey stands up to leave.
- Rachel starts crying and Joey sits back down, promising her that she will never lose him.
S8 · E17 The One With the Tea Leaves
Rachel invents a story that her boss wants to buy her unborn baby so that she and Joey have something to talk about, and Joey then confronts the boss about it for real.
- Phoebe reads everyone's tea leaves and tells them that hers promise she will meet the man of her dreams very soon.
- Ross works out that his favourite pink shirt is still at Mona's flat, but he is reluctant to ask for it back because the breakup was ugly.
- Monica suggests that Rachel give Joey a work problem to fix the awkwardness between them, so Rachel tells him that her boss offered to buy her baby.
- The man Phoebe keeps running into all over the city introduces himself as Jim and asks her out to dinner.
- Ross lets himself into Mona's flat with her spare key, hides behind the couch when she arrives with a date, watches her lend his shirt to the date, and is discovered reaching for it.
- Joey marches into Mr. Zelner's office and accuses him of trying to buy Rachel's baby.
- Phoebe's dinner with Jim collapses when he turns crude about her body and his work, and she leaves him at the table.
- Joey tells Rachel he sorted her boss out, and Rachel has to admit she invented the whole thing and now expects to be fired.
- Mr. Zelner apologises to Rachel with a witness from human resources, and the company gives her an extra month of paid maternity leave.
- Mona tells Ross that they cannot work things out because of Rachel and the baby, and Ross takes his shirt back rather than let her keep it.
S8 · E18 The One in Massapequa
At the Gellers' 35th anniversary party, Ross and Rachel pose as a married couple for his parents' friends, Monica's attempt to give the toast falls flat, and Phoebe decides her relentlessly upbeat date is too much.
- Monica asks Ross to hand her the anniversary toast this year, wanting to be the one who makes their parents cry for once.
- At the party the Gellers admit they have told everyone that Ross and Rachel are married, and the two agree to keep the lie going for the night.
- Phoebe catches Ross, Monica and Joey mocking her date Parker, and rounds on them about the people they have dated.
- Rachel invents an increasingly grand account of the wedding for the relatives, and tells Ross she wants it to sound spectacular because it may be the only wedding she gets.
- Asked how he proposed, Ross describes a planetarium filled with lilies and a proposal written across the dome in stars.
- Monica's toast piles on the dead grandmother, the dead family dog and neglected orphans, and not one guest cries.
- Pushed into speaking, Ross gives a short toast that calls Rachel his new bride and reduces his mother to tears.
- Back at her apartment Phoebe finally snaps at Parker for finding everything wonderful, and throws him out.
- Ross tells Rachel the planetarium proposal was not invented for the party but the one he had planned while they were together, and Rachel says she could not have refused it.
- Monica gives up on toasting, and then cries when Ross tells her warmly what her speech got right.
S8 · E19 The One With Joey's Interview
Joey gives an interview to Soap Opera Digest with his friends listening in from the next table, and each question he is asked sends the episode into clips from earlier seasons.
- Rachel finds Joey's name in a crossword puzzle, and Joey admits he has already turned down the magazine's offer of a full profile.
- Rachel talks Joey into doing it in exchange for a mention of her, and Joey makes the others sit nearby so they can stop him saying anything damaging.
- At Central Perk the four of them hide at the next table and try to listen without visibly moving their mouths.
- Joey learns that the magazine is paying for the meal and immediately orders every muffin in the place.
- Asked how he spends his free time, Joey claims he reads to blind people and describes himself as a role model using the wrong word for it.
- The interviewer asks why the show killed him off years ago, and the friends jump up to interrupt before Joey can repeat the answer that cost him the job.
- Rachel leans into the tape recorder pushing her own name, but it is Phoebe's compliment about Joey that the interviewer decides to write down.
- Asked to name his best friend, Joey says he does not have one, only a lot of close friends.
- The interview is finished until one last question leads Joey to say that he does not watch soap operas.
- The published piece leaves that remark out, and Joey admits he slept with the interviewer.
S8 · E20 The One With the Baby Shower
Monica and Phoebe forget to invite Rachel's mother to the baby shower, and once Mrs. Green arrives she offers to move in for eight weeks, while Joey auditions to host a game show.
- Monica and Phoebe realize they never sent Rachel's mother an invitation, and Monica's apologetic phone call fails to fool Mrs. Green about the reason.
- Joey turns down basketball because he is auditioning to host a game show called Bamboozled, and he recruits Ross and Chandler as practice contestants.
- Mrs. Green presses Rachel about hiring a nanny, learns that Rachel cannot afford one, and announces that she will move in to help instead.
- Rachel tells Monica and Phoebe that eight weeks with her mother is unbearable, and Monica urges her to refuse, privately hoping to inherit Mrs. Green's affection.
- The gift opening exposes how little Rachel knows about babies, so she calls off the presents and begs her mother not to leave.
- Ross and Chandler turn Joey's practice round into a genuine contest, and Chandler loses on a Google card but ends up loving the game.
- At the audition the producer tells Joey that the wheel and the cards have been cut for being too confusing, and Joey accepts the stripped-down show once he hears about the women holding the scores.
- Mrs. Green starts redecorating Ross and Rachel's apartment, so Ross argues that he already raised Ben alone and wants to care for this baby himself, and Mrs. Green agrees she is not needed.
- Ross reminds Rachel how far she has come since arriving in the city on her father's credit card, and tells her she will be a good mother.
- Phoebe talks Monica into confronting Mrs. Green about her rudeness, and Monica does, then immediately chases her into the hall to apologize and falls down the stairs.
S8 · E21 The One With the Cooking Class
Monica confronts the critic who panned her restaurant and ends up proving herself in a beginners' cooking class, Rachel admits she is jealous of Ross's new date, and Chandler wrecks a job interview after it ends.
- Ross buys up every copy of the Post in the neighborhood to keep a savage review of Monica's restaurant from her, but she reads it in the coffee house anyway.
- Rachel wakes Ross in a panic because her due date is a week away and they own none of the big baby furniture, and he promises to take her shopping the next day.
- At the furniture store the cashier flirts with Ross over his paleontology work and his gym, while Rachel stands at the register and watches.
- Phoebe tells Chandler he makes a poor first impression because his constant joking reads as needy, which alarms him an hour before his interview.
- Monica tracks the critic down at the New School and makes him taste her bouillabaisse again, and he dismisses it a second time.
- Monica and Joey stay for the beginners' cooking class starting in the room, and Monica answers the teacher's opening question and is sent to the head of the class.
- The cashier, Katie, delivers a forgotten blanket to the apartment and asks Ross out, and he accepts while Rachel fumes with two stuffed dinosaurs.
- Joey earns an A for his cookies, Monica admits to the class that she is a professional chef, and the teacher tells her she loves Alessandro's food, which convinces Monica she is good at her job.
- Chandler suppresses his jokes through the interview and is told he fits in, then explains his own nerves in the hallway and ruins the impression.
- Rachel confesses she is jealous and wants Ross available to her at all times, and Ross agrees to stop dating.
S8 · E22 The One Where Rachel is Late
Rachel is eight days overdue and works through the doctor's home remedies until Ross relents and her water breaks, while Joey takes Chandler to his film premiere and Monica keeps betting Phoebe on the birth.
- Joey shows off the poster for the war film he acted in and invites the whole group to its premiere the following week.
- Rachel announces that her due date is today, and by the next visit to the coffee house she is still pregnant and thoroughly fed up.
- Joey's agent tells him she sold most of his premiere tickets, so he is left with a single seat to give away.
- Joey chooses Chandler and explains that it is repayment for years of paid-for head shots, classes and encouragement, and Chandler tells Joey he is proud of him.
- Monica bets Phoebe fifty dollars that Rachel will have the baby within a day.
- Dr. Long tells Rachel she is eighty percent effaced and lists remedies to bring on labour, naming sex as the one that works best.
- Chandler sleeps through the entire film and gives himself away by praising a scene that does not exist, and Joey walks out on him.
- Ross refuses the doctor's suggestion, Monica admits she has been betting on the birth, and Rachel and Ross both take the bet against her.
- Joey tries to settle his debt to Chandler with a cheque, adds up years of expenses, then gives up on the idea.
- The spicy food and the other remedies fail, Ross finally kisses Rachel, and moments later her water breaks.
S8 · E23–24 The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (Parts 1 & 2)
Rachel labors for more than twenty hours and finally delivers a daughter, whom Monica names Emma, while Ross accepts his grandmother's engagement ring from his mother and keeps it hidden.
- Monica pretends she wants a baby to rattle Chandler, and the prank collapses when Chandler answers that he is genuinely ready.
- Ross's mother offers him his grandmother's engagement ring for Rachel, and Ross refuses to marry Rachel over the pregnancy but takes the ring anyway.
- Chandler tells Monica he wants a child because he trusts the two of them together, and they agree to start trying immediately in an empty hospital bed.
- Phoebe meets a patient named Cliff at the elevator and loses him before learning his room, so Joey poses as Dr. Drake Remoray to find the room and interrogate Cliff about his history.
- Janice turns up as Rachel's new roommate in labor, and Ross has to explain to her that he and Rachel are having the baby without being a couple.
- Cliff recognizes Joey from television, Phoebe admits she sent him in to vet Cliff, and Cliff agrees to start over with her.
- After twenty-one hours Rachel is finally taken to delivery, pushes out a breech baby girl, and leaves the hospital paperwork with no first name on it.
- Monica reveals she has saved the name Emma since she was fourteen, then hands it to Rachel when Rachel falls for it.
- Rachel raises the kiss they shared before the hospital, and Ross tells her it cannot happen again.
- Joey reaches under Ross's coat for tissues, finds the engagement ring, and Rachel sees it in his hand.
Season 9
S9 · E1 The One Where No One Proposes
Joey kneels to pick up an engagement ring that falls out of Ross's coat, Rachel takes it as a proposal and accepts, and the mistake spreads through the group until the three of them untangle it.
- Joey knocks a ring box out of Ross's coat and kneels to retrieve it, and Rachel, seeing the ring, treats it as a proposal and agrees.
- Joey admits the mix-up to Chandler, who works out that the ring is Ross's and tells Joey to correct Rachel before Ross hears about it.
- Monica talks a worn-out Chandler into more sex to improve their odds of conceiving, and they slip into a janitor's closet.
- Mr. Geller listens at the closet door and looks inside, and finds his daughter and Chandler there.
- Rachel slides the ring onto her finger and Joey tries to confess, but a nurse arrives to help Rachel feed Emma, who will not latch on, and Joey flees.
- Phoebe congratulates Ross on an engagement he never made, and Ross explains that his mother gave him the ring but he only meant to ask Rachel about dating again.
- Monica tells her father that she and Chandler are trying for a baby, and he responds with encouragement and conception advice they do not want.
- Rachel tells Monica that Joey proposed and that she said yes, then admits under questioning that she does not want to marry him.
- Ross, Rachel and Joey sort out the confusion in her room, establishing that Joey never proposed, that the ring belongs to Ross, and that Ross was not planning to propose either.
- Emma finally nurses, Ross and Rachel agree to talk about their relationship again, and Ross then realises Rachel had said yes to what she thought was Joey's proposal.
S9 · E2 The One Where Emma Cries
Ross reacts to Rachel's engagement to Joey by breaking his thumb on Joey's face and deciding they will only be co-parents, while Chandler sleeps through a meeting and accepts a transfer to Tulsa.
- In her hospital room Ross confronts Rachel about accepting Joey's proposal, and Rachel explains she was exhausted enough to have said yes to anyone.
- Back at the apartment Rachel wakes the sleeping Emma against Phoebe's warning, and Emma starts crying and will not stop.
- Chandler dozes through his divisional meeting and agrees without hearing the question to run the company's Tulsa office.
- At the coffee house Ross refuses to discuss the engagement with Joey, and Joey insists he did nothing wrong.
- Joey goads Ross into hitting him, then ducks, and Ross breaks his thumb on the wall behind him.
- Chandler tells Monica about Tulsa, Monica refuses to move to Oklahoma, and Chandler promises to get out of the job.
- Chandler tries to turn the transfer down in Ms. McKenna's office, loses his nerve, and tells her he will call her from Tulsa.
- While Joey fills in his hospital forms, Ross says he does not want to be someone Rachel would have accepted at random, and decides they will stay friends who share a child.
- Monica bounces Emma to sleep, and Rachel announces that Monica is now on call in the apartment day and night.
- Chandler returns, tells Monica they are moving to Tulsa after all, and runs out before she can argue.
S9 · E3 The One With the Pediatrician
Chandler is transferred to Tulsa and Monica plans to move with him until a Manhattan job offer changes her mind, while Rachel hunts for a new pediatrician and Joey passes a stranger off as an old friend.
- Chandler tells the group his company is relocating him to Tulsa for as long as a year, and Monica assumes she has to go with him.
- Chandler arranges to commute so Monica can keep her job in New York, but Monica refuses to live apart from him and decides to move.
- Rachel's call to the pediatrician at three in the morning gets her and Ross dropped as patients, leaving them without a doctor for Emma.
- Joey has forgotten the double date Phoebe arranged, so he recruits a stranger named Mike in the coffee house to pose as an old friend at dinner.
- A restaurant head-hunter tells Monica about a job in Manhattan, and Monica accepts it on the spot.
- Rachel takes Emma to Ross's childhood doctor and finds Ross himself walking out of the office as a patient.
- Mary Ellen recognises Joey from his soap, the invented friendship collapses under Phoebe's questions, and Phoebe leaves humiliated.
- Monica admits she wants the Manhattan job instead of Tulsa, and Chandler tells her to take it.
- Mike tracks Phoebe down, apologises, proves he really is a pianist, and asks her out, and Phoebe says yes.
- Chandler says goodbye to everyone and flies to Tulsa alone, with Monica staying behind for the new job.
S9 · E4 The One With the Sharks
Ross carelessly points out that Phoebe has never had a serious relationship, ruining her date with Mike, then covers for it with an invented ex-boyfriend; in Tulsa, Monica mistakes what Chandler was watching for an attraction to sharks.
- Ross tells Phoebe that she has never had a serious relationship, and she breaks down in tears just as Mike arrives to collect her.
- Joey suggests that Monica fly to Tulsa to surprise Chandler, and Monica decides to go.
- Phoebe reports that she cried through the whole date, and blames Ross for costing her a man she liked.
- Ross tracks Mike down to apologise, learns that Mike has already asked Phoebe out again, and then invents a six-year boyfriend named Vicrum to cover his mistake.
- Monica walks in on Chandler in his hotel room, sees sharks on the television, and phones Rachel convinced that sharks arouse her husband.
- Joey works out mid-date that he has already slept with Hayley, is offended that she does not remember it, and takes Monica's advice to see her again anyway.
- Phoebe hears about the Vicrum lie, insists she will tell Mike the truth, then loses her nerve and tells Mike that Vicrum has called.
- Hayley's roommate walks in, and Joey realises he slept with the roommate rather than with Hayley.
- Phoebe admits to Mike that Vicrum was invented and that she has never had a long relationship, and Mike kisses her.
- Monica offers Chandler a shark video, Chandler explains he was watching ordinary pornography, and Monica admits she is very drunk.
S9 · E5 The One With Phoebe's Birthday Dinner
Chandler starts smoking again in Tulsa and Monica tricks him into sex while she is ovulating, Ross and Rachel lock themselves out of the apartment, and Phoebe's birthday dinner collapses before she abandons it for Mike.
- In Tulsa, Chandler finds that his whole new team smokes in the office, and he takes a cigarette himself.
- Monica smells the smoke on Chandler the moment he gets home, and he admits he has gone through several cartons in two days.
- Ross pushes a reluctant Rachel out of the apartment so she will go to the dinner, then shuts the door and leaves them both locked out with the sleeping baby inside.
- Monica forbids Chandler to smoke, Chandler lights one in front of her to make a point, and Monica calls a truce so they can have sex on her last fertile day.
- The restaurant refuses to serve Phoebe and Joey until everyone arrives, and Phoebe gives up the big table while Joey is in the bathroom.
- Chandler says he will not sleep with Monica while they are fighting, so Monica apologises for coming down hard on him and they go ahead.
- Afterwards Monica tells Chandler she is still furious and only apologised to get him into bed.
- Ross and Rachel finally turn up more than an hour late, and Phoebe spots that Rachel has brought Emma and Judy along to the bar.
- Phoebe loses her temper at the whole table for being late and not calling, then leaves the dinner herself when Mike finishes work early.
- Everyone else goes home, Joey eats all six dinners alone, and the waiters bring him a birthday cake.
S9 · E6 The One With the Male Nanny
Ross and Rachel hire a male nanny named Sandy, and Ross fires him for being too sensitive, while Phoebe kisses a returning ex and Chandler discovers that Monica finds a co-worker funnier than him.
- Monica phones Chandler in Tulsa to rave about her new kitchen and calls her maitre d' Geoffrey the funniest man she has ever met.
- Mike gives Phoebe a key to his apartment and Phoebe hands him one of hers in return.
- A string of bad nanny interviews leaves Ross and Rachel with one candidate left, and Sandy turns out to be a man.
- David turns up at Phoebe's door on a short trip from Minsk, and when he asks whether she is seeing anyone, Phoebe says she is not.
- Sandy wins Rachel over with his qualifications and his care for Emma, and Rachel hires him despite Ross calling the whole idea strange.
- Phoebe admits to David that she is with Mike, David says goodbye, and the two of them end up kissing anyway.
- Mike lets himself in with his new key and catches Phoebe with David.
- Joey tells Monica that Chandler is jealous of Geoffrey, and Chandler works out that the laughter he has been getting is pity.
- David goes back to Minsk after squaring off with Mike, and Phoebe promises Mike it will not happen again, so Mike keeps her key.
- Ross fires Sandy, admits that the problem is his own discomfort with sensitive men, and then cries about his father while Sandy comforts him.
S9 · E7 The One With Ross's Inappropriate Song
Ross finds that rapping Baby Got Back makes Emma laugh, Chandler steals a tape of Monica from Richard's apartment, and Phoebe's disastrous first dinner with Mike's parents ends with Mike telling her he loves her.
- Ross gets his first laugh out of Emma by rapping a filthy song at her, and is appalled at himself.
- Joey asks what to do with his television money, Monica steers him toward real estate and mentions that Richard is selling his apartment, which needles Chandler.
- Ross tells Rachel about the laugh and admits which song did it, and Rachel is disgusted that he rapped it to their daughter.
- Touring Richard's apartment with Joey, Chandler finds a videotape with Monica's name on it and assumes the worst.
- Mike asks Phoebe to drop the posh accent and be herself, so she tells his parents' guests about her mother's suicide, the burned-out car she lived in and the hepatitis, and the room goes cold.
- Phoebe punches Theodore in the stomach as a joke and learns he has just had surgery.
- Phoebe praises Mike to Bitsy by describing his performance in bed, and Bitsy is more amused than offended.
- Chandler makes Joey watch the tape for him, and Joey tackles him to the floor when the football game turns into something else.
- Alone with Emma, Rachel gives in and raps the same song to get her to laugh, then admits it to Ross.
- Monica sees that the woman on the tape is not her, and is insulted that Richard recorded a game over her.
- Mike defends Phoebe to his parents and calls her the woman he loves, and Phoebe, overhearing, says it back.
S9 · E8 The One With Rachel's Other Sister
Rachel's sister Amy arrives for Thanksgiving and demands to be named Emma's guardian, which exposes that Monica and Chandler already hold the job and leaves Chandler doubting he could raise a child on his own.
- Chandler persuades Monica to bring out their expensive wedding china instead of saving it forever.
- Joey sees the parade on television and realises he has missed the appearance his producer ordered everyone to attend.
- Amy turns up wanting a hair straightener and fails to recognise Ross, insisting Rachel's old boyfriend was someone else entirely.
- Amy's married boyfriend cancels on her, and Rachel decides to bring her to Monica's Thanksgiving dinner.
- Amy announces she would take Emma if Ross and Rachel died, and they tell her the baby would go to Monica and Chandler instead.
- Chandler learns he would lose Emma if Monica died, because Ross and Rachel see him as the fun parent rather than the firm one.
- Rachel and Amy drag up years of grievances until Amy insults Emma, and the two of them wrestle through the apartment while Monica's china is destroyed.
- Chandler breaks up the fight and makes both sisters apologise, and Ross tells him he has earned the right to raise Emma.
- Chandler smashes the rest of the plates while fetching Emma and decides to hide it from Monica.
- Phoebe coaches Joey through a simple excuse about a crisis at home, and his producer accepts it.
S9 · E9 The One With Rachel's Phone Number
Chandler sneaks home from Tulsa and hides from Joey, who concludes Monica is cheating, while Rachel gives a stranger her number at a bar and gets Mike to intercept the calls.
- Joey calls Chandler with courtside Knicks tickets, but Monica notes it is her only free night, and Chandler decides to spend it with her.
- Ross invites Mike over for the evening so that the two of them can get to know each other.
- Ross and Mike work through the piano, the divorces and the fossils, and find they have nothing to talk about.
- Chandler arrives home in secret, and Monica keeps Joey at the door with a story about practising seduction alone.
- Joey phones Chandler in Tulsa to report that Monica has a man in the apartment, then sits in the hallway with a bat.
- A man named Bill asks Rachel for her number at the bar, and Rachel gives him her real one on impulse.
- Rachel tells Phoebe she should move on from Ross, then realises Ross will answer the phone when Bill calls.
- Phoebe asks Mike to return to the apartment and screen Ross's calls, and Mike talks his way back inside to a baffled Ross.
- Joey spots Chandler's suitcase and exposes the lie, Chandler apologises, and Monica tells him to go to the game after all.
- Ross takes Bill's message for Rachel, starts to raise it with her, and then drops it.
S9 · E10 The One With Christmas in Tulsa
Chandler spends Christmas working in Tulsa, turns down a pass from his colleague Wendy, then quits his job and flies home to Monica with no idea what he will do next.
- Chandler tells the group he has to stay in Tulsa through Christmas and New Year's Eve to finish paperwork or lose his job, and Monica reluctantly accepts it.
- Chandler keeps his Tulsa team working on Christmas Eve, and Wendy comes back with a ham she has stolen from another company's party downstairs.
- The Christmas bonuses Chandler hands out turn out to be donations made in the staff's names to a ballet company, and he concedes to the room that the whole posting is miserable.
- Chandler changes his mind and sends the staff home to their families, but Wendy stays behind so that he is not alone.
- Monica calls, learns that Wendy is the only person still there with Chandler, and Joey tells her that Wendy was a runner-up for Miss Oklahoma.
- Wendy makes a pass at Chandler, who backs away and tells her his marriage is a happy one, and she asks why he is spending Christmas with her rather than his wife.
- In clips from earlier seasons, Chandler remembers the night he and Monica first slept together in London and the day they chose a marriage over an expensive wedding.
- Chandler turns up at the apartment on Christmas Day and tells Monica he missed her too much to stay away.
- Chandler reveals that he quit his job, admits he has not worked out what he wants to do instead, and Monica tells him she supports the decision.
- Chandler's presents to his friends are the same ballet donations, and with no income he settles into job hunting while Monica becomes the only earner.
S9 · E11 The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work
Rachel cuts her maternity leave short to stop a colleague named Gavin from keeping her job, Chandler starts over in advertising, and Phoebe works as an extra on Joey's soap.
- Chandler tells Monica he has no idea what to do now that he is out of work, and Monica offers to research careers for him.
- Phoebe admits she is short of money, and Joey gets her paid work as an extra on his show.
- Chandler picks advertising from the first of Monica's folders, and Monica arranges a meeting with an executive she grew up with.
- Rachel goes to collect things from her office and finds Gavin sitting at her desk, having taken over her job.
- The advertising executive offers Chandler a position, but it is an unpaid internship.
- After Mr. Zelner praises Gavin's work, Rachel announces that her leave is over and she is back at work that same day.
- With Phoebe about to be fired for ruining takes, Joey talks her into thinking of herself as the nurse she is playing, and she gets through the scene.
- Chandler confesses to Monica that he faked his part the night before, because a new career means he wants to postpone the baby.
- With ten minutes' notice on the presentation and no childcare, Gavin offers to look after Emma so that Rachel can present.
- Monica argues that no time will ever be the right time, and Chandler agrees to try for a baby now.
S9 · E12 The One With Phoebe's Rats
Ross and Rachel hire an attractive nanny and forbid Joey from pursuing her, Phoebe ends up caring for a litter of orphaned baby rats, and Rachel's feud with her colleague Gavin ends in a kiss.
- Ross brings Molly, the nanny he and Rachel have finally hired, to the coffee house to meet Joey and Chandler.
- Rachel discovers that all three men, Ross included, find Molly attractive.
- Mike spots a rat in Phoebe's cupboard, learns that she has been feeding it and calls it Bob, and gets her to agree to remove it.
- Rachel apologises to Gavin for misjudging him, catches him staring at a colleague mid-apology, and takes the apology back.
- Rachel and Ross tell Joey that Molly is off limits, and Joey says the ban only makes him want her more.
- Mike sets traps against Phoebe's wishes, and after Phoebe finds that Bob has had babies, a trap snaps and kills the mother.
- Rachel introduces Gavin to Monica with fake warmth, and Monica invites him to the birthday party.
- Phoebe arrives at the party with the seven baby rats in a box and leaves early to feed them.
- A woman named Tabatha arrives for Molly, the two kiss, and Ross and Joey realise the nanny is not available to Joey at all.
- Gavin turns up late at the party with a scarf as an apology gift, and he and Rachel kiss on the balcony.
S9 · E13 The One Where Monica Sings
Ross, having seen Rachel kiss a colleague, brings home a stranger to get even, and once he admits hiding a phone message from her, he and Rachel agree to stop living together.
- Ross tells Chandler he saw Rachel kissing a man from her office on the balcony, and decides to start dating rather than raise it with her.
- Rachel admits the kiss to Monica and Phoebe, who both tell her she has to talk to Ross about it.
- Joey books an eyebrow wax under Chandler's name and quits after one eyebrow because the pain is too much.
- Gavin brings soup to Rachel, who called in sick to avoid him, and after she hides him behind a curtain she admits Ross complicates things, so Gavin steps back.
- Phoebe talks Monica into taking the stage at Mike's piano bar, and Monica sings Delta Dawn.
- Chandler admits he earned his allowance as a boy plucking his father's eyebrows, and he evens out Joey's without hurting him.
- Monica reads the shouting about her see-through shirt as praise for her voice, so Chandler arrives and pulls her off the stage.
- Ross brings home Michelle, a woman dumped hours earlier, and Rachel walks in wanting to talk and finds her there.
- Ross confesses he threw away a message from a man Rachel met at a bar, and the fight ends with the two of them agreeing that living together no longer works.
- Rachel asks Joey whether she and Emma can stay with him for a while, and he says yes.
S9 · E14 The One With the Blind Dates
Joey and Phoebe secretly arrange terrible blind dates for Ross and Rachel to push them back together, while Monica and Chandler babysit Emma and try to conceive before Monica's ovulation window closes.
- Joey tells Ross that his old feelings for Rachel are gone, and Ross says that he and Rachel should start seeing other people, then asks Joey to find him a date.
- Phoebe and Joey compare notes, realise Ross and Rachel have each asked them for a setup, and agree to arrange dates so awful that the pair will see they belong together.
- Rachel asks Monica and Chandler to look after Emma for the evening while she goes on the date Phoebe has arranged.
- Joey admits that the woman he picked for Ross is a puzzle-loving teacher, so Phoebe has him cancel her without telling Ross, leaving Ross to be stood up.
- Monica discovers it is already the last day of her ovulation window, and Chandler confesses he has used up most of her ovulation tests on himself.
- Rachel's date Steve tells her he lost his restaurant to drugs, has no money, prints t-shirts he hates, and believes he is infertile.
- Once Emma falls asleep, Monica and Chandler go to the bedroom, and Joey lets himself in, finds the baby alone and carries her out.
- The waiter admits the staff have a bet running on how long Ross will sit there before giving up, so Ross demands his free crab cakes and leaves.
- Chandler admits to Joey that he and Monica were trying for a baby, and Joey agrees to keep it from Rachel only if they name their first child Joey.
- Comparing their two ruined evenings, Ross and Rachel work out that the dates were sabotaged on purpose, and Phoebe and Joey run for it.
S9 · E15 The One With the Mugging
Joey discovers that needing the bathroom makes his audition work and wins a Broadway role, Phoebe realizes she is the teenager who mugged Ross years ago, and Chandler starts an unpaid advertising internship.
- Chandler announces that his new advertising job is an unpaid internship that hires only the trainees the company likes.
- Joey's first reading for director Lennart Haze goes badly and Haze tells the producers he cannot act, so Joey asks for a second chance and takes Haze's notes.
- A mugger holds up Ross and Phoebe, Phoebe recognizes him as an old friend from her street days, and Ross learns that she used to mug people herself.
- Chandler tells Monica he cannot compete with the much younger interns and has no idea how to sell the prototype sneakers he has been assigned.
- Ross describes being mugged outside a comic shop as a boy, and Phoebe works out from the details that she was the one who robbed him.
- Joey arrives at the callback desperate for the bathroom, and Haze is so taken with the urgency in his performance that he invites him back again.
- Phoebe confesses to Ross that she mugged him, and Ross refuses to forgive her.
- Chandler pitches an advertisement in which a child on the sneakers outruns a falling older man, and his boss calls it exactly the right selling point.
- Phoebe brings Ross the Science Boy artwork she kept from the mugging, and Ross thanks her.
- Joey plays the final callback in real physical distress and Haze gives him the part.
S9 · E16 The One With the Boob Job
Phoebe and Mike agree to move in together but split when Mike rules out ever marrying again, while Monica and Chandler each secretly borrow two thousand dollars from Joey and Chandler concludes Monica wants breast surgery.
- Monica and Chandler discover their savings are draining because his internship pays nothing, and Chandler refuses to borrow from her parents out of family pride.
- Mike tells Phoebe he hates going back to his own place and asks her to move in with him, and Phoebe agrees on the spot.
- Monica asks Joey for two thousand dollars behind Chandler's back, and Joey writes her the cheque.
- Rachel arrives with supplies to baby-proof Joey's apartment for Emma and insists on installing everything herself, while Joey and Monica tell her she cannot.
- Phoebe realises out loud that she wants a wedding, a house near good schools and children with Mike, and Mike goes quiet at the idea.
- Chandler asks Joey for the same two thousand dollars, spots the cheque already written to Monica, and Joey tells him she is buying herself a breast enlargement.
- Mike warns Phoebe that living together will never lead to marriage because his first one ruined the idea for him, and Phoebe hides how much that hurts by claiming she never wanted to marry either.
- Rachel gives up and pays a handyman to fit the baby-proofing instead.
- Chandler smothers Monica in compliments about her body and begs her not to get any bigger, and Monica decides he is panicking about pregnancy changing her.
- The friends confront Joey and the surgery misunderstanding collapses, leaving Joey four thousand dollars down for nothing.
- Phoebe admits she does want to marry someday, and she and Mike end the relationship in front of everyone mid-move.
S9 · E17 The One With the Memorial Service
Ross and Chandler escalate an alumni-website prank war until Chandler posts that Ross has died, and Ross responds by staging a memorial service for himself to find out whether anyone cares.
- Ross shows off his college alumni website, and while he fetches his coat Chandler writes a fake post about Ross sleeping with a cloned dinosaur, which Joey then sends.
- Phoebe, miserable after ending things with Mike, asks Monica to physically stop her from contacting him.
- Ross retaliates by creating an alumni page for Chandler that announces he is gay.
- Chandler answers by posting that Ross was killed by a blimp, and Ross threatens to make faked photographs of Chandler.
- Joey buys an identical replacement penguin so he can keep the original Hugsy, but Emma rejects the new one.
- Phoebe secretly phones Mike and he turns up, so Monica plants herself on the couch between them as their chaperone.
- Ross discovers that nobody responded to news of his death, and he announces a memorial service that Chandler will be hosting.
- Rachel explains that Emma loves the penguin because it reminds her of Joey, and Joey hands Hugsy over before immediately taking him back.
- Mike tells Phoebe he wants one more night with her, and Monica abandons her post and urges Phoebe to kiss him.
- Kori Weston arrives at the memorial and admits she once wanted to ask Ross out, so Ross reveals he is alive and she storms off calling him a freak.
S9 · E18 The One With the Lottery
The six friends pool their money on Powerball tickets and turn on each other over them, Chandler is passed over for the assistant job and offered a better one, and Emma says her first word.
- Joey borrows Monica's car to drive out of state for Powerball tickets, and Rachel proposes that the six of them put in fifty dollars each and split whatever they win.
- Ross dismisses the pool as a waste, then buys in himself after Monica offers to cover his share so he is part of the evening.
- Chandler waits on news about an assistant job at his ad agency and learns that two of the three openings have gone to other interns.
- Phoebe announces that her psychic promised her a win tonight, and Joey takes the wishbone and refuses to say what he wished for.
- Chandler mentions tickets on the nightstand, Monica admits she bought twenty extra for the two of them, and the group turns on her and starts fighting over how to divide the pool.
- Phoebe carries the bowl onto the balcony and threatens to dump it, Monica gives up the tickets she hid in her bra, and a pigeon startles Phoebe into dropping the bowl into the street.
- They recover about half the tickets, and a message from Charlie tells Chandler that the last opening went to Charlie himself.
- Rachel reports that Emma has said her first word, and Ross stops arguing about it once Rachel finds the word in the dictionary.
- Chandler's boss calls to offer him a junior copywriter job instead of an assistant post, and Joey then admits his wishbone wish was for Chandler to be hired.
- Phoebe finds the Powerball number on one of her tickets and wins three dollars.
S9 · E19 The One With Rachel's Dream
Rachel watches Joey shoot a soap opera love scene and then dreams about kissing him, Monica and Phoebe fall out over Phoebe's music outside the restaurant, and Chandler takes Ross to Vermont.
- Joey lands his first romantic storyline on the soap opera and asks Rachel to come to the set and tell him whether he is any good.
- Chandler's romantic inn booking turns out to be non-refundable and Monica is too busy at the restaurant, so Ross agrees to go to Vermont with him instead.
- Rachel watches Joey play a scene in which his character begs Olivia not to marry another man, and the near-kiss leaves her rattled.
- Phoebe sets up outside Monica's restaurant to entertain the queue, and Monica tells her the place is classy, which Phoebe answers by dressing up without changing a single song.
- The inn has no record of Chandler's reservation and charges him six hundred dollars for the only room left, so Ross decides they will recover the money by taking every free thing in the hotel.
- In a dream, Rachel reads Olivia's lines opposite Joey, asks him to kiss her and kisses him, then wakes up in her own bed unsettled.
- Ross drills Chandler on the difference between stealing and collecting what the hotel owes them, and the two of them work their way through the toiletries, the bulbs and the batteries.
- Rachel tells Monica about the dream, and Monica suggests that what Rachel wants is not Joey but the character he plays.
- Monica tells Phoebe to stop playing outside the restaurant, and the two of them trade insults about her singing and her cooking.
- Monica polls her own diners about the music, the poll turns into both women admitting through raised hands that they were wrong, and they apologise and make up.
- Rachel finds peanut butter in Joey's hair and concludes that her feelings are for Drake and not for Joey.
- Joey, coached by Rachel to draw on real memories, tells her that the only time he was in love was with her and describes watching her before she was awake, which leaves Rachel shaken.
S9 · E20 The One With the Soap Opera Party
Joey's secret annual party for his soap opera castmates is exposed, Rachel resolves to make a move on him, and Ross meets Charlie, a new colleague whose past boyfriends have all won Nobel Prizes.
- Joey hands the group six tickets to a one-woman play and excuses himself by claiming he has an early start at work the next day.
- Rachel admits to Monica that a dream has left her wanting to fool around with Joey, and Monica tells her friends who do that always end up in a mess.
- Ross expects the visiting professor he must show around campus to be a bore, and instead meets Charlie, who has read and admired his published work.
- Rachel plays back a message that exposes Joey's party, and Joey confesses that he has been shipping the group off to invented outings every year to keep them away from his soap opera friends.
- Charlie talks Ross into abandoning the slow-talking Professor Spafford in the restaurant while he is in the bathroom.
- Rachel turns up in a bathrobe pretending to be ill so she can stay behind, and when Monica calls her bluff she blurts out the secret party to everyone.
- Charlie tells Ross on the roof that she has dated a string of Nobel Prize winners, and Ross concludes he cannot compete with them.
- Joey throws away every phone number Rachel has collected at the party, telling her none of those men are good enough for her.
- Chandler, left alone through the whole play, tells Monica he was moved by it, then lures Monica and Phoebe into the theatre and runs out on them.
- Rachel tells Monica she has changed her mind and is going to kiss Joey, and Monica concedes she cannot stop her.
S9 · E21 The One With the Fertility Test
Monica and Chandler take fertility tests and learn that both of them have problems conceiving, while Ross coaches Joey through a museum date with Charlie and Rachel discovers Phoebe secretly works at the spa chain she condemns.
- Charlie tells Ross she is embarrassed about kissing Joey and mentions that the men she usually dates are professors and paleontologists.
- Phoebe objects to Rachel's gift certificate for a corporate spa, asks her as a friend not to use it, and tears the certificate up once Rachel promises.
- Monica tells Chandler they are taking fertility tests the next day after a year of trying for a baby, and Chandler reluctantly agrees despite hating the idea of the cup.
- Rachel turns up at the spa with the certificate taped back together, and Phoebe, who works there, panics and tries to get another therapist to take the appointment.
- Joey admits to Ross that he is afraid Charlie will think he is stupid, and Ross plans the museum trip for him down to which way to turn at the door.
- Janice appears in the clinic waiting room and delightedly mocks Chandler over the specimen cup while Monica goes off for her own exam.
- Rachel reveals she recognised Phoebe by her slippers, Phoebe confesses she took the job for the money and benefits and feels ashamed, and Rachel encourages her to quit.
- Charlie tells Ross that Joey clearly memorised the art talk and that she may belong with someone she has more in common with, and Ross talks her into staying with Joey.
- The doctor's results come back showing that Chandler's sperm have low motility and Monica's body is hostile to them, so a baby may never happen for them.
- Phoebe arrives for her shift at the spa the next morning instead of quitting, and finds Rachel booked as her first client again.
S9 · E22 The One With the Donor
A poor fertility result pushes Monica and Chandler toward a sperm donor, and after auditioning a coworker they choose adoption instead, while Rachel privately admits a crush on Joey that Charlie overhears and misunderstands.
- The fertility doctor tells Monica and Chandler that their odds of conceiving naturally are poor, and lays out surrogacy, a sperm donor, or adoption.
- Ross learns he is in the running to give the keynote at a paleontology conference in Barbados, and invites his friends to come.
- Chandler rules out surrogacy because Monica has always wanted to carry a child herself, which leaves a donor as the remaining option.
- On a shopping trip, Rachel confesses to Phoebe that she has feelings for Joey, and Phoebe agrees to keep it to herself.
- Chandler brings his colleague Zack home for dinner as a candidate donor, and Monica is angry that he set it up without her.
- Ross's presentation puts Professor Sherman to sleep, and Ross cannot wake him without admitting who bored him.
- Charlie tells Rachel she overheard the whispering and believes it is Phoebe who likes Joey, and Rachel lets her believe it.
- Ross wakes the professor by thanking him for the keynote spot he never offered, and Sherman accepts the thanks.
- Phoebe runs into David, back from Minsk for good and single, and they skip her party for a drink.
- Monica tells Chandler she does not want a child by anyone but him, and the two of them decide to adopt.
S9 · E23–24 The One in Barbados (Parts 1 & 2)
The friends travel to Barbados for Ross's keynote, where Chandler's meddling brings Mike to Phoebe's proposal dinner, Rachel tells Joey she wants him, and Ross ends up kissing Joey's girlfriend Charlie.
- Phoebe accidentally calls David by Mike's name and admits to Monica that she still misses her ex.
- Chandler suggests David show Phoebe he is open to marriage, and David immediately decides to propose.
- Chandler opens an infected email that wipes the only copy of Ross's keynote, and Charlie offers to rebuild it from memory overnight instead of having dinner with Joey.
- Monica telephones Mike in New York to tell him about the proposal, and he refuses to interfere and hangs up on her.
- Joey drags Rachel into a pharmacists' convention on stolen name badges, then teases her afterwards until she nearly admits which man she wants.
- Mike turns up at the restaurant and proposes first, Phoebe turns David down, and David leaves the hotel alone.
- Charlie and Joey realise they are enjoying the holiday apart rather than together, and they sit down to end the relationship.
- Rachel confesses to Joey that she has wanted him for a month, and Joey refuses her because of Ross.
- Monica injures her hand at match point, so Chandler takes over the paddle and beats Mike, revealing that he has been hiding how good he is.
- Charlie tells Ross she has feelings for him, they kiss, and Rachel walks in on them.
Season 10
S10 · E1 The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss
Back from Barbados, Joey and Rachel begin seeing each other but keep failing to tell Ross, who has just started something with Charlie, while Phoebe discovers Mike still has a girlfriend.
- Monica, Chandler and Phoebe listen through the hotel walls, hear Ross in bed with Charlie, then realise the other room holds Joey and Rachel kissing.
- Joey explains that he changed his mind about Rachel only after seeing Ross with Charlie.
- Ross stops things with Charlie because he wants Joey's blessing first, and leaves to find him.
- Rachel hides Joey in her room and barely listens while Ross confesses to her that he kissed Charlie.
- Caught by the eavesdroppers, Joey and Rachel agree to hold off until Ross has been told.
- Monica comes back from the salon with beaded cornrows that Chandler and Ross both find alarming.
- On the flight home Mike admits to Phoebe that he has had a girlfriend for three months, and promises to end it that night.
- Ross tells Joey about Charlie, and Joey gives his blessing and soaks up the praise instead of admitting anything about Rachel.
- Rachel goes to Ross's apartment to tell him, but a burst shampoo bottle derails the conversation entirely.
- Phoebe tells Mike's girlfriend Precious the truth about the engagement, and Precious ends things with Mike herself.
S10 · E2 The One Where Ross is Fine
Ross insists he is fine about Joey and Rachel becoming a couple and throws them a dinner party, drinks his way through it, and the next morning gives Joey his blessing, while Chandler tells a boy he is adopted.
- Joey and Rachel confess to Ross that they have kissed twice, including once in Barbados.
- Ross declares repeatedly that he is fine and insists on cooking the two of them a fajita dinner the next night.
- Monica and Chandler are lost in adoption paperwork, and Phoebe puts them in touch with her friends Bill and Colleen, who adopted a son.
- Frank Jr. admits to Phoebe that four years without sleep have broken him, and he asks her to take one of the triplets off his hands.
- Chandler meets Bill and Colleen's son Owen and lets slip that the boy is adopted, which Owen did not know.
- Ross drinks his way through several batches of margaritas at the dinner and grabs the fajita plate without oven mitts.
- Frank Jr. finds he cannot part with any of the three children, and Phoebe offers to babysit so he and Alice get a day off.
- Owen announces his news in front of his parents and reveals that Chandler paid him fifty dollars to keep quiet.
- Ross falls apart during a toast to the new couple, Charlie leaves early, and Rachel goes home while Joey stays behind.
- Joey tells Ross that he and Rachel will not go further without his approval, and Ross tells Joey to stop waiting and be with her.
S10 · E3 The One With Ross's Tan
Joey and Rachel try to sleep together on their first date and find that they cannot, Ross ruins himself with a spray tan, and Amanda's visit reveals that Phoebe once tried to drop Monica.
- Ross admires Monica's spray tan and takes the salon's card from her so he can get one himself.
- Phoebe proposes that she and Monica dodge Amanda's calls until she gives up, and Monica reluctantly agrees.
- Ross misunderstands the counting instructions, gets sprayed on the front three times over and none on the back, and ends up dark in front and pale behind.
- Amanda leaves another message, Chandler unwittingly hands Monica the phone, and Monica agrees to dinner because she cannot bring herself to refuse twice.
- Joey cannot get Rachel's bra open, blames the bra and then Rachel, and insists nothing deeper is stopping him.
- Rachel tells Monica and Chandler that the date went wrong, and Monica reminds her that her first kiss with Ross was awkward too, so Rachel decides she and Joey should push on.
- Amanda mentions that Phoebe was avoiding Monica back in 1992, and Monica learns that Phoebe once tried to cut her out.
- In the hallway Phoebe admits she found Monica controlling but could never keep her out, and the two make up.
- Ross goes to a second salon demanding four sprays on his back, faces the wrong set of nozzles and is sprayed in the face again.
- Chandler tells Joey and Rachel that sleeping with Monica felt right immediately, and Joey and Rachel quietly agree to stop trying and go to bed separately.
S10 · E4 The One With the Cake
Emma's first birthday party stalls while she naps, the bakery delivers an obscene cake instead of a bunny, and the guests drift away one by one until Monica and Chandler are left minding her.
- Monica and Chandler agree to delay their Vermont weekend so they can attend Emma's first birthday party.
- Ross brings a camcorder to record a birthday message for Emma to watch when she turns eighteen.
- Rachel refuses to wake Emma from her nap, so the party sits waiting on a sleeping baby.
- Joey improvises a dramatic reading of a children's book that leaves the room in tears, while Phoebe's birthday song lands badly.
- The bakery cake turns out to be a penis with Emma's photo on it, so Rachel borrows Monica's car and drives back to New Jersey for a bunny.
- Rachel is pulled over without her licence, and Ross leaves to bring it to her after ordering Joey to keep everyone in the apartment.
- Estelle calls Joey about an audition, and the friends race Emma's wind-up toys to settle who has to stay behind.
- Monica and Chandler's toy dog never crosses the finish line, so the others leave and the couple stay with Emma.
- Ross reshapes the obscene cake into a bunny while Rachel drives home.
- Minding Emma leaves Monica and Chandler wanting a baby of their own, and once everyone sneaks back Rachel finally gets her candle-and-cake moment.
S10 · E5 The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits
Rachel's sister Amy moves in and pierces baby Emma's ears while babysitting, Joey writes Monica and Chandler's adoption recommendation letter, and Phoebe and Mike get engaged after two botched proposals.
- Amy tells Rachel she is engaged to Myron, the elderly father of her old boyfriend, mainly because of his Fifth Avenue apartment.
- At the Knicks game Phoebe dismisses a scoreboard proposal as tacky, and Mike walks off upset.
- Joey hands Monica and Chandler an adoption recommendation letter he has pushed through a thesaurus, and Monica tells him to drop the big words and write as himself.
- Amy leaves Myron and turns up with her bags to move in with Rachel and Joey.
- Phoebe tells the others that Mike had been planning that same proposal, and Monica suggests that Phoebe propose to him instead.
- With the nanny sick, Rachel lets Amy babysit Emma even though Ross objects to it.
- The agency tells Chandler they loved Joey's handwritten letter because they assume a child wrote it.
- Amy brings Emma back with the baby's ears pierced, and Rachel bans her from ever babysitting again.
- Phoebe proposes to Mike on the scoreboard at the game, and the crowd boos her for it.
- Rachel throws Amy out and then decides to accept her as she is, and Mike abandons his cake stunt to propose properly, which Phoebe accepts.
S10 · E6 The One With Ross's Grant
Ross reaches the final round for a $25,000 research grant and discovers the administrator is Charlie's ex-boyfriend, who still wants her and makes the money conditional on Ross giving her up.
- Phoebe arrives at the coffee house engaged to Mike and hands Rachel the book of phone numbers she no longer needs.
- Chandler tells Joey that his agency has landed its first national commercial, then turns Joey down for the part.
- Ross tells Charlie he is a finalist for the grant, and Charlie explains that her ex-boyfriend Benjamin runs it and offers to introduce them over dinner.
- Phoebe says Mike wants her hideous painting Gladys gone, and Monica, desperate not to inherit it, urges Phoebe to fight to keep it.
- Joey leaves his commercial reel with Chandler, and Rachel coaches Chandler to claim his bosses rejected it.
- Over dinner Benjamin fawns over Charlie and then asks Ross outright to end the relationship.
- Phoebe surrenders the painting, and after Monica and Rachel each try to force it on the other, a coin toss leaves Monica with it.
- Chandler tells Joey the tape was rejected, and Joey works out that Chandler never watched it at all.
- At the grant interview Benjamin skips paleontology entirely and quizzes Ross on his own birthday, a pop song and an invented dinosaur name.
- Benjamin offers Ross the grant on the condition that he break up with Charlie, and Ross throws him out.
- Confronted in front of Ross, Benjamin declares his love for Charlie, she says it back, and Ross ends their relationship.
S10 · E7 The One With the Home Study
Monica and Chandler pass their adoption home study after Joey talks his way out of having never called the social worker, while Phoebe gives her wedding fund to charity and then asks for it back.
- Phoebe decides to donate her entire wedding budget to charity and marry Mike at City Hall, and Mike loves her more for it.
- Rachel tells Ross that a childhood accident on a swing left her hair butchered and bans Emma from the playground, then agrees to go along and watch.
- Phoebe tries on Monica's veil, admits she wants a large wedding after all, and decides to ask the charity to return the money.
- The charity worker hands the check back while needling Phoebe about the children going without, and Phoebe storms out defending her right to one celebration.
- Laura recognizes the building as the home of a man who never called her after a date, and Monica and Chandler deny that Joey is any friend of theirs.
- Phoebe realizes she grew up with as little as the children she took the money from, and Mike agrees to return it.
- Joey turns the argument around until Laura accepts that she never gave him her number, and she tells Monica and Chandler they will make excellent parents.
- The charity worker refuses to take the check a second time and tells Phoebe and Mike to spend it on their wedding.
- Laura calls with a good report, putting Monica and Chandler on the adoption waiting list.
- Rachel fetches a spider for Ross to hold and rides the swing herself, then points out that the spider has crawled onto his neck.
S10 · E8 The One With the Late Thanksgiving
Phoebe goads Monica into hosting Thanksgiving, then the others turn up an hour late from a hockey game and a baby pageant, so Monica locks them out until a call from the adoption agency ends the standoff.
- Monica and Chandler tell the others they are not hosting Thanksgiving this year.
- Phoebe suggests Monica's cooking has slipped, and Monica takes the bait and agrees to cook after all.
- Phoebe asks to enter Emma in a baby beauty pageant, and Rachel agrees once she hears about the thousand-dollar prize.
- Chandler turns down Joey's hockey tickets for Monica's sake, but Ross and Joey go without telling him and then stay for extra play they cannot afford.
- Rachel wants to leave the pageant, and Phoebe talks her into staying by claiming a judge rated Emma above every other baby.
- Ross and Joey meet Rachel and Phoebe in the hallway and learn that all four of them are late.
- Ross reads the trophy, works out that Rachel entered their daughter in a pageant, and tells her it is inexcusable.
- Monica and Chandler watch through the peephole, spot Joey's foam finger, and realise the men went to the game.
- Monica offers to let everyone in for the pies, then finds out Rachel and Phoebe never collected them and refuses.
- Joey wedges his head in the doorway and cannot get free, which forces Monica and Chandler to work with the others.
- Monica takes a call from the adoption agency and tells Chandler that a pregnant woman in Ohio has chosen them.
S10 · E9 The One With the Birth Mother
Monica and Chandler meet a pregnant woman in Ohio who has picked them from the wrong file, believing they are a doctor and a reverend, and they have to decide whether to confess.
- Monica and Chandler set off for Ohio to meet the woman carrying the baby they hope to adopt, and Monica drops her own rule about not getting her hopes up.
- Erica tells Monica and Chandler how impressed she is that he is a doctor and she is a reverend, and Monica plays along rather than correct her.
- Joey tells Phoebe he will not call her friend Sarah again, because Sarah ordered a salad and then ate his fries.
- Phoebe talks Joey into a second date by suggesting he order extra food as a buffer, and he warms to the idea.
- Chandler works out that the agency's anonymous file system caused the mix-up, and Erica announces she has already chosen them.
- Rachel picks out clothes for Ross's date while he waits outside the store, then carries home the wrong bag, and Ross turns up at Central Perk in a woman's shirt.
- Chandler refuses to sign the adoption papers under a false identity, and Monica accepts that Erica deserves the truth.
- Ross's date takes off her coat to reveal the identical shirt, and the two of them leave in opposite directions.
- Monica and Chandler admit they are a chef and an advertising executive from New York, and Erica calls the adoption off.
- Chandler catches Erica in the corridor and tells her Monica is already a mother without a baby, and Erica changes her mind.
S10 · E10 The One Where Chandler Gets Caught
Monica and Chandler secretly hunt for a house in Westchester, are mistaken for adulterers by Phoebe and Rachel, and end up buying the house over their friends' objections.
- Over coffee, Phoebe makes everyone choose between giving up food or giving up sex, and Monica answers so fast that Chandler takes offence.
- From the window of the coffee house, Phoebe and Rachel watch Chandler get into a car with a blonde woman, and Phoebe decides he is cheating.
- Phoebe phones Chandler, who says he is stuck at the office all day, so Phoebe and Rachel set off to follow the car.
- At home, Chandler and Monica agree the house is everything they wanted, decide to buy it, and agree to tell nobody until it is certain.
- Rachel reports the trip to Westchester to the others, and the group argues about whether Monica should be told.
- The friends break the news to Monica, who is unmoved and instead asks them what they thought of the house.
- Chandler walks in, explains that Nancy is their realtor, and Monica admits they are house-hunting because they do not want to raise the baby in the city.
- Chandler and Monica reveal they have already made an offer, which upsets Joey, while Rachel concedes the house is lovely.
- The others plead with them to stay, and Ross confesses that seeing them through his window makes him feel better when he is alone.
- Nancy calls to say the sellers rejected the offer, but once the friends leave, Chandler tells Monica he lied and the house is theirs.
- At the coffee house, Chandler and Monica hand out presents and then break the news that they have bought the house.
S10 · E11 The One Where the Stripper Cries
At a college reunion Ross and Chandler confess old betrayals over Missy Goldberg and Rachel, uncovering that Ross's first kiss with Rachel was really Monica; Joey bombs on Pyramid and Phoebe's bachelorette stripper turns out to be fifty.
- Monica announces that Joey has been booked as a celebrity guest on Pyramid, on the same night as Phoebe's bachelorette party and the college reunion Ross and Chandler are attending.
- In a flashback to college, Ross and Chandler both want Missy Goldberg and promise each other that neither of them will ask her out, and back at the reunion Chandler releases Ross from that promise.
- Joey keeps giving away the answers inside his own clues, and his partner Gene tells him afterwards that the lost round cost him ten thousand dollars.
- Phoebe finds out that Rachel has planned a quiet tea party and tells her she wants a stripper, so Rachel promises there is more coming.
- Missy agrees to a date with Ross and then mentions that she and Chandler used to make out in the science lab after hours.
- The stripper Rachel found in an old phone book turns out to be Roy, an exhausted fifty-year-old man, who overhears the women insulting him, stops the dance and demands his three hundred dollars in tears.
- Ross accuses Chandler of breaking the pact, Chandler counters with the name Adrienne Turner, and a flashback to a party in 1987 shows Chandler walking in on Ross kissing her.
- Chandler admits he took revenge that same night, and the flashback shows him kissing a very drunk Rachel after telling her he is in a band.
- Phoebe suggests Roy teach stripping instead of performing, and then asks him to finish his last dance for them.
- Ross says that night was his own first kiss with Rachel, but Chandler insists he left Rachel on a different bed, and Monica realises she was the girl under the coats and that Ross gave her her first kiss.
S10 · E12 The One With Phoebe's Wedding
Phoebe and Mike lose their venue to a blizzard and marry on a snowy street instead, after Phoebe fires Monica as wedding planner and then asks her to come back.
- Phoebe asks Joey to walk her down the aisle because her step father cannot leave prison for the weekend.
- Monica, running the wedding, swaps Phoebe's steel drummer for a harpist and orders an ice sculpture, ignoring the simple wedding Phoebe asked for.
- At the rehearsal dinner, Phoebe tells Ross and Chandler that neither of them is in the wedding party.
- One of Mike's groomsmen drops out, and when Phoebe refuses to pick between Ross and Chandler she forces the decision onto Rachel.
- Monica hurries Phoebe through her toast until Phoebe stops, tells her off in front of everyone, and fires her.
- Rachel gives in to Ross and promises him the spot, then gives in to Chandler and promises it to him as well.
- Ross and Chandler compare notes and confront Rachel, who hands the place to Mike's family dog instead.
- Buried in vendor calls she cannot handle, Phoebe begs Monica to take the wedding back, and Monica does.
- A blizzard closes the city and knocks out the venue's power, so Rachel suggests a street wedding and Phoebe and Mike agree.
- With the minister snowed in, Joey performs the ceremony and Chandler gives Phoebe away, and she and Mike marry outdoors in the snow.
S10 · E13 The One Where Joey Speaks French
Rachel's father has a heart attack, and Ross goes with her to Long Island, where he turns down her offer of sex; Joey fails a French audition, and Monica and Chandler learn Erica's baby may have two possible fathers.
- Joey asks Phoebe to teach him French for a play audition, because his résumé claims he is fluent, and Phoebe agrees to coach him.
- Rachel arrives late and tells the others that her father has had a heart attack, and Ross insists on travelling out to Long Island with her.
- Monica and Chandler bring Erica to meet the others, and Erica asks to be taken round the New York tourist sights that Chandler dreads.
- Phoebe gives up on the lessons and walks out, leaving Joey to prepare for the audition alone the day before it.
- Rachel asks Ross to stay with her and tries to kiss him, and Ross refuses on the grounds that she is upset about her father.
- Erica tells Monica and Chandler that the father is either her high school boyfriend or a second man who is in prison for killing his own father.
- Rachel confronts Ross at the hospital for turning her down, and Ross announces that the two of them will never sleep together again, just as her father wheels into earshot.
- Monica works out from what Erica did with the prisoner that he cannot be the father, so the college boyfriend is.
- Joey's audition collapses into nonsense, and Phoebe poses as a French woman to persuade the director to let him down gently.
- Rachel agrees with Ross that they should not sleep together again, then tells him at her door that it is never truly ruled out.
S10 · E14 The One With Princess Consuela
Rachel is fired from Ralph Lauren after her boss overhears her Gucci interview, and an old colleague lands her a Louis Vuitton job in Paris, while Phoebe legally renames herself and Joey makes peace with Monica and Chandler's move.
- Rachel tells the others that a headhunter has set up a meeting for her with Gucci.
- Joey agrees to visit the new house, but privately plans to pick it apart so Monica and Chandler stay.
- Phoebe discovers at the government office that she can pick any name at all, and legally becomes Princess Consuela Banana Hammock.
- Rachel reveals that Gucci passed on her and that her boss, seated at the next table, overheard enough to fire her.
- Ross arrives celebrating the tenure he has just won, and Rachel finally breaks down and tells him she lost her job.
- Mike objects to Phoebe's new name by legally renaming himself Crap Bag.
- Mackenzie, the eight-year-old selling the house with her parents, convinces Joey that he has to let his friends go.
- Rachel runs into Mark outside her old office, and he offers to talk over a Louis Vuitton opening at dinner.
- Phoebe gives in after Mike introduces himself to a client, and the two settle on Buffay-Hannigan.
- Rachel tells everyone that Mark's job is hers, then adds that the position is in Paris.
S10 · E15 The One Where Estelle Dies
Rachel's new job in Paris pushes Ross to bribe her old boss into hiring her back, while Phoebe hides Estelle's death from Joey and Janice threatens to buy the house next to Monica and Chandler's.
- Rachel explains that the incredible job she has been offered is in Paris, and Ross tells her they will find a way to make it work.
- Joey refuses to accept another change and walks out rather than congratulate Rachel.
- Phoebe reads in the paper that Joey's agent Estelle has died, and she persuades Monica and Chandler to keep it from him for a few days.
- Ross visits Mr Zelner at Ralph Lauren and offers his son a private after-hours tour of the museum if Zelner will give Rachel her job back.
- Phoebe telephones Joey pretending to be Estelle, and Joey fires her during the call.
- Rachel tells Ross that Ralph Lauren has rehired her, but she has used the offer to get more money out of Paris and is still going.
- Monica and Chandler tour the house next door and run into Janice, who decides to buy it precisely because they will be her neighbours.
- Joey hears the answering machine message about Estelle's memorial, and Phoebe calls one last time as Estelle to tell him there are no hard feelings.
- Chandler tells Janice he still loves her and wants an affair, and Janice kisses him goodbye and pulls out of the house.
- Rachel accepts a raise to stay at Ralph Lauren, but Ross realises how much she wanted Paris and tells her to take that job instead.
S10 · E16 The One With Rachel's Going Away Party
On Rachel's last night before Paris, she says goodbye to each friend individually but skips Ross, who chases her down to demand his, while Erica goes into labor three weeks early.
- Chandler and Monica schedule a going-away party for that evening, and Rachel finds her passport missing because Chandler has hidden it as a prank he now regrets.
- Erica returns to New York before she is too pregnant to travel and checks into a hotel, since Monica and Chandler are moving out in a few days.
- While packing the guest room, Chandler turns up a pair of fur-lined handcuffs and assumes Monica used them with an earlier boyfriend.
- Rachel decides to say her goodbyes one friend at a time and takes Phoebe into the guest room first, where Phoebe hands her a saliva sample for future cloning.
- Chandler tells Rachel outright that he loves her and will miss her, then breaks down mid-hug.
- Rachel says a general goodnight to the room and leaves without giving Ross the private farewell everyone else received.
- Ross storms over to Rachel, lists everything they have been to each other, and walks out telling her to enjoy Paris.
- Chandler finds photographs in the closet proving the handcuffs belonged to Monica's grandmother.
- Erica's recurring stomach pains turn out to be contractions, and Monica realizes she is in labor and rushes her to the hospital.
- Rachel goes to Ross's apartment and explains that she skipped his goodbye because he matters more to her than the others, not less.
S10 · E17–18 The Last One (Parts 1 & 2)
Erica gives birth to twins for Monica and Chandler as the apartment is packed up, and Ross chases Rachel to the airport to stop her leaving for Paris, where she boards but then gets off the plane.
- Ross tells Joey and Phoebe that he and Rachel slept together, and decides he wants to be with her again.
- Rachel treats the night as a fond farewell, and Ross says nothing about wanting more.
- Erica delivers a boy, and Chandler cuts the umbilical cord.
- The doctor announces a second baby, Chandler argues for placing one for adoption, Monica refuses to separate them, and a girl is born.
- Gunther tells Rachel that he loves her, and Rachel lets him down kindly before leaving the coffee house.
- Ross decides to go after Rachel rather than let her leave, and Phoebe drives him to the airport in her cab.
- Joey and Chandler find the chick and the duck trapped inside the foosball table and agree to break it open.
- Monica smashes the table apart, and Chandler tells Joey to keep the birds so that Joey has a reason to visit.
- Ross reaches Rachel at the gate and asks her to stay, but Rachel boards the plane anyway.
- Rachel leaves a message saying she loves Ross, then arrives at his apartment having got off the plane, and the two agree they are together for good.