The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate

Thursday, 22 September 1994

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.

What happens

• 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.