The One With Two Parts, Part 1

Thursday, 23 February 1995

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.

What happens

• 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.