The One With the Yeti

Thursday, 5 November 1998

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.

What happens

• 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.