The One With the Rumor

Thursday, 22 November 2001

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.

What happens

• 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.