The gang celebrates Monica’s engagement night. Rachel, feeling lonely, kisses Ross (and considers doing more). Everyone thinks it’s a big deal and Monica accuses Rachel of stealing her thunder. Phoebe asks if she can play at the wedding, and won’t let up until she’s convinced they’ll really let her. Joey prepares to audition to play the part of a 19-year-old. Phoebe eats Joey’s candy bar. Chandler is unable to perform in the bedroom.

(63 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

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Monica begins to make wedding plans with Rachel’s help; Chandler feels left out. Phoebe wants to give Monica and Chandler some time alone, so she moves in with Ross for a couple days. But Ross is not happy with her running the massage business from his apartment. While Phoebe is out, he agrees to give a massage, thinking the client is a beautiful young woman, but it turns out to be her old, overweight father. The duck gets sick after eating Rachel’s face cream. Chandler and Monica find out that Mr. and Mrs. Geller have spent Monica’s wedding fund. Chandler has enough savings to cover it, but isn’t sure that’s the way he wants to use the money. Joey finds an erotic book that Rachel’s been reading, and won’t let her live it down.

(43 votes, average: 4.51 out of 5)

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Chandler gets glasses but everyone thinks he had them all along. Phoebe decides to give Monica her grandmother’s chocolate-chip cookie recipe as an engagement present, but discovers it was destroyed in the fire. She and Monica try to figure out the secret recipe, only to discover that they are Nestle Tollhouse cookies. Rachel tries to teach Joey to sail his boat; she turns into her Dad in the process. Chandler spends time with Mr. Geller, and keeps having embarrassing moments at the gym.

(26 votes, average: 4.23 out of 5)

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Joey’s TV show (Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.) premiers. He gets called in to audition for the part of Stryker Ramoray (Drake’s twin brother) on Days of Our Lives. But his new-found stardom goes to his head and he walks out. Since his TV show stinks, it gets cancelled and he has to come crawling back to Days. Rachel hires an assistant, and choses a pretty-boy (Tag) instead of a qualified woman. Monica and Chandler decide they shouldn’t have secrets from each other, but it backfires on upsets them both, and Ross as well.

(21 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)

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Monica and Chandler try to get a good engagement picture, but it seems impossible because Chandler can’t seem to smile properly when there’s a camera involved. Phoebe and Ross date a couple who’re getting divorced. They constantly argue about their dates’ bad qualities. Ross ponders starting a divorced men’s club. Rachel arranges for her assistant, Tag, to spend time with Joey, so he can’t go out with women at the store. But Joey hooks him up with lot of women. Joey keeps staining his shirts.

(22 votes, average: 4.82 out of 5)

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Monica tells Rachel and Phoebe to decide who is going to be her Maid of Honor. They can’t come to an agreement, so Joey and Ross hold “auditions” for the part. Someone overhears that Monica is marrying Chandler, and wishes a sarcastic “good luck.” She turns out to be Julie Graff, whom Chandler dumped when he was 15 because she got fat. Monica convinces him to apologize to her. After watching Die Hard, Ross and Joey fall asleep on the couch and have a very good nap. At first they are very upset that it happened, but eventually they decide to try it again.

(34 votes, average: 4.82 out of 5)

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Joey has a one night stand and wants Rachel to dump the girl (Erin) for him. Not only can’t Rachel do it, but she and Phoebe become friends with Erin and arrange for Joey to go out with her again. Joey decides he really likes Erin, but Erin decides there isn’t a future in the relationship. Ross discovers that his Doctoral Thesis is in NYU’s library. When he goes to visit it, he finds that it’s in a remote corner frequented by couples engaging in sexual activities. He begins to patrol that area of the library, but ends up being a culprit himself. Monica runs into Janice, who invites herself to Monica and Chandler’s wedding.

(22 votes, average: 4.64 out of 5)

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The gang all play a game where they have to try to list all 50 states; Ross gets so involved in it that he misses Thanksgiving dinner. Chandler and Monica find out that Phoebe is keeping a dog in the apartment; Chandler reveals his fear of dogs. Rachel invites Tag over for Thanksgiving dinner. He’s depressed because he and his girlfriend just broke up. Rachel tries to decide whether to comfort him as a friend, or to make a move. She decides to just be a friend, but Joey lets the secret slip out.

(23 votes, average: 4.70 out of 5)

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Ben’s first “big kid’s bike” prompts Phoebe to reveal that she’s never had a bike of her own; Ross gives her one as a gift. However, it soon becomes clear that Phoebe has never learned to ride. Monica decides to get to know her neighbors better by making candy for them; it becomes so popular that she can’t keep up with the mob waiting outside her door for more. At work, Rachel writes a joke evaluation of Tag, full of sexual comments, which accidentally gets sent to the Human Resources department.

(17 votes, average: 4.82 out of 5)

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Ross has his son, Ben, for the holidays and decides to teach him about Hanukkah. Ben can’t handle the idea of no visit from Santa, so Ross tries at the last minute to find a Santa costume. The rental shop is all out so he rents an Armadillo costume instead. Things go from bad to worse but in the end he finally gets to give Ben Hanukkah and Christmas. Phoebe’s apartment in finally done being rebuilt after the fire. Worried that Rachel won’t want to move back in with her, she tries to rive a wedge between Joey and Rachel by giving Joey a drumset and a tarantula. It backfires, but Rachel wants to live with Phoebe anyway. The apartment looks great but no longer has two separate bedrooms. Phoebe likes the spaciousness, so Rachels keeps living with Joey. Chandler tries to master the art of smoothing slipping someone money during a handshake.

(24 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5)

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