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Season Five
The full summaries of season five's episodes. (Each episode would get its own page, but I don't have that kind of storage space.)
Episode 5.1
Summary: Ross and Emily go on with the wedding after Ross's slip of tongue, even though Emily ditches the reception by popping out the bathroom window and climbing out. Meanwhile, Chandler and Monica worry over what their night together will do to their friendship. They decide that London is a foreign, romantic city and it's London's fault they slept together. They also decide that it's okay to continue to do it as long as they're in London. Joey eats meat, despite his promise to Phoebe that he wouldn't until the babies were born.
Monica and Chandler try to continue their affair, but everywhere they go, something gets in the way. They finally end up sitting with Ross all night in his and Emily's suite, waiting for Emily to come. In the morning, her parents come to collect her things. Ross tells them to tell Emily that he'll be at the airport this evening for their flight to Greece for their honeymoon.
On Monica, Chandler, and Joey's return home, Phoebe greets them by saying that Joey ate meat and Monica had sex. Monica denies it. (Joey doesn't deny the meat-eating.) Monica and Chandler talk about their night together and decide that the fact they never got to do it again makes it more special. They go back on this, however, when Chandler says that he's still "on London time. Does that count?"
Back in England, Ross's flight is preparing to take off, and Emily's nowhere in sight. Rachel, however, can't get a flight home. Ross invites her to use Emily's ticket so Rachel can go to Greece and get a flight home from there. Emily arrives just in time to see Rachel and Ross getting on the plane together. Ross runs after Emily to try to explain, and Rachel is left alone on a plane to Greece.
Episode 5.2: The One With All The Kissing
Summary:
Rachel returns from Greece, apparently happy. She isn't mad at Ross, she says, in fact, she had a nice time: "...nice hotel! Nice beach, met the nice people. Not to shabby for Rachel." Ross is happy that she's not mad, but still upset of the failure of his marriage thus far. He leaves, planning to buy and send Emily 72 long-stemmed red roses, one for each day he's known and loved her. After he's gone, Rachel reveals that she was miserable in Greece. In fact, she's still feeling bad. She chalks this up to the fact that she makes bad decisions. She tells Phoebe that from now on, Phoebe will be in charge of making decisions about Rachel's love life. Phoebe says that she's not comfortable with that plan, and Monica quickly steps up instead.
Chandler says he has to go to work, and accidentally kisses Monica goodbye before he leaves. The problem is that both Rachel and Phoebe see it. So Chandler does the only thing he can do: he kisses them goodbye as well. On the lips.
Later, at the coffee shop, Monica exercises her right as Rachel's decision-maker and tells her to go and talk to a guy sitting across the room. Rachel does, and gets herself a date with the guy for the following night.
When Chandler returns home from work, he finds Monica waiting for him in her apartment. They begin kissing, but are cut short when Joey, Phoebe, and Rachel walk in. Chandler repeats the whole "kiss-everyone" process (everyone except Joey, that is), and Monica explains it by saying that she thinks the kissing is a European goodbye thing that Chandler picked up while in England.
After her date with the guy from the coffee shop, Dave, the following night, Rachel asks him if he'd like to come inside before realizing that Monica must make the final decision. She asks Dave to wait in the hall and goes inside in search of Monica. Instead, she finds Ross, depressed. Emily cut up the roses he sent her and sent them back. Rachel decides that Ross needs a freind and lies to Dave, saying she has to take a raincheck on the rest of their date because her roommate is really sick. When Monica comes back a few minutes later and finds out, Rachel tells her that she won't let Monica make her decisions for her anymore, then locks Monica in the hallway, preventing her from interrupting Rachel's attempts to comfort Ross and eventually tell him that she's stil in love with him. She never gets the chance, and Monica tells Rachel that telling Ross she still loves him is a bad idea. She tells her to find just one person who doesn't think it's a horrible idea, and so Rachel begins her search.
The next day, the group realizes just how left out Phoebe feels in regards to the London trip, and they suggest they all take a trip to Central Park for a picnic. Phoebe tells them that that's a really lame idea. Chandler gets up to leave, but is stopped by Rchel, who confronts him about his "European goodbye thing". Chandler says that he was jsut trying to bring culture to the group.
Later on, the group meets at Central Perk to share their new plan with Phoebe: they'll all go to Atlantic City for the weekend. Phoebe likes this idea much better than the park idea, and she (and everyone else, except Ross and Rachel) leave to pack. Rachel uses this time alone with Ross to reveal that she's still in love with him. She and Ross talk it over and realize that it doesn't matter, because he's married to Emily.
Not long after, the group is preparing to leave for Atlantic City when Phoebe's water breaks. The group changes their plans and prepares to go to the hospital. After everyone else is out of sight (for the moment), Monica and Chandler seize the oppurtunity to make out in the hallway.
Episode 5.3: The One Hundreth
Full Summary:
Phoebe and the gang (minus Monica and Chandler) rush into the hospital, where Phoebe informs the receptionist that "I have babies coming out of me". The receptionist directs them to the waiting area and moments later, Monica and Chandler rush in. When Ross asks why they're so late when their cab left at the same time as everybody else's, Monica quickly lies that she forgot her jacket. When Rachel points out that Monica isn't wearing a jacket, Monica cries, "Oh, man, I did it again!"
Once Phoebe is in the delivery room, Rachel informs her that the reason the doctor is late is because she's not coming--she fell in the shower and hit her head. Instead, Phoebe will have a different doctor, the head of the department. As soon as this news has been delivered, Phoebe has her first contraction. No sooner has she decided that it's "not that bad" than Joey suddenly cires out in pain. Phoebe chalks it up to sympathy pains before the doctor comes in. He introduces himself, briefs her on the procedure a little, then turns to leave before adding, "And also, I love Fonzie." The gang doesn't have much time to ponder this, though, because Frank comes running in. He tells everyone that Alice was in Delaware visiting her mother, but she's on her way. Until she arrives, he says, he'll be Phoebe's coach.
Later on, in the waiting room, Rachel excitedly tells Monica she just got them both dates with two male nurses. Monica, after glancing over at Chandler, who is on the pay phone, tries to weasel out of the dates, but Rachel won't have any of it. She tells Monica that if they're still here when the guys have a break, they're all going to go to the cafeteria and have Jell-O.
Not long after, back in the delivery room, Joey tells the gang about Monica and Rachel's dates. Chandler is upset, but he tries to cover it up as well as he can. Suddenly, Joey cries out in pain again. Before anybody can really comment on this, however, Phoebe's doctor comes back in and informs everyone that Fonzie dated triplets. Chandler asks if this Fonzie person is another doctor, and Phoebe's doctor explains that he's talking about Fonzie from Happy Days. After he leaves, Phoebe demands that Ross finds her a different doctor.
Bakc in the waiting room, Chandler has met up with Monica, who says she has to tell him something. Chandler asks if it's about her dating the nurse and then goes on to pretend that he's fine. He says that he and Monica are "nothing, we're goofing around." Monica tells him that she was actually going to try to get out of it, but if she and Chandler are just "goofing around", then maybe she will go out with him after all. "Fine," Chander retorts, "maybe I will, too!" Before this conversation can continue, Joey returns from the gift shop with a bag full of stuff. Before he can show off his purchases, he doubles over in pain.
Meanwhile, in the delivery room, Ross has found Phoebe another doctor. He is very young, and Phoebe is more than a little doubtful about his medical skills. She sends him off (and, according to Frank, apparently makes the doctor cry).
In the meantime, Joey has been admitted to the hospital for kidney stones.
In the delivery room, the Fonzie-obsessed doctor, Dr. Harad, is back, and he's still talking about Fonzie. After he leaves, Phoebe confides to Rachel that she wants to keep one of the babies. Rachel tries to explain that Phoebe can't keep one of the babies, but Phoebe insists that Rachel ask for her.
Back in Joey's room, the doctor has told Joey that they can't break up the stones with shockwaves because they are now too close to the bladder. Joey decides to try to pass the kidney stones.
Meanwhile, in the delivery room, Rachel nearly causes a disaster when she remarks that she always liked Mork better than Fonzie. She quickly realizes her mistake and covers it up, and the doctor goes on his merry way. Monica and Chandler come in, and Rachel introduces Monica to the nurse, Dan, that she'll be going out. Monica then proceeds, after a very pointed glance at Chandler, to make exaggerated conversation with the nurse. Chandler suggests that being a nurse is girly, but Dan retorts that it's only so he can put himself through medical school, and it didn't feel so girly during the Gulf War. Chandler walks off, defeated, and tries to score a date with a random nurse walking by. (She rejects him without even breaking stride.) Suddenly, Phoebe cries out in pain as she has a "really big" contraction.
Meanwhile, Joey's in pain as well. Ross is trying to help him ("Breathe through the pain"), but it doesn't seem to be working. Tsk.
Back in the waiting room, Rachel attempts to ask Frank if Phoebe can keep one of the babies. She loses her her nerve, however, and backs down.
Later, in the delivery room, Phoebe is ready to have the babies. The doctor tells everyone that only the father is allowed in now, and the Friends kiss Phoebe goodbye and wish her luck.
Back in Joey's room, the doctor tells him it's time to try peeing.
In the delivery room, Phoebe is pushing. Dr. Harad announces that he ses the head. Frank is overjoyed. ("Yes! It has a head!") Finally, Dr. Harad holds the first baby in his hands.
In the waiting room, Monica, Chandler, and Rachel jump up as Frank runs in and announces, "We got a baby boy!"
Back in the delivery room, Phoebe gives birth to Leslie, the second baby. Frank repeats his triumphant shout in the waiting room. Finally, Phoebe gives birth to the final baby, Chandler. Who, it turns out, is a girl. Just after this, Alice arrives. She and Frank are overjoyed at the birth of their children.
Back in Joey's room, he is recovering. Ross tells him, "You did it, man." (Go Joey!)
In the meantime, Monica is talking to Dan in the hallway. Just after she wraps up their conversation, Chandler comes and asks if she's rally going to go out with "that nurse man". Monica answers that she figures that if she and Chandler are just "goofing around", maybe she'll just "goof around" with Dan. Chandler sits down and tells her that he'd really like it if they could see where this whole "goofing around" thing between the two of them goes. Monica agrees and heads off to cancel her date with Dan.
Later on, in the delivery room, everyone is cooing over the babies. Rachel enters and Phoebe asks if Rachel asked Frank and Alice about keepng a baby. Rachel tells her yes, she asked, and that the answer is no. Phoebe is disappointed, but she seems to recover, and she asks everyone to leave so she can be alone with the babies for a minute. Everyone does leave, and Phoebe tells the babies how much she'll miss them before she breaks down and cries.
Later, as the group sits with Phoebe, Chandler asks what they're going to call the third baby, since she turned out to be a girl. Phoebe reveals that they're still gonna call her Chandler.
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