The One With The Triplets: The gang arrives at the hospital for Phoebe’s labor. Joey makes a video documentary of the occasion, until he is beset with pain; what is thought to be sympathy pains turns out to be kidney stones. Phoebe’s doctor is obsessed with Fonzie, but Ross’s attempts to find a more satisfactory doctor only yield a very young looking resident whom Phoebe won’t accept. Rachel tries to set Monica and herself up with two male nurses, which causes problems between Monica and Chandler. Joey can make everything (even grandma’s chicken salad) sound dirty. Phoebe wants to keep one of the babies and manipulates Rachel into asking for her. Instead of two boys and a girl, Phoebe has two girls and a boy. Joey passes three kidney stones.

The One With The Yeti: Joey continues to keep Monica and Chandler’s secret, although he’s not to happy about keeping quite. Phoebe receives a mink coat as a family heirloom; since she’s against using fur, she plans to cremate it… until she sees herself wearing it in the mirror. Ross sells all his stuff and moves to a new apartment because Emily wants them to have a fresh start at a new life. Emily’s demands get to be a little too much for Ross, and he tells her she’s either got to trust him or their marriage won’t work. Emily decides she can’t trust Ross. Rachel and Monica are frightened by a hairy man in a dark storage room; the “Yeti” turns out to be Danny, a new tenent in the building. Rachel and Danny don’t seem to get along but end up going out for pizza together. Ugly Naked Guy is back.

The One With Ross’s Sandwich: Joey lets himself look bad in order to explain away various discoveries that could expose Monica’s and Chandler’s relationship: underwear in Monica’s sofa; a lady’s razor in his shower; candlelight and videotape; a nude polaroid. He threatens to tell everyone the truth unless Chandler and Monica can come up with a story that makes him look good. They don’t come through, so Joey creates a new lie: he slept with Monica in London and she’s been after him ever since. Phoebe takes a literature class; Rachel decides to come with her, but doesn’t bother to read the books. After Rachel steals her ideas in the first class, Phoebe feeds Rachel misinformation about the second book. Ross has a problem with rage after someone at work steals his Thanksgiving-leftovers sandwich. After scaring his co-workers, yelling at his boss, and getting upset at a psychiatrist, he gets put on tranquilizers.

The One With Chandler’s Work Laugh: Rachel tries to learn more about Chandler and Monica’s relationship; when Rachel confronts her, Monica makes up some pretty lame lies to cover it up. Ross finds out Emily is engaged to be married again; he goes out on the town and somehow hooks up with Janice. Their relationship starts out great, but soon Janice can’t stand Ross’s constant whining and she breaks it off. Chandler takes Monica to a work party, as well as some outings with Chandler’s boss and his wife; Monica learns that ‘Work Chandler’ is a suck-up with an exaggerated laugh. Phoebe and Joey race birds.

The One Where Everybody Finds Out: Ugly Naked Guy puts stuff in boxes (prepares to move), and sublets his apartment. Ross applies, but competition for the place is fierce, so when a bribe doesn’t seal the deal, Ross decides to cultivate and exploit a common interest–nakedness. Phoebe, while looking at Ross’ potential new apartment with Rachel, looks out the window and sees Chandler and Monica “doing it.” Phoebe and Rachel decide to use their knowledge of this romance to play some practical jokes on Monica and Chandler–jokes which include Phoebe making passes at Chandler. Monica realizes they must know, so she and Chandler play along, and each side tries to see who will crack first. Now everybody knows, except Ross. …Until he gets the apartment, looks out the window, and suddenly has a return of his rage problem.

The One With The Cop: Joey has a dream that Monica is his girlfriend; Monica tells him it just means he wants a relationship with the closeness that he sees between herself and Chandler. She suggests he try being friends with a woman before being intimate. After hitting on Rachel (unsuccessfully), Joey tries to make friends with new women; but they find his “friends first” approach so enticing that they want the intimacy immediately. Phoebe finds a police badge under a cushion at the coffee house. She plans to return it but has too much fun pretending to be a cop… until she pulls it on the actual owner of the badge. She drops the badge and runs away; he tracks her down and asks her on a date. Ross buys a new sofa (couch), but can’t get it up the stairs to his apartment.

The One Where Ross Can’t Flirt: Monica and Chandler are going out for their ten-month anniversary; Chandler wants Monica to wear the earings he gave her. However, she lent them to Phoebe, who lent them to Rachel, who lost one. Ross sees Chandler flirting with the pizza girl (Caitlin) and decides he’s going to turn on the charm as well, with disasterous results. Joey has a part on Law and Order; his grandmother comes over to watch the show, but his part has been cut. Joey quickly improvises a scene on video tape and slips it into the VCR.

The One In Vegas, Part 1: Monica runs into Richard but doesn’t want Chandler to know, because it might spoil their anniversary. As an gift for Chandler, she gets them tickets to Las Vegas. Phoebe invites herself, Ross, and Rachel along as well. Phoebe compares everything about the trip to the London trip she missed last year. Ross and Rachel have to work, so they plan to come a day later. On the plane, Phoebe lets slip about Richard; Chandler tells Monica he’s okay with it; later, in Vegas, they end up fighting over it. Meanwhile, Rachel (being alone in her apartment) decides to go around naked. Ross sees her from his apartment and thinks she’s coming on to him. He goes over and makes an embarrassing scene. Rachel teases him about it the next day on their flight, so they both start doing their best to embarrass each other… a contest which is topped off by Ross drawing a mustache on a sleeping Rachel. Joey admits to his friends that his film’s been shut down; he decides to play Black Jack to turn a $100 tip into enough money to finish the movie. He loses, but discovers something much more valuable (to him, at least): His identical hand twin. Monica, on her way to apologize to Chandler, finds a chip on the floor and places a bet at a craps table… and starts a winning streak. Chandler sees her celebrating and hugging the person next to her… and he walks out.

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