The One Where Rachel Finds Out
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"The One Where Rachel Finds Out" is the twenty-fourth episode of season one of the television situation comedy Friends.
[edit] Plot
Joey participates in a fertility study at NYU. Part of the study requires that he abstain from sex for two weeks, impacting his relationship with new girlfriend Melanie (co-owner of a fruit basket company). The gang holds a barbecue to celebrate Rachel's birthday; Ross finds out he has to go to China at the last minute for an important paleontology find. He drops off a present for Rachel before he leaves.
While opening her presents (Chandler got her Travel Scrabble; Joey got her a Dr. Seuss book), Rachel finds Ross gave her a cameo pin she'd admired several months ago. Chandler lets it slip that Ross is in love with her. Rachel spends the next few days deciding what to do; finally, she decides to give their relationship a chance and greet him at the airport. Unbeknownst to her, Ross has started dating another woman while in China.
Somewhat ironically, after Rachel finds out about Ross, Phoebe remarks Our lives will never be the same again, as something of sarcasm, but the Rachel/Ross relationship does change the six friends' lives thereafter.
[edit] Trivia
- The book that Joey got Rachel is Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss.
| Preceded by "The One with the Birth" |
List of Friends episodes | Followed by "The One with Ross's New Girlfriend" |
