The One with Rachel's New Dress
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"The One With Rachel's New Dress" is the eighteenth episode of season four of the television situation comedy Friends.
[edit] Plot
In the teaser of the episode, Phoebe Buffay premieres a prototype of her famous song Smelly Cat. She is then informed by Alice Buffay, the biological mother of the triplets Phoebe is surrogate mothering, that she will be allowed to name the third child. This leads to a competition between Joey and Chandler over whom she should name the child after. Joey wins when he points out that "Chandler" is a stupid name, but this causes Chandler to forsake his first name, announcing that, from now on, he will simply be known as Chandler "Bing." In lack of a better first name, he suggests he be referred to "Clint", but is quickly demoted to "Gene" (Joey: "No way are you cool enough to pull off Clint"). Finally, he decides to change his name (to either "John Markson" or "Mark Johnson"), but Phoebe says she'll name the baby Chandler if Chandler names himself that too. Chandler, victorious, agrees.
Rachel is staging a fantastic dinner (which "she cooked herself") as a prelude to sleeping with Joshua for the first time. The proceedings, however, are interrupted when the chick and the duck wander over (they still think of Chandler and Joey's apartment as home) and Joshua turns out to have a bizarre aversion to farm poultry. Instead, he invites her over to his parents' house, as they are out of town. They decide to skip dinner and move on to the main course, but are interrupted when Mr. and Mrs. Bergin come home early ("France sucks!"). Rachel, unaware, deploys herself seductively across a couch wearing nothing but a skimpy nightgown. She defends it to the Bergins as an experiment in fashion and ends up having to go out to dinner in it, leading to a wardrobe malfunction when a waiter spills water down her back ("Oh, no!" Monica gasps. "No, it's all right, I've got nice boobs," Rachel says).
Ross, taking custody of his son Ben, introduces Emily to his ex-wife Carol and her partner Susan. Susan will be visiting London on business, and Emily offers to show her around; the two bond immediately, leading Ross into a paranoid suspicion that Susan is about to "subvert" yet another of the women in his life (Ross never quite liked Susan anyway). He manages to infect Carol with the idea, and the two have an agitated wait at the airport but are rewarded when their respective beloveds hurtle into their respective arms.
[edit] Additional cast
| Emily | – | Helen Baxendale |
| Frank Buffay Jr. | – | Giovanni Ribisi |
| Alice Knight Buffay | – | Debra Jo Rupp |
| Joshua | – | Tate Donovan |
| Carol | – | Jane Sibbett |
| Susan Bunch-Willick | – | Jessica Hecht |
| Mr. Bergin | – | John Bennett Perry |
| Mrs. Bergin | – | Pat Crowley |
[edit] Trivia
- John Bennett Perry, who plays Mr. Bergin, is the real-life father of Matthew Perry.
- The message on the Magna Doodle says "WORK" in a prohibitory sign.
| Preceded by: The One With The Free Porn |
List of Friends episodes | Followed by: The One With All the Haste |
