The One Where Rachel Finds Out

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Friends season one
September 1994 - May 1995
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The Pilot
  2. The One with the Sonogram at the End
  3. The One with the Thumb
  4. The One with George Stephanopoulos
  5. The One with the East German Laundry Detergent
  6. The One with the Butt
  7. The One with the Blackout
  8. The One Where Nana Dies Twice
  9. The One Where Underdog Gets Away
  10. The One with the Monkey
  11. The One with Mrs. Bing
  12. The One with the Dozen Lasagnas
  13. The One with the Boobies
  14. The One with the Candy Hearts
  15. The One with the Stoned Guy
  16. The One with Two Parts, Part One
  17. The One with Two Parts, Part Two
  18. The One with all the Poker
  19. The One Where the Monkey Gets Away
  20. The One with the Evil Orthodontist
  21. The One with the Fake Monica
  22. The One with the Ick Factor
  23. The One with the Birth
  24. The One Where Rachel Finds Out

"The One Where Rachel Finds Out" is the twenty-fourth episode of season one of the television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: May 18, 1995

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.

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Preceded by
"The One with the Birth"
List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One with Ross's New Girlfriend"
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