The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One

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Friends season eight September 2001 - May 2002 List of Friends episodes

Episodes: The One After "I Do" The One with the Red Sweater The One Where Rachel Tells... The One with the Videotape The One with Rachel's Date The One with the Halloween Party The One with the Stain The One with the Stripper The One with the Rumor The One with Monica's Boots The One with Ross's Step Forward (a.k.a. The One With the Creepy Holiday Card) The One Where Joey Dates Rachel The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath The One with the Secret Closet The One with the Birthing Video The One Where Joey Tells Rachel The One with the Tea Leaves The One in Massapequa (a.k.a. The One With the Zesty Guy) The One with Joey's Interview The One with the Baby Shower The One with the Cooking Class The One Where Rachel is Late The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two

"The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One" is the twenty-third episode of the eighth season of Friends.

First aired: May 16, 2002

[edit] Plot

Rachel has just gone into labor. Ross is thrilled when he manages to get her to the hospital in seven minutes, but crushed when he finds out that all the others managed to make it there before them. Rachel is forced to go into a semi-private room, since all the private rooms are occupied.

The first couple to share the room are having their third child, and are determined to share every single moment of the experience, to Rachel and Ross's horror.

Ross's mother turns up at the hospital and gives him her mother's engagement ring, telling him to propose to Rachel before the birth. Ross tells the others about it, expecting them to be shocked, but they ask him why he isn't with Rachel.

The second couple constantly argue with each other, forcing Ross to close the curtain. The husband, however, peeks around the curtain to look at Rachel. When Ross tells him to stop looking, the wife starts on Ross. The third couple enter, and Rachel gets Ross to close the curtains after discovering that the woman has less painful contractions than she does. The fourth doesn't even make it into the room before she's wheeled off to the delivery room, and the fifth woman is Janice, complete with almost-entirely deaf husband Sid.

Monica decides to play a joke on Chandler for Phoebe, telling him that she wants to start a family right away. To her shock, Chandler agrees and tells her he wants to have children with her too. She resorts to telling Joey that she wants to have his baby instead, and gets the high-pitched reaction that she wanted.

Monica and Chandler start trying to have a baby in the hospital.

Phoebe meets a cute guy with a broken leg. She tracks down his room and enlists Joey to pretend to be Dr Drake Ramoray, so he can screen the guy (Clifford) for her.

[edit] Quotes

Ross: (his mother shows him an engagement ring) Ma, you're asking me to marry you?

Judy: Just think about it... If you don't, I'll talk more about humping.
Ross: Gimme that.

Phoebe: (about how she broke her leg) Let's just say there was a typographical error in a sex manual.

[edit] Additional Cast

Amanda Carlin - Dr. Long
Eddie McClintock - Clifford
Christina Pickles - Judy Geller
Maggie Wheeler - Janice Litman-Garelnick
Maurice Godin - Sid

Preceded by "The One Where Rachel is Late"

List of Friends episodes

Followed by "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two"