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
Phoebe Buffay is informed by Alice Buffay, the biological mother of the triplets Phoebe is surrogate mothering, that she will be allowed to name the third child. She decides to name the kid either Joey or Chandler leading to a competition between Joey and Chandler. Joey wins when he points out that "Chandler" is a stupid name and there are no famous 'Chandler's. An extremely disappointed Chandler decides to forsake his first name and announces that from now on he will simply be known as Chandler "Bing." Then, he decides even that is a stupid horrible name, and decides he has no name. But later he suggests he be referred to as "Clint", but is quickly demoted to "Gene" since Joey says "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 retains his old name. Later Chandler reveals to Joey he was making up all that drama just to achieve this result.
Rachel is staging a fantastic dinner (which "she cooked herself" but was actually Monica's handiwork) as a prelude to sleeping with Joshua for the first time. The proceedings are interrupted when the chick and the duck wander over (they still think of Chandler and Joey's apartment as home) and Joshua has an aversion to farm poultry. 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" when they are interrupted by Mr. and Mrs. Bergin who have come home early. Rachel had deployed herself seductively across a couch wearing nothing but a skimpy nightgown. Then, she defends it to the Bergins as an experiment in fashion and ends up having to go out to dinner in it. This leads 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. 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.
- Chandler decides he will have no name and be referred to as "Clint", this is a reference to The Man With No Name from the Clint Eastwood "Dollars Trilogy."
| Preceded by "The One With The Free Porn" |
List of Friends episodes | Followed by "The One With All the Haste" |
