The One with the Baby Shower

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

Episodes:

  1. The One After "I Do"
  2. The One with the Red Sweater
  3. The One Where Rachel Tells...
  4. The One with the Videotape
  5. The One with Rachel's Date
  6. The One with the Halloween Party
  7. The One with the Stain
  8. The One with the Stripper
  9. The One with the Rumor
  10. The One with Monica's Boots
  11. The One with Ross's Step Forward (a.k.a. The One With the Creepy Holiday Card)
  12. The One Where Joey Dates Rachel
  13. The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath
  14. The One with the Secret Closet
  15. The One with the Birthing Video
  16. The One Where Joey Tells Rachel
  17. The One with the Tea Leaves
  18. The One in Massapequa (a.k.a. The One With the Zesty Guy)
  19. The One with Joey's Interview
  20. The One with the Baby Shower
  21. The One with the Cooking Class
  22. The One Where Rachel is Late
  23. The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One
  24. The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two

"The One With the Baby Shower" is the twentieth episode of the eighth season of Friends.

First aired: April 25, 2002

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

During this episode Rachel's baby shower is thrown. It starts off with Monica calling Rachel's mom to invite her, because Phoebe has previously forgotten. Throughout the baby shower, Rachel's mom is mad at Monica, and Monica keeps trying to suck up to her.

A fun side of this episode is Ross and Chandler helping Joey prepare for an audition to host the new game show, "Bamboozled!" Ross and Chandler are the contestants. Ross enjoys it at first, while Chandler thinks it's dumb because of the "Wicked Wango Cards," "Google Cards," and the "Wheel of Mayhem"(all of which he is unfamiliar with). Chandler gets into the game when a card comes up that gives him all of Ross' points. They continue to play until Chandler pulls a card that Bamboozles him , and Chandler yells, "This is the best game ever!" Unfortunately, Joey gets to the audition and finds out that the format they've been practising has been pulled since it is too complicated.

During the baby shower, Rachel's mom offers to live with her and Ross for the first eight weeks after the baby is born. Rachel claims that she can take care of it, but changes her mind when she does not know what any of her baby shower gifts do. Ross later talks Rachel's mom out of moving in with them by telling her that he has another son and knows how to take care of babies.

Rachel and Ross play Bamboozled in an attempt to prepare Rachel for motherhood - unfortunately, she gets the Bamboozle card and he informs her that she's going to be a terrible mother.

[edit] Quotes

Joey: I've got an audition for the part of a gameshow host, and if I get it, by day I'll be Dr. Drake Ramoray, but by night I'll be (adopts 'gameshow host' voice) Joey Tribbiani.
Chandler: You'd be perfect for this; that's already your name!

Chandler: I'm a headhunter. I hook up rogue third world nations with out-of-work Soviet scientists. Hi, Rasputin!

[edit] Additional Cast

Sandra Green-Marlo Thomas


Preceded by
"The One with Joey's Interview"		 List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One with the Cooking Class"
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