The One with the Cake

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Friends season ten (the final season)
September 2003 - May 2004
List of Friends episodes

Episodes:

  1. The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss
  2. The One Where Ross is Fine
  3. The One with Ross's Tan
  4. The One with the Cake
  5. The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits
  6. The One with Ross's Grant
  7. The One with the Home Study
  8. The One with the Late Thanksgiving
  9. The One with the Birth Mother
  10. The One Where Chandler Gets Caught
  11. The One Where the Stripper Cries
  12. The One with Phoebe's Wedding
  13. The One Where Joey Speaks French
  14. The One with Princess Consuela
  15. The One Where Estelle Dies
  16. The One with Rachel's Going Away Party (a.k.a. The One Where Rachel Goes To Paris)
  17. The Last One, Part One
  18. The Last One, Part Two

"The One with the Cake" is the fourth episode of season ten of the television sitcom Friends.

First aired: October 23, 2003

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

It's Emma's first birthday, so Rachel and Ross are adamant that the rest of the group are there for it. Chandler and Monica complain because they wanted to go on a weekend in the mountains, where Chandler wanted to do something with Monica he read about in Maxim. On Emma's birthday all turn up, some more reluctantly than others, and are annoyed to find that Emma is still asleep and Rachel won't wake her up. Ross and Rachel decide to do a video diary of the day, interviewing everyone, and Joey even starts hitting on the viewers-to-be when they show it to Emma aged 18. During Chandler's speech he says, "Hi Emma. It's the year 2020. Are you still enjoying your nap?" Joey didn't know that he had to get Emma a present, so decides to perform a dramatic reading of one of her books, inspired by Phoebe who wrote a song. Joey gives his reading and makes Rachel cry with emotion, followed by Phoebe who sings - "Emma, your name poses quite a dilemma, cos' nothing much rhymes with Emma, except Richard Crenna, he plays the commanding officer in Rambo! Happy Birthday, Emma!" After just getting blank looks from everyone, she decides to also do a dramatic reading, picks up a book, and starts - "Finding your G-Spot...." Rachel gets out Emma's cake and finds out that rather than a bunny cake with Emma's face on, they've made her a penis shaped cake with Emma's face on it. Rachel and Ross drive out to the bakery to get a new one, after making sure that no one leaves. But once they've gone, Joey lets Monica's parents go because Jack fought for the country, but won't let anyone else go - Monica and Chandler want to go to Vermont, Phoebe has a massage client waiting, and Joey realises he had an audition to go to. So they decide to race Emma's wind-up toys to decide who stays with Emma. Ross manages to convert the penis cake into a bunny by splitting the shaft and using the testicles as cheeks. When they all get together at the end Joey exclaims how he liked the look of the cake more when it was a penis.

[edit] Trivia

  • This is the last episode that Estelle Leonard, Joey's agent, is shown (She's being announced as dead in episode 15 of this season).
  • The book Joey reads is Love you forever.
Spoilers end here.

[edit] Guest appearances


Preceded by
"The One with Ross's Tan"
List of Friends episodes Followed by
"The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits"