The One with the Home Study

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Friends season ten (the final season) September 2003 - May 2004 List of Friends episodes
Episodes: The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss The One Where Ross is Fine The One with Ross's Tan The One with the Cake The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits The One with Ross's Grant The One with the Home Study The One with the Late Thanksgiving The One with the Birth Mother The One Where Chandler Gets Caught The One Where the Stripper Cries The One with Phoebe's Wedding The One Where Joey Speaks French The One with Princess Consuela The One Where Estelle Dies The One with Rachel's Going Away Party (a.k.a. The One Where Rachel Goes To Paris) The Last One, Part One The Last One, Part Two

"The One With The Home Study" is the
seventh episode of season ten of the
television situation comedy Friends.

First aired: November 13, 2003.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Phoebe and Mike, stunned by the expenses involved with a wedding, decide they'll get married in City Hall and give the money to charity. Once they donate it, Phoebe changes her mind and they ask for it back. But Phoebe is still unsure. The adoption agency sends a woman (Laura) to evaluate Chandler and Monica and their home. They want everything to go perfectly, so when it turns out that Laura had a bad dating experience with Joey, they pretend not to know him. Joey manages to turn the situation around and make Laura think she wronged him. Rachel freaks out when Ross wants to take Emma to the playground, due to her childhood hair-related playgound accident. Ross convinces her it will be okay, so they all go together. Ross gets kicked in the head by a kid on the swings.

Joey breaks into Chandler and Monica's apartment where, despite the Bings' best efforts, is spotted by Laura. Joey convinces Laura that it was indeed her fault for what happened (Joey never called her, but claimed that she never called him) and Laura gives Chandler and Monica a great report and they are put on the waiting list for adoptable babies. Phoebe feels guilty for taking the money back and returns with Mike to the charity, where the receptionist, who Phoebe called a "sweaty little man," tells them that they no longer want the money. Phoebe and Mike decide to have a wedding and plan to raise more money later to give to the charity. Rachel bargains with Ross that if he holds a spider, she'll try swinging again, only to accidently kick Ross in the head again when he freaks out after the spider gets onto his neck.