After Rachel’s department at Bloomingdale’s is abolished, she secures a new position as a personal shopper for high-profile clients. One of her clients, Joshua Bergen, piques her interest, prompting her to orchestrate a second meeting by claiming he lost his wallet. Despite Joey’s well-intentioned but misguided suggestion to offer Joshua Knicks tickets, her plan doesn’t succeed as she hoped. Meanwhile, Chandler becomes increasingly jealous, suspecting that his girlfriend, Kathy, is becoming too close to her acting partner. This tension leads to their breakup, and once Chandler sobers up, he is devastated and realizes he never truly understood her. Meanwhile, Monica, longing to host again after the boys moved into the larger apartment, decides to enhance their smaller space. She dedicates two days to the project, working non-stop, but is so exhausted that she falls asleep on the couch.
Did you know ?
• The first episode in which Joey used his trademark line “How you doin’”.
• Tate Donovan (Joshua) and Jennifer Aniston (Rachel) were engaged in real life from 1995 to 1996.
• The Magna-Doodle reads “Have you seen our VIEW??”
• When the gang is in the coffee shop, they talk about celebrities who fell in love while starring together in movies. In real life, Courteney Cox (who plays Monica) fell in love with actor David Arquette while starring in the Scream movies, and they even got married later on (though they would later divorce). In fact, all of the celebrity couples mentioned are now divorced.
• The pregnancy book Phoebe is reading in the coffee house is, “What to expect when you’re expecting”
• Last appearance of Paget Brewster as Kathy. Kathy is Chandler’s last serious girlfriend before getting together with Monica at the end of the season.
• On the wall in the lobby of the theater where Kathy is performing is a poster for a fictional show called “The Milkman Is Coming.” It’s a reference to the old milkman/postman jokes where the wife is having an affair. This foreshadows Kathy’s affair with her co-star, Nick.
• In the coffee house, Ross and Joey are discussing celebrity couples when Joey talks about Susan Sarandon. Susan Sarandon would appear a few seasons later as Jessica Lockhart, an actor Joey ends up replacing in “Days of Our Lives.”
• In the coffee house, Ross, Joey and Phoebe are discussing celebrity couples. They mention Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin. Later on the show both would appear for a few episodes as “Jessica Lockhart” (Susan Sarandon) a love interest of Joey and “Parker” (Alec Baldwin) a love interest of Phoebe.
