Ross inadvertently injures a young girl who was selling cookies to secure a spot at space camp. Feeling guilty, he attempts to sell 400 boxes of cookies on her behalf to help her win the competition. Meanwhile, Rachel struggles with her waitressing duties, and Gunther offers to retrain her, but she is uninterested in improving at a job she despises. Ultimately, Rachel decides to quit her position at Central Perk. Additionally, Phoebe is heartbroken by the sight of Christmas trees being cut down. Subsequently, Rachel secures a new job.
Did you know?!
- In the beginning of the episode Ross is telling Chandler how to play tennis. In reality, Matthew Perry was a top-ranked junior tennis player.
- In this episode we find out Rachel is 28. Yet she turns 30 four years later in season 7.
- Terry, the owner of Central Perk, is mentioned here for the last time. His last appearance was in The One with the Baby on the Bus (1995).
- The old woman who berates Ross through her door is voiced by Sandra Gould, who starred as Samantha’s (Elizabeth Montgomery) long-suffering, nosey neighbor Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched (1964).
- This episode takes place in Dec 1996, and the price of each box of cookies the little girl sells costs $5, which as of Oct 2021 equals $8.72. In 1996-1997, Girl Scout cookies cost on average about $2.75
- Rachel quits her job at Central Perk. This is the last time she is seen working there.
- Chandler tells Joey to, “Run Joey, Run!”. Referencing the song Run Joey, Run by David Geddes.
- Unofficially, this is also known as “The One with the Christmas Trees” and/or “The One with the Cookies”.
- The Brown Birds are a spoof of Girl Scouts. The Mint treasure cookies Monica is addicted to are thin mints.
- When Mae Whitman was in the series ‘Good Girls’ her character Annie Marks said she was once a Brown Bird.
- The fictional “Brown Birds” first appeared in this episode of Friends, when Ross injures a Brown Bird (Mae Whitman) and then sells cookies for her. The “Brown Birds” would make a later appearance on the series Community (2010), The Art of Discourse, Season One, episode 22, when Chang (Ken Jeong) steals cookies from two Brown Birds and offers some at a markup to Pierce (Chevy Chase)
