- Joey takes Rachel to dinner on a pretend date to practice his dating skills but soon develops romantic feelings for her; gang addicted to Ms. Pac-Man. Ross is assigned to teach a new class but the travel time becomes too difficult for him.
- Phoebe gives Chandler and Monica a late wedding present: the game Ms Pac-Man. Chandler plays it all day long to be better than Monica and Phoebe. Rachel misses dressing up for romantic dates so Joey promises to take her out. They have a wonderfully romantic date pretending they're not roommates and they get to know each other a whole new level. Monica and Phoebe have to try to beat Chandler's top scores because Ben is coming over to play and Chandler put dirty words as names for the top scores. Joey has a crush on Rachel and feels weird about it.—Anonymous
- Phoebe gives Chandler and Monica a late wedding present: the game Ms. Pac-Man. Monica is super excited as this was her 2nd favorite arcade game, as she was growing up (the 1st favorite was a vending machine). Phoebe ends up hogging the game and Monica gets frustrated as she doesn't get to play. She asks Chandler for help to get Phoebe away from the game, but he won't because he's mad that he sucks at the game. Chandler plays it all day long to be better than Monica and Phoebe. He plays it so much that his hand freezes in a claw shape. When Monica gets home she sees that all the initials Chandler has entered in the high scores are dirty words. Ben is coming over soon to play the game, so Monica and Phoebe have to play and beat all of the high scores to erase the inappropriate initials. Phoebe ends up losing right as Ben walks through the door, yelling and swearing as Ross covers Ben's ears to avoid him from hearing.
When Joey mentions an upcoming date he's excited for, Rachel muses that she misses dressing up for romantic dates (and jazz music, dancing or walks in the park) so Joey promises to take her out. He picks her up and brings her flowers, says no roommate talk (like rent and stuff), and they share what their secret moves are when they go on dates. Joey gets a bottle of wine sent to him by a fan, to impress his dates. He then uses romantic lines to get girls to lean in and kiss them. Rachel uses general chit chat, to get the guys talking and then leans in to stoke their hands and feel their arms. Joey puts on a shiny lip balm to make his lips look irresistible.
They end up having a great time together and Joey starts to feel like he is developing a crush on her. This freaks Joey out to the point where he feels no connection on the date he was excited for, especially as she proves herself to be much more shallow than Rachel. Rachel seems to have no clue, as she absolutely does not feel the same at all. But Joey is visibly disturbed by these new feelings, which intensify when Rachel asks him to sit with her and hold her while watching the horror movie Cujo.
Ross is excited to begin teaching an advanced paleontology class alongside his regular one, however he learns just as his first class is ending that the advanced class is taught in a building across town. With the class just ten minutes away, Ross runs to make it but barely gets there before it finishes. Next time, he wears sneakers to work, bolts from his first class early and tries out a new route (one that apparently carries the risk of being hit by cars) and makes it, but is so exhausted he quickly collapses. Eventually, Ross finds a way to make it to the advanced class easily and in plenty of time; by wearing roller blades.
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