- Monica becomes infatuated with a friend of her parents when she caters a party for him. Ross and Rachel go on their first date. Joey and Chandler refuse to move when they get a new TV and two armchairs.
- Joey buys two armchairs and a big screen TV and they never want to get up from the armchairs again. Ross and Rachel have their first official date and sleep together at Ross's museum. Monica is dating a friend of her parents who is 21 years older than her.—Anonymous
- Joey buys a big screen TV and two leather recliners with his soap opera salary, turning him and Chandler into "couch potatoes" who spend days watching TV and never getting out of the chairs. Phoebe is disappointed that 2 cows made the ultimate sacrifice so that 2 guys can watch TV with their feet up. They order food from the couch (using their cordless phone) and make the deliver it to Monica's apartment, so she gives it to them in their recliners and they don't even have to get up. Gradually, they have been in the recliners for many many hrs at a stretch and are getting entertained by ads and programs of lesser and lesser intelligence and sophistication. Slowly they have speech impediment and struggle to even complete sentences. eventually, it degrades to a point where Joey and Chandler are smiling at idiotic characters doing nothing but laughing at each other in the TV..
Monica has a catering job for handsome Dr. Richard Burke (Tom Selleck), an ophthalmologist, who is an old family friend. Phoebe offers to waitress as Rachel has a date with Ross. Richard has recently split up with his wife. He and Monica are mutually smitten (which Phoebe notices and encourages Monica). Monica goes for an eye check-up to Richard's office and when the lights are dimmed, she tries to kiss him. They later go on a date. When Ross finds out, he freaks out. Richard is like a brother to Jack Geller, but the girls say they all find him sexy. Monica finds that Richard's daughters are having babies and doubts what she is even doing in the relationship. She once peed in Richard's pool. They decide its not a good idea, but then end up kissing each other passionately.
Ross and Rachel attempt to have their first real date, though Rachel has difficulty adapting to their new romantic relationship, breaking into giggles at inappropriate times (later that night, Monica is out for the catering job and Ross + Rachel have the apartment all to themselves). Rachel giggles every-time Ross tries to kiss her, or puts his hands on her butt. Rachel is worries that they are crossing a line from being friends into something much more serious. But now Ross gets too self conscious and backs out. Just before their next date (when Rachel has planned a special dinner and wine, and dessert back at her apartment), Ross has a museum emergency, so Rachel tags along. They spend the night in a museum exhibit (after Ross seduces Rachel in the planetarium (Rachel is very supportive of Ross's career and says he is worth the wait).. They start kissing and Rachel thinks that ROss ejaculated prematurely, only for Ross to correct her that she rolled over her grape juice), waking up nude and under an animal skin, to visitors (mostly children) gawking at them.
The episode introduces Tom Selleck in a recurring guest role that led to an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2000.
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