- The gang make their New Years resolutions. Chandler struggles to not make jokes about everyone. Joey learns how to learn to play the guitar and Rachel decides not to gossip. Ross runs into trouble when he wears leather pants on a date.
- The gang tries to keep their New Years resolutions. Phoebe teaches Joey how to play guitar, Ross wears leather pants on a date, Chandler tries to make a week without making fun of each other, and Rachel tries to stop gossiping. But all of these New Years resolutions will be hard to keep, especially for Rachel.
- It's New Year's Eve and the friends discuss their resolutions. Ross' resolution is to be happy in 1999 and to do something he hasn't done before every single day. Joey wants to learn how to play guitar to actually have one special skill he lists on his resume. Rachel's resolution is to stop gossiping. Chandler won't make fun of his friends for a whole year. Monica wants to take more pictures of the group. Phoebe's method to teach how to play the guitar is very weird and Joey finds a qualified teacher. Rachel finds out that Monica is secretly seeing Chandler. Ross has a little trouble with his new leather pants while he has a date. Joey and Rachel talk about Monica and Chandler.—Anonymous
- At new year, Chandler wants to kiss Monica, but nobody is kissing anyone else.. So Joey fixes it by arranging for Ross to kiss Phoebe and himself to kiss Rachel. The gang make New Year resolutions: Rachel promises to stop gossiping; Monica tries to take more pictures of the group and be less fastidious; Phoebe wants to pilot a commercial aircraft; Joey wants to learn the guitar (he wants one of the special skills on his resume to be true); Chandler must stop making jokes of their friends; and Ross wants to try something new each day (plus no divorces in 1999).
Phoebe's attempt to teach Joey the guitar ends badly. Phoebe doesn't allow Joey to touch the guitar. Phoebe doesn't know the actual names of the chords, so she has made names based on the way her hand looks when she plays them.. she teaches those made up names to Joey. Phoebe gets really mad at Joey when she finds that he went to a guitar store and touched strings. She starts yelling at Joey after she finds that Joey has been studying the real names of the chords and is questioning her methods. Joey calls Phoebe's methods stupid and finds a real guitar teacher in the yellow pages. Later, Joey apologizes to Phoebe and asks her to be his teacher again. Phoebe agrees and gives him her guitar to play. But Joey pushes at it too hard while playing and the guitar falls to the ground, angering Phoebe. Joey didn't even get the chord right.
Ross encounters a problems when he wears a new pair of leather pants (thats his new thing for the day) on a first date. Ross starts burning up when he is wearing the pants at his date's home. He goes to the bathroom and takes them off to cool himself, but the pants wont go back on. Ross calls Joey who advises him to throw on some powder and when that wont work, to throw on some cream as well. The powder and the cream makes a weird goo, and Ross still cant get the pants back on.. eventually, he has to exit the bathroom with the pants in his hands and returns home. The gang cheers Ross up by showing him how Ben drew a pic of Ross as a cowboy because of his leather pants.
Ross bets Chandler that he cant go a week without making fun of anyone. Ross asks out a nice girl whose name is Elizabeth Hornswoggle (Sarah Rose Peterson) and its killing Chandler not make fun of her name. Chandler is dying to comment on Phoebe way of teaching guitar to Joey. And that Ross is wearing leather pants to his first date. Finally Chandler pays $50 to Ross for losing the bet. he tells Phoebe to get a spaceship to get back to her home planet (instead of a jet). Tom Jones wants his pants back from Ross. Hornswoggle is a character from Fraggle Rock.
Rachel receives a shock when she picks up the phone and overhears a conversation between Monica and Chandler. She cant gossip about them, but is super-excited to share this news with someone. She goes to Joey, but he refuses to hear any gossip. When Chandler and Monica make an excuse to be alone in Chandler's room again, Rachel asks Joey to go in there and get her book back. Joey now knows that Rachel knows, but tells her not to tell anyone else as they are so weird about that.
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