- Rachel waits for Ross at the airport, unaware he has a new girlfriend. Meanwhile, Chandler has a frightening experience with Joey's tailor, and Phoebe gives Monica a bad haircut.
- Rachel surprises Ross at the airport on his return from China, but he has brought a new girlfriend. Chandler feels guilty for having advised him to forget Rachel, who in turn rebounds - to the others' astonishment - to the infamous Paolo. When Monica convinces Phoebe to cut her hair after her good job on the boys, she's horrified to get the haircut of an entirely wrong movie star named Moore. Meanwhile, Joey's family tailor proves a bad recommendation to Chandler, who is not gullible enough to believe taking measurements for trousers requires taking the tape up each leg and the rear with intimate manual contact at groin height.—KGF Vissers
- While Ross is in China, Chandler lets Rachel know that Ross is in love with her. Rachel goes to meet Ross at the airport when he gets back, but Ross found a girlfriend (Julie) in China. Rachel is mad at Chandler for telling her about Ross loving her. Ross tells Chandler he let go of Rachel because Chandler told him it would never happen. Ross and Julie have a great time together, and it's killing Rachel. Monica and Julie get along. Phoebe gives Monica an atrocious haircut. Rachel tells Ross that she isn't back together with Paolo.—Anonymous
- Continuing where the last episode left off, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) goes to the airport to greet Ross as he returns from China and tell him she would like to give their relationship a chance. However, she sees Ross (David Schwimmer) arrive with his new girlfriend, paleontologist and former graduate school classmate Julie (Lauren Tom). Rachel tries to run, but Ross sees her and introduces her to Julie.
Chandler (Matthew Perry), feeling guilty for both telling Ross to move on from Rachel and letting slip to her Ross's feelings for her, talks with Ross to get an explanation of how everything happened (Julie was in charge of the dig in China, when Ross landed there and that's how they met) and how it is going with Julie. Ross tells Chandler that it was him who encouraged Ross to move on from Rachel.
Chandler's talk with Ross fails to console Rachel, as Ross confirms that he is having a great time with Julie. Everyone soon tires of Ross and Julie's displays of affection - including Rachel, who has a one-night stand with old flame Paolo (Cosimo Fusco) in order to try and get over it.
Rachel finally tells Ross that she and Paolo are not getting back together and that it was a mistake (after Joey convinces her that he has been in love with Rachel for 10 yrs), and is about to confess her feelings for him. But after Ross gets his feelings for Paolo, specifically that he is "scum", off his chest, he tells Rachel he thinks she should be with someone who considers himself lucky to have her - like he is with Julie. When she hears this, Rachel has nothing more to say to him, realizing that Ross is truly happy with Julie.
Chandler needs a pair of pants altered, so Joey (Matt LeBlanc) sends him to the Tribbiani family tailor Frankie . All is fine - until the tailor measures Chandler's inseam while cupping the testicles. Chandler comes back angry and blames Joey for the fiasco. Joey still thinks that is how tailors do inseams, until Ross and Chandler convince him about the real intentions of the tailor. Joey realizes and is found calling all his relatives about the problem.
Meanwhile, Monica (Courteney Cox) wants Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) to give her a new haircut, since she did such a great job with Joey's and Chandler's haircuts. Phoebe, aware of Monica's specific preferences, declines at first but eventually relents (by getting Monica to promise that she wont be all controlling and bossy about it). Monica requests that Phoebe cut her hair like Demi Moore; Phoebe gets confused and cuts her hair like Dudley Moore. Monica is very upset and the rest of the gang try hard to console her. Only Ross is allowed to see her as his hair looks bad.. In the tag scene, Julie asks Phoebe to cut her hair for her like Andie MacDowell. When she asks Rachel for advice on how to cut it, Rachel gets her revenge on Julie by describing Andie MacDowell as "the guy from Planet Of The Apes".
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