Plot

The gang heads down to Barbados for the palaeontology conference.

To the other friends' fury, it keeps raining except during Ross's speech, which to their amazement is a big hit with the paleontologists. Joey's scientific ignorance decides Charlie to turn her favor to Ross, then they must flee the other academics who intend by tradition to throw the key note-speaker into the pool. Chandler and Phoebe knew better, but Mike accepts to play table tennis against ever-obsessive fluffy monster Monica; when she gets injured, Chandler jumps in and crushes Mike. Rachel can't hide her feelings for Joey anymore, so when he sees Ross and Charlie kiss...—KGF Vissers

Charlie and Joey break up and so Rachel makes her move on Joey by telling her feelings. Meanwhile Ross and Charlie begin to fall in love which each other. Joey and Rachel end up kissing. But surprise, surprise, Chandler, Monica and Phoebe are listening through the very thin walls of the hotel room so they spy on Ross, Charlie, Rachel and Joey. Plus Monica go to the hair salon and her frizzy monster hair is transformed into braids tied up with shells. Everyone gets mad especially Chandler.—Myrlee

Charlie dumps Joey for Ross. Rachel finally tells Joey that she has had feelings for him. Joey doesn't want to proceed with Rachel because he couldn't do that to Ross. But after he sees Charlie and Ross kissing, he heads upstairs to share a romantic kiss with Rachel. Monica's hair keeps growing. Monica and Mike compete in an unfriendly way.—Anonymous

Chandler gives advice to David, but that makes David want to propose to Phoebe. Although Phoebe is still in love with Mike. Monica calls Mike who shows up there right in the middle of David's proposal. Mike proposes instead. Phoebe gets back together with Mike, but doesn't accept his proposal. Monica's hair gets all poofy after getting off the plane. Charlie and Ross enjoy themselves when rewriting Ross's speech. Rachel keeps changing her mind on when to tell Joey that she has feelings for him.—Anonymous

All The friends head to Barbados for Ross' conference. Instead of enjoying the sunshine, the weather is rainy, so the gang is stuck indoors. Ross is able to arrange passes to the entire conference for his friends. The conference has many lectures, which the gang finds very boring. At the conference, Ross is famous and almost nobody recognizes Joey. Prior to their arrival, David asks Chandler for advice on his relationship with Phoebe due to her accidentally calling him Mike before. Phoebe had controlled that situation by joking that Monica calls Chandler, Richard, all the time. Chandler tells him that the breakup between Phoebe and Mike was because Mike didn't want to get married, but Phoebe did. Based on Chandler's advise, David decides to propose to Phoebe.

When they arrive in Barbados, Monica's hair gets all voluminous due to the humidity. Chandler tells Monica about how David is going to propose to Phoebe. Monica thinks this is bad, since David and Phoebe have only been dating a few weeks and Phoebe is still hung up on Mike. She will say no to David, and his heart will be broken and Phoebe will be all alone. This causes Monica to meddle and call Mike. Monica tells Mike that he needs to get over his commitment issues around marriage and step up, as David is going to propose to Phoebe. Mike is taken aback, but says that if Phoebe wants to marry David, she should and hangs up. Mike shows up right as David is about to propose to Phoebe. Mike proposes instead (He says that there is no reason big enough to keep them apart), to which Phoebe says no but is content knowing that their relationship is headed somewhere and the two get back together while a disappointed but understanding David leaves.

Meanwhile, Charlie spends all of her time with Ross attending seminars. Since its raining outside, Joey has nothing to do. Later that evening, when Ross' speech is deleted (after Chandler opened a spurious email and Ross' laptop got a virus). Ross has no print out and no other back up of his speech. Its gone. Ross is furious and annoyed at everyone. Only Charlie steps up and offers some practical suggestions to recreate the speech. Charlie cancels dinner with Joey to help recreate it; but suddenly, they enjoy themselves. Ross and Charlie pop open champagne to celebrate. Ross shares about Ben and Emma and that his first wife was gay. Charlie had a boyfriend who turned out to be gay too. Rachel and Joey end up visiting various seminars in the conference. Rachel ends up sharing that she hasn't had sex in a while. Rachel keeps changing her mind on when to tell Joey that she has feelings for him (Joey figures that Rachel likes someone back home, and presses her to say something). When she is about to tell him and Charlie and Ross are about to go out for champagne to celebrate the finished recreation of the speech, Joey and Charlie end up going to dinner together, much to Ross and Rachel's humiliation.

To the other friends' fury, it keeps raining except during Ross' speech (at which point the sun is out in full force), which to their amazement is a big hit with the paleontologists. Charlie, on the other hand, is less than amused with Joey, who along with Rachel keeps laughing at double-sense terms such as "Homo Erectus." Ross seems widely popular with his colleagues, and is even hit on by a male paleontologist. Just as the speech ends, the rain returns, and the gang is forced back inside.

Charlie and Joey talk, and they realize that not having fun with each other is pretty weird (Charlie is having fun with Ross, and Joey is spending time with Rachel) and that maybe it's the time for them to talk about their relationship. The two break up.

Chandler and Phoebe know better, but Mike accepts to play table tennis against Monica (The last time she played, she punched Phoebe and Chandler and clunked their heads together). Chandler warns Mike by showing a scar that he got from playing Pictionary with Monica. The game goes even Stevens as both Monica and Mike win one game each. the 3rd game keeps dragging on as it gets to 41-41. Her obsessive competitiveness gets the best of her when she injures her hand against the table. Seeing that Monica is devastated at not being able to finish the game, Chandler jumps in and crushes Mike on the sudden death point, revealing at last that he's an excellent table tennis player, and that he hid this from Monica to prevent her from entering the two of them in double tournaments.

Joey comes to talk to Rachel after he has broken up with Charlie. he tells her about the break up. Rachel can't hide her feelings for Joey anymore, so she decides to tell him. Joey can't believe that she's been hiding this from him all this time (Rachel says she has been having these feelings for a month), but he tells her that they should not act upon it at all because of Ross, their friend. Joey says he cannot betray Ross by hooking up with Rachel. Joey leaves Rachel's room and goes to find Ross.

Charlie meets Ross and tells him that she has broken up with Joey. To break away from the bisexual paleontologist with a crush on him (who was at the conference with his wife) and from the group of scientists who want to throw him in the pool (as that is the tradition for the keynote speaker), Ross and Charlie sneak behind a large plant in the lobby while having drinks. Charlie also admits that she has feelings for Ross, but Ross wants to talk to Joey about this, as Charlie has just broken up with him. But a couple of seconds later, he regrets this decision and kisses Charlie, which Joey sees. Joey walks with determination to Rachel's room and knocks. Rachel opens, Joey kisses her, and she kisses him back, they pause and then kiss passionately.