- Monica tries to avoid criticism when she caters a party for her mother. Chandler ends up half naked and handcuffed to a chair in Rachel's boss's office. Joey tries to get educated from a salesman trying to sell him a set of encyclopedias.
- Chandler sleeps with Rachel's boss Joanna. Rachel makes him end it. Monica needs money so she agrees to cater her mother's party. Monica loses a fake fingernail in the quiche and discovers her mother bet with her dad that Monica would screw up catering the event. Chandler goes to break up with Joanna but ends up being handcuffed to the chair in her office half naked. Rachel has to uncuff him because Joanna is stuck with her boss and isn't coming back. But Rachel has to handcuff him back the way he was, otherwise Joanna will know Rachel was in her office. Monica impresses her mum with a wonderful dish for her guests after all and they finally get along.—Anonymous
- Mr. Treeger (Michael G. Hagerty) allows Joey to take some patio furniture for their house, that was sitting in the building basement.
Joey is enticed when a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman shows up at his apartment, since he has always felt left out whenever the gang has intellectual conversations. The salesman offers the entire set for $1200. However, Joey can only afford to buy the sample volume and becomes knowledgeable only on subjects that start with the letter "V." At the next meeting, he talks about volcanoes, But the gang quickly changes subject and Joey is again ignorant and left out of the conversations.
Monica caters a party for her mother (as she has been jobless for weeks and needs the money) (Monica is flattered to know that she was hired as her mother Judy (Christina Pickles) thought she was good. Judy had tasted Monica's food at Richard's dinner party and then at Carol's wedding), but the mini-quiches are effectively ruined when one of her false fingernails gets lost in one. Judy then reveals that she expected Monica to mess up so she bought frozen lasagnas as back-up (she was very confident that her daughter would "pull a Monica", which means that something was bound to go wrong). Monica, upset that her mother has never had faith in her, whips up delicious dishes (a casserole) at the last minute to prove her mother wrong. Judy ultimately gets impressed and the two reconcile.
Meanwhile, Chandler begins dating Rachel's boss, Joanna (Alison LaPlaca), again. Rachel wants Chandler to end it as the last time she almost got fired. Chandler visits Joanna in her office to break up with her, but they end up kissing with Chandler out of his pants. Chandler lands in a sticky situation when Joanna handcuffs him inside her office, then leaves for a meeting that gets delayed, stranding him for hours. Rachel is furious when she sneaks into Joanna's office (having been under the impression that Joanna has been listing names of employees that would get a Christmas bonus) to find Chandler stuck there pants-less, since he has promised to end the relationship many times but never does.
Chandler wants Rachel to help him out, but she refuses. Rachel only agrees when Chandler begs and promises that he will never see Joanna again. But then Rachel realizes that Joanna will know that she entered her office and let Chandler off. She wants Chandler to get back in the chair again and get cuffed, which he refuses. In the scuffle, Rachel cuffs Chandler to the file cabinet. Rachel begs to clean his laundry for a month, wrap all his Christmas gifts, squeeze fresh orange juice every morning, but Chandler just wants his freedom. So, Rachel offers to be "generous" about what she says about what she saw when she entered the office. She would make Chandler a legend, this generations Milton Berle. Rachel keeps her promise, but the guys find out and tell the girls that the rumors about Chandler are untrue. The next time, Rachel is called into her office by Joanna and finds that Joanna is cuffed to the chair. She tells Rachel to tell Chandler that they are definitely broken up.
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