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Rachel's mom comes to visit with big news. Monica caters Carol and Susan's wedding. Phoebe becomes 'possessed' by the spirit of a recently deceased client.

Ross isn't confident enough to accept attending his ex Carol's lesbian wedding to Susan. Because the wedding caterer has a bad accident, Monica gets the job, a first for her, but can't get it done without generalized slave labor... Joey has his first TV appearance as Dr. Drake Ramore in Days of Our Lives, and shows the friends some acting tricks used there... Phoebe's 82 year-old client Rose died on her massage table, and her spirit went into her- now she has two crazy personalities and an octogenarian's agenda... Rachel was all nerves for her ma's first visit since she blew her wealthy wedding to Barry, but actually her happiness in poverty inspires Mrs. Greene Sr., who never worked but cracks at everybody, to leave Rach's pa and cheerfully join the crazy modern girls life... Everybody attends the wedding, and when Carol's parents won't give her away...—KGF Vissers

Susan and Carol announce their plans to get married. Ross doesn't want to go to the wedding. Monica is doing the catering. Phoebe's client dies on the massage table. Phoebe thinks the old lady's spirit hangs in Phoebe's body. Rachel's mom is visiting and sees how happy Rachel is and wants to leave Rachel's dad to have a life like Rachel. Ross turns up at the wedding to give Carol away because her parents wouldn't come to her lesbian wedding. Ross and Susan finally get along.—Anonymous

Early on in the episode, Joey makes his first appearance on the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives as Dr. Drake Ramoray. He shares with the group a "smell-the-fart" acting tip he had learned from the actress he did his first scene with. Fart acting is when you have so many lines that it takes some time to remember the next one. So, you take a big intense pause, to seem like you are in really deep thought, when all you are really doing is trying to remember the next line.

Ugly naked man plays the cello. Ross' ex-wife Carol (Jane Sibbett) and her lesbian life partner Susan (Jessica Hecht) are getting married; Ross' sister Monica caters the wedding (after their regular caterer has a mountain biking accident and is in a full body cast.. Monica starts planning the menu (lesbian wedding - chicken breasts), but she doesn't leave enough time to actually cook the food, so the gang is pressed into service). Carol's parents refuse to attend the wedding, leading Carol to doubt her decision, but Ross - initially hesitant to see his ex-wife remarry - finds himself in the position of being the one to encourage her to go ahead with the ceremony despite her parents' opposition. At the reception (Ross gives Carol away), Susan thanks Ross for his part in saving the wedding, and offers to dance with him; he agrees, apparently resolving their strained relationship.

One of Phoebe's massage clients, Rose Adelman, dies on the massage table and her spirit apparently gets stuck inside Phoebe for a while. Rose, via Phoebe, corrects people's behavior and makes weird jokes using references to obscure people or events. Upon talking to Rose's husband (Phil Leeds), who states that Rose wanted to see everything (and also to sleep with her husband one last time, which is his attempt to get Phoebe to sleep with him), Phoebe takes Rose sightseeing around New York, but is not able to rid herself of Rose. However, during Carol and Susan's wedding, Rose blurts out that she has now seen everything and promptly bolts out of Phoebe's body. During the reception, Phoebe muses to Chandler about how she misses Rose; one of the wedding guests (Lea DeLaria), comically assuming that Phoebe and Rose were a lesbian couple, suggests that Phoebe find a way to forget about Rose and move on with her life, and offers to buy her a drink, which Phoebe accepts.

Rachel's mother is coming to visit and she is worried that she will judge her life to be a total crap (after she left Barry). Meanwhile, Rachel's mother, Sandra (Marlo Thomas), makes a major life decision after seeing how Rachel has learned to fend for herself (she is very proud of Rachel since she herself went from her house, to the sorority house, to her husband's house): she is considering leaving Rachel's father. Rachel is horrified at the thought of her parents splitting up and angry at her mother (when she wants to smoke pot and know whats new in sex), but Sandra admits she wants to do this because Rachel did not marry her Barry, the man she never loved, but she did hers. Rachel, stunned at this revelation, gives her mother her blessing to move on.