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Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)

Plot

The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath

Friends

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Summaries

  • Monica turns Chandler on to the concept of taking a bath to relax; Ross and Rachel toss baby names around while deciding whether to learn the baby's sex. Joey struggles with his feelings for Rachel.
  • After his openhearted evening with Rachel, Joey finds it impossible to go back to thinking about her as just a friend, yet he can't talk about it, not even to Chandler. As Joey rambles, only shutting up when Phoebe enters make Monica concludes he must be in love with Phoebe. Considering baby names, parents to be Ross and Rachel find no word in common except 'veto'! They agree not to ask the child's sex, yet Ross notices the gynecologist takes a peak, sod asks the doc afterward. After Chandler was unable to understand why Monica loves taking an elaborate bath, she lures him into trying a perfect combination of scents and salts by incorporating a model navy 'boat' and he's hooked, enough to steal her next bath by jumping in before she can. When Joey barges in the bathroom, the boat gets a more modest purpose.—KGF Vissers
  • Chandler says he doesn't like baths but Monica makes him a bath with candles and music and he enjoys it very much. Rachel and Ross try to find a name for the baby and they now know that they are going to have a girl! Chandler can't stop taking baths and when he is taking one everybody is in the bathroom with him and Rachel and Ross tell them that the baby will be a girl. Joey tries to handle his feelings for Rachel discarding them as only a crush.—Anonymous

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  • After his date with Rachel, Joey finds it impossible to go back to thinking about her as just a friend, yet he can't talk about it, not even with Chandler (he rambles on how Chandler and Monica were friends, but they went to London, where they were in the same place mentally and so on). He later on has the exact same conversation with Monica. As Joey rambles, he shuts up when Phoebe enters, which makes Monica conclude he must be in love with Phoebe.

    Monica decides to tell Phoebe, who goes to tell Joey that she knows about his feelings and that it's unlikely to work out like Chandler and Monica. Phoebe doesn't want to risk her friendship with Joey and wants to ensure that he is not hurt in the process. However, as Phoebe doesn't specify who the feelings are for, Joey believes she knows they're for Rachel and lets it slip that they are. Phoebe is surprised, but plays along that she already knew it was Rachel and assures him that his crush will eventually go away.

    Considering baby names, parents to be Ross and Rachel find no word in common except 'veto'! Phoebe suggests Phoebe for a girl and Phoebo for a boy. Rachel suggests Sandrine (Ross calls it an industrial solvent). Ross suggests Darwin (Rachel says the boy will be beaten to death). Phoebe suggests that each parents gets 5 vetoes. Ross vetoes Rain, James (for a girl), Dayton, Sawyer. Rachel vetoes Thatcher, Ruth (Rachel thinks that's a name for an 89 yr old), Stewart, Helen. Phoebe likes Veto. They agree not to ask the child's sex, but Rachel has a moment of weakness and peeks at the file. Even though she didn't actually see the sex of the baby, Ross is convinced she did (When she agrees to the name Ruth, Ross suspects that Rachel knows its a boy and hence she is giving Ruth to Ross, so she can name the boy as per her choice when it arrives) and calls the gynecologist to find out so that they both know. He then lets it slip that the baby is a girl even though Rachel didn't have the intention to know.

    When Chandler says he doesn't like baths, Monica is surprised because he always likes taking them with her. Chandler tells her he doesn't like the bath, he likes "the wet, naked lady" in the bath with him. Monica tries to convince him that he would like a bath if she showed him the right way to prepare one. When he finally agrees to try it he loves it, but when he tries to prepare his own bath he gets everything wrong (The water was tepid, the salts didn't dissolve and now they are lodged in places. The scents he used don't complement each other), so next time Monica draws a bath for herself he steals it. Everyone gathers in the bathroom while Chandler is in the tub to share the news that Rachel and Ross are having a girl.

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