Intrigue

Rachel breaks Joey's armchair. Phoebe takes a temp job in a call centre. Ross and Monica find out their parents are selling their childhood home.

Rachel wants to have a place to sit in front of the TV but Joey tells her Rosita, the armchair, does not move. Rachel tries to move it anyway and breaks it in half. The Gellers sell their house and Monica and Ross have to take their childhood memories home but Monica's boxes were ruined in a flood. Phoebe starts working as a telephone sales woman and talks to Earl who want to kill himself. Chandler sits in the armchair and thinks he broke it so he secretly exchanges Rosita with his chair. Meanwhile Joey and Rachel went to buy a new armchair as well so now they have two. Rachel keeps the super cool new armchair while Joey is stuck with his normal old one. When Chandler finds out he didn't break Rosita he wants to take it back but Joey broke Chandler's chair in order to get Rachel's cool chair. Phoebe talks Earl out of killing himself. Monica's dad gives her his Porsche to say that he loves her just as much as he loves Ross.—Anonymous

Rachel accidentally breaks Rosita, Joey's recliner, while trying to shift it. Joey didn't want Rachel to move it as it is the exact same distance from the kitchen and the bathroom and is an angle so there is no glare from Stevie the TV. When Rachel goes out with Joey to buy a new recliner, Chandler goes into Joey's apartment and sits on the already-broken Rosita, causing him to think that he has broken his best friend's favorite recliner. Guilt-stricken, he secretly swaps Rosita out for his own recliner. As a result, Joey believes that Rosita has been "healed", and Rachel gets to keep the new and luxurious La-Z-Boy Ecliner 3000 (fully reclines, rolling massage and speakers in the headrest) for herself. The SIT magazine is calling it the "chair of the year" and is making all other lounge systems obsolete. Rachel tells Chandler about the new chair and Chandler finds that Rachel broke Joey's chair. Joey, who is jealous that Rachel gets the better chair, breaks "Rosita" once again in order to claim the new chair for himself.

Ross and Monica visit their childhood home to collect old belongings before the house is sold. Monica finds out about this when she finds the ad in the newspaper. Ross is bummed as Jack and Judy kept his room intact all of these yrs (Ross was a medical marvel, since Judy was considered to be barren), while Jack changed Monica's room into a gym (a tanning bed and a stack of Victoria's secret catalogs) 20 mins after she moved out. Jack is impatient to sell the house before the buyers find the crack in the foundation and the asbestos in the ceiling. The garage floods every spring However, Monica learns that all the boxes that contain her childhood items were used to protect Jack's Porsche during a flood in the garage; all her items were ruined, while Ross's were protected and completely intact. Ross tries to pass his stuff as Monica's memories, but she quickly realizes that its not her stuff. To mollify Monica, Jack gives her the Porsche, much to Ross's dismay.

Phoebe's massages business is not doing well as she only has 2 customers till February. Ross suggests she take up a telemarketing job. Phoebe takes a telemarketing job selling printer toner. She has to read from a script and try and sell as much toner as she can.

She tries to save a customer named Earl (Jason Alexander) from committing suicide. Earl is her first call on the job and Earl says that he doesn't need toner as he is going to kill himself. Earl has been working for 10 yrs at a meaningless job and feels that nobody knows that he even exists. Earl has no family or friends. Phoebe rushes over to meet Earl when he hangs up on her. Phoebe strongly believes that this all came together so she could stop Earl from killing himself. Its fate, since her mom was a supply manager and her name was Pearl (Puh-Earl). Phoebe convinces Earl that the universe cares about him.