- Rachel and Phoebe take self-defense classes. Chandler and Monica agree to give each other homemade presents for Valentine's Day. Joey tries to get money through medical research.
- Rachel and Phoebe take a self-defense class, and claim they can defeat anyone who attacks them. Ross doesn't believe them, and educates them of a martial arts technique called unagi. Chandler and Monica promise they'd make each other's Valentines Day gifts, but they both forget to make them.—rsuddhi93
- Joey is broke but needs money fast for new publicity shots, so he is determined to get enrolled for another medical experiment. Since the only one that pays $2000 is for identical twins, he hires fellow actor Carl to play his fictitious twin Tony. Because Monica worked on Valentine's day Chandler and she agree to celebrate it today and make their own presents. But both completely forgot the last bit and; the last-minute hunt for anything that could pass for home-made goes worst for Monica. Instead she promises to make all Chandler's wishes come true in kitchen and bedroom. Chandler's present for Monica, a 'mix tape of romantic songs', was made for him by Janice. Ross is the butt of the jokes again when he gravely tells Rachel and Phoebe the self-defense class they take is useless without the state of total awareness the Japanese call unagi (or is that some sushi?), but is brutally lacking it himself...—KGF Vissers
- When Joey is struggling to make ends meet by working at Central Perk (he is demanding more than 20% tips and yells at his friends when he doesn't get them), Ross suggests some alternative form of employment, and Joey looks into medical studies at the local hospital (he remembers that he once made good money participating in a sperm donation study). He finds one that pays $2,000 for identical twins, and hires a fake twin, Carl (Louis Mandylor), at an audition. Carl is even dumber than Joey, and the ruse fails miserably. Nobody believes that Carl is Joey's twin, despite Joey training Carl on all of his mannerisms (eating pizza and the "how you doin"). Joey ends up blaming Carl for not getting the gig at the medical center.
Chandler panics when he remembers that he and Monica have agreed to hand-craft Valentine's Day gifts for each other this year, two weeks later than planned because Monica was working on Valentine's Day. After Phoebe offers him a bunny rabbit composed of Rachel's socks (Joey suggests that Chandler make crotch-less panties), Chandler fails miserably at making his own gifts. He ends up grabbing a cassette tape to stand in for a homemade mix tape.
Monica, who also forgot, gives him Phoebe's sock-bunny and then launches into a furious campaign of please-forgive-me sex and homemade meals. Chandler, happy with the attention, does not correct her misconception, but his deception becomes clear when Monica actually plays the cassette tape-a homemade mix tape from Chandler's ex-girlfriend Janice for his birthday. Although she is angry, he pleads for another chance. She tries to get past it with another slow dance, but a few more seconds of Janice's voice is enough for her to storm into their bedroom alone.
Rachel and Phoebe take a women's self-defense class together; Rachel feels confident about her mastery of the topic, which Ross scoffs at. Ross claims to have years of karate lessons to master the true essence of self-defense: "unagi", which Ross claims is "a state of total awareness." (Everyone asks him, rightly, if "unagi" is actually a form of sushi. In karate, the concept of this state is Zanshin.)
To prove that Rachel and Phoebe have not reached an "unagi"-infused state of mind, he sets up a number of "scary" ambushes on them (He jumps at them from a hidden corner and yells "Danger"), only to find out they are stronger than him, as in one failed ambush Rachel and Phoebe sit on him, not letting him go (they had seen him hide behind Phoebe's couch). Ross goes to their instructor to ask how to fight them off, but he explains it out of context, making him look like someone who enjoys attacking women, especially his ex-wife.
Later, Ross sees the backs of two blonde-haired women near Central Perk, thinking they are Rachel and Phoebe and attacks them from behind, only to be attacked back. As he is running away from them he pauses for a second to see Rachel and Phoebe staring at him from a window in Central Perk and he runs away in fear as he realizes the unknown women are chasing him.
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