Plot

As Valentine's Day approaches; Ross and his date end up at the same restaurant as Carol and Susan, Joey inadvertently sets Chandler up on a blind date with Janice, and the girls burn mementos of their old boyfriends.

It is Valentine's day and only the boys have got dates. After an opening line about an egg that Joey and Chandler recommended, Ross gets his first date since his divorce with the ladylike Kristen. However Carol and her lesbian partner Susan end up in the same restaurant. Susan gets called away to work so Ross makes everyone shift seats to let Carol sit with him and his date. Alas their conversation gets a bit too exclusive. Joey insists that Chandler comes to a restaurant as his foxy date Lorraine demanded a double-date. Her unknown friend turns out to be Chandler's ex Janice. When Joey and Lorraine leave early, Chandler and Janice use his credit card to order the best champagne. The two bottles contain so much alcohol they wake up together. Meanwhile the date-less girls take Phoebe's advice to perform a cleansing ritual: burning in a keepsakes from boys they want to forget. Paolo's grappa contains so much alcohol the ebullient effect requires calling three hunky firemen to the apartment.—KGF Vissers

On Valentine's Day Joey convinces Chandler to blind date his own date's friend, who turns out to be his annoying ex-girlfriend Janice. Ross goes on a date with a neighbor, which turns bad when they run in to his ex-wife in the restaurant. The dateless girls perform a cleansing ceremony at home: burning objects connected to bad dates.—bergsten

The guys push Ross to go on a date with his neighbor. she lent him an egg once and Joey thinks he is in. Chandler says that the Rachel thing is not happening and Carol is still a lesbian. Joey gets an egg at the cafe, so that Ross can go talk to her over the egg. it works. Ross has a Valentine's Day date with a beautiful neighbor Kirsten Riggs, his first date in nine years.

Carol and Susan, also out on a romantic date, end up at the same restaurant. When Susan has to leave, Ross then invites Carol over to join them & spends all his time talking to Carol. His ignored date leaves without his realizing it. He kisses Carol, resulting in different reactions. Ross wants to get back together with Carol, but Carol is sure that she is a lesbian now and doesn't want to go back to her old life.. Ross is disappointed, but understands Carol..

Joey's date Lorraine brings a blind date for Chandler, which turns out to be Janice. Chandler wants to bail out from the window, but Joey begs him to stay as he has been waiting forever to go out with Lorraine. Joey takes off with the date (she wants to slather him with food stuff and lick it off.. Joey wants to know what slathering is.. Joey gives up when Lorraine orders 3 chocolate mousses to go), and gives his credit card to chandler. He ends up ordering Champagne and caviar and they end up sleeping together. The next morning Monica finds out that Janice is back and calls Rachel to see. The Joey comes home and sees her and Monica calls Ross so he can say hello to Janice. Chandler breaks up with her on Valentine's Day. This time Janice is fine and says that Chandler will come back to her eventually.. As Chandler keeps seeking her out and something deep inside him keeps calling out to Janice like a foghorn.

Phoebe wants to go back out with Roger, because its valentines day. her friends remind her that Roger was creepy and intense, but Phoebe says it is nice to have someone on Valentines. The girls talk about bad boyfriend (Rachel had Pete the weeper, who cried every time they had sex. Monica had Howard "the I win" guy, she didn't get to win once in 2 months she dated him). Phoebe thinks there is bad boyfriend cycle and has a way to break it (a cleansing ritual. which requires burn the stuff they gave, sage branches, sacramental wine & the semen of a righteous man). Phoebe, Monica, and Rachel spend the holiday burning mementos of their past boyfriends (Barry's letters, Boxer shorts, dinner receipts), causing a fire (when Rachel pours the Grappa from Paolo in the fire) and a visit from the fire department. They tell the girls that Valentine bonfires make valentines the busiest day for them in NYC. They were the 3rd call that night. Turns out the fire fighters are marries and are jerks themselves, while the girls think they have broken the cycle.