- Hoping to win a huge jackpot, the friends pool their money and buy dozens of lottery tickets. However, they bicker over how to spend the fortune if they win, and Monica irritates everyone else by buying tickets just for her and Chandler.
- When everyone except Ross pools together to buy tickets for the lottery, Phoebe gets a prediction from her psychic that they will win. Ross, despite his skepticism, gets in on the action. Meanwhile, Chandler is anxious to find out if he gets a coveted assistant job at his advertising firm, and Emma is due to say her first word.—Kristie
- Everyone except for Ross goes to Connecticut to buy lottery tickets. When everyone is fighting over how much money they each are going to get, Phoebe accidentally drops all the tickets over the balcony. Emma says her first word and Ross thinks it is not a real word, but it is. Chandler waits for a call to get a new better paying job.—Anonymous
- Joey reveals that the jackpot for the 24 state lottery has been upped to $300 million leading to everyone except Ross (who says there are better odds of someone being stuck by lightening 42 times) to pool in ($50 each) for tickets, with Joey and Monica traveling to Connecticut to get them. Ross continuously plays down their chances (Better chances of seeing a night rainbow with gremlins dancing on top of it) until Monica convinces him to join in on it (she throws in $50 for him). Meanwhile, Chandler's internship is coming to an end, and he is up for one of the three assistant positions available at an advertising company and is receiving updates from his work colleague, Charlie, for the final slot (although Charlie has the advantage due to his father is the boss). Also, Emma is set to say her first words and stays at Rachel's mother's for the night. Ross and Rachel are calling each other Mommy and Daddy to induce Emma's first words.
The gang get together that evening for the drawing of the lottery, as Chandler anxiously awaits news of the job only to learn that his friend Charlie (Aisha Tyler) has got it. Phoebe met her psychic, who said that she is definitely going to win the lottery that night. Monica brings a wishbone back from work and plays it with Joey. Joey wins, but wont reveal what he wished for. Chandler accidentally reveals that Monica had bought 20 extra tickets leading everyone to fight about who should get extra. Phoebe takes the bowl with all the tickets in and hangs it over the balcony, threatening to drop it unless they said friends was more important than money (Monica claimed she didn't care if they unfriended her after she would win).
Phoebe says she wouldn't have done it anyway but a pigeon swoops down leading her to accidentally drop the bowl, breaking it and forcing the six to run around the street getting the tickets, losing half of them. They don't win the jackpot (though Phoebe wins $3) but over the phone, Emma says her first word as 'Gleeba' leading Ross to believe she's going to be a scientist (Rachel had to check the dictionary to see that it meant the fleshy part of a fungus). Phoebe also fakes a phone message from the pigeon apologizing for scaring her and not to blame her.
Chandler gets a call telling him that the reason he didn't get the job was because he outshone all the other candidates to the point the company believed it was a waste of his skills to relegate him to just running around doing errands; instead, he is offered the better position of junior copywriter. Joey admits that when he and Phoebe split a wish bone earlier, he had wished for Chandler to get the job, and not for them to win the lottery (with both agreeing not to tell Monica). The following day in Central Perk, Joey reveals that nobody won the jackpot. Gunther overhears and tells them that although no one won the jackpot, someone found a ticket in the street outside (presumably theirs) and won $10,000. They glare at Phoebe who pretends to be the pigeon again.
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