The One With Joey's Big Break

Thursday, 13 May 1999

Joey lands the lead in a low-budget film and drives to Vegas, fighting with Chandler on the way, while Rachel fights everyone over her eye drops and Ross learns why Phoebe is angry.

What happens

• Rachel's left eye is red and sore, Monica pushes her toward an eye doctor, and Ross exposes her terror of anything approaching her eyes.
• Joey announces he has the lead in an independent film shooting in the desert near Las Vegas and asks Chandler to drive out with him.
• The doctor abandons the glaucoma test, diagnoses a minor infection, and only gets Rachel to accept the drops by threatening her with a glass eye.
• Joey admits the production pays him nothing up front and gives him a share of the profits instead, which he is certain will make him rich.
• Chandler tells Joey he doubts the film is a real break, and Joey stops the cab on the bridge and puts him out.
• Joey phones the apartment, hangs up rather than speak to Chandler, and Monica suggests Chandler send him something as an apology.
• Ross uses the quick-answer game on Phoebe and gets his answer, and Phoebe realises the insult she is angry about happened in a dream.
• Joey reaches the desert and the producer tells him the film has shut down for lack of money, with no date for restarting.
• Joey tells Monica by phone that he has a dressing room and that Chandler was wrong, while actually working as a costumed photographer at Caesar's.
• The whole group ambushes Rachel in the apartment, holds her down, and finally gets the drops into her eye.