The One With Phoebe's Cookies

Thursday, 19 October 2000

Monica asks for Phoebe's grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe as an engagement present, and after the original burns she spends two days trying to rebuild it from a single frozen cookie.

What happens

• Monica asks Phoebe for her grandmother's cookie recipe as an engagement present, and Phoebe agrees despite a deathbed promise to keep it in the family.
• Joey admits he never takes his boat out of the marina, and Rachel offers to teach him to sail.
• Ross invites Chandler to play racquetball with Mr. Geller, and Monica warns Chandler that he has to let her father win.
• Phoebe reveals the recipe burned in the apartment fire and hands over her last frozen cookie, so Monica decides to reverse-engineer it by taste.
• Rachel drills Joey on sailing terms he cannot answer and tells him he would die at sea, and Joey stops enjoying the lesson.
• Joey eats what is left of the cookie, leaving Phoebe and Monica with a single crumb.
• In a flashback, Chandler takes off his fogged glasses in the steam room and sits down in Mr. Geller's lap.
• Joey tells Rachel he is done sailing with her because she is mean, and Rachel apologises and promises to stop yelling and bossing him around.
• Rachel loses her temper again during the second lesson, Joey quits, and Rachel realises she has turned into her own father.
• Phoebe names her great-grandmother as Nesele Toulouse, and Monica works out that the recipe is the Nestle Tollhouse one printed on the chocolate chip bag in her cupboard.