The One With the Lottery

Thursday, 3 April 2003

The six friends pool their money on Powerball tickets and turn on each other over them, Chandler is passed over for the assistant job and offered a better one, and Emma says her first word.

What happens

• Joey borrows Monica's car to drive out of state for Powerball tickets, and Rachel proposes that the six of them put in fifty dollars each and split whatever they win.
• Ross dismisses the pool as a waste, then buys in himself after Monica offers to cover his share so he is part of the evening.
• Chandler waits on news about an assistant job at his ad agency and learns that two of the three openings have gone to other interns.
• Phoebe announces that her psychic promised her a win tonight, and Joey takes the wishbone and refuses to say what he wished for.
• Chandler mentions tickets on the nightstand, Monica admits she bought twenty extra for the two of them, and the group turns on her and starts fighting over how to divide the pool.
• Phoebe carries the bowl onto the balcony and threatens to dump it, Monica gives up the tickets she hid in her bra, and a pigeon startles Phoebe into dropping the bowl into the street.
• They recover about half the tickets, and a message from Charlie tells Chandler that the last opening went to Charlie himself.
• Rachel reports that Emma has said her first word, and Ross stops arguing about it once Rachel finds the word in the dictionary.
• Chandler's boss calls to offer him a junior copywriter job instead of an assistant post, and Joey then admits his wishbone wish was for Chandler to be hired.
• Phoebe finds the Powerball number on one of her tickets and wins three dollars.