In the show's 100th episode, Phoebe gives birth to the triplets. Joey experiences what appears to be sympathy pains for Phoebe, only for it to turn out he has kidney stones. Rachel attempts to get Monica and herself up with some male nurses, little suspecting her secret relationship with Chandler.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Harad has a borderline unhealthy obsession with Fonzie, but otherwise is fully competent at delivering the triplets. According to the writers he was initially written as a normal doctor but had the Fonzie thing added to stop him being boring.
- Call-Back: At the end of the episode Phoebe asks to be left alone with the triplets so she can say goodbye. During her speech she mentions speaking to them as embryos before they were implanted back in TOW the Embryos.
- Gender-Blender Name: A female triplet is named Chandler. Though it still works as there are women named Chandler.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: Joey's favorite trope. When Rachel tells she made plans with cute nurses for Monica and her, Joey is very disappointed to learn that they're male.
- Hospital Hottie: Dan, the nurse that Rachel tries to set Monica up with.
- Incest Subtext: Phoebe explains the paternity of her pregnancy in the most awkward way.Phoebe: The father is my brother.
Nurse: ...Okaaay.
Rachel: (to Phoebe) I am so going to miss watching you freak people out like that! - Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!: Despite the gang's rush at the end of the previous episode this is averted. Phoebe spends several hours in labor, long enough for Joey to get diagnosed and treated for his kidney stones. Alice arrives from Delaware, roughly five hours away, just after Phoebe delivers the last of the triplets.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: Joey is told that he either has to pass the stones naturally or have the doctor go up his urethra to extract them.Joey: Whoa-whoa! No-no-no-no-no, nothing is going up! Okay? Up - up is not an option! What's a urethra? [Monica whispers in his ear] Are you crazy!?
- Laser-Guided Karma: Chandler's Batman Gambit nine episodes prior to get Phoebe to name the last triplet after him turns out to have backfired horribly when it turns out baby Chandler is actually a girl. This could be considered a subversion as Chandler can be a girl's name too.
- Not Really a Birth Scene: Joey passing his kidney stones, which, for extra humor, is intercut with Phoebe actually giving birth and both Phoebe and Joey reacting in the same way. Fairly Truth in Television, as many people who have undergone both feel that passing the stones was equally or more painful.
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Chandler is none too happy about Monica going out with the nurse and feels like he's getting iced out, but rather than just be honest about how he feels, he puts up a brave front by saying he doesn't care because they're just casually fooling around. An irritated Monica says she was going to cancel the date, but now she's all in just to spite him for this. It takes some doing for Chandler to get out of this hole he dug for himself.
- Operation: Jealousy: Monica decides to accept the date with the nurse to make Chandler jealous.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The little boy (Frank jr. jr.) is wearing a blue hat, his sisters Leslie and Chandler got pink ones.
- Samus Is a Girl: The third triplet turns out to be a girl and not a boy, much to Chandler's dismay.Frank Jnr.: They musta read the sonogram wrong. 'Cause they, 'cause they thought it was a boy, but Chandler's a girl! Chandler's a girl!
Chandler: Okay, keep saying it! - Screaming Birth: Played straight with Phoebe; parodied with Joey when he passes the kidney stones.
- Shout-Out: Phoebe calls the much younger doctor Ross finds to replace Dr. Harad, "Doogie".
- Written-In Absence: Alice is in Delaware visiting family when Phoebe goes into labor and only appears in a single scene towards the end of the episode. Debra Jo Rupp was busy working on That '70s Show and only had time to film that one scene.
