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Recap / Friends S 8 E 7 The One With The Stain

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Chandler hires a maid to clean the apartment, but Monica gets paranoid that she is stealing her clothes. Ross helps Rachel find an apartment. Joey gets upset that Rachel wants to move out and tries to convince her to stay. Phoebe dates Ursula's ex Eric.


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  • All for Nothing: Rachel is looking for a new apartment for her and the baby, so she and Ross keep an eye on an apartment about to become vacant because the elderly woman living in it is dying. As the apartment is in his building, Ross is determined to make this work so Rachel will live close to him and goes as far as learning Dutch to endear himself to the dying woman and her family. He even says he kissed her because that was her dying wish, but it's all rendered moot, much to his frustration, when Rachel tells him she'll stay with Joey after all.
  • Bilingual Bonus: None of the lines in Dutch are translated for the audience so only viewers that speak the language will know what Gunther says to Ross without looking up the translation.
  • Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Phoebe shows up at Eric's house, expecting to "pick up where they'd left off" earlier in the episode, only to have Eric mention how he's still quite tired from the sex they had earlier in the day. Only, Phoebe and Eric never slept together, and they soon realise that Ursula had come over, and believing she was Phoebe, Eric slept with her. If this had been twin brothers and a girlfriend, it would have turned into a completely different sort of show all together.
  • Failed a Spot Check: As it turns out, not only did Rachel borrow the jeans Monica thought had been stolen by the maid, but Monica is actually wearing the bra she thought had been stolen.
  • The Help Helping Themselves: Monica's plot centers around her paranoia that the maid stole her pants.
  • Hidden Depths: Gunther is fluent in Dutch.
  • Identical Twin Mistake: Eric tells Phoebe they already had sex earlier, which confuses her and then makes her realize Ursula came in and had sex with Eric, who couldn't tell the two apart because he had no lenses on and he was too excited to look at her clothes. As a result, Phoebe and Eric break up.
  • Last Request: The dying Dutch woman's last wish is to be kissed. Ross reluctantly grants it (this isn't seen, just recounted by him).
  • Mistaken for Gay: The maid, not unreasonably, assumes that Monica is a lesbian when she keeps trying to look at her crotch to prove the existence of the stain that would identify the "stolen" pants as her own.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: Joey does a lot to convince Rachel that the baby won't bother him so she does not move out. It touches her enough that in the end, she decides to stay.

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