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S3E25 · The One at the Beach

Phoebe's quest to find her father leads the gang to a beach house -- and leads Phoebe to a fateful meeting with an old family friend; Rachel persuades Bonnie to make a change.

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Chandler tries proving to Monica that he is "boyfriend material". The gang goes to Montauk for the weekend, but their borrowed beach house is filled with sand after a storm. Phoebe meets the woman, also named Phoebe, who knew her parents. She suspects the elder Phoebe knows more than she is telling, so she breaks into her house looking for information about her father. Elder Phoebe catches her, then confesses that she is Phoebe's birth mother. The gang plays strip Happy Days game, with Joey losing more than his shirt. Rachel and Ross flirt until Bonnie unexpectedly shows up and has loud sex with Ross, making Rachel even more jealous to the point where she convinces Bonnie to shave her head bald again. Ross discovers that Rachel still loves him and may want to reconcile; meaning he must choose between her and Bonnie.

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