EPISODE

S7E3 · The One With Phoebe's Cookies

Rachel tries to teach Joey how to sail his boat but turns into an overbearing perfectionist. Chandler plays racquetball with Monica's father and accidentally sits on his lap in the steam room... while they're both naked. Monica tries desperately to reproduce Phoebe's grandmother's secret cookie recipe.

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Phoebe offers to give her grandmother's secret cookie recipe to Monica as an engagement gift, but the recipe was destroyed in the fire. Monica obsessively attempts to recreate it, only to learn later that the recipe is Nestle Toll House’s. Rachel offers to teach Joey how to sail, but soon finds herself being verbally abusive to him for his lax attitude. Her abusive teaching style makes her realize that she is acting just like her nasty father back when he taught her sailing. Chandler's new eyeglasses fog up in the gym steam room, so he removes them and this causes him to accidentally sit on his future father-in-law's nude lap.

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