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    • new scene
    • Scene 1

      Central Perk, Frank and Alice are there talking with Phoebe.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh my God! I can't believe my little brother is married!
    • Frank
      Oh I know!! (Both he and Alice squeal hysterically)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      You guys, why didn't you tell me you were eloping?
    • Frank
      'Cause it just sorta happened, y'know we were at the courthouse, we were having lunch...
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Wait, wait, why were you at the courthouse?
    • Frank
      We were having lunch. Yeah and then all of the sudden we were like, "Hey! Y'know, we're here, having lunch let's get married!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Wow, a year and a half ago I didn't even know I had a brother, and now I have a sister too. (They all hug, and Frank and Alice start kissing.) Okay. Okay. Stop it, don't. So, I gotta get you a gift now. Is there anything you need?
    • Frank
      Uhh, yeah.
    • Alice
      We've been trying to get pregnant, uh pretty much ever since we got engaged, we thought we'd get a jump on things, y'know no one's getting any younger.
    • Frank
      See the thing is umm, we're not able to y'know, uh, conceive.
    • Alice
      And we've tried everything, we've seen a bunch of doctors.
    • Frank
      Yeah, and they-and they say that our-that our only chance to have a baby is that if they take my sperm, her egg and put it together in a dish and then put it into another girl. So we were wondering if you could be the girl that we could put it into.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (shocked) That's a really nice gift. I was thinking of like a gravy boat.
    • OPENING CREDITS
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    • Scene 2

      Monica and Rachel's, Monica, Rachel, and Chandler are trying to throw cards into a vase.

    • joey
    • Joey
      (entering with Ross) Hey! You guys! Check it out, check it out! (He's wearing a blue blazer) Guess which job I got.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      I don't know, but Donald Trump wants his blue blazer black.
    • (The gang is stunned.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      What?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Blue blazer back. He-he wants it back.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      But you-you said black. Why would he want his blue blazer black?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, you-you know what I meant.
    • monica
    • Monica
      No, you messed it up. You're stupid.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      So what job did you get Joe?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Oh, ah, tour guide at the museum. Yeah, Ross got it for me.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, how can you be a tour guide, don't you have to be a dinosaur expert or something?
    • joey
    • Joey
      No, not really. They give you all the information, it's uh, it's like memorizing a script. (Making like a tour guide) "And on your left, you have Tyrannosaurus Rex, a carnivore from the Jurassic period.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Great!! That's great!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Uh actually Joey, it's the Cretasous period.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah but, I can pronounce Jurassic.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      (entering) Hey!!
    • Everyone
      Hey!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Guess what. Frank Jr., and Alice got married!
    • Everyone
      Oh my God!!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      And! And, they're gonna have a baby! (The gang is shocked.) And! And, they want me to grow it for them in my uterus. (The gang is stunned into silence.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      My God!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Are you serious?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah
    • joey
    • Joey
      You're really thinking about having sex with your brother?!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ewww! And "Oh no!" It's-they just want me to be the surrogate. It's her-it's her egg and her sperm, and I'm-I'm just the oven, it's totally their bun.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Huh.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What did you tell them?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Well, they said that I had to think about it first, but what is there to think about? I'm gonna be giving them the greatest gift you can possibly give.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      You're gonna be carrying their baby and give them a Sony Play Station?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Honey, this really is an incredible thing to do for them, but there are things to think about.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah, like you're gonna be pregnant. I mean pregnant.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I know!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Pheebs, you're talking about putting your body through an awful lot, I mean morning sickness, uhh, labour, and it's all for somebody else!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Yeah, what's your point?
    • ross
    • Ross
      Well, the stuff I just mentioned.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Wow! I don't know if I could ever do that. I always figured the first time I had a baby was with somebody I love and that baby would be a...keeper.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Y'know you guys were a lot more supportive when I wanted to make denim furniture.
    • joey
    • Joey
      No, Pheebs, listen, if you decide to do this, we'll be supportive like crazy.
    • Everyone
      Yeah.
    • monica
    • Monica
      We just want you to think it through.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, honey, maybe you can talk to somebody who's had a baby. Like your mom?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      My mom never gave birth. Oh! But my birth mom did.
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    • Scene 3

      Central Perk, Chandler and Kathy are kissing.

    • Kathy
      Umm, (moves her hand's down to his butt) I love this touchy. Can I take it to work with me?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh, yeah, sure, it's not mine anyway. It can with the pants.
    • Kathy
      Oh! (They kiss and she leaves)
    • monica
    • Monica
      I am so jealous.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      You guys are really right...there aren't you?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yes. Right where?
    • monica
    • Monica
      In the beginning where y'know it's all sex and talking and sex and talking and...
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah, you-you gotta love the talking.
    • monica
    • Monica
      And the sex?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right, we haven't had sex yet. Okay, what's the big deal? Y'know? This is special, and I want our love to grow until we move on to the next level.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, Chandler that is so nice.
    • ross
    • Ross
      That is really nice...lying! No way is that the reason!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Why? Just because you're not mature enough to understand something like that?!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No, he's right, I'm totally lying.
    • (Ross makes an "I was right, and you weren't face." And Rachel does Ross's little I'm-flicking-you-off-but-I'm-not-giving-you-the-finger banging of the fists.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      Then what is it?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well, Kathy's last boyfriend was Joey.
    • ross
    • Ross
      And you're afraid you won't be able to...fill his shoes.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      No, I'm afraid I won't be able to make love as well as him.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, I was going for the metaphor.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yes, and I was saying the actual words.
    • monica
    • Monica
      So big deal, so Joey's had a lot of girlfriends, it doesn't mean he's great in bed.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      We share a wall! So either he's great in bed, or she just likes to agree with him a lot.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Sweetie, with you it's gonna be different. The sex is gonna be great, 'cause you-you guys are in love.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yeah?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah!
    • ross
    • Ross
      Just go for it Chandler.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Yeah, you should.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, you should, really.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Go on.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      All right, all right, I'll go sleep with my girlfriend. But I'm just doing it for you guys.
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    • Scene 4

      The museum, Joey is giving a tour to a bunch of school kids.

    • joey
    • Joey
      Okay, now the Mastodon is from the semi-late Jurassic period.
    • Smart Kid
      Isn't the Mastodon from the Pliocene Epic?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Shhh! This is a museum, no talking. Right down here, (Motions to a fossilised dinosaur foot.) we have a large foot. (Sees Ross working in one of the display cases.) Uhh, and over here we have Ross Geller. (Knocks on the glass) Everyone wave 'Hi' to Ross. Ross is one of our most important scientists, look at him, hard at work. (Ross does the old "Putting a cigarette in your ear and pulling it out of your mouth trick.") Okay, moving right along. Come on.
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    • Scene 5

      Phoebe Sr.'s house, there's a knock on the door.

    • Phoebe Sr
      It's open! Come in!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hi!
    • Phoebe Sr
      Hi!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      I'm sorry, I'm late.
    • Phoebe Sr
      Oh, that's okay, it gave me time to finish glazing my nipples.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Wow! You really go all out when you're expecting company.
    • Phoebe Sr
      No, I was working on my pottery.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh! Ooh! Oh, I didn't know that you did...pot.
    • Phoebe Sr
      Well, yeah, mostly nudes. It combines my two passions, pottery and erotica.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ooh, erotiery!
    • Phoebe Sr
      Hey! Okay! Well thanks for coming out to see me. I just-I just thought it would be a very good idea to talk about this baby stuff in person. Y'know...
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay.
    • Phoebe Sr
      I really don't think it's a very good idea, Phoebe.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Why not?
    • Phoebe Sr
      Well, because you'd be giving up a baby, and I-I really don't-I don't know if there's anything I can say that could make you understand the pain of giving up a baby. So, umm, (Picks up a puppy in the box next to the couch.)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh no! No-no! I understand the pain! Don't-don't hurt the puppy.
    • Phoebe Sr
      No-no-no, the-the puppy's yours.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, I get a puppy!!
    • Phoebe Sr
      Well, yeah! I mean yeah, but only for three days.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Why?
    • Phoebe Sr
      I realise I don't have any right to start get all parenty on you and everything now, but umm, (Sees that Phoebe isn't paying attention and is busy mimicking the puppy.) uhh... Phoebe, would you please look at me and not the puppy, it's very important.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay.
    • Phoebe Sr
      I mean, I know what I'm talking about. I gave up two babies, and I only wish I had someone there that had given up babies, that could tell me how terrible it is to give up babies. I just think that, it would be something you will regret every single day for the rest of your life. So, how ever hard it is to give up this puppy, it would be like a million times harder to give up a child. (Phoebe is playing with the puppy again, and not listening) I really shouldn't have given you the puppy first.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      All right, I'm sorry.
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    • Scene 6

      The museum's worker cafeteria, Joey is eating lunch with the rest of the tour guides. Another tour guide tries to sit down in a seat Joey saved for Ross.

    • joey
    • Joey
      Uhh, do you mind sitting there. I'm-I'm saving this for my friend Ross.
    • Tour Guide
      You mean Dr. Geller?
    • joey
    • Joey
      Doctor? Wow! I didn't know he had a nickname.
    • Tour Guide
      Oh, he won't sit here. Only the people in the white coats sit over there, (Points to there table) and only the people in the blue blazers sit here.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Well, how-how come?
    • Tour Guide
      That's just the way it is.
    • joey
    • Joey
      That's crazy.
    • Tour Guide
      Maybe it's crazy in a perfect world, a world without lab coats and blazers, but you not in a perfect world, you in a museum now. See that scientist in the classes, he and I used to play together all the time in grade school, but now...(Turns around) Peter! Hey, Peter! It's me Rhonda! From PS-129! I shared my puddin' which you man! I gave you my Snack Pack! (to Joey) See, he pretend he don't even here me!
    • joey
    • Joey
      I-I think everybody's pretending they don't hear you. Anyway, look, I don't know about you and your jackets and your separate tables, but Ross is one of my best friends, and if I save him a seat, I'm telling you, he will sit in it! (Ross enters and goes over to the white table) Ross! Ross! Over here, man! I-I saved you seat.
    • ross
    • Ross
      That's okay, I'm cool over here. I'll catch up with you later, Joey. (Joey is shocked.)
    • (Another woman enters without a coat or blazer and tries to sit at the 'blue' table.)
    • Tour Guide
      Op, this is saved. (Joey wonders why) Gift shop.
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    • Scene 7

      Monica and Rachel's, Joey is eating dinner, Monica and Rachel are sitting on the couch.

    • ross
    • Ross
      (entering) Hey, uh, I'm really, really sorry about what happened in the cafeteria today.
    • joey
    • Joey
      It's no big deal. Hey, y'know, you do what you gotta do. Right?
    • ross
    • Ross
      But hey, it's not just me, I mean the scientists and the tour guides never sit together.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Whatever.
    • ross
    • Ross
      It's like that everywhere, Joey! Okay, Mon, back me up here. Where you work the uh, waiters eat with the waiters, right? And the chefs eat with the other chefs, right?
    • monica
    • Monica
      I eat by myself in the alley because everybody hates me.
    • joey
    • Joey
      Look, Ross, really it's-it's no big deal. Y'know you wear a white coat, I wear a blue blazer, if that means we can't be friends at work, then so be it. Y'know, hey I understand. Y'know? Hey, when I'm in a play and you're in the audience, I don't talk to you, right? So it's y'know, it's uh, it's cool. I'll see you tomorrow. (Leaves)
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, when we're in the audience he doesn't talk to us, but he does wave.
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    • Scene 8

      Monica and Rachel's, the next morning, Phoebe is there with her puppy and is trying to sing it to sleep as Chandler enters.

    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Hi.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Hey!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Why is Phoebe singing to Carl Mulden?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ooh, y'know what, I think it's time for puppy to go out again. Come on, let's go to the balcony.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What?!
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Umm, the street. Come on, let's go to the street. Ooh, listen, don't go onto the balcony until after I get back. (Leaves)
    • monica
    • Monica
      (to Chandler) So, did you do it?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Yes, yes, we had the sex.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Uh-oh, it was bad?
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      It was fine, y'know? But she didn't agree with me as strongly as she agreed with Joey. She was more like, "I see you point, I'm all right with it."
    • monica
    • Monica
      Well, it was the first time. Y'know, there's not always a lot of agreement the first time.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yeah, not girls anyway, guys agree (snaps her fingers) like that.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Look, you have to help me! Okay? I mean, I know what to do with a woman, y'know, I know where everything goes, it's always nice. But I need to know what makes it go from nice to, "My God! Somebody's killing her in there!"
    • monica
    • Monica
      All right, I'm gonna show you something a lot of guys don't know. Rach, give me that pad, please? (She does so and Monica starts drawing on it) All right. Now...
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Look, you don't have to draw an actual wo-whoa! She's hot!
    • monica
    • Monica
      Now everybody knows the basic erogenous zones. (She starts labelling them) You got one, two three, four (Chandler is shocked to find out there's more than three), five, six, and seven!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (shocked) There are seven?!
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Let me see that. (Monica shows her) Oh, yeah.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      (Points to one) That's one?
    • monica
    • Monica
      It's kind of an important one!
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Oh, y'know-y'know what, I was looking at it upside down.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well, y'know, sometimes that helps. (She realises what that could've meant.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      (continuing) Now, most guys will hit uh, 1-2-3 and then go to 7 and set up camp.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      That-that's bad?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Well if you go to Disneyland, you don't spend the whole day on the Materhorn.
    • chandler
    • Chandler
      Well you might if it were anything like 7!
    • monica
    • Monica
      All right uh, the important thing is to take your time, you want to hit 'em all, and you mix 'em up. You gotta keep them on their toes.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oo, toes!! Well, for some people. (Chandler eyes her and her toes.)
    • monica
    • Monica
      All right. Umm, you could uh start out with a little 1, a 2, a 1-2-3, 3, 5, a 4, a 3-2, 2, a 2-4-6, 2-4-6, 4, (Rachel starts getting worked up) 2, 2, 4-7, 5-7, 6-7, 7, ...7.....7...7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7...(mouths 7)! (They both lean back on the couch satisfied.)
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    • Scene 9

      The museum cafeteria, Joey is eating with the tour guides as Ross enters.

    • Older Scientist
      Dr. Geller, there's a seat over here. (Motions to an empty chair at the 'white' table.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Thank you, Dr. Phillips, but I'm having my lunch at this table, here in the middle. I'm having lunch right here, with my good friend Joey, if he'll sit with me.
    • joey
    • Joey
      (standing up) I will sit with you Dr. Geller. (He goes over to his table and they shake hands.)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Y'know, we work in a museum of natural history, and yet there is something unnatural about the way we eat lunch. Now, I look around this cafeteria, and y'know what I see, I see-I see division. Division, between people in white coats and people in blue blazers, and I ask myself, "My God why?!" Now, I say we shed these-these coats that separate us, and we get to know the people underneath. (He takes off his coat and throws it down.) I'm Ross! I'm divorced, and I have a kid!
    • joey
    • Joey
      (stands up, and throws his coat on the floor) I'm Joey! I'm an actor! I don't know squat about dinosaurs!
    • Another Tour Guide
      (standing up and removing his coat) I'm Ted, and I just moved here a month ago, and New York really scares me.
    • ross
    • Ross
      All right, there you go!
    • joey
    • Joey
      Yeah, you hang in there Teddy!
    • Older Scientist
      I'm Andrew, and I didn't pay for this pear.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Okay, good-good for you.
    • Tour Guide
      I'm Rhonda, (motions to her breasts) and these aren't real! (Joey and Ross look at each other, shocked)
    • ross
    • Ross
      Wow, Rhonda.
    • Another Scientist
      I'm Scott.
    • ross
    • Ross
      Yeah, okay, Scott!
    • Another Scientist
      And I need to flip the light switch on and off 17 times before I leave a room or my family will die.
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    • Scene 10

      Central Perk, Phoebe, with the puppy, Monica, and Rachel are sitting on the couch.

    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      My mom's gonna be here any minute. I can't do this, I can't give him up. Yes-no, I can. I don't want to. But I can. No.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oo, I can't watch this, it's like Sophie's Choice.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Y'know, I never saw that.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Ooh, it was only okay.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Ooh, I can't do this. My mom was right. If I can't-if I can't give him up, then there's no way I can give up a baby. Ohh, God, Frank and Alice are gonna be so crushed. What-what else, what else can I give 'em-a kidney!
    • Alice
      (entering with Frank) Hi!
    • Frank
      Hi!
    • Alice
      Uhh, we were just in the neighbourhood, so...
    • Frank
      Yeah, so we just thought we'd stop by and let you know there's still no pressure.
    • Alice
      None. But if there was something you wanted to tell us, we're just gonna be right over there (points to the counter) having coffee.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Okay.
    • Frank
      (noticing the puppy) Oh, who's this little guy?! (Grabs the puppy)
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh! Ooh! Umm!
    • Frank
      Oh, he's so cute, he reminds me of my old dog, Tumour.
    • Alice
      You are so precious, I could just take you home.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Hey, why don't you?
    • Frank
      Are you serious?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Uh-huh, yeah!
    • Frank
      Oh, thanks.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What are you doing?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      No, I'm really okay with this. Y'know why? 'Cause look at them, and I made that, so... I know it's gonna be like a million times harder to give up a baby but, oh my God, it's gonna feel like a million times better, right? I wanna do this. (To Frank and Alice) I wanna carry your baby.
    • Alice
      (shocked) Oh! Oh! Oh! Thank you so much! You don't know what this means to us! Oh!
    • Frank
      Oh my God, I think I'm gonna cry!
    • monica
    • Monica
      It's gonna be so great.
    • Phoebe Sr
      (entering) Hi! What's going on?
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh, I-I gave them the puppy and it made them so happy that I decided I'm gonna carry their baby.
    • Phoebe Sr
      But Phoebe...
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      No-no-no, I know, but you and I are different people though, and this is a totally different situation, and I know that I am not gonna regret this.
    • Phoebe Sr
      Oh, I-I-I understand all that, but it's just-that was my puppy.
    • phoebe
    • Phoebe
      Oh!
    • CLOSING CREDITS
    • new scene
    • Scene 11

      Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Rachel are sitting at the table.

    • monica
    • Monica
      Would you ever be a surrogate for anyone?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      It depends on who asked.
    • monica
    • Monica
      What if I asked?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Oh, Mon, sure.
    • monica
    • Monica
      Really?
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yes. (Pause) You're not asking are you?
    • monica
    • Monica
      No.
    • rachel
    • Rachel
      Yes! Totally!
    • (Kathy runs in, hair all out of place, and hugs Monica.)
    • Kathy
      Oh! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Yes! Thank you! (Runs back to Chandler)
    • END