- Monica and Phoebe throw Rachel a baby shower but forget to invite Rachel's mom. Rachel realizes she has no idea how to look after the baby after the birth. Meanwhile, Joey auditions for a job as a host for a new game show called "Bamboozled", and Chandler and Ross help him practice.
- Monica throws a baby shower for Rachel, but realizes she forgot to invite Rachel's mom and calls her just hours before it begins. The party is nice and everything goes well, until Phoebe tells Monica that there will be a stripper. Meanwhile, Joey is practicing for an audition to become the host of a new game show named "Bamboozled". Ross and Chandler invite Joey to play basketball, but he needs to practice for the casting and asks for some help. Chandler gets very uncomfortable, because he feels like a fool pretending to be a contestant - especially given the show's ridiculous format and rules - while Ross is enjoying it. Monica gets nervous, because Rachel's mother is still irritated about the last-minute invitation and brushes off Monica's apologies. Mrs. Green tells Rachel that she will move in with her for eight weeks when the baby comes, but Rachel doesn't like the idea and claims that she will be able to manage everything because has read some books. But when she opens her presents and sees all the strange items for a newborn, she freaks out and concludes that she indeed will need her mother's help.—Alejandro Frias
- Phoebe and Monica prepare for Rachel's baby shower and forget to invite Rachel's mother. Although both of her sisters cant make it. When Rachel finds out, she says she was really hoping to have her mother at the shower. Monica promises to get her there and calls Sandra Green. Sandra knew that her other daughters received their invitations a month ago, but decides to come. Sandra (Marlo Thomas) is then rude to Monica through the entire party, trying to make her feel guilty. Monica's ass gets all sweaty due to her nervousness.
Monica tries everything she can to get Sandra to forgive her, but Phoebe eventually convinces her to tell Sandra off for being so rude. Monica tells Sandra that its rude to leave a party without thanking the host and the decent thing to do is to accept the apology. She says when Sandra is ready to apologize, she will be ready to accept it. But Monica feels very guilty for saying all this and rushes after Sandra to again apologize to her.
At the baby shower, Rachel freaks out when she realizes that she knows virtually nothing about how to care for a baby (she gets a diaper genie in gift and didn't know what it was. Hadnt seen a breast pump before and didn't know how to use it. Didnt know that they baby goes poo-poo 10 times a day. Suggests that she would leave the baby on the changing table while she goes out to throw the garbage, and shocks everyone in the room), and her mom says that she will move in and help take care of the baby. Rachel panics at the suggestion as a lunch is taxing with her. But after realizing that she is a novice, Rachel is glad that Sandra is going to stay with her for 8 weeks post the baby's arrival. Ross convinces Rachel she will be a good mother and convinces Rachel's mom that she doesn't need to move in for the baby. He says that he has already taken of Ben whenever he was visiting Ross and knows all about the Baby's needs.
Joey auditions for a job as a game show host called Bamboozled and Chandler and Ross help him practice by pretending to be the contestants. The game turns out to be ridiculous (a Wicked Wango card that doesn't seem to do anything. The wheel of Mayhem. Angel pass for a free turn. Google card. Gimme Card. Backwards bonus. Ladder of Chance to the Golden Mud Hut. Hungry Monkey. Super Speedy Speed round. Hopping bonus, which cancels if you forget to switch legs between questions) and impossible to follow, but Chandler and Ross become hooked on it. Chandler calls it the best game ever.
When it comes to audition for the host, Joey is informed that the producers have cut out all of the complicated elements, turning it into a simple Q&A game. Joey questions the appeal of the game until he is told that there will be hot girls in bikinis holding up the scores. Ross then later uses Bamboozled as a trivia game to quiz Rachel about baby care. Rachel gets a question right, but when she attempts one of the ridiculous elements, Ross claims she is going to be an bad mother, which results in Ross saying he lost sight in why he was playing the game.
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