- Ross wants to introduce Ben to Hanukkah. In order to entice Rachel to move back into their refurbished apartment, Phoebe must drive a wedge between Rachel and current roomie Joey.
- Phoebe brings in her late mother's Christmas memorial candy dish, shaped like a skull. Ben stays with Ross for the holidays who intends to teach his son about their Jewish heritage. He feels Ben is only exposed to Christmas traditions. Ross certainly makes his mark on Ben but the idea of a year without Santa sounds like a serious punishment. Chandler presumes that Rachel wants to stay living happily with Joey but Monica wants her to go back to Phebes so gives Joey drums to drive Rachel out. That doesn't work so they try a tarantula which scares Joey but not Rachel who had one as a kid. Chandler's wait for a restaurant table means he might miss a theater performance; tipping the host doesn't work either as he can't find the paper money. Ross, wants to surprise Ben but can't rent any Christmas suit this late, so he invents Santa's Tex-Mex friend: the Holiday Armadillo. The Armadillo explains about Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights but Chandler appears as Santa to help out Ross. Ross however was really connecting with Ben so asks Chandler to leave, until Monica asks him to keep the suit 'for later'. Rachel goes with Phoebe visit a renovated apartment, but it has been turned into a single-bedroom place.—KGF Vissers
- Ross is getting Ben for Christmas. Ross wants to introduce his half-Jewish son to Hanukkah (Susan dresses up like Santa every year), but the latter loves Christmas (Santa has reindeer that can fly). Ben gets really sad when Ross indicates that Santa might not be visiting this yr. Ross decides to dress up as the "Holiday Armadillo" (he could not rent a Santa suit this close to Christmas) in order to get Ben excited about the festivities of Hanukkah. Ben likes the Armadillo costume and is finally getting excited about Hanukkah. But then Chandler turns up in a Santa costume. He had borrowed one from a guy at work, since he knew Ross was having trouble finding one. Ross asks Chandler to leave since BEn is getting excited about Hanukkah. Chandler agrees to give the suit back, but Monica asks him to keep it for one night. Chandler agrees when he learns that Monica's dad never dressed up as Santa. Just as Ben settles down, Joey walks in dressed as Superman.
Monica doesn't plan to change her last name to Bing when she gets married. She says Bing's weird. Chandler get a reservation at Michel's for dinner (during Christmas time). But when he and Monica get there, the receptionist says that it will take 45 mins to get a table. Monica tells Chandler to slip him some money to get a table At the first attempt, Chandler had the money in the wrong hand. Chandler is curious as to how Monica knows so much about this, and figures that Richard used to do this all the time, on dinner dates with her. At the second attempt, he misplaces the money, someone else swoops in and gets the table. Back at the coffee house Chandler practices with Gunther (James Michael Tyler).
Phoebe's and Rachel's apartment has been repaired, but Phoebe fears that Rachel prefers living at Joey's. This fear is intensified when Chandler and Monica also confirm that Rachel told him that she loves living at Joey's. Monica says Rachel probably would love to come and stay with Phoebe. In order to get Rachel to live with her again, Phoebe presents Joey with various gifts: a tarantula spider that scares Joey more than Rachel and a drum kit. She hopes both of them would be enough to drive Rachel out of Joey's apartment. Turns out Rachel loves the drums and they learn to play the song Tequila. Turns out the drums annoy Monica. Every 5 mins, Joey throws the sticks up in the air and they hurt his eyes. Rachel gets Joey protective eye glasses for the sticks. Rachel loves tarantulas. She had one as a kid, and her cat ate it and then the cat died. Rachel realizes that Phoebe has been doing this to get Rachel to come back and stay at their apartment. She suggests that Phoebe should have gotten a fish as fishes freak Rachel out. Rachel says that she has fun with Phoebe and she wants to live with her in their apartment. To make the drumming stop, Rachel puts the drum sticks in the tarantula cage.
At the apartment, Phoebe finds that the repair guys tore down the wall between the bedrooms and made one giant room with a skylight. Phoebe wants to live there alone (she says she is sensing her grand mother's presence in the apartment) and Rachel agrees.
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