Friends Season 8

Season 8, Episode 1: The One After I Do
Original Air Date: 27 September 2001
After the ceremony pictures are taken. Everybody thinks Monica is pregnant but when she corrects them Phoebe and Monica realize that it was Rachel's pregnancy test Phoebe found. Rachel won't tell the girls who the father is before she tells him.
Season 8, Episode 2: The One with the Red Sweater
Original Air Date: 4 October 2001
Monica, Phoebe and Joey advice Rachel to tell the father about the pregnancy. Chandler and Ross lose the pictures of wedding.
Season 8, Episode 3: The One Where Rachel Tells...
Original Air Date: 11 October 2001
Even on honeymoon, Monica is constantly pushy, and really regrets Chandler wouldn't jump the queue at the airport check-in: the couple before them, also on honeymoon, got bumped up to first class; they try to sneak into the first class lounge, but are caught- well, at least she can nick an orange. Joey and Phoebe find Monica and Chandler have tricked them out of the keys of the master apartment; Joey hoped a false gas leak alert would make super Treeger use his key, but he makes a fireman use an ax; the wrecked door calls for a big lie... Rachel is finally ready to tell who the father is- the others say they already know, except daddy Ross, who thinks she just wants another passionate night with him. After blaming everything on the condom manufacturer, as he nor Joey ever read the notice they are only 97% safe, Ross goes promise Rachel full support and of course proposes- which she waves as they aren't in love and she refuses to admit she couldn't do it alone, although she can't even see their baby on the first ultrasound.

Season 8, Episode 4: The One with the Videotape
Original Air Date: 18 October 2001
Ross and Rachel tell the friends about the night they were together. Ross tells that he has a tape from that night.
Season 8, Episode 5: The One with Rachel's Date
Original Air Date: 25 October 2001
Phoebe dates Monica's sous-chef Tim and Monica doesn't fire him for Phoebe's sake. When Phoebe decides to dump Tim Monica can finally fire him. Rachel has a date with Kash, a co-star on Days of Our Lives. Ross thinks it's weird because whoever takes Rachel out, takes his baby out too. He always pictured that his next child would grow up in a happy family. Rachel's date was terrible because she made the mistake of mentioning she was pregnant. Ross reassures her it isn't so bad because when she has the baby she will love someone more than she ever loved anyone.
Season 8, Episode 6: The One with the Halloween Party
Original Air Date: 1 November 2001
Monica and Chandler are having a costume party for Halloween. Phoebe bumps into Ursula who is getting married in a week and invites her in return for Ursula's invitation for the wedding. Phoebe really likes Ursula's fiancé Eric (Sean Penn!). Eric and Ursula only met two weeks earlier and Phoebe finds out that Ursula told Eric a lot of lies about herself. Phoebe tells him the truth about Ursula while Rachel is trying to be good with children by handing out candy and money after the candy is gone.
Season 8, Episode 7: The One with the Stain
Original Air Date: 8 November 2001
Chandler hires a maid to clean the apartment and Monica promises to give her a chance. Eric broke up with Ursula and asks Phoebe out for lunch but he is still upset about Ursula and can't look at Phoebe without seeing Ursula. Rachel is looking for an apartment because she can't stay with Joey once the baby is here. Monica is very patient with the cleaning lady but thinks the girl stole her jeans and is wearing them. Monica remembers dropping ink and making a stain in the crotch of the jeans and tries to find out if they really are her jeans. Phoebe and Eric make out but then Eric accidentally has sex with Ursula thinking it's Phoebe and that's the end of Phoebe and Eric's relationship. Monica makes Chandler make a move on Brenda to see whether the jeans are stained or not. It turns out Rachel borrowed Monica's jeans but Brenda quit already. Joey doesn't want Rachel to move out so he builds a baby room in his apartment to show Rachel that it would work with all of them living there. Rachel decides to stay with Joey.
Season 8, Episode 8: The One with the Stripper
Original Air Date: 15 November 2001
Chandler finds out that Monica had a bacholerette party with stripper even though they promised not to have bachelor/bachelorette parties. Rachel takes Phoebe to have dinner with Rachel's dad because she is afraid her dad will be really angry when Rachel tells him she's pregnant. Mr Green is delighted to hear he will be grandfather but freaks out when he finds out that Rachel isn't getting married so she just tells him Ross won't marry her. Monica feels bad about having had a bachelorette party so she organizes a bachelor party including a stripper for Chandler. Joey is the only "guest" at Chandler's bachelor party because Chandler is embarrassed and doesn't really want to have the party. The stripper comes a-knocking but turns out to be a hooker. Mr Green goes to see Ross to yell at him but unfortunately for Ross Mona is there too so they are both yelling at Ross. Rachel explains everything to her dad and Mona who makes up with Ross.
Season 8, Episode 9: The One with the Rumor
Original Air Date: 22 November 2001
Will (Brad Pitt), an old friend of Ross' is in town and Monica invited him for Thanksgiving dinner. Will used to be really fat in high school and he really hates Rachel because she was horrible to him. Will shows his hatred and tells Rachel they had the "I-hate-Rachel-Greene-Club" in high school. The members of the club: Will and Ross! Their club spread a rumor that Rachel had both male and female reproductive parts. Everybody knew about the rumor and Rachel figures that's why certain guys wouldn't go out with her. It turns out that Rachel told everyone about how Ross made out with the old librarian and Ross is so upset he wants to be in the club again. Phoebe also joins the club because she's never been in a club. Monica tells them they're being childish and they should focus on the important things going on in their lives like having a baby together.
Season 8, Episode 10: The One with Monica's Boots
Original Air Date: 6 December 2001
Monica buys really expensive but fabulous boots. Chandler wants to return them but Monica promises to wear them all the time and they'll be worth the money. Monica really does wear them all the time now but they hurt like hell. Joey's youngest sister Dina is pregnant and comes to Rachel for advice and they go tell Joey who gets really upset about it. Phoebe finds out that Sting's son is in Ben's class so she goes to see Sting's wife pretending to want to talk about Ben and Jack in order to get tickets to Sting's concert. It all ends in a restraining order for Phoebe.
Season 8, Episode 11: The One with Ross's Step Forward
Original Air Date: 13 December 2001
Ross and Mona took pictures of themselves at the Rockefeller Center and now Mona wants to send the picture as a Holiday card to friends. Ross freaks out at the thought of them sending out Holiday cards together because they've only been dating a couple of months. Ross tries to have a conversation about their relationship and says all the wrong things and ends up giving Mona a key to his apartment. Chandler has to tell his boss that he split up with Monica in order to prevent that Monica has to have dinner with Chandler and his boss.
Season 8, Episode 12: The One Where Joey Dates Rachel
Original Air Date: 10 January 2002
Phoebe gives Chandler and Monica a late wedding present: the game Ms Pac-Man. Chandler plays it all day long to be better than Monica and Phoebe. Rachel misses dressing up for romantic dates so Joey promises to take her out. They have a wonderfully romantic date pretending they're not roommates and they get to know each other a whole new level. Monica and Phoebe have to try to beat Chandler's top scores because Ben is coming over to play and Chandler put dirty words as names for the top scores. Joey has a crush on Rachel and feels weird about it.
Season 8, Episode 13: The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath
Original Air Date: 17 January 2002
After his openhearted evening with Rachel, Joey finds it impossible to go back to thinking about her as just a friend, she became more like a girl friend, yet he can't talk about it, not even to Chandler; Joey's rambling to the happy couple and shutting up when Phoebe enters make Monica conclude he must be in love with Phoebe. Considering baby names, parents to be Ross and Rachel had no word in common except 'veto!', and agreed only not to ask the child's sex, yet with the gynecologist she takes a peak, he notices and asks the doc afterward... After Chandler was unable to understand why Monica loves taking an elaborate bath, she lures him into trying a perfect combination of scents and salts, with a model navy 'boat' (ship) to make it look more boyish, and he's hooked, enough to steal her next bath by jumping in before she can; when the discussion about Joey converges in the bathroom, the boat gets a more modest, but frustratingly frustrated purpose.
Season 8, Episode 14: The One with the Secret Closet
Original Air Date: 31 January 2002
Chandler's very curious about a locked closet, but Monica won't tell him what is inside.
Season 8, Episode 15: The One with the Birthing Video
Original Air Date: 7 February 2002
During Valentine's Day, Chandler discovers the miracle of birth seeing an extremely graphic video.
Season 8, Episode 16: The One Where Joey Tells Rachel
Original Air Date: 28 February 2002
Ross freaks out when Joey tells him that he is in love with Rachel because Ross is afraid that they will get married and raise his kid together. Phoebe dates a guy called Don, who she thinks is Monica's soul-mate and introduces Don to Monica to see what will happen. Monica and Don get along perfectly. Ross goes to tell Joey that he doesn't hate him and Joey promises to never act on his feelings for Rachel because he won't jeopardize his friendship to Ross. But when Ross realizes that Joey really is in love for the first time he tells Joey to tell Rachel. When Joey tells Rachel it is clear that she doesn't feel the same way about Joey and they both start crying.

Season 8, Episode 17: The One with the Tea Leaves
Original Air Date: 7 March 2002
Chandler and Monica are happy together, their worst problem is his habit to put CDs in the wrong box and their different taste in music. Rachel is desperate to get back at good terms with Joey, so she takes Monica's advice to change subject to something work-related, but instead of an innocent matter invents her boss, Mr. Zelner, wants to buy her baby... When Phoebe resumes reading tea leaves, she sees she'll meet the man of her dreams soon, and takes that to be Jim, who she keeps bumping into, but soon finds he isn't quite that nice, in fact too crazy even for her- or the wrong man? Ross is determined to get his favorite pink ('light salmon shade') shirt back from Mona's, so he sneaks in with the key, and dives behind the couch when she enters with a studly new lover...
Season 8, Episode 18: The One in Massapequa
Original Air Date: 28 March 2002
Phoebe has an extremely enthusiast friend, who makes a fuss of everything.
Season 8, Episode 19: The One with Joey's Interview
Original Air Date: 4 April 2002
Joey gives an interview to a soap opera magazine.
Season 8, Episode 20: The One with the Baby Shower
Original Air Date: 25 April 2002
Monica gives a baby shower for Rachel, where the future mother will find out that she doesn't know to much about babies.
Season 8, Episode 21: The One with the Cooking Class
Original Air Date: 2 May 2002
Monica gets angry with a critic who wrote an awful review about a soup, served at her restaurant. She goes straight forward with him, in order to give him once again her soup and he could write a better review.
Season 8, Episode 22: The One Where Rachel Is Late
Original Air Date: 9 May 2002
Rachel's in a bad mood because she's tired of being pregnant. She wants that the baby comes quick, while Phoebe and Monica are making bets about the date of the birth.
Season 8, Episode 23: The One Where Rachel Has the Baby: Part 1
Original Air Date: 16 May 2002
Ross and Rachel go to the hospital to have their baby but it's a long labor. They get stuck in a semi-private room and many other couples come and go before Rachel is ready to deliver, the last couple being Janice and her new husband. Chandler and Monica decide to start trying to have a baby.
Season 8, Episode 24: The One Where Rachel Has the Baby: Part 2
Original Air Date: 16 May 2002
After 21 hours Rachel is finally ready to go to the delivery room and baby-girl Geller Green is born and her name is Emma! Janice comes to see Rachel and Janice says she admires Rachel for her strength to raise the child on her own. When Rachel says she isn't alone because she has Ross, Janice tells her that Ross won't around forever and might meet someone else. Suddenly, Rachel feels very alone and she tries to talk to Ross about the kiss they had. Ross doesn't want to have a relationship with Rachel anymore because if it doesn't work out it would really hurt Emma and he and Rachel are doing fine as things are now. Joey comes to comfort Rachel and she accidentally thinks Joey is proposing to her and Rachel says yes!