- When New York suffers from a blackout, Ross tries to tell Rachel that he likes her, and Chandler gets stuck in an ATM vestibule with a model.
- When a power-cut blacks out most of New York City, Chandler, to his delight finds himself trapped inside an ATM vestibule with Victoria's Secret model Jill Goodacre. She lets him use her cell-phone, and offers him gum which he instantly regrets refusing. He accidentally spits out her gum which he finally accepted, then picks up some to put back in his mouth and begins to choke when he realizes it wasn't the original gum. The others kill time in Monica's apartment, lit by the light from a Menorah, telling stories of the weirdest places they ever had sex. Joey tells Ross he waited too long moving onto Rachel and is now too far into the 'friend's zone.' Ross still tries to make a move on Rachel while stargazing on the balcony. Joey keeps the other girls inside by pretending Ross prepares a birthday surprise party for Monica. A wandering cat scratches Ross. Rachel and Phoebe go knocking on their neighbor's doors to find the cat's owner, seeing through odd neighbor Mr. Heckles's who lies about being the owner. On their mission, they bump into the hunky, and actual cat-owner, Paolo, who only speaks Italian. Rachel brings him back to the apartment where he outstrips Ross's flirting, even not being able to speak English.—KGF Vissers
- New York has a power cut. Chandler is trapped in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre. The other friends play games in Monica's apartment. Ross decides to ask Rachel out but a lost cat gets in the way. Phoebe & Rachel try to return him & find he belongs to a hot Italian guy, Paolo. Can you imagine how Ross is going to feel?...—Phoebe_Friends_Fan
- Phoebe debuts as a singer at Central Perk. As she starts singing, the light goes out and the whole city has a blackout.
During a New York City-wide power outage, while the gang is hanging at Monica and Rachel's apartment. Joey breaks out his Hebrew candle stand. Ugly naked guy also lights a bunch of candles. The gang exchange stories about the weirdest place they had sex in (Pool table for Monica, women's room on 2nd floor of the NYC state library for Joey, Milwaukee for Phoebe, Disneyland for Ross (Carol and Ross were asked never to return), The foot of the bed for Rachel). Joey finds out that Monica had a crush on him when he first moved in..
Ross tries to share his true feelings with Rachel (who was impressed with Ross's passion for Carol, that ended up in sex in Disneyland) but is attacked by a cat. Joey had told Ross that "its never gonna happen", as he waited too long and now he is in the "friends" zone, which is what prompted Ross to speak to Rachel about his feelings. Rachel and Phoebe begin searching for the cat's owner, but when Mr. Heckles (Larry Hankin) tries to claim the cat, he spooks it.
The cat turns out to belong to Paolo (Cosimo Fusco), a dark, attractive Italian hunk who lives in the building and doesn't speak much English and (in a La Boheme moment) Rachel falls for him immediately. She brings him back to the apartment to meet the gang. The girls are crazy about Paolo. Ross tries to speak to Paolo about Rachel, but backs off when Paolo asks if they have had sex or if they are a couple.
Meanwhile, Chandler is trapped in an ATM vestibule with 'Victoria's Secret' model Jill Goodacre, and he desperately tries to impress her. (This episode was tied to the Mad About You season 3 episode "Pandora's Box" which depicted the cause of the city-wide blackout.).. he calls home and Monica picks the phone.. Chandler has to speak in a hushed tone as Jill is standing next to him, and Monica cant understand a word of what he says, so he asks Joey to be put on the phone. Joey gets that Chandler is stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre. Chandler finally hits off with Jill, after an awkward start (Chandler smiles at Jill and ends up creeping her out), when she saves Chandler from choking on his bubble gum (Jill offered him gum while they were stuck, and tries to blow a bubble only managing to spit the gum out. He puts it back in, only to realize its not his gum and starts to choke on it), by performing the Heimlich maneuver. They end up playing time-pass games and part on good terms (she kisses him goodbye) when the power comes back on. He wants a copy of the video recording from the ATM company..
The power comes back on and Ross is devastated to see Rachel kissing Paolo.
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