Joey has a dream that Monica is his girlfriend; Monica tells him it just means he wants a relationship with the closeness that he sees between herself and Chandler. She suggests he try being friends with a woman before being intimate. After hitting on Rachel (unsuccessfully), Joey tries to make friends with new women; but they find his "friends first" approach so enticing that they want the intimacy immediately. Phoebe finds a police badge under a cushion at the coffee house. She plans to return it but has too much fun pretending to be a cop... until she pulls it on the actual owner of the badge. She drops the badge and runs away; he tracks her down and asks her on a date. Ross (accompanied by Rachel) buys a new sofa, but can't get it up the stairs to his apartment.

Original Air Date: 23 February 1999

Written By: Alicia Sky Varinaitis
Director: Andrew Tsao

Guest stars:
Michael Rapaport as Gary
Nicole Robinson as the smoking woman
Mark Fite as the salesman
Aloma Wright as the saleswoman