History Recap / FriendsS3E15TheOneWhereRossAndRachelTakeABreak

* IdiotBall: After Mark comes over to "comfort" Rachel while she stresses about her fight with Ross, he very loudly asks her a question as she's talking with Ross over the phone, which Ross overhears. He angrily hangs up on her, concluding that she's having an affair with Mark. Fans, to this day, debate whether or not this was an [[{{Jerkass}} intentional "slip up" on Mark's part so that he could steal Rachel for himself.]]\n** Joey and Chandler taking Ross to (of all places) a bar after his big fight with Rachel, which does nothing but allow him to [[DrowningMySorrows get drunk]] and commit the ultimate act of AlcoholInducedIdiocy. [[HarsherinHindsight Everything goes downhill]] the very next episode...

* TheStoner: Though never outright stated, Isaac gives off a very clear vibe of being this.

Rachel is fed up with Ross' jealousy and tells him they need to take a break. He ends up sleeping with someone else. Phoebe and Monica double date with a diplomat and his interpreter.

* InformedAttractiveness: Chloe is suggested to be very beautiful, with Chandler and Joey regularly visiting the copy place where she works simply to gawk at her. While she's not ugly, per say, some fans feel that her attractiveness was at least slightly overblown in the episode.

* {{Infomercial}}: How Monica gets her bottle of Waxine, as well as another product.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Joey states that Phoebe and Monica pulling the wax off hurts them more because women have less resistance to pain than men (this is before the girls make him and Chandler do the same, and the boys get equally as hurt as the girls were). It's actually the other way around: women have ''more'', not less, resistance to pain than men do.
* AsbestosFreeCereal: No, something being made with organic products from the Amazon is not necessarily pain-free - quite the contrary, in fact.

* PainfulBodyWaxing: The theme of the B-plot involving Phoebe and Monica, and later Joey and Chandler. Monica buys a bottle of Waxine, a brand of wax made from organic products from the Amazon that is promised to be pain-free, and tries it out with Phoebe. As they, and later Joey and Chandler, learn, no, it's the exact opposite of pain-free.

* CallBack: The song [[Music/{{U2}} With Or Without You]] plays over the PA at Chloe and Isaac's party. This was Ross's "make up song" to Rachel at the end of "TOW The List", and he even acknowledges to Chloe that he likes the song. The episode ends in a [[{{Cliffhanger}} fadeout as the two kiss each other.]]

* InformedWrongness: Ross is portrayed as being completely in the wrong when he distracts Rachel with his basket of food and wreaks havoc at her office. However, when you consider his acknowledgement that he and Rachel haven't even been able to see each other all week due to her work commitments and the fact that it was their first anniversary, it's not hard to see why Ross would resort to such a drastic measure with her.

* TheStoner: Though never outright stated, Isaac gives off a very clear vibe of being this.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** After Mark comes over to "comfort" Rachel while she stresses about her fight with Ross, he very loudly asks her a question as she's talking with Ross over the phone, which Ross overhears. He angrily hangs up on her, concluding that she's having an affair with Mark. Fans, to this day, debate whether or not this was an [[{{Jerkass}} intentional "slip up" on Mark's part so that he could steal Rachel for himself.]]
** Joey and Chandler taking Ross to (of all places) a bar after his big fight with Rachel, which does nothing but allow him to [[DrowningMySorrows get drunk]] and commit the ultimate act of AlcoholInducedIdiocy.

** Joey and Chandler taking Ross to (of all places) a bar after his big fight with Rachel, which does nothing but allow him to [[DrowningMySorrows get drunk]] and commit the ultimate act of AlcoholInducedIdiocy.
* YourCheatingHeart: Ross, of course. At the same time, Chloe has no qualms about sleeping with him, even though she knows he's in a relationship.

* YourCheatingHeart: Chloe has no qualms about sleeping with Ross, even though she knows he's in a relationship.

* ReallyGetsAround: Chloe has no qualms about sleeping with Ross, even if he's ''married''.

** Joey and Chandler taking Ross to (of all places) a bar after his big fight with Rachel, which does nothing but allow him to [[DrowningMySorrows get drunk]] and commit the ultimate act of AlcoholInducedIdiocy.

** After Mark comes over to "comfort" Rachel while she stresses about her fight with Ross, he very loudly asks her a question as she's talking with Ross over the phone, which Ross overhears. He angrily hangs up on her, concluding that she's having an affair with Mark.

** After Mark comes over to "comfort" Rachel while she stresses about her fight with Ross, he asks her a question as she's talking with Ross over the phone, which Ross overhears. He angrily hangs up on her.

* InformedAttractiveness: Chloe is suggested to be very beautiful, with Chandler and Joey regularly visiting the copy place where works simply to gawk at her. While she's not ugly, per say, some fans feel that her attractiveness was at least slightly overblown in the episode.

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