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* {{Auction}}: Rachel places a single of $20 on a trip to Paris so her boss won't think she was trying to avoid participating. Phoebe doesn't bid at all, instead deciding to flirt with man who wins the Paris trip in the hopes he'll take her as his plus-one.

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* {{Auction}}: Rachel places a single bid of $20 on a trip to Paris so her boss won't think she was trying to avoid participating. Phoebe doesn't bid at all, instead deciding to flirt with man who wins the Paris trip in the hopes he'll take her as his plus-one.
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* {{Auction}}: Rachel places a single of $20 on a trip to Paris so her boss won't think she was trying to avoid participating. Phoebe doesn't bid at all, instead deciding to flirt with man who wins the Paris trip in the hopes he'll take her as his plus-one.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: After Phoebe's attempt to explain why she wanted to see Monica's hand.
-->'''Chandler:''' Who walks into a room and asks to see a person’s hands?!\\
'''Phoebe:''' Well, a palm reader, a manicurist, a hand doctor--\\
'''Joey:''' Glove salesman!
* BadLiar: Unaware the proposal was delayed, Phoebe and Joey ask to see Monica's hand. After Chandler waves them off, Phoebe says she wants to see the trash that Monica is currently holding. After Monica leaves the room, Chandler calls the lie stupid and says it will give away the surprise.


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* ContinuityNod: Monica observes that Richard regrew his mustache. [[Recap/FriendsS3E13TheOneWhereMonicaAndRichardAreJustFriends The last time]] we saw him, he had shaved it off.


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* FlatWhat: Joey's response to being told he bid at an auction rather than simply made a guess.


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* {{Irony}}: Joey thought his $20,000 bid was simply guessing how much the boat cost. Mr. Thompson later tells him the boat is worth $19,000, so Joey takes a moment to acknowledge how he did make a good guess, after all.


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* OnlySaneWoman: Between Joey's AccidentalBid that he ends up trying to make good on and Phoebe getting hammered at the open bar, Rachel is left feeling like this and desperately trying to keep from being embarrassed.
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* GimmeBackMyWallet: Before Chandler leaves to proposed to Monica, Phoebe hugs him. Then Chandler asks her to return the ring.

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* GimmeBackMyWallet: GiveMeBackMyWallet: Before Chandler leaves to proposed to Monica, Phoebe hugs him. Then Chandler asks her to return the ring.
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* GimmeBackMyWallet: Before Chandler leaves to proposed to Monica, Phoebe hugs him. Then Chandler asks her to return the ring.
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* TheBusCameBack: Richard returns for the first time since "[[Recap/FriendsS3E13TheOneWhereMonicaAndRichardAreJustFriends TOW Monica and Richard are Just Friends]]" back in season three.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Phoebe agrees to go to the auction after learning there's an open bar and immediately helps herself to a tray ''full'' of drinks.
-->'''Rachel:''' How is you drinking helping the kids?\\
'''Phoebe:''' Because the more I drink, the less there is for the kids to drink.
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* DerailingLoveInterests: Taken to th epoint of self-parody. Ross decided to break up with Elizabeth for the perfectly valid reason that [[DifferingPrioritiesBreakup they are at very different stages of their lives and he doesn't see a future]]. All of a sudden, just as he's having second thoughts, Elizabeth sticks her head out the window, yells at Ross, and hits him with a water balloon.

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* DerailingLoveInterests: Taken to th epoint the point of self-parody. Ross decided to break up with Elizabeth for the perfectly valid reason that [[DifferingPrioritiesBreakup they are at very different stages of their lives and he doesn't see a future]]. All of a sudden, just as he's having second thoughts, Elizabeth sticks her head out the window, yells at Ross, and hits him with a water balloon.
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* DerailingLoveInterests: All of a sudden, Elizabeth starts to act like a stereotypical silly shallow teenage girl, leading Ross to break up with her.

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* DerailingLoveInterests: Taken to th epoint of self-parody. Ross decided to break up with Elizabeth for the perfectly valid reason that [[DifferingPrioritiesBreakup they are at very different stages of their lives and he doesn't see a future]]. All of a sudden, just as he's having second thoughts, Elizabeth starts to act like a stereotypical silly shallow teenage girl, leading Ross to break up sticks her head out the window, yells at Ross, and hits him with her.a water balloon.
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* WomanScorned: Elizabeth [[WaterGunsAndBalloons throws a water balloon at Ross]] because he dumped her.

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* WomanScorned: Elizabeth [[WaterGunsAndBalloons throws a water balloon at Ross]] because he dumped her.her.
* YouMustBeCold: During her date with Chandler, Monica asks if she can borrow his jacket. Unknown to her, he has an engagement ring hidden in the pocket but of course, can't tell her and makes up the excuse that if he gives her his jacket, ''he'' will be cold.

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* WhamLine: The episode [[{{Cliffhanger}} ends]] with Richard declaring to Monica that he's still in love with her.

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* SchmuckBait: Ross ''thinks'' this was the healthiest, friendliest breakup he ever had. He leaves Elizabeth's dorm, she calls for him and... as soon as he turns towards her, [[WomanScorned she throws a water balloon at him right in mid-campus]].
* WaterGunsAndBalloons:
** When Ross goes to Elizabeth's dorm to talk to her, she and her colleagues are having a water balloon fight with an adjoining dorm.
** After he leaves her dorm, she [[WomanScorned hits him with a water balloon]].
* WhamLine: The episode [[{{Cliffhanger}} ends]] with Richard declaring to Monica that he's still in love with her.
* WomanScorned: Elizabeth [[WaterGunsAndBalloons throws a water balloon at Ross]] because he dumped
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* KiddieKid: Elizabeth and her friends are 20-year old students, yet behave several years ounger, with their high-pitched screams and water battle.

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* KiddieKid: Elizabeth and her friends are 20-year old students, yet behave several years ounger, younger, with their high-pitched screams and water battle.



* WhamLine: The episode ends with Richard declaring to Monica that he's still in love with her.

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* WhamLine: The episode ends [[{{Cliffhanger}} ends]] with Richard declaring to Monica that he's still in love with her.
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* CallBack: We hear the tail-end of Monica recounting the story of [[Recap/FriendsS2E16TheOneWhereJoeyMovesOut the time]] where she got trapped in a bathroom with her [[PrimalScene parents having sex]].
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* OldFlame: There's still a lot of sexual tension (and unresolved feelings) between Monica and Richard.
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* DerailingLoveInterest: All of a sudden, Elizabeth starts to act like a stereotypical silly shallow teenage girl, leading Ross to break up with her.

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* DerailingLoveInterest: DerailingLoveInterests: All of a sudden, Elizabeth starts to act like a stereotypical silly shallow teenage girl, leading Ross to break up with her.
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* DerailingLoveInterest: All of a sudden, Elizabeth starts to act like a stereotypical silly shallow teenage girl, leading Ross to break up with her.


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* KiddieKid: Elizabeth and her friends are 20-year old students, yet behave several years ounger, with their high-pitched screams and water battle.
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Chandler goes out to dinner with Monica with plans to propose to her, which are derailed by the sudden appearance of Richard. Rachel, Phoebe and Joey go to a silent auction and Joey accidentally buys a boat. Ross is starting to feel the age difference between him and Elizabeth.
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* AccidentalBid: Joey goes with Rachel and Phoebe to a silent auction and accidentally makes a twenty-thousand-dollar bid for a boat (he thought it was just guessing at prices). He wins the bid, much to his distress as he doesn't have that kind of money.
* IndirectKiss: In the cold open, Phoebe puts the ring in her mouth to hide it from Monica when she comes in. When Monica goes to the other room, Chandler snatches it back, but then Monica comes in again and Chandler does the same thing as Phoebe. Phoebe comments that it could count as a kiss between them and gives a come-hither look to Chandler.
* WhamLine: The episode ends with Richard declaring to Monica that he's still in love with her.

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