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* EveryoneHasStandards: Just as they start making out, Chandler asks Monica how drunk she is. She replies she's still fully aware of her actions and that he shouldn't feel guilty.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Just In the flashback to London, just as they start making out, Chandler asks Monica how drunk she is. She replies she's still fully aware of her actions and that he shouldn't feel guilty.



* FriendshipMoment: After Chandler storms out, Joey seeks him out to talk and reassure him.

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* FriendshipMoment: After Chandler storms out, Joey seeks him out to talk and reassure him.him that just because Monica wanted Joey first "for half an hour one night" doesn't matter when she wants Chandler for the rest of her life.



* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Chandler is briefly insecure about the knowledge that Monica initially came to the room looking for Joey, Joey counters that Monica only wanted him first for half an hour one night but she wants Chandler for the rest of her life.

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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Chandler is briefly insecure about the knowledge that Monica initially came to the room looking for Joey, Joey counters that Monica only wanted him first for half an hour one night but she wants Chandler for the rest of her life.life.
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* BerserkButton: The second Ben says she and Ross were on a break, Rachel gets very angry. She's about to start yelling, though she catches herself since Ben is just a kid.


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* DumbassHasAPoint: Joey's pitch for why he should officiate includes how he's an actor (meaning he can handle himself in front of a crowd and not spit while talking) and that he wouldn't constantly stare at Monica's breasts (due to his well-known reputation as an ass man).


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* FlatWhat: Monica's reaction to Phoebe's LooseLips. Chandler then asks the same of Monica. All Phoebe can do is ask this of Joey.


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* ImStandingRightHere: While trying to smooth things over with Chandler, Monica stresses that she is "unbelievably glad" she didn't sleep with Joey that night. Joey lets out an insulted, "Hey!" Monica's sheepish expression suggests she forgot he was there.


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* TheInternetIsForPorn: Joey got ordained online. After telling the others he's succeeded, he says he's learned there's a lot of porn on the internet.


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* RewatchBonus: In the flashback, when Monica shows up at the guys' hotel room, she's holding a drink and asking where Joey is. It turns out she was there for drunk sex with Joey.


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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Monica quickly sports this expression, after Chandler asks who she originally wanted to sleep with that night.
* VerbalBackspace: After Monica admits she was originally looking for Joey that night:
-->'''Joey:''' ''[smirking]'' Yeah, baby! ''[sees Chandler glaring at him]'' No, baby!
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* LooseLips: After Chandler tells the story of how he and Monica hooked up, Phoebe lets it slip that he wasn't who Monica was looking for to have sex with.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Ross arrives to Rachel's door with a line down his face, angry that she taught Ben how to do pranks. Then it turns out the prank he was angry about was Saran wrap on the toilet seat and hasn't even noticed the line on his face.



* BrickJoke: Ross had told Ben his view of the "we were on a break" arguing, much to Rachel's irritation. In a later scene, she makes sure to tell him different in addition to talking him out of practical jokes.

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Ross had told Ben his view of the "we were on a break" arguing, much to Rachel's irritation. In a later scene, she makes sure to tell him different in addition to talking him out of practical jokes.jokes.
** The day after Rachel takes care of Ben, Ross appears with a black line down his face from the prank she taught Ben, and apparently hasn't noticed it yet. A few scenes later, Rachel goes to visit Carol, who has the same line on her face.


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* FaceDoodling: In a variation, Rachel teaches Ben to rub pencil lead on the edge of a quarter and dare someone to run it down their face and unwittingly lay down a pencil mark on it. Both Ross and Carol fall for it and are apparently unaware of the black line down their face; Ross never found out until a student in his class pointed it out.


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* NutritionalNightmare: In the ImagineSpot at the end, Monica makes Joey [[YourFavorite his favorite]] -- multiple dishes of "fried stuff with cheese."[[note]] "And lots of it!" [[/note]]
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* AsideGlance: Chandler, as Joey once again falls back on "having and giving and sharing" lines for what he'll say when officiating the wedding.


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* BigOMG: Chandler when Monica admits she was originally looking for Joey that night.


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* BrickJoke: Ross had told Ben his view of the "we were on a break" arguing, much to Rachel's irritation. In a later scene, she makes sure to tell him different in addition to talking him out of practical jokes.


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* DisproportionateRetribution: After learning Monica initially wanted to sleep with Joey, Chandler refuses to let him officiate. Joey points out that's not fair.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Just as they start making out, Chandler asks Monica how drunk she is. She replies she's still fully aware of her actions and that he shouldn't feel guilty.
* FriendshipMoment: After Chandler storms out, Joey seeks him out to talk and reassure him.


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* ManHug: Chandler and Joey after talking things out.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Phoebe blurts out that Monica intended to hook up with someone else that night.
* NotSoAboveItAll: During the end credit scene, Ross pulls off a prank on Rachel.
* OneTrueLove: Chandler gets over his insecurity when Joey sums up his relationship with Monica.
-->'''Joey:''' We look at you, and we see you together, and it just... it... it fits, you know? And you just know it's gonna last forever.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Monica intended to sleep with Joey instead of Chandler that night, but Joey was off with Emily's bridesmaid at the time.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Joey's attempt to write something to say when officiating Monica and Chandler's wedding focuses on talking about giving, receiving and sharing.



* ImagineSpot: The end of the episode has the friends imagine what it would be like if Monica and Joey married each other. They suppose that Joey would be very, very fat as a result of all the food Monica would make for him.

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* ImagineSpot: The end of the episode has the friends imagine what it would be like if Monica and Joey married each other. They suppose that Joey would be very, very fat as a result of all the food Monica would make for him.him.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Chandler falls back on this when he learns that Monica initially came to his hotel room for meaningless sex with Joey.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Chandler is briefly insecure about the knowledge that Monica initially came to the room looking for Joey, Joey counters that Monica only wanted him first for half an hour one night but she wants Chandler for the rest of her life.
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* HonoraryUncle: Rachel is Ben's "fun aunt".

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* HonoraryUncle: Rachel is Ben's "fun aunt".aunt".
* ImagineSpot: The end of the episode has the friends imagine what it would be like if Monica and Joey married each other. They suppose that Joey would be very, very fat as a result of all the food Monica would make for him.
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Rachel babysits Ben and teaches him all sorts of pranks, much to Ross' displeasure. Monica and Chandler struggle to find a priest to officiate at their wedding. Joey proposes ordaining himself through the Internet so they'll have someone they can trust.

The uncut DVD version has another plot centering around Phoebe where she takes painkillers for a headache and becomes paranoid about the side effects.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Ben accidentally calls Rachel "Phoebe" at the start of the episode.
* BabysittingEpisode: Rachel babysits Ben for an hour. She's not confident she can do it on her own, but then she gets the idea to teach him how to pull pranks.
* BrattyHalfPint: Ben becomes a very annoying brat as a result of Rachel indocrinating him into the world of practical jokes.
* HonoraryUncle: Rachel is Ben's "fun aunt".

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