Joey brings his grandmother for a viewing party of an episode of Law & Order that he is supposed to appear in. Ross tries to flirt with a pizza delivery girl. Rachel and Phoebe look for Monica's lost earrings without her knowing.
- Bottle Episode: The majority of the episode takes place in Monica's apartment, with only a few brief scenes in Joey and Chandler's apartment and the streets.
- Boyish Short Hair: Caitlin, the pizza delivery girl. She mentions that she looks like an "8 year old boy," and when Ross tries to compliment her on this (by saying he "likes 8 year old boys") this inevitably backfires.
- Celebrity Paradox: At one point, Joey tries to claim that he is playing Jack McCoy on Law & Order, but his grandmother recognizes Sam Waterston. One of his films she then mentions is Capricorn One, whose star, Elliott Gould, plays Jack Geller on Friends.
- Deleted Role: In-universe, Joey realizes they cut the scene with his character showing up and dying out for time.
- Epic Fail: Anytime Ross tries flirting. His first attempt gets him Mistaken for Pedophile, while his second sees him going on a long, boring exposition on different types of gas.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Phoebe pressing Rachel about the earrings.Phoebe: Rachel Karen Green, where's the other earring?!
- Funny Background Event: As Ross fails miserably at flirting the second time around, Chandler can be seen over his shoulder reacting to how awkward it all is.
- Hypocrite: Monica instantly forgives Phoebe for losing her earring, then equally quickly goes ballistic when Rachel admits that she's the one who lost it (because Rachel is the more irresponsible one). It gets worse when you realize that Phoebe borrows Monica's things and then turns around and loans them to others, ultimately making her even more irresponsible than Rachel as well as deceitful (because she has absolutely no right to loan out things that aren't even hers to begin with), meaning she should be just as angry at Phoebe, and in fact, even moreso.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Rachel passively agrees when Phoebe offers to take all the blame for losing Monica's earrings without so much as a thank you, then when Monica reacts more calmly than anticipated immediately confesses, playing it off as having realised how wrong it was to let Phoebe take the blame for her wrongdoing. This makes Monica's Hypocriteically more extreme reaction to her feel more cosmically appropriate.
- Oblivious to Hints: Ross is clueless to the fact that he's bad at flirting until Rachel tells him, even though his first attempt at flirting with Caitlin gets him Mistaken for Pedophile. He couldn't even acknowledge that that particular attempt was an Epic Fail because he was angry when Chandler ended up stepping in to put him out of his misery.
- Oh, Crap!: Joey, when he realizes that he has actually been cut out of the episode.
- Stylistic Suck: Joey's homemade Law & Order scene, which involves him not even changing clothes and taking his pet duck hostage.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The plot about finding Monica's lost earrings turns out to be this because it turned out Chandler had Ross pick out the earrings for him and didn't remember what they looked like.
- Suddenly Bilingual: Phoebe speaks with Joey's Italian grandmother, with Phoebe seeming as surprised about this as Joey.Joey: Wow, Phoebs, you speak Italian?
Phoebe: Apparently. - Throw It In!: In-universe, when Joey films his fake Law & Order scene to not upset his grandmother, when the duck walks into the scene he plays along by taking it hostage.
