Trivia / Friends S 4 E 2 The One With The Cat

• Creator Breakdown: This episode was written by co-creator Marta Kauffman, who lost her own mother at the time. The episode got a mostly negative reception from the fanbase at the time of its airing, mainly due to Phoebe successfully making Ross out to be the bad guy for his insistence that she'd return the cat to her child owner (adding to the ridiculousness, Phoebe had just met her biological mother). One of the other writers mentioned in an interview years later that the episode being written to take Phoebe's inane side would've been shot down at the table read had it not been for the circumstances surrounding it; they would've felt bad going against Kauffman on this issue.
• In Memoriam: To Dorothy Kauffman, the mother of Marta Kauffman, who co-created the series and wrote the episode.