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Monica's restaurant get a bad review. After confronting the critic who wrote it, she decides to join a cooking class, with Joey in tow. Rachel gets jealous when Ross hits it off with a woman at the baby department store.

Monica and Joey end up taking a beginner's cooking class when they go to confront a teacher who gave Monica's restaurant a bad review. Ross meets a cute sales clerk when he and Rachel go shopping for baby supplies. Phoebe helps Chandler prepare for a job interview.—GMEllis625

After reading an awful review about her soup, Monica goes to the critic in order to give him her soup again. Meanwhile, Chandler is preparing for an interview. Joey has plans to go the movies with Monica but she wants to stop by the school where her critic gives cooking classes. Chandler feels confident about the interview, until Phoebe tells him that maybe he'll only show his funny side and not be serious enough. Monica arrives to the school with Joey, forcing the critic to taste her the soup again. Intimidated, the critic says that the soup is great. But Monica decides to stay in an amateur cooking class after she answers one of the questions correctly. Ross and Rachel go shopping for the baby and while there Ross meets a beautiful girl who he is impressed to find out loves anthropology. Rachel gets jealous after Ross and the girl hang out. Phoebe continues to help Chandler hide his funny side during the interview. He does well in the interview, but at the end when he is saying goodbye to his interviewer, he starts to tell jokes remembering some funny words of the interview. Monica gets a star because her great cookies but Joey cooked a better ones and the teacher congratulates him for good work. Finally, Ross' date was good, but Rachel confesses that she is jealous and wants that Ross stay with her every minute of her pregnancy. Despite her "unreasonable" attitude, Ross agrees to stay with her and says that he won't date anymore.—Alejandro Frias

Monica is upset when a food critic gives her restaurant a horrible review (the chef's Mahi-Mahi is awful awful). She finds out that he teaches a cooking class and goes to his class to confront him. She has him try her bouillabaisse again, but he still hates it. Another class comes in and it is Introduction to Cooking. The teacher asks a cooking question beforehand and Monica is able to answer it, allowing her to move to the head of the class. Soon her and Joey are involved in the whole class, and Monica is loving the praise from her teacher.

When Joey's cookies beat Monica's, however, she is offended and reveals that she is a professional chef. The teacher says that she has been to Monica's restaurant and loves the food, giving Monica the boost of self-esteem she needed. On the way out, they stop at an introduction to acting class, thinking Joey will feel good about himself too. Joey doesn't know the answer to the teacher's question (difference between upstage and downstage) and feels this was a stupid idea.

Rachel is freaking out because her due date is one week and her and Ross haven't gotten any baby supplies yet. They go to a store and get A LOT of stuff, but Rachel is upset when the salesgirl Katie (Rena Sofer) flirts with Ross & calls him Indiana Jones (a Paleontologist who works out). Phoebe accuses her of being jealous. When the salesgirl stops by the apartment (as Ross asked for delivery of the stuff to his apartment) to ask out Ross, Rachel makes it apparent that she is not OK with it. She calls Katie a sexually starved bad person and then realizes that Katie had opened the top 3 buttons of her blouse to be intentionally promiscuous.

When Ross returns from his date, she tells him that she doesn't want him to date anybody because she wants him to be constantly available to her. Despite her being unreasonable, Ross agrees to put dating on hold to be there for her and the baby. He says Rachel is allowed to be unreasonable as she is having their baby. They have a moment together when they both seem to agree that they want something more from their relationship, but then pass it off as a joke.

Meanwhile, Chandler is interviewing for a new job. It pays a lot more money. Phoebe helps him practice his interview skills, encouraging him to fight his urge to constantly make jokes and come on too strong. He comes across as trying too hard and comes off a little needy. Chandler makes a bad first impression. She purposely practices by putting in the term "do-do," which Chandler has to sidestep without making an inappropriate joke. In the actual interview, the businessman talks about Chandler's "duties," but Chandler is able to resist making jokes. Afterwards, the man tells him to relax, and he mentions that he was really nervous and it was hard to resist the joke about "duties," which blows the interview.