(Chandler decides to help out.) (On phone) Hello? (She just looks at him.) (To an exiting student in accent.) Because he's made a miraculous recovery from his hernia and wants to take advantage of all those free surgeries he can get now since he's re-established his health insurance.] Chandler: That's a hernia. Rachel: Look at that! Yeah, y'know you and Ross are still married. [Scene: Chandler and Joey's, Joey is playing that string game with the two hands and the weird crossing patterns as Chandler enters with the mail.] [Scene: a NYU lecture hall, Ross is trying to phase out his accent.] [Time lapse.]
Plan: A: Joey's health benefits lapse; Q: What happens to Joey's health benefits? A: treatment; Q: What does Joey need but can't afford? A: Chandler; Q: Who does Joey refuse to borrow money from? A: an acting role; Q: What does Joey take on to renew his insurance? A: an uncooperative child star; Q: What does Joey's hernia help him with? A: a professorship; Q: What is Ross given at NYU? A: students; Q: What is the room filled with? A: a fake English accent; Q: What does Ross do to impress his students? A: Rachel; Q: Who discovers she and Ross are still married? Summary: Joey's health benefits lapse just as he develops a hernia . Unable to afford treatment and unwilling to borrow the money from Chandler, he takes on an acting role to renew his insurance, during which the hernia helps out with an uncooperative child star. Ross is given a professorship at NYU and, eager to impress his students, inexplicably lapses into a fake English accent. Rachel discovers she and Ross are still married, and charges into his class yelling at him, unaware the room is filled with students.