The One With The Tea Leaves
Friends episode
Ross behind Mona's couch
Season	8x17
Episode no.	187
Written by	R. Sandy Leir Jr. Ivana Party
Directed by	Barb E. Que
Guest stars	Alec Baldwin - Parker Steve Ireland - Mr. Zelner James LeGros - Jim Mark Lutz - Mona's boyfriend Bonnie Somerville - Mona Danielle Stratton - Waitress
Original airdate	March 7, 2002
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"The One With The Tea Leaves" is the seventeenth episode of the eighth season of Friends, which aired on March 7, 2002.

PlotEdit

Things have gone awkward between Joey and Rachel after their date the previous night. Rachel is desperate to get back on good terms with Joey, so she takes Monica's advice to change the subject to something work-related and ask his advice on a problem. However, she can't think of anything and ends up blurting out that her boss wants to buy her baby. Joey then goes to Rachel's work and yells at her boss. Rachel panics upon hearing this for the first time, but cheers up when she learns her boss is so afraid that she will sue that he gives her an extra month of maternity leave. When Phoebe reads her own tea leaves, she sees that she'll meet the man of her dreams soon. She assumes it isa guy she has been seeing practically every day on her errands, and finally talks to him. He asks her out despite being slightly bemused when she misunderstands the pretty obvious meaning of a remark he makes but when they go on the date, he intimidates her with a number of highly inappropiate and rude vulgar comments, seemingly just to amuse himself. He also claims, most likely lying in yet another attempt to intimidate her, to be a writer of "erotic novels for children" which are "wildly unpopular." Phoebe then has to find a new dry cleaning facility to avoid encountering her bullying date again, and meets a cheerful gentleman named Parker, who she finds more to her taste. she does'nt really have a boyfriend that was a mistake to get her own back on ross but they is other new episodes when Ross proposes to Mona

Cast and CrewEdit

Main CastEdit

Jennifer Aniston - Rachel Green
Courtney Cox - Monica Geller
Lisa Kudrow - Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc - Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer - Ross Geller
Mona - Bonnie Summerfield

Supporting CastEdit

Alec Baldwin - Parker
Steve Ireland - Mr. Zelner
James LeGros - Jim 

Bonnie Somerville - Mona
Danielle Stratton - Waitress

CrewEdit

Directed By:
Gary Halvorson

Written By:
R. Lee Fleming Jr. & Steven Rosenhaus

TriviaEdit

• Phoebe's date is based off a real boyfriend of one of the creators.
• This is Mona's last appearance in the show.
• The magazine Ross is reading on his couch before Mona comes by is the magazine he was reading behind the couch in her apartment. In the uncut version, Ross leaves the apartment, but not before taking the magazine from a little table and stalking out the door.
• The restaurant outside Phoebe's new laundry place was Dot's Spot the same place Monica went on a date with Chip Matthews.

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