Plot

Joey and Chandler take Ross to a hockey game to take his mind off the anniversary of the first time he slept with Carol, while the girls become depressed when they realize they don't have a 'plan'.

When Monica fails to make the anniversary of Ross's first time ever, not just with his lesbian ex Carol, pass unnoticed, he gets terribly depressed. Joey and Chandler take Ross to a hockey game to distract him, but it doesn't help when he catches a puck- which breaks his nose, and Nurse Sizemore in hospital admissions proves a bureaucratic hurdle even Chandler can't take... Rachel is happy to get her first-ever pay-check, till she notices how little is left after taxes, and has to pretend job-pride to her spoiled brat friends bunch turning up in Central Perk. Monica, Phoebe and Rachel get hunky TV celebrity George Stephanopoulos's pizza delivered by mistake, and shamelessly spy on him from Monica's balcony...—KGF Vissers

The gang discuss what they would do if they were Omnipotent for a day.. Joe thinks they are talking about impotence and says he would kill himself.

Phoebe is offered by Monica to sleep over at her apartment after she got almost no sleep the night before (her grandmother has a new boyfriend (they are insecure in bed and deaf) and Phoebe was sleeping on the couch at Central Perk). Chandler and Joey go to the coffee house to invite Ross to a hockey game as a "late birthday present" (although Ross' birthday was 7 months earlier). In reality, they invited him to the game because the two couldn't find a date (and they had an extra ticket). Ross rejects the ticket after becoming depressed about the day being the anniversary of him and ex-wife Carol sleeping together for the first time. He eventually accepts after Joey is able to convince him after promising him a foam finger.

Meanwhile, Rachel receives her first paycheck. She is very excited at first only to discover she won't have much after taxes. She also gets reunited with her old friends, Leslie (Leesa Bryte), Kiki (Michele Maika), and Joanne (Marianne Hagan). One of them is becoming partner, one of them is preggers, one of engaged. Rachel says she is not coming back and she has a career now..

At the hockey game, Ross continues to reminisce on Carol (She was wearing boots that night, they had peaches that night, they walked to the bus stop after they had sex and so on), which makes him depressed once again, and annoys Chandler and Joey. He becomes happy again when the game starts but is soon hit in the face with the hockey puck and are forced to head to the emergency room. At the hospital, Ross is fit in a nose cast and deal with a snippy receptionist, Nurse Sizemore (Mary Pat Gleason). While waiting Ross tells them that his first time with Carol, was his first time.. Joe realizes that hockey was a big mistake.. They also encounter a bratty boy (Benjamin Caya) who "found" the hockey puck that hit Ross and claims it as his own. Ross asks for it back and the kid refuses. After a short brawl over the puck, it flies out of the boy's grasp and it hits the receptionist in the face.

Back at the apartment, the girls are getting ready for their slumber party. Rachel gets a call from her credit card company for "unusual activity" (basically she made no purchases for several months) and realizes she has low income, which makes her depressed. Monica and Phoebe try to cheer her up with no effect. It actually makes them depressed too. The pizza guy (Sean Whalen) arrives, although he brought them the wrong pizza; the one he brought was meant for "G. Stephanopoulos". The girls pay for the pizza and head to the balcony with binoculars to spy on George. As they spy on him, they get drunk and start telling each other secrets. This ends up in a brawl between Monica and Rachel, with Phoebe stopping them once she spots George. They beg him to take towel off, which he does. During the credits, Joey and the girls are playing twister.

Rachel gets another call from her credit card company; Chandler takes her place in the game. When asked why she hasn't been using her card, she says she's doing fine and makes her confident in her independence