The One Where Rachel Has a Baby
Twenty-one hours of labour, Janice next door, a ring on the floor and a baby named Emma.
"The One Where Rachel Has a Baby" is the double-length finale of the eighth season of Friends, first aired on NBC on May 16, 2002. Part 1 was written by Scott Silveri and Part 2 by Marta Kauffman and David Crane, both directed by Kevin S. Bright; with 34.91 million viewers it was the most-watched episode of the season, and it won Jennifer Aniston the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Friends
- Season
- 8
- Episode
- 23 and 24
- Director
- Kevin S. Bright
- Writer
- Scott Silveri (part 1)
- Marta Kauffman (part 2)
- David Crane (part 2)
- Production
- 227422 (part 1); 227423 (part 2)
- Air date
- 16 May 2002
- Length
- Part 1: 22 min; Part 2: 22 min
Facts from the source article.
Background
Ross and Rachel get only a semi-private room, and Rachel spends 21 hours in labour watching one roommate after another give birth first, Janice among them. Judy gives Ross his grandmother's engagement ring and tells him to propose; he puts it in his jacket. Monica jokes to Chandler about having a baby, finds he has been thinking the same, and the two hunt the hospital for an empty room. Phoebe flirts with a patient called Cliff and has Joey question him as Dr. Drake Ramoray. The baby is a girl; Ross's names Isabella and Delilah are rejected, and Monica gives Rachel the name she had saved for her own daughter, Emma. Janice tells Rachel that Ross may not always be there, Phoebe tells Ross he could finally have what he has wanted since he was fifteen, and when the ring falls from Ross's jacket and Joey kneels to pick it up, Rachel thinks he is proposing and says yes.
Part 1 and Part 2 are episodes 23 and 24 of season 8; the next episode, "The One Where No One Proposes", opens season 9.
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