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Season 01

15 episodes
  1. Episode 01The One With the Seventh ReservationMonica's tidy six-person dinner at Lucien's becomes a seven-seat mystery when a 2:14 a.m. reservation surfaces in her name. A dreamed-up chair, a doodled confession, and unexpected company follow.
  2. Episode 02The One With the Leftover ChairKevin the chair goes missing and turns up buckled into Mrs. Green's car. Custody gets negotiated over breadsticks, Phoebe books him for open mic night, and Joey asks the kidnapper out.
  3. Episode 03The One With the Open Mic ChairKevin the chair headlines open mic night at Central Perk, Joey brings Mrs. Green as his date, and Phoebe unveils a cushion ballad. Monica confiscates phones and feelings while the seventh reservation sits still.
  4. Episode 04The One With the Ninth Place SettingMonica's eight-setting dinner turns up a ninth plate, set by Mrs. Green for Phyllis, Lucien's off-duty hostess. Three women, one napkin fold, and a two a.m. habit nobody will explain over chicken.
  5. Episode 05The One With the Service WindowSunday brunch at the diner across from Lucien's uncovers a shift schedule and a six-year secret: Mrs. Green and Mrs. Bing fed the night window together. Tuesday's dinner is booked.
  6. Episode 06The One With the Fold TestTuesday dinner lands at Monica's with both moms, two pies, and a family fold test nobody trained for. Joey recognizes the secret kitchen from the customer's side of the counter.
  7. Episode 07The One With the Second BowlThe friends take a Tuesday shift at the diner that once fed them. A stranger named Gus hums the radio song, the two moms' swapped harmony parts come clean, and nobody's wrong line was wrong.
  8. Episode 08The One With the Cake TinThe moms' unopened cake tin holds twenty years of Tuesday menus; the friends sign tonight's entry, then book a soup-off between the alley window and the counter.
  9. Episode 09The One With the Soup-OffMonica's soup-off splits the counter between alley and glass, while a disputed napkin fold and a 1979 margin entry turn the moms' first window order into a confession about rule one.
  10. Episode 10The One With the New UsualTuesday belongs to the friends now, and rule eleven forbids ordering alone. Every pairing is a dodge until someone notices the one regular who has never once sat down.
  11. Episode 11The One With the Whole SentenceGus sat down and spoke one sentence in front of witnesses, and nobody agrees what he said. Six signed napkins, a 1.4-second pause, and Monica's recipe box follow.
  12. Episode 12The One With the Eight O'Clock PauseMonica books an eight o'clock silence at the counter, and the friends hold a 1.4-second pause until Joey's stomach and Phoebe's hum break it. Phoebe pays her soup debt in song.
  13. Episode 13The One With the Two-Fourteen CardMonica's recipe box turns up a card for two at 2:14 a.m. in Phoebe's handwriting that Phoebe says isn't hers, and the friends' stakeout ends with a voice on the phone asking for Phoebe by name.
  14. Episode 14The One With the Call for PhoebeA voice at 2:14 asks for Phoebe, and the friends trace a stranger's collection — a menu, a hand, a tune, a mug — to their own table before leaving the lamp on for him.
  15. Episode 15The One With the Table for TwoAt 2:14 the friends hold a table for two with one plate, one bowl of soup, and a strict no-performing rule, while the man who collects them has to order like a person.

The story continues. New pages on a fifteen-minute schedule.