The One with The Girl Who Hits Joey

"The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey" is the fifteenth episode of Friends fifth season, and the 112th overall. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on February 18, 1999. In this episode, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) struggles in his relationship with over-physical girlfriend Katie (Soleil Moon Frye). Chandler (Matthew Perry) becomes insecure about his relationship with Monica (Courteney Cox) when their friends joke about long-term relationships, and Ross (David Schwimmer) struggles to fit in with the tenants in his apartment, no thanks to the efforts of Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow). Plot Having discovered about Monica and Chandler by seeing them having sex from the window of his new apartment, Ross confronts them. He is initially furious at Chandler, mistakenly thinking the latter is taking advantage of his sister, but when he realizes that the two are in love, his anger at them vanishes on the spot. Since he is the last of the group to discover the relationship, Chandler and Monica do not have to hide anything anymore, and they quickly become a much-discussed subject of talks in the group. Chandler starts to freak out about the relationship when his friends start to make long-term-relationship jokes, such as he and Monica having kids and having Ross as brother-in-law. His concerns are amplified when Rachel asks him to consider the fact that Monica does want to get married someday and that she broke up with Richard when she found out that he did not want any more children. When Chandler talks to Monica about all the jokes the friends have kept making, he reacts immaturely by trying to pass off their relationship as "casual". Monica gets angry with him and storms out, avoiding him when the two get within talking range. When he insists to talk to her, she tells him to start figuring out how to solve relationship problems himself. Now in a desperate situation, Chandler tries to make up with her by taking Ross and Joey's advice of making a big gesture. What he manages to do, however, is screwed up again – this time in a good but very unnatural sense – by proposing to Monica in front of everyone just to say sorry. Monica calms Chandler down by telling him that he does not have to worry about marriage with her and he is clearly not ready to solve relationship problems by himself.