Phoebe, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Ross meet up in Central Perk shortly after Ross''s wife Carol realizes she is a lesbian
and divorces him. Monica and Ross are both living alone, Chandler and Joey live together and Phoebe lives with her grandmother. Monica''s old high school friend, Rachel, enters Central Perk wearing a wedding dress, having just run away from her wedding to Barry Farber. She moves in with Monica, gets a job as a waitress at Central Perk but struggles to work for a living, having previously lived a rich life. Ross discovers his ex-wife is pregnant and she gives birth to a boy,
named Ben, who is subsequently raised by Carol and her lesbian partner, Susan.Joey and Chandler have many flings with different women. Chandler gets involved with a woman named Janice who repeatedly shows up in every
season through the series. She is most known for her catchphrase "oh...my...God!".Ross reveals he had a crush on Rachel in high school and he still has feelings for her. Throughout the season, he fails to make his feelings known to her and Chandler and Joey eventually persuade him to move on. On Rachel''s birthday, Ross leaves for a paleontological trip to China. While he is gone, Chandler accidentally reveals to Rachel that Ross is in love with her. Rachel decides she would like to start a romantic relationship with Ross and goes to meet him at the airport when he returns from China, unaware that he is getting off the plane with another woman named Julie.Phoebe meets a scientist named David whom she falls in love with, but in the end he has to move to Minsk, to continue with his scientific research. They are left heart-broken by this move.