Ross's emotional unraveling reaches a new low when his beloved post-Thanksgiving leftover sandwich — made by Monica with extra gravy-soaked bread — gets eaten by his boss and partially thrown away. The meltdown that follows lands him on mandatory psychiatric leave. Meanwhile, Joey finally cracks under the weight of covering for Chandler and Monica's secret relationship, flipping the narrative on the group by claiming he slept with Monica in London and that she has been obsessed with him ever since. A subplot follows Phoebe and Rachel in a literature class, where Rachel's plagiarism earns her a humiliating lesson involving a cyborg version of Jane Eyre.

The episode marks a turning point in several ongoing arcs. Ross hitting rock bottom over something as small as a sandwich illustrates how completely his life has unraveled since his divorce a ...