Friends (1994)/S10E4 · The One With the Cake/Joey's birthday reading: Love You Forever

Friends · Season 10, Episode 4, "The One With the Cake"

Joey's birthday reading: Love You Forever

Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) · Rachel and Joey's apartment

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What it tells you

Joey forgets a present for Emma's first birthday, so he promises a dramatic reading and grabs the nearest book. The first one is about coping with postpartum depression. The second is Love You Forever, read from the title page down to Printed in Mexico, and by the last page Rachel is in tears. The man was born to do audiobooks and nobody told him.

Sources: The One With the Cake, Friends transcript · Here Are All the Books in FRIENDS, Book Riot · Could We BE Any More Literary? The Top Nine Bookish Episodes of Friends, Quirk Books · Every Time A Book Was Referenced On Friends, TVOvermind · Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Friends, New York Public Library · Love You Forever, Wikipedia

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The book

Love You Forever

Robert Munsch · 1986 · picture book

Robert Munsch's 1986 picture book ranked fourth on Publishers Weekly's 2001 list of all-time bestselling children's paperbacks, at nearly seven million copies. Joey picked it at random, which is how most of his best decisions get made.

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