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Was the fifth-season finale of Friends merely a misleading "teaser," or did Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) really get married during the gang's tumultuous trip to Las Vegas? The answer, provided in the series' season-six opener, is both "no" and "yes": no, it wasn't a tease, and yes, Ross and Rachel are husband and wife (though having been drunk during the ceremony, it takes them a while to become aware of the fact!). Elsewhere on the romantic scene, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry), upon returning to New York, decide to move in together, even though (unlike Ross and Rachel) their planned Vegas wedding never came off. And poor Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is also back in town, his latest "big break" in show business having blown up in his face, obliging him to head back to the Big Apple with feckless Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) at the wheel. The hilarious "hyphenated" closing credits of this episode reflect the recent marriage of Courteney Cox and actor David Arquette.