In one episode of "Friends", whose pizza did Monica and Rachel get by mistake?

In Friends, Monica and Rachel accidentally received George Stephanopoulos’s pizza. The mix-up occurs in “The One with George Stephanopoulos,” the fourth episode of the show’s first season.

The girls had ordered pizza for their evening at Monica’s apartment, but the delivery arrived with George Stephanopoulos’s name on it. Rather than immediately correcting the mistake, they become fascinated because Stephanopoulos lives across the street. Monica, Rachel, and Phoebe use binoculars to spy on him while eating the pizza.

George Stephanopoulos was a real political strategist who served as a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton. His appearance in the episode is not a speaking cameo; instead, the joke depends on the characters’ excitement about seeing a famous person who lives nearby. Rachel even mishears his name and jokingly calls him “George Snuffleupagus.”

The episode originally aired on October 13, 1994. Its title refers to the public figure whose pizza drives the girls’ comic distraction, even though he never becomes a major on-screen character.