In the episode, Joey performs a dramatic reading of the book at Emma's first birthday, moving everyone to tears.
At the hostel, Anwar discovers that Anka can speak English quite fluently, clearly having learned it from watching the American show Friends ("I learn from, like, the best American show ever! How you doin'?"), although the name of the show is never explicitly mentioned.
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The dish is also prepared in "The One Where Eddie Moves In", the seventeenth episode of season 2 of the sitcom Friends, in which the dish is referred to as "Eggs with the bread with the hole in the middle, a la me!" as they are made by the character Joey Tribbiani.