I don’t know about that… I think the stuff with Chandler’s drag queen father was a little throw-back.
It was handled matter of factly the way a jokester son typically would - he wasn’t so much embarrased by it (that he was a drag queen) as he was by how ‘she’ acted in general.
or atleast thats the way I took it.
Rachel is a horrible, horrible person - Hugh Laurie said it, I believe it, that settles it. 
Jennifer Aniston and Hugh Laurie in the plane is one of the best scenes in the series - brilliant frigging casting! And Hugh Laurie looks like he’s about 30 - so young!
Hey, T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins from “Bones”) was the young doctor that Phoebe made cry when she was giving birth to the triplets!