In the Season 1 episode, "The One with a Dozen Lasagnas," while Phoebe is at work, Rachel's boyfriend at the time, the Italian who barely speaks any English, Paolo (Cosimo Massimo Fusco), comes in for a massage. When she recounts this to the friends (minus Rachel) later, she reveals that, while she was massaging him, he grabbed her butt. Startled, she backed away, and then Paolo turned over onto his backside and Phoebe narrates, "And all of a sudden, his hands weren't the problem anymore." Monica asks, "Was it ... ?" And Phoebe responds, "Oh, boy scouts could've camped under there!"
It's a line that gets a lot of laughs from the in studio audience, despite the fact that it's making light of sexual harassment. Even though the friends are horrified by what happened, the whole thing is framed as Paolo "[making] a move" on Phoebe, as Phoebe herself describes it, and not as someone harassing a masseuse with unwanted advances while she's just doing her job. Phoebe even ends the conversation by saying that Rachel "is going to hate" her, as if the situation was really just was Paolo showing interest instead of a much more serious issue (even though that wouldn't have been Phoebe's fault either).
We can imagine that, had this scene been written today, Paolo's actions would have been treated more seriously — and he wouldn't have ended up with a free lasagna from Monica.
