Friends/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Oddly enough both. She's the Red to Chandler's Blue, but is often the Blue to Rachel's Red.

* [[Super Strength]]: Lampshaded when Ross was trying to get his new couch up to his apartment.

'''Ross''': You got Chandler?! The next best thing is ''[[You Should Know This Already|Monica]]''!<br />

'''Chandler''': You'd think I'd be offended, but Monica is freakishly strong. }}

*** Makes perfect sense when you realize that she {{spoiler|found out she had a brother her father didn't bother telling her about, her grandmother didn't tell her how to get in touch with her father, she lost a year when she found out she's a year older than she thought, doesn't even know her full name because her sister sold her birth certificate, and found out her mom isn't her mom, but her mom's girlfriend.}} She probably started being such a bitch when she realized her entire family lied to her almost all of her life.

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Not often, but it comes up now and then.

'''Phoebe''': Hell, I'm drunk right now! ([[Beat]]) What, I can't have a mimosa at breakfast? I'm on vacation! }}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Oh ''no''."

** She also knows French... from learning it in a street corner with some other people, presumably.

** And she demonstrates her knowledge of wines when Rachel's father berates a waiter for serving the '74 Lafite instead of the '75, then storms off.

'''Phoebe:''' He's right, though. The '74 is absolute piss. }}

* [[Little Miss Badass]]

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]-

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Joey.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Ursula was appearing on ''[[Mad About You]]'' before ''Friends'' premiered. (It was actually Kudrow's appearances there that helped get her cast as Phoebe.) When this series launched, it was decided to make Phoebe and Ursula twins to justify Kudrow playing characters on two different NBC shows.

** [[Extreme Omnivore]]

*** Rachel's little incident of [[It Tastes Like Feet]] mentioned above? Yeah, didn't bother him in the slightest. He actually ate everyone else's slices.

* [[Book Dumb]]: But street smart and friend savvy. At least that's how the [[Informed Ability|writers viewed him]].

* [[Brainless Beauty]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Several times

* [[You Fail Logic Forever]]: Joey naturally falls into this a lot.

'''Chandler''': ...You're going to show me my clothes? }}

** Which is pretty much what he does.

 

== Chandler Muriel Bing (Matthew Perry) ==

** Doesn't help that he's a huge fan of romantic comedies, and once started a sentence with "If I was a guy..."

* [[Beard of Evil]]: Lampshaded when he grew a goatee towards the end of the third season:

* [[Butt Monkey]]: A very close second, after Ross.

* [[Cool Loser]]: A prominent [[Butt Monkey]], though he takes most of it in stride.

* [[In the Blood]]: Gets severe cold feet right before his wedding because "Bings get divorced."

* [[Man Child]]:

'''Chandler''': Ooh, yum! }}

* [[One-Hour Work Week]]: So much so that it's a [[Running Gag]] that no one can remember what his job is - at one point, it costs Monica and Rachel ''their apartment''.

'''Rachel''': Oh! Oh! He’s a transpons... [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|transpondster]]!<br />

'''Monica''': That's not even a word!! I can get this, I can get this!<br />

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue to both Ross and Joey.

* [[Sad Clown]]

* [[Sex God]]: After some coaching from Monica and Rachel when he dates one of Joey's exes. Later, while secretly sleeping with Monica, she tells Rachel her new secret boyfriend is the best she ever had

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Why he took up in the first place.

** What's worse is, more than half of the instances aren't even played for laugh. His romantic life is cruelly wrecked by said misunderstandings and overreactions, and his somewhat pathetic, lovesick nature makes sure he always suffers the full impact without ever really getting to stand up for himself and make an honest effort at a healthy relationship.

** None of the other characters miss a chance to rib Ross about being thrice divorced.

'''Chandler''': ...Marriage advice? Really? }}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: His distinctive "Hi" and "We were on a break!".