On Friends, are Ross and Monica twins? It has been established that Ross skipped a grade. Then in the Thanksgiving flashbacks, it is revealed that Ross graduated one year before Monica and Rachel. He has always called her his little sister. I always thought he was a few years older than everyone because he had a doctorate. Then it was established he and Chandler were roommates (odd since he was kind of an outsider to Joey and Chandler in the first season). What’s the deal? Those flashback episodes always confuse me.
Hmmm, good points. The only thing that occured to me on this subject is that Ross and Chandler don’t necessarily have to be the same age, or the same year in school, to have been college roomates. Chandler himself could be a year or two advanced in school…he is certainly smart enough, and his use of sarcasm may be a way of trying not to be seen as a youngster. He might have escaped to college a year or two early to get away from what has been portrayed as a rather tumultuous home life. Matthew Perry is the youngest of the six IRL, IIRC.
The fact that Ross has a doctorate does kind of throw things off. He barely seemed old enough in the first year of the show.
They can’t be. I don’t recall them ever sharing a birthday party. In fact it seems just the opposite.
I think shows just enjoy confusing us. How about Jack and Andie on Dawson’s Creek? They were in the same grade in high school but it wasn’t until the second seasons the characters were on before they decided to mention “oh yeah, Jack’s older than Andie.” Very strange.
As Laughing Lagomorph pointed out, I think the fact that Monica and Ross don’t seem to share a birthday rules out the twins idea. I’m pretty sure they flashbacked to at least one of their 30th birthdays on the episode when Rachel turned 30, and they did not appear to be celebrating a joint birthday. Now that I think about it, Didn’t they go to see Hootie and the Blowfish on Ross’s birthday in one ep? It was definately not monica’s b-day too if I’m remembering it right.
Couldn’t they just have been born in the same year? I know siblings who are ten months apart, and were in the same grade.
I don’t think it was till later seasons that the writers decided Ross and Chandler has been college roommates. One of those, “Oh, by the way, they were roommates!” things that sort of got snuck in. Just a device to make the flashbacks better, I guess.
And they’re not twins, because there was a show where Ross found out his mother was pregnant with him when his parents got married.
Quite right. A friend of mine pointed out that Chandler was surprised to find an old photo of “fat” Monica because he had no idea that she was overweight as a youngster. Then later a flashback episode aired showing Chandler as a college roommate of Ross interacting with the “fat” Monica. Continuity issue there, no doubt.
Yeah. That’s right! He was a medical marvel!
I think the flashbacks screw up everything. But it isn’t that big of a deal. As long as they make me chuckle!
(That is the great thing about the Simpsons. They have celebrated at least half a dozen Christmases and Bart is still in the 4th Grade. Continuity has become a running gag.)
I always thought that Ross was at least a year older than Monica. That’s why I was totally surprised when I was watching episode 57 (season 3 episode 9) and I heard Monica say: “when Ross and I were both six . . .” Strange
Six and eleven months or one, six and a day for the other.
Why doesn’t Zombie Ross eat the other 5 since he’s the biggest.
Anyway…
She didn’t say they were both six, she said they it was the sixth Geller Bowl.
Everyone is supposed to be within a couple years of each other. We know from the one where they all turn 30 is that Phoebe is the oldest (because she’s actually a year older than she thought), Rachel is the youngest, and Joey is older than Chandler.
Continuity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Particularly when you try to build it retroactively.
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
Well, what happens is that they see a video of “Fat Monica”, and she claims “the camera puts on 10 pounds” and he says “just how many cameras are on you”. He does not say that he did not know.