She’s also the woman who dumps Adam Sandler at the altar in The Wedding Singer
Mr Treeger was played by Mike Hagerty, one of the unsung troops who one recognizes from sitcom to sitcom of the period. Unlike most of them though, for him this was a semi-regular part. And he was good.
However, despite the fact Friends was one of the earliest of sitcoms to embrace a fairly well-off set of primary characters *, I was disquieted by the class prejudice they displayed to the super, and others. From the beginning he was a comic character, partly because he was fattish and moustached no doubt, but mainly due to his lowly status. He could have been an autodidact genius ** for all they knew, but was not treated seriously at all, unlike say the parade of boyfriends throughout who looked good. It seemed snobbishly unamerican.
- Not as wealthy as modern sitcoms; but also to embrace a fairly well-off set of primary actors — the episode where they longed to win a lottery was ironic in that all six of the actors were already pulling in enough to make a lottery unimportant.
** Mr. Hagerty would have made an excellent hero for A Confederacy of Dunces, had it been filmed.
I don’t know what’s scarier: the fact that this conversation is so easy to fall into about a show that has been off the air so long…
…or the fact that I am watching the show on Netflix with my daughter and we literally just watched the shows in question over the past couple of days.
I watched the shows and my daughter and I were talking, then I clicked on the SDMB and saw this thread, and I thought in my Chandler voice “could Friend BE any easier to step back into??”
Jeez - They figured out something on that show that just worked.
And yeah, Ross hooking up with the copy girl so quickly always seemed a bit off, more to serve the ongoing series vs. a Ross thing to do. But the overall series worked, so hey.
A transp-- transponster!
Oh, wait, that’s not even a word.
Was he drunk? Or just in dump-shock? Anyway, I’ll bet it happens a lot, he just got caught. And they were on a break, but “We’re on a break” can be interpreted in different ways depending on whether you or your recent partner gets laid first.
And bonus question!
Who is Chandler’s TV Guide addressed to?
Was it ever made clear that the grandma who rented the apartment was the same grandma who died(Althea)?
Miss Chanandler Bong!
MS. Chanandler Bong!
I don’t think it was as they were emptying her apartment after her death when all the sugar packets fell on Ross’ head.
Nope, it is Miss. I WIN!!!
The big apartment, apparently.
Seems to alternate ( I just googled it ):
It wasn’t Nana (Judy Geller’s mother), it was the Jack’s mother. There were a few questions about that back in season 1 when Nana died (twice). One of the producers, Alexa Junge, confirmed this for us during season 2. It was again confirmed in episode [3.06], when Monica told Joey that the apartment is her grandmother’s, who’s moved to Florida. (Whereas Nana lived in the New York area until she died.)
There was one inconsistency (read: “glaring error”) around this point in episode [10.16], when Chandler found handcuffs in the closet and later everyone found out they belonged to Nana, the former tenant of the apartment. This couldn’t have been true, since it wasn’t Nana who lived there. But other than this one time, the writers and producers have been pretty consistent about this.
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Come to think of it Ross and Monica didn’t look like brother and sister, particularly since she was the tiniest of the cast. And he was the largest of the friends.
He was very unlucky — thanks to Gunther being despicable.
Also, since we are having this Friends discussion here, weren’t Ross and Monica the least Jewish Jews on TV? If it wasn’t for Elliot Gould being there father and that one Christmas episode with the Holiday armadillo, you wouldn’t even know.
Unless Rachel was also Jewish. Then she was the least Jewish Jew ever.
Good point. I mean, it’s perfectly believable that they’d be nonobservant but then why even tell us? Seems a missed opportunity too; Jews, particularly ones from NY are comedy gold 
(a stereoptypical one). If anything, Dr. Green seemed more of the stereotype, especially the episode where he was a bad tipper.
She specifically says she isn’t when Phoebe sings the line “Spin your dreidel, Rachel.”
Ross was right to be suspicious of Mark, but Rachel never gave him any reason to be suspicious of HER… until that fateful phone call where he hears Mark in the background. And still, Ross jumps to conclusions too quickly.
I was always more on Ross’s side too in the whole kerfluffle, but he is not blameless. Dude needs to chill, but it’s hard when you’re dating up several levels.
It’s either a break or not. A very common (perhaps the most common) reason people ask for a break or “temporary separation” is to try out other people. In my experience, it’s also not uncommon for the one asking for the break to be unsuccessful and for the dumpee to just fall into other romantic situations without trying. it happened to me.
Of course it was a break. It was diagnosed as a break by none other thanDr. Gregory House, the world’s greatest diagnostician!
It’s never Lupus!
This is literally the only thing I think about when I consider the show.