Molly (Melissa George): Emma's hot nanny, whom Ross gets to hire since Rachel does not see it in her. David was one of Phoebe's first love interests, the cute scientist who won her heart... and then broke it, when he left her to do research in Minsk. [e 4] Gunther appears in a majority of the episodes, but only occasionally calls attention to himself and almost never has a large role in the plot of an episode. Monica has a crush on him but is too shy to ask him out; so Rachel attempts to on her behalf, but he says he'd rather go out with her (Rachel). [e 74] In "The One With Phoebe's Uterus",[e 75] Frank and Alice ask Phoebe to be a surrogate mother for their child, and she later gives birth to their triplets, whom she then says goodbye to in an emotional scene in "The One Hundredth". [13][14] Prior to their salary negotiations for the third season, the cast decided to enter collective negotiations, despite Warner Bros.' preference for individual deals. Although she is shown to be supportive of Joey's career throughout the show, in "The One Where Joey Loses His Health Insurance"[e 62] it is suggested she has instead been bad-mouthing him after mistakenly assuming he has found another agent. [e 3] Eddie agrees to leave but later denies the conversation took place; he also claims that he and Chandler once took a trip to Las Vegas and genuinely believes it to have happened, confirming Chandler's suspicion that he is mentally ill. Bizarrely, Phoebe finds Eddie's weird behavior attractive. However, upon Rachel's advice to try to make it on her own, Amy calls off her engagement and sleeps over at Joey and Rachel's apartment. At her insistence, he then performs one last time for the party. By Season 6 the animals disappeared; the duck was mentioned but not seen in Season 7. They go away to Paul's country cabin in "The One Where Paul's the Man", where Ross and Elizabeth have also gone. Rachel also makes up with Amy after offering to let her use her Ralph Lauren employee discount. Amy Green (Christina Applegate): one of Rachel's two sisters, who first appears in "The One with Rachel's Other Sister" (airdate November 21, 2002; Season 9, No. It is also revealed that since his previous appearance he has married and had kids (twins, actually) – once informed of this, an embarrassed Ross wonders: "Should we send something?" 14) as Rachel's senior prom date; in this episode he is played by an unknown, uncredited actor and his face is not seen on screen. In "The One with the Two Parties",[e 69] she arrives at Rachel's birthday party and is unaware for the whole night that her ex-husband is also there, as the six friends successfully prevent them from finding out each other are there by setting up two different parties, bemusing them both with their strange, wacky behavior in the process; Joey even ends up kissing Sandra to distract her from her ex-husband's departure. Ross tries to convince her to move to New York. She first appears in "The One with Mrs. Bing",[e 43] where she meets the gang while on a book tour in New York. [6] The cast members made efforts to keep the ensemble format and not allow one member to dominate;[6] they entered themselves in the same acting categories for awards,[7] opted for collective instead of individual salary negotiations,[6] and asked to appear together on magazine cover photos in the first season. She got pregnant by her boyfriend, Bobby Corso. For his performance, Oldman received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Missy Goldberg (Ellen Pompeo): a woman from Ross' and Chandler's college, at which they both made a pact to not ask her out so it would not damage their friendship, introduced in "The One Where the Stripper Cries" (airdate February 5, 2004; Season 10, No. [e 53] During the entire time Julie and Ross were dating, Rachel hated the relationship because about a week before Ross came home from China, Rachel discovered that Ross was in love with her. [e 91]. [e 27]. After witnessing and being bewildered by Rachel's antics with a pigeon (after she trapped it inside a saucepan), he admits to Phoebe the truth about his sexuality. Directed by Peter Bonerz. Friends fans know that the gang racked up a lot of ex-boyfriends and -girlfriends throughout the series. [e 124] In "The One with Joey's Fridge", Elizabeth heads to the beach with several guys for spring break;—jealous and worried, Ross follows her down there, appearing dancing with her on MTV. Crosby insists that real actors spit when they enunciate, resulting in both actors spitting on each other during takes, and being given towels by the crew afterwards. Her husband is a professional orchestra musician and is away from home most of the time and she confides her problems with her marriage in Joey. Ross and Rachel are horrified and angry at Amy, especially as she reveals she plans on becoming a baby stylist. 23); instead, he tells her he wants to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion. “Whatever part of me is David the science guy who went to Minsk, which admittedly is probably a small part of me, but that part of me wanted to end up with Phoebe. They have an argument over whether or not he should be paid for arriving after a rather difficult and rushed journey to the apartment on his part, and when she refuses to allow a sympathetic Rachel and Monica to pay him and also insults him, the sensitive stripper gets upset and cries as he is forced to accept the fact that he is no longer physically attractive, but stripping is all he knows. In "The One with the Halloween Party",[e 51] Ursula introduces Phoebe to Eric (Sean Penn), her fiancé. Later, Mark asks Rachel on a date and she accepts, however she rejects his advances when she realizes she only accepted the offer to get back at Ross. Alex and Joey start dating in Season 2 and shortly before the final episode they become engaged. "[e 2]. [21] After Friends ended, LeBlanc portrayed Joey in a short-lived spin-off, Joey. Rachel asks Monica for permission, which she unhappily gives. [e 89] After Rachel is promoted in Season 7, he becomes a recurring character. He tries to explain that "It's a TV show!" Michael "Mike" Hannigan (Paul Rudd): Phoebe's boyfriend and later husband: in "The One with the Pediatrician" (airdate October 10, 2002; Season 9, No. [e 108] Initially outraged at Chandler's betrayal, Joey has a change of heart after Kathy's speech, and she and Chandler get together. The best result we found for your search is David A Minsk age 50s in Waxhaw, NC. An important lesson to be learnt here - once you Paul Rudd, everybody else is a dud Chloe (Angela Featherstone): "The girl from the copy place", with whom Ross drunkenly sleeps after he and Rachel first break up. [e 21] He appears in "The One with Two Parts, Part 1"[e 31] and "The One Where the Monkey Gets Away"[e 16] before dying in "The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies". Penn got the role after he made several visits to the Friends set with his children, who were fans of the show.[47]. [e 102] Everyone likes him more than Monica does. [original research?] In "The One with Princess Consuela", he fires Rachel after overhearing her interview with a Gucci representative. Joey dumps her after sleeping with Kate, and although she is initially upset (calling him "pig"), she later seems to be fine with him. [e 99] In "The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits" (airdate October 30, 2003; Season 10, No. As Monica and Chandler make plans to have children, they walk into a fertility clinic where Janice and her husband are coincidentally visiting. She accepts and prepares to move herself and Emma to France. Because if I go it means I have to break up with you, and I can't break up with you. David: Yes I can. She is never seen again afterwards. named as an homage to long-time NY talk show host Barry Farber. Temperamental, promiscuous and not particularly bright but very street-wise, Gina is a caring but over-protective and domineering mother. While making a hand gesture in the midst of an attempt to break up with her without upsetting her, he accidentally pokes her in the eye in "The One with the East German Laundry Detergent"[e 19] and although Phoebe is eventually able to explain to Janice on his behalf that he wants to end their relationship and get her to agree to break up with him without upsetting her in the process, he gets back together with her for New Year's[e 15] and for Valentine's. They start dating but break up in "The One with All the Wedding Dresses" (airdate April 16, 1998; Season 4, No. As the episode name suggests, she's a woman whose play-punches are all-too-hard. However, he is still angry at her and believes love to be insignificant in a marriage. Their daughter, Emma, is born during the eighth-season finale. I don't picture your face when I make love to my boyfriend..." Melissa leaves, but not before asking for another kiss goodbye, which she does not get. Kim believes her when she sees what she thinks is a cold look from Ralph (appearing as himself) in the elevator. Julie (Lauren Tom): an old graduate school colleague of Ross', whom he meets again while on a trip to China; she first appears in the final scene of the Season 1 finale. Tag Jones (Eddie Cahill): Rachel's inexperienced but attractive new assistant at Polo Ralph Lauren. When she learns that he's having dinner with the old gang—including Rachel—she tells him she cannot trust him and she decides to end the marriage. Their relationship lasts into the third season, when Janice decides to leave her husband to be with Chandler. [e 111] Rachel and Monica encounter the bearded man in the basement of their building and think he is a Yeti. Rachel feels that Paul is too secretive for her liking and attempts to get him to open up emotionally but does too good a job when in the midst of conjuring up past memories of his troubled childhood with her he starts crying and will not stop. Get your hands on some Friends merchandise! Robin Williams and Billy Crystal were filming nearby and adlibbed all their lines. He makes a final cameo appearance in "The One with the Flashback",[e 10] set in 1993, where he complains that Phoebe's noise is disturbing his oboe practice (even though he does not actually play the oboe), and inadvertently (and cruelly) causes Joey to be Chandler's roommate. He is mentioned in the series finale when Monica said to everyone he needs their keys to her and Rachel's apartment. Friends ----> Friends 139 replies. She is hostile to her assistant, Sophie, but usually good-natured towards Rachel. Kudrow originated the role of Ursula in the sitcom Mad About You, playing her as an inept waitress at Riff's who frequently forgets orders. 6), she breaks up with Ross and gets back together with her old flame, Dr. Benjamin Hobart (Greg Kinnear). Carol and Susan are often bemused by Ross' behavior throughout his onscreen appearances with them. You belong in Minsk. Eventually, after they kiss, they both realize that dating each other is a mistake, as Monica compares Tim to his father Richard, while Tim metaphorizes the kiss as if he were kissing his own mother. View the profiles of people named David Mink. They are also sometimes bemused by the antics of the other four friends, such as idiotic or crazy comments from Phoebe and/or Joey, a revolting trifle cooked by Rachel which Joey is happy to eat and Chandler entering a coed whirlpool alongside Jack without wearing anything underneath the towel wrapped around his waist. She states in the beginning of season nine that (Emma) is what she wanted to name her daughter. When Joey informs him that he only has $50, he offers Joey a choice of one volume; Joey buys the "V" volume, because it's the one he's reading at the time. Monica and Chip meet again and, seeing that she has lost a lot of weight since he saw her last and is now a very attractive woman, Chip asks her out, much to her delight as she still has a crush on him. They later meet Joey, who confuses and bemuses them with his comments about how nice it is that "their little ones are growing up" (Phoebe had told him he was "like a dad" to her) and later attend the wedding in "The One with Phoebe's Wedding". They saw him as an older character who would provide advice to the six friends but NBC were talked out of it by the show's creators. Rob Donnan (Chris Isaak): Rob asks Phoebe to sing for the children at a library, but their parents are horrified by her morbidly honest lyrics. Mona (Bonnie Somerville), a co-worker at Monica's restaurant, first meets Ross in "The One After 'I Do'." 18), where he meets the other five friends and gives them a bad first impression of him with his habit of making a big fuss of everything, even the most trivial things, which they find annoying. When Ross is lecturing Joey there is a knock on the door and it is Molly's girlfriend. Gary (Michael Rapaport): a cop who accidentally leaves his badge in Central Perk. [e 21] As a last spiteful act, he leaves all of his junk to "the noisy girls in the apartment above mine". At the reception, Susan thanks Ross for his part in saving the wedding, and offers to dance with him; he agrees, apparently resolving their strained relationship. She dumps him when she suspects "Drake" is cheating on her with another woman (actually another character in the soap opera). She finds happiness however, in the fact that she got to dump "Chip Matthews in high school.". During the tenth season, Rachel is offered a job with Louis Vuitton in Paris. Appears in "The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work", "The One with the Mugging" and "The One with the Lottery", when he offers Chandler the job of junior copywriter. (In "The One with the Flashback",[e 10] it is learned that he used to be "Cute Naked Guy", but then, in 1993, started putting on weight. To get out of it, Chandler pretends that he wants to be on his own because he and Monica have split up but it backfires when Doug, who despite his seemingly cheerful and relieved attitude towards his divorce is in reality clearly depressed over it, tries to cheer Chandler up by taking him to strip clubs, drunkenly throwing cans at birds and throwing (Doug's) wedding ring into the gutter (Chandler had refused Doug's offer at first, but then made the mistake of thoughtlessly stating his reason for this as being that Monica would not appreciate it, only to then be forced to correct himself upon seeing Doug's confused expression). After he eats Ross's leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwich in "The One with Ross's Sandwich", Ross angrily shouts at him, and he puts Ross on sabbatical. He eventually threatens to have Ross fired from the university unless he ends his relationship with Elizabeth, as Elizabeth is a student at the university and Ross will be sacked if it emerges he is in a relationship with one of his students. Joshua appeared after the time that Jennifer Aniston and Tate Donovan were dating each other in real life. Mr. Waltham (Paxton Whitehead): Rachel's boss at Bloomingdale's in season 4, who appears in "The One with Rachel's Crush" and "The One with Joey's Dirty Day" after Rachel is demoted to personal shopping after Joanna's death. No real heartbreak to mourn over. In a later episode, the tables are turned on the annoying natured Janice when she has a brief fling with Ross shortly after he has broken up with Emily, as he is unhappy and spends the entire date complaining about everything, causing her to find him insufferable and leave him (Ross had expected the reverse to eventually happen, but had been happy to date someone who listened so well to him in the meantime). He is shown to be the most caring of all the six members in the various instances on the show. In "The One with the Lesbian Wedding",[e 14] she announces to Rachel that she never loved Rachel's father and is divorcing him. At the end of season one, she and Joey become romantically involved during her separation from her husband. Then Tomas complains to Tim about how he thinks his wife is cheating on him with her gynaecologist. [e 64] He and Monica break up in "The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding"[e 8] when he tells her he does not want more children, his own having already grown up. Monica and Chandler try to hide their relationship from the rest of the group for much of the fifth season, but eventually everyone finds out. Initially, Chandler's constant staring requires her to stay at Ross's apartment instead. [e 81] Joey falls for her, and she sleeps with him ... but she fails to see any attraction in him and is already dating the director. It is also revealed in this episode that he urinated on an ice sculpture during Monica and Chandler’s engagement party, and this is why he was not invited to the wedding. He presumably retires in season 4 and from this point onwards Gunther becomes the sole manager at Central Perk. After unsuccessfully trying to prevent animal control officer Luisa (Megan Cavanagh) from discovering that they are harboring an illegal exotic animal and bemusing her with their wacky behavior throughout these unsuccessful attempts, Rachel, Monica, Ross and Phoebe learn that Luisa is a former classmate of Rachel's and Monica's who upon recognizing Rachel attempts to spite her for snubbing her in high school by attempting to confiscate Marcel. Tomas begins by asking the friends to move over to make room for the pair which they do. Chandler Muriel Bing (Matthew Perry) is an executive in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration for a large multi-national corporation. He is a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Wars fan. Kate Miller (Dina Meyer): Joey's co-star in the play Boxing Day. She spent her first two weeks working on the show believing that she would be fired and the part recast with a better looking actress. As it becomes clearer and clearer to her that mentally, he is still a teenager, she asks him if he still lives with his parents, to which he replies "Yeah, but I can stay out as late as I want." Their relationship is troubled from the start due to Ross being the father of Rachel's baby; in "The One with the Stripper", Leonard Green calls her a "tramp" after Ross does not propose to Rachel, and Ross regularly forgets dates with her when Rachel has problems with the baby. Kathy is offended and gets into an argument with Chandler, and the two do no not speak for a while. Realizing that he had come to the wrong conclusions in their argument, Chandler arrives at Kathy's apartment to apologize to and make up with her, only to find himself yelling at her when he finds evidence that she has now slept with Nick after their argument, and they break up. Monica immediately dumps him. [e 13] Remini had originally auditioned for the role of Monica. Dr. Tim Burke (Michael Vartan): Richard Burke's son. Like Aniston, Perry had already appeared in several unsuccessful sitcom pilots before being cast. Schwimmer is the only cast member native to New York City. 23 & 24), and Ross accidentally says Rachel's name at the altar, humiliating Emily in front of her friends and family. Cassie Geller (Denise Richards): a cousin of Ross and Monica who comes up to stay with Monica and Chandler. David was the proprietor of Lungen's Meat & P [e 125] He breaks up with her in "The One with the Proposal, Part 1" when it becomes clear to him that she is too young for a serious relationship with him. Sometime later in the season, Chandler goes to see Kathy in a play and discovers that it has extreme sexual content with her male co-star, Nick. [e 63] They begin dating despite their 21-year age difference — to the chagrin of Monica's parents once they find out. [e 27] When Ross and Rachel await the birth of their daughter Emma,[e 28] Janice is placed in the same labor room as Rachel at the hospital; she later gives birth to a son, Aaron, who she jokes will be Emma's future husband. It was speculated that Michael G. Hagerty, the actor who played Mr. Treeger, was Ugly Naked Guy. He then later hints to her that their fight was "a major turn-on". 13), Rachel tells Gavin that, although she likes him, a relationship would be difficult because of her history with Ross. In "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies",[e 104] he suspects Chandler of both having sex with his ex-girlfriend Tilly and killing his goldfish, so spites him by stealing his insoles. [e 18]. They later get reacquainted in "The One with Rachel's Date" (airdate October 25, 2001; Season 8, No. In Days of our Lives, Jessica dies, and Drake Ramoray, played by Joey, gets her brain, so he can awaken from his coma, a procedure Ross takes issue with on medical grounds. [e 36] He is last mentioned in "The One Where Rachel Quits", where he asks Rachel to retake the waitress training through Gunther, and when Rachel quits midway through the training, he promptly hires a new and more experienced waitress. Ross is jealous of Mark as he mistakenly suspects that he and Rachel are having an affair. In season two she starts dating Michael's father Jimmy once again. Early in the second season of Joey it is revealed that Michael has Asperger syndrome. [17] The cast also receive syndication royalties beginning with the fifth season.[14]. Sophie is frequently victimized by her boss Joanna and occasionally bewildered by ridiculous comments from Chandler (who had a brief relationship with Joanna). Flashbacks in "The One Where They All Turn Thirty"[e 50] reveal that Ursula sold Phoebe's birth certificate to a Swedish runaway, and that both sisters are 31, not 30. Join Facebook to connect with David Mink and others you may know. There are two things to blame for David… Lydia (Leah Remini): a single mother-to-be whose childbirth Joey assists before going to see Carol give birth to Ben. He is last seen looking bemused but amused when Joey enters the room wearing Phoebe's maternity pants (under the deluded belief that he would need to change into a new pair of pants to achieve his goal of eating an entire turkey all by himself). [31], Nora Tyler Bing (Morgan Fairchild): Chandler's mother, a best-selling erotic novelist whose works include Euphoria Unbound, Euphoria At Midnight and Mistress Bitch. After convincing him to wear her panties, Susie takes him out to dinner, undresses him in the men's room, and takes off with his clothes—leaving him in a bathroom stall wearing nothing but her panties. In "The One with the Jellyfish"[e 48] Phoebe tells Ursula that she has met their birth mother (Teri Garr), but Ursula already knows about her. Eventually, Amy decides to take Rachel's advice and do something nice for Emma. "[e 110]. A great deal of Rachel's life throughout the series revolves around her relationship with Ross Geller. She has a nasal voice, a machine gun laugh (similar to Boycie from Only Fools and Horses) and a thick New York accent that sounds so irritating that it makes Chandler want to break up with her, but at the same time he does not want to hurt the nonetheless good-natured Janice's feelings. She delivers the baby in "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby" after Rachel's extremely long labor. Despite each of them having their own quirks, however, they are both occasionally dumbfounded by the crazy antics of their son and daughter, such as Ross' disastrous wedding to Emily and Monica's ridiculous speech at their 35th anniversary party. [e 18] Chris Isaak's song Wicked Game plays in the background when Rachel and Ross sleep together for the first time. [13] The cast members received different salaries in the second season, ranging from $25,000 to $40,000 per episode, with Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer being the highest paid. [e 132]. While Chandler is planning to propose but pretends to be against marriage because he "wants it to be a surprise", Richard stuns Monica by telling her that he still loves her, and wants to marry her and have kids with her. She winds up helping Joey deal with his anxieties about Chandler and Monica moving out of the city. Their marriage is icy and they openly treat one another with disdain. Monica then pursues a chain of various men until she unexpectedly begins a relationship with her longtime friend, Chandler Bing, at the end of the fourth season, during her brother Ross' wedding to Emily Waltham in London. However, Joey forgets about Phoebe's date, and wanting to prevent her from discovering this when she enquires about the name of the man he has fixed her up with, he pretends that someone called "Mike" will be her date. [e 54] His drug problem eventually causes him to lose his restaurant, and, in 2003, Phoebe later fixes Rachel up with him (and Ross with nobody) on a blind date, as part of a secret strategy to get Rachel and Ross back together. Mike Hannigan replies and is roped into the date, which does not go well as Mike accidentally makes it clear that he does not actually know Joey personally, and Joey tries to recover the situation, consequently upsetting Phoebe and turning off his own blind date Mary-Ellen in the process. Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston in real life at the time, and his given name is in fact "William". He and Charlie eventually get back together, after Ross makes him confess his actions in front of her. He is Emily Waltham's uncle. [e 82] Ross tries to get Rachel her job back by bribing Zelner: Zelner has a son called Ross who likes dinosaurs. Phoebe is horrified that Ursula has lied to Eric that she is a teacher, a member of the Peace Corps, a non-smoker, and attends a church group; so she tells Eric the truth, upon which he breaks up with Ursula. After years apart, however—thanks, Minsk—Phoebe ended up with Mike, played by the always-charming, never-aging Paul Rudd. Will has lost 150 pounds and now looks great—which makes Phoebe flirt with him. During the interview he wins Rachel over and she hires him despite Ross not being keen. Rachel already knows Ross Geller, Monica's brother, as all three went to the same high school. Dr. Richard Burke (Tom Selleck): an ophthalmologist and close friend of Jack Geller. The play turns out to be dismal, and after the director dumps her she gets together with Joey in "The One with the Screamer". She is described as the mother hen of the group,[18] and is known for her obsessive-compulsive and competitive nature. It was just an opportunity to tell a really interesting story. Their relationship hits a rough patch when he and Rachel consider getting back together. [34] Selleck was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series[35] in 2000 for his appearance in "The One with the Proposal". She turns both men down but admits that Mike is the man she wants to be with. Mr. Heckles (Larry Hankin): Monica and Rachel's downstairs neighbor, a domineering, highly unusual elderly man who constantly complains about the noise, even though the six friends are being perfectly decent in volume whenever he claims that they are disturbing him. The series finale of Mad About You, set 22 years into the future, reveals that Ursula becomes Governor of New York. [e 46] The Seattle Times ranked Nora and her ex-husband jointly as the fifth best guest characters in 2004. However, his aggressive true colours are exposed to Rachel after she, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler and Ross witness him lose his temper after Joey and Chandler's pet baby chicken urinates in his hand and, unable to keep his anger in check, he screams at both it and their pet duck when its quacking irritates him further. After Joey, having landed the recurring role Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives, moves into his own apartment,[e 64] Chandler gets a new roommate. Roy (Danny DeVito): a stripper in "The One Where the Stripper Cries", who is hired for Phoebe's bachelorette party at the last minute after she expresses disappointment that the party is not "dirtier". She chain smokes and has a strong New York accent. Rachel convinces Ross to go in her place, which introduces them leading to their eventual relationship. Rachel and Ross get back together in the final episode of the series. He is seemingly impossible for Ross to please and brazenly crude, rude and abrasive towards him. 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