He dumps her and in "The One with the Stain" and tries to get together with Phoebe, but cannot stand to look at her as she reminds him of her sister. Mark Robinson (Steven Eckholdt) first appears in "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister", offering to get Rachel an interview at Bloomingdale's after overhearing her complaining to Monica about her current job. 12). Rachel's first job is as a waitress at Central Perk coffee house. In the season 7 episode "The Thanksgiving Decoupling", it was revealed that Penny had married Zack in Las Vegas in what they thought as a "fake" wedding. [e 22], which leads to the end of their relationship in "The One with the Giant Poking Device", as Chandler breaks up with her. She is puzzled but impressed by Joey's intuitive gift at being able to know when she is wearing thong panties and spends most of her time hanging out at Joey and Michael's apartment. However, the kids like the songs and come to the café to listen to her, and Phoebe teaches Rob "Smelly Cat". At Jack and Judy Geller's anniversary party, he drives everyone crazy by getting excited by anything and everything he sees. [25], Ursula Pamela Buffay (Lisa Kudrow): Phoebe's identical twin sister who lives in Soho. Tomas (Robin Williams) and Tim (Billy Crystal): two strangers at the coffee shop. [34], Tom Jicha of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel praised Cuoco's portrayal of Penny, stating: "Her character had the potential to be a bimbo, but she [Cuoco] has developed it into a fully fleshed-out woman, who isn't as book-smart as the other characters but is wiser in so many ways. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "Relationship Agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. She took the SATs and went to college for "both years", but still isn't terribly bright. However, Joey later sees Janice kissing her husband while in the midst of their divorce. As a bit of revenge for Joey's overanxious behavior, Monica and Chandler briefly pretend that Mackenzie is a ghost. Howard also shows interest in her (primarily sexual), but he is always rejected abruptly due to his unsettling approaches. 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. It was just an opportunity to tell a really interesting story. [e 6][failed verification] The Seattle Times ranked Jack and Judy jointly as the second best guest character of the series in 2004.[25]. Vince (Matt Battaglia) is a fire fighter and Jason (Robert Gant) is a kindergarten teacher. [8] Kurt makes two more appearances in the series.[25][40]. In his first appearance in "The One with the Monkey",[e 15] his "fun" is sapped at Monica's New Year's party after his grandfather died, but his depression does not stop Monica, annoyed that he's "bringing her party down" from putting a party horn in his mouth and forcing him to blow on it, to his bemusement. He usually states that items are his, and when the other person states that he does not have one, Mr. Heckles says that he could have one. She complains to him for a bit about how bad things are going in her love life before leaving to think things over. Zach's final appearance was in "Joey and the Big Move". He and Charlie eventually get back together, after Ross makes him confess his actions in front of her. Joey dumps her after sleeping with Kate, and although she is initially upset (calling him "pig"), she later seems to be fine with him. She is an aspiring musician who plays the guitar and sings songs with somewhat unusual lyrics at the coffee shop. Considered by some to be the most intelligent of the six main characters, but at the same time a clumsy, quirky man, Ross is known for being a smart, know-it-all who prides himself on his rationality, despite his clear hopeless romanticism. Penny takes care of Sheldon while he is ill[23] and lets him stay at her apartment when he is locked out of his, has a bad dream or is feeling unsafe;[24] Sheldon lent her money when she needed it[25] and takes care of her when she dislocates her shoulder. His first marriage has already failed by the time the show begins, with his second lasting mere weeks. They were portrayed by Cristobal and Antonella. Though Ross attempts to counter Mark's job offer by getting Rachel her job back at Ralph Lauren, he eventually relents upon realizing Rachel wants to go to Paris. Chandler ultimately gets rid of Eddie by allowing Joey to move back in after Joey's career falters following the death of Dr. Ramoray. Following her breakup with Leonard, Penny takes Sheldon along when she and some friends from work went to Disneyland, for which he is thankful. [22] Although the two characters sometimes clash, and Penny is frequently irritated by Sheldon's obstinacy and lack of social awareness, she has developed an affection for him. Then Tomas complains to Tim about how he thinks his wife is cheating on him with her gynaecologist. [22] He often mocks his best friend Joey for the latter's stupidity. When Leonard complains that Penny has yet to say "I love you" to Leonard, Raj attempts to get her to say it, causing Penny to eject him from the apartment. He plans to ask her out, but is too late when she gets together with Joey instead. [e 63], and they begin dating despite their 21-year age difference. After celebrating their first anniversary in Las Vegas, they move in together and get engaged by the sixth-season finale. [e 61] Her age is never given but Gable believed that she was in her 80s. At the beginning of season 2, she goes on her first date with Leonard, but is embarrassed to tell him that she dropped out of community college. "[original research?] Reprising her role from Caroline in the City, she talks with Joey and Chandler—seeing them with Ben and consequently thinking them to be lovers—in "The One with the Baby on the Bus". [e 91] They get together during the recording of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve,[e 118] but break up after she reveals she does not like Monica and Chandler. He introduces Phoebe to them,[e 68] and soon after they make it clear that they do not approve of Phoebe due to being both irritated and bewildered by her odd quirks, but Mike defies them and declares his love for her in front of his parents and their two "sinfully boring" friends (who are likewise bemused by the odd quirks of Phoebe). In season 12, Penny announces that she does not want to have any children which Leonard somewhat reluctantly supports her decision. She dumps him after he gropes Phoebe[e 33] but has a last one-night stand with him in "The One with Ross's New Girlfriend". Joey is distraught when she leaves for a soap opera role in Los Angeles. The scene where Rachel speaks slowly to Julie at the airport was based upon the real-life experience of actress Lauren Tom. [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". Treeger first appears in "The One Where Heckles Dies",[e 21] where he shows Mr. Heckles's lawyer to Monica and Rachel's apartment. Alexis "Alex" Garrett (Andrea Anders) is Joey's next-door neighbor, landlady and friend in Joey. Frightening and intimidating people in this manner apparently amuses Tommy, who appears to be in a good mood after screaming at both Ross and the elderly couple. 11), he invites Monica and Chandler to dinner to celebrate his divorce. Joey (the son) tries to set things right, but Gloria (Brenda Vaccaro), Joey's mother, who secretly knew about the affair all along, makes Joey change it back because her husband's been unusually nice to her since he started cheating on her. In "The One with the Stripper",[e 78] Stu gives Monica the phone number of someone she assumes is a stripper for Chandler's belated bachelor party, though she turns out to be a prostitute. [39] Helen Baxendale was asked to reprise the role in Season 10, but turned it down to star in the West End play After Miss Julie, and because she did not want the same level of tabloid attention she received in 1998. She dumps him when she suspects "Drake" is cheating on her with another woman (actually another character in the soap opera). [e 26] When Chandler and Monica become engaged, Janice re-enters their lives, leaving only when Monica states that Chandler still has feelings for her. However this never happens as Rachel chooses to remain in New York with Ross. A number of episodes depict Penny's assimilation of nerd culture through her relationship with the men, and has developed to quote some science fiction shows (like Star Trek), and movies (Star Wars). Consequently, they are listed in the section on this page "Only in season 6". Penny has mentioned having a brother on parole, who she says is "kind of a chemist". Penny realizes that she finds Leonard's more assertive demeanor attractive, but when he regresses to groveling in order to have sex with her, she rebuffs him. 1) but sees Rachel with him about to go on their honeymoon and storms out again. She was called Katie, and was envisioned as "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior". [11] In another episode, Penny accompanied the men to the comic book store to shop for a gift for her 13-year-old nephew. Tommy "the Screamer" (Ben Stiller): an aggressive, testosterone-fuelled bully who takes his pent-up rage out on anyone who irritates him in the slightest way by viciously screaming at them, in an episode fittingly titled "The One With The Screamer". They eventually break up in "The One with the Birthing Video" (airdate February 7, 2002; Season 8, No. Note: All characters who were introduced in this season did not re-appear in further seasons. [e 119], The Judge (Conchata Ferrell) presides over the attempt of Ross and Rachel—who got married in Las Vegas while drunk—to get an annulment; she informs them that they have to get a divorce instead. [m 2], Mindy Hunter-Farber (Jennifer Grey in "The One with the Evil Orthodontist",[e 7] Jana Marie Hupp in "The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding"[e 8]): Rachel's maid of honor at her abortive wedding to Barry. A recurring gag in the fourth season is Sheldon's frequent change of his and Leonard's Wi-Fi password to address Penny's use of their signal. [e 23] When Janice returns to his life, having finally gotten divorced,[e 24] Chandler finds her insufferable again, and pretends to move to Yemen to get away from her. At a reunion, Chandler gives Ross permission to break the pact, now that he is married, where it is revealed that Chandler and Missy made out numerous times during college after school hours in the school's science labs, which Ross calls his "turf". However, Amy and Bernadette occasionally prefer to meet without Penny, and often tease her. 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. [e 102] Everyone likes him more than Monica does. Prior to his role on Friends, LeBlanc appeared as a regular on the short-lived TV 101, a minor character in the sitcom Married... with Children, and as a main character in its spin-offs, Top of the Heap and Vinnie & Bobby. in neuroscience or something." 6), she breaks up with Ross and gets back together with her old flame, Dr. Benjamin Hobart (Greg Kinnear). Monica worries about the fact that she is not attracted to him and cannot figure out why. At the end of the episode Monica breaks up with him, and has the break-up talk with the other friends as if they broke up with him, too. He is Emily Waltham's uncle. 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. 5), he proposes to her, and they are married soon after by Joey. Realizing that he has come to the wrong conclusion, Chandler arrives at Kathy's apartment the next morning to apologize to her, only to find Nick's pants, and they break up. She dies in the final season,[e 30] and Joey speaks at her memorial service, where it is revealed that by that point she represented only two clients — Joey and a man whose act is eating paper. Zach does not appear to have a home; he was seen at one time living in Joey's trailer while working on a major blockbuster movie. At the end of season seven, during Monica's and Chandler's wedding, it is revealed that Rachel is pregnant from a one-night stand with Ross. He implies that he made a dreadful mess of breaking up with her, both upsetting and enraging her in the process. Stephen's final words onscreen, to Andrea in response to her flirting with Ross, are "You spend half your life in the bathroom-why don't you ever go out the bloody window?!". Melissa is extremely embarrassed and tries to act as if she was kidding, saying, "I'm not in love with you. [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 and Leonard occasionally talk and behave as if Sheldon were their child (alluded to earlier in season 3's "The Spaghetti Catalyst" during the final seven minutes [see next paragraph], and in season 11's "The Collaboration Contamination" when Penny actually uses a parenting book of Bernadette's on Sheldon), and Penny is very pleased whenever Sheldon acts tenderly towards her. He is never seen again after that. ", almost every time she re-enters the show, and Chandler sometimes imitates her with it. He develops a crush on Rachel in season eight. [e 107], Danny (né Daniel) (George Newbern): a man who has been on an around-the-world trip and returns in "The One with the Yeti". She reveals her parentage at the end of the episode and makes amends with Phoebe in "The One with the Jellyfish". Richard is introduced when Monica caters an event for him in "The One Where Ross and Rachel … You Know". In "The Thespian Catalyst", he changes the password to "Penny is a freeloader",[31] in "The Roommate Transmogrification" he has changed it to "Penny, get your own Wi-Fi",[32] and in the episode "The Speckerman Recurrence", he has changed it into "Penny already eats our food, she can pay for Wi-Fi". She's also a great straight person, who can get off zingers of her own". He fully appears in the episode "The One with the Cat" (airdate October 2, 1997; Season 4, No. In one episode, Sheldon tries to "improve" Penny, rewarding her with chocolate for what he considers "correct behavior", as in operant conditioning of lab rats. 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. A mutual attraction soon develops between Kathy and Chandler,[e 105] which manifests in a kiss; Kathy then breaks up with Joey, without telling him why. Gina Tribbiani (Drea de Matteo) is Joey's attractive older sister, whom Joey comes to live with in Los Angeles during Joey. Marcel (live animal actor): A Capuchin monkey that Ross initially keeps as a pet,[e 15] and who provides comic relief for his geeky master. When she gets home she and Rachel fight again, but this time end up apologizing to each other, agreeing they should not have let him come between them. Susan's real life daughter played the daughter of her character, Cecilia Monroe, in Friends. After Sheldon introduces her to the online role-playing game Age of Conan, Penny becomes addicted, to the point of ignoring her friends, her hygiene, her general appearance and her job, and pesters Sheldon incessantly for gaming advice. However, when Ross confesses to Rachel at the airport that he is still in love with her, Rachel gets off the plane at the last minute to reunite with him, turning down Mark's job offer. At the end of that episode, she passes out while the three of them play Twister, and when Bernadette initially fails to revive her, she says "Penny, we're out of wine", which manages to wake Penny. "[14], In the series premiere, Penny moves in across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon because of her recent split from her boyfriend, Kurt, after living together for four years. [e 13] Ben is played as an infant by Michael Gunderson, by brothers Charles Thomas Allen and John Christopher Allen from Season 3 to 5, and by Cole Sprouse from Season 6 to 8. 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. He later meets up with Ross—who is the real father and is wearing the same kind of red sweater. He has also been called "Barry White", and is possibly[original research?] "[e 109]. Pete Becker (Jon Favreau): a computer software genius and multi-millionaire, Pete is introduced when he tips Monica $20,000 at the Moondance diner in "The One with the Hypnosis Tape", which she assumes is a joke. One time Rachel loses him in the city,[e 16] and calls Animal Control—only to learn from Ross that Marcel is an illegal exotic animal that cannot be kept in the city. They go away to Paul's country cabin in "The One Where Paul's the Man", where Ross and Elizabeth have also gone; while hiding under the bed, Ross hears Paul psyching himself up in the mirror and singing "Love Machine"; later, Ross uses this knowledge to blackmail Paul into not revealing his relationship with Elizabeth to the university. At the end of dinner, Rachel kisses her again to prove to Phoebe that she can do something crazy. For years she convinced her genius son Michael that he was born when she was 22 instead of 16 years old, and always says he is the one thing she has done well. The Zoo Administrator (Fred Willard) of the zoo Ross sent Marcel to, who tries to cover up a break-in in which Marcel is kidnapped and forced into show business. She always says the word "snuggle"/"snuggling" instead of the word "sex". In the final season of the series, they adopt new-born twins, whom they name Erica and Jack. When Leonard finds out about it, he shows her college brochures and she feels embarrassed and insulted, thinking Leonard is saying she is not smart enough to date him. Penny Hofstadter (née Teller[1]) is a fictional character from the American CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actress Kaley Cuoco. 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. Sophie (Laura Dean): Mark's replacement. [47] Initially, Leonard and Penny feel uncomfortable with their new relationship, and they agreed to remain only friends, but are unable to maintain this resolution and began a stable relationship. 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. His article revealed that an actor named Jon Haugen played the role.[32]. She moves out soon after and is never seen again in the series. In the same episode, "The Spaghetti Catalyst", she notes that she takes Sheldon shopping for his linens. By the middle of the season, she is also taking an acting class, and at the beginning of season 7, she is taking a psychology class as well. [25] Gable also plays the nurse who delivers Ben in "The One with the Birth". With Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg. On the spur of the moment in "The Recombination Hypothesis", Leonard asks Penny out on a date after he imagines what getting back with her might be like. In season 6, she does go back to college, taking a history class and hiding it from the rest of the group, although she initially performs terribly in the classes and tests. [25] Alice was only scheduled to appear in the one episode but was brought back for a recurring role after the surrogacy storyline—which was created when actor Lisa Kudrow became pregnant.[37]. Rachel is invited to the wedding, but receives a cold reception for jilting Barry while she is there, and a ridiculous speech from Ross which bemuses everyone in the room does not exactly improve the situation for her, until she, in a desperate attempt to salvage some pride, walks onto the stage where the microphone is and starts singing the Copacabana. [44], Afterwards, Penny dates Stuart, from the comic book store, but their dates do not lead to a relationship. In season five, Janice has a brief fling with Ross shortly after he has broken up with Emily, who spends the entire date complaining about everything, causing her to find him insufferable and leave him. Leonard happily accepts, but during the journey, after Penny expresses happiness that they will get married while knowing everything about each other, Leonard confesses to having shared a drunken kiss with another woman while on the boat in Europe, though he adds that the woman started it and he rejected her. Emily Waltham (Helen Baxendale): The English niece of Rachel's boss Mr. Waltham, who arrives for a two-week visit to New York in "The One with Joey's Dirty Day". Jennifer Milmore was the "author" of the improvement book Be Your Own Windkeeper which the girls read in a season 2 episode. They both reveal that they were subconsciously trying to sabotage their relationship, feeling unworthy of the other. Penny strenuously denies it was ever that many. After retrieving the laptop, Zack shows the couple a video in the laptop that Penny made after her breakup with Leonard showing a drunk Penny apologizing to Leonard and regrets breaking up with him. Their marriage is icy and they openly treat one another with disdain. Melissa takes this to mean that Rachel loves her back. and slapping his male colleagues on the butt. Subsequently, Mike has to break up with Precious (Anne Dudek), the girl he has been seeing since breaking up with Phoebe, but Phoebe (who annoys Precious by calling her "Susie") convinces Precious to dump him instead. It was speculated that Michael G. Hagerty, the actor who played Mr. Treeger, was Ugly Naked Guy. [e 131]. 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. Monica E. Geller-Bing (Courteney Cox) is the younger sister of Ross and best friend of Rachel, the latter of whom she allows to live with her after Rachel forsakes her own wedding. [19] In season 8, after finding a job as a highly paid pharmaceutical sales representative at Bernadette's company, she obtains a company car and sells the one Leonard bought for her, attempting to return the money to Leonard. [e 105], Joshua Burgin (Tate Donovan): a recently divorced customer who regularly uses Rachel as a personal shopper at Bloomingdale's. She also strongly advises Rachel that Ross will not stay around to raise the baby. Elizabeth Stevens (Alexandra Holden): one of Ross's students, whom he starts dating in "The One Where Ross Dates a Student", mistakenly believing it is not against university rules. 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. Though Ross had originally wanted to name his daughter "Isabella", Rachel wound up in tears when she decided that the name did not suit the baby and was dismayed by her other remaining choice, Delilah. Ross is Monica's older brother, Chandler's college roommate, and Rachel's on-again, off-again boyfriend. In "The One Where Rachel Smokes", Rachel thinks she is missing out on important decisions, as they are always made when Kim takes a smoking break. In 2004, The Seattle Times ranked Richard as the third-best guest character of the series.[25]. At the end of the episode, Phoebe punishes him by giving him a very painful massage. [e 38], David, "the Scientist Guy" (Hank Azaria): a physicist with whom Phoebe falls in love in "The One with the Monkey", when he receives an academic grant for a three-year research trip to Minsk (incorrectly -- and consistently -- described in the scripts as being in Russia, rather than Belarus). She has an identical twin sister, Ursula Pamela Buffay (also played by Kudrow), who is just as odd as Phoebe and appeared as a recurring character on Mad About You. Phoebe dates both men for some time before they find out about each other, and both break up with Phoebe. Carol and Susan were based on creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane's best friends in New York: "We didn't create them for any particular political reason or because of lesbian chic. She fails to service her vehicle regularly, and ignores her check engine light, which has been mentioned in multiple episodes mainly by Sheldon and once each by Amy and Leonard's mother. [e 38] While Phoebe believed him to be homosexual, he returned to ask Phoebe for a divorce because he has realized he is straight and has proposed to another woman. He asks her out for a pizza, and takes her to Rome. At the end of the episode, Penny and Leonard discuss this, during which Penny casually mentions that she loves him, which Leonard notes is the first time she has said this to him. She leaves, seemingly for good, but does kiss him one last time before she goes. Because of this, the character was changed, and the role was recast. In the series finale, Ross and Rachel finally reconcile, deciding to be together once and for all. After unsuccessfully trying to deny the affair, Rachel pretends Ralph dumped her.
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