Chandler Bing

Chandler Muriel Bing was a fictional character, played by Matthew Perry, on the popular sitcom Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004.

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Fictional - Matthew Perry - Sitcom - Friends - 1994 - 2004

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Chandler Muriel Bing, son of romantic novelist Nora Tyler Bing (Morgan Fairchild) and cross-dressing Vegas burlesque star Charles Bing (Kathleen Turner), was the roommate of Ross Geller in college. Chandler met Ross' sister Monica Geller and her friend Rachel Green while celebrating the holidays at the Geller family residence. It was later revealed that at a college party in 1987 Chandler had kissed Rachel a few hours before Ross supposedly kissed her for the first time. However, it emerged that the "Rachel" that Ross kissed was actually Monica. Chandler later moved to apartment #19, across the hall from the apartment of Monica and her then roommate Phoebe Buffay. Joey Tribbiani joined him shortly and Chandler stayed with him until he decided to move across the hallway with Monica upon their engagement in season 6.

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Morgan Fairchild - Kathleen Turner - Ross Geller - Monica Geller - Rachel Green - Apartment - Phoebe Buffay - Joey Tribbiani

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Chandler worked as a Data-Processor, a job which he thoroughly loathed. His friends, in a trivia game, could not guess his job in one instance, with Rachel calling him a "transpondster". (Actually, Monica finally learns what he does when he quits - she calls it Statistical Analysis And Data Reconfiguration). However, Chandler was unable to simply quit his job as it was his nature to avoid ending anything forcefully, be it his job, a relationship or even his membership with a gym. Possibly the finest - and most extreme - example of his determination to avoid ending a relationship forcefully involves the 'mind-numbingly annoying' character Janice, who was a constant reoccurring fixture in his life. His final attempt to leave her once and for all involved Chandler claiming he was moving to Yemen (address: 15 Yemen Road, Yemen), and then actually boarding a plane and flying to Yemen (albeit reluctantly) just to prove to her that he is not lying.

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Data-Processor - Gym - Janice - Yemen

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Chandler’s wise-cracks were a particular highlight of the show. Some fine examples include Chandler describing Rachel’s attempts to stop him smoking by throwing away every cigarette he puts into his mouth as "the least fun game ever", quoting A.A. Milne as having said "Get out of my chair, Dillhole" in an attempt to persuade Joey to vacate the chair he'd been sitting in, and his insistence that his surname is Gaelic for ‘thy turkey’s done’. His conversations with Phoebe, which ranged from why Donald Duck wears a towel when getting out of the shower, to why there isn’t a superhero called "Goldman", were another highlight of the show. Often, when he and Ross are trying to pickup women, he would be referred to as 'The Funny One'.

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Wise-cracks - Rachel - Cigarette - A.A. Milne - Gaelic - Phoebe - Donald Duck - Towel - Shower - Superhero - Ross

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One Thanksgiving when Chandler was young, his father announced that he was a homosexual. He later moved to Las Vegas where he opened up an all-male burlesque called ‘Viva Las Gaygas’. He was a crossdresser and was played in the series by Kathleen Turner. As a result of this, Chandler hates Thanksgiving and refuses to eat any Thanksgiving food. Chandler also highlights this as the point where he began to use humour as a defence mechanism. Chandler himself is often mistaken for being gay by friends, colleagues and, most importantly, women.

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Thanksgiving - Homosexual - Las Vegas - Burlesque - Crossdresser - Kathleen Turner - Defence mechanism

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Chandler famously shared an apartment with his best friend Joey Tribbiani. Chandler and Joey's apartment became an important focal point for the series as one of the meeting areas of the gang. The two formed perhaps one of the most likeable and enduring television friendships in sitcom history. Their adventures included losing Ross's son on a bus, building an 'entertainment center' which was so big it covered both of their doors, buying a chick and a duck (affectionately named 'The Chick and The Duck'), replacing their dining table with a foosball table and spending hours watching Baywatch. In the final episode Monica symbolically destroyed the foosball table in order to save Chick 2 and Duck 2, before Chandler moved to Westchester; however, despite no longer living in the same apartment block, Chandler and Monica made it known that their new home would have a specially designated 'Joey room'.

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Joey Tribbiani - Chandler and Joey's apartment - Bus - The Chick and The Duck - Foosball - Baywatch - Westchester

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In season 4, Chandler began an affair with his close friend Monica Geller in London. They had been friends for some time and had known each other for a long time. The two fell in love and eventually moved in together. They married (their wedding was officiated by Joey, who was ordained over the internet) and, in the final episode, watched as their (unforseen) adopted twins - Erica and Jack - were born.

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Monica Geller - London - Internet

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Some interesting Chandler facts:

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• Monica accidentally severed his toe with a knife one Thanksgiving.
• He had a third nipple (his "nubbin"). Apparently, it was "the source of all his power." However, he had a "nubbinectomy" after he was dumped by his one-legged girlfriend, Ginger, who was bothered by it.
• Subscribed to TV Guide under the alias "Ms. Chanandler Bong."