![]() Joey takes her on a platonic date and slowly develops feelings for her. The unnecessary plot line was woven in during Season Eight to delay Ross and Rachel’s happily-ever-after for two more seasons. The only good thing to come out of Joey and Rachel’s weird, short-lived romance was Ross’ hysterical reaction to it. “The One Where Ross Is Fine” (Season 10, Episode 1)Ĭome for the reassurance, stay for the fajitas.Rock Bottom Ross is a hard place to be, but at least there’s cotton candy. He returns to Central Perk on tranquilizers, smiling and telling his friends he was forced to take a sabbatical. When his boss confesses he was the one who ate the sandwich - and that he threw most of it away - Ross spirals out of control, his anger bellowing through the windows and out into Washington Square Park. Phoebe, who spent her youth living on the seedy streets of Manhattan, helps him write an offensive note to ward off any future stealers, leading his colleagues to dub him Mental Geller. On the brink of divorce from Emily and recently evicted from his department, the Thanksgiving leftover sandwich was the only glimmer of hope he had - and now it’s gone. He presents them with a serious dilemma: Someone at work ate his sandwich (Chandler: “Well, what did the police say?”). Ross had been greeting his friends with his signature depressing, “Hi,” since the pilot, and this episode is no different. ![]() He’s the nutty neurotic we just can’t get enough of. We purposely left out his relationship milestones, focusing less on him saying the wrong name at the altar and more him on seeking revenge on a luxury hotel by stealing lightbulbs and overstocking on tampons. ![]() Before taking the role of Ross, Schwimmer was about to quit television. He had also made a name for himself in the short-lived Henry Winkler sitcom Monty and his appearance on NYPD Blue. Co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane specifically wrote the part with him in mind after he auditioned for another pilot of theirs called Couples. It’s difficult to imagine anyone more suited for the role than David Schwimmer. He was an intellectual with an extremely wounded soul, someone who slept with an air purifier and boasted about having traveler’s insurance. His five friends would continuously smart-shame him for having a PhD, rolling their eyes at his mere mention of a dinosaur or mocking him for being a grammar nazi. He spent his formative years pining for his best friend’s sister, making out with the high school librarian and his college maid - all before his wife left him for another woman. Most importantly, he hates ice cream!īut Ross is also the most amusing character on the show, the whimsical loser who never really stood a chance at being the most beloved. ![]() He has a seemingly rough time gauging basic distances, whether he’s forcing his new couch up a narrow flight of stairs or trying to inch his new red sports car out of a parallel parking spot. He loses his cool over a Thanksgiving leftover sandwich, dramatically calling it the only good thing going on in his life before his job forces him to take a sabbatical. He’s at times extremely whiny, defensive, and arrogant. He was a terrible boyfriend, not only to Rachel but to the many women he dated during the show’s ten seasons. Even nearly three decades after the show first aired, the neurotic paleontologist is still the source of endless debate, the subject of listicles and think pieces that beg the question: Is Ross Geller the greatest or worst character on Friends? There is no Friends character more divisive than Ross.
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