Frank Buffay Jr.
Phoebe's half-brother, who marries his home-economics teacher and has triplets carried by Phoebe, played by Giovanni Ribisi.
Frank Buffay Jr. is the half-brother of Phoebe and Ursula Buffay in Friends, the son of their father Frank Sr. by his second wife, played by Giovanni Ribisi in eight episodes. Phoebe finds him in "The One With The Bullies" while searching for their father, who abandoned his family too, and the two bond over their oddities.
Quick Facts
- Played by
- Giovanni Ribisi
- Relation
- Phoebe and Ursula's paternal half-brother
- Wife
- Alice Knight
- Children
- Frank Jr. Jr., Leslie and Chandler (triplets carried by Phoebe)
- First appearance
- The One With The Bullies (season 3)
- Episodes
- 8
Facts from the source article.
Background
Frank has a punctured lung, was once arrested for stealing birds' eggs, likes to melt things and had a dog called Tumor. Visiting Phoebe in New York in "The One With Frank Jr." he takes "massage parlour" to mean a brothel and gropes one of her colleagues. In season 3 he gets engaged to his home-economics teacher Alice Knight, 26 years his senior, and Phoebe's attempts to split them up fail. They marry in "The One With Phoebe's Uterus" and ask Phoebe to carry their child; she gives birth to triplets in "The One Hundredth" - Frank Jr. Jr., Leslie and a girl named Chandler. In season 10 he admits he has not slept in four years and asks Phoebe to take one of the children, but cannot part with any; she promises to babysit instead.
Giovanni Ribisi had earlier appeared in "The One With The Baby On The Bus" as the young man who drops a condom in Phoebe's guitar case.
Source
Text adapted from Frank Buffay Jr. on Friends Central (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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