Monica and Chandler
Mondler: from "Ross's fat sister" at Thanksgiving 1987 to a secret London fling, a proposal and twins.
Monica and Chandler, or Mondler, is the pairing of Monica Geller and Chandler Bing in Friends, the longest romance between two of the six. They met at Thanksgiving 1987, when Chandler was Ross's college roommate and Monica, overhearing him call her Ross's fat sister, resolved to lose weight; a year later her attempt to humiliate him cost him a toe. It was also Chandler who praised her macaroni and cheese and suggested she become a chef.
Quick Facts
- Characters
- Monica Geller and Chandler Bing
- Actors
- Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry
- Fan name
- Mondler
- First met
- Thanksgiving 1987
- Got together
- The One With Ross' Wedding, Part 2 (London)
- Married
- The One With Monica And Chandler's Wedding (May 17, 2001)
- Children
- Jack and Erica (adopted twins)
Facts from the source article.
Background
For four seasons they are close friends: he suggests they be each other's back-up if both are single at forty, and she promises him he will not die alone. The relationship starts in London in "The One With Ross' Wedding, Part 2", when a miserable Monica, told she looks like Ross's mother, goes looking for Joey and finds Chandler instead. They mean to stop when they leave London and cannot, keep it secret through season 5 until Joey, Rachel, Phoebe and finally Ross find out, and move in together in season 6.
Chandler hides his proposal plan by pretending to hate marriage, which nearly sends Monica back to Richard, before proposing in "The One With The Proposal". He panics and disappears the night before the wedding, is found by Ross and Phoebe in his office, and they marry on May 17, 2001, in the season-7 finale, with Joey officiating. Unable to conceive, they adopt Erica's twins Jack and Erica in the finale and move to a house in Westchester.
F dates the London night to the season-4 finale and the wedding to "The One With Monica And Chandler's Wedding, Part 2".
Source
Text adapted from Monica and Chandler 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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