The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding
The season-7 finale: Chandler bolts, Ross and Phoebe bring him back, and a pregnancy test turns up in the bin.
"The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" is the double-length finale of the seventh season of Friends, first aired on May 17, 2001. Usually shown in a one-hour slot and presented on DVD as one episode, it was directed by Kevin S. Bright and written by Gregory S. Malins and Marta Kauffman and David Crane; Gary Oldman's guest turn as the spitting actor Richard Crosby earned an Emmy nomination.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Friends
- Season
- 7
- Episode
- 23, 24
- Air date
- 17 May 2001
- Production
- 226422 (part 1); 226423 (part 2)
- Writer
- Gregory S. Malins (part 1); Marta Kauffman & David Crane (part 2)
- Director
- Kevin S. Bright
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Background
Ross gives Chandler the older-brother talk, which Chandler finds hilarious. Joey is shooting a First World War film with Richard Crosby, who sprays his co-stars as he enunciates, and whose schedule clashes with Joey officiating the wedding. At the rehearsal dinner Chandler's divorced parents Nora and Charles bicker and Jack Geller mistakes Nora for Chandler's father. Afterwards Chandler, panicking at becoming "the Bings", disappears, leaving a note; Ross searches while Rachel and Phoebe keep Monica from finding out, and in the bathroom Phoebe finds a positive pregnancy test and assumes it is Monica's. Ross and Phoebe find Chandler in his office, afraid of ending up like his parents, and Ross talks him back one step at a time. They marry in a New York church, the final shot of Rachel being filmed after the audience had gone; the test, it emerges in the next episode, was Rachel's.
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