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!Introduced in Season 4
[[folder:Chip Matthews]]
!!Chip Matthews
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/DanGauthier

Rachel's high school boyfriend and Prom Date. Monica eventually goes on a date with him in season four and quickly learns that he hasn't changed at all since high scool.

* BigManOnCampus: In high school, where he was dating the equally popular Rachel.
* TheFaceless: In "The One with the Prom Video", he's played by an unknown, uncredited actor and his face is not seen on screen.
* FutureLoser: He was the most popular guy in high school, now he's an immature ManChild with no job who still lives with his parents.
* ManChild: Monica dates him in "The One With The Cat" and learns that he hasn't matured at all since high school.

[[folder:Kathy]]
!!Kathy
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/PagetBrewster

A woman that Joey meets in acting class who quickly become the center of a LoveTriangle between him and Chandler.

[[WMG: Gunther (Creator/JamesMichaelTyler)]]

[[folder: Terry]]
[[WMG: Terry (Creator/MaxWright)]]

[[folder: Janice Litman]]
[[WMG: Janice Litman (Creator/MaggieWheeler)]]

Chandler's on-again, off-again girlfriend during the first four seasons. One of the show's primary recurring characters, appearing at least once in all but the sixth season (and even then she had a voiceover role).

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[[folder: "Ugly Naked Guy"]]
[[WMG: "Ugly Naked Guy"]]

[[folder: Mr. Heckles]]
[[WMG: Mr. Heckles (Creator/LarryHankin)]]

[[folder: Dr. Barry Farber]]
[[WMG: Dr. Barry Farber (Creator/MitchellWhitfield)]]

[[folder: Paolo]]
[[WMG: Paolo (Creator/CosimoFusco)]]

[[folder: David]]
[[WMG: David (Creator/HankAzaria)]]

[[folder: Fun Bobby]]
[[WMG: Fun Bobby (Creator/VincentVentresca)]]

[[folder: Julie]]
[[WMG: Julie (Creator/LaurenTom)]]

[[folder: Dr. Richard Burke]]
[[WMG: Dr. Richard Burke (Creator/TomSelleck)]]

[[folder: Eddie Menuek]]
[[WMG: Eddie Menuek (Creator/AdamGoldberg)]]

[[folder: Estelle Leonard]]
[[WMG: Estelle Leonard (Creator/JuneGable)]]

[[WMG: Mr. Treger (Creator/MichaelGHagerty)]]

[[folder: Mark Robinson]]

[[WMG: Mark Robinson (Creator/StevenEckholdt)]]

[[folder: Chloe]]
[[WMG: Chloe (Creator/AngelaFeatherstone)]]

[[folder: Isaac]]
[[WMG: Isaac (Creator/MauryGinsberg)]]

[[folder: Pete Becker]]
[[WMG: Pete Becker (Creator/JonFavreau)]]

[[folder: Joanna]]
[[WMG: Joanna (Creator/AlisonLaPlaca)]]

[[folder: Sophie]]
[[WMG: Sophie (Creator/LauraDean)]]

[[folder: Kate Miller]]
[[WMG: Kate Miller (Creator/DinaMeyer)]]

[[folder: Marshall Townend]]
[[WMG: Marshall Townend (Reg Rogers)]]

[[folder: Bonnie]]
[[WMG: Bonnie (Creator/ChristineTaylor)]]

[[folder: Chip Matthews]]
[[WMG: Chip Matthews (Creator/DanGauthier)]]

[[folder: Kathy]]
[[WMG: Kathy (Creator/PagetBrewster)]]

[[folder: Joshua Burgin]]
[[WMG: Joshua Burgin (Creator/TateDonovan)]]

[[folder: Emily Waltham]]
[[WMG: Emily Waltham (Creator/HelenBaxendale)]]

[[folder: Danny]]
[[WMG: Danny (Creator/GeorgeNewbern)]]

[[folder: Gary]]
[[WMG: Gary (Creator/MichaelRapaport)]]

* DerailingLoveInterests: He was a NiceGuy who genuinely loved Phoebe and she even agreed to move in with him in spite of her fear that it was too soon...and then he shot a bird just because it was chirping too loudly. Phoebe broke up with him and he was never seen again.

[[folder: Janine Lecroix]]
[[WMG: Janine Lecroix (Creator/{{Elle MacPherson}})]]

[[folder: Elizabeth Stevens]]
[[WMG: Elizabeth Stevens (Creator/AlexandraHolden)]]

[[folder: Paul Stevens]]
[[WMG: Paul Stevens (Creator/BruceWillis)]]

[[folder: Tag Jones]]
[[WMG: Tag Jones (Creator/EddieCahill)]]

[[folder: Mona]]
[[WMG: Mona (Creator/BonnieSomerville)]]

[[folder: Will Colbert]]
[[WMG: Will (Creator/BradPitt)]]

[[folder: Parker]]
[[WMG: Parker (Creator/AlecBaldwin)]]

[[folder: Mike Hannigan]]
[[WMG: Mike Hannigan (Creator/PaulRudd)]]

* TheGenericGuy: More interesting than usual, but for the most part he's just a generic boyfriend (later husband) to give Phoebe a stable love interest at the end of the series.

[[folder: Wendy]]
[[WMG: Wendy (Creator/SelmaBlair)]]

[[folder: Gavin Mitchell]]
[[WMG: Gavin Mitchell (Creator/DermotMulroney)]]

[[folder: Charlie Wheeler]]
[[WMG: Charlie Wheeler (Creator/AishaTyler)]]

[[folder: Erica]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erica_friends.jpg]]
[[WMG: Erica (Creator/AnnaFaris)]]

* AwfulWeddedLife: Implied. After revealing she's married, Chandler respons that he's happily married to his own wife. She seems genuinely curious about what that's like.

A random guy in Central Perk who Joey sets up with Phoebe. Despite the inauspicious start they soon fall in love and, after a brief break-up, Mike becomes Phoebe's second husband[[note]]The first being the supposedly-gay ice dancer she married before the series began[[/note]].

** Has a smoking habit, speaks fluent Dutch and may have been a child actor.

* MirrorCharacter: To Ross. He and Ross are both defined in part by their love and possessiveness towards Rachel, showing intense jealousy whenever Rachel is with someone else. However, Ross has a circle of friends in addition to Rachel and cares deeply for them while Gunther generally only cares about Rachel. For better or worse, Ross is willing to clash with Rachel if he feels she is in the wrong while Gunther would do anything she asks.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Has a tendency to be this, most notably when he intentionally spills to Rachel that Ross slept with the copy girl. And also when smiles at Ross hurting his thumb or getting hit by Joey.

* {{Jerkass}}: [[JerkassToOne He's mostly mean to Ross]], but he doesn't seem to care about anyone but Rachel. He only ever does something nice when Rachel is involved. Justified since the Friends don't really care about him either.

%%* SixthRanger: Seventh.
* UnknownRival: To Ross. He hates him for being Rachel's boyfriend and the father of her daughter. It's possible that Ross now has a hatred for Gunther after hearing him confess his love for Rachel in the coffeehouse in the last episode.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He playfully punches Chandler in the arm way too hard.

* HereditaryTwinhood: [[spoiler: Apparently, having twins is one of those things that runs in Erica's family.]]
* InTheBlood: [[spoiler: Erica tells Chandler and Monica that having twins is one of those runs that run in her family, right as she's delivering their adoptive twins.]]

* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler:Played with, Erica knew she was pregnant... she just didn't know that it was ''twins''.]]
* TookALevelInDumbass: When we first meet her, she's a perfectly normal, intelligent girl. Then she seemed to get progressively dumber in every appearance she made, which is saying something given that she was only a one-season character. By the end of the show, she's so stupid that Chandler makes a crack about her having a similar level of intelligence to Joey. [[spoiler: Of course by the finale, you realize this was done to justify the surprise of her having twins and not realizing it.]]

* OutOfCharacterMoment: When he kills a bird for...whatever reason. Probably the dumbest way of getting rid of a LoveInterest ever used on the show (even worse than Danny and his disturbing [[BrotherSisterIncest "special relationship"]] with his sister in season 5). Remember that this is the same character who previously showed that he respected proper gun safety and usage, such as refusing to let Chandler hold his gun on the risk he could drop it.

* BreakupBonfire: His ex-wife burned all of his clothes except for one suit and a skirt that he grabbed by accident. He meets Rachel when he hires her to buy replacement clothes.

* MrFixit: It's his job to maintain the building and he does a reasonable job of it, but it still took Joey to work out how to turn off Monica and Rachel's broken radiator.

* BookEnds: His friendship with Rachel and setting her up the job at Bloomingdale's was the reason due to which Ross and Rachel had their infamous breakup. Come the final season, his reappearance and his subsequent offering Rachel a job in Louis Vuitton is also the reason [[spoiler:Ross and Rachel eventually get back together for good.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Turns out he's terrified of farm birds and even when Rachel shoos the Chick and the Duck out into the hallway he's still nervous because he knows they're outside.

* NeverMyFault: She repeatedly holds Ross nearly going on his honeymoon with Rachel over his head. While it admittedly looked bad, it was only done because she was not talking to him and didn't even show up at the airport until ''right as the flight was boarding''. Ross might've started the whole thing by accidentally saying Rachel's name at the altar, but he had every reason to believe Emily had no intention of coming and simply didn't want the extra ticket to go to waste.

* RomanticFalseLead: Emily is introduced as a sympathetic character, and you can't blame her for getting mad at Ross after the wedding disaster but when Ross tries to reconcile with her, she is turned into a selfish, petty shrew by forcing Ross to never see Rachel again and, when she can't have her way, turning her back on him.