History WMG / Friends

Phoebe dated (and later married) Mike in the last two seasons. Mike himself is a half-Petrelli --rich yuppie, and son of Angela Petrelli but from a different father. The core cast also has [[FriendsRentControl subversive]] [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex powers]] that very subtly [[RealityWarper warp reality]] [[HollywoodDateless in their favor]], but they're considered too [[WhatKindOfLamePowerisHeartAnyway weaksauce]] for either the Company, the government, Samuel, or Sylar to care about.

** It could turn her relationship with Richard (and the jokes around it) into a ''very'' dark FunnyAneurysmMoment.

[[WMG: Phoebe has Asperger's Syndrome.]]

She's very self centered, and she doesn't understand social norms as much as the rest of the group. Whenever someone pays her a compliment, most would reply with some form of thanks, Phoebe instead replies that she already knows. She also butts in on Monica and Rachel's hugs for the sake of it, even when she isn't involved.

She also uses her mother's death to get her own way over the most trivial things; it's Monica or Rachel who once mentions that Phoebe used her mother's death as an excuse to get the last muffin. Such a traumatic moment of her life shouldn't be treated so lightly, if Phoebe had Asperger's it would explain how she's able to be so flippant about it, she simply doesn't experience the same emotional link to it that others would.

It would also cover her more eccentric behavior, not to mention how callous she is to Chandler right in front of him; granted Rachel does the same thing, but she does it behind his back. Another example is when she finds Monica's "soul mate", she just doesn't understand why Chandler's upset.

Furthermore, she is quiet LiteralMinded and somewhat SarcasmBlind.
** No. She doesn't. If you work with people with autism and Asperger's, you would know that she clearly doesn't. She may be improperly socialized from having atypical peer groups, though. At one point, her mother worked on barges, and she stayed on the barges, or docks with her mother, and very few child peers, other than her twin, with whom she doesn't get along. Then through various parental traumas, she was tossed around to her grandmother, or living on the streets. She was never in one place very long. She probably had really poor childhood nutrition. Some people with backgrounds like that are very low-functioning, but don't technically have anything wrong with them.
** Ursula, on the other hand, does behave like there really is something wrong with her, but not Asperger's. She acts like she's had a serious head injury, at some point. She has real problems with her memory. She fell off the barge.
** Phoebe does ''not have'' AS. People with AS are not self-centered, in fact they tend to be extremely caring of others. Traumatic events are not treated flippantly, and people with AS are rarely, if ever, callous. What ''can'' happen is that the person with AS simply doesn't react in the way that most other people would, or that their reaction is largely internalized, or both. Further, people with AS commonly ''do'' understand why people are upset, just not what to do about it.

*** It might have been a run of the episode that was EditedForSyndication. If you meant the joke was adding that part of the line, it was not (I remember the entire line, too, except that it was ''Chandler'' she was talking about). If you mean the joke of the line itself, it's playing on the AmbiguouslyGay attributes of Chandler (or Joey), and Phoebe being TheDitz.

Now, all of the main six have had HoYay with each other, but Phoebe outright fantasizes about Monica's cousin and kisses Rachel "to see what all the fuss was about". And she's practically an EthicalSlut anyway, so is probably more open minded about such things than the others...I dunno. Just a thought.

** This troper ''has'' AS, and believe me Phoebe does ''not''. People with AS are not self-centered, in fact they tend to be extremely caring of others. Traumatic events are not treated flippantly, and people with AS are rarely, if ever, callous. What ''can'' happen is that the person with AS simply doesn't react in the way that most other people would, or that their reaction is largely internalized, or both. Further, people with AS commonly ''do'' understand why people are upset, just not what to do about it.

From what we've heard Ross had a tendency to act out when he thought Monica was getting more attention than him ([[AttentionWhore "pulling his testicles", "tucking his willie between his legs"]]) and eventually Jack and Judy probably realized that to get him to behave they'd need to give him more attention, you'd think he'd have grown out of it by now but in "The One Were Rosita Dies" to spite [[CallingTheOldManOut laying into his dad for favoring him]] he freaked out when he gave her the Porsche instead of him and although he acts sympathetic to her when their not around he still reviles in all there compliments while doing basically nothing to get them to ease of Monica. Maybe they only gush over him to protect his fragile ego, I know he claims he was a "medical marvel" but when at dinner with Chandler and Monica Jack passively tells them how they had to get married because Ross was an unplanned pregnancy and Monica claimed this wasn't the first time she herd that story. Also keep in mind how much nicer Jack is to Monica when Ross isn't around.

At the end of the show, Monica still holds the lease to the apartment. She will sublet it until her daughter graduates college, whereupon Erica Bing will move into it with her friend Emma Green. Miraculously, the apartment across the hall simultaneously frees up, to allow Jack Bing to settle there with Phoebe and Mike’s son, a womanizing musician. Meanwhile, Ben Willick moves into Ugly Naked Guy’s apartment, and Chandler Buffay meets up with the rest at Central Perk. The friends all take turns babysitting Uncle Joeys first-born.

At the end of the show, Monica still holds the lease to the apartment. She will rent it out until her daughter graduates college, whereupon Erica Bing will move into it with her friend Emma Green. Miraculously, the apartment across the hall simultaneously frees up, to allow Jack Bing to settle there with Phoebe and Mike’s son Frank Hannigan. Meanwhile, Ben Willick moves into Ugly Naked Guy’s apartment, and Chandler Buffay meets up with the rest at Central Perk. They all take turns babysitting Uncle Joeys first-born, after he at long last becomes a parent with a lesbian couple.

At the end of the show, Monica still holds the lease to the apartment. She will rent it out until her daughter graduates college, whereupon Erica Bing will move into it with her friend Emma Green. Miraculously, the apartment across the hall frees up, to allow Jack Bing to settle there with Phoebe and Mike’s son Frank Hannigan. Meanwhile, Ben Willick moves into Ugly Naked Guy’s apartment, and Chandler Buffay meets up with the rest at Central Perk. They all take turns babysitting Uncle Joeys first-born, after he at long last becomes a parent with a lesbian couple.

At the end of the show, Monica still holds the lease to the apartment. She will rent it out until her daughter graduates college, whereupon Erica Bing will move into it with her friend Emma Green. Miraculously, the apartment across the hall frees up, to allow Jack Bing to settle there with Phoebe and Mike’s son Frank Hannigan. Meanwhile, Ben Willick moves into Ugly Naked Guy’s apartment, and Chandler Buffay meets up with the rest of them at Central Park. They all take turns babysitting Uncle Joeys first-born, after he at long last becomes a parent with a lesbian couple.

** This was before he was nearly lost his leg. He wasn't nearly as bitter or cynical. And we all know that you can't be bitter or cynical without a five-o'clock shadow!

This troper is bisexual herself, by the way.

It seems unlikely to this LGBT troper that Carol would have preferred to identify as lesbian than bisexual in 1990s America. It also makes Carol's cheating on Ross far less forgivable, and removes the sole reason provided why she would ultimately choose Susan over Ross.

Carol might have been genuinely in love with Ross in an emotional manner, but didn’t realize she was more attracted to women in a physical way until after they were married.