Dr. Dolly Alderton

She's one of the most successful novelists of all time, according to friends.

famous mom who goes on Leno and that never comes up it comes up in the early seasons a bit and the obviously you know quote unquote Chandler's dad comes up a lot because as you said in the funniest thing in the world in the 90s was a man in a dress but if you really think about like what is the bigger trauma is starts with complete negligence because there is a the episode where the one where Chandler can't cry is

There's the whole thing about how they find a photograph of parents' evening at Chandler's school and the janitor or something stands in for the picture because neither one of Chandler's parents wanted to be there.

Yeah.

It's a lot more about Negligence and wealth Than it is about Having a trans parent Totally And like The way I sort of picture it Because they have these flashbacks To his like Family Christmases Which is one of the few flashbacks You ever get I think you've thought about this Where Where you see one of them One of the friends As a child actor It's very rare Yeah And it's like Them on this big Long Horrible Table And like The mum on one end And the dad on the other And then the pool boy Sort of making weird eyes And it's just like

oh like this is obviously funny in the context of this but like this is really sad when you think about it yeah and now he literally can't stomach Thanksgiving food like he has the thing we forget about Chandler is like he has an eating disorder and he also married a woman with an eating disorder

And they're just two eating disorders together.

He pays for Joey's whole life for the first few years.

Like, he's a trust fund baby.

He's a trust fund baby.

Yeah.

He wears maybe Those sweater vests Is that what that Also He's weirdly coded Californian Do you ever Like the whole thing About the pool boy And the sort of Danielle Steele Jackie Collins mother And the like The gay dad Like all that Gay and then trans Or whatever Like it feels very Californian Even though they code him As being sort of From Long Island Or I don't know It's very strange Yeah Yeah It's very like He comes from A hyper glam Hyper celebby

Quite a recognisable character in that way.

Yeah.

And then so it's kind of weird that he's ended up in this sort of like loving codependent sort of group of friends from sort of a mixed class background.

It's like... I think we'll talk about this more in Emma's episode, but, like, the thing of, like, he has been... His kind of introduction to all of them is him being brought home for that Thanksgiving.

And he is so rude.

He's like...

Like Judy comes up to him And is like Oh I hope you're hungry And he's like No I don't eat Thanksgiving food And he's just so Like completely Raised by wolves No idea how to Relate to these people Is insulting to everyone The Gellers hate him Because he just sucks Yeah He doesn't eat Thanksgiving food And he sucks And is rude Yeah Calls Monica fat In like a really mean way Not in the joke way That the show approves of But in the mean way That is mean Yeah

And that is a character who's learned to be nice through the Gellers.