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Chandler's flamboyant romance-novelist mother comes to visit, and Joey catches her kissing Ross. Meanwhile, Monica and Phoebe fight over a guy in a coma.
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Title: The One with Mrs. Bing (05 Jan 1995)
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| Episode complete credited cast: | |||
| Jennifer Aniston | ... | Rachel Green | |
| Courteney Cox | ... | Monica Geller | |
| Lisa Kudrow | ... | Phoebe Buffay | |
| Matt LeBlanc | ... | Joey Tribbiani (as Matt Le Blanc) | |
| Matthew Perry | ... | Chandler Bing | |
| David Schwimmer | ... | Dr. Ross Geller | |
| Morgan Fairchild | ... | Nora Bing | |
| Cosimo Fusco | ... | Paolo | |
| David Sederholm | ... | Coma Guy | |
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Chandler's popular, best-selling author mom, Nora Tyler Bing, announces on Jay Leno's show that her book tour's next stop is New York, and she gets the chance to see her son. Turning up in the Big Apple, she takes all the friends to a restaurant and encourages fan Rachel to try writing similarly cheap-steamy 'romantic formula' novels. She observes Ross' frustration about Rachel, assures him Paolo is not a hero that stays in the story to the end, unlike him, and somehow they kiss. Joey observes this and feels obliged to defend his mom Gloria's sex-appeal as equal, if you imagine her before producing seven children. Joey shames Ross into confessing the kiss to Chandler, who is irate and reads the riot act. Meanwhile Phoebe encouraged Monica to whistle to a hunk they saw walking on the street, which causes him to be hit by an ambulance and fall into a coma. They fantasize about him being the perfect boyfriend and compete to be the one to take care of him, hoping he'll wake up like a ... Written by KGF Vissers
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ambulance | hospital visit | horoscope | reference to agamemnon | tequila shot |Certificate:
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Rachel's middle name Karen is first mentioned in this episode. See more »Goofs
In the last part, when Rachel gives the draft chapter of her book to the friends, she doesn't have any for herself in her hand at first, but in the next shot, you can see that she has one. See more »Quotes
Monica Geller: Why did I 'Woo Hoo'?, I mean what was I hoping would happen? That he'd turn around and say 'I love that sound, I must have you now'?See more »
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5 January 1995 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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In this episode we see a different side to the chandler character very well played by Canadian actor Matthew Perry who displays extreme embarrassment at her mom being a successful novelist but don't you dare kiss her! Morgan Fairchild should have been in more episodes