Favorite - Phoebe because she's so hilarious, and I love her character's look.
Least favorite - Chandler. I think he's okay, but nothing special. His jokes don't makes me laugh as enough.
There's something wrong with Esther.
Favorite - Phoebe, she's so crazy, lighthearted and so funny.
Least - Ross. No particular reason, just the least funny Friend to me, and he was annoying at times.
Favourite - Chandler
Least Favourite - Phoebe in the later seasons
This is my order
Chandler
Rachel
Monica/Ross
Joey
Phoebe
Favorite is Phoebe. She made me laugh the most.
Least favorite was Monica. She was annoying. I wouldn't kick her out of bed, but I'd probably put a piece of tape over her mouth.
Favorite: Phoebe. I thought she was hilarious and had such a big heart. (Like when she had those babies for her brother) I thought she was sweet, yet witty.
Least Favorite: Ross by far. He is so whiny and entitled, it makes me sick. However, I love the Ross/Rachel couple:
Favorite: Chandler. He's hilarious and one of the only characters that truly developed on the show.
least favorite: Joey. He just became way too stupid.
"When life gives you lemons"
Jessica D: sleep with their fathers and have secret lemon children
you're no longer our financial advisor
you're fired!
phoebe is my favourite too, she is as you say hilarious.
Ross is my least favourite, I find him rather irritating a lot of the time.
In theory, my two favorite characters would be Monica and Ross. I am a competitive perfectionist like Monica and a science nerd like Ross (not in paleontology, but in math), and I find it refreshing that I can watch characters with these same traits who are not complete and total outcasts.
However, I don't like how in the later seasons, Monica essentially pushes her high standards onto her friends. The worst instance of this is when Chandler decides to clean the whole apartment, and is terrified of the idea that he won't have everything put back into place. Yes, ultimately she is thankful for him cleaning the place, but the idea that her closest friends (and even her brother) are terrified of doing something to help her is disturbing. If I have friends over and they did something nice but not the way I would do it (load the dishwasher differently than I would, put things back in the fridge in the wrong place, etc.) I would still be thankful that s/he did something helpful, and even if it annoyed me a little I would remind myself that these things can always be fixed. I'm not like Monica, who would proceed to lecture the person on the "correct" way of doing things. Still, however, she is my favorite, because of all this:
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/board/nest/253780840)
Also, I might be able to understand her pushing her standards onto everyone else because they're always over at her place, but then again she's admitted that she WANTS everyone at her place, so there goes that excuse..
Ross, on the other hand, has always annoyed me in the sense that his being a science nerd automatically means that he's socially awkward. In almost every show or movie that features some sort of STEM-involved character, that character is also a complete and total dork. I understand that these two characteristics often go hand-in-hand, but it's getting a little tiring. Why can't a person be well-educated AND socially normal? I see both normal and socially-awkward mathematicians/scientists every day at work. We come in many forms, but according to modern entertainment, apparently we're all the same. I actually blame the whole "we were on a break" debacle on how socially-awkward he is. He hears the word "break" and jumps to the conclusion that they've broken up, whereas most people would delve a little deeper to know exactly what the person meant by saying that s/he wanted a "break." He's so inside his own head that he cannot possibly see how someone else could see a situation differently than himself.
He's also a little selfish, refusing to see Rachel's side in the whole "we were on a break" issue, and even dating a student because "that's what he wants." I think it's because he was spoiled as a kid (in comparison to Monica) and is used to getting what he wants.
For that reason, I think Phoebe is my second favorite. She's so unapologetically herself that it's refreshing. I also like how she has certain morals for herself that she doesn't push onto others (eg. when she's a vegetarian she doesn't sit there and lecture everyone else about how they too should be vegetarians). She'll explain things to others without being condescending about it. Yeah she's a little mean towards the end of the series, but she always seems to redeem herself.
One would say that she is a little pushy (like when she yelled at the woman for putting out her cigarette on a tree), but honestly, who the hell puts out a cigarette on a tree?! Any time she is pushy, I can actually understand why she is being that way.
My least favorite character will always be Joey. Joey is one-dimensional. He's a smoochy womanizer who's out-of-touch with reality, because he stupidly ruins every opportunity he has for himself. While his crappy job prospects does worry him to some degree, he totally takes advantage of the fact that he can "borrow" money from Chandler and steal food from Monica's apartment. He doesn't care about what happens to the people around him as long as he benefits from it. He also gets a big head the moment someone gives him an opportunity, rather than being grateful for it. Some see him as loyal, but I say he's using his "friends" for his own benefit. Think of the time he tries to guilt all his friends into buying him a new refrigerator. He's going nowhere in life.
Rachel is not too far behind Joey at the beginning of the series. She's an entitled and spoiled little princess, but at least she picks herself up and works for herself when she decides to leave her old lifestyle behind (and her fiancee at the altar). It's a hard adjustment for her, and she definitely struggles at first, but the reason she's so spoiled is because of her parents, not herself, and you cannot really blame that on her, especially considering that she took the right steps to be able to stand on her own two feet and support herself. She's still a little self-centered, but she went through enough changes to redeem herself. At the beginning of the series, she was one of my least favorite, but towards the end she totally worked her way up in my opinion. She was still a crappy employee, but her even being an employee is a huge step from the sad creature that ran into Central Perk in a wedding dress with nothing to say for herself but that she was a runaway bride.
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...and Chandler is just forgettable. He lets his friend walk all over him (ie. "borrowing" all that money), but not without a sarcastic comment. This does make him a perfect match for Monica (because he can let her be the anal-retentive perfectionist that she is while still speaking his mind).
BEGINNING OF SERIES:
1. Monica
2. Ross
3. Phoebe
4. Chandler
5. Rachel
6. Joey
END OF SERIES:
1. Monica
2. Phoebe
3. Ross - tie
4. Rachel - tie
5. Chandler
6. Joey
The last Edward I read about had a crazy wife locked in the attic
Ross and Rachel was my most favorite
Joey was my least favorite I didn't care for his character.
However, I don't like how in the later seasons, Monica essentially pushes her high standards onto her friends. The worst instance of this is when Chandler decides to clean the whole apartment, and is terrified of the idea that he won't have everything put back into place. Yes, ultimately she is thankful for him cleaning the place, but the idea that her closest friends (and even her brother) are terrified of doing something to help her is disturbing. If I have friends over and they did something nice but not the way I would do it (load the dishwasher differently than I would, put things back in the fridge in the wrong place, etc.) I would still be thankful that s/he did something helpful, and even if it annoyed me a little I would remind myself that these things can always be fixed. I'm not like Monica, who would proceed to lecture the person on the "correct" way of doing things.