Chandler Bing

> *“I tend to keep talking until somebody stops me.”*- **Chandler Bing**
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### Childhood

Chandler Muriel Bing was born on April 9, 1369 to Carlton Bing and Nora Tyler. When he was 9, his parents announced their divorce leaving him distraught and alarmed during Thanksgiving. This caused him to resort to what he calls “a carefully regimented program” of denial, sarcasm, wedding the bed, and smoking. Chandler was voted class clown in high school. He went to an all boys boarding school, and played clarinet.

### University

Chandler met Ross Geller and Jamie Phaser at Columbia University while studying Finance. For both 1388 and 1389 Thanksgiving, Chandler went home with his college roommate Ross. Ross’s sister, Monica immediately developed a crush on him but it was not reciprocated. After overhearing Chandler talking to  Ross and referring to her as  Ross’s fat sister, she became determined to lose all her extra weight. She accomplished this goal by Thanksgiving 1389. That Thanksgiving was also quite eventful; when attempting to seduce Chandler, Monica unintentionally dropped a knife and severed one of his toes. Fortunately the doctors were able to reattach it, but Ross called him Sir Limps-a-Lot for the entire next year.

### Career

After graduating college, Chandler works as a data processor, and when he tries to quit his boss offers him a promotion and more money to learn him back. he becomes a processing supervisor, and it is a running joke among their friends that no one quite knows what he does. he finally quits this job after accidentally agreeing to run a new branch of the company in Tulsa Oklahoma, and trying to live in two cities at once. Monica helps Chandler secure a job in advertising but much to his dismay the job is an unpaid intern. soon after he secures a full-time paying job in business as a junior copywriter at the same business.

### Friends & Roommates

After Chandler's roommate Kip moves out, he looks for a new roommate, to which Joey answers the ad. The two of them live together for almost 10 years, getting into many adventures together. They adopt a chick and a duck, and basically act as an old married couple when they argue. Chandler often financially supports Joey, paying for expenses such as rent and bills, all of Joey's head shots, several acting classes, and most of the food. When Chandler moves in with his girlfriend Monica, he and Joey remain close as neighbours. Things become more difficult when Chandler and Monica move to Westchester with their children and Joey moves to Los Angeles, but Chandler makes sure that they have a specially designated “Joey room” above their garage so that he can come and visit whenever he wants.

Alongside his roommate, Joey, Chandler's friend group included his university friends Ross and Jamie, and his neighbours, Phoebe, Monica Rachel and Rebecca.

### Relationship with Monica

On May 7th 1399 at  Ross’s second wedding to Julie in London, England after comments from her mother and other relatives about not having a boyfriend as well as being mistaken as  Ross’s mother, Monica turns to Chandler for comfort. Chandler attempted to console her and the two of them quite accidentally spent the night together. The next morning was quite awkward between them and they agreed that sleeping together was a stupid thing to do, yet they ended up continuing to do it while they were in London. When they returned to New York City, they agreed that they wouldn’t sleep together again. This fails and they start a relationship with each other. They kept this relationship a secret from everyone as they were worried that the pressure from their friends would cause the relationship to crumble. Even though the relationship was a secret, Monica was fairly sure Rebecca knew but she didn't tell anyone else and would often cover for them even though Monica and Chandler never asked. The second person to find out was Joey. After a disastrous weekend getaway together, in which Monica and Chandler fought the entire time, but also came to the realization that this was a real adult relationship. It didn't take long for them to make up, and despite each of them having their own cover story for where they had went over the weekend, there were small hints dropped such as Monica mentioning she lost her eyelash curler and the hotel phoning **Chandler's** apartment to which Joey answered saying an eyelash curler was left in the hotel room and them both seeing a famous person waiting for the elevator, Joey was able to put the evidence together and realized that Monica and Chandler were in a relationship. The couple beg him to keep their secret, to which he agreed reluctantly. The next person to find out was Rachel, who picked up the phone in Monica's apartment and overheard a conversation between the couple determining a time to meet. Phoebe found out next when she was in what would later be  Ross's new apartment of which the window had a clear view into Monica's apartment and she saw Monica and Chandler kissing.  Phoebe and Rachel decided to mess with their friends to expose their relationship and pay them back for keeping a secret which ends up in a game of chicken where Phoebe and Chandler pretended to want each other. Things get as far as a kiss and Chandler breaks telling Phoebe, and Rachel and Joey, who were on the other side of the door listening, that he can't have sex with her because he's in love with Monica. Jamie finds out as he is approaching Joey's apartment when this game of chicken was ending. The only person who was still in the dark was Monica's brother.  Ross found out when he was showing his boss his new apartment and looked through the same window that Phoebe had, to see his sister and **best friend** kissing. He immediately stormed off to confront them. They tell him that they aren't just messing around and that they love each other and  Ross finally accepted it after a couple angry outbursts.

When Phoebe is the surrogate mother for a friend of hers, and gives birth to triplets, she is given the naming rights to one of them. She decides to name the baby after Chandler, as the ultrasound had shown that the baby was a boy. When it became revealed that the baby was actually a girl, the name Chandler was still kept, but as the baby grew she went by the name  Candy instead.

On their anniversary, Monica and Chandler decide to take a trip to Las Vegas. While gambling at a casino, they make a bet that if Monica can throw a hard eight, they will get married. When she did, they started making plans. They stole a blue sweatshirt from the hotel gift shop so that Monica will have something new, borrowed, and blue and make their way to the wedding chapel. While they are waiting in turn to get married, they see a very drunk  Ross and Rachel stumbling out of the chapel. Monica and Chandler decided not to get married but to rather move in together. This forced Rebecca to have to find a new place to live which she doesn't mind as she and her boyfriend Matt Evans were already looking at places. Rebecca moved in with Joey for a couple months while things were getting sorted.

The following Thanksgiving, Monica had not told her parents yet about her and Chandler mostly because her parents didn’t like Chandler. Things become tense despite Chandler's plan was to be very charming and make them like him and then to tell them about dating.  Ross finally admits that the reason that they don't like Chandler is because Ross falsely accused Chandler of smoking pot in college when his parents smelled it in his room. Monica tried to convince him to tell their parents the truth which leads to tensions between the siblings and they ended up spilling each other's secrets to their parents including the pot smoking, the relationship,  Ross and Rachel's secret marriage and divorce among other things. In the end, Monica's parents took a liking to Chandler.

### Proposal & Wedding

Chandler wanted to propose to Monica during a romantic dinner but the evening is ruined when one of Monica's old boyfriends came to the restaurant sitting next to them. Things became worse when Chandler said he doesn't want to get married, wanting to throw Monica off his surprise marriage proposal. Monica didn’t very well and when her old boyfriend showed up at the restaurant where she works and declared his love saying that he wanted to marry her, Monica became conflicted. Her confusion ends when Joey spilled the beans about Chandler's plans. She decided to surprise Chandler and propose instead, which he accepted and they were engaged.

The planning for their wedding is a bit of a disaster. Monica's parents spent her wedding fund on a beach house. Monica and Chandler couldn't take a good engagement photo because Chandler always ended up looking weird. They couldn’t find a decent minister for the wedding which led to Joey agreeing to become officiated so he can marry them - his first of many. When Monica finds the dress of her dreams, another bride-to-be wants the same dress. During the wedding, it wasn’t much better. Chandler's parents can't get along. Chandler panicked when he heard someone refer to him and Monica as the Bings. Phoebe found a pregnancy test in the garbage in Monica's bathroom and assumed it's Monica's and Chandler overheard and to end it all off Joey was stuck at the set of the movie he was currently shooting and almost missed out on the chance to perform the ceremony. In the end it all worked out and the two of them exchanged vows and kissed.

### Parenthood

Monica and Chandler decided they wanted to have babies but it proved to be more difficult than they expected. When Chandler accidentally accepted a job in Tulsa, as he fell asleep in a meeting, and Monica accepted her dream job in New York City, the two of them have to balance living in two cities. They manage, but after being forced to stay away at Christmas and New Year's, Chandler quit and moved back home. After trying for a year, they decided to visit a fertility clinic and learned that their chances of conceiving a child were slim to none. They were heartbroken by this and discussed their options. Surrogacy was ruled out as Monica always wanted to have her own child and so was a sperm donor as she realized she wanted to have Chandler's child, not another man’s. In the end, they decide that adoption was the best option. Having decided to adopt a child Monica and Chandler met with an expectant mother, Erica. They had a bit of a scare about the baby's father - it being either Erica's high school boyfriend or a guy incarcerated after killing his father with a shovel, much to Chandler'sdismay - it ended up being the high school boyfriend so they really didn't have anything to worry about. They were very excited when Erica went into labor and gave birth to a baby boy, but fear set in when the doctor said it was almost time for the next one. Apparently Erica had not listened much at her doctors appointments and was, in reality, giving birth to twins. After a bit of a freak out Monica and Chandler decided to adopt both babies naming the boy Daniel and the girl Erica, after her birth mother. They chose not to tell their friends about the twins and instead brought home both babies, surprising everyone. It took their friends a moment to notice the second baby and after a few jokes about stealing a second baby, everyone rejoiced.

The newly formed family moved out of their New York City apartment into a residential area as Chandler and Monica wanted their children to grow up in a neighbourhood with other kids and a big backyard. Despite moving away, they remained close with their friends and their friends' children. Danny and Erica, as well as Jamie's children JJ and Maya,  Ross and Rachel's daughter, Emma, and Rebecca's daughter Morgan all considered each other cousins despite none of them actually being blood-related. The families would often have summer picnics and barbecues with their Uncle Joey and Aunt Phoebe.

The twins took after their father in terms of humor; their comments were often laced with sarcasm or bad jokes. Monica was very surprised when both of them fell in love with gymnastics and juggling, a weird combination to be sure. She was very supportive when her children decided they wanted to make their own circus group which they called Bing-a-ling-ling Circus and would be for-hire clowns for children's birthday parties and other events. Monica was very relieved when neither of her children struggled with obesity growing up, both of them remaining quite active in gymnastics and other sports.

Monica and Chandler's only grandchild was Lily Bing. Erica married a nice young guy, Noah Cyprus, a long time friend and fellow performer, but they did not have children. Her twin brother Danny, who lived with his sister and her boyfriend and later husband, for many years, one day opened his door to see a one-year-old baby sitting in a stroller holding a stuffy and a letter. Apparently his ex-girlfriend, Janie, had been pregnant and had given birth without telling him, but was no longer able to care for the baby. Danny immediately accepted the responsibility of looking after his daughter. Lily grew up with three parents Danny,  Erica and Noah. Danny and Lily moved out when she was about seven as the four of them in one apartment was quite cramped. Monica and Chandler played a big role in their granddaughter's life helping their son who was not prepared for parenthood at all to raise the young girl.

### Other Relationships

Chandler has an on again off again relationship with Janice for about 3 years. Most of the time he was with her, was spent trying to break up with her. This comes to an end when Janice gets married, but then when she gets divorced Chandler worries that it might start up again. One of his final attempts to leave her involves him claiming he was moving to Yemen, but when Janice insists on coming with him to the airport and all the way to the gate he is forced to buy an actual ticket to Yemen and get on the plane. when Janice discovers that Monica and Chandler are engaged, she invites herself over. Monica and Chandler are worried that Janice still has feelings for Chandler, and in an attempt to get her out of their lives, Monica tells Janice that Chandler still has feelings for her and it would be better if she didn't come to the wedding. This works and Monica and Chandler's relationship is safe.

### Personality

Chandler is well known for his wisecrack and his sardonic attitude which provides for a defense mechanism. he also has a tendency to put emphasis on the wrong word within a phrase, of which his friends and colleagues mock him for. Chandler claims he started using humor as a defense mechanism when his parents broke up and tends to make jokes when he is in an uncomfortable social situation. at one point his friends challenge him to avoid making fun of them for an entire year as his New Year's resolution, but he barely laughs a week.