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Janice!

OH. MY. GOD


No points for guessing who I am talking about. Yes, it is none other than Janice!

  Maggie Wheeler hit the jackpot when she bagged this iconic role on the superhit sitcom “F.R.I.E.N.D.S.”. In 1994, during the first season of the show, the world was introduced to the unforgettable character of Janice Litman Goralnik along with her iconic and cacophonic   laugh. Not a central character though, Janice is
a regular character , appearing in every season except for the fifth.  Chandler Bing’s long-time on-off girlfriend, known for her obnoxious and nasally voice and her trademark cry, “OH MY GOD!” , she even briefly appeared as Ross’s fling!

  She was more like an imposition on everyone’s life, an annoyance and a mistake that Chandler couldn’t help but making. All the characters would greet her with eye rolls, looks of panicked dread and even sprinting to hide from her.

So I’ll give you Janice and Chandler’s story in brief. They were dating before the start of the show in Season 1. On his every attempt to break up with her, Janice bursts into tears and he ends up resuming his relationship with her in his guilt. Eventually,it was Phoebe who broke up with Janice…for Chandler! Again the two unite on New Year’s Eve, spend the day together and break up. Cut forward to Valentine's Day, when Chandler goes on a blind date and the woman is, of course, Janice. When he breaks up with her in the morning, to which Janice's response is the chillest thing ever. She says it's fine with her; she knows they'll end up back together one day.
  And hell she was right. After Mr. Heckles passes away, Chandler gets paranoid of ending up alone, and calls up Janice to rekindle his relationship with her. But this time again, in vain.


I find Janice one of the BEST characters on the show. Her honking laugh and a nasal voice was the beauty of her character ! And the way that Maggie Wheeler has portrayed  Janice : fun ,cute, and downright funny in other  places ! No matter how much every other character on the show might have hated her, the moment she was on the screen, the viewers were thrown into peals of laughter.


  If this wasn’t enough, I think she has one of the coolest heads on the show. When she finds out Joey hates her in Season 3 Episode 1, she doesn't hold any grudges or even act passively aggressively towards him. She confronts him about it and offers up a solution that they should spend a day together for Chandler's sake. They go to a Mets game and for Chinese food, and, by the end of the day, even her worst enemy Joey has to concede that she's a pretty cool lady ( He will do anything to keep  his best friend happy ! )

Janice  wasn't the horrific monster or the bad smell the F.R.I.E.N.D.S. gang wanted you to think she was: She was the best, a character unafraid to be herself despite knowing what the friends thought about her !

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