Where is Phoebe’s biological mother? For that matter, where are Frank Jr., Alice, and the triplets? Why aren’t any of them at the wedding?
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(Preparing to walk down the aisle outside in the snow, Phoebe, waiting in Central Perk, Phoebe takes off her jacket…)
Chandler: “Aren’t you gonna be cold?”
Phoebe: “I don’t care. I’ll-I’ll-I’ll be my something blue.”
Despite the fact that it's an outdoor wedding in the snow and they are all freezing, I don't recall seeing their breath when they exhale.
TRIVIA: According to one source (I forget which, maybe it was Wikipedia), the song playing on steel drums when Phoebe walks down the aisle is the Paul McCartney's “My Life.” But imdb indicates that the song is the Beattles' “Here, There and Everywhere.” Which is it?
Interestingly, Paul McCartney songs were used in Monica and Chandler's wedding as well. As Monica enters and walks down the aisle in The One With Monica and Chandler's Wedding, Part 2(7.24), the organist plays 2 songs: Paul McCartney's “My Love” and “Groovy Kind Of Love.”
Haven't seen the episode for a while but I'm pretty certain it was "Here, There and Everywhere", Luigi.
"Where is Phoebe’s biological mother? For that matter, where are Frank Jr., Alice, and the triplets? Why aren’t any of them at the wedding?"
Teri Garr (Phoebe Sr.) was otherwise occupied, apparently. With what, I dont know. WHat has she even done lately, anyway?
Giovanni Ribisi (Frank Jr.) was probably doing a movie, I dont know which one, though. I liked him in Avatar, if it means anything. It was the first time I ever saw him play someone with actual intelligence and who actually speak in full coherent sentences, and wasn't retarded or a drug-addicted screwup. He's basically been typecast in that role, it seems!
Debra Jo Rupp (Alice) was still on "70's" as Kitty "HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!" Forman, remember? And then she would do the short-lived "Better With You", which really bombed. Looks like she got typecast as well, doesn't it? Nobody wants to see her in any other role but Kitty, it's seems!
And the triplets, whoever they are, were unavailable for more understandable reasons. Child actors can only work for certain periods a year and for only so many hours a day. Therefore, they get a pass.
As for this episode, I'm like, why are Mike's parents there? I thought that they disowned him or something, when they told him that they REALLY didnt approve of Phoebe because they were complete polar opposites, i.e. she was poor and interesting and they were rich and boring. So I wonder why they would be there, that's all. Some parents disown their children when they are with someone that doesn't live up to their almighty standards. It's happened before, you know. Some parents would be like "It's over, you're dead to us", that kind of thing. For something even less than what happened here, even!
Oh well, just some food for thought!
Also, ya know what? I really didnt like the beginning part where Monica complains that one of Phoebe's other friends (who we've never seen, along with about a dozen other people she mentioned throughout the series) smells bad, and Pheebs remarks "Hey! She will shower when Tibet is free!"
And that line sure did get a big laugh from the audience! Yeah sure, writers, let's include some dialogue that makes fun of those dirty smelly hippies who never shave and never bathe and actually care about the world's political climate as well as the environment that the evil corporations continue to destroy! Sure, that kind of thing is *always* good for a laugh, isn't it?
Sigh. It just seemed a bit cliched and unneccesary to have that line in the episode, that's all. At least it seemed that way to me.
And we all know that Phoebe never took her beliefs quite THAT far, but in "The One With The Apothecary Table" she hated the fact that Ross and Rachel both shopped at the Pottery Barn because everything there is mass-produced and has no personality or backstory to it. That sort of thing, I can see Phoebe believing in. And also in "The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies", Pheebs says she doesn't believe in either evolution or gravity (?!) and that really sticks in Ross' craw. But it was still early in the series and they were trying to establish her weird unorthodox quirkiness. I'd say they succeeded!
Anyway, that's about all I have for this one.
Some have wondered why Phoebe's family never showed.
Well, there was a snow storm going on. Perhaps it kept them away.