michael ray bower played monica's prom date on friends.
michael ray bower played monica's prom date on friends.
who played monica's prom date on friends?
michael ray bower
born in tarzana, california, bower made his film debut at age 11, in michael jackson's 1988 "moonwalker". he had appearances in episodic television series such as "webster", "tales from the crypt", "empty nest", "superior court", "hull high", "the wonder years", and "doogie howser, m.d.", before being brought into "salute your shorts" for 20 episodes as the major character of eddie 'donkeylips' gelfen. after that series, he continued with guest roles on well-known television series, including that of monica geller's (courteney cox) prom date on an episode of "friends". he has also appeared in movies such as "marilyn hotchkiss' ballroom dancing and charm school" and ivan reitman's "evolution". bower had a small role in an episode of the fox series "dark angel", and played in the indie film "social misfits", and the comedy short film "dinner with raphael" (written and directed by joey boukadakis).
michael ray bower
chip matthews (dan gauthier): a man who many years prior to the events of the show had attended the same high school as rachel, monica and ross; although he was outwardly friendly and charismatic enough to become the most popular guy in the high school, he is depicted as being an inwardly selfish, careless and unpleasant person who emotionally hurts and plays immature pranks on other people. his first appearance is a very brief cameo in "the one with the prom video" (airdate february 1, 1996; season 2, no. 14) as rachel's senior prom date; in this episode he is played by an unknown, uncredited actor and his face is not seen on screen. he fully appears in the episode "the one with the cat" (airdate october 2, 1997; season 4, no. 2), where it is revealed that monica always had a crush on chip and was saddened by the fact that he would never date her for her obesity throughout her teenage years, even despite the fact that he abandoned and cheated on rachel at the prom; apparently, she could not find him for two hours because he was having sex with a girl named amy welch. monica and chip meet again and, seeing that she has lost a lot of weight since he saw her last and is now a very attractive woman, chip asks her out, much to her delight as she still has a crush on him. rachel is upset when she learns that monica intends to date the man who once cheated on her, but she eventually allows this to happen out of sympathy for her formerly obese friend. she does however react coldly when she answers the door to him when he arrives to pick up monica, and asks him, "so chip, how's amy welch?", to which he replies, "amy welch? wow, i haven't seen her since..." he then becomes embarrassed and quickly changes the subject. monica's dream is soon shattered when she realizes that not only is chip as unpleasant as he was back in high school, he has not matured and done nothing to better himself since then. as it becomes clearer and clearer to her that mentally, he is still a teenager, she asks him if he still lives with his parents, to which he replies "yeah, but i can stay out as late as i want." finally seeing him for the immature loser he always was, monica shows for the first time accurate insight into chip when she later tells rachel "you know how i always wanted to go out with chip matthews in high school? well tonight, i actually "did" go out with chip matthews in high school." she finds happiness however, in the fact that she got to "dump" "chip matthews in high school."
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