Monica Geller their friends in the episode "The One Where Everybody Finds Out". While each character very much approves of their union, Monica's parents initially resent their daughter's feelings for Chandler due to an age-old misunderstanding involving Chandler. Bianco observed that "On most shows, linking two main characters like Monica and Chandler would have been an act of desperation." However, "On "Friends", it was a stroke of genius that made both characters more appealing while providing a needed diversion from the show's central task: Retaining a romantic equilibrium between Ross and Rachel." Monica and Chandler's relationship is the antithesis of Ross and
Brother and Sister and at long last the family is reunited, where they lived happily ever after until the end. The first recorded appearance of Brother and Sister is in Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone" around the 17th century. It was written down as the tale of Ninnillo and Nennella. Since then it has circulated in a number of European countries under varying titles but with most of the main story intact. In Russia the story was more commonly known as Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka, and collected by Alexander Afanasyev in his "Narodnye russkie skazki". In the Aarne–Thompson classification system of fairy tales, Brother and