Monica Geller terms of ethnicity, Crane confirmed that both Monica and Ross are half-Jewish, with their father being Jewish and their mother being of non-Jewish European ancestry. However, "Television's Changing Image of American Jews" categorized Monica as a "masked" Jew, explaining that "the smart, funny, and insecure Ross seems more Jewish" than Monica, who the author dismissed as "china-doll like" in appearance and demeanor. In his book "Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, Volume 1", author Stephen Harlan Norwood agrees that, unlike the show's male Jews, Monica's Jewish "markers" have been virtually removed. Although Monica and Rachel have remained best friends since high
Incest in film and television Caligula and his sister Drusilla. The British soap opera "Brookside" ran a controversial storyline featuring consensual incestuous sex between the two sibling characters, Nat and Georgia Simpson, in the 1990s. In "The Killings at Badger's Drift", an episode of the British television series "Midsomer Murders", an old woman discovers a brother and sister in an incestuous relationship. The British soap "Family Affairs" featured a storyline involving Gavin and Polly Arnold, a brother and sister in a consensual incestuous relationship. In the "Coming Up" series for the UK's Channel 4, a woman who is obsessed with breaking social taboos seduces her