Jack Geller
From Friends Central
| CHARACTER | ||||
| Jack Geller | ||||
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| First appearance | The One With The Sonogram At The End | |||
| Last appearance | The One With The Cake | |||
| Number of episodes | 20 | |||
| Portrayed by | Elliott Gould | |||
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| Gender | Male | |||
| Relatives | Judy Geller (wife), Ross Geller (son), Monica Geller (daughter), Chandler Bing (Son-in-law), Jack Geller-Bing (adoptive grandson), Erica Geller-Bing (adoptive granddaughter) | |||
Jack Geller is the father of Ross Geller and Monica Geller and husband to Judy Geller. He is best known for his ill-timed, inappropriate comments, such as addressing a character while in London as a "thieving, would-be-speaking-German-if-it-weren't-for-us, cheap little man". He led his in-laws to believe that he's an attorney, although his line of work is never defined. He secretly smoked cigarettes, claiming that the cigarettes Ross found around the house were Judy's. His inappropriate comments often were based on sexual themes, such as whe he started discussing Monica and Chandler's sexual strategies for getting pregnant.
Although both Jack and Judy were criticized for favoring Ross Geller over Monica, Jack was the more sympathetic of the two. He constantly referred to Monica as Harmonica. When Monica broke up with serious boyfriend Richard Burke, he consoled her, although he had previously disapproved of her dating his long-time best friend, a man twenty-one years her senior. He also gave her his Porsche, after all objects of her childhood memories were ruined by a flood. In The Last One, Monica names her new baby son after her father this being against the Jewish custom.
