Mr. Heckles
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| CHARACTER | ||||
| Mr. Heckles | ||||
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| First appearance | The One With The Blackout | |||
| Last appearance | The One With The Flashback | |||
| Number of episodes | 5 | |||
| Portrayed by | Larry Hankin | |||
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| Gender | Male | |||
| Occupation | Retired | |||
Mr. Heckles lived in the apartment below Monica and Rachel. In his first appearance, he was credited simply as "The Weird Man". He often complained about the apparent noise that the two made (though seemingly they were not making any noise at all) by rapping on his apartment ceiling with a broom.
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When Mr. Heckles complains to Monica and Rachel, he usually starts his lines with "You're disturbing my..." Both of them reply "You don't have a..." but Heckles insists saying "I could have a...". Mr. Heckles once stole Marcel, and dressed him as a ballerina, insisting that he hadn't seen him.
During "The One Where Heckles Dies", Mr. Heckles dies while banging on the ceiling, and leaves all his worldly possessions to "the two noisy girls upstairs." During this episode, Chandler looks through Mr. Heckles' possessions and draws parallels between his life and Mr. Heckles'. It also emerges that the slightest noises could be heard (greatly amplified) from Mr. Heckles' apartment, thus revealing he wasn't unduly grumpy as originally portrayed.
Mr. Heckles appears again in a flashback, where it is revealed that his illusions were the main reason Joey became Chandler's roommate instead of a model photographer with a porn star sister.
