Pete Becker
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| CHARACTER | ||||
| Pete Becker | ||||
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| First appearance | The One With The Hypnosis Tape | |||
| Last appearance | The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion | |||
| Number of episodes | 6 | |||
| Portrayed by | Jon Favreau | |||
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| Gender | Male | |||
| Occupation | Computer Mogul | |||
Pete Becker was another customer of the Moondance Diner during Monica's employment there, who overheard Monica's distressed conversations with Rachel over her own lack of a boyfriend and used the subject to ask her out himself. Monica was initially reluctant to his offers but after discovering that the $20,000 check he left her as a joke tip was actually real and that Pete was a billionare software engineer (he created the universally popular program "MOS 865", a reference to real-life program "MS-DOS"), she confronted him about trying to buy her affection but was charmed into finally accepting his offer for a date, the event of which ended up being a flight to Italy for real Italian pizza.
Pete continued to try and woo her with his money and charm, including buying a restaurant and hiring her as the head chef, but she still just wasn't attracted to him physically, until he surprised her with the perfect kiss. They dated very happily for several weeks until Pete hinted at a surprise that Monica and the gang thought would be a marriage proposal, which Monica seriously considered accepting. Unexpectedly, the surprise turned out to be Pete entering himself into the Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament with the plan to continue fighting until he was crowned champion. Having already "conquered the business world, the intellectual world" and now having "the most beautiful woman in the world", it was Pete's goal to "conquer the physical world" as well.
Pete, however, was not initially a skilled enough fighter to defeat the other UFC opponents and was repeatedly injured. Monica begged him to quit, but Pete insisted that this was who he was, and that asking him to quit would be asking him to be someone he's not. Unable to bear seeing him get beaten up in the ring repeatedly, Monica left Pete, saying she would have to leave if he insisted on continuing. What happened to him after this episode was never revealed, although in a fight the group watched at the end of the episode he apparently sustained an injury that Ross commented would limit his chances to have children ("It's ironic; of your last two boyfriends Richard didn't want to have kids, and now, from the looks of it, Pete can't").
