Michael Rapaport Friends
August 10th, 2008
Friends is a sitcom set in New York. So who better to appear - at least in a cameo - than New York City born and bred actor Michael Rapaport?
And he did just that in several episodes in the middle of the show’s run. He played the part of Gary, a boyfriend to Phoebe and dedicated cop. Gary seems to be an overall good guy - he’s nice, polite, courteous, romantic and even gets along with Phoebe’s friends. In one memorable episode he even takes Joey and Ross along with him on a ride in his patrol car, one that sees Joey saving his sandwich when he thinks a gun has gone off.
By the end of his tenure on the show Gary and Phoebe have moved in together. But their co-inhabitance is only brief: in a complete flip of character, Gary, noting a group of birds outside their morning window that Phoebe is happy to hear, takes a potshot at the avians with his gun. They either scatter or die.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaat’s pretty much the end of Gary, as you may imagine.