Chandler’s Best Episodes In Friends, Ranked – Looper

While we talked up how Chandler and Rachel got a rare subplot together in “The One with All the Cheesecakes,” here we are spotlighting yet another episode where Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston got a lot of solo time with one another. However, in this case, the bulk of the heavy lifting was being done by Perry — and it also represents some of the best physical comedy he ever got to do on the show. If he wanted to have a career doing Jim Carrey-esque physical slapstick and rubber-faced comedy work, Perry’s work in “The One with the Cuffs” proves that avenue was definitely available to him.

Chandler has a brief and very torrid love affair with Rachel’s boss, Joanna (Alison La Placa), which leads to Chandler being handcuffed — and not completely dressed — in Joanna’s office. Rachel eventually discovers him there, and to use a well-worn phrase, hilarity ensues. Aniston certainly does a lot of great work here, and once again, she and Perry are dynamite together. But this episode belongs to Perry, vamping and chewing the scenery in the best possible sense. Michael Richards as Kramer on “Seinfeld” might have been the king of physical comedy on primetime television in the ’90s, but Perry was right there with him when the script called for it.