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Michael “Mike” Hannigan is Phoebe’s love interest and third husband. He appeared in seventeen episodes of Friends. He was portrayed by Paul Rudd. Joey met Mike by simply walking into Central Perk and shouting out “Mike! Mike answers to and agrees to go on a date with Phoebe. One of the reasons Mike and Phoebe seem to get along so well is the similarities in their personalities and Mike even says in his wedding vows that he loves Phoebe because she is “so wonderfully weird”.
An example of their shared childlike attitude is clear in “The One with Princess Consuela” when Mike changes his name to Crap Bag as a retort to Phoebe’s name change. Mike first confesses his love for Phoebe in front of his parents, Theodore and Bitsy, after they voice their concerns about their son’s choice of partner in “The One With Ross’ Inappropriate Song”. After Joey first introduces Mike to Phoebe on the sham of a blind date in “The One With The Pediatrician” a long relationship which temporarily ends when Phoebe learns Mike, having already been through one disastrous marriage, never wants to remarry. Chandler giving Phoebe away and Ross holding Mike’s beloved but smelly childhood dog as a groomsman.
In the series finale, Mike and Phoebe, after seeing Jack and Erica for the first time, discuss having children. In the time that Mike is with Phoebe his jobs always revolve around his piano playing and his absences in episodes are often explained with “he’s got a gig”. Mike also plays piano at a Karaoke bar in “The One Where Monica Sings”. In “The One In Barbados, Part 2”, Mike is portrayed to be an excellent table tennis player. He even quotes ‘Oh by the way, I’m awesome. He is able to quote from the standard table tennis rule book, when Monica commits an infraction by touching the top of the table with her hand. Unfortunately, he commits the same infraction to score the winning point of the second game, but it is never called.
He also appears to have some artistic ability in “The Last One, Part 1”. He makes a beautiful banner that reads “Welcome to the World, Baby Bing”, by which everyone is impressed. Joey is slightly jealous as he has made something in the same vein, but sat in the wet paint. Mike is seen in all four main apartments, Monica’s, Phoebe’s, Joey’s and Ross’. Mike was met with mixed views by fans. Some fans felt that Hannigan was an extraneous character who did not add much to the series, while others felt he added a sense of depth that was somewhat lacking at the time prior to his introduction. He, along with Gunther, is sometimes considered the “Seventh Friend”.
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