Friends (1994)/S6E14 · The One Where Chandler Can't Cry/Chandler's secret read: Chicken Soup for the Soul

Friends · Season 6, Episode 14, "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry"

Chandler's secret read: Chicken Soup for the Soul

Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) · Monica and Chandler's living room

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What it tells you

Chandler can't cry, and Monica starts to wonder if he's dead inside. His fix is to read Chicken Soup for the Soul in private and hope one of the stories gets him there. When Monica walks in he throws it under the couch, which has no back, so the book slides straight out into the kitchen. The man built a personality on irony and the furniture still ratted him out.

Sources: The One Where Chandler Can't Cry, Friends transcript · Here Are All the Books in FRIENDS, Book Riot · The One With The 5 Best Bookish Moments on FRIENDS, Book Riot

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Chicken Soup for the Soul

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen · 1993 · nonfiction

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen were turned down by the big New York publishers before a small Florida press, HCI, put it out in 1993. Chandler owning a copy is Ross in leather pants: a commitment that can only end badly.

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