Rachel Green

Rachel bolts from her own wedding in a wedding dress and lands on Monica's doorstep with no job, no cash, and no idea how to make coffee. Spoiled and sheltered, she's decided she'd rather figure out who she is than marry the man her father picked. She's funny about it, and completely unprepared.

The joke is that Rachel starts as the pretty one who has it easy, and the show keeps quietly proving otherwise. Aniston plays the panic under the poise so well that cutting up her father's credit card becomes a real turning point, not just a sitcom beat. She grows up on screen without ever losing the wit.