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Their next encounter was a year later at another Gellar thanksgiving after Rachel had gotten a nose job and after Chandler and Ross had seen too many Miami Vice episodes.

Rachel: Hey!
Ross: Hey. (To his parents) Happy Thanksgiving!
Mr. Geller: (To Chandler) God, your hair sure is different!
Chandler: Yeah, we were just talking about that. I can't believe how stupid we used to look.

Rachel and Chandler didn't have many interactions with one another back then, and they didn't see each other again until Rachel moved to the Village after jilting Barry at the alter. But there was one time before that, that wasn't mentioned until the third season in TOW the Flashback.

TOW The Flashback

Rachel: Oh, I don't know. Well maybe it's just the idea of Barry for the rest of my life. I don't know I think I feel like I need to have one last fling, y'know, just to sorta get it out of my system. (Chandler is listening in very intensely)
Friend No. 1: Rachel stop!
Friend No. 2: You're so bad!
Rachel: I'm serious, I really, I think I need just to have some...meaningless, sex y'know, with the next guy that I see.
(Chandler throws the cue ball under their table.)
Chandler: Excuse, I seem to have dropped my ball.
Rachel: Yeah, so?
Chandler: (picks it up) And now I've picked it up again.

THAT is shocking to say the least. Rachel never seemed to have any sort of sexual attraction to Chandler before. It's hard to believe that something like this happened...even though it was a dream.
Since then, Rachel and Chandler have formed a close bond with one another, sharing personal experiences, comforting one another and helping each other out, when one is in trouble. They have not really had any sort of romantic attraction to one another, but still their friendship is very strong and stands out among those other friendships within the group. Here are some other times when Rachel and Chandler shared some important moments.

TOW the Boobies

[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Chandler walks in and starts raiding the fridge. Then Rachel comes out of the shower with a towel wrapped round her waist, drying herself with another towel. Chandler and Rachel startle each other and she drops the towel for a second and snatches the rug off the couch.]
Rachel: That is IT! You just barge in here, you don't knock
Chandler: I'm sorry!
Rachel: You have no respect for anybody's privacy!
Chandler: Rachel, wait, wait.
Rachel: No, you wait! This is ridiculous!
Chandler: Can I just say one thing?
Rachel: What? What?!
Chandler: That's a relatively open weave and I can still see your... nipular areas.
Rachel: Oh!!
(She storms off)

Rachel: Okaaay. (To the guys, on the couch) Any of you guys want anything else?
Chandler: Oh, yes, could I have one of those. (Points)
Rachel: No, I'm sorry, we're all out of those. Anybody else?
Chandler: Okay.
Roger: Did I, uh, did I miss something?
Chandler: No, she's still upset because I saw her boobies.
Ross: You what? Wh what were you doing seeing her boobies?
Chandler: It was an accident. Not like I was across the street with a telescope and a box of donuts.
Rachel: Okay, okay, could we change the subject, please?
Phoebe: Yeah, 'cause hello, these are not her boobies, these are her breasts.
Rachel: Okay, Pheebs, I was hoping for more of a change.
Chandler: Y'know, I don't know why you're so embarrassed, they were very nice boobies.
Rachel: Nice? They were nice. I mean, that's it? I mean, mittens are nice.
Chandler: Okaaay, (Gestures) rock, hard place, me.

Rachel: I know, I mean, why can't parents just stay parents? (She walks over near Chandler and his gaze stays very obviously on her chest) Why do they have to become people? Why do they have...(Notices Chandler) Why can't you stop staring at my breasts?
Chandler: (Without looking up) What? (Looks up) What?
Rachel: Did you not get a good enough look the other day?
Ross: Alright, alright. We're all adults here, there's only one way to resolve this. Since you saw her boobies, I think, uh, you're gonna have to show her your peepee.
Chandler: Y'know, I don't see that happening?
Rachel: C'mon, he's right. Tit for tat.
Chandler: Well I'm not showing you my 'tat.'

Rachel: Chandler Bing? It's time to see your thing.

Rachel: I thought it was Chandler!
Chandler: (Comes out of his room) What? What?
Rachel: You were supposed to be in there so I could see your thing!
Chandler: Sorry, my my thing was in there with me.

In TOW the Birth, Chandler teaches Rachel an important lesson in comedic timing.

TOW the Birth

Ross: God, I don't believe this. She could be giving birth in the cab.
Rachel: Oh, Ross, relax. It's probably like two dollars for the first contraction, and then fifty cents for each additional contraction. (Everyone looks at Rachel as though she made a tasteless comment.)
Rachel: What, it's ok when Chandler does it?
Chandler: You have to pick your moments.

Ross: Susan wanted a Chunky. We're having a baby,ok a baby, you don't stop for Chunkys.
Chandler: I used to have that bumper sticker.
(Everyone is amused by Chandler's comment.)
Chandler: (to Rachel) You see what I mean.

Chandler and his big mouth are the main reason Rachel and Ross got together in the first place. He blabbed that Ross was in love with her causing Rachel to discover feelings that she never knew she had.

TOW Rachel Finds Out

Chandler: (pointing out a gift) OK, this one right here is from me.
Rachel: (picks it up) OK... ah, it's light... (shakes it)...it rattles... it's... (opens it) Travel Scrabble! Oooohhh, thank you! (she gives it back to him)
Rachel: Who's this from?
Chandler: Oh, that's Ross's.
Rachel: Oh... (opens it)...(sees it is a pin) Oh my
God. He remembered.
Phoebe: Remembered what?
Rachel: It was like months ago. We were walking
by this antique store, and I saw this pin in the
window, and I told him it was just like one my
grandmother had when I was a little girl. Oh! I can't believe he remembered!
Chandler: Well, sure, but can you play it on a plane? (pats his Travel Scrabble game)
Phoebe: Oh, it's so pretty. This must have cost him a fortune.
Monica: I can't believe he did this.
Chandler: Come on, Ross? Remember back in college, when he fell in love with Carol and bought her that ridiculously expensive crystal duck?
(Everyone looks at him. He realizes he just spilled the beans about Ross's crush on Rachel.)

Rachel: Noooo... look, all I know is that I cannot wait a week until I see him. I mean, this is just too big. Y'know, I just, I've just gotta talk to him. I... I gotta... OK, I'll see you later. (opens door)
Chandler: Rachel, I love you! Deal with me first! (she leaves)

TOW Ross's New Girlfriend

Rachel: (entering, out of breath) Airport, airport. Ross, not alone, Julie, arm around her. Cramp,
cramp.
Chandler: Ok, I think she's trying to tell us something. Quick, get the verbs.
Rachel: (to Chandler) You, you, you said he liked me

Rachel: Here's your lemonade.
Ross: I didn't order lemonade.
Rachel: Oh. Well then, you better go take that back because they're gonna charge you for that.
Ross: But--
Rachel: Go go go go, come on! (to Chandler) So then, well, what did you find out?
Chandler: He said, he said that they're having a great time. I'm sorry. But, the silver lining, if you
wanna see it, is that he made the decision all by himself without any outside help whatsoever.
Rachel: How is that the silver lining?
Chandler: You have to really wanna see it.

Since Rachel and Chandler are the only two of the group whose parents are separated, they both have a secret understanding of what the other went through. When Rachel realizes that her parents will not be getting back together in TOW Two Parties, Chandler comforts her with sympathy and can relate to her pain.

TOW The Two Parties

Chandler: Look, are you gonna be ok?
Rachel: Well, I have to be, I don't really have a choice, I mean, you know, I could look at the bright side, I get two birthday parties and two birthday cakes.
Chandler: Well, actually just one birthday flan.
Rachel: What?
Chandler: It's a traditional Mexican custard dessert...Look talk to Monica, she's on the food committee.

Chandler: [running out of his apartment after a girl] Ok, ok, you can be shirts and I'll be skins. I'll be skins. [sits down beside Rachel] Hey, how you holdin' up there, tiger? Oh, sorry, when my parents were getting divorced I got a lot of tigers. Got a lot of champs, chiefs, sports, I even got a governor.
Rachel: This is it, isn't it? I mean, this is what my life
is gonna be like. My mom there, my dad there.
Thanksgiving, Christmas. She gets the house, he's in
some condo my sister's gonna decorate with wicker.
Oh, Chandler how did you get through this?
Chandler: Well, I relied on a carefully regimented
program of denial and, and wetting the bed.
Rachel: Ya know, I just, so weird. I mean I was in there
just listening to them bitch about each other and all I
kept thinking about was the fourth of July.
Chandler: Because it reminded you of the way our forefathers used to bitch at each other?
Rachel: It's just this thing. Every year we would go out on my dad's boat and watch the fireworks. Mom always hated it because the ocean air made her hair all big. My sister Jill would be throwing up over the side and my dad would be upset because nobody was helping and then when we did help he would scream at us for doing it wrong. But then when the fireworks started, everybody just shut up, you know, and it'd get really cold, and we would all just sort of smush under this one blanket. It never occured to anybody to bring another one. And now it's just...
Chandler: I, I know. [Hugs her. Ross walks out and Chandler puts her in his arms.]