THE THING IS I'M NOT SO SURE THESE TWO THEORIES CAN'T COEXIST-- in 2003 he was silently in love with her and she never knew and thought of him as a bff, and then Rachel took his perpetually empty love life in hand and introduced him to her friend, and that friend eclipsed everything (they look super super happy in those wedding pictures above, IT'S LOVELY?).

I didn't even notice him before BUT LOOOOOOOOL, he is a hilariously ridiculous-looking human being.