Joey Tribbiani

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Nickname:

Joe, Joseph, J-Man, Big Daddy, Chick, Cookie, Dragon, Joseph Stalin, Flame Boy

Occupation:

Actor Santa (Prior to show) Christmas Elf (Season 1) Entry-level Data Processor (season 2) Museum Tour Guide (Season 4) Central Perk Waiter (Season 6) Waiter at Alessandro's Cologne sampler Christmas tree salesman Minister (season 7 onwards)

First appearance:

The Pilot (Friends)

Portrayer:

Matt LeBlanc

Creator:

David CraneMarta KauffmanKevin S. Bright

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Joseph Francis Tribbiani, Junior is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends (1994–2004) and the title character i... (more)

Joseph Francis Tribbiani, Junior is a fictional character on the popular U.S. television sitcom Friends (1994–2004) and the title character in the spin-off, Joey (2004–;2006), portrayed by Matt LeBlanc. Background (Born January 9, 1968) Joey comes from an Italian American family of 8 children, of which he is the only male. He is 1/16th Portugese, but it isn't known which side of the family this comes from. He has 7 sisters: Mary Therese, Mary Angela (with whom Chandler fooled around at Joey's birthday party), Dina, Gina, Tina, Veronica, and Cookie. Joey is from, and was presumably born in, Queens, NY. As a child, he was extremely accident prone. He also had an imaginary friend, Maurice, who was a space cowboy. He moved apartments four times in the series. The first time, he moved to his own lavish apartment away from Chandler (with whom the psychotic Eddie moved in) after he got the role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives, though he moved back soon afterward due to his loss of the role. The other times were when he and Chandler moved into what is usually Monica's apartment, after winning it from her in a game in "The One with the Embryos". They were later forced back to their own apartment by the girls. Joey is a "stereotypical" actor: oversexed, under-educated and constantly looking for work. He was ordained as a minister in The One with the Truth About London, and officiated at both Monica and Chandler and Phoebe and Mike's weddings. It is revealed in The One After "I Do" that Joey has size seven feet, which he is secretive and defensive about. He also has a soft toy penguin named Huggsy (his "bedtime penguin pal"), whom he is very fond of and does not like to share. He also doesn't like sharing food and has a huge difficulty with simple mathematics (evidenced by his using a calculator to add together 500 and 500). In sports, Joey likes the New York Yankees in baseball, New York Knicks in basketball, New York Giants in football, and the New York Rangers in hockey. Joey's first line at the show was "Come on, you are going out with the guy! There's gotta be something wrong with him", when Monica refuses to give details about a guy she dates. His last line is a response to Phoebe that said "I guess this is it". Joey answers "Yeah. I guess so." Personality Joey is characterized as a simple-minded but good-natured womanizer who loves food. He particularly loves meatball sub sandwiches. When asked if he would give up sex or food he had trouble deciding and kept blurting out sex or food, eventually yelling "I want girls on bread!". In The One with the Ride Along, he appears to be saving Ross from a putative gunshot, when it was actually his meatball sandwich that he was trying to save; it was just near Ross. He also loves the "Joey Special"—two pizzas. He is something of an idiot savant in matters of romance, often relying on his catchphrase pickup line "How you doin'?" but capable of good ideas when the situation arises. This is alluded to in the episode "The One Where Ross Dates a Student", when Chandler, referring to Joey, says "A hot girl's at stake and suddenly he's Rain Man" when Joey suggested Ross work out which of students called him the 'hottie of the paleontology department' by comparing the handwriting of the note to the handwriting in the class essays. In another example, Joey made up an anecdote referred to as the "Europe story" or the "magic story"; apparently, anyone who hears it will immediately want to have sex with the teller. This was proven to be effective in "The One With the Videotape", when it was discovered that Rachel successfully used the story on Ross (although, as Ross was aware of the story beforehand, the mere fact of Rachel using it would have been enough to imply that she was hitting on him). He is also clever at other times, for example, in "The One With Ross’s Teeth", while the other five friends (except Chandler) sat around at Central Perk pondering why their bosses don't like them, it was Joey who pointed out, "Maybe it's because you're all sitting around here at 11:30 on a Wednesday." Joey is extremely promiscuous with women. In "The One with Monica's Thunder", Chandler ask Joey, "You've had a lot of sex, right?", to which Joey replies, "Today? Some ... not a lot." He sleeps with many of the interns and extras on shows on which he works (Although he was prepared to decline an offer to have sex with a casting agent because he wanted to be cast for his acting skills rather than his sexual performance; his integrity prompted the agent to give him a bigger part than the one he originally auditioned for). He has apparently been sexually active for a very long time; he undid a 16-year-old girl's bra when he was nine, slept with his teacher in the seventh grade, and he had a wild spring break when he was 13. He is very charming to all women but can never seem to get into a committed relationship.  (less)

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