History Series / Joey

* {{Flanderization}}: If Joey was already a moron on Season Ten of ''Frends'', he needed a safety helmet by 2004.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: NBC made the boneheaded decision to put Joey opposite ''AmericanIdol'' and predictably its ratings soon declined, and ItGotWorse--the show then got canceled midway through season 2, leaving eight episodes unaired.

->''"On Friends, Joey was a womanizer, but we enjoyed his exploits. He was a solid friend, a guy you knew you could count on. Joey was deconstructed to be a guy who couldn't get a job, couldn't ask a girl out. He became a pathetic, mopey character. I felt he was moving in the wrong direction, but I was not heard."''
-> - Kevin S. Bright, executive producer of the show.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: NBC made the boneheaded decision to put Joey opposite ''AmericanIdol'' and predictably its ratings soon declined, and ItGotWorse--the show then got cancelled midway through season 2, leaving eight episodes unaired.

* LaughTrack: One of the last NBC comedies to have one. The failure of this show, as well as the success of ''TheOffice'' (which began airing in between ''Joey'''s two seasons), are the reasons that most NBC comedies of TheNewMillennium were free-camera sitcoms without laugh tracks. (The three-camera sitcom is currently making a comeback, though, due to [=CBS=]'s skyrocketing ratings.)

* LaughTrack: One of the last NBC comedies to have one. The failure of this show, as well as the success of ''TheOffice'' (which began airing in between ''Joey'''s two seasons), are the reasons that most NBC comedies of TheNewMillenium were free-camera sitcoms without laugh tracks. (The three-camera sitcom is currently making a comeback, though, due to [=CBS=]'s skyrocketing ratings.)

* LaughTrack: One of the last NBC comedies to have one. The failure of this show, as well as the success of ''TheOffice'' (which began airing in between ''Joey'''s two seasons), are the reasons that most NBC comedies released since no longer contain laugh tracks.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Zach was absent from the last five episodes of the series with no explantion and he was never mentioned or refered to again.

* [[IAmNotSpock I Am Not Data:]] Lampshaded in one episode with Brett Spiner

* [[IAmNotSpock I Am Not Data]] Lampshaded in one episode with Brett Spiner

Not too many people were excited about this spin-off as they were unsure of whether Joey would be able to stand on his own as a character and support his own show. Despite a respectable first episode (18 million viewers), viewership quickly began to dwindle. After several attempts at retooling (including adding a new cast member, Miguel Nunez Jr.), {{NBC}} put it up against ''AmericanIdol'', which was the final nail in the coffin. In the middle of the second season, ''Joey'' was no more, at least in the US, the remaining episodes did air overseas and were eventually released on DVD... in Canada. A total of 46 episodes were released, from September, 2004 to May, 2006.

''Joey'' was a SpinOff of the wildly popular sitcom ''{{Friends}}''. It transplanted wannabe actor Joey Tribbiani ({{Matt LeBlanc}}) to Los Angeles, where he tried to make a go of becoming a big star. It added new characters such as Gina, his equally promiscuous sister, played by {{Drea de Matteo}} of ''TheSopranos''; Michael, his sheltered nephew, played by PauloCostanzo, and love interest Alex, played by AndreaAnders. Plots usually revolved around one of three things:

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Joey accidentally revealed that a specific character was going to be killed off in an early episode of his new show, ''Deep Powder'' in a press junket. The rest of the episode featured Joey being worried that he'd be killed off in retaliation for the leak, but the producers of the show instead killed off a different character, who was played by a {{Jerkass}} that nobody involved with the show liked.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: NBC made the boneheaded decision to put Joey opposite ''AmericanIdol'' and predictably its ratings soon declined, and ItGotWorse--the show then got cancelled midway through season 2, leaving eight episodes unaired.

* EasterEgg: Joey has a picture of himself and Chandler near his door.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes

* HoYay: Joey's sister Gina thought that Chandler and Joey were a gay couple. Understandable, considering they did squabble like man and wife.

* LesYay: Gina, Bobbi and Alex were all implied to have attractions to the same sex on some occasions.

* OneSceneWonder: Alyson Stoner as the critic who admittingly [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch gives Joey a bad review without even seeing his movie]]. There's also a scene that shows she and Joey are NotSoDifferent

-> - —Kevin S. Bright, executive producer of the show.

* OneSceneWonder: Alyson Stoner as the critic who admitting [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch gives Joey a bad review with even seeing his movie]]. There's also a scene that shows she and Joey are NotSoDifferent

* OneSceneWonder: Alyson Stoner as the critic who admitting [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDon'tWatch gives Joey a bad review with even seeing his movie]]. There's also a scene that shows she and Joey are NotSoDifferent

* NoExportForYou: Season 1's DVD set was released pretty much everywhere the show was aired. The DVD set for Season 2... Was not.

* DawsonCasting / PlayingGertrude: Drea De Matteo is only six years older than the actor who plays her son.

Not too many people were excited about this spin-off as they were unsure of whether Joey would be able to stand on his own as a character and support his own show. Despite a respectable first episode (18 million viewers), viewership quickly began to dwindle. After several attempts at retooling (including adding a new cast member, Miguel Nunez Jr.), {{NBC}} put it up against ''AmericanIdol'', which was the final nail in the coffin. In the middle of the second season, ''Joey'' was no more, at least in the US, the remaining episodes did air overseas and were eventually released on DVD... in Canada. A total of 46 episodes were released, from September, 2004 to May, 2006.

* LaughTrack: One of the last NBC comedies to have one. The failure of this show, as well as the success of ''TheOffice'' (which began airing in between ''Joey'''s two seasons), are the reasons that NBC comedies no longer contain laugh tracks.

Not too many people were excited about this spin-off as they were unsure of whether Joey would be able to stand on his own as a character and support his own show. Despite a respectable first episode (18 million viewers), viewership quickly began to dwindle. After several attempts at retooling (including adding a new cast member, Miguel Nunez Jr.), {{NBC}} put it up against ''AmericanIdol'', which was the final nail in the coffin. In the middle of the second season, ''Joey'' was no more, at least in the US, the remaining episodes did air overseas and were eventually released on DVD... in Canada.