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The major problem was the inconsistency: I remember when the sisters of joey show up in friends, and no one was that slot of drea.#1
Then, I think this Joey has no very much of his main characteristics he had in friends; The couple of joay and chandler was the very best, but they married chandler with that bitch, so both shows were destroyed.

I have to disagree -- this show would NEVER have been 'excellent' because it was doomed from the very first instant that some suit thought of doing it. The character of Joey, while extremely well-done in the Friends series, was not a character that would ever have been able to survive on his own show. Matt LeBlanc is a wonderful actor in his own way, but he is way too limited as Joey to be able to carry a whole show.

I think he was just greedy to jump at the carrot they dangled in front of him. LeBlanc should have left it alone. But what are you gonna do? What's done is done.

Actually, I felt Joey was a reasonable effort. The problems included: the network expected it to be a hit like Friends right away; they tried to recreate the Ross/Rachel will-they/won't-they thing, which ended up being annoying more than anything; what's her name who played Gina - she was impossible to like. You can't expect a series to do well if people don't like the characters
The show could have been excellent, and it had the potential, but the way it was made killed that.
Matt LeBlanc was the second choice for a spinoff, Aniston was asked first but she said no. That might have been more interesting.

What on Earth was Matt LeBlanc thinking when he decided to do this show?? Did he really think he could make it without the other 5? It was a horrible idea!

This show should never have seen the light of day. Spin-offs are a very difficult thing to get right. Some have worked (i.e., Frazier, Angel), but more often than not, most spin-offs have been really, truly awful rejects.

Joey was a great character on Friends. However, he was not a strong enough character to make an entire show work around him. It was doomed to failure from the onset.

Some characters can stand on their own and some need to be part of the scenery. Joey needed to stay in the background.

Loved FRIENDS but I think they should've made a show about Mondler and the twins they weren't expecting. And, no, person below me,Phoebe/Ursula would've been boring as h3ll. ross and rachel i'll agree with. Joey was very inconsistent on Joey, but on Friends he was like my third favorite character(behind only Ross, then Monica). He made a lot of the storylines funny, Ursula was funny, but only because SHE WAS SO DISTANT FROM HER SISTER!!! How would a spin off work? Phoebe can't stand to be in the same room as Ursula for a very long time, let alone a whole series.

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Joey jumped day one. They should have had a spin off show for Phoebe and Ursula. Ross and Rachel were boring. Chandler and Monica had NO sexual chemistry and shouldn't have been together. Joey was dumb and the storylines and titles of all the Joey episodes were boring and predictable, but a spinoff of Ursula and Phoebe would have been awesome!! Wonder what they are doing RIGHT NOW?!!

hu d hell doesnt lik JOey!!! for godsake he's jus acting dum... n its More difficult to act Dum dan smart!!! hmphh!! i thnk Friends wud be really empty widout d presence of Joey Tribbiani!!! i LOve him!!!mwahh!!

Jumped from day one, but I kept waiting for an episode when Tony, Chrissy, Paulie, Sil, & Bobby show up to find Adriana....

I was a big fan of "Friends" and like everyone else I started to watch "Joey" with the expectation that the show would be just as funny. It sucked from day one. The characters didn't click the way they did in "Friends". And, like someone mentioned before, Joey's character was inconsistent: one day he was stupid, next smart, in love, out of love. It was as if the writers didn't know what to do with him. The reason Joey's stupid/loveable character was a hit on Friends was because it balanced with Chandler's smart/sarcastic character. There was no character "balancing" on "Joey". The only way it would have been a hit is if they brought in Chandler, which was unlikely to happen.

I enjoyed this shows first season, the second season was ok but not quite as good. I thought Miquel Nunez Jr. was great as Michael, as far as I'm concerned they showed Jennifer Coolidge's character too much. I was expecting Chandler, Ross, or possibly Phoebe to pop up for a one off, but sadly that never happened.

Love "Friends" and still do! Yes, I was a guaranteed audience for "Joey" hoping for the same magic. Alas, not meant to be, simply because "Joey" did NOT have the same writing team as "Friends".

One of the things I was hoping for if the show was a hit was the occasional visit from former "Friends" cast, like "Cheers" characters visited "Frasier".

JOEY JUMPED THE MINUTE THEY CAST MIGUEL NUNEZ JR AND THE CRAZY UNBEARABLE CHARACTER WHO PLAYED MICHAEL´S FATHER. WATCHING SCENES WITH THIS GUY AND DREA DE MATTEO WAS JUST PAINFUL.
INSTEAD OF CASTING THESE TWO GUYS WITH NO CHARISMA AT ALL, THEY SHOULD HAVE LEFT MORE SPACE AND AIRTIME TO THE GREAT AND IRRESISTIBLE JENNIFER COOLIDGE

I LOVED FRIENDS! A lot of faithful FRIENDS fans followed JOEY to his new venue hoping to see more of what made FRIENDS so loveable. That was the beginning of the set-up for disaster. It was obvious the writers had no clear idea of what to DO with Matt LeBlanc's loveable character. The network just saw dollar signs knowing there would be a ready-made audience who could not let FRIENDS go. IF they had started with a good strong storyline and clever writers, maybe JOEY would have lasted beyond the opening song. I'm sad to say, JOEY jumped the shark before the first episode for the lack of good writing and the lack of vision on the part of a greedy network.