Why The VERY WEIRD Friends Spin-Off Failed

The best Friends episodes all have one thing in common, the very name of the show. Whether it was Monica and Chandler, or Joey and Phoebe antics, the show was about a group of peoples lives. The spin-off of Friends, titled Joey, did not go well. The Friends moments we grew to love, were all but gone, and the show did everything it could to make everyone not want to watch it. This is a look at what went wrong.

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[Nerdstalgic]

Who is the best character in television history?

[silobobus]

it failed because they didn't call it ''The Joey Showey'' like they should have.

[DSCMBOBULTD]

A spin off focused on chandler n Monica with their kids and Joey lives in a room above their garage like they said he would.

[ajaysabarish]

In Friends everyone's arc was completed except that of Joey's.
Monica : She wanted baby, a chef career, a relationship. And she got it all at the end.
Chandler: Hated his job, wanted a partner. He got a job he loved and married a woman he loved.
Ross: He wanted to be married. He had a huge unresolved crush on Rachel. He got it all at the end.
Rachel: She wanted to be independent and not be the spoiled daddy's little girl. She was a successful executive and a responsible mother at the end.
Phoebe: She just wanted a family of her own. And she got it at the end.

But Joey neither had a stable relationship nor a successful acting career at the end. So the spinoff attempted to address it.
But the big problem was they literally forgot FRIENDS. I mean Joey was getting married and there is no mention of his friends ?
IMO, they could have ended in Season 2 with his marriage and they should have announced all his friends are coming to the wedding. The viewership would have skyrocketed and it would be a good ending.

[johngr]

Friends is such a good show because of the chemistry of the 6. They are all entirely different from each other but they have one huge thing in common: They all care about each other.

[libbyyoung]

they didn't get the concept that joey wasn't "joey" without chandler, Monica, ross, Pheobe, and Rachel... also what happened to the plan where joey was supposed to live in the garage with Monica and Chandler?

[beccabasson]

The comic relief character RARELY makes a good main focus of a tv show. They’re better in small doses.

[StreetKxd]

The best idea for a spin-off would be a backstory about phoebes life

[Xalgucennia]

You can tell Matt Leblanc was the only one who wanted to keep working, he's rumoured to be the only one who wanted another season of friends, and he's done multiple other series.
I remember watching a series he did called "episodes" and the only guest star from the gang he got was one scene with David Schwimmer.

[deanlowdon]

A big problem was that Joey was so close to his friends for 10 years, and then in his own show he never saw or spoke to any of them!

[ryanwilsonexe]

Can’t blame him, I woulda taken $30 million too, that’s like 30 million hamburgers

[IvanVazquezS]

The problem was that none of Friends characters have their own charisma and lives, they don't work by themselves, they need the others to exist. Have you been in a group of friends that works super awesome but the individual lives of each one of the persons is really boring, lame, dull, or just not funny? Have you been in a group of like 6 or 7 friends where you only have fun when you ALL hang out together, but if it was only you and another dude or dudette from the group it's just not the same (even if it's the funny one)? Welcome to the answer on why Joey didn't work, and a similar premise will never work.

[nicolewhite]

Honestly I would've rathered a Chandelier and Monica spin off where everyone comes to visit every now and again and they raise their kids

[_NickRyan_]

Honestly, a spin off with Chandler and Monica I could see. It’s two of the Friends cast and they’re interestingly different and they actually had a story line to go off of.

[Lwoods]

They could have had Joey living with his 7 sisters. It would have lifted some of the pressure off Joey himself

[enchantedpropaganda]

I believe Joey’s character ended when friends ended and by that I mean I feel like he didn’t really have much going for him that we as an audience would wanna continue seeing in a spin-off. Mondler raising the twins would’ve been interesting to see, or Mike and Phoebe since she wanted her own kids after seeing Mondler’s set of twins, or even Roschel raising Emma since they got back together (for the 100th time). But in the end, I feel like any spin off wouldn’t of been big without the six of them

[JoeJohnson-mkqd]

In season 4-5 of Friends (London and the following few episodes) they show the viewers not only how much Joey cares about his friends, but how much he loves his life in its current state and how he hates changes. This not only makes the Joey show improbable but also impossible, as he nearly broke down when he lived in the big apartment and when Chandler moved out. There is no possible way for that same character to abandon his friends, family, and life to live in L.A. to follow his career which was always second to him behind the people in his life that mattered most.

[ppytc]

when they eventually make an official friends reunion, they should reference 'Joey' as a TV show Joey did, and make it meta. As if this was a TV show on a TV show. Joeyception.

[atillaberberoglu]

They should've just made Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. instead

[katelynbrown]

I can understand the other actors not wanting to continue to pursue those characters but I feel like the one character that would have made the most sense to pop in or have a continuation on Joey would be phoebe. They always seem to get along the best and I feel like it would make sense that Phoebe would want to explore California. Yes she had kids, but I do not think they were her kids? Even if they were, I think that they could have made it work to where she popped in with her family in California on a vacation.