The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance (2024)

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S6 E4: After learning that his health insurance has lapsed because he has not worked enough as an actor, Joey suffers a painful hernia, and Rachel finally finds out that Ross never annulled their marriage.

Joey's health benefits lapse just as he develops a hernia.

He says his last line during the final scene of the series.

While everyone is standing in Monica's apartment, they place their keys on her front table to return them to the building manager. Joey's last line is "Yeah. I guess so," in response to Phoebe saying "I guess this is it."

“[Writers] Kauffman and Crane understood that the Joey-Rachel relationship would end before it really began. They would never have sex or say the L-word; that would be too much to recover from,” wrote Kelsey Miller in her 2019 book I'll Be There For You, the definitive retrospective on the show.

S6 E4: Joey develops a hernia just as his health insurance expires due to lack of acting work.

It premiered on NBC on September 9, 2004. Midway through the second season, the show was placed on a hiatus but returned on March 7, 2006. Only one more episode aired before the show was pulled. NBC canceled the series due to low ratings in May 2006.

Just because his mother has returned, doesn't mean Joey will settle down, which points out that Joey has his own specific problem — ADHD. Yes, it would have been easy to quickly achieve the contrast between ADHD and a stable home life if Joey had come from a middle class, “normal” family.

The kooky character of Monica from Friends is what many people would consider to be a classic case of OCD. However, perhaps the jokes made at Monica's disorder's expense would not be so funny if the viewer could see or hear exactly what was going through her head.

Upon seeing Chandler returning, the script required Matt Leblanc as Joey to leap into the chair. Unfortunately during one shoot of the scene, Matt dislocated his shoulder. That's why in the next episode Joey has his arm in a sling although the episode script has it because he was jumping on his bed.

"Sure,” Chandler says, winding up his deadpan final line: "Where?" The audience laughs loudly, knowing that the friends spent endless hours at their local coffee shop, Central Perk, throughout the years.

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Chandler responds “Sure. Where?”. The joke sarcastically references the fact that the characters always go for coffee at nearby cafe Central Perk. According to The Independent, the reason he got to say the final line was because he asked the show's co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman if he could do so.

Soon after Chandler and Monica move out, Joey moves to LA to focus on his acting career. That was the last time the six best friends are portrayed hanging out together.

So, did they or didn't they? According to actor Matthew Perry, they did not. The actor who played Chandler said that there was a pact between the cast mates to not hook up with each other. “There was a rule that we had, it was really important to the six of us that we kept a friendship, that we were friends.

On a ski trip with the senior class, Joey finally gives in and sleeps with Pacey. She later runs into Dawson whilst walking through Capeside, and is delighted when he agrees to spend the night with her walking around Capeside and talking. Dawson eventually asks her if she has slept with Pacey, which Joey denies.

I was up thinking of Jill kissing Ross. Ya know, sometimes I just hate my sister. Chandler: Why does it bother you that Jill kissed Ross anyway? She didn't sleep with him.

In the spin-off Joey, Joey ended up in a committed relationship with his neighbor and landlord, Alex. Although they never got married, their relationship allowed Joey to grow and settle down. Joey Tribbiani was the one Friends character still single at the end, leaving fans wondering who Joey ended up with.

As per the Independent, figures collected by a recruitment company for the phone network Giff Gaff estimate that on-and-off soap opera star Joey Tribbiani (played by Matt LeBlanc) earned the most inside the Friends universe after he landed a role in a feature film that saw his annual earnings rocket to $130,000.

Matt LeBlanc had dislocated his shoulder on set attempting a sight gag. As a result, his arm was in a protective sling. At the beginning of this episode, Chandler overhears Joey bouncing on his bed and falling off. This was written into the story to explain why the character would be wearing a sling.

It's a really beautiful moment that doesn't generally happen on this show between the final two women. Joey proposes to Kelsey, and even though she's pretty sure where it's going the moment she approaches him, she lets him get the first (and last) word. Kelsey gets the ring, and the final rose.