2004

S2.E1 ∙ Joey and the Big Break: Part 1

Wed, Sep 21, 2005

Joey and Alex barely realizing in the morning they took consoling each-others love-hurt straight into buff-sleeper Joey's bed, when Gina and Michael find them there. Gina did such a good job barking at Bobbie about her 'assaulting' Michael that the sleazy agent hired Gina as second assistant, veteran assistant Jason isn't dumb enough to help her getting worked in. Joey's character has won the televoting, so Bobbie demands better conditions, but pushes too far- he's killed off at Deep Powder, she is down to her last marker to get him an audition for an independent movie; Joey also meets extra Zach, who claims he can get him to see Kevin Smith. Michael can't resist when foxy new tenant Jenna mistakes him for 'big actor' Joey, for him as stressing as an audition. Joey's nerves make him bumble at the Kevin Smith audition.

7 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Joey and the Big Break: Part 2

Wed, Sep 21, 2005

Joey has made a mess of his last chance movie audition and hits rock bottom when harpy Gina, who Bobbie assigned to bring all her bad news, asks him how to do so with actors and starts using his own line on Joey, repeatedly. Michael is happy when date with Jenna, who mistakes him for cool actor Joey, made him 'no longer a virgin above the belt', but needs the real Joey to play him, nerd Michael, on a double date with her visiting cousin Marci, who just ended military service. Alex isn't pleased with 'generic' wooing and hands Joey 'homework' to understand her better. Joey is desperate enough to take factotum Zach's offer to meet Kevin Smith, but that's not a contact, the weirdo just kidnapped the director's pet dog. They get in but voices in Joey's head make him to crazy to say a line, Joey thinks they stem from the others, constantly requiring his help. After a pep-talk from Gina, he auditions again on his own...

7.2 /10

S2.E3 ∙ Joey and the Spanking

Wed, Sep 28, 2005

On set, Joey is confronted with an overly bossy child actor. Gina organizes an audition to find Alex a date.

6.8 /10

S2.E4 ∙ Joey and the Stuntman

Wed, Oct 05, 2005

Joey gets his stuntman to do everything he wants, Michael dates a script supervisor whom Joey hates, and Alex is confused about her feelings for Joey.

7 /10

S2.E5 ∙ Joey and the House

Wed, Oct 12, 2005

Joey decides to buy a huge house, against Gina's advice. They end up having to pretend they are married with child. Alex helps Bobbie go through anger management.

7.2 /10

S2.E6 ∙ Joey and the ESL

Wed, Oct 19, 2005

Joey joins an English as a Second Language class to seduce a woman, and Gina has to find a new client for Bobbie.

6.9 /10

S2.E7 ∙ Joey and the Poker

Wed, Nov 02, 2005

Alex teaches Joey fake poker rules to keep him away from a girl. Joey then plays along those rules at "Celebrity Poker Showdown", and gets into trouble.

7.2 /10

S2.E8 ∙ Joey and the Sex Tape

Wed, Nov 09, 2005

Joey is practicing how to make his entry at Ellen's talk-show, and believed with Bobbie his celebrity status can only grow as it attracts a nobody threatening to publish a sex video from his past, but pales when he hears her name: Celeste, the first girl he ever loved and not only had but 'accidentally' proposed to but left by the fire-escaped and never talked to again in twenty years, now she demands satisfaction on air... Gina stands in for Bobbie's medical as the boss approaches 40, which she didn't tell her or Joey, so Gina and Alex fear the brutal alcoholic is embarrassed not to have anyone to celebrate her birthday with...

7 /10

S2.E9 ∙ Joey and the Musical

Wed, Nov 16, 2005

Joey is trying to impress his girlfriend Candace, who he hired as interior decorator, but is instantly and intensely disliked by her grandmother Gloria, who says he resembles her hated ex Herman. When the director of her rest home's annual musical is sick, Joey saves the play by directing, with Zach, who is actually fairly good at it. Bobbie's mother, an even more overbearing harpy, demands a lead. When perfectionist Zach fires Gloria, Joey takes over, but stinks at directing, and even when Zach returns... Meanwhile Alex and her ex Eric are dividing their possessions, reason to use the therapy of writing down her frustrations in a letter never to be sent, and at Gina's instigation one to 'Dimples', actually Joey, but when Joey grabs the notebook from Michael's hands he thinks the boy is gay, yet sits on him 'right there', and is made to believe it's to Eric, whom he now encourages to court Alex again...

6.6 /10

S2.E10 ∙ Joey and the Bachelor Thanksgiving

Wed, Nov 23, 2005

Joey was looking forward to show Alex as first visitor his finished villa, but Gina has seduced the guard to get in with a whole crew for Thanksgiving decorations: it's the only day that makes her mushy, endless and mindless 'respect' for the fate of their Italian forefathers passing Ennis Island, even Alex is enlisted for the horrible play. Joey is enchanted by his neighbour Dean, a 50-year old party-bachelor, and soon passes over to his hot party which even has George Hamilton, later even Michael, but Gina... Meanwhile Ray from the Indian society has found out they discovered archaeological artifacts, but already donated them to the church charity, now Zach and Joey must scam them back from a poor family...

6.9 /10

S2.E11 ∙ Joey and the High School Friend

Wed, Dec 07, 2005

Joey receives the visit of his lost friend.

7.4 /10

S2.E12 ∙ Joey and the Tijuana Trip

Wed, Dec 14, 2005

Joey helps Michael to forget his ex-girlfriend, by going on a trip to Tijuana.

7.7 /10

S2.E13 ∙ Joey and the Christmas Party

Wed, Dec 14, 2005

Joey takes Gina's warning he cannot ruin their friendship by going to bed with Alex (again), but finds it very hard to turn off the mood, while she feels undesirable when he manages. Joey throws a Christmas party, using his celebrity status to make it attend by a host of desirable young females; Alex refuses to stay being too hurt, but did arranged in advance for his seasonal wish to come true: snow, but when he sees it she has thrown herself in the arms of ... Meanwhile Bobbie has a weird relationship with an overbearing older Britton with a cane and a worse attitude then Joey. Michael, rather overconfident after two girl-friends, and Zack, who keeps dropping names of celebrities he's supposedly close to, repel girls worse then ever. While Howard is happy to adore Joey anyhow, ignoring being ignored, Michael still rightfully feels constantly abused: especially Joey keeps vandalizing the sugar house his nephew builds, while Bobbie and her beau use the kid as kissing-dummy.

7.4 /10

S2.E14 ∙ Joey and the Snowball Fight

Mon, Mar 06, 2006

Joey has seen Alex started a relationship with his neighbor-friend-lover Alex, which he officially dumped, and feels jealous, but wrestles with the dating honor-code which forbids moving in on a mate's girl... Meanwhile Bobbie has arranged for Joey to get his own action figure on sale, but the Korean manufacturer got his anatomy embarrassingly wrong; second version no better but... Yet the dominant problem is that Gina announces another pregnancy, again with accidental father Jimmy, who is shocked but tries in his way to do the right thing. Michael hasn't decided yet whether to tell Jimmy he already has a son, and is still discarded as a 'weird kid'...

6.9 /10

S2.E15 ∙ Joey and the Dad

Mon, Apr 10, 2006

Joey invites his father to the big premiere of his last movie. But Joey's father doesn't seems to much interested about it.

6.9 /10

S2.E16 ∙ Joey and the Party for Alex

Mon, May 08, 2006

Joey is tired of being the friend on whose shoulder Alex comes cry while his mate-idol Dean has all the real fun, so he takes Zach's suggestion to make use of her 30th birthday to throw her a party while Dean is out of town for business. When Dean changes his mind, Joey pretends he only expects Marci, his fan-stalker 'crazy in every room', but Dean not only plans a grand birthday party, he even shows Joey a ring to propose to Alex... Meanwhile Michael's plan to be the party's DJ is sabotaged by not plugging in his equipment, while Gina and Jimmy announce they are ready for the next stage in their bumpy relationship: matching tattoos, but matching those soon mismatches...

6.9 /10

S2.E17 ∙ Joey and the Big Move

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Joey finally has his grand home ready as love palace, and Howard got him movers- the board of his bank! Alas, after handing the apartment over to Michael, Joey sees on his car TV a villa zone on fire in the Hollywood Hills and a yellow van just like his blocking the firemen- both his and a total burn-up! Either Alex, Gina or Michael must have caused the fire, but neither dares owe up. Joey must now again stay 'at Michael's place', already transformed into his Trekkie nerd mates' Enterprise simulation, in a bunk-bed under total virgin Arthur... Meanwhile Joey has accidentally told Jimmy he's Michael's father; the weirdo insists on a DNA paternity-test, but without telling his consequentially no longer alleged son...

7 /10

S2.E18 ∙ Joey and the Beard

Fri, Jun 30, 2006

Joey and Michael find Jimmy squatting in Joey's burned-out villa, so they suggest he moves in with lover Gina; the couple fights so much they have lots of make-up sex fun, yet Jimmy still spends more time letting off steam against the Tribbiani boys, ordering them to face the table in Joey's own home, then at Gina's place. Bobbie has arranged for Joey to go out as 'beard' (fake date) with popular actress Edie but Gina deliberately 'forgets' to tell Joey -not his house-mates- she's a lesbian; he still comes to care for Edie, and encourages her to come out of the closet at the awards evening he's accompanying her to...

7 /10

S2.E19 ∙ Joey and the Critic

Fri, Jul 07, 2006

After his movie's success, Joey's next step up is gaining creative control (in his mind, the right to cast hooters to his liking) by starting his own production company now Bobbie got him a three movies deal. Joey decides he wants to hire as development executive for his new cool office Jimmy, who understands far more about movies and always wasted his genius (Michael's smart genes) sucking at lousy jobs. James 'Jimmy' Costa insists to do an interview, is his usual rude daft self but Joey twists Warner Bros. VP Trent (whom he still can't recognize after 30 meetings)'s arm to hire his in-law, who proves a changed man: early for work and ambitious- far too much for lazy Joey, and after a while completely out of control, with a 10 year plan to run half the world... Michael discovers people love Joey's movie, except a whole website "JoeyTribbianiSucks.com", which is run by some Gary; no, he never even heard of Joey, but has a teenage daughter Kaley- Joey gives her a charming date, but she persists, as it turns out being jealous because of a teen-boy... Meanwhile Alex has broken up with Dean, and needs to be comforted.

7 /10

S2.E20 ∙ Joey and the Actors Studio

Fri, Jul 14, 2006

Joey's acting career in Actors Studio is a success, but when the audience may raise questions it's all girls who wine about him dating and then dumping them, just now he tries to convince Alex to let him take Dean's place. 'Bastard' Michael is excited to hear his dad Jimmy intends to marry his mother Gina; hearing he lacks money for a ring, ring-bearer-to-be Michael suggests his college's well-payed allergy drug test- they only take duos, so Joey grudgingly takes the same pills and gets massive side-effects, although Michael knows he is in the control group which only got placebos. Joey discovers there's also a Barry in Alex's love-life...

6.9 /10

S2.E21 ∙ Joey and the Holding Hands

Fri, Jun 16, 2006

Just now Alex has turned sexual on Joey, Gina convinces him they need more 'meaningful' moments. Joey finds an engagement ring in Jimmy's pocket, and Gina overhears him, so the proposal is rushed most unromantically; when she sells it to buy a car, he's vexed; Joey suggest counseling from father O'Neill; his sharing secrets test brings out a big one: Jimmy married older Tracy for her money, and never got divorced... When Michael is excited about his hot-sounding Internet mate SexySteve87, Joey is convinced that must be a man and talks him out of a Las Vegas date.

7.1 /10

S2.E22 ∙ Joey and the Wedding

Fri, Jul 28, 2006

Joey and Alex are ecstatic when Jimmy announces he's about to marry Gina and asks Joey as best man, but Jimmy warns him dames Alex's age want the ring very fast- only when she tells Joey she's trough with marriage forever - Michael assumes the best man position is naturally his as Gina's only son, and Joey can't bring himself to tell him. On the day, both Jimmy and Gina make a run for it - Joey was also looking forward to throwing the first baseball at a Dodgers game, but Jimmy made him realize how stressing the risk of looking foolish can be.

7.4 /10