The One With Joey's Interview

Thursday, 4 April 2002

Joey gives an interview to Soap Opera Digest with his friends listening in from the next table, and each question he is asked sends the episode into clips from earlier seasons.

What happens

• Rachel finds Joey's name in a crossword puzzle, and Joey admits he has already turned down the magazine's offer of a full profile.
• Rachel talks Joey into doing it in exchange for a mention of her, and Joey makes the others sit nearby so they can stop him saying anything damaging.
• At Central Perk the four of them hide at the next table and try to listen without visibly moving their mouths.
• Joey learns that the magazine is paying for the meal and immediately orders every muffin in the place.
• Asked how he spends his free time, Joey claims he reads to blind people and describes himself as a role model using the wrong word for it.
• The interviewer asks why the show killed him off years ago, and the friends jump up to interrupt before Joey can repeat the answer that cost him the job.
• Rachel leans into the tape recorder pushing her own name, but it is Phoebe's compliment about Joey that the interviewer decides to write down.
• Asked to name his best friend, Joey says he does not have one, only a lot of close friends.
• The interview is finished until one last question leads Joey to say that he does not watch soap operas.
• The published piece leaves that remark out, and Joey admits he slept with the interviewer.