[Joey has spelled out "pleh" in sticks at the rest stop to get rescued]
What's that?
JoeyIt's "help" spelled backward so the helicopters in sky'll read it right.
A character in Friends
Played by Matt LeBlanc
Friends · 771 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Friends: in 248 of its 771 quotes
Most scenes with: Chandler Bing (126), Ross Geller (79), Rachel Green (63)
[Joey has spelled out "pleh" in sticks at the rest stop to get rescued]
What's that?
JoeyIt's "help" spelled backward so the helicopters in sky'll read it right.
[Chandler lights a cigarette]
Chandler, what are you doing?
Chandler!
[realizes he's smoking] Oh my God!
JoeyYou're smoking again?
Well, actually, yesterday I was smoking again. Today, I'm smoking still.
Why would you start again after chewing all that quitting gum?
Look, I'm telling you, this is just like my parents' divorce, which is when I first started smoking in the first place.
Weren't you 9?
[with the cigarette sticking out of his mouth] Yeah. I'm telling you something, that first smoke after naptime.
[a knock on the door is heard]
Oh, that's great. With my luck, that's gonna be him.
Him? Him, Ross?
No, "Hymn" 253: "His eyes are on the Sparrow." When my parents got divorced, I started using humor as a defense mechanism.
[Chandler opens the door and it turns out to be Rachel]
Hi. Uh, do you guys have plans for the weekend? Because my sister's on hold and she said that we can have her cabin for the weekend, and go skiing. Huh? I'm asking you first, right? I mean, I'm playing by the rules.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
JoeyYeah.
[Chandler starts smoking in front of Rachel]
Chandler! You're smoking? What are you doing?
Hey, shut up! You're not my real mom.
Don't you think he's a little young to get married?
What? He's 18.
Exactly. It'll be illegal for him to drink at his own bachelor party.
JoeyYeah, or -- or to get a hooker.
Always illegal, Joe.
JoeyJust because she went to Yale drama she thinks she's like, the greatest actress since, since...sliced bread!
Ahh, sliced bread. A wonderful Lady Macbeth.
[Kate and Joey are discussing Kate's boyfriend, Marshall]
He happens to be brilliant. Which is more than I can say for that sweater you're dating. [Points to Lauren, Kate's understudy and Joey's current girlfriend.]
JoeyIt's not the sweater. It's what's underneath the sweater that counts.
You're telling me this actress person is the only woman you ever wanted who didn't want you back?
JoeyYeah! [thinks a bit] Oh my God. Is this what it's like to be you?
[A bedraggled Phoebe misses Joey's play, having spent all night on the phone while kept on hold by customer service.]
JoeyHey, Pheebs -- where were ya?
I'm so, so sorry, Joey. I am definitely going to see your play. I swear, your play is very important to us. Thank you for your patience. Your play is the next play I'm gonna see.
I gotta go water Pete's plants. You know what? If he's gonna break up with me, maybe I won't water his plants.
Well, if he's gonna break up with you, maybe Joey and I should water his plants, if you know what I mean.
JoeyOr -- ha, ha! -- we could go over there and pee on them!
[looking at a picture] Me and Frank and Phoebe, graduation, 1965.
You know what that means?
JoeyThat you're actually 50?
No, no that's not me Phoebe, that's her pal, Phoebe according to their High School yearbook, they were like BFF.
[everyone looks at her confused]
Best friends forever.
Oh.
What are you guys doing?
Joey[naked] We're playing strip Happy Days game.
Cool! I'll catch up! [takes off her sweater]
[Ross, Chandler and Joey are at Central Perk, talking about Rachel's 18-page letter.]
She wants me to take responsibility for everything that went went wrong in our relationship! She goes on for five pages about how I was "unfaithful" to her! WE WERE ON A BREAK!
If you say that one more time, I'm going to break up with you!
Fine! But this breakup was not all my fault. And at then she goes, "If you accept full responsibility-full responsibility-I can begin to trust you again. Does that sound like something you can do? Does it?
JoeyNo...
Look, you have what you want, you're back with Rachel! If you bring this up, you'll wreck the best thing that's ever happened to you.
You're right... Okay, I'll let it go. But you realize how hard it is to forget about it!
JoeySure it's hard! But that doesn't mean you have to talk about it! A lot of things happened on that beach trip that we should [turns to Chandler] never EVER talk about!
What the hell happened on that beach?!
JoeyIt's between us and the sea, Ross!
JoeyMonica got stung by a jellyfish.
Alright, alright. I got stung. I got stung bad. I couldn't stand. I couldn't walk.
We were two miles from the house. We were scared and alone. We didn't think we could make it.
I was in too much pain.
JoeyAnd I was tired from digging a huge hole!
And then Joey remembered something...
JoeyI'd seen this thing on The Discovery Channel.
Wait a minute, I saw that, on The Discovery Channel. About jellyfish, and how if you... Eww! You peed on yourself?
Eww!
You can't say that! You don't know! I thought I was going to pass out from the pain. Anyway, I tried, but I couldn't...bend that way. So...
[turning to the guys] Eww!
JoeyYeah that's right. I stepped up! She's my friend and she needed help. And if I have to I'd pee on any one of you. Only, I couldn't... I got the stage fright. I wanted to help, but there was just too much pressure. So, so I turned to Chandler.
[moans] Joey kept screaming at me. Do it now, do it, do it, do it, do it now! Sometimes late at night I can still hear the screaming.
Joey[chuckles] That's cause sometimes I scream it through my wall just to freak you out.
Maybe there's someone you can talk to.
Yeah like who? There's no group for people like us.
Wow, they really got you guys, your T.V., the chairs...
Yeah. Your microwave, the stereo...
JoeyAw, man! He took the five of spades! [looks through deck] Oh no, no, here it is.
Joey[reffering to the guy that just robbed them] You know what I'm going to do next time I see that guy?
Bend over?!
[Chandler rips his shirt on the Joey's entertainment center]
Wow,that ripped.
[Joey looks slightly annoyed]
That ripped real nice.
JoeyWho many times do I have to tell you; you turn and slide? You know? Turn and slide.
But you don't turn and slide, you throw it out! I'm tired of having to get a tetanus shot every time I get dressed.
JoeyWell, we're not throwing it out. I built this thing with my own hands.
Alright how 'bout we. How 'bout we sell it?
Chandler BingMatthew Perry · 336 quotes
Ross GellerDavid Schwimmer · 265 quotes
Rachel GreenJennifer Aniston · 226 quotes
Monica GellerCourteney Cox · 221 quotes
Phoebe BuffayLisa Kudrow · 210 quotes
Judy GellerChristina Pickles · 7 quotes
GuntherJames Michael Tyler · 6 quotes
MikePaul Rudd · 6 quotes
AmyChristina Applegate · 5 quotes
CharlieAisha Tyler · 5 quotes
GDr. Green4 quotes
ParkerAlec Baldwin · 4 quotes
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