# Friends Spin-Off / Sit-Com Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302 "2003-07-27T20:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/1 "2003-07-27T20:15:46Z")
After Friends ends, the Matt Leblanc character Joey is getting his own Spin-Off / Sit-Com Show. All I have to say is How? and Why?. Friends works because it is the 6 of them getting into each others business, or hooking up, or helping each other, or making fun of each other. It is the emsemble of the 6 that works. How? Why? does NBC think Joey alone can make a Sit-com Show work. I don’t get it Joey is the Stupideous Character I’ve seen on a Sit-Com Show in a long time. At least with Frazier NBC, waited a while before Kelsey Grammer got his show. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/2 "2003-07-27T20:20:29Z")
What I want to know is - Why _Joey_, and not Chandler? (because Chandler is married. Bastard) ---
**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/3 "2003-07-27T20:28:20Z")
Don’t worry. It won’t be around long. IMO, they all lucked into their current jobs, and as evidenced by their attempts at movie stardom, I think it’s inevitable that this project will fail as well. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/4 "2003-07-27T20:32:16Z")
? Whole Nine Yards was a very good film! ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/5 "2003-07-27T20:33:24Z")
As long as there are hotties in the supporting cast and the writing is up to par with **friends** , I’ll watch. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/6 "2003-07-27T20:49:36Z")
I think it should be an hour long drama with an insane Phoebe hunting down each cast member and the brave homicide detective that is trying to stop her brutal rampage. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/7 "2003-07-27T21:47:31Z")
Whatever happened to Ursula, the evil Phoebe? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/8 "2003-07-27T21:58:09Z")
Ursula was a character on “Mad About You,” not “Friends.” ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/9 "2003-07-27T22:40:52Z")
Ursula was Phoebe’s Evil Twin Sister on Friends. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/10 "2003-07-27T23:40:11Z")
What I want to know is how are they making a Joey spin off without Chandler, never mind the rest of them, but Joey was always going on about friendship, but now he wont have this best friend? Oh yea I’m buying that! ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/11 "2003-07-27T23:48:28Z")
Ursula was actually on Mad About You before she became a character on Friends, and for a while it was simultaneous. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/12 "2003-07-28T00:34:40Z")
I’ll watch the spin-off, but in my opinion, any show about Joey should have been called “How YOU doin?” ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/13 "2003-07-28T13:33:22Z")
Gee, I wonder what this tells us about who Rachel is going to end up with? Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/14 "2003-07-28T13:49:38Z")
You just know he’s going to be saddled with a smart-alecky nephew or foster daughter. Oy. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/15 "2003-07-28T14:07:44Z")
He does have 6 sassy sisters. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve had a dozen kids since we last saw them. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/16 "2003-07-28T14:29:17Z")
I can’t recall where I read it, it was a link off of [Fark.com](http://Fark.com)…but it said something to the fact of moving him out west to California possibly so it wouldn’t have the necessity for the other 5 (overpriced) Friends to be regulars. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/17 "2003-07-28T16:36:57Z")
I’m surprised Joey could be a New York actor for eight years and never appear on _Oz_ or one of the _Law & Order_ shows. He must be really lousy or something. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/18 "2003-07-28T16:57:59Z")
**Intaglio** : > [@](#): > > All I have to say is How? and Why?. Friends works because it is the 6 of them getting into each others business, or hooking up, or helping each other, or making fun of each other. It is the emsemble of the 6 that works. Right. So, obviously, a Joey sitcom would work differently. No problem there. > [@](#): > > does NBC think Joey alone can make a Sit-com Show work. I’m sure they don’t. I’m positive there will be other characters on the show and it won’t be Joey “alone.” > [@](#): > > At least with Frazier NBC, waited a while before Kelsey Grammer got his show. This is incorrect. _Cheers_ went off the air in spring of 1993, and _Frasier_ debuted the very next season, in fall of 1993. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/19 "2003-07-28T17:11:25Z")
I don’t remember the name of it, but Matt LeBlanc had a sitcom before Friends, it was a sort-of spin-off from Married with Children, but it didn’t last very long…I don’t even remember the name of it. Come to think of it, wasn’t Ross in a sitcom previously, I think he was Henry Winkler’s son or something? Or was I drinking WAAAAY too much back in the late 80’s/early 90’s? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302/20 "2003-07-28T17:48:28Z")
David Schwimmer appeared in **The Wonder Years** as the boyfriend/husband of the daughter. I’m not sure about any other roles. Courtney Cox, was of course, on **Family Ties** as Alex’s girlfriend, and Jennifer Aniston played the sister on the blessedly short lived \*\*Ferris Beuller \*\* TV show. Not sure about Matthew Perry. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-spin-off-sit-com-show/191302.md?page=2)