I saw what you did there.
And she was a porn star, using Phoebe’s name.
Buffay the Vampire Layer being one of her greatest hits. And didn’t Phoebe also start charging people for “Phoebe’s” architect?
So we have for Phoebe’s jobs so far:
Masseuse
Bell Ringer
Sales Rep
Caterer
Telemarketer
Chandler’s Assistant
Musician (paid?)
Wikipedia says she made sombreros and worked as a phone sex worker before. I think these were mentioned in passing, and I sort of remember the phone sex one, but when did she ever say she made sombreros?
Had things been a little different she would have been a stock broker (or something like that, I can’t recall the exact job). Her grandmother (I think) had a taxi-cab that Phoebe took on personal trips, but I’m not sure if she ever worked as a cabdriver. She was also a psychic, not sure if she did that professionally.
Don’t forget mugger. Phoebe mugged Ross when they were teenagers before they were Friends.
Joey was also a waiter in Monica’s restaurant (where they all hated Monica). I know, when you say “actor” the “also waiter” is understood.
ETA: Joey was also an assistant at Chandler’s company. He was playing a role of “office worker” (but actually working as an office worker).
Oh, man, I loved Friends so much. And the trivia-game episode is one of my all-time favorites.
I came in here just to mention that.
How many different ways did Monica sort her towels?
LOL.
“Go play with your toys while Santa, the Armadillo and I have a little chat in the kitchen… there’s a sentence I never expected to say.”
Phoebe was Joey’s manager for about 56 hours there, and really quite good at it. I don’t know if he ever paid her though. . .
ETA: And wasn’t Ross a museum curator before the professor job? I think he did himself in over a Thanksgiving leftover sandwich?*
And seriously, is anybody still eating the stuffing cold the following Monday? That’s just begging for food poisoning!
It’s perfectly fine if the stuffing has been properly cooled and refrigerated overnight. Especially if the stuffing is the dry enough to gag on kind. The sugar content and acidity of the cranberry sauce is pretty good protection against bacterial growth, but the turkey meat, gravy, and mashed potatoes are just as much a problem as the stuffing if not properly stored.
Back to the topic, are you talking about the time that Phoebe pretended to be Joey’s agent?
Yes, to Phoebe’s chagrin. But … the checks still come to Phoebe, in her name. So that’s some of her income, even if it’s not her job. Gotta work that somehow into the “Where do they get their money?” calculation.
No, actually Ross is shown to have a laptop in season eight or nine – he’s using it to create his profile on the alumni website of the college he and Chandler went to in the episode where an escalating prank war results in his pretending to be dead while Chandler and Monica host a memorial service for him (at which a gay fellow alum shows up solely to hit on Chandler, whom Ross has “outed” as part of the same prank war, and assumes Monica is a drag queen when she tells him that she and Chandler are together).
Ross: “Nobody cares that I’m dead?!”
Monica: “I look like a MAN?!”
Chandler: “Okay, ONE RIDICULOUS PROBLEM AT A TIME!”
Too much smoke machine in Buffay the Vampire Layer, if you ask me. I think her performance in Inspect Her Gadget was much more compelling.
Oh right… of course Ross would have a computer. He’s the nerdiest one! I can’t believe I forgot about that episode.
Which episode did Chandler mention Google?
I missed something in my initial Phoebe Career Tally. So the list, as it stands:
Masseuse
Bell Ringer
Sales Rep
Caterer
Telemarketer
Chandler’s Assistant
Musician
TV Extra
Assembly Line (?) Worker for Sombreros
Phone Sex Worker
Porn Star (paycheque only)
Agent for Joey (would she have gotten paid?)
Mugger
Prostitution is an iffy one; we don’t have actual confirmation, in passing or not, that she was actually one. She did say a pimp spit in her mouth, but she didn’t make a distinction on whether it was her pimp.
Which episode was Phoebe Chandler’s assistant? It must be earlier in the series, but I think I’d like to go re-watch that.
In one episode, Phoebe was fired from her job as a masseuse for having sex with a client, and I think she admitted that made her a whore.
Ross’ laptop also makes an appearance in Barbados, when he has his speech written on it, and Chandler open an e-mail containing the Anna Kournikova virus. Chander apparently keeps a computer somewhere, Joey mentions using it to register as a minister on some internet church so he could perform Chandler and Monica’s wedding (and to look up porn, which he can only find because it’s right there when you turn on the computer). Monica, Rachel, and Phoebe apparently don’t have computers, unless Monica just shares Chandler’s.
Well, she didn’t actually have sex with him. She liked one of her clients, so she did some feet flirting with him and then told him about her crush. They were kissing when her boss walked in on them and assumed the worst (turned out the guy was married, too. Poor Phoebe!)
Then on the way home after being fired she started offering massages to random people on the street, which led to the same misunderstanding with the police!
From The One with the Dirty Girl
Also, didn’t Joey finally land a semi-steady gig as a doctor on All My Children or something? (I also remember he had to fake having a foreskin in vying for a role, that I believe Phoebe helped make?.. ttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—umpp.)