When Joey had his priorities in line after Ross said Rachel's name at his wedding to Emily:
"Hey, no matter what happens with Ross and Emily, we still get cake, right?"
On simple logic:
"Well, the fridge broke, so I had to eat everything."
After Monica asks him if he's going finish a whole Thanksgiving turkey by himself:
"That's right, 'cause I'm a Tribbiani, and this is what we do. We may not be great thinkers or world leaders, we don't read a lot or run very fast, but d***it we can eat!"
On his diet:
"I'm curvy and I like it!"
Helping out a friend:
Ross: "Do you have a minute? I'd like to talk with you about something I'm really uncomfortable talking about."
Joey: "Sure. How about, uh, you showering with your mom?"
Ross: "I actually had a topic in mind."
On encouraging Ross to keep going after Rachel:
"You can't just give up! Is that what a dinosaur would do?"
At least he's trying to make it relatable.
Talking about Ross moving into their apartment:
"Come on, Chandler, Ross is our friend. He needs us right now, so why don't you be a grown up and come and watch some TV in the fort!"
Trying to prove that he can play a much younger character:
"'Sup with the whack PlayStation 'sup!"
Well, it was the '90s...
Pretending to be a doctor while really checking out a guy for Phoebe:
Joey: "Date of birth?"
Cliff (patient): "November 16th, 1968."
Joey: "Age?"
Cliff: "Can’t you figure that out based on my date of birth?"
Joey: "I’m a doctor Cliff, not a mathematician."
When Joey was on a game show:
Gene: "You put this in your coffee."
Joey: "A spoon! Your hands! Your face!"
Gene: "It's white."
Joey: "Paper! Snow! A ghost!"
The answer was cream.
After Rachel hung up the phone:
"You hung up on the pizza place? I don't hang up on your friends."
Joey making some sound points while referring to Rachel's assistant, Tag:
Joey: "If he doesn't like you, then this is all just a moo point."
Rachel: "A moo point?"
Joey: "Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter. It's 'moo.'"
On his dedication to finishing the Thanksgiving meal:
Joey: "All right where's that turkey?"
Phoebe: "Joey, those are my maternity pants!"
Joey: "No, no! These are my Thanksgiving pants!"
Joey helping Ross fill out a patient form at the hospital:
"Name? No, I know, 'Ross,' but what's it short for? You know, like Rossel? Rostipher?"
You never know with names nowadays.
When he tries to train an actor to play his twin, and he keeps getting it wrong:
"Pizza! We like pizza!"
Chandler telling him that the girl in their new house is a ghost:
"That's not funny. You know I'm afraid of little-girl ghosts."
Joey is a geography whiz:
Chandler: "Hey Joey, where do Dutch people come from?"
Joey: "Uh... well the Pennsylvania Dutch come from Pennsylvania."
Chandler: "And the other Dutch come from somewhere near the Netherlands right?"
Joey: "Nice try, see the Netherlands is this make believe place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from."
Telling Chandler how he feels about Rachel moving out:
"This is good for me, y'know, I like being on my own. I'm better off this way. I'm a lone wolf. A loner. Alone. All alone. Forever..... What's a wolf gotta do to get a hug around here?!"
After Chandler tells Janice he's moving to Yemen instead of breaking up with her.
Chandler: " I’m only going to pretend I’m moving to Yemen, it’s the only way I can get rid of her."
Joey: "Ohhhh, good one! And 'Yemen' that actually sounds like a real country."
Joey complaining about wearing his tie:
Joey: "But it hurts my Joey's apple."
Chandler: "Okay, for the last time. It's not named for each individual man."
When Joey enters into philosophical discussions:
Monica: "Hey, Joey, what would you do if you were omnipotent?"
Joey: "Probably kill myself!"
Monica: "Excuse me?"
Joey: "Hey, if Little Joey's dead, then I got no reason to live!"
Joey trying to understand why Rachel needs to baby-proof their apartment:
"Baby-proofing? Why is it such a big deal now? You know, when I was a kid, it was, 'Whoops, Joey fell down the stairs!' or 'Whoops, Joey electrocuted himself again!'"
Telling the story of how he offered to pee on Monica after she got a jellyfish sting:
"That's right, I stepped up! She's my friend and she needed help! If I had to, I'd pee on any one of you!"
What a true friend.
Joey explaining his eating policies:
"I don't like it when people take food off my plate, ok?"
Seems fair.
Eating Rachel's dessert/meat dish trifle:
"What’s not to like? Custard – good. Jam – good. Meat – good!"
Joey talks about living alone:
"I thought it'd be great, you know? have some time alone with my thoughts... turns out, I don't have as many thoughts as you'd think."
Joey doing his best to learn French—and failing:
"Shah blue blah! Me lah peeh! Ombrah!"
And the line we will associate with Joey always and forever:
"How YOU doin'?"
See also: The best of Phoebe Buffay in song.
30 Joey quotes that are better than "How you doin'?"
In honor of Matt LeBlanc's 52nd birthday
TV Friends
Joey is one of the most beloved characters from 'Friends.' Whether he's defending his food, making a particularly clueless remark, or merely musing about pizza, he is downright relatable. Take a trip down memory lane and chuckle at some of Joey's most memorable quotes through the seasons.