Joey - Season 1 (2004)

Joey wants to join Michael's book club so he can flirt with some of hot members. Gina wants to try hairdressing for celebrities.

Joey is an understudy in three different plays. The lead actor from each play, cannot go on, Joey has to figure a way to be in all three plays when they're all on at the same time, in different locations.

When Michael gets sick, Gina takes care of him. This bothers Joey too, because now his sister is around all the time. Joey meets the same actor at his auditions over and over again but Joey doesn't realize is that this guys screws him, so that Joey doesn't get the parts.

Alex's husband visits, and is a little jealous when he finds out Alex is friends with Joey. After they meet, her husband is convinced that Joey's no threat to his relationship with Alex.

Joey is excited when Gina tells she expects a visit from her New York friend Donna Di Gregorio, the only one who impressed Joey too much to seduce her as a teenager, hot and just dumb enough. Michael is surprised to see on old videos he was talented for baseball at age five, but Gina decided to pull him out of Little League as physically too dangerous, thus setting him on the course to life-long nerdiness as his talent is meanwhile totally gone. The Tribbianis soon find out Donna's marriage has recently gone to the dogs, but Gina makes Joey promise to leave her alone....

Gina tells Joey Donna's husband Ron wants her back, but she and Michael advise him to fight now Ron isn't there yet. Donna promises Joey a week to prove himself the better choice by arranging a romantic week in a Santa Barbara hotel recommended by Gina who was happy there- with Michael. Alex wouldn't believe the Tribbiani boys she gets off lightly even with traffic fines because of her looks, but Howard giving her for free a broken robot he wouldn't sell for $30 to sweet Michael confirms she's a hot girl, a morale booster and a new world of perks... When Ron turns up ...

To get an audition for a new show, Joey pretends he went to college with one of the producers.

Joey looks forward to being a judge on the Miss Southwestern USA beauty pageant in Las Vegas, asked by Bobie instead of Corbin Bernsen. Alex finds it degrading but is convinced to join by one of the perks, Céline Dion concert tickets. Gina was eager to come, believed they'd have to force Michael but is delighted when her nerdy son turns out to be a casino regular under the alias Dr. Rodriguez, using a mathematical blackjack system. Joey sleeps with a beauty before realizing she's finalist Miss Laughlin, Gina encourages his solution: do them all, but there is a teen ...

Joey finds it hard to get in the Christmas spirit due to the Californian heat, while Gina even stopped buying a tree when Michael lost his naive Christmas faith- at age three. Joey is in a new series, Powder Deep, where the rest of the cast is so green that he is the 'veteran' playing a patriarch in the snowy North, but he manages to upset the utterly obsessive producer Lauren Beck, so after spilling the beans on the next episode at a press conference he fears the missing last page of the new script probably means his character captain Powder's death in a bomb ...

When Alex delights in Gina's home-made lasagna, she's taught to cook it for her husband, but later claims to have improved it with a secret ingredient- a duel is declared, to be jury-tasted by eager Joey and reluctant Michael. Joey ignores a warning from producer-director Lauren Beck not to get romantically involved with his show daughter-performer Katie, who strikes jealously when she erroneously thinks Joey hits on Lauren. Joey can't talk her over, asks his agent Bobbie, but she makes it even worse... Meanwhile the home-front forced Michael to pick from the equally ...

Joey can't persuade Laura to give him more then two tickets for his TV series' Deep Powder's fancy premiere, while he already promised to take the whole home gang along, so he fixes the ladies up with dates from the production team: Alex gets an older lesbian, Gina his otherwise unknown manager Martin, who didn't even want to come, but turns out to be Laura's ex and nightmare. Only Michael gets Joey's own guest ticket, but loses interest in a sexy girl, who clearly made a pass at him, when he spots actor Brent Spiner, who played his SciFi idol, Data (the android from ...

When Bobbie finds Joey distracted, she recommends hiring a personal assistant, even though her PA, gay MBA Jason, is mainly used as an amusing buffoon. A combination of practical sense, understanding Joey's infantile mind and devoted loyalty clearly makes experienced Glen from Minnesota the obvious best choice. Life with a smart dogsbody proves much easier, until Glen dates Gina, who never has such a god date either... Meanwhile Alex tries to mediate between Michael and fellow nerd Seth Tobin, who wants to file alone a patent for a rocket protection substance they ...

Joey and the gang get stuck in a traffic jam on his way to guest star on the Tonight Show.

Joey flirts with a reporter in order for her to give him a good review in People Magazine. But he forgot that it's Valentines Day, so she thinks he's being serious.

Michael tries trash-talk believing he outclasses 'old' Uncle Joey in push-ups and chin-ups, only to find the sissy versions Gina invented to make him feel good don't count in the least... Joey is both nominated for an award for a scene he played as Dr. Drake Ramore, and the celebrity presenter for another of the same network's annual awards. Gina is proud to come, like Alex, but feels must uneasy wearing a glamor gown. Joey is so happy when he finally gets nominee Mariska Cechritapovich's Chechen name right, that he says it twice, which Mariska mistakes for the ...

Gina is meanly jealous, Joey eager about a visit from their spoiled younger sister Mary Teresa, Michael can't even remember her. Foxy tropical fish clerk Joelle brings a black light for his aquarium home, obviously interested in Michael, but he won't let her into his room, clearly oblivious she's attracted; Joey refuses to tip him as pressure has always back-fired. The black-light proves the diamond engagement ring Mary Teresa got from her fiancé, water-bed salesman Walter, is fake, to Gina's delight, but kid sister decides to move in and live at Joey's expense. She ...

The Tribbiani boys are intrigued by a flow of beautiful girls to a new neighbor, delighted to find they're clients of Sara, a sexy photographer. Joey immediately decides to seduce her, but finds her as suave and not bent on commitment as himself. They go out, she even asks him and shares his New York taste, notably where it counts: Italian food. Joey likes her so much that he even becomes monogamous till their next date, again smoothly asked by Sara, then realizes he forgot to cancel a stripper-date, T-something (actually Charlene), and sends wisely reluctant Michael ...

Gina feels Joey's puppy-sweet assistant Glen isn't her kind of boy-friend, but instead of admitting he's too boring for her, the yellow bitch pretends the problem is him not getting on with Michael. So Glen takes the juvenile genius to Disneyland, only... Joey and Sara agreed to see other people, but he's still feeling jealous. Alex and her husband Eric Garrett are on trial-separation, meaning he moved temporarily to one of the flats next door. Joey laughed at Alex spying on Eric and a girl with binoculars, until she spots Sara on a date with Rick despite Joey's ...

Just when Joey decides to put aside his playboy ways, so he can be committed to Sara, Carmen Electra makes a guest appearance on his show. Alex asks for Gina's help in getting revenge on Eric for cheating on her.

The Tribbianis are pleasantly surprised Michael finally seems to get serious with a girl-friend, but when Gina manages to be presented finds Lorraine is her age, and has a daughter, Tanya, his age, as well as... Joey gets Bobbie to intercede with her brother at Newsweek to get his lover Sara a better job as photographer- but it's in Washington, D.C. ... Alex is a wreck because of her divorce, Howard's overtures don't help, nor Gina's crazy ideas.

Joey didn't get the lines for a Deep Powder promotion shot, and finds on air it's actually a viewer vote to decide whether his, Gunnar's or Bodie's character will die. Yet he worries more about handling Sara who asked him to live together. Once the couple realize neither is really ready for that, she makes a drastic choice... While Alex is returning to the dating scene, Michael accepts Joey's offer to ask Bobbie to help him and his mate Seth, who got them both removed from the ticket-line for the latest Star Wars movie, to get into a professional screening, but ...