[S8E19] The One With Joey's Interview
Joey prepares for an interview with Shelley, a journalist from Soap Opera Digest, but he's afraid that he will mess up his interview again like he did last time. So he enlists his friends to sit nearby and make sure that his interview goes well.
[S8E19] The One With Joey's Interview
The interview goes surprisingly well almost to the end. Unfortunately Joey slips up with his final question when he says he doesn't watch soaps because he has a life, and this can be considered disrespectful to the magazine readers.
A few weeks later when Ross and Rachel are reading the interview in Soap Opera Digest, the piece about not watching soap operas was not published. They ask Joey who says he called Shelley to tell her he was joking and she said it would be alright. When questioned by Monica, Joey admits to sleeping with his interviewer "a bit".
Joey prepares for an interview with Soap Opera Digest, although he's afraid of appearing stupid, so he enlists his friends to make sure things go well. During the interview, he reminisces about his past acting experiences, what he does in his spare time, eating and exercising right, his friends, his homosexual tendencies, and his romantic life.
Monica's restaurant gets a bad review in the Post. After confronting the critic who wrote it, she decides to join a cooking class, with Joey in tow. Ross goes on a date with a clerk from a baby store, making Rachel jealous. Chandler prepares for a job interview after Phoebe tells him that he makes a bad first impression.
Behind the scenes, the commitment to Matlock was becoming a little much for the show's star Andy Griffith. The show was switching networks from NBC to ABC, and they wanted him to do these two-hour movies that would require even more of his time. In an interview with the Television Academy Foundation, Griffith said his agent had told him to simply refuse to do any of it.
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