Dr. Dolly Alderton

The buffets or the Herbiales first?

I love the private life of Joey Tribbiani.

I love that line when Chandler goes and knocks on the door of Joey's grandma's house because he wants to figure out which sister he got off with.

And Joey's just there because his nana is doing his laundry.

Yeah.

It's just like, oh yeah, Joey.

It's a bit like, oh yeah, Ross is going off to privately, you know, father Ben when we don't see him.

We only see the friends when they're together, really.

And meanwhile, Joey's been going off to his nana's house to get his laundry done.

I think so much of it is not so much big family.

I think there aren't that many references to sort of like being dragged up in a big family within Joey's whole schema.

But I do think that there's a lot of being the only boy of many sisters, I think is a fascinating dynamic.

And it's because I think you are the little prince.

A friend of mine, Lee, he's got three daughters and a little boy at the end.

And it's like so exciting to watch

a little Joey Tribbiani come into the world because he's this beautiful little boy he's only two now and all of his sisters they just want to like take turns holding him and take turns dressing him up and take turns you know being like he's like a living baby doll to them I think I find that such a gorgeous energy and like I just never I've never known a man with a load of sisters who I didn't adore you know yeah me neither actually

And it's just like, I think it makes it work so much better, the Joey storyline, that like, I remember listening to a very clever interview with Joey, with rather Matt LeBlanc, saying he was afraid that he was going to be written out of the show early doors because he thought that his character was the thinnest written.

And that what was going to happen was that they would write a storyline where he shagged one of the girls and then he would get written out because that was sort of like the possibilities would have come to their natural conclusion.

And so he sort of pitched early on.

The joke is this guy shags every woman in New York City except these three girls because they're his sisters.