America's Joey

    The television series "Friends" sparked all of America with laughter, lasting 10 seasons long. What's been discovered about the show is that all six characters, Chandler, Rachel, Phoebe, Ross, Monica, and Joey are that they are perceiving what is called "White America". The writer is basically generalizing that there is six types of people in "White America", three kinds of women and men. The writer has put them into television characters and a comical script to make white people ranging from 27-35 feel better about there lives or even look to that particular show for answers. That is precisely what "White America" has done, and has made the show a hit sensation, still airing on television earning each character one million dollars an episode.

      This blog is devoted to "Joey Tribbiani" a character in the show played by Matt Leblanc. Joey was given the societal role of the good looking idiot, his talents were soap acting and getting almost any woman he desired. He depicted most white women's dream man, Italian, good looking, and knew exactly what to say. Anyone familiar with the show knew his effective pick-up line and catch phrase, "How you doin'?". In most of the episodes he shows very little real emotion for women, not like Ross who wore his emotions on his sleeve. The writer only gives Joey real emotion for women about twice in the whole series and that's what makes him Joey. He also gives the the impression that the societal Joey cannot be be handsome and intelligent as if the two do not go hand and hand. In season 10 episode 13 Joey decides to learn french for an important acting part he wanted, so he decides to have Phoebe help him. Phoebe desperately trying to help tells him to repeat simple phrases such as "je m'appelle Claude", Joey repeats the phrase saying complete non-sense not even close to what she was saying. The episode left America in tears laughing but the message is repeating that you cannot be handsome and also be smart, and this societal man is presented though "Joey Tribbiani".