7.8/10393 votesLoading...#1 - Joey and the Premiere
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/2005
Unable to decide who to take to the premiere of Deep Powder, Joey struggles to find tickets for Gina, Michael and Alex. Michael meets a girl and Brent Spiner and must choose who to leave with. Gina's date is Lauren's ex-boyfriend. Alex's date is a lesbian. Joey and Lauren kiss.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Matt Hubbard
7.7/10392 votesLoading...#2 - Joey and the Plot Twist
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/2004
Joey meets Deep Powder's executive producer, Lauren Beck. Joey worries that he may be fired after giving away a plot twist at a press conference. Alex, Gina and Michael decorate the apartment for Joey for Christmas.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Craig DiGregorio
7.7/10321 votesLoading...#3 - Joey and the Tijuana Trip
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/2005
After Michael and Abby break up, Joey takes him to Tijuana to help him get over it. Alex and Gina want to have some fun and go to a night club.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Robert Carlock
7.6/10342 votesLoading...#4 - Joey and the Moving In
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/2005
After asking Sara to move in with him, Joey freaks out. Sara freaks out too, and leaves without saying goodbye. Joey is heartbroken. On her first date in a long time, Alex accidentally offers sex to the guy, and Joey gets rid of him. While doing shots in Joey's bedroom and commiserating about the sad state of their love lives, Alex and Joey kiss! Meanwhile, Bobbie sets herself up with Michael at a Star Wars preview. When Gina confronts Bobbie about being attracted to Michael, Bobbie offers her a job.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: N/A
7.5/10388 votesLoading...#5 - Joey and the Big Audition
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/2004
A discouraged Joey is just looking for an audition for a good show. At Alex's Northwestern alumni party, he's mistaken for a fellow alumni, and introduced to the Northwestern Mafia. They help him get an audition for a show called Deep Powder, described as "Baywatch on skis." Joey's a little depressed that he's auditioning for the father of 2 teenage characters.
Director: Sheldon Epps
Writer: N/A
7.5/10396 votesLoading...#6 - Joey and the Taste Test
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/2005
Joey's relationship with costar Katie has consequences that could get him fired from the show, unless he manages to talk her out of her dressing room. Joey and Lauren acknowledge their feelings for one another. After Gina teaches Alex how to make lasagna, Joey is forced to judge a taste test.
Director: David Schwimmer
Writer: N/A
7.4/10364 votesLoading...#7 - Joey and the Tonight Show
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/2005
Bobbie has booked Joey on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. En route to the show, he's stuck in a major traffic jam. After giving the finger to a guy who cut him off, Michael is terrified after they are stuck next to the guy's car. Gina meets two guys, one in an El Camino and one in a Mercedes. Alex saves the day when she shows up with a motorcycle that gets Joey onstage and hugging Jay Leno just in time.
Director: Andrew D. Weyman
Writer: N/A
7.4/10339 votesLoading...#8 - Joey and the Neighbor
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/2005
When he investigates the hot women coming out of the apartment across the courtyard, Joey discovers beautiful new neighbor Sara, a photographer. She is surprisingly straightforward and asks Joey out. After his date with Sara goes well, Joey forgets to cancel his backup and she shows up at the complex. Sara lets Joey know that she'll be okay with him dating other women, but that she'll be seeing other men as well. Meanwhile, Eric is home for the first time in two months, and he and Alex are not getting along. They have a long talk and decide to separate.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: N/A
7.4/10350 votesLoading...#9 - Joey and the Temptation
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2005
Just as Joey and Sara become exclusive, Joey has to do a love scene with Carmen Electra for Deep Powder. Meanwhile, Alex struggles with the knowledge that Eric kissed another woman.
Director: Sheldon Epps
Writer: N/A
7.4/10299 votesLoading...#10 - Joey and the High School Friend
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/2005
Joey's best friend from high school is visiting. Gina has a big surprise for Michael.
Director: Sheldon Epps
Writer: Michael Borkow
7.4/10297 votesLoading...#11 - Joey and the Christmas Party
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/2005
Joey is having a holiday party at his old apartment. Bobbie is there with her boyfriend.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: N/A
7.4/10378 votesLoading...#12 - Joey and the Wedding
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 7/28/2006
Jimmy and Gina get married.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10363 votesLoading...#13 - Joey and the Road Trip
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/2004
Bobbie gets Joey a job as a celebrity judge for the Miss Southwestern U.S.A. pageant, taking place in Las Vegas. With Gina, Michael and Alex in tow, he heads for Vegas. While there, Alex reveals her Celine Dion obsession, Michael teaches Gina how to count cards, and Joey accidentally sleeps with a pageant contestant.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: N/A
7.3/10366 votesLoading...#14 - Joey and the Valentine's Date
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/2005
Joey accidentally makes a date with a reporter from "People" for Valentine's Day. He has the gang "accidentally" bump into him and his date at the restaurant to ruin the mood, but his plans backfire when she thinks he's taking their relationship to the next level. A drunken Alex shares some sexual secrets with Gina. After Joey sends Michael over to hit on a table of girls, Michael actually becomes "one of the girls."
Director: Andrew D. Weyman
Writer: Robert Carlock
7.3/10338 votesLoading...#15 - Joey and the Spying
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/2005
As Eric moves out of their apartment and into one across the courtyard, Alex plants herself up in Joey's room with a pair of binoculars as Eric invites another woman over. After Alex goes to bed, Joey sees Eric kissing the other woman. Meanwhile, Joey's got problems of his own: even though he and Sara are allowed to see other people, he's not because he's too crazy about Sara. Trying to make her jealous, Joey discovers that she likes him as much as he likes her, and they decide not to see other people.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Brian Buckner
7.2/10507 votesLoading...#16 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2004
Joey arrives in L.A. after his new agent offers him his choice of parts on two TV shows, and befriends his neighbor, Alex . His nephew, Michael, wants to move in with him at his new apartment, but Joey fears that this will upset his sister, Gina.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Scott Silveri, Shana Goldberg-Meehan
7.2/10353 votesLoading...#17 - Joey and the Assistant
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/2005
Following Bobbie's advice to get an assistant, Joey winds up with Glen, who couldn't be better. But when Glen starts dating Gina, his worlds colliding means problems for Joey. Eventually, Gina and Joey create some guidelines so that Glen can continue working for both of them. Meanwhile, Alex mediates Michael's dispute over a patent with his friend Seth.
Director: Andrew D. Weyman
Writer: N/A
7.2/10344 votesLoading...#18 - Joey and the Wrong Name
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/2005
Joey is nominated for a Daytime Soap Award for his death scene on Days of Our Lives. (For the record, he was stabbed.) He is also presenting the award for Best Supporting Actress, and a problem arises when his inability to correctly pronounce one of the nominees' names leads to his saying the wrong name entirely. Meanwhile, Gina struggles with the fact that she is dressed unlike herself for the event.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Matt Hubbard
7.2/10353 votesLoading...#19 - Joey and the Fancy Sister
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/2005
Joey and Gina's sister Mary Theresa is coming for a visit, and Gina can't stand her because she thinks the world revolves around her. When Mary Theresa discovers that her engagement ring is fake, she decides to call off the wedding and stay in California, leaving Joey and Gina to try to find a way to get her to return to New York. Meanwhile, Michael is oblivious of a girl's interest in him.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: N/A
7.2/10328 votesLoading...#20 - Joey and the Breakup
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/2005
Joey asks Bobbie to help Sara find work. Sara gets a job working for Newsweek in Washington DC. Trying to get her to stay, Joey tells Sara he loves her and asks her to move in. Meanwhile, Michael's new girlfriend, a 45-year-old woman, cheats on him with a 60-something professor. Alex is struggling to keep herself together.
Director: Andrew D. Weyman
Writer: N/A
7.2/10311 votesLoading...#21 - Joey and the House
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2005
Joey decides to buy a house now that he is bringing big bucks from the movie but can he convince the owner of the house that he should get it? Gina isn't very supportive of the idea. Alex helps Bobbie with a harassment case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10318 votesLoading...#22 - Joey and the Poker
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/2005
Alex teaches Texas hold 'em to Joe. The problem is that she makes up rules so he wins all the time. Thinking that he can play the game he accepts an invitation to play celebrity poker. Michael and Abby's relationship reaches new heights.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Matt Hubbard
7.1/10417 votesLoading...#23 - Joey and the Student
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2004
Gina is having trouble letting Michael live his own life, Joey and Gina try to teach him how to pick up women. Joey is irritated by the notes his super leaves him.
Director: Kevin S. Bright
Writer: Shana Goldberg-Meehan, Scott Silveri
7.1/10413 votesLoading...#24 - Joey and the Party
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/2004
Having trouble meeting people in L.A., Joey throws a party to get to know some of his neighbors. The one he'd like to get to know, Jake, is more interested in Gina. Alex pretends to be Michael's girlfriend so that he can one-up his friend.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Robert Carlock
7.1/10385 votesLoading...#25 - Joey and the Book Club
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/2004
Joey joins Michael's book club to meet pretty women. Michael is crazy about a girl in the book club, who's only interested in Joey. Looking to get her work noticed, Gina bargains with Alex.
Director: Andrew D. Weyman
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Joey
Every episode of Joey ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Joey!
The charming and still-single Joey has struck out on his own and moved to Hollywood, hoping to truly make it as an actor. After reuniting...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Joey and the Premiere" is the best rated episode of "Joey". It scored 7.8/10 based on 393 votes. Directed by Kevin S. Bright and written by Matt Hubbard, it aired on 1/12/2005. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Joey and the Plot Twist".