Friends: Why Joey Was The Only Friend Who Got A Spinoff

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Friends gave proper closure to its main characters in its final season, but Joey’s future was left somewhat open, and it was addressed in the spinoff series Joey – but why was he the only one in the group to get his own TV show? Although the 1990s saw a variety of sitcoms that went on to become classics, few have had the same impact as Friends. Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, Friends premiered on NBC in 1994 and lived on for a total of 10 seasons, coming to an end in 2004. Friends left the audience with a bunch of memorable jokes, moments, and characters, as well as with a spinoff series that, sadly, wasn’t as successful as the original series.

Friends took viewers to New York City to meet a group of six young adults who did their best every day to balance their social, personal, and professional lives, all while dealing with everything adulthood threw their way. Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers saw Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Ross go from struggling young adults trying to find their path in life, to them finally settling down and forming their own families… except for Joey (Matt LeBlanc). Joey Tribbiani was the womanizer of the group and also the stereotypical dim-witted character with a good heart who always looked after his friends, and while he went through different situations (from hilarious to more serious ones) throughout Friends, by the end of the series he hadn’t changed much.

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By the end of Friends, Monica and Chandler were moving to their own house with their newborn twins, Rachel and Ross got back together (and they already had a daughter together), and Phoebe married Mike (Paul Rudd), with whom