37 Times Joey From "Friends" Was A Goddamn Gem

    "Custard? Good. Jam? Good. Meat? Good."

    We recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us Joey's best moment on Friends. Here are the brilliant responses.

    1. When Joey wrote a recommendation letter for Chandler and Monica to send to an adoption agency, but he used a thesaurus on every word to sound smart — which is why he signed the letter "Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani."

    Monica says, "What was this sentence originally," Joey says, "Oh, they are warm, nice people with big hearts," and Chandler says, "And that became, 'They are humid, prepossessing homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps"

    2. When he got back at Chandler for stealing the chair cushions by wearing everything Chandler owned.

    Joey says, "Look at me, I'm Chandler, could I BE wearing any more clothes, maybe if I wasn't going commando, I'll tell ya, it's hot with all this stuff on, I better not do any, I don't know, lunges" and he lunges

    3. When Joey explained what a "moo point" is.

    Joey says, "It's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter, it's moo"

    4. And then he got mad at Rachel for not taking his advice.

    Joey says, "Fine, take their advice, no one ever listens to me, when the package is this pretty, no one cares what's inside"

    5. When he read Little Women for the first time, and ultimately put it in the freezer because that's what he did with The Shining when it got too scary.

    Rachel says, "Beth dies," Joey says, "Beth—Beth dies, is that true, if I keep reading, is Beth gonna die," and then later Joey says, "Beth is really, really sick"

    6. When he and Ross got to the bottom of why Rachel made half an English trifle and half a shepherd's pie.

    Ross says, "Oh my god, the pages are stuck together" and Joey yells, "Chandler"

    7. But then Joey really liked the dessert.

    Joey says, "I like it," Ross says, "Are you kidding," and Joey says, "What's not to like, custard good, jam good meat good"

    8. When he checked his calendar for the day Ross was planning to get married.

    Joey says, "Hey, that's the day after I start menstruating," pauses, then says, "This isn't mine"

    9. When he entered and exited Monica's apartment singing and dancing and gave his friends zero context.

    Joey dances and says, "Oh mommy, oh daddy, I am a big ole baddy, oh mommy, oh daddy, I am a big ole baddy"

    10. When he didn't want to wear a bowtie at Monica's 30th birthday party.

    Chandler says, "Would you put that back on, Monica's gonna be here any minute," Joey says, "But it hurts my Joey's Apple," and Chandler says, "Okay, for the last time, it's not named after each individual man"

    11. When Rachel asked him if he would rather give up sex or food.

    Joey says, "Food, no sex, food, sex, food, sex, I don't know, oh god, I want both, I want — I want girls on bread"

    12. When he injured Ross multiple times in one conversation and apologized using air quotes because he didn't know what they meant.

    Joey opens the door on Ross's hand, Ross looks at him angrily, and Joey does air quotes and says, "Oops"

    13. When Rachel left her dad ranting on the phone and Joey picked it up.

    Joey picks up the phone on the counter, listens, and says, "Hey, I do too think about the consequences of my decisions," then after he's hung up Joey says, "Stupid guy on my phone."

    14. When Joey gave Chandler a way to remember what day Thursday is.

    Joey says, "Monday, one day, Tuesday, two day, Wednesday, when, huh, what day, Thursday, the third day"

    15. When everyone was making fun of Rachel for her thing about touching eyes and Joey was too enthusiastic.

    Monica says, "Hey Rach, you know that great song, um, 'Me, Myself, and I" and touches her eye, Joey says "Me too, me too, me too" and touches his eye, then in pain he says, "I got too excited"

    16. When Joey nailed Wheel of Fortune.

    Joey says, "This guy's so stupid, it's Count Rushmore," later Chandler says, "Oh, and by the way, there is no Count Rushmore," and Joey says, "Yeah, then who's the guy that painted the faces on the mountain"

    17. When he promised Monica he'd finish the turkey on Thanksgiving.

    Monica asks, "You're telling me you can eat almost an entire turkey in one sitting," and Joey says, "That's right, I'm a Tribbiani, we may not be great thinkers or world leaders, we don't read at lot or run very fast – but dammit we can eat"

    18. When Joey had a hernia.

    Joey looks at his weights and says, "Damn you 15s"

    19. When he was on Pyramid.

    The word is cream, Joey's partner says, "It's white" and Joey says, "Paper, snow, a ghost"

    20. When he broke his fridge and tried to get his friends to split the cost of a new one with him, so he pushed Ross into the broken one.

    Joey pushes Ross into the fridge, Ross says, "What the hell are you doing," and Joey says, "What the hell am I doing, you just broke my fridge"

    21. When he met his identical hand twin.

    Joey says, "And I wrote a song for us, this hand is your hand, this hand is my hand, oh wait that's your hand, no wait it's my hand"

    22. When Phoebe tried to teach him some French.

    Phoebe says, "Je m'appelle Claude," Joey says, "Je de coup plau," then Phoebe says, "Oh mon dieu" and Joey says, "Oh de foof"

    23. When Joey covered for Monica and Chandler when Rachel found men's underwear in the apartment.

    24. When everyone else had to leave Phoebe's birthday dinner and the food arrived.

    Joey says, "Dinner for six for one, well, you boys are about to see something really special"

    25. When Monica asked him what he'd do if he were omnipotent for a day and he said he'd probably kill himself.

    Joey says, "Hey, if Little Joey's dead, then I got no reason to live, you know," Ross says, "Joey, OMnipotent," and Joey asks, "You are"

    26. When he needed to look 19 for an audition.

    Joey says, "So you're playing a little PlayStation, huh, that's whack, PlayStation is whack, sup with the whack PlayStation sup"

    27. When Ross was on the phone outside and Joey was sure he was smiling, so Joey tried to prove you could tell if someone was smiling or frowning while they were turned around.

    Joey says, "Smile, frown, smile, frown" and Ross turns around and looks at him confused

    28. When he talked to Phoebe about his date eating some of his fries.

    Joey yells, "Joey doesn't share food"

    29. But then he ate all of his date's chocolate dessert when she went out for a call.

    His date comes back and Joey's mouth is covered in chocolate after eating her whole dessert, and he says, "I'm not even sorry"

    30. When Rachel broke his chair, Rosita.

    Rachel says, "Okay, come on, Joey, I'll buy you a new one, alright, we'll go down to the store right now and we'll get you a new chair," and Joey says, "She's not even cold yet"

    31. When he named all the states.

    Joey says, "Say hello to the new champ of Chandler's dumb states game," Ross says, "Wow, how many you got," and Joey says, "56"

    32. When he starred in a Japanese commercial.

    Joey, in his ad, says, "Ichiban, lipstick for men"

    33. When Rachel lived in his room and hated the singing neighbor, but Joey loved him and they sang together when Joey moved back.

    The neighbor says to Rachel, "Oh, come on, morning's here," and later in the apartment Joey says, "Are you kidding, I love that guy, morning's here, morning is here," and then Joey and the neighbor sing together, "The sky's clear, the morning's here"

    34. When Joey came across Chandler and Rachel eating cheesecake off the floor, and he pulled a fork out of his jacket.

    Joey walks up, sits down, pulls a fork out of his jacket and says, "Alright, what're we having" and starts eating some cheesecake

    35. When Joey had a science question for Ross.

    Joey says, "If the homo sapiens were in fact HOMO sapiens, alright, is that why they're extinct," Ross says, Joey, homo sapiens are people," and Joey says, "Hey, I'm not judging"

    36. When he figured out Chandler and Monica were together.

    Monica says, "Hey Rach, can I borrow your eyelash curler, I think I lost mine" and Joey's eyes go so wide

    37. And finally, when Joey, Chandler, and Ross went on a ride-along and they heard what sounded like a gun shot.

    Joey lunges over Ross in the police car, later Ross says, "Joey, with no regard for his own safety, throws himself on me," then later Joey says, "I wasn't trying to save Ross, okay, my sandwich was next to Ross, alright, I was trying to save my sandwich"