Friends Spinoff Joey Randomly Releases 8 Never-Before-Seen Episodes of the Short-Lived Series on YouTube

Friends fans, this is large quality for you. Listen up. Matt LeBlanc’s classical spinoff bid Joey has conscionable released a whopping eight unaired episodes — implicit 20 years aft the amusement was cancelled.

The authoritative Friends Instagram relationship precocious announced the occurrence drop. “East oregon westbound coast, Joey is still, well, Joey. Did you cognize that the last 8 episodes of Joey Season 2 ne'er aired successful the U.S.?” the relationship wrote alongside a video with clips from the series. “Now, 21 years later, drawback the remaining episodes exclusively connected the #FRIENDS YouTube channel!”

Friends aired for 10 seasons that spanned 1994 to 2004. Alongside LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, and Matthew Perry starred. The twelvemonth the amusement went disconnected the air, Joey premiered connected NBC.

Joey specifically followed LeBlanc’s Joey Tribbiani arsenic helium tried his manus astatine an acting vocation successful Los Angeles. The amusement starred Paulo Costanzo, Drea de Matteo, Andrea Anders, and Jennifer Coolidge alongside LeBlanc. They made lone 2 seasons of the show, which was cancelled successful 2006.

In a 2012 interrogation with The Guardian, LeBlanc opened up astir the analyzable feelings helium had astir the amusement and wherever his quality went. “I thought that it was a bully show. I conscionable deliberation that we were telling stories that emasculated the character,” helium explained to the outlet. “They wrote a feline who became precise doubtful of himself successful this caller place, successful Hollywood, nary friends, can't conscionable girls – and that's not who Joey was. He was always, always, always, the consummate optimist. Always. And that's not who they wrote. That was precise frustrating for me."

That said, his enactment connected Friends acceptable him up for occurrence beyond Joey. “Friends was an acquisition successful intelligent comedic banter; successful intelligent vernacular. It was an acquisition successful country study,” helium told The Guardian. “It was an acquisition successful radical dynamic. I came retired of determination with a masters grade successful comedy."

The 8 unseen episodes of Joey are disposable to ticker connected the Friends YouTube Channel but the amusement is not presently disposable connected streaming.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.