The Show Friends Character Types

The show Friends was a sitcom that ran on NBC from 1994-2004 and it featured its main cast of six friends living in New York. The shows main characters, Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay, Ross Geller, Chandler Bing, and Joey Tribbiani, all encompassed a different character type and were well known for being these characters. T.V. sitcoms tend to include some or all of the typical character types we are used to seeing. There are eight character types that can be present in a sitcom, which include, the logical smartypants, the love-able loser, the neurotic, the dummy, the bitch/ bastard, the womanizer/ man-eater, the princess/ prince, and the person that is in their own universe. One episode of Friends, that is successful in showcasing …show more content…
Joey is someone who embodies more than one character type in this episode, the role of the womanizer but also the role of the dummy. Joey is portrayed as the womanizer throughout the series, but in this particular episode we see Joey be the womanizer when he starts flirting with a Dutch woman who stops to watch the group play football. The womanizer is someone that is shallow, attractive, arrogant, horny, and smooth. Joey is an attractive character who has had many relationships and as soon as Joey sees the Dutch woman his horny nature comes out when he immediately forgets about the football game and starts to flirt with the woman. Joey then proceeds to be arrogant when he says he will 'let' Chandler have the Dutch woman, with the clear understanding that if Joey was involved the Dutch woman would not agree to go out with Chandler. The arrogance continues when Chandler rips Joey's jersey and Joey decides that he will ask the Dutch woman out, showcasing how confident he is in his ability to be smooth. However, being a womanizer is not the only character type that Joey embodies, he is also the dummy. The dummy is obviously not very bright and is also gullible, oblivious, and genuine. This episode does not have Joey be the dummy as he is most of the time, but he is shown to be the dummy when Chandler asks where do Dutch people come from. When Chandler offers 'they come from around the Netherlands, right' Joey's dumb response is to think Chandler is tricking him and saying that the Netherlands are 'this imaginary place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from;' obviously confusing it with Neverland and showcasing how he's the Dummy of the