Sweeps Day 9: UPDATED!!Coax

I am – Hercules!!

The review below is from a Coaxial first-timer calling himself “Chanandaler Bong” and, sadly, doesn’t tell us much about this “Friends” spinoff we haven’t heard already.

One senses also that Bong’s opinion isn’t likely to make anyone tune in or stay away. He calls it “not bad” and says you’ll like it if you like “Friends.”

Drea de Matteo ("The Sopranos") AND Ashley Scott ("Birds of Prey") are in this. I still think they should have titled this "Trebbiani." Or "Joey's MILF Sister and the Braless Neighbor."

While we’re waiting for Bong’s review to begin, want to hear the harbinger of a running plastic-surgery gag? If I’ve done my math correctly, 30-year-old de Matteo has been cast to play the mother of 26-year-old Paulo Costanzo’s character.

Here’s “Chanandaler Bong”:

Hey Harry!

Let's get this out of the way....long time reader, first time writer...yadda yadda...anyway....

I got this offer to watch a new sit com and comment on it afterword. I was not surprised to see that it was the "friends" spin-off "Joey." After all, tonight is the Series finale.

So, the show starts with Joey flying to LA. After a side trip in Dallas ("I DID have a layover in Dallas") he gets to LA and meets up with his sister ("Hairdresser to The Stars") and her son ("what are you? A rocket scientist?....Yeah"). Joey then has some trouble getting a acting gig ("You deficate on ONE corpse").

Of course we then get to meet the cute neighbor girl with no bra, Alison. Joey's new agent is played by an actress who had a bit part on an episode of Friends (old friend of Phoebe and Monica's who moved to England).

The story is pretty typical for Friends. His nephew wants to move in with him and he won't let him to protect her feelings. Hilarity ensues. Not Shakespeare but not bad. And I REALLY expected it to be bad.

The bottom line is that if you like Friends, you will like Joey. Now...will they keep it the same or change it for the series premier? The breast enhancement jokes were actually pretty clever and the potential love interest is HOT. If you use this, call me Chanandaler Bong. See Ya!

UPDATE!! Someone just posted a few of the jokes in talkback, and they have me a little more excited about the show's prospects:

It aired in Janesville Wisconsin an hour and a half before the Friends finale, It wasn't bad, here is some spoilers. Joey turns down a show about male nurses for a violent show, the show Joey picks doesn't air because it is to violent, and the nurses show becomes a huge hit, Joey meets the Ashley Scott character, and to show her he's an actor does the line "Romeo, Romeo where for out though Romeo",then he says that was Romeo, then she tells him that was Juliets line, and he says "oh no, I've been doing that at my auditions", later Joey's agent played by that Milf lady tells Joey a show like the male nurses show only comes around once in a lifetime, but sends him on an audition to host a Hollywood news type show, he blows the audition because they keep switching between cameras and he can't keep up and in a last ditch effort to salvage the audition does the "Romeo, Romeo" line. At the end of the show when he comes home after the failed audition he runs into the Ashley Scott character and askes her if she would like to go out sometime, she says she would like to but, she is married. Now to the parts about Joey his sister and nephew. Joey's sister tells Joey not to let it slip that she had her son at 16 (she told her son she was 22 when she had him). The nephew want's to move out of his mom's place and live with his cool uncle Joey, Joey's sister doesn't wan't to let him go. At first Joey says no because he is scared of his sister because she used to beat him up until he would say he was gay for David Cassidy, but then his nephew makes Joey the best spagettie he's had in his life and Joey changes his mind, near the end of the show she gets wind of their plot and forbid's her son to move out, but Joey does a big thought full speech about change and how he did not wan't to move from New York away from his Friends and some mushy crap, and she says but he's a baby, and Joey say to his sister, but you had a baby when you were only 16, this pisses her off so she grabs Joey ear and makes him say he's gay for David Cassidy, but she gets the point and allows her son to move in with Joey, and Joey's nephew says 16, I'm a rocket scientist I should have figured that out.

NBC confirms in about two weeks that “Joey” has inherited the “Friends” timeslot.