Joey (sitcom)

Trivia

• The pilot episode was released in screener form for test audiences and members of the entertainment industry to preview the show and drum up business. The screener was subsequently leaked onto the Internet, and thus has received a much wider critical review process than initially conceived.
• The theme song for the show is Sunny Hours by Long Beach Dub Allstars.
• The fifth and the thirteenth episodes were directed by David Schwimmer (who played Ross Geller on Friends).
• The sixteenth episode, aired on February 3, makes reference to Johnny Carson, who died on January 23, 2005.
• Drea de Matteo and Paulo Costanzo, who play mother and son, were born six years apart. Costanzo's character is 20 years old, while de Matteo's is in her mid-thirties. This is probably referenced by Joey's role on Deep Powder, where he plays the father of a woman just five years his junior.
• The duckling and the chick, bought on the last episode of Friends. have yet to appear in Joey