Joey Spoilers

Episode 1.04: Joey and the Book Club
Airdate: September 30, 2004

• 09/28 - JOEY JOINS A BOOK CLUB? -- When Joey finds that it is hard to meet women in LA, he decides to join his nephew Michael's book club. Meanwhile, Gina finds out that a woman who went to cosmetology school with her is now a celebrity hairstylist and decides she deserves the glamorous life, too. Source: NBC
• 09/17 - Joey joins Michael's book club, only to learn that "Pride and Prejudice" is a long read and that his nephew has a short fuse when it comes to losing girls to his cooler, if illiterate, uncle. Meanwhile, Gina hits up Alex for a Hollywood connection to further her hairstyling career. Source: TitanTV
• 09/01 - Michael is part of a book club held at his apartment. There is one member named Jane that Michael likes. Joey is in the apartment during the meetings and will eventually take part in the meetings so he can pick up women. Source: SpoilerFix.com

Episode 1.05: Joey and the Perfect Storm
Airdate: October 7, 2004

• 09/25 - Complications arise when Joey becomes an understudy at three different theater companies. Meanwhile, an apartment in the building opens up for rent. Source: TitanTV
• 09/21 - After auditioning for several plays, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is disappointed when he receives only the understudy roles. Michael (Paulo Costanzo) and Joey find out that an apartment is for rent in their complex, and they quickly try to hide the rent sign to prevent Gina (Drea de Matteo) from wanting to move in. Joey must figure out how he can be in several places at once when the lead actors in Joey's plays get sick. Source: NBC

Episode 1.06: Joey and the Husband
Airdate: October 14, 2004

• 09/26 - JOEY MEETS THE HUSBAND -- Gina struggles with nepotism at the salon when her boss hires his untalented daughter to take many of Gina's regular clients. After hearing how unhappy Gina is at work, Joey and Michael plan to make Gina happy by helping her open a salon of her own. Meanwhile, much to Joey's dismay, Alex's husband Eric (Matt Letscher, "Good Morning Miami") finally returns home. Source: NBC
• 09/10 - I went to see a taping of Joey on 9/3/04 for the show that will air 10/7/04. It is the fifth episode in the series. Basically, the show begins with Joey realizing that he has forgotten to return his rental car that he has had for a month. Joey's sister Gina works for at a salon with a terrible owner named Viktor. Michael suggests to Joey that he give his "Lose My Looks" money to Gina so she can buy and open up her own salon. He offers it to her and they go salon shopping. Joey's neighbor Alex is also in the episode. He finally meets Alex's husband who is not intimidated by Joey at all. Alex's husband plays the viola in a traveling orchaestra. Joey wants Alex's husband to think he is sexy so he invites him over to fix a problem with his fireplace and tries to come on to him. Towards the end, Alex and Joey meet up again and there is some obvious tension - there is a mention of "obviously nothing could happen" between the two of them. Joey says he is goofy and was drawing dragons all day. There is a drawing of a dragon on the Etch-A-Sketch. The episode ends with Joey saying he returned the car but realizing he has another bracelet on his wrist reminding him to do something which he can't remember. Source: Carly
• 08/27 - The salon where Gina works is owned by a Russian man named Viktor. Viktor tells Gina's clients that she is on vacation so they get their hair cut by his daughter who is not a good hairdresser. Alex husband's finds it weird that his wife hangs out with a single guy (Joey). Joey goes to the salon to talk to Gina about it. Later, Joey meets Eric in the building's hottub. Eric plays in an orchestra. Joey doesn't understand why Eric says he's not threatened by Joey hanging out with Alex and he tries to make Eric jealous. Source: SpoilerFix.com

Episode 1.07: Title unknown
Airdate: Fall 2004

• 08/23 - The episode begins with Michael walking into the living room telling Joey he is sick. Joey says he heard the coughing but thought it was the dogs that live in the Hollywood hills. Michael scares Joey by telling him those are dogs were coyotes. Michael does not want Gina knowing he is sick because she will never leave his side. Gina walks in with bagels and immediately senses somebody is sick. Joey pretends it is he. Gina is not fooled and asks him "how did you ever become and actor." Gina drags Michael to bed, to which he cries for help from Joey. Still shaken from the coyote scare, Joey yells that it's like the Serengeti out there and he should be lucky to have somebody to watch over him. The next scene is Joey going to an audition. There he meets Brian Michael David Scott, who recognizes Joey from DOOL. Bri-Mi as he calls himself, comments that Joey and he will compete for many of the same parts since they have very similar characteristics. Bri-Mi plays the first of a series of tricks here by telling Joey that the audition was cancelled, so Joey leaves. The following scene is back at Joey's apartment. Alex walks in and asks Joey if he knows who is parking in her space. He says it is his sister. Gina walks in and gives Alex major attitude and Alex becomes very scared of Gina. At this point, Gina has been living in the apartment for several days taking care of Michael. Joey is annoyed and asks if he could just take care of Michael so that she could take some time for herself. Gina says she is a mother and has no time for herself and does nothing for herself. One of the biggest laughs of the night came when Joey pointed to Gina's breast implants and said, "so you got those for Michael?" She tells Joey to go stay at her place until Michael gets better. The next scene is at Joey's next audition where Bri-Mi tells him that the casting director is deaf, so Joey should scream all his lines. Joey believes him and does so. Next is a scene in Gina's room, where Joey crawls into bed. He is joined by Gina's secret boyfriend who thought Joey was Gina. This lead to a hilarious scene with the two yelling at each other trying to figure out what was going on. Next was a scene with Bonnie, Joey's agent. She had called him in because of his behavior at recent auditions and due to the fact that she makes 10% of whatever Joey earns, so she was making nothing off of him since he was getting no work. (Great joke with Joey trying to figure out 10% of 0) This leads to Joey realizing that Bri-Mi was messing with his head. He couldn't believe it was true. One of the biggest laughs of the night came here when Jennifer Coolidge said, "Yeah well, I don't believe they take the fat out of my ass and put it in my lips." Next Joey confronts Gina about her boyfriend throwing her comments about being a mother with no time for herself back in her face. She says she didn't say anything because Michael always gets hurt when she has a boyfriend. Joey forces Gina to tell Michael about the boyfriend. Michael pretends to be sad, but is really happy since this is his opportunity to get his mom off of his back. He decides that he will do anything he can to keep Gina and Roger (the boyfriend) together. Somewhere in this scene Alex comes to yell at Gina for parking again, but Gina just slams to the door in her face. Roger comes to pick up Gina for a date. Michael pretends like he is a great guy, despite the fact that that he is a real idiot who says jeans are his hobby and that he wants to chop off his pinky to win money in a lawsuit. As the date goes on, Joey goes to another audition where Bri-Mi tries to mess with Joey's head again, but Joey doesn't fall for it and tells him off for what he did. Bri-Mi says he wants to patch things up by stepping back from the audition they were at and letting Joey take his slot which was next. However, he ends up locking Joey in a closet. Once Gina comes home from the date, Joey and Mike sit Gina down and tell her she deserves a better guy. Mike also explains to his mom that he is an adult and can take care of himself, she just needs to stop worrying about him. While she is depressed that Roger turned out to be such a "wang" as she says, Michael says to her "I have good news. My fever is back." Gina replies "oh god you're so good to me". Alex pops in being miss tough girl telling Gina she had her car towed. But once again Gina scares her off by saying that she'll have to get Alex back now. The episode ends with Joey asking her if she was happy that she scared the girl. And Gina says, yeah, she's real good to me. The tag scene is Joey's retaliation to Brian Michael Scott. He called him and said the location of the audition had changed so that he would miss it. Bri-Mi asks Joey if he realized that if he was missing the audition, so was Joey. After a few seconds of silence, Joey cracks and says... come on I'll give you a ride. Source: Matt10827 who attended the taping.
• 08/04 - Joey goes to an audition. He chats with an actor who is reading his sides while waiting to be called in. Joey didn't learn the lines nor has the script. One actor named Brian Michael Scott, who's supposedly a big fan of Dr. Drake Ramoray, offers Joey the script. Brian tells Joey that they will more than likely be competition in a lot of auditions. Brian plays tricks on Joey so he gets the parts over Joey. Source: SpoilerFix.com

General Season 1 spoilers:

•  09/28 - Matt LeBlanc has found a new friend in John Travolta's wife. Kelly Preston has signed on to do a two-episode story arc on Joey this November, TV Guide Online has learned. Preston will play the best friend of Joey's sis, played by Drea de Matteo. According to a source close to the spin-off, producers initially eyed an Oscar-winning actress for the part, but the thesp ultimately passed. Here's a hint: It was not Meryl Streep. Or Brenda Fricker. Or Judi Dench.... Source: TV Guide Online