12 Dumb Decisions In Friends We Can't Forgive

In Friends, every member of the titular group had something that made them unique from the rest. Monica was the neat freak, Rachel the slightly shallow, materialistic one, Phoebe was the weird one, Ross the sophisticated one, Chandler the sarcastic one, and unfortunately for Joey, he was the stupid one.

To begin with, for the majority of the early years of the show, this was quite endearing. Joey often didn't get what his friends were talking about, he didn't really care to follow any current events, which are things that everyone can relate to, even if only a little bit. We've all pretended to know more than we actually did to fit in a conversation.

However, as the show went on, Joey was written to become stupider and stupider, to the point that it was no longer either funny or even realistic. Being lost in a conversation about the Korean war is one thing, but having him guess paper, snow, and a ghost for something you put in your coffee was just silly.

Joey was never as smart as the rest of his friends, but there was no need to make him as dumb as they did. Dating Charlie in season ten highlighted his lack of intelligence enough, we didn't need to see his painful attempts at speaking French.