7 TV Show Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

2. Friends - Everyone Gets A Happy Ending, Except Joey

Friends The Last One
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When it comes to sitcoms, Friends has one of the happiest of endings. Ross and Rachel are finally, properly together again, Monica and Chandler have their children and are ready to move into their new house, and Phoebe's married everyone's dream man Paul Rudd, finding a family life she never had growing up on the streets. It's pretty much perfect.

But what about Joey?

Although not the smartest of people, Joey was the nicest person among the whole group, and yet as they all go off to their happily ever afters and new lives, he's left alone. He may not want to be the woman-chasing, 'how you doin'?' Joey of years-gone-by, but he also doesn't have too much of a chance for change. All of his closest friends are moving on with their lives, and he's standing still.

And that's before you get into how disturbing it is that he'd end up in the spin-off Joey.

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