On Friends, Ross and Chandler were portrayed as two guys who were losers in love, while Joey was the friend who got all the women due to his impressive skills in wooing love interests. However, Joey ended up being the one alone when the series finished and, while he had a long list of romances, he had only a few women with whom he formed a true connection.
In this list, we’ve considered women who actually dated Joey, or those women who had noteworthy stories with him, to be considered worthy of being considered his girlfriend.
13 Rachel Green
While we all love Rachel as a character on her own, her only love interest should’ve been Ross. By pairing her with Joey, Friends gave us the worst storyline it had in its ten years. The couple didn’t make sense either, as there was no good reason why either of them was suddenly interested in the other.
Add to that, the few times they were together had Rachel be exasperated by Joey’s stupidity, making it look more like two siblings rather than a romantic couple. While Rachel was a good person, her mismatched coupling with Joey makes her the bottom-ranked girl on this list.
12 Ursula Buffay
Here’s someone who was all kinds of awful as a human being, as Phoebe’s twin was known to always use men for her own needs. She only hooked up with Joey because it would infuriate Phoebe, and then promptly dumped him when he got too clingy.
It wasn’t fun seeing Joey – a guy who’s always so cool when it comes to women – be reduced to a pathetic, needy lover boy who took to stalking Ursula. It’s a good thing this relationship got cut off as soon as it started.
11 Erika Ford
Perhaps Joey would have benefited from How I Met Your Mother’s Barney and his “Hot/Crazy Scale”, as he bit off more than he could chew with Erika, who was convinced Joey was actually Drake Ramoray from Days of Our Lives.
It’s a surprise this relationship lasted as long as it did, as Joey was shown to be scared of Erika and her seemingly violent tendencies; you’d be scared too if your girlfriend licked your hands and thought she could see you perform surgery on TV.
10 Kathy
What can we say about someone who seems to perpetually unfaithful? At first, it seemed as if Kathy’s relationship with Joey was just to introduce the love of Chandler’s life, only for her to cheat on Chandler as well.
With Joey, it appeared as if Kathy was just one of many women to fall for his looks and magnetism, and Joey kept her around simply because he had no other girl to pursue. Even after she cheated on him, Joey was angry at Chandler, not Kathy.
9 Lauren
She’s forgettable at best, but at least Lauren was a nice girl who genuinely liked Joey. For this reason, we’ll be giving her a special mention as Joey did her wrong by breaking her heart to pursue Kate.
From what we can make of Lauren, she liked Joey quite a lot and was one of the few who actually thought of him as a good actor. Unfortunately, she was never treated as someone important and was dumped quite soon.
8 Charlie Wheeler
Joey could have done with some smarts in his life, and he made such an attempt when he was dating Charlie, who also turned out to be something of a Kathy situation as she jumped from Joey to Ross to her former love interest.
The good thing with Charlie and Joey, though, was that we had some funny moments where Joey tried to fit in with a woman who was so much smarter than him. Maybe if Ross wasn’t around, Charlie might have liked Joey better.
7 Katie
Like Lauren, Katie deserves a higher spot despite having a one-time appearance, since it appears she liked being with Joey. It was only because she liked to punch him all the time that Joey had a problem, and even that was done because she was fond of him.
Of course, it turned out she liked to punch anyone for no real reason, even after it crossed the point of being inappropriate, so it was for the best that Joey had Rachel beat her up to make Katie break up with him.
6 Angela Delveccio
It was a nice change of pace to see Joey use some tactics to gain a woman’s favor, and we saw him employ Monica to pose as his girlfriend to make Angela jealous. If you’re wondering why she’s ranked so high up, it’s because apparently she and Joey were together for three years before the show’s events.
That’s an unprecedented time for Joey to have a girlfriend, who was never shown to be in a relationship longer than a couple of weeks. There must have been something special about Angela.
5 Kate Miller
Sure, Kate came across as a very selfish person who liked to be with men in a position of power to influence her career, but she was the first true love interest Joey had. Due to his interest in her, we finally saw Joey get a real storyline and evolve in the mindset of a lover.
He did his best to have Kate see how genuinely he liked her, and she in turn finally tried to be more pleasant when she and Joey got together. Unfortunately, her career still mattered more to her by the end.
4 Erin
The problem with Erin was that she was basically Joey in female form, as she was a fun person who shared his interests…and his habit of dumping lovers quickly. Disregarding that, though Erin was a breezy character who liked to make others laugh, and Joey certainly came to see that.
Had the actress not been there just for a guest appearance, then you can be certain this character would’ve lasted longer and not been given a rather lame exit; there was easily a good connection between Erin and Joey.
3 Melanie
If you’re thinking wife material for Joey, then Melanie would be right on top of that list. Like the character of Bernadette on The Big Bang Theory, Melanie was nice, caring, and nurturing toward Joey, to the point it seemed like she was quite motherly for him.
Since Joey couldn’t go all the way with her at the time, Melanie stuck around long enough for him to have a comfy relationship, where the two looked cute together as a couple. It’s a shame she was there just for the one appearance.
2 Cecilia Monroe
Cecilia was the only love interest who understood Joey’s love for acting, along with how he tried to reconcile his career opportunities with his feelings of guilt for stealing someone else’s role, that being Cecilia’s own.
They had an intense connection where attraction was concerned, and she became a sort of mentor for him in the acting department. It went further than that too, as Joey was the first person who got Cecilia to open up emotionally and encouraged her to follow her opportunities rather than settle for more of the same. Also, considering how many times Joey got dumped bad, this was a clean parting that makes us wish Cecilia had reunited with Joey in the future.
1 Janine Lecroix
If the show had wanted, it could have made Janine the final girl for Joey, as she shared a deep friendship with him before they became a couple. The only problem was her dislike for Chandler and Monica, barring which there were no issues with Joey.
Janine also made Joey appreciate his feminine qualities, along with making him more of an understanding person who was able to adapt to change and compromise. Plus, these two looked like such an attractive couple that we still rue how Monica and Chandler got between them.
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