Turns out that far from being a fictional character Joey Tribbiani is a real person, that's if you believe a new fan theory.
How's that work? Well, it all hangs on the appearance of Brent Spiner, who played Data in Star Trek.
According to a post on Digital Spy, Spiner appeared in season 10 of Friends as the boss who interviews Rachel for a job at Gucci in 2004.
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He then appeared the next year as himself on spin-off show Joey - a show set in the same universe.
Watch his appearance here...
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Spiner appears on Joey as himself (not a character), while he is in the role of James Campbell in Friends.
The theory claims that because Spiner played himself in Joey, but played a character on Friends, then the same is true for Joey Tribbiani.
It therefore suggests that the Joey spin-off show is not fiction but reality, and the people in Joey then play characters in Friends.
If you buy this, then it would mean that Joey was playing the role of Joey Tribbiani on Friends, and (in Friends' reality) is a real actor called Joey out of character in Joey.
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Yes, that's right unlike the other friends characters Joey is just Joey playing himself.
It's all pretty confusing right?
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But if true then it could means big things, not just for the show but for our entire perception of reality.
This isn't the only weird thing that's been clocked in the Friends universe.
Watching re-runs inevitably means that you'll spot something odd, like a continuity error or someone amusingly chewing coffee in the background of a scene.
There are also theories galore about all the unanswered questions, meaning we're forever stuck in a Friends-shaped hole, not that we mind of course.
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A lovely chap named Joe who works in our office recently pointed out something that is baffling our brains, and it involves Bruce Willis's appearance in the series.
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You may remember when Willis appeared in three episodes as Paul Stevens, Ross's girlfriend's dad.
His character then fancied the pants off Rachel and gave us the hilariously awkward relationship combo we know and love so well.
Willis even ended up winning a Comedy Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor for the stint. But there's one thing we've never been able to figure out - Ross, Chandler and Joey were all mad Die Hard fans, right? Let's just refresh our memories with this hilarious scene:
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We'd say that's as manic a fans come. So, the big question is this...
Now of course, we know it's just a TV show, but they definitely could have nodded to the fact that he "looked" like Bruce Willis, or maybe they just swept their previous reference under the continuity rug?
It turns out we're not the only ones who've thought about it, in fact a Quora user pointed it out back in 2015, and it appeared on Reddit two years earlier.
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A Quora user named Geoffrey kindly took the time to explain exactly what we were experiencing during the episode.
Reddit user Acidic_Jew also pointed out that it isn't the first time it has happened either.
Interesting stuff.
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