Joey Tribbiani with Rachel he gives him the go ahead. Ross basically says that he's not okay with it but he wants to be, and the two's friendship deepens due to Joey's refusal to date Rachel unless Ross okays the deal. However, Joey and Rachel do not date long and later Joey encourages Ross to pursue Rachel in the season finale. Joey and Monica are close friends often joking around with each other. Joey allowed Monica to hire and fire him to prove to her employees that she was not a pushover. When he discovered that Monica and Chandler had developed a
Joey Stivic Gloria now separated from Mike, she returned to "Archie Bunker's Place" with Joey in the February 1982 episode "Gloria Comes Home". In this episode, Joey was played by Christopher Johnston. Joey Stivic was a regular character on the "All in the Family" spin-off series "Gloria" in 1982 and 1983. On this series, in which the now-divorced Gloria Bunker character had moved to Upstate New York in order to work as an assistant veterinarian, the part of Joey Stivic was played by ten-year-old actor Christian Jacobs. After "Gloria" was canceled in 1983, Joey Stivic disappeared from prime time television for 11