Joey didn't work? Why?
It's been a long time since I saw the show. I read some postings that talked about Joey and he didn't contribute anything financially. Why was that?
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Joey was a musican and he worked sporadically. He contributed when he could, but for the most part, as Roc always told him, "You're a freeloader, Joey."
shareYes, he was a "musician" who did not want to work.
That's why I never liked this show. I didn't like Joey's attitude, and I thought that Roc was stupid for letting him freeload.
Lazy
share yeah, he reminded me of a character straight out of Mo' Better Blues. Joey was dead weight on Roc, but I guess it's hard working as a trumpeteer in a city where Jazz clubs are on every corner...
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He could have given private music lessons, but I guess the character was just written to be a dead weight for the sake of the story lines.
shareHe did give private music lessons to those kids but he sucked at that. That was beyond pitiful you think he would enjoy teaching music to kids or doing anything with music. Its amazing he took the time to learn to play music.
shareThere was an episode when Joey gave Trumpet lessons to pre-teens from the Emerson's church and he just took the money and the kids didn't learn anything and sounded awful at a recital.
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That's interesting. I didn't see that episode.
It sounds like Joey wasn't a very hard worker, because to be a professional musician you have to spend hours working at it each day. So him being a musician doesn't matter, he could have been a plumber and just not worked hard at it.
Joey was pretty well-dressed to have had no steady income! That often seems to be the case with these sitcoms; that was a common observation with "That Girl" (starring Marlo Thomas), for example.
Watching some episodes of "Roc" recently, I also noticed how well-dressed the little girl whom Roc and Elanor took in was....to be a little girl with a jailed father, no mother to speak of, and a garbageman for a guardian.
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Oh,wow, how stereotypical----this may come as a shock to you, but even poor or lower-middle class folks don't go around dressed in rags looking like homeless drug addicts or something all the time. They dress decently just like anybody else. Funny how no one makes those kinds of comments about shows featuring poor or lower middle class white people.
activista - I'm not suggesting that Joey should have looked "homeless", exactly - but IMO, he often looked a little too "spiffy" and put-together for someone who was as dependent as he was on his garbageman brother (who was supposedly - as was often explored on the show - struggling financially). Perhaps his well-dressed look could be partially attributed to aspects of his personality; slick, image-conscious, always "on the make" where the ladies were concerned. It seems obvious that he was spending what money he could get his hands on on his wardrobe, on gambling, and on his lady friends.
I think you are a tad (or more) too defensive; if you had considered my post a little more carefully instead of simply overreacting to what I said about Joey - you would realize that I strongly suggested that "Roc" wasn't the only sitcom that had this issue, and that I also made a comment about the main character of the iconic '60s show "That Girl" also being noted for having an inexplicably expensive wardrobe. "That Girl" (Ann Marie - played by Marlo Thomas) was white; I am NOT limiting my observations to lower-income black characters.
Very interesting that you are implying that I'm a (white) racist simply for making this observation. Be careful before you assume; to suggest that I'm some clueless, prejudiced white person is off the mark - trust me.
He was the sort of guy who wanted to be a musician and didn't want to give up on that. He probably felt if he took a day job, he wouldn't have time or the energy to devote to his career.
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