Did anyone find that whole "identical hand twin" storyline as stupid as I did. Joey by himself just doesn't work (he needs the other Friends to balance things out), and that is why his spin-off show bombed.

Agreed.

I also agree with that, Tim. Very much so!

Another thing I thought of when Ross is "blackjacking" with Rachel was the classic Bill Cosby bit when he was in Vegas doing his 1971 album "For Adults Only":

"I'll kill them, and they know it, in blackjack, if they ever change it to 23. (audience laughs) I'll own this whollle strip! But they won't change it, cuz they know me! I'm rough on 23!"

That was one of his better albums from the 70s. He did most of his really great standup material in the 60s for Warner Brothers records and then he went to MCA for a few of his 70s ones. I have managed to locate and put on my iPod almost every comedy album he's done, there are only two or three that have eluded me. That's still pretty good, I think!

Anyway, back on topic. That poor blackjack dealer, I'll bet a jar of macadamia nuts that he didn't get paid nearly enough to have to put up with dumbass drivel from people like Joey and Phoebe the way he did. And when the security guard escorted them out, I nearly cheered, I was so annoyed by their behavior. It really is true - those two were the one-dimensional comic relief characters of the series. I wonder if that was what the creators were going for from the very beginning!

That's it for this one!