Love blooms once again between Dean (Gregory Harrison) and Alex, which brings out some bizarre behavior in Joey. Also, Joey's action figure arrives.

Joey throws a holiday bash in his old apartment. Among the guests: Bobbie and her controlling boyfriend.

When Michael and his girlfriend break up, Joey and Zach try to raise his spirits by taking him to Tijuana.

Joey meets up with his estranged high-school buddy (Adam Goldberg), a once promising athlete who has fallen on hard times and harbors a secret. Also, Joey tries to show his movie-set crew that he's a down-to-earth guy.

Joey mulls over whether to spend a stuffy Thanksgiving with his family or attend his playboy neighbor's wild holiday bash, which features brew, a band, single girls and one George Hamilton (playing himself). In addition, Joey discovers ancient Native American artifacts buried on his property.

Joey tries to impress his new flame by directing her grandmother's musical, but it turns out he's a dud as a director.

To prevent an old girlfriend from releasing an embarrassing tape, Joey agrees to apologize to her on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." DeGeneres appears as herself.

Since Joey doesn't like losing, Alex comes up with some creative card-playing rules, which Joey uses when he appears on "Celebrity Poker."

Joey enrolls in an English class for foreigners to court a beautiful woman student; Gina tries to help Bobby find a new client.

Joey and Gina pretend to be married and parents of a baby, in order to buy a house from its protective owner.

After he's assigned a stuntman (Dan Cortese), Joey gets a bit carried away. Elsewhere, he gets annoyed at Michael's date.

While Joey must deal with an obnoxious child actor on the set of the movie he's filming, Gina helps Alex through her romance woes.

Gina becomes Bobbie's assistant.

Joey auditions for a part in a Kevin Smith movie and makes a new friend in an extra named Zach.

Jimmy and Gina get married.

Joey wants to take his relationship with Alex to the next level, but Alex only wants sex. Gina finds out that Jimmy is married to a woman that is in prison, and Michael meets a man on internet and Michael thinks that he is a woman.

Joey wants to go out with Alex but she's not sure if she wants to go out with him.

Joey discovers a Critic on the internet and goes to visit her, only to discover that it is an 11 year old.

Bobbie sets up a date for Joey with Edie, a famous actress. What he doesn't know in the beginning is that she only needs him as a "beard".

Joey is moving out, but things don't really go as planned as his new house burns in fire. Joey also inadvertently tells Jimmy that Michael is his son.

Joey plans a birthday party for his secret crush, Alex, who's ill at ease about turning 30. Meanwhile, Joey tries to ward off the advances of an annoying girl who's obsessed with him, and Jimmy and Gina decide to get matching tattoos as a declaration of their love.

Joey flies his blue-collar father out to Hollywood to attend his big movie premiere, but Joey gets upset when he discovers that the elder Tribbiani isn't impressed by his surging acting career. Meanwhile, Joey's billboard on Sunset Boulevard is upstaged by a sexy billboard of Carmen Electra (who plays herself); and Bobbie goes on a liquid diet for Joey's premiere.