How you doin'

A pickup line, apocryphal in origin, made famous by Joey Tribbiani from the NBC show Friends. It is important to speak the line in an Italian-influenced New York accent, usually with raised eyebrows and nodding smile. Entertaining on the show, it has now been relentlessly ground to the point of annoyance in bars,http://www.enroo-tech.com/plus/view.php?aid=13181, clubs, and among frat boys (especially dangerous when combined).

Introduced in:

Season 4, Episode 13, The One With Rachel's Crush - Joey teaching Rachel how to pick up on a man: "Oh-oh-oh-oh, how I do it is, I look a woman up and down and say, 'Hey, how you doin?'"

Subsequent occurrences to date:

Season 4, Episode 20, The One With all the Wedding Dresses - Joey, at a sleep clinic, picking up on a girl in his sleep: (sleepily) "Yeah, she is. Wow! (Falls back asleep, loudly) How you doin'?"

Season 4, Episode 23, The One With Ross's Wedding - Joey, after a bridesmaid asks him to talk New York to her: (In a New York accent) "Fuggetaboutit. How you doin'?"

Season 5, Episode 16, The One With a Cop - Joey to Rachel, after Chandler and Monica tell him he might have to be friends with someone before dating: (in a sexy voice) "How you doin'?"

Season 5, Episode 23, The One in Vegas - Joey, distracted by a female dealer as he searches for his hand twin: "Okay! (Walks away, then turns back.) How you doin'?"

Season 6, Episode 5, The One With Joey's Porsche - Joey,buy windows 7 product key, to a woman interested in his Porsche, which turns out to be boxes under a car cover: "Hey! How you doin'?"

Season 6, Episode 7, The One Where Phoebe Runs - Joey, having a hard time with a no-flirting rule: "Yeah. Well, so far yeah. But it's tough, you know? I got all this built up flirting energy and I don't know how to get rid of it. (Gives Chandler the "Joey-love" look) How you doin'?"

Season 6, Episode 13, The One With Rachel's Sister - Joey,cheap evening gowns, being introduced to Rachel's sister Jill: "Hey, (in the Joey voice) how you doin'?"

Season 6, Episode 15, The One That Could Have Been - Joey to Rachel,windows 7 professional product key, in the fantasy episode where the Friends imagine their lives different if they hadn't ended up being friends: "So uh, how you doin'?"

Season 6, Episode 17, The One With the Unagi - Joey, correcting a look-a-like who just tried to say his line: "No! No! No! No! No! How you doin'?! How you doin' - Damnit Carl! Go wait in the hall!"

Season 6, Episode 21, The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad - Joey, in the middle of berating himself: "Stupid! I can't believe it! God! (A very beautiful woman walks by) (To her) Hey, how you doin',change windows 7 product key?"

Season 7, Episode 5,long evening dresses, The One With The Engagement Picture - Tag, after Rachel asks him if Joey taught him anything about talking to girls: (To her, in the Joey voice) "How you doin'?"

Season 7,http://www.forum.bettingbotsystems.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=24346, Episode 16, The One With the Truth about London - Fat Joey to a piece of food, in a fantasy sequence where he married the chef Monica: "Here we go! Here we go! Here we go! (Groans and picks up a piece of food.) How you doin'?"

Season 8, Episode 7, The One With the Stain - Rachel, on moving: "Yeah, I can't live with Joey once the baby comes. I don't want my child's first words to be, (in a baby's voice) 'How you doin?'"