Nevermind what Ricky Van Veen was doing on the Joey wikipedia page. There are certainly not going to be any judgments from me. But someone out there in Wikipedia land took the time to reveal the long-forgotten spinoff’s big secret:

The initial name of the show, “Let’s Talk Sandwiches”, was changed before the initial air date. This was a somewhat controversial decision as the majority of the pilot and subsequent episodes dealt with the eating, talking about, or eating and talking about sandwiches.
Joey (TV series) – Wikipedia

(Slightly) related: last night I ran across this confounding alternate title for The Talented Mr. Ripley on the pages of everyone involved with the film, on IMDB:

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (screenplay)

… aka The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (USA: complete title)

What?

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Joey Tribbiani - Friends
Matt LeBlanc Calls First Golden Globes Win ‘Gravy’ In Post-‘Friends’ Life
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Although he’d been nominated over the years for his role as Joey on “Friends,” and Joey on “Joey,” it was his role as himself on Showtime’s “Episodes” that finally landed Matt LeBlanc a Golden Globe on Sunday.
Joey Boesch to entertain Loving Friends group
Loving Friends will meet at Sweetwater Country Club on Tuesday, February 21 at 5 p.m. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Georgia Lawson at 281-438-5224. The cost for dinner is $17 with complimentary valet parking. The group will be ...
Comments (3)
  1. I think that’s a reference to the original trailers for the movie, in which all those words flashed on the screen between “The” and “Mr. Ripley” before it finally settled on “Talented”. But there’s no way that was ever a working title — this is just one of those cases of imdb users being ridiculously completist.

  2. oh boy, the only thing worse than the show joey is that working title.

  3. xari  |   Posted on Jul 21st, 2008

    TK is right, except that all of those words are actually in the opening credits to the movie as well, which is probably why they’re technically considered an “alternate” title. Still pretty silly though.

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