Joey is some thing of an fool savant in normal, but capable of great strategies when the circumstance occurs this is alluded to in the episode "The One Where Ross Dates a Student", when Chandler, referring to Joey, claims "A sizzling girl's at stake and all of a sudden he's Rain Man" when Joey proposed Ross operate out who between his students termed him the 'hottie of the paleontology department' by evaluating the handwriting of the be aware to.