AboutWhat does the meme depict?

The 'Phoebe Teaching Joey' meme is derived from a familiar scene in the television series Friends, where Phoebe Buffay attempts to teach Joey Tribbiani to speak French. In the template, Phoebe confidently imparts her knowledge, trying to make Joey repeat words after her. Joey’s responses, intending to mirror Phoebe’s instruction, swiftly devolve into nonsensical or humorously incorrect versions. This template typically portrays Phoebe as trying to convey complex information, paralleling an educational setting with humorously failing outcomes.

OriginWho did it first?

The source of the 'Phoebe Teaching Joey' meme is an episode of Friends titled 'The One Where Joey Speaks French', which first aired on February 19, 2004. In this episode, Phoebe attempts to teach Joey French for a casting call, but despite successfully echoing individual words, Joey completely botches the full sentences in comical fashion. The specific scene became the foundation for the meme format. Later, this clip was uploaded to YouTube, and on December 5, 2011, a user on 9GAG transformed the scene into an eight-panel meme template, capturing Phoebe's instructional efforts and Joey's hilariously erroneous responses.^[1]

Origin: 2020