--- title: Joey Finally Explains a Weird Friends Mystery on Kimmel description: Friends fans finally get some answers from Joey about this lingering mystery canonical: https://time.com/4891227/joey-on-arm-sling-friends/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-08T15:00:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:13.952Z og:title: Joey Finally Explains a Weird Friends Mystery on Kimmel og:description: Matt LeBlanc finally gives Friends fans some answers og:url: https://time.com/4891227/joey-on-arm-sling-friends/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cafb3b0b619235/6988d8ccab6d776e0d6af4e9/mattleblanc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: MattLeBlanc og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joey Finally Explains a Weird Friends Mystery on Kimmel twitter:description: Matt LeBlanc finally gives Friends fans some answers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cafb3b0b619235/6988d8ccab6d776e0d6af4e9/mattleblanc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Joey Finally Explain a Weird _Friends_ Mystery on Jimmy Kimmel by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 8, 2017 3:00 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 8, 2017 3:00 PM UTC [_Friends_ ](http://time.com/4738242/friends-the-musical/)fans will want to pay attention to this: “Joey” just explained one of the show’s lingering mysteries. Remember way back in Season Three when Joey shows up with his arm in a sling? On Monday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ Matt LeBlanc revealed that the sling was not supposed to be part of the show at all, but the result of a real life stunt fail. In the show, Joey simply shows up with his arm in a sling and makes some excuse about hurting himself while jumping on a bed, which is a _very_ Joey thing to do. He then just goes along his way trying to show [Monica](http://time.com/4705408/friends-ben-now/) that she can’t get over Richard by going to a sperm bank (which is a _very_ [Monica](http://time.com/4655111/jimmy-fallon-friends-theme-song/) thing to think). LeBlanc told Jimmy Kimmel the truth behind that sling, though, and it doesn’t involve jumping up and down on a bed. As LeBlanc explains in the clip, his arm was in a sling because he had dislocated his shoulder while filming a different episode of the show and it’s quite the story involving a fight over a chair with [Chandler](http://time.com/4529900/matthew-perry-batman/), an audience packed with Diet Coke contest winners, and a doctor from the TV show _E.R._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4891227/joey-on-arm-sling-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4891227/joey-on-arm-sling-friends/"},"headline":"Watch Joey Finally Explain a Weird Friends Mystery on Jimmy Kimmel","datePublished":"2017-08-08T15:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:13.952Z","description":"Matt LeBlanc finally gives Friends fans some answers","url":"https://time.com/4891227/joey-on-arm-sling-friends/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Friends","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cafb3b0b619235/6988d8ccab6d776e0d6af4e9/mattleblanc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cafb3b0b619235/6988d8ccab6d776e0d6af4e9/mattleblanc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MattLeBlanc","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4891227/joey-on-arm-sling-friends/","name":"Watch Joey Finally Explain a Weird Friends Mystery on Jimmy Kimmel"}}]}] ```