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— Joey in several episodes
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Joey Rooney
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Biographical information
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Full Name
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Joseph Gilligan Rooney
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Nickname(s)
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Munch (by Parker)
Jo-Jo (by Chambers and himself) The Stink Ninja (by school) Joe Baby J J-dog Joey (by everyone) Beautiful Little Rat (Principal Kneebauer) Cat Shirt Guy (by everyone) Falcon Jo (by Maddie) Man (by Holden) Little Man (by Willow) My Tech Savvy Sidekick (by Josh) Jax Von Hapsburg (role in Voltage and his and Josh's movies) Ceiling monkey (by Parker in the episode Rate-A-Rooney) |
Gender
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Male
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Born
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Occupations
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Resides In
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Malibu, California (currently)
Stevens Point, Wisconsin (formerly) |
Affiliations
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Physical Description
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Hair Color
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Dark Brown
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Eye Color
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Brown
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Personal Information
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Family
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Pete Rooney (Father)
Karen Rooney (Mother) Liv Rooney (Older Sister) Maddie Rooney (Older Sister) Parker Rooney (Younger Brother) Dena (Aunt) Ruby (Cousin) Great-Gran (Great Grandmother; Deceased) Grandma Janice (Grandmother) Melanie (Unknown) Craig (Cousin) |
Romances
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Willow Cruz (Ex-Girlfriend)
Skylar (Former Crush) Alex (Former Crush) Samantha (Former Crush) Aubrey Banfield (Former Crush) Kennedy (Former Crush) Emma Ross (Former Crush/ex-girlfriend) |
Friends
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Josh Willcox (Best Friend)
Artie Smalls (Frenemy) Willow Cruz (Close Friend) Diggie Smalls (Good Friend) Skippy Ramirez (Close Friend) Parker Rooney (Best Friend/Brother) Skyler Emma Ross Alex Val Wishart Finch |
Enemies
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Likes
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Video games
Space Werewolves Kathy Kan Bobby the butterstick Cats One Direction Fame Stand-Up comedy Voltage |
Dislikes
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Artie
Squirrels |
Production Information
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First Appearance
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Latest Appearance
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Portrayed By
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Joseph "Joey" Gilligan Rooney is the deuteragonist on the Disney Channel, Original Series, Liv and Maddie. He is the younger brother of Liv and Maddie, and the older brother of Parker, making him the middle child of the family. He seems to be a bit adventurous, a trait he shares with Parker.
Joey is portrayed by Joey Bragg.
Personality
Joey is a nice, quirky, and funny guy, even though he is selfish and naive at times and it seems that he is one of the clowns of the family who makes everyone laugh. Joey is a fan of the Space Werewolves graphic novel series, which he describes as being as the "child of Star Wars marrying the Lord of the Rings movies, and then being adopted by Marvel Comic's Avengers." He also shown to be very clumsy as shown in Flugelball-A-Rooney when he knocks down a cake he made by accident, in Champ-A-Rooney when he knocks the lockers in the girls locker room after he gets scared by Maddie, leaving them both trapped together in the girl's locker room, and mostly in Meatball-A-Rooney when he asks to Liv to sign some junk for him so he can make money and accidentally drops a bowling ball on Liv's foot, leaving her injured. Including his antics on being "helpful" to Liv, dropping soup on her lap and having a clever slip from Joey's hand. He usually tries to be helpful around the house, but ends up messing it up or making matters worse, he can be very unaware of his own actions even though no one seems to admit of his unhelpful actions, as seen in Coach-A-Rooney. It's shown that Joey doesn't take it well when either of his sisters gets dumped, as in Continued-A-Rooney, he expressed some anger at Diggie for breaking up with Maddie, and in Scoop-A-Rooney, when he ripped Holden's head off his personal scoreboard when he found out Holden dumped Liv. He is not above using trickery to get what he wants, such as when he tricked Liv into doing a twin-switch for him by saying it's for Maddie. He was initially childish in earlier seasons, wearing cat-themed clothes but in Season 4 he matures drastically, undergoing great changes by dressing more maturely.
Biography
Background
He is the third out of four children of the Rooney family and is the oldest brother in the Rooney family.
Appearance
Joey has brown eyes, and dark brown hair, he also wears black-rimmed glasses. He usually dresses in casual, cat-themed clothes. He is also very tall for his age and despite being younger than Liv and Maddie, he is shown to be much taller than them and growing even taller in later seasons.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Joey is a huge gamer and is always playing video games (first seen in Sleep-A-Rooney). It is shown that he is very good at playing video games and has a lot of knowledge about them as he even makes references to video games when speaking regularly.
Weaknesses
Joey's huge weakness is talking to girls. Joey gets very flustered around girls and does not know the right things to say. This is first seen in Kang-A-Rooney when Joey struggles with talking to girls and needs the help of Liv and Maddie. Joey can be gullible at times, and believed everything Luke told him about what Emma "likes". Joey is also very clumsy and tends to break things a lot. He also seems to be bad at catching and throwing things.
Relationships
Family
Parker Rooney
(Brother)
Parker and Joey are best friends. They get along very well with each other. (See Joey and Parker (relationship) for more info on their friendship.)
Liv Rooney
(Sister)
Liv and Joey are brother and sister, they like to tease each other. Joey once exposed a secret about Liv pretending to be Maddie. When Liv thought she got away with it but they seem to get along despite them teasing each other. (See Liv and Joey (relationship) for more info.)
Maddie Rooney
(Sister)
Maddie is his older sister. They do not interact much in the show, in Twin-A-Rooney Maddie freaked out when Joey (and Parker) were eating the dip that was meant for Liv. This could indicate that Joey and Maddie get on each other's nerves sometimes. However, in Meatball-A-Rooney, it seems that Joey is more afraid of Maddie for her pushy behavior, when Joey was playing the accordion in Liv and Maddie's room, Liv dressed as Maddie kicked him out of the room due to his annoying antics. He also looked concerned when Maddie came home when she hurt her knee. Joey also told Liv and Parker to bring her back safe, when she fell into the tunnels.
Karen Rooney
(Mother)
In Twin-A-Rooney Karen didn't pay much attention to Joey (and Parker) because of Liv returning, she only found out about Joey (and Parker's) bro cave at the end. In Team-A-Rooney Joey (and Parker) were hiding a secret from Karen, which was about Parker letting spiders out which ended up on Karen's back.
Pete Rooney
(Father)
In Twin-A-Rooney Pete didn't pay much attention to Joey (and Parker) because of Liv returning, he and Karen only found out about Joey (and Parker's) bro cave at the end.
Friends
Josh Willcox
(Best Friend/Practically Brothers)
Josh and Joey are best friends. Despite that Josh and Joey haven't hung out much alone, they appear to be good friends and they are first properly seen hanging out together at Goofy Garry's in Scoop-A-Rooney, becoming closer and good friends. Joey chose to hang out with Josh because he didn't dump either one of his siblings. They become co-stars in Friend-A-Rooney and Joey helps Josh get his confidence after losing it, bringing them closer. They make their own independent movie based on Jax von Hapsburg from Voltage in Ex-A-Rooney and have been hanging out without Maddie knowing. They have a brothers-like friendship and Joey mentions to Josh that he is the best friend he has ever had. (See Josh and Joey (relationship) for more information)
Diggie Smalls
(Good Friend)
Diggie sometimes serves as a mentor to Joey, he gets very clingy, because he usually looks up to him on being the cool kid. However, Diggie can usually find him very annoying when he gets between him and Maddie. Diggie let Joey be one of Paulie's protectors in Dodge-A-Rooney but Diggie got mad at him when he took them out of the school.
Skippy Ramirez
(Close Friend)
Skippy and Joey are very close friends, Joey helped Skippy in Skate-A-Rooney and in Dodge-A-Rooney Skippy and Joey were protectors of Paulie. Joey taught Skippy how to skateboard. (See Joey and Skippy (relationship)).
Willow Cruz
(Close Friend/Ex-Girlfriend)
Willow had a major crush on Joey. Joey once stayed seated next to her due to being afraid of her. Willow bought all the items in the garage sale that were Joey's. However, in SkyVolt-A-Rooney, Joey finally realizes he likes Willow and they become a couple. They break up in Linda and Heather-A-Rooney, after Joey and Willow ask each other to not date each other and stay as friends. (See Joey and Willow (relationship) for more info.)
Trivia
- Joey is Sciurophobic, as shown in Friend-A-Rooney.
- He and Maddie, are the only two in their family who wear glasses.
- He is known as Cat Shirt Guy as stated in Cowbell-A-Rooney.
- He loves fame.
- He sometimes wishes he had a twin, who would be named Michael.
- He was scared of Willow, because of the huge crush she had on him.
- Joey realises he likes Willow in SkyVolt-A-Rooney, and they become a couple.
- He loves Voltage.
- Most notably, the events of subsequent seasons have been due to Joey's blunders in season finales. In the Season 2 finale, Joey going into the girl's locker room caused Maddie to miss Diggie. In the Season 3 finale, Joey's poor choice of foundation caused the house to fall, leading the rest of the Rooneys to move to LA.
- Despite his nerdy personality, Joey is much taller than most characters in the show, which is ironic due to most of the people intimidating him are much shorter. He is 5'11 which makes him one of the tallest characters on the show.
- Joey grows taller in the later seasons, he is shown to be a bit shorter in season 2, but in season 3 he gets taller by a few inches, which leaves him at his current height.
- Joey became an aspiring stand-up comedian in season 4 and it is first shown in Stand-Up-A-Rooney. This is based upon his portrayer, Joey Bragg, being a comedian in real-life. He also shares his name with his portrayer.
- He briefly goes back to acting in Ex-A-Rooney, staring alongside Josh and replaying the role of Jax Von Hepsburg from Voltage.
- Joey replaced his "nerd-style" glasses with fancier ones in Season 4.
- He has been absent once which was in the third episode of the third season, Co-Star-A-Rooney.
- He writes his journal in Elvish.
- He was the last character of the series to give a confession.
- In Gift-A-Rooney, he wore a beret, a fake mustache, carried a baguette, and spoke in a French accent when portraying Michael, his ‘identical twin’. According to Joey, Michael plays chess and frames him for doing bad things.
- The only episodes where Joey doesn't have a confessional are Team-A-Rooney, Kang-A-Rooney, Fa La La La-A-Rooney, Slump-A-Rooney, Moms-A-Rooney, Shoe-A-Rooney, Flashback-A-Rooney, Song-A-Rooney, Space-Werewolf-A-Rooney, Pottery-A-Rooney, Helgaween-A-Rooney, Champ-A-Rooney, Continued-A-Rooney, Co-Star-A-Rooney, Meatball-A-Rooney, Ask Her More-A-Rooney, Coach-A-Rooney, Secret-Admirer-A-Rooney, Dream-A-Rooney, Home Run-A-Rooney, Scoop-A-Rooney, Choose-A-Rooney, Friend-A-Rooney, SkyVolt-A-Rooney, Linda and Heather-A-Rooney, Roll Model-A-Rooney, and Voice-A-Rooney, a total of 27.