Hello guys! I'm preparing the analysis of a text in English (it's a dialogue taken from the TV series F.R.I.E.N.D.S.) and I can't explain to me why Joey says this phrase: "Let me tell you somethin’, there IS LOTS of flavors out there. There’s Rocky Road and Cookie Dough and Bing Cherry Vanilla..."
As I know, the subject must determine the form of the verb. In this case the subject "flavours" has plural form and I can't understand why he uses IS instead of ARE (there are lots of flavours). Is it just an informal (and grammatically wrong) use? Could you please explain it to me? :)
P.s. I've just noticed that he also says "there IS Rocky Road and... and". Is it more correct using "there are" in this case?

