New York has a story about the Happy Endings cast that is so frustrating. Casts will always say they're friends but these guys are the real deal. Since I doubt you or I will ever be cast as a series regular, how can we get them to be our friends? Just read the description of when they first hung out:
The group began bonding the night of the very first table read, when they went for drinks at the Chateau Marmont and ended up at Cuthbert’s house, where it became clear that this group of “friends” was actually going to be friends. “I hope he forgives me [...]
"You know I think we would do it for the sake of comedy, as long as it gets us the comedy that we like. I personally don’t want the show to turn into something too soapy. I think that sometimes these things end up where it all becomes about relationships and people arguing about who is getting together and stuff like that. It loses a bit of the funny and sort of melodramatic in certain spots. I just don’t know if that’s what’s most fun about our show. There’s inherent comedy in all of those sort of fucked up love triangles. I would do it for the sake of that [...]
When Dave joins Max's gym (An actual exercise gym! The gang can't believe it either!), I must once again wrestle with my complete and total love of the gay stereotype mash-up that is Derek. Could those canary yellow gym shorts be any shorter? Considering that the show has no problem with letting Max be a lovable schlemiel, I guess a little upper man thigh never hurt anyone. Or maybe I'm just making excuses for it…no! Max and Derek together is like eating sweet eye caramels, particularly their slow-motion treadmill routine! "Actually he owes me $900. Drama!," Derek chuckles with Dave about Max. "No, seriously how do I get him [...]
Last we left the Happy Endings gang, Alex and Dave had just been down each other’s rabbit holes (Eh? Ew? I’m sorry). While Dave has been frantically trying to call her with visions of unplanned pregnancy dancing in his head (“Group baby?” he muses. “Is that a thing?”), Alex has instead chosen to pretend their hot drunken lovemaking never actually happened. All those phone calls? Well, wouldn’t you know it? Alex’s phone line somehow got crossed with an intrepid home-made cough drop salesman. “Next you’ll be telling me Chaz's cough drops aren't laced with ketamine,” she scoffs at Dave’s attempts to discuss their boning. “They are, trust me. I [...]
Megan Mullally has picked up some great stories over the course of her career, from hiding from a tornado under a card table with Michelle Pfeiffer to taking her shirt off on Parks & Rec before even meeting the director of the episode. Did you know that she was hired to guest star on Happy Endings because Casey Wilson was impressed by her phone's address book at a party, or that she was afraid of being fired for Karen Walker's high-pitched voice on Will & Grace? Well, she was.
