So we premiered last week, and you all kicked some major tushy in getting our show some good numbers! Thanks for showing up! Welcome to the universe of Notes from the Underbelly for all you Idol watchers.
Now this is your mission, should you choose to accept it: Call, email, send a smoke signal to anyone and everyone you’ve ever met and tell them — not ask them — to turn on our show and enjoy the funny this Wednesday at 8:30 pm/ET on ABC. If you do, some great stuff is going to happen for you. I don’t know what that is, but it’s gonna be sweet. Real, real sweet.
In this next episode Lauren (Jenn Westfeldt) is having trouble deciding if she should quit her job as a high-school guidance counselor to be a "stay-at-home mom" or keep her job and be a "working mom." Julie (Melanie Paxson) attempts to woo her to stay home, while Cooper makes an equally compelling — and might I add sexier and hotter — reason to stay in the workforce. The girls duke it out to keep Lauren on their team. Check it out to see which lady friend of Lauren's wins.
Meanwhile, Andrew and Danny take to some heavy lifting and get their sweat on… a lot. In this sweaty episode. We shot at the Warner Brothers Ranch. There are no cattle or horses from what I saw, so why it’s called "The Ranch" has yet to be explained to me. I know there is probably some fabulous old-school reason, but for now I got nothing.
While we were filming the yoga scene, the air conditioning in the building broke, and it made for a very sweaty, tense day. The crew was hot; directors, writers and makeup and hair all lost their "cool." You probably think there is some payoff to this, but no. It just goes on.... Actually, I think Melanie and I kept saying: "If I had to be sweating, there is no place I’d rather be pitting than here at 'The Ranch' with our funny writers Mitch and Jana and Barry "Live in Fear" Sonnenfeld." We are eternally grateful for working and stinking at the same time. Stinking from the sweat, that is. Sweat seemed like a funny idea when I started blogging. Now I realize... it is not.
What is funny is Michael Weaver (Danny). During the filming of the show he and his wife found out that they were pregnant. And much like the pilot episode, they couldn’t tell us they were until the first trimester was over. I swear to god, it was some of his best work. Seriously. I’m kidding, Weaver. Easy. Weaver is the kind of actor that can make any line funny. His delivery is unique to him, and that horse's mane of red hair he "maintains" on his funny head is fantastic. Danny and Cooper have some good stuff coming up in the next few episodes. Could there be chemistry? I think so. Subtle, yet mysterious. All the makings of a hilarious comedy. Seriously though... ouch. I even blogged "seriously though…."
Thanks for watching, guys. Stay tuned. It only gets funnier... and hotter. Sex-wise, that is.
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