Those darn Eagles made a big mistake cutting Quarterback Jeff Garcia, such a vital component of last year's pretty-darn-successful team.
No, not because they could use him again this year, but because they screwed up It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the no-holds-barred laff-a-thon on cable's FX.
"We were all ready to go with Jeff, and then they cut him, just a couple of weeks before the scheduled shoot," says Rob McElhenney, first among equals as the producer and star of the show -- not counting Danny DeVito, who came along in the second season.
"We tried to get Donovan McNabb, but his agent never even called us back."
Sunny follows the misguided misdeeds of a group of slackers who are willing to violate any social norm that the network will allow, just to improve their standing in society. In the Garcia ep, they've all seen the movie Invicible and figure that like walk-on Vince Papale, they can make the team and get adulation and big money.
With Garcia gone, the guys thought maybe the Eagles organization would give them some help with their show.
Nope. "But at least they let us film in the parking lot," McElhenney said.
The cast palavered at a Fox cocktail party featuring Danny DeVito's Limoncello, a brand the diminutive actor established after showing up schnockered, supposedly under the influence of the Italian liqueur made from Sorrento lemons, on The View. I tasted it. There is no way to get drunk on the stuff. You would go into toxic sugar shock long before the alcohol could take over. Which doesn't mean it wasn't tasty.
Info, and a truly lame limoncello song:http://www.harbrew.com/limoncello.htm
The show's third season starts Sept. 13.