It’s no secret that we’re big fans of “Happy Endings” around here. The show really came into its own during its second season, and it gave us a royal crapload of fun, GIFable moments in the process. New York Magazine has an article about this transformation in their just-released television issue, and, while the whole thing is pretty interesting for fans of the show, one particular excerpt jumped out at me: the show’s male leads (Adam Pally, Damon Wayans, Jr., and Zachary Knighton) once tried to fight Chris Evans (Captain America from The Avengers) during a party at the Playboy Mansion.
In fact, there’s such a level of chumminess that the cast’s offscreen stories sound eerily like plots for a future episode, like the time Pally, Wayans, and Knighton got invited to the Playboy Mansion. “Those parties are just kind of crazy, you know what I mean?” says Pally. “Like, obviously, they’re exactly what you think of. Chris Evans was there, and he recognized Zach, and he was like, ‘Dude I love you, you’re a great actor, but that show you’re on is bullsh-t.’ I don’t even think he was talking about “Happy Endings,” I think he was talking about “FlashForward,” but I was a little under the influence, and so I got up in Chris Evans’s face like an idiot—because he would have destroyed me, he would have ripped my arms off—and I was like, ‘Whoa, not cool, Captain America.’ And then Damon backed me up, and I was like, ‘We’re going to kick the sh-t out of you, Chris Evans.’ And then security broke us up. So there you go.” [NY Mag]
First of all, if this story is true, Chris Evans is kind of a dickhole. “Hey bro, love what you do, but I hate your sh-theap of a show. Anyway, I’m gonna go try to get my hangdown sticky in the grotto. Stay real.” But, more importantly, the cast of “Happy Endings” sounds like an absolute blast to hang out with. I mean, I love my friends and everything, but I so rarely get to go to the Playboy Mansion and throw around phrases like “Whoa, not cool, Captain America” and “We’re going to kick the sh-t out of you, Chris Evans” when I’m with them. It’s one of my real regrets in life.
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If Chris Evans ever badmouths what a person does, that person should just respond, “Flame on!” and run around the room yelling, “WOOSH!”
In the latest Hollywood Babble-on Podcast, Kevin Smith talks about being at a radio station with Jason Mewes and on the air was Chris Evans. Mewes, in another room behind the glass proceeds to say all kinds of weird things into the mic and play with all the buttons. The tech flipped the switch so that he could be heard on air in the middle of Evans interview. The DJs laughed (Polite or otherwise) and Evans gave them a withering stare. Mewes backed away from the mic.
Might have annoyed me too, but you gotta learn when not to be an a-hole.
I’ve said before that I would trade any six of my friends for the characters of happy endings to be in my life but it sounds like its now also true of the actors as well. God damn I love this show.
Chris Evans has always been presented as very down-to-earth in interviews, and FlashForward really WAS a shitheap.
Yeah, alcohol always makes people do intelligent things. Sounds like an unfortunate situation clouded by whiskey and tits.
I agree he seems down to earth but I’m not sure if the star of ‘Push’ really ought to be getting in anyone’s face about FlashForward.
Don’t patronize me, ‘Merica!
I liked Push. Unless you mean the novel by Sapphire, which I’ve never read.
Chazz, when you say ‘Push,’ you actually mean ‘What’s Your Number,’ correct?
Just don’t call him Chris Evert.
that is fucking hilarious.
Win.
If it would impress Eliza Coupe, I’d knock Chris Evans teeth out.
I imagined Eliza Coupe being the one who yelled, “We’re going to kick the shit out of you Chris Evans.” Now going back, I realize I read that wrong…
And then James Caan threw the four of them out by the scruffs of their necks. Isn’t that how all these creepy fucker grotto stories end?
Chris Evans was right though. Zach Knighton was the best part of FlashForward.
I was just about to say how ridiculous I thought his character was, but that doesn’t nearly disqualify him from being the best part of that show.
(Though didn’t a guy jump off a building in one episode? That was cool. I nominate that for best part.)
Famous Jett Jackson jumped off the building!
Okay, now I really want to see Max start shit with a celebrity next season.
I also want to be Max’s BFF, but let’s stick to the realistic dream.
Eliza Coupe at the Comedy awards made Elisha Cuthbert look like Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Listen, Coupe looked good, but there’s no need to make a complete ass of yourself.
I’m gonna go ahead and be that guy that brags that he was the first one to call her Eliza Coupe while other Uproxxians (Uproxxers?) were still calling her “the other blonde girl.” Suck a million.
Speaking of Eliza Coupe, I don’t know what 12 Miles of Bad Road is, but Googling it makes me want to see it.
Everyone involved with FlashForward deserves a punch in the dick. You don’t get time served parole for that show. However, post punch, help the fucker up, and get him a drink. Then a shot for Chlamydia, cause it’s a Playboy party.
Did he give Evans a couple warning lunges? Maybe some maniac blinks?
Chris Evans > Adam Pally + Damon Wayans, Jr. + Zachary Knighton
No, wait…I’m thinking of Ryan Reynolds.
“Whoa, not cool, Captain America,” is such a great phrase because first it says “Whoa,” which makes you realize how REAL the situation really is, followed by “not cool,” which totally sets up how unBRO the person’s immediately previously spoken words were. The finale of the phrase is referring to the actor as a character he portrayed in a couple big super hero movies which were both nearly universally praise. That’s the real kick, you see, the real comedy of the phrase, because Chris Evans isn’t REALLY Captain America, he just played him in a couple movies, but calling him by the character he portrayed is for some reason considered funny by someone somewhere, I guess.
I also like it because it reminds me of Delocated.
+d.
I like all four of those guys and you can’t stop me.
Damn, am I the only one that kind of enjoyed FlashForward until the shit ending? …Guys?