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  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S17E8 “The Golden Bachelor Live”
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  • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Hah as thinking about options I thought DeVito should show up as whoever Combs is playing, the assistant.

    Growing up in the 80s I always liked DeVito overall, from romancing the Stone to Twins, those were just my first recalls of him, assume that gives you an idea of my generation.

    I’ll say I haven’t watched much of it’s always sunny in Philadelphia but it endeared me to learn he enjoyed the comedy so much so they did what it took to accomodate him in the series. Which from what I understand was filming all his scenes for a season when he was there over like a few days.

    Unless I read incorrectly of course but seem to recall that being a thing at the start at least.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auOP
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      4 days ago

      You are right about his making season two’s filming more complex!

      Before production of the second season began, series creator Rob McElhenney found out that DeVito was a fan of the show and a friend of FX president, John Landgraf. McElhenney asked Landgraf to set up a meeting. McElhenney met DeVito at his home and pitched DeVito’s character, Frank Reynolds. DeVito agreed to star in the show, but was only available for twenty days. To have Frank Reynolds in all ten episodes of the second season, all of DeVito’s scenes were filmed before filming the remainder of the season.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia_season_2

      They ended up filming the entire season out of order to accommodate his schedule, which made for a lot of continuity challenges. They started by recording only every shot that involves DeVito. After they no longer had access to him, they went back to those same scenes and recorded everything else, making sure all the sets/costumes were the same as they were during the DeVito shoots.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QSnimzHjO8

      Starts talking about this around 2:35