I do not care what anyone says, the primary two seasons of Elizabeth Meriwether’s “New Woman” ought to be within the pantheon of the funniest sitcoms about roommates. I by no means thought the idea of three (and at instances 4) weirdo dudes residing with a silly-girly chick may very well be as hilarious and bonkers as seen in Fox’s TV sequence. It is a disgrace the present could not preserve that preliminary freshness and goofiness all through its 7-season run, ultimately turning into an unbearable, painfully unfunny, and mawkish mess in its final three seasons — a minimum of for me, and I used to be an enormous fan!
However seasons 3 and 4 are nonetheless loads of enjoyable — even when not on the identical degree because the earlier two — and have their amusing highlights I can by no means get bored with. A kind of is season 4’s fourth episode, “Micro,” which brings us to the very cause you clicked on this text.
The favored star of “Reacher” Alan Ritchson had a visitor function in that episode, taking part in a ripped and good-looking dum-dum known as Matt, who goes on just a few dates with Zooey Deschanel’s titular new woman, Jess. Because it turns into evident on their first date, Jess cannot stand Matt (and his tattoo that claims warrior poet) as a result of he is an absolute doofus who simply occurs to have the physique of a Greek god. However since she made a wager along with her roommate, Nick (Jake Johnson), that she will date this man for a minimum of a month regardless of how silly he seems to be, she pushes on regardless of loathing each second she has to spend with this imbecile.
Finally, Jess even agrees to go dwelling with the man sooner or later, and that is when she’s confronted with one thing so horrendous that she is aware of she has to lose the wager and run away from him as quick as doable. See, Matt may seem like the right specimen of the human male, however he is missing in a single essential division: he is the proprietor of a micropenis.
Auditioning and getting the function in a diner’s parking zone
Not all auditions are created equal. Generally, you get an sudden alternative in the course of the evening, strolling by means of a restaurant’s parking zone, afraid you may get mugged. Then a automotive pulls up, and also you out of the blue see the acquainted face of a director you as soon as labored with earlier than. That is precisely what occurred to Alan Ritchson. In an interview for Wired, the star laughingly shared this anecdote of him heading to a diner late at evening to complete a film script he was engaged on on the time.
He stated, “A blacked-out Audi pulls up in entrance of me, and it was like, oh god, I am gonna get mugged. However I can struggle, so I wasn’t fearful.” Then he continued, “The window goes down, and it is Jay Chandrasekhar from ‘Tremendous Troopers,’ who I labored with on ‘Blue Mountain State.’ (He goes) ‘Hey, buddy!’ and I used to be like, ‘What are you doing? Dude, you possibly can’t simply roll up on any individual in a parking zone at midnight like that.'” However as an alternative of getting robbed, the actor-director instructed Ritchson that he talked about him lately at a Fox assembly since he was set to direct an episode of “New Woman” and thought he’d be nice for this small function. Then the actor requested what is the half, and Chandrasekhar defined, “You are a very cool dude, everyone likes you, and you have a micropenis.”
And as any first rate and assured man would, Ritchson instantly needed to make clear the state of affairs. He went, “So you may have this episode known as ‘Micropenis,’ and also you consider me?! I am the man that you just consider, Jay?!” Positive sufficient, he was the man, accepted the function to play Matt, and the remaining is sitcom historical past.
