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Danny DeVito: “That so has kept with the theme of the show: They’re selfish bastards. Me too.”
Glenn Howerton: “You are a selfish bastard.”
DD: “Yea! But that’s a great little catalyst.”
Charlie Day: “We used to all get together and read Rob’s material. So when Rob came to us and said he had an idea for a TV show, we were on board. Rob is the most driven man we knew, so we were just hanging onto someone who had some motivation.”
RM: “I had the motivation. They had the talent. So we started leeching off each others’ energy.”
CD: “It was the perfect storm.”
Using their own cameras, Day, Howerton and McElhenney shot an episode for less than $200. It was worth it: Low-rent or no, FX picked up the pilot, which was originally titled It’s Always Sunny on TV. But some changes needed to be made. Though McElhenney originally imagined his characters as actors, too many Hollywood-centric series had already hit the airwaves (Entourage, The Comeback, etc.). The gang switched the setting to a bar in McElhenney’s Philly hometown, and renamed the series. All they needed was a female perspective, which they found in McElhenney’s future wife, Kaitlin Olson.
Kaitlin Olson: “I didn’t know [any of them]. My manager actually asked [after my audition], ‘Were any of them cute?’ And I was like, ‘Nah. Not really.’ But I do take it all back now.”
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RM: “Charlie wrote ‘Nightman’ too. That was completely made up on the spot. [Sings] ‘Nightman, sneaky and mean, spider inside my dreams, I think I love you. You make me want to cry, you make me want to die, I love you, I love you.’
CD: Even the music I made up on the spot.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Day’s wife, who plays “The Waitress” on the show): “He’s always singing weird ass songs on our piano at home.”
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