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“Parks and Recreation.”The actors had a conversation in O’Heir’s new book, “Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation,” about Pratt, 45, speaking out against the way O’Heir’s character in the NBC sitcom was taunted. “I remember you, particularly more than some others, being worried about some of the Jerry bits being…mean,” O’Heir told Pratt, according to Variety.“I remember you saying, ‘Jimmy, you okay with these?’… Do you remember that feeling at all?” O’Heir asked.

Erik Per Sullivan, famous for playing Dewey on “Malcolm in the Middle,” has been photographed out in public for the first time in 18 years. Per Sullivan, 33, was spotted last Wednesday leaving his house in Boston to grab a coffee.

“Pod Meets World” podcast, which he co-hosts with Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) and Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence).The group brought up the season 6 episode “Hogs and Kisses,” in which Rachel McGuire (Maitland Ward) started a food fight with Eric and Jack (Matthew Lawrence). In the episode, Rachel instigates a food fight to show Eric and Jack not to treat her differently because she’s a girl.Friedle claimed the whole scene was a “sexual thing.” “And then the feet in the marinara on my face, [that] was all a sexual thing,” he claimed.

Rashida Jones was at peace when it was time to clock out of work for good. On Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hang” podcast, the actress, 49, got candid on briefly appearing on “The Office” as Karen Filippelli, who was an employee of Dunder Mifflin’s Stamford branch.“I had done a year on ‘The Office’ and they let me go, which made sense.

sitcom “about nothing,” took credit for the viral “raw dogging” travel trend.“So this ‘raw dogging’ has become a bit of a thing, and I feel a bit responsible,” the 60-year-old actor said in an Instagram video Monday.His clip included a screenshot of a 2024 BuzzFeed article titled “People Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flights Now, And We Need To Know How You Feel About This Trend.” The viral travel trend involves plane passengers enduring long flights without any entertainment. Warburton’s video then showed a scene from “Seinfeld” Season 9 (which aired in the late 1990s) where David chooses to “raw dog” on a flight while sitting beside his girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).“You want something to read?” Elaine asks David.“No, I’m good,” David responds, while staring at the back of the seat in front of him.“Are you gonna take a nap?” Elaine asks.When David confirms he has no plans to sleep on the flight, Elaine asks him, “You just gonna sit there staring at the back of the seat?”After showing the “Seinfeld” clip, Warburton joked to his followers, “My concern is that somebody’s gonna get hurt, and if you go into this thing blindly… You know what I’m saying?”“Just not reading, watching something, you better be OK with what’s going on up here, inside your ol’ noggin.

This family is still intact. After fans thought Ty Burrell, 57, who played the beloved Dunphy family patriarch, Phil, on “Modern Family” had died, he reflected on where that rumor started.On Monday’s episode of his former co-star’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast, Burrell recalled how missing a reunion special a few years back caused the speculation to spin.“We had that one big reunion,” Ferguson, 49, recalled, as Burrell stated: “That I couldn’t make it to.”“That hilariously,” the podcast host said.“Well, I died,” Burrell stated matter-of-factly.

on Reddit.Another viewer wrote, “Never seen an episode in my life and I got it instantly then thought it was too obvious.”A passionate fan chimed in and added, “MAS*H and Cheers were both on the air in the early 1980s… I think both would qualify.” The comment continued, “This was one of the few triple stumpers that my wife and I both got instantly. We’ve never really watched more than a handful of episodes, but a capacity sign like that meant it had to be in a public place, and Cheers famously takes place in a bar.”The popular game show has been notorious for challenging its players with pop culture questions.Earlier this year, a “Jeopardy!” contestant walked off the stage after he missed a clue about Céline Dion.“Sharing its title with an earlier, more upbeat Huey Lewis hit, it was No.

Chuck Lorre has started off the podcast confessions with a bang.“The Big Bang Theory” co-creator, 72, revealed a regret of his when it came to Kaley Cuoco’s character, Penny, on the series, which ran from 2007 to 2019 on CBS.“We had so many episodes to go before we started to understand that there was a brilliance to Penny’s character that we had not explored,” Lorre said while on the first-ever episode of “The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast” on Monday.The series followed best friends, roommates and physicists Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg).“We did the very cliché in the beginning, you know, goofy blond who says foolish things. It’s a clichéd character, right? And we missed it,” Lorre told host Jessica Radloff.

“Dinner’s On Me” podcast.“The only time — well, I’ve been an a–hole many times — but I would always call out reporters,” McHale said.“And they’d be like, ‘Such a great show. It’s just so amazing,'” he added. “And it would be one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing.

Ron Howard is taking a trip down memory lane.On Feb. 15, the 70-year-old posted a picture to Instagram of his “The Andy Griffith Show” co-stars Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, visiting him on set in the ’90s.“A fun photo of the day in ‘97 when #AndyGriffith and #DonKnotts surprised me with a visit to the set of #Ransom in #Queens,” Howard captioned the image of the three men smiling.

Sally Struthers wanted to quit “All in the Family” — and blames its creator, the late Norman Lear.The actress, 77, opened up about being on the sitcom from 1971 to 1979 and working with the showrunner, who died in 2023 at age 101. Struthers said on the Monday episode of the “Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti” podcast that she finally felt comfortable opening up about him because “he’s gone.” As she put it: “I wasn’t a huge fan of his.” “All those years on the show, Norman and his wife would have dinner parties,” recalled Struthers.

“Cosby Show” actor Geoffrey Owens said he’s still struggling to make ends meet after he was forced to quit his job at a Trader Joe’s grocery store amid an “attack on my privacy” Owens, known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the six-time Emmy-winning series, claimed he’s “not much better off” today than he was when a customer snapped a photo of the actor working behind the grocery store register in 2018.“Even today, right now, as we speak, I still struggle to make a living,” Owens told Atlanta’s V-103 radio station on Dec. 18.

the US version of “The Office” says a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the workplace sitcom left him “a bit rankled.” Mike Schur, who wrote on “SNL” before he left the late night show to work on “The Office,” shared his thoughts about a sketch called “The Japanese Office” during an interview on a recent episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast.”The cringey spoof aired on the May 17, 2008 episode of “SNL,” which was hosted by “The Office” star Steve Carell. “It didn’t scratch the itch of reflecting [‘The Office’] in the way that I was hoping the show would be reflected somehow,” Schur, 49, said.

Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek are reuniting for a new four-episode run of “Malcolm in the Middle” for Disney+ — 25 years after the beloved sitcom first launched.The show ran for seven seasons starting in 2000 and was hailed for looking at ordinary life through the eyes of an extraordinary youngster, now fully grown: Malcolm, played by Muniz, who has a genius I.Q.“I have been waiting for this moment for 18 years. Let’s find out where Malcolm and his family are now,” Muniz said in a video message accompanying the announcement.The new four episodes will be crafted by original series creator Linwood Boomer.

“Dinner’s on Me” podcast.“The Comeback” star said that when the cast of the hit NBC comedy show reunited years later, it felt like no time had passed between them.“Just us at someone’s house and [we] had dinner, and like, didn’t miss a beat,” Kudrow said.“Friends” aired on NBC in the 1990s and spanned 10 seasons from 1994-2004. It followed a group of friends in their mid-20s going through life lessons, family, love, drama and friendship.

“Who’s the Boss?” with Tony Danza. Light, 75, spoke about her experience working with Danza, 73, during a roundtable at TheWrap’s Power Women Summit 2024 in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.

People magazine of the series.“A Man on the Inside” is based on a real-life story, chronicled in the 2020 documentary “The Mole Agent.”“There’s something inherently funny about a 76-year-old man who is a [retired] college professor, his life shut down, his daughter’s worried, so she says, ‘Get a project,’ and he happens to whimsically find a project where he becomes an undercover spy in a retirement home,” Danson told the outlet.He continued, “We get to explore aging, all those things that, in this country, sometimes we’re afraid to talk about, memory loss, everything, we broach with a tenderness and a seriousness still contained in a kind of light-hearted, joyful way.”“I’m so happy because I’m 76 and I get to be part of this conversation, which is becoming more and more of my conversation in life,” he said.Danson made his TV debut in 1975 on the soap opera “Somerset” and made one-off appearances in several series like “Laverne & Shirley,” “Magnum P.I.” and “Taxi” before landing his breakout role on “Cheers.”“Cheers” launched Danson to stardom, playing bar owner Sam Malone across 275 episodes from 1982 to 1993.Danson continued in film and TV, starring on the sitcom “Becker” and later “CSI” and a season of “Fargo,” as well as guest starring in episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as a fictionalized version of himself.In 2016, Danson starred on the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” earning him rave reviews and three Emmy nominations.The actor has headlined a multitude of series in his career, and with his latest, he’s finding special meaning in the story.“I’m a silly man who remains youthful by being silly.

“The Simpsons” is notorious for serving up hundreds of thousands of jokes while eerily predicting the future. And after voicing Lisa Simpson for 36 seasons, youngest child of Homer and Marge Simpson, Yeardley Smith was amazed that one prediction came true — twice!“Trump as President,” Smith revealed exclusively to The Post at Vulture Fest over the weekend.

residents of Springfield?Well for Nancy Cartwright, who has voiced Bart Simpson since the show’s premiere on Fox in 1989, she hopes to see “The Simspons” continue for another 36 seasons.“I think I would just like to actually make that target that we’ve done 40,” she exclusively told The Post at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday. “That would be incredible. And that we’re all still alive.

“The Office,” and creating “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “The Good Place,” enters the world of retirement homes for his new Netflix show, “A Man on the Inside.” It’s based on the documentary “The Mole Agent.”The show touches on “a lot of themes that I have been thinking about, as I think many people have: aging in general,” Schur, 49, told The Post. “My parents are [the main character] Charles’ age, roughly speaking, and so were many of my friends’ parents.

on TikTok and Instagram — and his unorthodox approach has seemingly worked to make his show more popular. In one of his viral videos, captioned, “Binge English Teacher on Hulu,” audio from a “Gilmore Girls” episode can be heard. In the original episode, Kirk (Sean Gunn), tells his girlfriend’s father, “I love your daughter.” When the father asks what he has to offer, Kirk says, “Nothing.