Wagon Wheel Wednesday

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

Ingredients:
~ 30ml Disaronno Amaretto
~ 15ml Chambord
~ 15ml Mozart Gold Chocolate
~ 60ml cream
~ chocolate syrup

Instructions:
Shake all of the ingredients together, then strain into a brandy balloon topped off with garnishes of chocolate wafer and flake shavings.

I don't know if you can get Wagon Wheels in the US, but here in the UK, they're a round biscuit topped with marshmallow and covered with chocolate. I'm not keen on them myself as I don't like marshmallow, but apparently people complain a lot that the biscuits have got smaller over the years. But that's the British for you, we could complain about anything, even biscuits!

Anyway, on to less biscuity things... Well, apparently Mark-Paul is as keen to see a naked Breckin as the rest of us. Make of that what you will:

A naked @breckinmeyer? Where's the petition? Video - A Message to the Fans - TNTdrama.com tntdrama.com/video/?oid=299…

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar (@MP_Gosselaar) April 11, 2012

Mark-Paul was also nice enough to retweet some promo pics and spoilery stuff on upcoming plots and guest stars, bits of which I have put under the cut for those people who are avoiding that sort of thing.

As the second season of Franklin & Bash opens, Peter and Jared are forced to tackle a little more responsibility. After being accused of misconduct, they begin to question the loyalty of colleagues, as well as question if they are staying true to who they really are. They now face a number of truly daunting tasks to ensure partner status at Infeld-Daniels and we find out the real reason Infeld hired them.

As Franklin & Bash delves more deeply into the characters personal lives this season, viewers will be introduced to ex-wives, parents and new love interests played by an impressive list of award winning guest stars. Among them, Kevin Nealon (Weeds) plays an offbeat executive the boys need to sign in order to move upward in the firm. And, Martin Mull (Two and a Half Men) plays a judge subjected to their most recent, outlandish court escapade: a death-defying water tank stunt.

Also appearing this season, Peter’s freewheeling, indecisive, "Earth Mom" Colleen Bash, played by Jane Seymour (Wedding Crashers), meddles in her son’s current love affair with a cop, played by Kat Foster ('Til Death). Jared also gets a taste of family and love when he winds up in court up against estranged father Leonard Franklin, played by Beau Bridges (The Second Civil War). Jared also meets a love interest played by Shiri Appleby (Roswell, Life Unexpected) as a smart, sweet and sassy associate of a senior partner at Infeld-Daniels charged with investigating our heroes.

Nothing can prepare Peter and Jared, however, for the most unusual challenge of their career: defending one of Infeld’s many ex-wives, played by Cybill Shepherd (Cybill). To make matters even more complicated, they will have do so by facing off against Jango & Rossi, the B-list version of themselves: Eric Jango, played by Seth Green and Ed Rossi played by Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty).

Chris Klein (American Pie) will guest-star as a charismatic politician and old high school buddy of Peter’s, and Paul Schulze (Nurse Jackie) will play Klein’s campaign manager. Rick Fox (He Got Game), Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings), Peter Weller (Robocop), Boris Kodjoe (Resident Evil: Retribution) and Kimberly Caldwell (American Idol) will also join the cast of guest stars.

Breckin and Mark-Paul on set - I think we've see this one before, but it never hurts to have another look!


Why do Jared's shirt, vest and tie not appear to match? Did he get dressed in the dark? Did Bear dress him? Is Bear actually colour blind?! Answers on a postcard...


Peter and Jared (with Jared doing his impression of that figure on the crossing that tells you when it's safe to walk, by the look of it!)


Finally, in an attempt to kick-start those creative juices, I had a fun meme come up on my flist the other day, involving loads of questions about 'firsts', and it got me thinking - If the Infeld & Daniels team had a go at answering these questions, what would they say? So I've adapted some of the questions, and if you have any thoughts on what Damien's first concert was, or who was the first person to text Carmen this morning, let us know in the comments. They don't have to be long thoughts, but who knows - it might just spark an idea for someone...

1) Who was their first prom date with?
2) Do they still talk to their first love?
3) What was their first alcoholic drink?
4) What was their first job?
5) What was their first car?
6) Who was the first person to text them today?
7) Who was their first best friend and do they still talk?
8) Where was their first sleep over?
9) What is the first thing they do when they get home?
10) What was the first thing they did this morning?
11) What was the first concert they ever went to?
12) Their first tattoo?
13) Their first piercing?
14) What is the first movie they remember seeing?
15) When was their first detention?
16) Who was their first roommate?
17) Who was the first person to ask for their hand in marriage?

Have at it, have fun, and - most importantly - have a drink! ;o)

Comments

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know I'm commenting on my own post, but I want to play too! Firstly - no mention of Bear in the Season 2 spoilers? What's up with that? Is he not going to be the recurring character that we all hoped for?! So sad... Secondly - Here're a couple of thoughts to kick things off...

2) Bear's first love wasn't meant to be because he was going to be a lawyer and she was a circus bear. He still thinks about her...

6) The first person to text Damien this morning was Hanna, but if anyone asked him about it, he'd lie and say that it was Infeld. The first person to text Peter this morning was Jared. It was probably rude!

10) The first thing that Jared did this morning was kick Peter to go and make coffee and because he was hogging all the covers!

12) Jared's first tattoo was when he was in college. He pretended that it didn't hurt but Peter remembers holding his hand the entire way through.

I hope that other people have thoughts that they want to share...

[jekesta]

The first thing that Jared did this morning was kick Peter to go and make coffee and because he was hogging all the covers!

YEs, yes yes yes yes. OH SLEEPY JARED. Nmsnnmnnmnsm.

He pretended that it didn't hurt but Peter remembers holding his hand the entire way through.

AGAIN NMNMNMNNMmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnn. Of all the prompts in this meme I want tattoo fic or piercing fic. Piercing fic. Or tattoo fic.

[jekesta]

Did Bear dress him?

I will comment to you more PROPERLY but OH GOD THIS. SO MUCH LOVE.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

I know, the scope for a Bear / Jared spin-off is endless. I have no idea why the powers that be don't seem to be seeing it the way we do...? *confused*

[misslola89.livejournal.com]

17) Who was the first person to ask for their hand in marriage?

I find it highly improbable that there hasn't been at least one drunken proposal between Peter and Jared.

Haven't had a Wagon Wheel in so long! Though I'm inclined to believe the people who say they're getting smaller because I think the same about most other things (namely Mars Bars and Monster Munch)

Also... so freakin' excited for S2!

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

I find it highly improbable that there hasn't been at least one drunken proposal between Peter and Jared.

I so want fic about this. Someone needs to just give in and write wedding fic, because you know that it could so easily happen!

I didn't realise you were a fellow Brit too - oops, my bad! And yeah, Monster Munch have definitely got smaller. I remember when they were so huge you had to bite off each of the toes first just to get in in your mouth (and I swear that isn't just because my mouth was a lot smaller back in 1982!) Ah, memories... ;o)

[jekesta]

I find it highly improbable that there hasn't been at least one drunken proposal between Peter and Jared.

OH GOD OH GOD I LOVE WHEN THEY GET MARRIED. In my head proposing to each other is nearly all they do. In a million beautiful ways. Although generally quietly and looking at the floor. Which is probably the best way of proposing to your straight bff.

[fobmarwi.livejournal.com]

They keep putting this blue ties on Breckin to make his eyes pop, I think, which is ridiculous because you have to be blind not to see THOSE BEAUTIFUL EYES!!

The idea of Bear dressing Jared in the dark is too tempting and I fear the day that episode airs and Bear ends up being just a bear. I propose making Bear a metaphore for lack of pay-off, just in case...

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

They could dress him in a sack and he'd still have beautiful eyes!

And yes, I fear that with everything we've built Season 2 up to be, we're gonna need a metaphor for lack of pay-off, because I don't think that they could come up with anything as awesome as we have, especially Bear!

[jekesta]

Bear ends up being just a bear

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

He might be just a bear to everyone else, but Jared will always know he's so much more. I expect canon will turn out to be some awful alternate universe, where Jared just looks at Bear and half feels something for a second, but then shakes it off and tells himself sternly that it's just a bear, and Bear can't move, can't even blink, just has to watch Jared walk away from him. But that's an AU I can sort of live with.

If, on the other hand, they've been spending these last months CUTTING OUT BEAR'S ONLY SCENE, I am going to cry.

[jekesta]

I love mpg wanting breckin naked. I like to think that he spends a lot of time casually suggesting to directors that this scene would be way better naked, and then pouting that they never listen.

One of my friends randomly emailed me today to say that she'd really like to see Breckin dressed as a bee. I WOULD NOW REALLY LIKE TO SEE HIM DRESSED AS A BEE.

Did you see the beautiful clip of Garcelle Beauvais being BEAUTIFUL and talking about Hanna in a low beautiful voice? I LOVE HER A LOT.

I am rubbish at your meme on account of all my answers being: PETER AND JARED ARE GAY AND IN LOVE. But I will try to have more thoughts than that:

Jared's prom date was Annie Banford, but after about an hour he found her making out with the quarterback. So he left, took the limo his dad had paid for, picked up Peter - pretended he was asking him out, gave him a rose, everything, and Peter played along - and they drove all over town all night, playing loud music and getting thoroughly drunk, Jared in his tux and Peter in his scruffy jeans. Eventually woke up in a field at about seven the next morning, curled together using Peter's coat as a blanket.

First thing they do when they get home: Champagne and party blast if they won; locked doors and bourbon if they didn't.

Jared's first real tattoo was boring, some chinese symbol that looked really cool in the book when he was seventeen and looks ridiculous on his shoulder now he's 33. But the one he thinks of as first isn't even there. When Peter was fourteen he'd got an ink stamp for his birthday, for his books, 'property of Peter Bash'. Jared had been messing with it and stamped the back of his arm, just to see if it worked. He'd done it without thinking, but then he looked at it and felt weird. Really weird. He'd rolled his sleeve down, and ignored it. But left it there for the next three days. In one way it washed off, but in another way it never really did.

Peter's first detention was for fighting and his mom was furious and his coach was mad because he had to miss a game. But the graffiti he'd found on the locker room wall - and quickly washed away - was disgusting and he knew who'd done it, and they'd deserved the few punches he'd landed. He was tired of putting up with them all talking as if they knew anything. It wasn't like that with him and Jared.

Who was their first best friend and do they still talk? PETER AND JARED ARE GAY AND IN LOVE.

[fobmarwi.livejournal.com]

Can I just love you for everything you just wrote??
I WANT PROM!FLASHBACK !!!!!

'Peter and Jared are gay and in love' should be the new tagline, that's the best way to describe the show....

[teh-bug.livejournal.com]

wait, what do you mean Jared won't be dressed like a bee?! :(((((((

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of casual nudity being suggested on set. I'd like to think that it works both ways too, or maybe Breckin got enough of MPG's nudity during the pilot... I'm sorry, I just made myself laugh at the thought of there ever being such a thing as 'enough of MPG's nudity'!

Also, Breckin dressed as a bee is so very random that I kinda want to see it too...

I love, love, love all your meme thoughts, especially the prom one. Can I second the request for flashback prom fic?! And the 'coming home' thing? As much as I want them to win and be happy, is it wrong that I so want to read about the bourbon and locked doors...?

In one way it washed off, but in another way it never really did.

So. Much. Love... Seriously.

PETER AND JARED ARE GAY AND IN LOVE.

Hee! Quote of the week, for sure!

[odannygirl7.livejournal.com]

*squees* The tattoo one! So beautifully tragic.

[rogoblue.livejournal.com]

Answering what I can for Damien,

Damien never had a prom date. He attended the American high school in Paris and his older girlfriend wanted to have a meal in a 5 star restaurant with him rather than spending time with other high schoolers.

He still talks to her (the prom date) and she can still make him blush.

Damien had a Stella (imported beer).

He worked at a country club as a caddy.

First car--A used Audi, so he learned humility.

Hanna texted him first today.

First best friend (with whom the first sleepover took place) is the guy who sent the pleasing myself video to Infeld Daniels and is now a mortal enemy.

He takes off his suit jacket and tie when he gets home.

He makes coffee in the morning.

He can't remember his first concert. The first few are a blur in his mind.

No tatts. No piercings.

Bambi is the first movie he can recall, which might explain a lot.

Detention? Seriously? Damien never got caught. How could you think differently?

Her name was Lydia and she rocked his world--first roommate.

He wanted to ask Hanna but she'd made it clear in various ways that she had no intention of marrying, so he gave it a miss.

[teh-bug.livejournal.com]

Bambi is the first movie he can recall, which might explain a lot.

Ha! I love it!

He wanted to ask Hanna but she'd made it clear in various ways that she had no intention of marrying, so he gave it a miss.

*wibbles* Waaaahhhhhh!!!! If they don't get together this season, I may cry! *wibbles moar*

[jekesta]

Damien never had a prom date. He attended the American high school in Paris and his older girlfriend wanted to have a meal in a 5 star restaurant with him rather than spending time with other high schoolers.

SO PERFECT.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I *really* want to know more about Damien's first roommate! ;o)

And I swear, when I was starting to think about these questions, I had it in my head that the first film Carmen remembered was Dumbo! Now I have them both bonding over a few too many glasses of wine and traumatic Disney experiences...

[teh-bug.livejournal.com]

I wanna play too! :D

2) His name was Darren Wilkes. He was a year older than her in high school, the only guy with a sharper tongue than her and had abs you could build a house on. When he graduated, he went to a community college and told her, he'd wait for her. He dropped out his first semester and told Hanna that she probably shouldn't even bother. Hanna was too proud to listen, got accepted into UCSD on a full scholarship and didn't look back. They broke up three weeks into her second semester, when she realized she could never persuade him to come back to school and never spoke to him again.

6) These days if it's not Hanna's sister texting her about her plans for the weekend or Hanna's best friend from college bragging about her latest male conquest, it's usually Jared whining about how bored he is and/or commenting on how much he likes her shirt, but he likes it better off and by the way...etc, etc, etc. Once upon a time, however, it used to be Damien with a "Lunch today? I miss you." or sometimes "Good morning, beautiful" or once, just once it was, "Just in case you forgot overnight, I love you."

7) Damien's best friend (and pretty much only friend, if he's perfectly honest about it) is David Aldersmith. Hanna describes him to Franklin and Bash as Damien's evil twin ("Evil? As in, Karp's the nice one? Are you sure that's possible?" "I wouldn't have believed if I hadn't met the cretin myself...") and even Stanton has a hard time keeping a civil smile on his face ("Oh, David... You're in town again, are you?") As far as Damien's concerned, David's the reason for all the adventure in his life. As far as everyone else is concerned, David is the reason that certain people's juvenile records are sealed and the Stanton has so many "new friends" in the DA's office.

10) The first thing Carmen does in the morning is kick dirty clothes out of her path into the kitchen. Then she sighs deeply and starts a pot of coffee.

12) Hanna's first and only tattoo is of the Big Dipper constellation high on her left inner thigh. She did it her sophomore year in college, halfway because Nicole from across the hall didn't think she had the balls to do it and halfway because she thought the lone freckle that was down there looked ugly and awkward...so she added some stars and made it look better. (At least she thought so until she grew out of her twenties, but by that point she just didn't care anymore.)

13) Stanton Infeld has his right nipple pierced. It appears to be his only piercing, although Damien's not asking and he really wishes he didn't even know that much.




I may be back for more later! :D

[jekesta]

I love Stanton having a pierced nipple and possibly other things. I love Damien having a terrible best friend. Oh god Hanna's text messages.

[rogoblue.livejournal.com]

I like that Damien's friend is reviled, but that Damien appreciates him for the "adventures" he'd never have had otherwise. That just fits in a very odd way.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

"Just in case you forgot overnight, I love you."

Oh Damien, you ridiculously uptight but secretly romantic bastard, you - just do it already! I also love that Jared would still text Hanna with crude and flirty comments.

Damien's adventures with his 'evil twin' best friend sound like a spin-off series all of their own - I loved Stanton's reaction to him and I absolutely need to know more about those sealed juvenile records!

And Stanton's pierced nipple - that just makes so much sense... ;o)

[jekesta]

Also, I want to say that this is totally my favourite spoiler:

we find out the real reason Infeld hired them

It will probably only lead to crushing disappointment to me because I'm fully convinced it is tied in to the BEAUTIFUL ANGSTY SLASHY past of Infeld/Leonard. But I'm still pretty sure that's where canon is going, so I have hopes.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

I definitely think that canon is hinting towards some dark past between Leonards and Stanton. Part of me wants Stanton to secretly turn out to be Jared's dad, but then where would all Jared's daddy issues go? I'd hate to lose one half of every argument that Peter and Jared ever had...

[candypinksocks.livejournal.com]

I'm going to play and answer these as Jared...

1) He was going to go with Peter. They had a pact - if either of them couldn't get dates then they'd go together. Without the other one knowing, neither of them made much of an effort to get a date. Peter's mom arrange the limo and dinner before, even got them matching button holes. Then Leonard got wind of the plan and set Jared up with the daughter of one of his firm's senior partners. Peter ended up going stag. Just one more thing Jared will never forgive his father for.

2) Jared's first love was Amy in kindergarten. She pulled his hair and stole his pb and j sandwich and stamped on his juice box, the juice went down the front of Jared's pants and he spent the rest of the day looking like he peed his pants. He cried all the way home. The next day Amy bought him a Hershey's Kiss and held his hand when it was nap time. She left him three days later for Robbie because he had crunchy peanut butter and not smooth. And no they don't keep in touch.

3) Jared told his dad he had a study date at Peter's. Peter told his mom he had a study date at Jared's. Peter stole a bottle of creme de menthe from his mom's liquor cabinet and Jared took a cigar from the box on his dad's desk. They lit a fire on the beach and toasted marshmallows. They both got sick and swore they were never drinking again. They were 15, that vow lasted 6 months and 15 days.

4) Jared worked ever summer and all the holidays in between at his father's office - filing, making coffee, delivering mail. He got paid the same as every other intern but got less respect because he was the boss' son.

5) Peter found a junker he and Jared could fix up and they did just that, working after school and on weekends. It took them 6 months and was ready just about the time they were ready to take the driver's test. Leonard refused the pay the insurance so Peter ended up keeping the car.

6) Peter - from the bathroom, complaining about stubble burn

7) Peter and YES!

8) Peter's house. Peter never stayed over at Jared's. Peter's mom let them order pizza and drink soda and eat chips in bed.

9) Jared toes off his shoes, gets he and Peter something long and cold from the fridge, checking out whether anything for dinner has miraculously appeared since he looked yeasterday and decides on take out.

10) There was stretching and rib poking and maybe the promise of a blow job before work if Peter got up to make breakfast...

11) If you ask Leonard he'd say it was a Bach recital. If you ask Jared it was The Goo Goo Dolls and Peter saved him from being crushed in the mosh pit.

12) It's been covered up. A needle and ink after school on the last day before the summer break is never a good idea.

13) He's still thinking about that...

14) ET - and he didn't cry, no really he didn't...

15) During third period Science, the day after he first met Peter

16) Peter

17) Amy in Kindergarten, right after she stamped on his juice box.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, Jared's kindergarten love is just adorable! As is the whole bunch of daddy issues that runs through quite a few of these. [loves] And I have to say, I wouldn't be terribly sad to read more about their prom night or them getting drunk together either. Or Peter saving Jared from getting crushing in the mosh pit, because that's just hilarious and romantic all at the same time!

However, the idea of Peter and Jared fixing up a car together put some *very* vivd pictures in my head, involving tight wifebeaters, grease-smeared skin and some very enthusiastic testing of the back seat... Um, yeah. I'll just be over here with those thoughts if anyone wants me!