This video wouldn't play for me at first and I was basically sitting in a corner silently hating the internet. Then I got to see it and it was very hard to stop watching Breckin kissing because he does it so beautifully!
Some nice spoilers turned up on Tumblr too...
Fans of both Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar who watch them on TNT’s Franklin & Bash inevitably look for nods to the past projects that made them famous hidden within the show. Come on, it’s easy enough to assume two dudes who throw hot tub parties and strap on acoustic guitars to work through their tough legal cases are men-children enough to emulate a little bit of the likes of Travis Birkenstock and Zack Morris, right?
Well, the second season of Franklin & Bash features a flashback episode that does just that. Only this time around, it’s Gosselaar who might be playing a little bit of Travis Birkenstock!
“We flash back to see Jared and Peter in their college days,” Meyer revealed to Snakkle on the set. “I think in college they had the safety net of being in college. They didn’t have to work for their rent... They were figuring out who they were going to be and what their style was.”
“I smoked a lot of weed,” laughed Gosselaar of Peter Bash’s younger days.
Zack Morris would certainly not approve of that! And instead of the bleach-blond hair, twentysomething Peter Bash kept his locks long and dark, like Gosselaar’s Jerry Kellerman in Raising the Bar. It’s more an amalgamation of roles, Gosselaar said, than a straight-up callback to any from the pop culture catalogue of classics.
“Your attitude is the Dude from The Big Lebowski. And maybe a little Travis Birkenstock. That may have just bled over by accident,” Meyer pointed out to his costar.
“If we’re talking about an homage, we were in college in 2000. My other character was in college in ’93. It’s a long time ago, America,” Gosselaar reminded. “People were like, ‘Oh, why didn’t you do the blond hair?’ Because that was in the ’80s.”
“I wanted the blond hair!” Meyer countered. “I was kind of doing Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I was doing an homage to Matt Lillard.”
But in all seriousness, Gosselaar said that the parallels that die-hard Clueless or Saved by the Bell fans may draw to Franklin & Bash may be unintentional. When Gosselaar picks up a guitar again during a blowout bash in the man cave in the second season finale of Franklin & Bash, for example, it is without the long chain earring or shiny sequin jacket. Zack Attack training may have helped, but Peter Bash rocks out much more seriously.
“I think both of us would sort of veto anything from our past [overtly popping up on Franklin & Bash] because it just doesn’t fit on our show. I mean, we have fun, but I don’t even know that we’d reference it, because that’s just not this show. I hate to break it to the fans, but that’s not the direction we’re going in,” Gosselaar admitted.
Well, those die-hard fans, of which we’re proud to count ourselves a part, will surely still find little nods nonetheless.
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Date: 2012-07-31 10:15 pm (UTC)Some nice spoilers turned up on Tumblr too...
Fans of both Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar who watch them on TNT’s Franklin & Bash inevitably look for nods to the past projects that made them famous hidden within the show. Come on, it’s easy enough to assume two dudes who throw hot tub parties and strap on acoustic guitars to work through their tough legal cases are men-children enough to emulate a little bit of the likes of Travis Birkenstock and Zack Morris, right?
Well, the second season of Franklin & Bash features a flashback episode that does just that. Only this time around, it’s Gosselaar who might be playing a little bit of Travis Birkenstock!
“We flash back to see Jared and Peter in their college days,” Meyer revealed to Snakkle on the set. “I think in college they had the safety net of being in college. They didn’t have to work for their rent... They were figuring out who they were going to be and what their style was.”
“I smoked a lot of weed,” laughed Gosselaar of Peter Bash’s younger days.
Zack Morris would certainly not approve of that! And instead of the bleach-blond hair, twentysomething Peter Bash kept his locks long and dark, like Gosselaar’s Jerry Kellerman in Raising the Bar. It’s more an amalgamation of roles, Gosselaar said, than a straight-up callback to any from the pop culture catalogue of classics.
“Your attitude is the Dude from The Big Lebowski. And maybe a little Travis Birkenstock. That may have just bled over by accident,” Meyer pointed out to his costar.
“If we’re talking about an homage, we were in college in 2000. My other character was in college in ’93. It’s a long time ago, America,” Gosselaar reminded. “People were like, ‘Oh, why didn’t you do the blond hair?’ Because that was in the ’80s.”
“I wanted the blond hair!” Meyer countered. “I was kind of doing Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I was doing an homage to Matt Lillard.”
But in all seriousness, Gosselaar said that the parallels that die-hard Clueless or Saved by the Bell fans may draw to Franklin & Bash may be unintentional. When Gosselaar picks up a guitar again during a blowout bash in the man cave in the second season finale of Franklin & Bash, for example, it is without the long chain earring or shiny sequin jacket. Zack Attack training may have helped, but Peter Bash rocks out much more seriously.
“I think both of us would sort of veto anything from our past [overtly popping up on Franklin & Bash] because it just doesn’t fit on our show. I mean, we have fun, but I don’t even know that we’d reference it, because that’s just not this show. I hate to break it to the fans, but that’s not the direction we’re going in,” Gosselaar admitted.
Well, those die-hard fans, of which we’re proud to count ourselves a part, will surely still find little nods nonetheless.
I am a very happy camper right now!!