My pants are tight.
[Just Shoot Me; David Cross (January 5, 1999)]
In two episodes of “Just Shoot Me” thus far, David Cross plays
“Slow Donnie,” a brother of one of the major recurring characters.
In the first episode, Donnie’s been pretending to be “slow”
ever since he fell out of a tree ten years prior. He’s got the hots
for his brother’s girlfriend (Maya), so he tries to make a move on
her; she tries to expose him. After Maya unsuccessfully tries to seduce
him while leaving her office phone/intercom open, he utters this phrase
in his “slow” voice (filled with anxiety and confusion, for his
unsuspecting brother on the other end of the line); he then later points
at his genitals while mouthing this phrase a second time (at Maya). Apparently
this episode was rejected out-of-hand until Cross signed on, as the writers
felt he was most likely the only person who could play the “slow”
character in both a humorous and non-offensive manner.
– Jeff Stendec (October 6, 2001)
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