I guess he was the White Power Ranger all along, huh.

You’re not wrong, but there are plenty of actors who can play villainous assholes and are super nice people offset.

It does make me wonder if the show would have worked nearly as well with Alt-Pierce Fred Willard.

I think it was during the Community table read on YouTube that McHale was talking about the sweaters they had him wear during Season 6 started getting a little ridiculous, and it’s true. On later rewatches, Jeff looks way more ripped as the series goes on.

They rot quicker if they are pressed badly but they all rot eventually. The other issue is you never know which are pressed well and which aren’t until you try and play them.  I am still a physical media guy but I also have ripped all my DVDs and have a plex server in case they stop working.  

Honestly how he describes working with Chase is more proof that Pierce Hawthorne was basically just Chevy

McHale’s not exactly a scrawny guy, either.  He looks slim because of his height but is pretty muscled-up.  

 That this episode is forever banished is such a joke

Luckily I have the DVDs

I got a community alert for this?

Physical media wins again!

That episode was sent to the land of wind and ghosts.

>Chase was frequently trying to mock-fight him and was goading McHale to hit him harder before McHale dislocated the older actor’s shoulder.

COMMUNITY ALERT!

Chase was an asshole even when he was the young, sarcastic, handsome guy. He was a bloviating asshole even in the late 70s.

“Advanced Horseplay” sounds like it could have been the title of that never-seen, referenced-in-clip-shows Western episode

To be fair to McHale, the dislocated shoulder was during the filming of a scene where McHale’s character was practicing boxing by punching Chase’s padded hands, and Chase kept goading McHale to punch harder between takes. So McHale punched the padded hand as hard as he could with his left (McHale’s right handed), and…

I wonder what Chase thinks of McHale literally playing him in A Futile and Stupid Geasture?

Yeah it definitely tracks. Even that utterly repulsive rape + kill "joke" has the vibe of some pathetic old man trying to be edgier than his replacements.

The fact that McHale had the “Chevy Chase” role is an insight I hadn’t heard before. I could see someone with an ego like Chase’s being threatened by the idea that the show had a Handsome, Sarcastic Guy role, and that someone else was playing it. And physically fighting with someone 30 years younger than you…