Thomas Gibson how 2 . 5 Males Drawn Off a Dharma & Greg Reunion

Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson The greatest surprise of Monday night's large 2 . 5 Males season premiere might have been the unpredicted appearance of Dharma & Greg stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson. While a lot of the episode's secrets had already leaked - in the dying of Charlie Harper towards the funeral appearance of his old female friends - the show handled to help keep the cameos by Elfman and Gibson an entire secret. Works out like Elfman and Gibson were not really in the tape of 2 . 5 Men's season opener. Rather, they shot their cameo days later, and did not get it done before a studio audience. The clip of Elfman and Gibson was later proven to a different audience to be able to record their reaction and laughter - which crowd, which signed a non-disclosure agreement, handled to help keep it quiet. "Nobody appeared to place it available, that was type of nice," Gibson states. 2 . 5 Males executive producer Chuck Lorre seemed to be the creator behind Dharma & Greg, which went on ABC from 1997 to 2002. (Trivia note: It is the first show to feature Lorre's now-famous weekly vanity card messages.) Gibson, who's already an organization CBS player (because the star from the network's lengthy-running drama Criminal Minds), was immediately game towards the idea. "I acquired a phone call and Chuck desired to possess some surprises making a really large splash for that first episode," Gibson states. "I believed it was a very funny idea." This is exactly why, nine years after Dharma & Greg discontinued the environment, Elfman and Gibson - bickering just like a couple which has now been married fifteen years - were one of the guest stars turning up to have a look in the Malibu beach house formerly occupied by Charlie, and today available on the market. John Stamos was another cameo. One hiccup: Dharma & Greg was created by twentieth century Fox TV, while 2 . 5 Males is really a Warner Bros. Television show. Lorre did not secure permission to make use of the figures, but technically he did not have to: Elfman and Gibson never known to one another as "Dharma" or "Greg", plus they were simply charged as special guest looks, without actual character names. "I'm not sure whether it was Dharma and Greg," Gibson states having a wink. "It might have been another couple." But even casual Dharma & Greg audiences most likely acquired around the similar character types. Elfman, for instance, walked lower the steps marveling concerning the home's "feng shui." Then your two start squabbling, Gibson indicates the divorce, and Elfman offers to "take both you and your uptight bourgeois family for everything you have.Inch (Should you recall, the conflict between Dharma's hippy character and Greg's uptight family provided the setting for that show.) So might be Dharma and Greg around the outs? "They actually appear to become getting some issues," Gibson states. "Let me think situations are still OK together, despite the fact that they may have been each and every others' throats there." Gibson states the scene required around an hour to shoot, which he'd an opportunity to meet up with Elfman. "I had not seen her shortly,Inch he states. A lot of the 2 . 5 Males crew once done Dharma & Greg, which designed for another kind of homecoming, he adds. "To find the opportunity to meet up again, for just an hour or so approximately, was awesome. It had been a household reunion along with a great experience for all of us.Inch It has been a great week for Gibson. Besides showing up within the top-ranked 2 . 5 Males episode, Criminal Minds came back because of its seventh season having a roar. The show averaged a powerful 14.a million audiences along with a 4.1 rating within the grown ups 18-49 demographic - a sensational accomplishment for any show so late in the run. "Never underestimate the American public's taste for gore and mayhem and serial murders," quips Gibson. However the star also credited the return of stars Paget Brewster along with a.T. Prepare along with a "new infusion of one'sInch on the program. "It feels as though what we have done to date this year is the best stuff we have ever done," he states. Obviously, following his 2 . 5 Males gig, Gibson confesses he might have been bitten again through the comedy bug. "You cannot substitute the action of making people laugh," he states. "It's certainly something which stars enjoy.Inch Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!