When you tune into the third season premiere of Cougar Town on ABC (and you will-- right!?), you won’t be able to avoid noticing that all of a sudden Laurie (Busy Philipps) is bogged down with an ankle monitor. Has the party girl’s ways finally caught up to her? How is she going to partake in the “on deck” drinking with the gang if she’s being monitored? Well, don’t worry, Cougar Town-ies (is that a thing?), Busy Philipps set the record straight when LA TV Insider Examiner visited the Los Angeles set just a few weeks ago.
“First of all, I love that Laurie has this ankle monitor; I think it’s appropriate; I think it’s a natural progression!” Philipps smiled. “But it’s not even from her drinking…I get into a bar fight…It’s definitely something to do with Tampa!”
So the anklet isn’t monitoring her blood-alcohol content, which is probably a good thing, but it is monitoring where she is at any given time, and it will go off if she leaves the city limits of Gulfhaven. Which, Philipps pointed out, it does once and “hilarity ensues.”
Philipps only has the extra accessory for about five episodes, and it’s not visible, nor a plot point, all of the time. Dan Byrd, on the other hand, becomes saddled with something that is much more noticeable:
“Busy’s wearing the ankle monitor for several episodes [but] I’m wearing a helmet for several episodes…The helmet was on for eight episodes, which is now half our season,” Byrd previewed. “So I don’t know what we did exactly to deserve that!”
Well, Byrd and Philipps debate just that in the video to the left. Check it out; the cast seems to have as much fun with each other off-screen as they do on-- even without the giant glasses of wine! And be sure to tune in when Cougar Town airs on ABC on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm starting on February 14th 2012.
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