Fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia will remember the pretty iconic episode "Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense". Well, did you know that the iconic scene where Dennis (Glenn Howerton) gets rear-ended in a car whilst eating cereal actually happened?
Of course, the whole thing sounds so hilarious and frankly unrealistic that I didn't think so either. It took the sitcom star himself admitting that it actually happened for anyone to think it did in the first place.
He opened up about the shenanigans on an episode of the Breaking & Entering podcast. The sitcom star started off by explaining the thought process behind every episode of the show.
"If it's making us laugh, we're like, we'll try to figure out a way to incorporate it to something." And then, the host of the show, Gino, popped the question: "You actually... do you actually eat cereal while you're driving?"
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The Sitcom Star Ate Cereal While Driving
"Let me clear something up here.... Eating cereal in the car—I know I've got my defenders out there, by the way, on this, and I will defend it to my dying day."
"It was after the end of the third season of the show," he recalled. "We were editing the third season, and I bought my very first brand-new car. I'd never bought a brand new car in my entire life, but I had a brand new car, and I was eating cereal in the car on the way to the editing room and, um... It was a big bowl."
He continued by somehow trying to justify the rogue behavior itself. "The cereal was weighed down... There was plenty of slush, not entirely different from if you had a drink in your hand."
He then went on to admit that he "used to drive to work, eat lunch in my car driving a shift stick... These things are possible if you're a skilled driver like I am."
And then—the iconic moment. "I'm at a stoplight and I just get rear ended. Like, I was fully stopped, I had been stopped for... A full minute, you know, and then I just got hit from behind."
"The cereal just went flying forward and it just blasted my windshield and like got all up in my vents and all in the buttons and everything." I do have to wonder—did recording that scene for the show count as reliving a traumatic experience?
