CBS' new sitcom DMV simply discovered a artistic method to nod at Tim Meadows‘ scene-stealing Imply Women function.
In the course of the collection premiere on Monday, October 13, Meadows, 64, was launched as Gregg, who works on the DMV workplace. Gregg sat down with auditors trying to see whether or not his location must be shut down — and Meadows' character had some ideas.
“Don't you assume it's ironic that town is spending all this cash on you two to determine what's flawed with the DMV when everybody is aware of what's flawed is we don't manage to pay for,” Gregg mentioned.
The auditor tried to vary the topic. “It says right here that you simply used to show highschool English. Inform us about that,” she requested, to which Gregg replied, “Nah.”
DMV is a office comedy set within the dreaded DMV workplace, which facilities on quirky minimum-wage staff who make the very best of coping with aggravated prospects whereas discovering solace in one another's firm.
Along with Meadows, DMV stars Harriet Dyer, Molly Kearney, Alex Tarrant, Tony Cavalero and Gigi Zumbado. CBS' Monday nights will probably be rounded out with season 2 of Morris Chestnut's Watson and the return of FBI.
Meadows' character working at a highschool sounds acquainted to followers of Imply Women, who is understood for his function as Principal Duvall in 2004's Imply Women movie. He reprised the function in Imply Women 2 and within the movie's 2024 musical adaptation, which costarred Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wooden, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer and Busy Philipps.
Tina Fey, who performed Meadows' love curiosity in Imply Women, beforehand shared the stipulation that they each had about reprising their roles within the new film.
“I'm reprising my function as Ms. Norbury as a result of we thought, properly, academics work for a very long time. So it would make sense if Tim and I did it,” Fey, 55, instructed Individuals in 2024. “So I known as Tim and I used to be like, ‘Will you do it? I'll do it if you happen to do it.' And we mentioned, ‘Sure, so long as we don't should sing.'”
Imply Women debuted in theaters on April 30, 2004 — however the teen movie is well known yearly on October 3, due to one of many film's most memorable scenes. The movie is liable for creating iconic strains together with, “On Wednesdays, we put on pink” and “Is butter a carb?” However when Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) innocently […]
Fey was thrilled to work with Meadows once more, including, “It was enjoyable. It's been good to see Tim. One in every of us has aged — the opposite one in every of us is Tim Meadows! But it surely's been very nice to get to work with Tim once more.”
Imply Women initially premiered in 2004 and starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett, Amy Poehler and Fey.
The movie explored subjects corresponding to highschool social cliques and faculty bullying by the lens of Cady (Lohan), who navigates the social hierarchy in a highschool after years of homeschooling.
Fey went on to adapt the cult traditional right into a stage musical. The Broadway musical took the theater world by storm in 2018 and even featured acquainted faces together with Reneé Rapp, who went on to hitch the upcoming Imply Women musical film.
DMV airs on CBS Mondays at 8:30 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the subsequent day on Paramount+.
