Adam's Also-Rans: 8 sitcom guest spots, with Andrew Santino, Jason Bateman, and some costar cocks

After Workaholics, The Righteous Gemstones, Bumper in Berlin, House Party, Bad Ideas, and twelve movies, are you getting tired of Adam Devine? 

I didn't think so.

The guy is prolific. Between 2006, when he started filming Mail Order Comedy shorts with his buds Ders and Blake, and 2015, when he was too busy with starring roles, Adam guest-starred on eight tv series, not including animation and sketch comedy.  Let's see if there's any gay subtexts...or even texts.

1. The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, 2007, about two women film producers, appeared on the IFC. 

Left: Giuseppe Andrews as an aspiring writer who steals one of their scripts.

Adam played Toby in the episode "Dykes Like Us," the standard sitcom plot where two straight people pretend to be a gay couple in order to get some of the incredible privileges that gay people enjoy.  Like being called a "freak" at an academic conference?  Get real.

2. The Wife and Times of Teddy Berman, 2008, about a family man "struggling to make sense of a world where his father suddenly has a ponytail and an earring, his best friend is a stay at home dad, and his kids will only speak to him through Skype."  Sounds super old-fashioned.

Adam plays a Teenage Caveman who tells his parents about two problems: a rampaging bison that needs to be hunted, and a baby with a diaper that needs changing.  Thus a gendered division of labor is instituted for all time and eternity.  An anti-Women's Lib series in 2011?

  Peter Dante, left, plays the Caveman Dad.

3. Better Off Ted, 2009, starring Jay Harrington as a research developer at a soulless corporation. In Episode 1.5, "Win Some, Dose Some," a woman getting tested for a new experimental drug goes haywire, and Ted sabotages his daughter's wrapping-paper competition so she won't win and he won't have to go on a man-date with a general who has a man-crush on him.  Gay panic, anyone? 

Adam appears as Josh. The show is not available to stream, so I don't know anything about his character. 

4. Samantha Who?, 2009, stars Christina Applegate as a real estate hotshot who gets amnesia and tries to fix the horrid messes she made in her old life. 

Adam appears in two episodes as temp Tyler Banks.  I purchased Episode 2.19, "The Other Woman": Samantha tries to be nice to the girlfriend of her ex, Winston Funk -- Billy Zane, left -- but ends up sleeping with him.

At the office, Samantha asks Tyler the Temp to call Mr. Funk and tell him that she will have dinner with him tonight, but it's not a date: she's setting him up with his ex.

Tyler is happy with this news, and exclaims "I'm still in the game!"  He must have a crush on Samantha.

The morning after the clandestine sex, the girlfriend complains to Samantha that Winston is not returning her calls.  Just then Tyler brings in flowers that he sent...to Samantha. Uh-oh, her cover is blown.

5. Traffic Light, 2011, a short-lived Fox series, featured three best friends in different stages of the heterosexist trajectory: single, living with a girlfriend, and married. 

In Episode 1.7, "Stealth Bomber," Adam, Ders, and Blake appear as Tobey, Howard, and Tad.  The show is not available for streaming, but I assume they're doing a Mail Order Comedy riff.

More Adam after the break

6. Community, 2013, which some people liked but I never watched because the first scene of the first episode has a guy discussing how sexy college girls are. Click. 

Adam appeared in Episode 4.5, "Cooperative Escapism in Community Relations."  The group goes to Thanksgiving Dinner at Shirley's house. Adam plays Willy, half-brother of Joel McHale's Jeff, who wants advice on how to keep their father from hating him.

Left: Ken Jeong, who plays Ben Chang, shows his dick in three Hangover movies.  It looks like a photoshop, but according to an interview, it's really him: he takes pride in being on the small side.

7. Arrested Development, which some people liked but I never watched because the first scene of the first episode has a woman shrieking "The homosexuals have ruined my party!"  Cut to a group of horrifying screaming-queen stereotypes on a boat. Click.  

Adam appeared in Episode 4.1, "Flight of the Phoenix."  Michael Bluth -- Jason Bateman, left -- has an article published in an in-flight magazine, but the desk agents, Adam, Ders, and Blake, won't give him a copy. 

Adam as the desk agent.

 8. Sin City Saints, on Yahoo Screen!, 2015, was a short-lived sitcom about a struggling Las Vegas ball team, with Andrew Santino, left, as the manager or something.  Adam played Matty in Episode 1.5, "You Booze, You Lose"

We didn't see a lot of gay subtexts, but when the guy has three lines, what do you expect?  And seeing Adam in action is always fun.

Besides, who's going to complain about two butts, two cocks, and two near-cocks?

Make that three near-cocks.

See also: Adam Devine's House Party, Episode 1.1: Adam shows his tree trunk, eats fro-yo, and flirts with Andrew Santino

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