“Well that’s silly, you’ll want to move around.”

It’s been another banner year for Cartoon Network’s edgy ground breaking show, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Special Class: Short-format Live-Action in September. When I caught up with Corddry at New York Comic Con last month, he assured me that the sweet success associated with winning Emmy gold would not affect the show one bit.

“Now it’s going to be Emmy Award Winner Rob Corddry’s Children’s Hospital,” he revealed. “I’m not going to mess around. Why be falsely modest about that? I’m super elegant,” he laughed.

Some of this season’s absurd highlights included an episode set in a British Children’s Hospital (complete with an entire cast of UK thesps, including Lost’s Dominic Monaghan), a Law & Order parody show, another memorable cameo by repeat offender Jon Hamm, a long awaited on-camera appearance by the never-seen Michael Cera (who voices the hospital’s PA system announcer Sal Viscuso), and Rob’s brother Nathan Corddry finally stopped by, whom he says “was the hardest to get” as a guest star.

“I don’t know if I can say I have a favorite guest star. Believe me I’m willing to pick favorites,” he said of walk-ons including Eva Longoria, Ed Helms, Kate Walsh, Jason Sudeikis, Nick Offerman, and Paul Scheer.

“It’s always pretty cool, I’ve never had a bad experience with the guest star. It’s pretty awesome, and an honor. And I’m really grateful that they’ll do it.”

He also shared the secret to keeping a straight face on the set of such an off-beat comedy loaded with masters of improv, even if the episodes run only twelve minutes in length. “The whole secret to absurdity is that you can’t wink. You have to treat it like it’s the most important thing ever. You’re saying really really dumb things with a straight face. It’s fun though.”

However, a signature gruesome costume accessory on the scrubs of his dark character Dr. Blake Downs, wet stain smears of patients’ blood, appeared to be noticeably tamed down last season. I asked Corddry if the higher-ups were concerned with the graphic imagery, or if he made the conscious change to his clown Doctor’s look (who also has a strict belief in the healing power of laughter).

“It looked like a costume. It looked fake and it drove me crazy !” he said of last season’s less bloody scrubs. “Then I talked to the wardrobe supervisor, and she was like “Oh, I’ll have to look at it. I don’t know what you mean.'”

“Then she was like ‘Oh God, you’re right!’ and then this season we righted that egregious wrong.” Which to his credit, yes, Downs scrubs are back to their former disturbing graphic glory.

Tonight’s episode, Eulogy, airs on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim at 12AM, and also stars Ken Marino, Henry Winkler, Megan Mullally, Malin Ackerman, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, and Lake Bell.

According to Adult Swim, the season finale promises “The death of a co-star turns out to be a perfect opportunity for the cast and crew to make a Documentary special,” and sees the return of the behind-the-scenes show-within-a-show Newsreaders hot on the case.

Rest assured, Children’s Hospital has been renewed for a fifth season, so there is much more to look forward to in 2013. If you haven’t checked out the show yet do yourself a favor and put it on your must-see list.

SOURCE: Adult Swim

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When I caught up with Paul Scheer, the creator, writer, and star of Adult Swim’s madcap CSI/24 spoof NTSF:SD:SVU, he revealed one of his favorite scenes from this season is on-deck for tonight’s episode, Prairie Dog Companion, and involves an intimate encounter between Rebecca Romijn and special guest star, TV icon Hal Linden.

The hit show, now in its second season on Cartoon Network and also stars Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager), Rob Riggle (SNL), and Martin Starr (Party Down), has a great line-up of upcoming guest-stars, to which Scheer was happy to reveal.

“For the rest of this season we have some great guest-stars coming in. We have Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, and Ray Liota. We also have Hal Linden (TV’s Barney Miller), and Michael Gross (who played the dad on Family Ties, and also from Tremors). Great awesome guests coming up. And Steven Williams, the original Captain from 21 Jump Street.”

“We are very excited that we cast people who we are fans of,” he admitted.

I asked Scheer if Recbecca Romijn, who plays Jessie Nichols, undoubtedly the hottest scientist on TV, will ever leave the lab coat behind and venture out in the field to kick ass. “Rebecca Romijn will be leaving the lab in the next episode,” he revealed. “She will go undercover which is really fun.”

“I was friends with Jerry O’Connell from doing Piranha, and I met Rebecca through him. She was so funny, and I was like ‘Why hasn’t anyone capitalized on Rebecca being in comedies?’ So I wanted to get her in the show. Obviously she’s incredibly beautiful and also incredibly funny.”

But going from the safety of the crime lab and out into the thick of the action alongside Scheer’s Trent Hauser doesn’t mean Romijn will be immediately showcasing her old X-Men fighting skills.

“She’s going to be awkward. Maybe next season we should maybe let her kick ass a little bit. Yeah, in this one she gets to have a sex scene with Hal Linden.” What?

“82-year old Hal Linden,” he reiterated

“She has to seduce him. It’s one of my favorite scenes in the whole season,” he laughed.

“We also have a very special Christmas episode coming up in December that I’m very excited about,” he promised for year’s end. But we will get to that in part two of the interview…

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