Co-stars and close friends Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock—who are either totally doing it or secretly married, we haven’t been in line at the grocery store in a few days—will get it on professionally, at least, to lend their voices to the animated sitcom And Then There Was Gordon. Fox has reportedly added the show to its already tilting stockpile of animated sitcoms it points to whenever Seth MacFarlane gets a little unbearable around the office, picking up the show from DarkFire, the recently launched TV company headed by Reynolds and Allan Loeb—Hollywood’s go-to “eh, whatever” guy for screenplays ranging from Just Go With It to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps to The Dilemma—with Reynolds and Loeb set to co-write the series. Reynolds will also play an unspecified character in the show concerning an ordinary child who’s “surrounded by his prodigy siblings and brilliant, but neurotic mother,” which is the role Bullock is likely to take.
Oddly enough, this is almost the exact reverse premise of Fox’s forthcoming animated series Allen Gregory, which concerns a worldly, pretentious child—voiced by Ryan Reynolds’ own exact reverse, Jonah Hill—who’s forced to deal with all of his dumb, ordinary classmates, and neither is all that far removed from Fox’s Napoleon Dynamite cartoon, which also deals with another kid who doesn’t quite fit in. But then, neither of those shows will get Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock into a photograph together, will they, and oh, just look at them! Don’t they just look so happy? Don’t you just wish they would quit fooling around and fall in love—for America?