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Olson: We were going to be there anyway, because we love watching Don. I couldn't believe he wanted us to get up there, but we were excited about it. McCloskey: The guy asked me how I wanted it to be billed.

McElhenney: The guy called him back half an hour later and asked if we'd want to do a second night. I said sure. We were just supposed to be performing a couple of songs. McCloskey: Slightly different, right? It was the fastest sellout in Troubadour history.

Howerton: Now we've got, like, 1, people who are expecting us to perform "The Nightman Cometh" live. Day: It gave me great anxiety.

I hadn't done anything on the stage in a while, and the idea of being back in front of a room of people where you can't cut and restart made me a little nervous. McCloskey: There was a mad scramble. I talked to Charlie and Glenn, and they said, "Let's just do it. Everybody was really game, so it evolved into an actual full-on performance. Howerton: We started talking about it and wondering if there was a way to just do the whole episode live.

Then we grabbed Matt. Shakman: We resurrected the set, which, luckily, was still in storage. We added some frames from the episode itself so that we had them rehearsing it and talking about doing the show and then actually doing the show, and we got it to be about 45 or 50 minutes, plus the opening act. Howerton: We essentially opened for Don…or maybe Don opened for us. Shit, I can't remember. Olson: The second we started singing the first song, everyone started singing along with us.

I was blown away. Day: It was such a rush to have that interaction with the audience. When you're making television, aside from someone coming up to you at the airport or something, you don't really know the impact of your show.

You never have a large crowd of people screaming or singing along. It was a glimpse into what it was like to be a rock star for a minute, to have people singing your songs, and a really raucous crowd interacting with us. It was an adrenaline rush. DeVito: You miss that interaction in movies and TV shows. We don't have an audience; we have the crew. So we do a run-through for the crew and they laugh—or not—and then we do it for the cameras.

But in a theater, there's that feeling of being out there. I don't think anybody expected the amount of enthusiasm that our fans have.

McCloskey: Everybody knew all the words to every song. Howerton: We were gobsmacked. It was the first time we felt like, "People really love this show. DeVito: After the shows at the Troubadour, I was like a dog after a bone. I wanted to bring that thing out on the road, and I hounded everybody. Buoyed by the success of the Troubadour events, the cast was approached about taking "The Nightman Cometh" on the road. While the initial proposal was to bring the show to 30 cities, the Gang ultimately settled on six: New York, L.

Howerton: Live Nation approached us about touring the show. We thought, what better way to promote the fifth season of the show than to hit a couple of cities, do a little tour, and get to play some iconic theaters. Olson: I remember being really confused and thinking, This is quite a stretch. I get that we didn't have tremendous ratings, but if this was a ploy for that, was it going to be embarrassing? Are people going to show up to watch it?

Because I can't imagine anything more humiliating than doing this thing live for, like, ten people in New York. DeVito: My goddaughter was working [at Live Nation], and we made a deal with them.

It was so much fun. I got a bus. It was the year that we were all floating around in diapers in the ads, and I had a friend who did the skins of a bus. So I made a deal with him, and the whole bus was skinned with us in diapers. Shakman: We traveled around like rock stars.

I mean, really poorly paid rock stars in really bad buses and stuff. But we just carried our little wares from town to town. It was a lot of fun. McElhenney: The Masonic Temple in San Francisco was probably the craziest show; people running up and down the aisles and security having to come, and people trying to get up on the stage. It was wild.

I lived on 89th Street when I was starting out, so this was my home turf. I invited everybody I could think of to come. Some of my friends came backstage; they were like deer in headlights. They had no idea what was going on. Olson: It really gave us our first insight into just how many fans we had.

Because we were basically being told: Nobody's watching the show but FX likes it, so that's why you're still on the air. We weren't having huge ratings, but we had a big fan base. And those people traveled and packed those theaters. DeVito: There were people dressed as green men. They came dressed as some of the characters.

There might have been a couple trolls in there. McElhenney: I would get pretty drunk before every live show. It felt like it was in the spirit of the show. Olson: Alcohol helps any and all performances. If the audience is drinking, it's a good idea to have a couple beers. McElhenney: Because I don't have any musical ability or aspirations to have any, I didn't feel any pressure to be good.

In fact, the worse I was, the funnier I was. In the ten years since "The Nightman Cometh" made its debut, nearly 90 more episodes have been produced. Season 13 kicked off on FXX on September 5.

Yet Sunny's offbeat musical has endured. Olson: It was just so weird that I think that got people's attention. It was definitely funny. Rob and I, on Halloween, were out to dinner. We looked out the window of the restaurant, and there was a whole group of people walking by, each dressed as a different character. Every Halloween my Twitter feed fills up with people who are dressed as the whole crew from "The Nightman Cometh. Shakman: It's still a wonderful surprise that it's out there in the world.

I'm in my office at the Geffen Playhouse now, which is a theater I run here in Los Angeles, and I have a poster of "The Nightman" with an amazing drawing of Rob looking out at me with his cat eyes.

That's looking down at me side-by-side with posters of plays by famous playwrights. Howerton: It's a really nice encapsulation of the character dynamics. I think it's a showcase for what people enjoy so much about the characters. It has a really good combination of the kind of cynicism that the characters carry around but also…I think there's a weird positivity to the characters. The characters always think that their schemes are going to work. We're going to do this. McElhenney: Ultimately, in a show that is so inherently profane—and the characters are so difficult and hard to watch at times—the ending of that particular episode was very sweet.

You find out that Charlie's doing the whole thing because he's in love with somebody and he's asking her to marry him. Of course, the Sunny version of that is that the relationship is exceptionally unhealthy and that she says no, but I think his motivation comes from a really sweet place. So that buys us a lot in the episode.

Also, like it or hate it, we've always strived to do something that nobody else is doing, and I think some people respond to that. Charlie Kelly : No Mac : It's clearly bird shit. Charlie Kelly : No, it's not.

It's toothpaste. Mac : Do you even own a toothbrush? Dennis Reynolds : What's with the uh, curtains? Charlie Kelly : I'm living in a world of darkness. Dennis Reynolds : Right. Let's get some light in here. Dennis Reynolds : Whoa, what's with the spray paint, man? Charlie Kelly : Uhh, what's with your outfit, man? Dennis Reynolds : Why don't we put the curtains back up?

Charlie Kelly : No, no. What is going on up here? Charlie Kelly : [starts a beat with his electric piano] Daylight Charlie Kelly : Day-Dayman. Dennis Reynolds : Dayman. Charlie Kelly : Fighter of the Nightman. Champion of the Dennis Reynolds Charlie Kelly : Dayman, that's it! Dennis Reynolds : Dayman, ahh-ahh-ahh!

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Charlie Kelly : Hey, Dee, does that guy have, like, a Mac : Charlie, I was gonna say his foot looks small. Charlie Kelly : [singing] They took you Night Man and you don't belong to them.