Get ready folks! ABC’s Happy Endings is back!

Our favorite six friends return with a hilarious Season 3 premiere, which starts off with Penny (Casey Wilson) in a body cast and Max (Adam Pally) as her nurse.

Though, from what the pair told Celebuzz when we recently visited the set, she may not benefit from having her BFF on hand.

“Max is kind of the nurse similar to Kathy Bates in Misery I would say, “ Pally said. “I think he enjoys the company and also enjoys Penny not being able to screw up his schemes.”

So what makes him go all Misery on her? Of course, her cute actual nurse, Kent (guest star Matthew Del Negro).

“It’s actually a dark storyline,” Wilson told us. “Max poisons Penny and then tries to make out the masseuse. Penny crawls out of the window and passes out on the street and strangers find her. “

Penny won’t be in a body cast for too long though, trading it in for a helmet in subsequent episodes to prevent further head injury. Penny’s dream will come true later on the season when she gets a legitimate boyfriend, Pete (Nick Zano). The pair will meet in a bike shop.

And since she doesn’t want him to know about her injury, she told us Penny will “arrange a lot of dates that involve helmets. We do a moped safety course, segway stuff and a construction site.”

While Penny is recovering, Dave (Zach Knighton) and Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) will announce to the group that they’re “casually dating.”

To their surprise no one cares. “We are the ones making a big deal about it,” said Knighton. “They’re like ‘We don’t care, nobody cares about your stuff anymore.’” Though the on-screen couple told us, things won’t be casual for long as the two will look for a place together.

Meanwhile, Brad (Damon Wayans, Jr.) will be enjoying the unemployed life, or so Jane (Eliza Coupe) thinks. In the first episode back, we’ll see Brad feigning unemployment but by episodes end he’ll be enjoying it.

Wayans told us that unemployed Brad’s life will include “a lot of hanging out with Max.” He said, “They’ve had me do a lot of physical stuff this season and I am not upset about that.”

To which Coupe replied, “Neither is Jane. Eliza doesn’t hate it either.”

Jane will be getting a new job this season as a car dealer. “I deal cars with Rob Corddry,” she told us. But what can we expect at the dealership?

“There’s been a lot of weird things that happen at that dealership. A lot of things. Animals involved,” she teased. Expect to see tons of Jane’s Type-A personality as well. Coupe also said that we’ll see Jane “wanting to be one of the guys too. So it’s very interesting.”

Season 3 of Happy Endings will also feature the origin story of this group of friends on a well-known unaired season of The Real World, a major Thanksgiving episode and a “replacement Penny” of sorts named Nicole (Kulap Vilaysack) who he calls Nickel.

Watch the hilarious video of the cast’s best abbreviations from Season 2 above.

Season 3 of Happy Endings premieres Tuesday at 9 PM on ABC.

What are you most looking forward to for Season 3? Let us know in the comments below!

Watch our interviews with the cast and executive producers of Happy Endings at the Paley Center below. 

As Max, the seemingly perpetually scheming, underemployed guy on ABC’s Happy Endings, actor and comedian Adam Pally has had a chance to tap into a really big, broad side of himself.

But as the seemingly perpetual single guy, he has also had a chance to play some more tender, serious moments. Who wasn’t shocked when Max realized he might actually want to have kids someday all while still acting like a big kid himself?

It’s exactly that kind of pulling from both ends of the human spectrum that keeps Pally on his toes, and the upcoming third season promises to be no different.

“I don’t think Max is ever balanced, and I think that’s the fun of playing him. You’re playing a character that’s unhinged, and…it’s really moment to moment. I think you’ll have highs and lows. A lot of highs but mostly lows,” Pally laughed when Celebuzz caught up with him at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday.

What’s the highlight of Happy Endings Season 3 for Pally?

On Season 3, Pally’s Max finds himself showing Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) the ropes on how to get an entire day’s food and entertainment on as little money as possible. The pairing of these two characters turns into something slightly more permanent, though, through a new business venture that Pally was particularly excited to perform: Bar Mitzvah hype men!

“It’s an inner passion for me, Adam Pally,” he laughed. ”I’ve been to my fair share of Bar Mitzvahs, if you could’ve guessed, and it was really fun to go back to that a little bit. I would love to keep motivating for Bar Mitzvahs in my real life.”

Though Pally pointed out that Max doesn’t actually take the stage to sing at any of these Bar Mitzvahs, he would never want to rule out either a re-visitation of Mandonna or a parody of a whole other musical act.

“I love the attention on me, and there’s no other place to get attention than on stage,” Pally smiled. ”A dream of mine would be Max and Penny in some kind of weird White Stripes type band. I think all comedians have that inherent want to be a rock star but most of us are too ugly and fat, so to get the chance to be that was really fun.”

But with Max so distracted, will he ever find love?

“I think so. I think people [are] searching for love, and I think Max is no different. It’s just the people that he loves are a little weird,” Pally laughed.

Watch Celebuzz’s full video interview with Pally above.

Happy Endings airs on Tuesdays at 9 PM on ABC.

What are you most excited to see in Happy Endings Season 3? Sound off in the comments below!

– Danielle Turchiano

Adam Pally — in a reflection of the occasionally vulnerable character he plays on ABC’s Happy Endings — sounds a bit wistful about going back to the work for the fall.

He spent lots of one-on-one bonding time with his first child, 7-month-old son, Cole, over the summer.

“I’ve actually gotten to spend so much time with my son, I’m nervous about going back to work,” Pally, 30, tells Celebuzz. “I was with him for most of the beginning of his life. So, now, it’s going to be weird to not be around him.”

Who will be a special guest on the ‘Happy Endings’ set this season?

Happy Endings is back into production for the 2012-2013 season — the season premieres in September.

Pally talked to Celebuzz at the recent Outfest screening of the show’s unaired episode from season 2, “Kickball 2: The Kickening,” in West Hollywood.

“I think my wife will bring him on the set,” says Pally, who shares a home in L.A. with wife Daniella. “He’s on the move now. He’s just started to crawl. Pseudo-walk. I’m sure there are a lot of dangerous things he could get into on set — that he would love to get into.”

Pally — joking — said about returning to work, “But also, I’m excited to not have to take care of an infant for a while. I’m like ‘Jesus Christ, does this ever end? It’s really hard.’ Daddy needs a drink.”

Pally, who plays the nuanced, conflicted gay character, Max, on Happy Endings, has been mentioned in Emmys buzz as a prominent snub in the Best Actor Comedy category, in addition to the show. Which could mean — if the show stays on the air — Pally is due next year.

Casey Wilson, who plays Penny, has also been singled out in the show for her effectiveness in the relationship comedy.

The show, which moves to a new time slot after Dancing with the Stars this fall, could be make-or-break time for its future.

Although initial reaction to the show was mixed, critics have lauded the show since.

“If you’re not watching ABC’s sophomore comedy, you’re missing the sharpest, funniest, giddiest show about six friends since that other show about six friends,” Entertainment Weekly‘s Dan Snierson wrote last December. “Here’s the ‘amahzing’ story of how a midseason afterthought became a word-of-mouth favorite.”

Watch a clip of ‘Happy Endings’ from last season …

The lack of Emmy nominations for ABC’s Happy Endings is being taken in the stride by one of its stars.

“Those things are so hard to predict,” Adam Pally, aka the show’s main character, Max, told Celebuzz over the weekend. “I would love for the show to be nominated, because we don’t get a lot of promotion. I think it would have been really nice. But at same time, I’m such a big fan of everybody that got nominated. Max [Greenfield of New Girl] is a good friend of mine, especially. Bill Hader [of Saturday Night Live], I couldn’t be happier for. The Modern Family guys, I’m like, ‘Whatever.’ No, no, no. I love them. I am psyched for everybody.”

But not everyone is fine with the Happy Endings snub.

TV bellwether writer Michael Ausiello included two actors from the show, Damon Wayans, Jr. and Casey Wilson, on his list of Top 37 snubs in the Emmy nominations. Said Ausiello: “I’m super-pissed about no love for Cougar Town. Ditto for Happy Endings.”

Meanwhile, the show’s executive producer, Jonathan Groff, expressed his dismay.

“I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed,” Groff said at a West Hollywood Outfest screening of an unaired, second-season episode called “Kickball 2: The Kickening.” At the July 22 event, Outfest honored the show for bringing attention to LGBT issues; Happy Endings has also been recognized by the GLAAD Media Awards.

“It’s nice to be part of the discussion,” Groff continued. “It’s nice that some people are saying we were snubbed. It’s cold comfort. But in terms of the best comedy, that’s a pretty power-packed lineup. There are a lot of good comedies on the air right now. To see Louie, Parks and Recreation, and Community not get nominated. To go, ‘You deserved it ahead of them.’ Maybe if there were 10, we could have been a part of that. I was a little bummed to see some of our actors not get nominated.”

Those thespians include Adam Pally and Casey Wilson.

“Honestly, I thought maybe Adam and Casey might pop one,” Groff said. “Because Adam’s character is so interesting. He’s done such a good job. We’ve given him more the snarky, edge, disheveled guy. But actually see him hurt in a relationship, and vulnerable. And Casey’s so funny.”

Zachary Knighton, meanwhile, who plays food truck owner Dave on Happy Endings, expressed his feelings about the show’s lack of Emmy nominations more bluntly.

“It’s not a surprise to me,” Knighton says. “It seems to me to be pretty obvious how that system works. We’ll see — maybe if we start bringing on some high-profile people, we’ll get nominated.”

Despite the Emmy snub, Happy Endings, which begins its third season on ABC this fall following Dancing with the Stars, has been nominated for several Critics Choice TV Awards, Teen Choice Awards and NAACP Image Awards.

Emmy nominees this year for Comedy Series include are The Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girls, Modern Family, 30 Rock, and Veep. Best Comedy Actor nominees are Alec Baldwin, Don Cheadle, Louis C.K., Jon Cryer, Larry David, Bill Hader, and Jim Parsons.

Do you watch Happy Endings — and do you think should it have been nominated for an Emmy? Sound off in the comments.