Gerry Davis

Gerald Richard Davis, born 27th November 1987, is an American actor and writer from Sacramento, California, USA. He is known for playing the character of Buzz McCallister/Emperor Zurg in the series from the third season to present. Outside of playing Buzz, Davis is a screenplay writer for Homer P Productions, and has donned many different acting roles in movies and television. Previous to the series little is known about his career, but his personal life has been heavily detailed in his autobiography book, "G Davis: Man on the Moon", released in 2019.

Early years
Gerry was born in the historic area of Boulevard Park in Sacramento, California to Nancy and Richard Davis in the winter of '87 just before Christmas. His father, a psychiatrist, often treated his wife and son as "one of his patients", and his obsession with mental health many times drove him insane. Eventually, he was forced into an early retirement at the age of 40, leaving Gerry's mother, a housewife into a bad situation in which she had to get two jobs. Gerry would often accompany his mother to her second job, as a hairdresser on a hard day of work. One day, they were approached by a talent scout, who happened to overhear Gerry talk to himself in the mirror. The man promised to make Gerry a star, and invited the family over to his boss, disgraced talent agent, Milton Miles, who previously represented such stars such as Jacob Sweeney, and Gloria Dawson. Miles was desperate for a comeback, so he enlisted Gerry as a up and coming child star in the LA "Show us what you got" talent show. Gerry came 15th place, and was ditched by all of his management immediately. He returned to normal life after a brief chance at fame.

Two years later, Gerry's father Rick was committed to a psychiatric hospital, were he spent his last days sitting in his room pretending to be listening to patients, scribbling in a fake notebook, and prescribing fake medications to thin air.

Another chance at the big time
After years of living a boring, normal life, filled with women and popularity, Gerry ditched plans to go to UCLA in favor of trying with acting again. His mother was very upset Gerry didn't go to law school, after showing many positive signs of intelligence in the area. Gerry however, insisted on being a celebrity, and began auditioning for movie roles by the dozen, only getting one response every six months, usually to play the same role as the "really hot guy" that Gerry just, couldn't do anymore, he lived that life in the real world for years, it was time for a change. While auditioning, Gerry took acting classes in the city, and became one of the top students of the craft, eventually getting a letter of recommendation from his acting teacher, who on Gerry's final day of class said, "I can't teach you anymore, you are brilliant, you will get many riches one day, and a nice woman to go with them".

At the age of 33, Gerry got a call from the Lovett brothers of Cjtelevision, who were looking for a replacement for one of the protagonist roles of their big series, as the old actor was in a terrible accident involving a leg displacement. They also needed someone better looking, and fitter in appearance. So Gerry joined the series as Buzz McCallister in Season 3.

The Golden Years
Gerry played Buzz exceptionally well, and he was exactly what the character needed to grow into a stronger, wiser man. However, he was very displeased with his lack of screen-time and dialogue in his first season, so was relieved when he found out that Buzz would be the main focus of the second half of Season 4. He did however demand a pay rise, which was denied.

Filming his scenes for season four had Gerry paired with the love of his life, January Shelton, a new actress on the show who was tasked with building a relationship with her and Davis' characters. The filming went exceptionally well, and Gerry and January unexpectedly fell in love, outside of the show. It was two seasons later when Shelton's character died that things went off the rails, as Shelton suddenly hated Davis, and refused to acknowledge him, all of this according to his autobiography. All of these claims are heavily disputed by sources close to Shelton, who say Davis was a stalker and was "insane".

More trouble arose from the back end of season five, as Gerry took issue with a regular on set, the actor who played Cruddy, "Joe Hurst".

Downfall
After Davis' character was somewhat killed off/transformed, he was told he was no longer needed to play in the role. Sources say this greatly angered Davis, causing him to lash out at the programmes producers, claiming he was Buzz and he was "Zurg" and noone else could do it. His last stint was as the evil emperor in the show's sixth season finale, "Evil Rises".

Davis was replaced by famed actor Terry Davies as the Emperor of the universe and this change was in no way good for Davis' mind. In the months that followed this dismissal, Davis progressively grew more and more violent and unstable, making wild allegations of abuse and claims that he was ACTUALLY Emperor Zurg. He believed his wife Rose (Shelton), had ACTUALLY died in real life, and that everything in the show had actually happened to him for real. Whenever journalists caught Davis out of this trance, he would still talk of Shelton like they had a real relationship. Gerry was soon after committed, just like his father, to a psychiatric hospital in the summer of 2017, and underwent extensive mental evaluation and treatment in understanding just why he went as bad as he did. He was released in that October on the grounds that he would continue taking his medication and return to the clinic for regular check ups every three weeks. Gerry did not complete the treatment, saying in paparazzi interviews following, "That stuff isn't good man, I'm not good, I let her fall".

Arrests
From the period of late 2017 to mid 2018, Gerry only got worse, chanting in public and screaming that he was an "Emperor of the Revelation" and that he was "always watching" the public. Many theorized that Davis actually watched and caught up with the series, as he was always in line with the character's current status in the show. Whenever questioned about it, or Davies, Davis would get confused telling the interviewer he was doing the deeds, "not some phony actor".

Gerry was evidently arrested after storming the set of the series in late 2018, while the show filmed it's eight season finale episodes. He was charged with 7 counts of first-degree assault and battery and $1.2 million dollars worth of property damage. He was almost sentenced 5 years in federal prison but was saved by a star witness, Homer P Guy, who testified for Gerry that he was on set that day and "did not see Gerry Davis fighting", that it was a set up, by one Charles Murray. Murray outright denied this but didn't get involved as he "didn't want to give Homer Guy the second". Homer P Guy hired Davis a celebrity lawyer, and the jail time was dropped, the property damage brought down to three months of community service.

Partnership with Homer P Productions
After helping Davis get out of trouble, it is said the two became great friends, but Gerry was said to have paid Guy back by helping him with his screenplay, for "Fogler Forever". The two apparently made a deal, that Davis would co-write the movie whilst helping Guy with his "casting issue", to encourage a "certain actor" to "stop being a fiend and come back to the Fogler world".

Since 2019, Davis has been frequently seen writing with Guy in many local Starbucks' and TGI Fridays. Davis was not available for comment when Terry Davies took the role of Buzz in a Season nine flashback sequence, though it is expected that Davis wasn't happy.

Trivia

 * Gerry's favourite episode is Season 6's "Rough Ahead", as he believes it gave Buzz a real heart.
 * His least favourite episode is Season 5's "The People Vs Homer P Guy", as it "Is too tacky and cheat shotted" at his friend Homer Guy.
 * In real life, Gerry and Woody had a acquainted relationship, growing more into a concerning one in the later years, with Woody filling a restraining order at one point.
 * Gerry hated the green screen sets, claiming they hurt his eyes and that it was too easy to fall through the stage.