The answer to your first question is… not there. That should pretty much cover the rest.
Jerry has a lot going on with work, dad life and being nearly 1.5 hours away. It’s just a bit harder for him to get together sometimes, particularly when it’s farther from home. In the case of this movie, it was just something Rob and I had talked about doing on a weekday at one point, so it made the Jerry factor much less likely.
He is not, for the record, a Transformer with a giant butt hole. I’m not sure if that was clear enough from the rest of my sentence, so I just wanted to quell the rumors that have been running their course on the internet… I repeat, Jerry is not a Transformer with a giant butt hole.
There’s a sentence I could have bet (and lost) I’d never say in my lifetime.