Digest: What are each other's best qualities?
Gatschet: The best is the way Tom treats his friends. He's a good, loyal friend. You can count on him 100 percent.
Pelphrey: She's definitely a sweetheart, such a good girl.

Digest: And the worst?
Pelphrey: She's a fool.
Gatschet: He's a bigger fool.
Pelphrey: She's an incompetent fool.
Gatschet: He is an ugly loser.
Pelphrey: I almost have to hold her hand to walk her to the set or else she'd get lost.
Gatschet: There you go.

Digest: What have you been surprised to learn about each other since you've been working together?
Gatschet (after a long pause): We're both trying to think of something really funny and clever.
Pelphrey: I was going to say I'm surprised by how often we're on the same page, like that is a perfect example.
Gatschet: That is true.
Pelphrey: We both call each other on our crap before the other one even gets a chance to say it, so I'm actually surprised that she's not as much of a fool as I thought she was [laughs].

Digest: What are the hardest scenes to do?
Gatschet: Anything that we've made fun of in dry rehearsal and I think is really hilarious. It's usually something that's not supposed to be funny at all, like some line that we've joked about.
Pelphrey: We'll sit there in dry rehearsal and we'll take all the scenes and re-write them, like, really dirty with other people's scenes.
Gatschet: It's surprisingly easy to just change a few words ...
Pelphrey: ... And you have comic gold.
Gatschet: We've got to do something to pass the time.

Digest: What are the easiest scenes?
Pelphrey: Scenes where she's acting like a fool and I can yell at her.
Gatschet: The more fun you get to have, the easier it is. We get to have snowball fights.
Pelphrey: I had a lot of fun doing that thing when we broke into the Christmas stockroom with all the fake snow.
Gatschet: Yeah, 'cause we finally got to have fun.

Digest: Do you notice how many times Tammy and Jonathan's cell phones ring when they start to get intimate?
Gatschet: Or somebody walks in.
Pelphrey: Last time we were doing a scene where that happened, me and Steph were like, "Don't we know to turn our cell phones off by now?"
Gatschet: And we always answer, "Oh, I have to take this." In the scripts, it always says, "We're near the point of no return, when...." They get arrested or whatever.
Pelphrey: The point of no return, "Oh, wait, that's my cell phone, hello, I have to take this, Tammy. Hi, Reva, I'm here with Tammy in the boathouse. Can I call you back? No? Tammy, I have to go, it's my mom."
Gatschet: Pretty much.

Digest: What's with the boathouse or as we call it, "The Boathouse of Love"?
Pelphrey: It's high-class. It's first-class. I know how to treat her.
Gatschet: That's how I like it.

Digest: What is one storyline you'd really like to do?
Pelphrey: We always wanted a Bonnie and Clyde storyline.
Gatschet: I think it would work!

This article originally appearred in the February 21, 2006 issue of Soap Opera Digest.