Watch the premiere on Tuesday February 14th on ABC at 8:30pm.

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Philipps, who was wearing a fabulous vintage dress she bought at Fashion by Robert Black in Scottsdale, plays Laurie Keller, who is “Jules’ (Courteney Cox) brassy assistant and her passport to the adventures of single-life.”

While many thought “Cougar Town” was canceled, that’s not the case at all. The show simply got caught up in a scheduling tangle, but it’s back on the air on this month.

“For people who maybe haven’t watch the show or maybe watched the pilot and maybe thought , ‘Well this isn’t the show for me,’ this Feb. 14 episode is a really good — think of it like a second pilot — introduction into the show,” Philipps explained. “The show really isn’t about Courteney Cox dating younger guys. It’s really about this group of friends and neighbors who are a little quirky, like to have their glass of wine — ladies in Scottsdale, I know you know what I’m talking about — and all of the sort of crazy things they get in to in their cul-de-sac.”

“Ain’t Love Strange,” the season premiere of “Cougar Town,” airs Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. on ABC.

“First of all, I love that Laurie has this ankle monitor; I think it’s appropriate; I think it’s a natural progression!” Philipps smiled. “But it’s not even from her drinking…I get into a bar fight…It’s definitely something to do with Tampa!”

So the anklet isn’t monitoring her blood-alcohol content, which is probably a good thing, but it is monitoring where she is at any given time, and it will go off if she leaves the city limits of Gulfhaven. Which, Philipps pointed out, it does once and “hilarity ensues.”

Philipps only has the extra accessory for about five episodes, and it’s not visible, nor a plot point, all of the time. Dan Byrd, on the other hand, becomes saddled with something that is much more noticeable:

“Busy’s wearing the ankle monitor for several episodes [but] I’m wearing a helmet for several episodes…The helmet was on for eight episodes, which is now half our season,” Byrd previewed. “So I don’t know what we did exactly to deserve that!”

Well, Byrd and Philipps debate just that in the video below. Check it out; the cast seems to have as much fun with each other off-screen as they do on– even without the giant glasses of wine! And be sure to tune in when Cougar Town airs on ABC on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm starting on February 14th 2012.

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