One Piece stars publicly beg Danny DeVito to come be on their show

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As it happens, the internet already has a fair amount of fan-casting of DeVito in One Piece floating around on it. (At the risk of being mean, his overall appearance lines up pretty well with creator Eiichiro Oda’s general aesthetic of stylized human forms—which is to say that DeVito already looks a bit like an old anime man.) And it’s not like he’s not game to do something weird or a bit out-there, even at age 79; his gameness for weirdness is how we got the incredible gift of his decade-plus on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, after all.)

Godoy and Romero didn’t get specific about who they’d want DeVito to play. (One Piece has, roughly, a jillion characters to choose from, so the sky’s probably the limit.) Meanwhile, the series has already gotten at least one other celebrity petition to appear, having previously fielded some strongly worded requests from fan Jamie Lee Curtis to come appear at some point during its well-received run.

Avatar releases its first season on February 22; meanwhile, no word yet when season 2 of One Piece, DeVito’d or not, will arrive on the streamer.