A first kiss is a fraught proposition for any teenager, but it was sooooo much worse for Fred Savage : His first kiss not only happened in front of a whole bunch of people?it was televised worldwide! It was on screen," shares Savage, who stars in Fox's fall comedy The Grinder , in an exclusive behind-the-scenes video from his new set. CLICK: Our official ranking of the new fall shows Savage, who plays a small-town lawyer Stewart Sanderson, and Rob Lowe , who plays his big-city actor brother Dean Sanderson Jr. (who played a lawyer on TV), went under oath and shared their adorable stories behind their first interactions with the opposite sex. "I was 8.