- Mark.
- Set,
and
- Action, I think.
(everyone laughing)
- I think our goal was to just tell family stories
that felt very truthful.
- Be honest. Did you do that thing where you get frustrated
and you start pressing all the buttons?
- No
- Probably three quarters of the stories we've told
on the show came from our writer's actual lives.
- I came home one day
and found my very expensive remote control
in a thousand pieces
because my wife couldn't turn on the television.
- We canceled Christmas.
- One of our writers, his dad canceled Christmas one year
- Hey, a memo to New Year's Eve and Easter.
Watch your back.
- I was a clown as a kid.
All I wanted to be when I was growing up was a clown.
Hello, Old friend.
The producers heard me talking about that and thought
that would be a really great backstory for Cameron.
- What the hell are you?
- I'm the ass kicking clown
that'll twist you like a balloon animal.
I will beat your head against this bumper
until the airbags deploy.
So apologize
to my boyfriend right now.
- I'm sorry.
- Let's go. We're gonna be late.
- There's something in every family
that people can relate to.
And not only that, there's something in every story we tell
on the show that people go, ooh, that happened to me.
Or I know somebody that, that happened too.
- Who said I was a cold di?
- What's a cold digger?
- Sweetheart, you heard it wrong. It's gold digger.
- Well, I really do not think that
I remember ever saying that.
- Well, you said in the car,
you said at Christmas, you said next
- For a long time, comedy had to be ironic
and detached and kind of snarky to get success.
- Hey
coupons for,
five
free
hugs.
- You don't like it.
- Are you kidding me? I love it.
It's so creative, coupons for hugs, which are usually free
but this makes it official, which is so great.
- It was actually a risk to write a show
that was earnest.
- People are hungry for a new family sitcom.
And I think this one's definitely filling that void.
That's been on TV for a while.
We locked our baby in the car and people are judging us.
- I swear to God, I've gotta break it.
- [Phone Operator] Please tell your wife to relax.
- That's a man.
- [Phone Operator] Really?
- It's a TV show that they can watch with their kids,
with their grandmothers, with the whole family.
The finger, the one finger, the sky,
cloudy with the chance of the meatballs.
- This means one word.
- Meatballs.
- The chemistry, which you cannot predict,
you can only hope for has happened in this show.
- Okay. Let's do it.
Woo.
(laughing)
- Not only is it funny, but it has a heart to it as well.
And you may be laughing at some of the absurd
situations.
- I gonna play outside.
(glass breaking)
Oww
- (objects falling)
- Gonna fix that step.
- But ultimately there is something to connect
to as the audience.
Oh my God.
- I still can't tell if you think this is lame or cool.
- I think it's incredibly cool.
- The fact that they're rooted
in things that really happen always seems to
lend this real feeling to the episodes.
- Well, I'll see you, I'll see you.
- Yeah, thanks
Okay
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[baby laughing]
(western tune)
[laughing]