Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.
There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.
We figured the interesting question for them is, "Where has the family been since 2006, since the last time we saw them?" So, part of the time, we had to spend answering that question. Then, inevitably, it goes up to a point of crisis, in everyone's show. There was just no getting around that it was about 2006-2012.
The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.
First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.
We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.
I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.
Imagine the potential of an emerging global brain.
When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.
There [are] times when I put out an album, and I don't hear my songs really on the radio a lot, and it's like, Dang, I ain't inside that world. But I'm still moving some people or touching some people.