That's an interesting hook, the notion of a father telling his children how he ultimately met their mother. It makes it feel distinctive.

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We were genuinely shocked when the community didn't respond to the script. But there was a concern that it was so different that people weren't going to be able to embrace it. The conventional wisdom is that even with very distinctive shows, the winning formula in television is a twist on a very traditional franchise.

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We're asking, 'prophet or madman'? We don't want to eliminate the negative. We want to tell a well-rounded story, which means that his fate is in his own hands. There will be people who think that he's a madman and people who think that he's a prophet.

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In single-camera comedy, a lot of it is point of view, ... understand what's going on in a person's head.

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