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You’re right that it’s optimistic, but Richard’s reputation is garbage right now and what they’re making is a product that other people make. It feels like an optimistic finale even though the company is essentially worthless and they have no money now.īut they have a product that is growing organically the way that nothing they’ve done before really has, and they control their own destiny. Then we laid out six, seven, eight, nine, 10 all at the same time. So we wrote episode one, then two, then three, then four, then five. Then half two kind of came together in one big piece. Once we blew up skunkworks, very quickly we got to “then they fight with Jack and they beat him and now they’re back in the house on their own.” I kind of view the season in two halves, and that was half one. When did the Bachman-Big Head solution come into focus? We spent a week or two in the room trying to write skunkworks episodes and being like “Why is this so hard? It should be giving us loads of material, and it’s just binding us.”
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It was our hope that the audience would be surprised by it, because in all honesty we were sort of surprised. It was a surprise when the skunkworks blew up at the end of that episode. That honestly was just the most interesting way we thought of to get out of skunkworks. That skunkworks episode, they did all the planning and then at the end of the episode, it all blows up in their face. So we called an audible in the middle of the season. It was just a lot of very farcical stuff - someone knocks on the door and everyone has to hide their plans. And it just wasn’t giving us the comedy that we wanted. Early in the season, they conceive this skunkworks, this company inside the company, and as we started writing that, our intention was that that was going to be the bulk of the season. We spent all this time setting up Barker and having the guys toil under a hostile CEO. We kind of didn’t know where we were headed at the beginning of the year. Did you know from the beginning that Bachman and Big Head would own the company at the end of the season?