Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.
One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.
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.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.