Dan Fogelman
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160 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Dan Fogelman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This would ruin the plan creatively. And I was able to like win the day on keeping us on Tuesday nights because of that argument.
The Super Bowl. I started asking for it right away. Oh, wow. When we were like, I don't remember. I mean, I knew going into season two we would. But I just started asking for it right away.
I knew the Super Bowl was going to be on NBC. I knew we were laying in that the family was a family of football fans.
We had established like the terrible towel and the pilot and all of that. And it was just, you know, it was network TV. And there was a lot. I just wanted that slot for something big and particularly for that episode. Yeah.
Not much. I mean, I had... I had done two shows that I loved, but had been rewarded or not rewarded in various ways, but I had done only two shows that had made two seasons. One was like a sitcom called The Neighbors, and one was this musical called Galavant. They both did two seasons. I just named them. And then got cancer.
But I certainly hadn't, I certainly hadn't never had, I had done big films before, but I had never done a TV show that had like jumped into the zeitgeist. I had never had that before.
It was the whole time really. I mean, it was.
Yeah. We knew the pilot was special. We thought we had something. And then it was just, you know, every indicator before we even aired was just, this thing was just like kind of like under, I'm not a very spiritual guy. I'm certainly not a very religious guy, but it was like, it was almost like this thing existed.
It was just kind of waiting for us to all come along and do it because the stars aligned over and over and over again in so many ways on it that it was pretty nuts. But yeah, I, It was right away. I mean, it was right away. The Super Bowl episode that we're talking about was definitely probably the pinnacle of that experience.
I mean, when we all went to the Super Bowl that year in real time and you guys did, was Fallon after the Super Bowl. We did Fallon afterwards, yeah. That was so fun. And I remember being on the plane. I just remember being out to dinner and I remember... and one of you guys, maybe Milo, had come to dinner with me and my brother-in-law who I'd brought out with me. Okay. And it was like pandemonium.
It was pandemonium. Like, remember Biden was there. Yeah, we met Biden. He was a nice president at the time.
It was crazy. And then we went and hustled over and you guys did the Tonight Show. And it was like the Super Bowl. I brought my brother-in-law who was very excited. He was a New England Patriots fan. And he's like kind of like just a great guy from Rhode Island, from Boston. And he like left the... I think the green room of Fallon, because he just almost couldn't take it.
It was like getting too overwhelmed. Like the size of the whole thing was so big that he's like, I think I'm going to call it. Like it just felt nuts. It all felt nuts. And then I remember flying home on the plane and getting internet service and the studio and network were all calling that gazillions of people had tuned into the Super Bowl.
It was just, that was like, that was kind of for me, like the height of like the pandemonium right around that period.
Maybe a little. I mean, I remember trying to, in the most gentle way possible, kind of give a little exposition to situations at the beginning of the first scenes for each of the characters, just so that people, if they didn't know, like, who's this guy, if they were coming in.
The opening is like this action movie for eight minutes, so it kind of draws you in, even if you don't know the situation. So that was intentional. And then I think, yeah, we knew we were saving the big twist at the end with like future Tess and future Randall. We wanted that to be something we had. I always wanted to like bring back that pilot song at the end of the episode.
Like, is that this, that's this episode, right? The Labi Siffre, the Watch Me, it was a cover of it. Oh, I think, yes. Yes. And like-
I wanted to give everyone a moment to eat in the pilot, like all the actors. I remember that was a big focus for me. Being like, huh, I want everybody to have a moment. At least every couple to have a moment. You know what I mean? And so I remember that being something that was really on my mind. I was like, oh, people might be checking it out for the first time.
I want everybody's dynamic to be great and clear and to kind of get a moment of the seven of you guys.
How did you develop that ability? I made a lot of stuff early in my career. Like those, the early shows I made, I got that opportunity to be in the edit bay and kind of learned how it worked a little.
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