Dave Damaschek

So what about for your sitcom?

You don't try to keep up with the Joneses and do everything slick and state-of-the-art.

I think you should employ some of those great tactics.

Like, in old sitcoms, this is one of my favorite things.

It's funny to think about.

You never see anybody do this.

is at the end of an episode there the live audience is there and they give the you know that they go out on the last line and now somebody has queued the audience to applaud now the actors are still out on the stage as the credits start to roll right you know the three's company is playing and now they have to act without words now there's no dialogue left and so it's always jack tripper invariably picks up a pillow and he slaps janet they get into a pillow fight

I want you to do some of that.

Ma, I did that all in the family.

How about that?

Yeah, I like that.

All right.

That's pitch number one.

How about Mr. Roper?

The best thing in the old three's companies.

Mr. Roper.

Yeah, I've only seen this in that show.

Never before, never after.

His best dig at Mrs. Roper, always about how she's ugly in some way, whatever his best shot was, he would suddenly break the fourth wall, and he would find the camera and smile at it, and they would zoom in on him, and then he would just return to the scene.

That is the greatest thing.