Glenn Ficarra
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84 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Like you're telling a story, because this show was about surprises, always was about big surprises. That was part of the dynamic of the show, was we're trying to hide things from the very beginning and conceal things and then surprise people. We're in a different timeframe, whatever it is. And so what you do is you make people laugh and they stop. investigating the show.
They stop, they just kind of roll with it. They laugh and they forget about it and they forget that maybe they would have, if you wouldn't have gone for that laugh, they would have kind of made it, figured out what you were doing. Figured out the tricks. But the laugh, we would call it the rinse. It would give you like a restart.
And then, and then so like a couple of laughs and then suddenly you reveal it's, You know, Randall's an old man and it's the future.
Yeah, that was like, and that was the rents, you know, it's like the rents, they call it. Interesting. We call it.
The house is made completely out of fire-resistant material. And then they pipe it like a barbecue. It's just all these pipes. The whole thing is all these things. And they turn it on and light them up just like your barbecue kind of thing. And that's what it is. So it's like, turn it on, turn it off. And nothing will keep burning. Nothing.
Board means storyboard. We storyboarded. So every shot was a picture and a storyboard that we could reference. Those art classes were coming back now.
Well, it's just interesting. We went to art school, and we liked to complain about we were the worst kids in the class. But those lessons we learned in our foundation classes, which were drawing, light color design, and 3D, we use every day when we direct. So it's a good thing to learn about that.
But mainly it was about building that set and making it really safe and making it filled with gas elements, just like you have at the bottom of your barbecue, a gas pipe with all these holes in it that just starts pumping out gas.
So the gas would come as a clean flame like gas does. It burns clean. And then the smoke would come from a smoke machine. So you have two separate things. And the smoke isn't smoke. It's that kind of oil-based stuff. It's not really smoke. It's like Roscoe Fogger. Bodega incense.
Yeah, there's no, so there's no, you can never build up carbon dioxide or whatever. It is so much fun. It was like those kinds of things, like the White House set in Paradise. It's just like, it's just like, it's just a thrill. A kid in a candy store, yeah.
You sign a contract, and they make you do it. I got you. You know how it is. I do indeed. We would have loved to come back. We would have loved to come back every season, but it just didn't work out.
Because we came up with some tricky little directory shot. You remember that? Yeah. Yes. We put a blue screen behind you so that we would shoot the people running to the emergency room to save Jack in slow motion.
So that you would be talking on the phone and you'd see these people running in slow motion behind you. The shot is dope. It's so cool. You're spilling your guts. So you wanted like, you know, so we felt bad about that.
Just like Memphis. By the way, we talked about that making the pilot. We talked about Like, well, what are we gonna do? How are we gonna reveal the actual death? And we were sort of on the pilot. Dan was like, what am I gonna do? And we're sort of like trying to figure it out. And so like the kind of the beginnings of it were happening while we were shooting the pilot on the set.
The rumination is long. Yeah. But then, yeah, I mean, I have to, and then Memphis.
That was, and then dear old Ron, you know, I mean, and just like so many great, remember like the improv scenes.
continuity or anything you just have to because we were we went there on a location scout and we were talking to the memphis film board person and we're like um was the the big hotel where the the ducks play body part the body hotel there's they bring the ducks down and there's a guy right yeah sorry and that's part of the story of the episode we said was it restricted back
when this would have happened, would black people have been allowed in here? And she said, well, I know they had a colored day at the zoo. And it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm like, they kept black kids away from the zoo. And it just hit me.
like a ton of bread and i'm like we need to address this we need to make this part of the show because it's like kids want to see animals and it's depressing sure you know god bless you yeah and we just made it it was great and to do that with ron ron was sick at the time yeah yeah and it was it was all very loaded the podcast
Speaking of crying in the podcast, my Aunt Rita, remember you did that video for me for my Aunt Rita? She was very sick on death's door. Sully did a video for her. She just had her 92nd birthday. She showed that video to all her friends. Look at you. That's amazing. She did a turnaround when that video came out. It was the video?
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