Phil Rosenthal

Because that laugh meant.

They're connecting with the characters and they're relating to husband and wife.

And as long as we follow that path of relatability, they're with us because they have those feelings too.

And when the mother comes in and she interrupts and she tells everybody what's best for them and tries to help by making everyone miserable, that's so relatable.

We get letters from Sri Lanka.

That's my mother.

You were listening outside our house last night.

We would hear that all the time.

But I didn't have to listen outside your house because I was listening inside my house.

if you work for me your job was to go home get in a fight with your wife come back in and tell me about it and then we would write whoever had a good argument or a good predicament they wrote that script and then we'd all work on it together to make it as good as we could make endless content right nine years and then we decided it was enough we weren't canceled we said

We think this is enough.

We don't want to stay on past the point of being lousy.

So that also was with a forethought of if we preserve the legacy of the show, maybe we'll have a legacy.

Yeah.

That was a very, very important thing to do is to not wear out our welcome and not wear out ourselves.

It was.

It was.

But you have to have those values first.

If it's just a money grab, you've seen the shows that stay on past the point where they're great anymore.

Right?