Todd Purdom

If you don't want us to be responsible for writing it anymore, then you'll have to figure out how to get the number one show on television, and we can't be responsible anymore. And he later learned that the chairman of the company had sent a memo to his staff, basically saying in the very pungent terms that I'm not going to say on the radio, Don't mess around with a Cuban.

So they were allowed to do the episodes. And they were so concerned about doing it in good taste that they hired a tripartite panel of a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant minister to vet the scripts and be on the set when they were filming to make sure that everything was done in good taste.

So they were allowed to do the episodes. And they were so concerned about doing it in good taste that they hired a tripartite panel of a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant minister to vet the scripts and be on the set when they were filming to make sure that everything was done in good taste.

So they were allowed to do the episodes. And they were so concerned about doing it in good taste that they hired a tripartite panel of a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant minister to vet the scripts and be on the set when they were filming to make sure that everything was done in good taste.

It's incredible. It's incredible.

It's incredible. It's incredible.

It's incredible. It's incredible.

Well, in future years, Desi recalled in a years later interview with David Letterman how you couldn't say the word pregnant on television.

Well, in future years, Desi recalled in a years later interview with David Letterman how you couldn't say the word pregnant on television.

Well, in future years, Desi recalled in a years later interview with David Letterman how you couldn't say the word pregnant on television.

No. So he said in his wonderful accent, had to say spectin. And the audience in David Letterman's show laughed out loud, of course. And Desi took a beat in a classic deadpan, you know, and then said, spectin was better anyway. And Letterman's like, it still is because you can't get a laugh with the word pregnant. Whereas, you know, spectin is pretty funny anyway.

No. So he said in his wonderful accent, had to say spectin. And the audience in David Letterman's show laughed out loud, of course. And Desi took a beat in a classic deadpan, you know, and then said, spectin was better anyway. And Letterman's like, it still is because you can't get a laugh with the word pregnant. Whereas, you know, spectin is pretty funny anyway.

No. So he said in his wonderful accent, had to say spectin. And the audience in David Letterman's show laughed out loud, of course. And Desi took a beat in a classic deadpan, you know, and then said, spectin was better anyway. And Letterman's like, it still is because you can't get a laugh with the word pregnant. Whereas, you know, spectin is pretty funny anyway.

She probably would have been approaching like five months or something. And one of the things apparently about her pregnancies, she showed early and large in her pregnancy. She she she tended to balloon up, which is why they they couldn't hide the pregnancy. They would have had to stop producing the show if they couldn't have pregnancy be part of the plot.

She probably would have been approaching like five months or something. And one of the things apparently about her pregnancies, she showed early and large in her pregnancy. She she she tended to balloon up, which is why they they couldn't hide the pregnancy. They would have had to stop producing the show if they couldn't have pregnancy be part of the plot.

She probably would have been approaching like five months or something. And one of the things apparently about her pregnancies, she showed early and large in her pregnancy. She she she tended to balloon up, which is why they they couldn't hide the pregnancy. They would have had to stop producing the show if they couldn't have pregnancy be part of the plot.

And so, of course, the episode then continues from that wonderful scene you just played. She finally goes down to the nightclub and devises a ruse to tell him there in public. And it's a charming scene when he realizes that he's going to be the father.

And so, of course, the episode then continues from that wonderful scene you just played. She finally goes down to the nightclub and devises a ruse to tell him there in public. And it's a charming scene when he realizes that he's going to be the father.

And so, of course, the episode then continues from that wonderful scene you just played. She finally goes down to the nightclub and devises a ruse to tell him there in public. And it's a charming scene when he realizes that he's going to be the father.

The show and they were meta before meta was meta, you know, and the synergy of their real life relationship, the relationship on the show, it all played into each other. And the episode in which the baby was born on television had been filmed weeks before the baby was born in real life.