To be honest, I would have preferred something a little different, like outside a cluster of yurts in the Gobi Desert, but I had a feeling the suits wouldn't have gone for that. Now things were becoming bizarre. There's an odd thing about writing for television. When I'd write a part of the Best Things script, I'd read it out aloud in one of those talking-head anchor voices. I also figured it wouldn't take long.
Television is sound-bytes, after all.
Several weeks later, it was done and ready to be torn apart by the experts. And then a strange thing happened. Although the material wasn't that funny, John delivered virtually as written, improving a little here and there and enunciating like an angel. If it felt odd that you were writing for a popular sitcom character, it felt downright surreal when you heard the words come out of his mouth. Then the fun began.