“It Felt Like An Anti-Sitcom Episode”

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Conners season 7, episode 6!The Conners‘ ending and Dan’s final line have been explained by the sitcom’s executive producers after season 7 brought the series to a close. Speaking with TVLine, executive producers Bruce Helford, Bruce Rasmussen, and Dave Caplan have explained why Dan breaks the fourth wall and bids farewell to viewers in The Conners’ final episode. Check out what Helford, Rasmussen, and Caplan had to say below:

Bruce Rasmussen: That happened during the shoot — that he breaks the fourth wall.

Bruce Helford: Yeah. We’d actually already broken the fourth wall with all the crying because that was real. They were saying goodbye forever. That’s not [how] you’d normally [react] after a pizza party if you’re going to see these people the next day, but we felt that it was really significant to break the fourth wall and let the audience see what they were truly feeling.

Dave Caplan: We also were very self-conscious about not doing a cloying last sitcom episode. It was John’s suggestion that he thank the audience like that, and it felt so authentic and honest. It felt like an anti-sitcom episode, and we ended up really liking that.

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Source: TVLine