Says Day, McElhenney and Howerton try to write things that they find funny and just hope everyone else likes it. Says Dave Foley, Tom Sizemore and Jason Sudeikis will guest star in the upcoming season. In fact, FX often encourages them to go further. Says FX has never told the writers that they are going too far with taboo topics.

He wouldn’t rule out the possibility of another musical episode and hopes to do one soon. Says that Green Man will not appear in the upcoming season of Sunny but he would like to appear as Green man at next year’s Comic Con. Joked that some episodes will ignore Dee’s pregnancy altogether for comedic value. Says that the writers have discussed making a feature film version of Sunny but are waiting for enough free time to make sure the script is perfect. Says his favorite aspect of the show is Charlie’s relationship with the waitress and everyone’s relationship to Rickety Cricket and the McPoyle twins. Joked that he would like to do a D.E.N.N.I.S. Says that they worked very hard to put a new spin on sitcom pregnancy conventions. Decided to write Kaitlin Olson’s pregnancy into the show for the character Dee because it was a fun new taboo for the show to tackle. Says that the show is not heavily improvised and that he, McElhenney and Day strive to make the scripts feel natural and genuine so that improv is not necessary. The funniest taboo to tackle on the show in his opinion is transvestites. Every year the cast heads down to Philadelphia to shoot exterior shots on location but the rest of the filming of the show takes place in Los Angeles. (Dee is played by McElhenney’s real life wife, Kaitlin Olson. Promises that the resolution of Dee’s pregnancy will be something that no one has ever done on TV.

Stories are inspired by what’s happening in the news and events in the cast’s life. Admits that while a lot of episodes are purely fictional, many episodes are inspired by real life events.

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