The Conners Ending & Dan’s Final Line Explained By EPs: “It Felt Like An Anti-Sitcom Episode”
It’s a direct fourth wall break, something the show has never done before. Bruce Helford:Yeah. Wed actually already broken the fourth wall with all the crying because that was real. They were saying goodbye forever. Dave Caplan:We also were very self-conscious about not doing a cloying last sitcom episode. It was Johns 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....