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.

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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.

John Goodman as Dan speaking in The Conners season 7 episode 6

It felt like an anti-sitcom episode, and we ended up really liking that.

It also offers a neatly tied-together ending for the franchise, which began in 1988.

Source:TVLine

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