KAITLYN DEVER LAST MAN STANDING SERIES

TVLINE | You had Kaitlyn Dever in the flesh a few weeks back. I don’t need to know what it is, you know what I mean? It almost has more power being unspoken. So, we just left that moment and said, “Do what you did.” Whatever he was thinking, it worked for me. In rehearsal, Hector paused, turned around and went, “No,” and walked out. , he comes in and says, “I’ll see you tomorrow,” and then he just walks out.

What was that exactly? Had Ed finally run out of the things to say? Or did Hector Elizondo get choked up? He mumbles something under his breath, then walks out. He starts to walk out, then turns back towards Mike. TVLINE | There’s a moment before Mike records his last vlog, where Ed is about to leave his office. But we also wanted to end on the, since the vlog was the signature device of the series. And we did talk about it, and had we not done Tim Taylor meets Mike Baxter earlier in the season, we might’ve done something like that.

I wouldn’t have felt bad for borrowing from that, because I think it would’ve been honoring Bob Newhart.

KAITLYN DEVER LAST MAN STANDING SERIES

Yeah, especially because Bob Newhart and Tim Allen are only who have had two series that went longer than five seasons. TVLINE | You’ve already hosted a number of Home Improvement reunions over the years - and if there was any show to borrow from, Newhart‘s a good one. TVLINE | Since you mentioned Newhart, I have to ask: Did you ever consider having Tim Taylor wake up in bed with Jill after a nine-year slumber? I wanted it to end on, while not necessarily a funny moment, because that’s really difficult to do unless you’re Newhart, I didn’t want it to end on a depressing moment. They did a great, but I didn’t like that final melancholy moment. That was just an episode about Reba finally admitting that she’s friends with Barbra Jean. But Matt Barry, my number two, was also on Reba, and we ended that series as well ending the show. Did you look to any of those finales for inspiration? TVLINE | You’ve worked on a number of long-running sitcoms, including The Golden Girls, the original Roseanne, and Reba. We didn’t go with either because that meant that the show, as everybody knew it, no longer existed. TVLINE | Why didn’t either of those stories feel like “the right tone”? It was about common sense… having a feel, you know, for what works and what doesn’t. And it felt very legitimate, by the way, because that role wasn’t about business expertise. We had a very funny, interesting way in which we framed to have that be Mandy. It was an episode built around Ed saying Kristin needed to find her Ed - she needed to find that partner that she could trust, and who would support her and encourage her good ideas, and be strong enough to tell the hard truths about her bad ideas. The second idea was Kristin taking over Outdoor Man. TVLINE | And what was the other story you had in mind for the finale? RELATED | Last Man Standing Boss Reveals Why Boyd Disappeared After Season 8 We could say goodbye to the truck keep that bittersweet, maudlin quality to one scene, as opposed to manifesting itself. That’s why we made about the truck being stolen, and made the truck the metaphor for losing something that you care about and invested in for a long time. We would’ve made it as funny as we could, but there was going to be a bittersweet, melancholy underpinning to everything. In the pilot, Kyle was a new employee, so it would have felt correct, in terms of, you know, fulfilling that circle, completing the arc of the character. TVLINE | To be clear, it would have been Kyle, Mandy and Sarah moving away? And Ed just… tagging along?Ĭorrect.

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