You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

And so you bury the thing

That's not the end of the thing

Don't you have chies yet there's a spooky surprise

And the book cannot devise

And nothing ever really dies. The Dead Pilot Society

Hey Dead Pilot Society listeners, it's Andrew Reich, bringing you another special episode for Max Fun Drive.

If you haven't been listening to any of our episodes over the last 10 days, then you might not be aware that we are in the middle of Max Fun Drive, the time of year where we celebrate Max Fund members and remind you

that this show exists because listeners like you support it. But I'm guessing that a lot of you

are aware, and probably a bunch of you have already become members or boosted or upgraded

your membership. So I'm not going to have that many interruptions to make my pitch and tell you to go to

Maximumfund.org slash join this time. I guess I should tell you what we're doing this episode. I'm

talking to Andy Bobro about his sitcom writing rules. Andy's a writer we've had on the show before.

In fact, his dead pilot, Greatest American Heroes, was our Fun Drive episode two years ago.

It's episode number 92, and you should go back and listen if you haven't already. One of our most

insane casts, Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Stephen Root, Rachel Harris, really fun pilot.

And I did a great interview with Andy, which was episode 93.

Andy's written on Malcolm in the middle.

Community, Last Man on Earth, Brooklyn Nine-N-N-N-N-N-Lately he's been writing on Crappopolis.

And so I noticed that he'd been posting some of his rules for sitcom writing on Twitter.

He compiled about 30 of them into a list, and I found them to be pretty

spot on and unique and helpful, and I decided I wanted to talk to him about them. So that's

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