You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

And so you buried the thing

That's not the end of the thing

Don't you like jazz yet there's a spooky surprise

And though you cannot revise

And nothing ever really dies.

The Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have. I am Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society, and it is week two of Max Fund Drive, 2006. We have just been

delivering so much goodness to you, and we're not going to stop. If you haven't yet, please

consider becoming a member for as low as $5 a month by going to maximum fund.org slash join dead pilots.

We have our second dead pilot from Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for you.

This one's called Give Me Five.

Carter and Craig, of course, co-created How I Met Your Mother, were showrunners for its

entire nine-year,

208 episode run.

Before that, there were writers to the late show with David Letterman, produces for American

Dad.

Harder is the author of the novel, The Mutual Friend, and Craig is the author of the novel.

That's not how it happened.

Also, you should check out Craig's How I Met Your Mother, Rewatch podcast called How We Made Your

Mother.

Carter and Craig wrote this one with the legendary television writer Peter Tolan, whose credits

include the Larry Sanders show, Rescue Me, the movies analyze this and analyze that,ons of other. His resume is insane. I'm hoping to

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