The Night We Lost Jack Pearson | "Super Bowl Sunday" (S2E14) with special guest Dan Fogelman

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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We have a very special guest joining us this week for the infamous 214 “Super Bowl Sunday” episode, This Is Us Creator Dan Fogelman! Dan joins Mandy, Chris, and Sterling to chat about the episode where it’s finally revealed how Jack Pearson dies. They break down all the episode details, plus how this episode came to be in the writer’s room, what they did (and didn’t) plan before Season 1, the great lengths the cast and crew had to go to to keep this episode’s secrets under wraps, and so much more! Stay tuned through the end for a special Q&A with Dan! That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Music by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith. Follow That Was Us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, and X! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of That Was Us, we will be discussing Season 2, Episode 14, Super Bowl Sunday.
0:19.0	On the 20th anniversary of Jack's death, Randall hosts a Super Bowl party.
0:23.5	Kevin, Kate, and Rebecca share their memories of this day and how they've been coping since.
0:33.3	Hello, friends.
0:34.5	What's going on?
0:35.4	How's everybody doing today?
0:36.6	Well, how are you?
0:38.3	We have a special guest. We have a special guest, everybody. You guys know, friends. What's going on? How's everybody doing today? Well, how are you? We have a special guest. We have a special guest, everybody.
0:40.3	You guys know Mandy, Chris, myself Sterling, but do you know the man who created the show?
0:45.3	Mr. Dan Fogelman, everyone.
0:48.3	Everybody's back.
0:49.3	He's back.
0:50.3	He's back.
0:51.3	I can't believe you guys have a live audience now. This is amazing.
0:55.0	We've grown up so much since you were last on.
0:59.0	So full disclosure, we were going to try to do this episode a few times before.
1:04.0	We thought about doing it with just ourselves.
1:07.0	And then we said, man, this, we had to hold on to the secret for such a long time and tease it out.
1:13.2	Do you know how Jack passed away?
1:15.4	Yes, we know how Jack passed away.
1:17.0	People had all this sorts of theories about it.
1:19.1	It didn't feel right to not do it without the man who built up to this moment.
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