#sod

He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#because #episode #happened #hasn #important

In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#both #both sides #case #clear #couple

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#characters #decisions #early #episodes #films

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#each #episode #feel #great #i

One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#basis #cast #disappointing #episode #going

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#cheaper #costs #economics #episodes #individually

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#economic #episodes #exploit #going #hits

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#days #directing #done #episodic #get

If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#good #i #liked #one thing #snl

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#built #episodes #exceptional #given #network