A special shout out goes to our cast, crew and director, Wendey Stanzler, for pulling off this incredibly difficult episode. We spent two days doing the oners over and over, and it was mind-blowing how good everyone was at executing it. And an extra-special shout-out goes to our steadicam operator, Thom Valko, who had maybe the hardest job of all and was an absolute badass.
We (the writers) had wanted to do a oner since the first season of Youre the Worst. The first incarnation of the idea was to follow Jimmy and Gretchen as they finished a boozy brunch, got in their car and started driving, and then ran over Haley Joel Osment while he was on his bike. Two seasons later, we think we got a much better version of it, though running over Haley Joel Osment on a bike would have been a lot of fun.
Jimmy creeping up on Gretchen in bed was inspired by the classic Ninja Cat viral video.
Much like the belief that camels humps have water in them (episode 303), the writers rooms utter lack of animal knowledge is very real, as evidenced by the fact that none of us actually know whether or not ink comes from squids.
No one in the party acknowledges Paul until the very end, a metaphor for Lindsay disappearing him from her life. It occurred to us that viewers might think he was dead and actually a ghost. Hes not. Hes alive.
Jimmy is wearing Edgars bathing suit as underwear because Franklin once lent Shane a bathing suit, and later busted him for wearing it as underwear. Apparently, it was laundry day.
