The two actor-producers, along with showrunner Courtney Lilly, discuss how their Emmy-nominated sitcom mirrors the zeitgeist.
Lilly and others also wanted to find ways to mine pain for comedy. In the episode “What About Gary?,” the well-meaning cousin of Rainbow, who is bi-racial, took the path of many white progressives and asked Dre to help educate him on his own biases. At the end, Dre films a video telling those with similar questions to ask Google instead of him.
“I got the phone call just like a lot of us did,” Anderson says, adding that “I enjoyed the episode because Gary was invited to the picnic and you’re always invited to the picnic until you put your foot in the mouth.” The show has been airing long enough that audiences have seen the family grow. They welcomed a new baby a couple seasons ago and sent eldest child Zoey off to college. And Jack and Diane, the characters played by Miles Brown and Marsai Martin, started the show as tweens and are now fully into their teenage years. In the season’s “Babes in Boyland” episode, the show used the dynamic of having a boy and a girl who were the same age to explore inherent gender biases in our culture.
The episode ends with both Dre and Rainbow checking their own stigmas — and with Jack and Diane both grounded. Because this is, ultimately, a comedy, the parents laughed and celebrated their decision. “You think you’re entering into an episode that’s about a fake Instagram account and our daughter hiding something from us,” Ross says. “But instead, unexpectedly, you walk into this landmine of gender politics and how parents raise their kids. And then, of course, in typicalThis edition of
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