The spring premiere ofThe Last Man on Earthwas a pet-ticularly inspired and unusual episode.
(Uh-oh, high-profile cameo alert!)
President Paul Ryan, President Jeff Sessions, President Betsy DeVos pretty much everyone in Donald Trumps cabinet).
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(Mystery solved: So, it wasnt Pat who was flying the drone!)
There is no mention of Donald Trump.
But we say that were in 2019, and Mike Pence is president.
Which one was it?
And why was that not specifically addressed?[Laughs.]
Thats kind of a Choose Your Own Adventure.
We had a little fun with that.
We just kind of dropped that in there.
You know, its funny because we actually had come up with that joke before the election.
Theyre getting [political]!
How scary would that be if that started occurring around you to the people in charge?
How scary that would be going through life and how hopeless you would feel.
So, what youre saying is that President Jill Stein would have met an untimely demise, too.Yes.
In our show, basically, there are seven people alive.
There was no malice intended.
Weve shown that Cher is dead, and Im a big fan of Cher.
Maybe he, you know… What do you think happened?
I think he was impeached.
Or was it always going to be that way?No, we always wanted to keep that vague.
I know there are some people who enjoyed the joke and some people who [didnt].
Your enjoyment of that joke falls on partisan lines, you know?
But again, it was really a joke that we thought of before the election was even decided.
Once the election happened, then that part of it fell into place.
How many presidents do you imagine that we went through before it was just like, Eh screw it.
Lets let chaos reign?
Its a very-man-for-himself situation.
But I bet they went a little deeper than that.
Laura Dern lasted the longest, making it forpartof an episode.
How did you come to cast her?
And I got to know her when I didNebraskawith her dad.
Bruce kind of became a father figure, and as a result Laura a sister figure.
She loves dog food.
Its actually dog food in there.
I have to tell the truth.
There was not real dog food in the bag.
It was cat food.
It was dry cat food in there.
She loves cat food.
You and Kristen are friends and former co-workers fromSNLandMacGruber.
So its a family there.
And Kristen is, I think, the funniest person on the planet, man or woman.
I would say that title goes to Kristen Wiig, in my book.
She just can do anything.
But again, like Laura Dern, shes just incredibly busy all the time.
Then I thought, you know, sometimes you just say that.
And it was just so much fun.
We just got really lucky.
We know how Laura felt about eating dog food.
Did you always know that Pamela would get a standalone episode?This came pretty late in the game.
Its one of our best episodes as well.
But the Kristen episode is just a very special episode.
… Everybody came together and just kicked ass to get that thing done.
How long will Pamela be struggling to make contact with our group before finally meeting them?
And I know youre going to say, Whos to say that she ever will find them?
Tandy and Pamela both are always thinking they just nailed a joke that they didnt nail.
What are the odds of seeing Jeremy again?We never saw Jeremy dead.
Just like with Jason Sudeikis.
You never saw Jason dead.
Weve never seen him dead.
Hes probably dead, but we never see him dead.
And the same thing with Jeremy.
Oh, my god, that is the cutest little dog!
Wed be crazy if we didnt have Jeremy somehow find the group again.
Or they find his decaying corpse.
That would be fine too.
We just need that closure.Exactly.
But as youll see from the rest of the season, things get a little squirrely.
[Laughs] There are some crazy twists and turns that are coming down the pike.
The audience has been waiting for resolution onthe Did Gail actually kill herself?
fall-finale cliffhanger, but you gave us the fake-out with the Pamela episode instead.
Do we get that resolution at the beginning of the episode?I cannot confirm anything.
But what I can say about this episode is there are somemajormoves.
[Laughs] There are some major moves.
Its one of my favorite episodes.
Its got a little bit of everything.
Can you give us a one-word tease for this episode?Roller coaster.
Is that one word or is that two?
The dictionary says two.
Thanks for the bonus word!Let me think… okay… Tornado.
