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And with that, he gives his final piece of advice, a line written by the great Matthew Nelson, believe in yourselves, dream, try, do good. Did you think when we first read that line in the script, did you know it was going to be as impactful and meaningful to not only us, but to the legions of fans who watched the show? Like, did we know, like, oh, wow, we've really... -Danielle 

I don't know. It's such a good line. -Rider

Such a good line. -Will 

And, you know, have I already told the story where I talked to Matt about the debate over who wrote the line? Because I had lunch with Matt and Jeff... No, Jeff Menell and Matt. And he was saying that Michael claimed that he wrote this line. And Matt was like, no, no, no, that was in my script. And Michael was like, no, no, I wrote it. And Matt went back and found his copy of the original script that he turned in to Michael Jacobs. And he was like, I know I wrote that line. -Rider 

Receipts, people. Bring the receipts. -Will 

He had the receipts. And I was like, I'm so glad you went back and proved that. He was like, yeah, yeah. -Rider 

It's perfect. It's a great line. -Will

So as we've mentioned, you've heard us say this. We did not rehearse the scene at all. We read it at the table read, did we not? -Danielle 

We must have rehearsed it. -Rider

We did. -Danielle

We must have sat around. -Rider 

Right before. I think we did it right before. I distinctly remember McCracken going like, just take your seats and we'll sit there. -Will 

We blocked it. Exactly. -Danielle

And that was just to save our emotional, like to make it real and clear. -Rider 

Could you have done a second take? I don't know if I could have. -Will

No, I mean, you could see I was a wreck. -Rider 

Feeny motions for a handshake, but Shawn goes in for the hug. -Danielle

And he went at the wrong time, didn't he? -Will 

Yeah, so he puts his hand out too early. I still have a line and then you can see Bill kind of go again. Like make it so it could be a cut point, which is a good pro actor thing to do. But yeah, this was the debate whether we wouldn't have to do another take because they...-Rider

Because he pulled it up. Yeah, he, the arm came up too early. Didn't matter. -Will 

I thought, it's so perfect that you're able to get that kind of laugh in that moment. And then Feeny sticks out both hands for a hug, and you get another huge laugh when you just shake it. -Danielle 

It's so good. Yeah. -Will

It's unbelievable. -Danielle 

All written, by the way. None of that was added. All of this was written. -Will 

That was so great. -Danielle