RIP Marc Wilmore.

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Our official Season 4 poster. We come out at midnight tonight California time. I hope you enjoy it!

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Happy...

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We recorded (via Zoom) a slew of episodes with Dave Koechner as Bob Pogo today. He was brilliantly funny, of course.

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SPOILER FOR SEASON 4 EPISODE 10!

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Happy Thanksgiving! Our first image from Season 5, which should be on Netflix this time next year.

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Happy Halloween! Pumpkin Pogo, carved by our animation director Sylvain Lavoie

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Just a note to say how much I enjoy reading your posts and interacting with you all. Thanks for a great 2019 and here’s to an amazing 2020 full of 10 new FIFF episodes. Happy New Year!

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We had our last Season 4 recording session for Laura Dern this morning in Santa Monica. A total pro, a great artist and a wonderful person.

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Final sound mix for episode 408 — MURPHY AND SON, written by Bill Burr.

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Merry Christmas from our Family to yours! And a Happy New Year full of new FIFF is coming!

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The email I sent to our associate producer Kyle Rowen in June of last year with the text of Smokey’s “letter” to the Mayor.

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We did the final sound mix for episode 407 this morning. It’s “R IS FOR ROSIE”, written by Joe Piarulli & Luan Thomas. That’s Phil LaMarr playing Delmont the barber (aka “Gas Can Guy”). This episode also features a special guest star to be named later. I think you’ll be happy.

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Bill working with our “F Is For Family” editor Joe Gressis last night as we edited the FIFF Season 3 finale.

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We did our “Color Punch Up” for episode 401 today. Here’s one of our first color images from Season 4.

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You guys are incredible.

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Our first time in the edit bay for Season 4. Working on the Radioplay for episode 401.

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Editing color retakes for episode 401 last night. We send it to Netflix today for their first look at it.

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A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Thanks for the great questions and comments about the show. I love them all. My TG wish for you all is that your turkey be made of just skin and you find that missing Brown N Serve roll under your belly.

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Check in here tomorrow (Thursday the 7th) around 10 AM Pacific time for an exciting reveal.

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Color image from episode 403. We’re editing in new animation retakes.

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Recording the great Dave Koechner as Bob Pogo for episode 403 today.

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We recorded Laura Dern for the last 2 episodes of Season 4 this morning.

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First color image from episode 402 — NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. We did our color animation punch up session on it yesterday.

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Hey FIFFErs! I will be doing an AMA this Thursday, Feb 21, from 2PM to 5PM Eastern on the Netflix Reddit page. Bring me your questions about Frank, Sue, Kevin, Bill, Maureen, Vic, Goomer, Phillip, Anthony, Smokey, Larry, Phineas the Roustabout and anyone or anything else. Talk to you soon.

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Here’s our Season 3 poster. I pitched “Summer Is Coming” as the tag line, but I like this one better.

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We did the final sound mix for episode 405 yesterday. It’s called “JUST BREATHE”, and it was written by Joe Heslinga.

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Punching up episode 404 today.

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We did our first edit of color animation for episode 407 last night. It’s “R IS FOR ROSIE”, written by Luan Thomas and Joe Piarulli.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

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Editing episode 409 this afternoon. It’s a killer.

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Here’s a pic of our entire FIFF writers room (minus Bill who is a huge part of the writing but also a very busy guy).

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We recorded with our loop group yesterday. They are very talented and specialized actors who create voices and improvised dialogue for ancillary and/or background characters. Here they’re voicing Anthony’s kindergarten classmates.

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Editing the animatic for episode 406 tonight — COME TO PAPA, written by Jessica Williamson

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Congratulations to the great Kevin Michael Richardson on his Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance nomination for his incredible work as Rosie!

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My copy of the Table Draft of episode 403. We’re getting ready to punch it up after this morning’s table read.

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Recording pickups for episodes 401 and 402 with Bill this morning in Hollywood.

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Final sound mix this morning for our Season 4 premiere: FATHER CONFESSOR, written by Yours Truly.

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Image from yesterday’s sound mix for episode 403, BRING ME A TOOTH, written by David Richardson.

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Class photo — writers room for Season 4. We had our final S4 table read today: ep 410, “BABY, BABY, BABY”, written by Marc Wilmore.

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Another color image from episode 401. We edited our new dialogue and storyboard changes into it last night. Now it goes back to the animation house for “Take Twos”.

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Debi Derryberry at our record session yesterday for episode 402, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, written by Henry Gammill.

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Writing staff lunch at old time Hollywood restaurant Musso and Frank yesterday after our table read for ep 407, “R Is For Rosie”

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New Season 4 character “Alaquippa Ed”, voiced by Joe Pera. Ed runs baggage for Mohican’s arch rival, Alaquippa Airlines. We recorded Joe via satellite from Milwaukee this morning.

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We just finished our final sound mix for Season 3. Episode 310, BILL MURPHY’S NIGHT OFF, written by me. We’re just about wrapped on our end.

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With the great Dave Koechner after our recent S4 record session. Bob Pogo lives!

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We did our final sound mix this morning for episode 402: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, written by Henry Gammill.

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We had our last day as a full-time writers room for Season 4 yesterday and celebrated with our traditional farewell lunch at Stella Barra pizza down the street from our office. Such a wonderful group of funny people. I’m blessed to work with them.

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We recorded some ADR (looping) with Haley Reinhart this morning. Here’s a portion of her cue sheet. Suffice to say Bill Murphy is going through some tough stuff this season.

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Happy Fourth of July, everyone! Here’s a screen shot from our Independence Day-set episode 306, “Punch Drunk”. Frank is holding a firework he just bought called “The Shaking Dog”. Enjoy your holiday!

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Here’s the larger format poster for Season 3 — soon to be seen on billboards looming over various intersections in Los Angeles.

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Hey FIFFers. We’re slowly getting closer to our Season 3 release. Here’s a tantalizing image from the first color animation of our 3rd Season premiere — “ARE YOU READY FOR THE SUMMER?”, written by Peter Tibbals and Eric Goldberg. I’ll post more images as we continue to produce Season 3.

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FIFF writing staff, minus Joe Heslinga (out of town) and Bill Burr (came later from a friend’s wedding) at our Season 3 cast and crew wrap party last night.

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We had our final sound mix this morning for episode 309 — FRANK THE FATHER, written by Mr. Bill Burr. It’s a real lulu.

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Happy Halloween from the Murphalettis!

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Bogus episode description posted to IMDb by someone who has no clue what episode 401 is about or how to write in English.

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Here’s the first color image from episode 309, “Frank The Father”, written by Bill Burr. We screened it for the writing staff and punched up the script today.

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Hey all. We’re steadily moving through production. Here’s a frame grab from our second episode of season 3. More photos and other news on our FIFF writers Twitter account— @FIFFNetflix

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Doing the final sound mix for episode 304, MR. MURPHY’S WILD RIDE, tonight. 4 shows done, 6 to go.

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Join me for my FIFF AMA today!

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Most of our writing & production staff at lunch yesterday. Clockwise from left: Marc Wilmore, Valeri Vaughn, Tiffany Brower, Me, Zander DeNador, Kyle Rowen, Yvette DiBello, Joe Gressis, Sam Stefanak, Jeff Norkin, Rich Wilkie, Bryan Quebral, Pete Tibbals, Brian Cowan, David Richardson, Henry Gammill

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Screen shot from the first color animation cut of episode 310, BILL MURPHY’S NIGHT OFF — our epic Season 3 finale. We did our punch up pass on it today.

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Every season we change a bunch of the items that assault Frank in our opening titles to include stuff from the new season. Here’s a snapshot of a moment from our Season 3 titles. It has several new things in it with various degrees of importance to our story and/or new characters.

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Bill Burr and editor Joe Gressis last night as we edit our Season 3 finale — “Bill Murphy’s Night Off”.

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Yesterday we had our first look at the color animation for episode 305, BATTLE OF THE SEXES. Here’s a shot of Kevin and one of our new characters, Morehead, played by the very funny H. MIchael Croner.

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A scene from our first color animation cut of episode 306, “Punch Drunk”, written by Joe Heslinga. We did a punch up pass on it yesterday.

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Our true inspiration for Vic.

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A screen grab from the first color animation cut of episode 307: SUMMER VACATION. We did a punch up session on it yesterday.

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Mixing episode 307, SUMMER VACATION, last night.

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We did the final sound mix for episode 308 this morning. It’s written by the great Henry Gammil and has some of the biggest laughs and craziest surprises of the season, IMO.

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Another ad we used as our inspiration for Vic.

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Last night we had our final sound mix session for episode 302: PAUL LYNDE TO BLOCK, written by David Richardson. It introduces 3 major new characters — none of which are pictured here. That’s my clipboard with my mix notes on it. Re-recording Mixer Peter Cole on the left.

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Hey guys. We are now at the beginning of the end for Season 3 production — the final sound mixes. We had our first — for episode 301 — on Wednesday, and we’ll be having these every other week or so throughout the summer and into early fall.

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Final sound mix this morning for episode 305, “Battle Of The Sexes”, written by Emily Towers.

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Friday night we did our final sound mix for episode 306, PUNCH DRUNK, written by Joe Heslinga. It’s our very special (and eventful) 4th Of July episode.

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An image from our final sound mix for episode 303, THE STINGER, written by Marc Wilmore.

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Kurtwood Smith joins the FIFF family. He just joined us the other day to record a very special guest appearance for Season 3.

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We had our final sound mix this morning for episode 309 of F IS FOR FAMILY— “FRANK THE FATHER”, written by Mr. Bill Burr. It’s a real lulu.

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Screen grab from our first color animation cut of S3 E8, IT’S IN HIS BLOOD, written by Henry Gammill.

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Recording pickups with Trevor DeVall (as Bolo) for S3, E2 this morning in Los Angeles

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Recording ADR with the great Dave Koechner for episode 303 the other day. Pogo’s fingers have healed, but his brush with death last season (and being rid of Scoop Dunbarton) has led him to fall off the diet wagon and eat everything in sight again. He’s even bigger this year than Season One.

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Our supremely talented sound editing and post production team. L-R: Producer Brian Cowan, Post-Production Supervisor Tiffany Brower, Re-recording Mixer Shaun Cunningham, Music Editor Jason Payne, Sound Designer Chris Trent, Re-recording Mixer Peter Cole.

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Cue sheets from this morning’s very busy ADR record session at Margarita Mix studios in Hollywood, where we “wrapped” Season 3 records for these 5 amazing actors.

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