The Dunphys are done. Phil has had his fill. However you phrase it, on Wednesday night, it will be time to say goodbye toat 8 p.m., ABC will unveil the one-hour, two-part series finale to the Emmy-decorated family comedy, which is signing off after 11 seasons, 250 episodes, and even more stair-trips.
Burrell certainly mourned the notion the loss of his work family as they all prepared to scatter to other ends of the industry. “It did feel like grieving for not being with these people every day, like we have been,” he explains. "Obviously the local authorities aren't going to keep us from seeing each other, so we can still say hello to each other, but the idea that we won't be working [together] day in, day out was kind of a tough pill to swallow for a moment there.
He describes the final chapter of the show as not just “sweet," but tonally appropriate for what the show set out to do in the previous 248 episodes. “One of the things that you worry about — and nobody worried more about it than the writers — is that you have a different show in your finale than you did the rest of your series,” he says. “And there are really big laughs in the finale, in my opinion. That I found really reassuring, that it wasn't just about us saying goodbye.
Burrell hints that later in the finale, Phil will have an unexpected personal moment with his repressed father-in-law, Jay , the one he’s been trying to impress for the entire series. “I feel like I can speak for Ed in that one of our favorite things over the past 11 years [is] playing these hyper-awkward scenes between the two,” says Burrell.
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