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The Story Behind 30 Rock’s Magnificently Silly Leap Day Episode
“Instead of doing our actual work, we can spend half a day talking about the plot of a movie for this made-up holiday.”
So when we were making up our fictitious holiday, we wanted to have something dark and sinister at the core of Leap Day William, and we liked the idea of him being from the Mariana Trench and that he ate children’s tears. I also noticed that there was a Kristen Stewart movie called Underwater and it’s about digging into the Mariana Trench and uncovering monsters that come to the surface to devour children. That’s the greatest assignment for comedy writers: Instead of doing our actual work, we can spend half a day talking about the plot of a movie we have contempt for within this made-up holiday.
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