But for me, [meta-humor] is the language I think in, that’s the language I speak. I’m very much like Abed in that way. I don’t have voice-over, I don’t have characters that are able to stare into the camera and tell you what they’re thinking, and I don’t use a lot of […] flashbacks. I got one crutch, and that’s the fact that these characters are allowed to have seen the same movies you’ve seen. And if things are going in their world the way things went in a movie they saw, they’re able to do what I would do, which is go, “This is an awful lot like that movie, isn’t it?” And that’s my way of making the viewer feel, as much as possible, like these people might be down the street somewhere and aren’t just performers on a stage. It’s the most effective way to do my job, which is to get you to suspend your disbelief.

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