Editor’s note: The Fourth Wall is a recurring feature that acts as a platform for creators, actors, and industry insiders to bring the readers behind the scenes of the production process. In our latest installment, we removed the curtain on the writers’ room for the debut season of FOX’S live-action/animated hybrid Son of Zorn.

This part of the walkthrough looks at episodes one and two from Son of Zorn’s first season.

In recent years, there’s been a healthy trend of more unconventional and experimental comedies on network TV. One of the more recent examples is Fox’s Son of Zorn. In a lot of ways, the show is a send-up and tribute to the traditional family sitcoms of yesteryear, but at the same time the series is using the Sword of Bloodshed to slice that paradigm in half. By a heavy injection of animation into this live-action sitcom, and an entire cartoon world that goes along with it, Zorn is a show that you’ve seen countless times before but is also truly one of a kind.

In lieu of this exciting new series, we touched base with the program’s co-creator, Reed Agnew (Wilfred), and co-showrunner, Sally Bradford McKenna (Don’t Trust the B—, The Grinder), about the larger machinations of this show and the behind the scenes details as we look at each episode of the season.