ANDY BOBROW: Not a coincidence! We do a lot of things by accident but that is not one of them.

This nonsense going on with Tandy’s dinosaur suit is so ridiculous. What’s the story there?

ANDY BOBROW: We had seen it on YouTube. A Japanese show had a hidden camera gag where a dinosaur was walking through an office building scaring the crap out of people. We were looking for some wish-fulfillment stuff, something physical for Tandy to do. In an episode where the main activity needed to be a lengthy search, we needed Tandy to search in a weird way. We showed the YouTube to Will and he was way into it. There was a brief discussion with our producer as to whether we should buy the dinosaur or rent it. Our default response is always: “Well, we’re probably gonna want to destroy it at some point.” So we own this thing now.

There’s a very interesting structure to this episode where ostensibly nothing happens. You’ve done a few episodes at this point about trying to find someone. Why did this one seem to be more about not getting anything done?

ANDY BOBROW: I suppose you could say we’re attracted to the futility of their existence. That’s certainly part of it. But there’s also just the sort of mathematical storytelling reason, which is that we really liked the idea of building the fourth act around the mislead. They think they’re on the trail of Melissa, but the audience knows they’re on the trail of Gail, and that gives us this bit ending. It’s possible some people will say it was too slow until that point. The Todd/Carol story is the main thing driving the first three acts, and that was necessarily a story about two people arguing about how to do something. So it’s tricky to tell stories like that, and hopefully it wasn’t a negative for people.