This part of the walkthrough looks at episode sixteen fromLast Man on Earthsthird season.

Previous installments of this walkthroughcan be found here.

Meanwhile, Melissa, Todd and Erica each have major milestone moments.

Did this feel like something that had to happen before the season ended?

Clearly his time with Melissa last episode made an impact on him.

ANDY BOBROW:I think there was a while where we thought we could keep him silent forever.

He just saw how natural and good Keith is.

So that made it easy.

And the other thing that made it easy was when we decided to do the time jump.

Because none of us really wanted to do the story where he starts talking.

Okay, Ill confess, I kind of wanted to do that moment.

I even wrote the soliloquy.

It was part of Keiths audition.

But it was cheesy and deep down I knew it.

Its really nice to see Melissa come back to life and getting digs in at Tandy again.

Were you anxious to get her back to 100 percent and working with the group like before?

ANDY BOBROW:Yes definitely.

On the other hand, it took her out of the lineup in terms of comedy.

Its good to have her back.

Talk a little on the planning of this wedding story.

Or, it probably was, but as one of many options.

So once we settled on jumping ahead, the question was, whats the coolest way to reveal it?

Anyway, we knew Jaspers surprise would be hes talking, and Melissas would be shes healed.

We toyed with other ideas for the rest.

I cant remember a lot of them.

One of the ideas was Todd had converted to Islam.

We also talked about mentioning some new character who came and went in the intervening six months.

Like there would be a tombstone with Steve Buscemis passport on it, and the name Carl.

By the way, wonderful reincorporation of She Drives Me Crazy from all the way back.

What a nice way to turn it back into this anthem of love for the two of them.

ANDY BOBROW:Thanks.

I think Mels soulful version of that song redeems the original.

ANDY BOBROW:Definitely.

At different times, we talked about maybe having Gail quit doctoring for good.

Theres no logical reason why she is designated the doctor.

In the next episode, she points that out.

Thats not too big of a spoiler.

That baby-in-jello set piece is really horrifically hilarious.

ANDY BOBROW:Oh man.

Our line producer, Steve Burgess, formerly worked onThe Office.

But our prop guy, Greg Finnin, brushed Steve aside and would have none of it.

His professional pride was on the line.

His first thought was to use ballistic gel, that stuff they shoot bullets into.

But he researched it and that stuff is actually too stiff to get your hands into.

The solution was regular gelatin, but at a much higher concentration than normal.

The bummer for Will was that the gelatin had to be really cold.

I think there were three jellobabies ready to go, but we only needed one.

That end beat with Erica is exciting stuff and probably long overdue for a lot of viewers.

Were you eager to have finally spent enough time in the story to get to this pregnancy happening?

ANDY BOBROW:Yasssssssssssss.

I mean, the way time moves in our show, its real slow.

So we could really draw out these pregnancies for 100 episodes.

But the viewers would rebel.

We had to pull the ripcord and get these babies to term.

ANDY BOBROW:It was one of a few options we discussed at the beginning of the year.

We werent dead set on it.

But as the season played out, it just bubbled up.

I think a big factor was that it was time for them to start showing.

And all of us were really nervous about doing a show with pregnant women in it.

But, as youll see, we put our stamp on it.