"The most difficult part of it was the fact that it was basically me and Joey (Gordon-Levitt) struggling. I loved all of them. But John (Lithgow) was like, "Cool, a third wind." Jane (Curtin) was like, "Whatever." French (Stewart) was excited."
The show evels in its own silliness; much of the sitcom's humor derives from the absurdities of everyday life as revealed by a family of aliens who are entirely unfamiliar with the mores of expected behavior.
"Well, the seven episodes is such an arbitrary number. It was based on nothing. [Laughs.] I just didn't want to commit to something that I didn't know what it was going to be like to do."