’s second season and the show has developed a lot of goodwill among TV critics and superfans but not as much for the average network-sitcom viewer. For its 21st episode of the season, “Paradigms of Human Memory,” the gang plays with the clip-show format, but instead of using actual clips from the series, they throw to clips of moments the audience has never seen before.
That was seven years ago. In those years since, all the boldface names above were asked about a potential movie. The cast members would say some version of they’d do it if Harmon wrote it, and Harmon would offer some self-deprecation. “How does it happen?” Harmon said whenTo which Brie replied, “Sounds like it starts with you, Dan.” Even as the cast started chanting “Do it!,” Harmon tried to dismiss the idea again, saying, “I’d write it and half the people are like, ‘Meh, I don’t want to do it.
Then a pandemic happened, in which the cast reunited for a charity table read, and seemingly things started warm for Harmon. When Vulture spoke to him in the summer of 2021, for, it was clear he was starting to think about the movie practically, weighing what the movie would need to be both a satisfying reunion and enjoyable film in its own right. “Yes, at least once a week, [I am] thinking about it, because the gears are turning,” he said at the time. “A thing is happening.