“Ties of Blood and Water” was very much about me processing my own guilt for missing my mother’s death. I was at grad school in L.A. She was fighting colon cancer in S.F. The last time I called her to check on how she was feeling, she said she was feeling good and I should stay for finals week, then come home.
She died the next day.
I’ve always regretted not coming home early so I could see her one last time, and that’s the basis for that episode.
As you can imagine, it was a tough and deeply personal story to write, and I’m glad it ended up as one of your favorites.
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Throughout the whole series, root beer is singled out repeatedly as an offensive human beverage.Who on the staff had in so bad against root beer? What did root beer do to them?
That would be me. Root beer is nasty.
Good for drama, bad for everything else.