Anti-Climacus

Spreading the gospel of Cougar Town:

Well that brings up the fact that Bill, once again, on the Twitter, started making noise that this would be the year you finally change the title. He asked for suggestions, but you're back and you're still "Cougar Town."

I swear to God, there were days, maybe even weeks if you add all the time up together, where all we did was talk about the title. There were times where I said, "Maybe we should change it," and Gregg Mettler, who's one of the producers, said, "No, we shouldn't," and Bill would say, "We should," and I would say, "Yeah, we should change it because no one's ever done it quite like that before." But at the end of the day, if you change the title, the DVRs don't have the technology to record a new title; they cannot automatically switch over and say, "The name of the show is now 'Sunshine State,'" and we'll lose some people who just don't realize.

And also, not to sound like an a******, but I kind of like that our title is so awful! We're just going to own it, you know? I love people coming up with new titles, but f*** it! It's called "Cougar Town!" It's the stupidest title ever! What, am I going to run from it? When I'm dead and dying, am I going to be proud because I changed the name to "Wine Time"? Who gives a f***? I want to go down saying, "The name of the show is 'Cougar Town.'" We pulled up in the bus tonight, and it said, "Cougar Town Party Bus," and I'm like, "That's so much better than 'Wine Time Party Bus.' No one gives a f*** about 'Wine Time.' 'Wine Time' is the lamest, weakest name. "Cougar Town" is so stupid that if you think it's about her f****** young guys, I don't care. People have found us and embraced us despite the horrible, horrible title. I think the discussion about the title is totally over, totally done.