Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell (2020) Movie Script
[alarm rings]
[Dan Levy] I don't think
there's been a single day
over the past seven years
where I haven't thought about the show.
So, is that taxing?
No, but it's certainly all-consuming.
I still don't think
I've fully processed the fact
that people are watching,
And I don't think,
I don't think I ever want to...
[elevator beeps]
...because I think part of the joy
of experiencing this
has just been the fact that it,
it has felt quite small.
For three months, we are in Toronto,
making the show completely by ourselves.
It's funny because I feel like
the show sort of took a turn
in terms of the level of
notoriety that it achieved
within the past year.
And I remember people asking me,
"Do you feel the weight
of people's expectations
when you're writing the last season?"
And I was like, "Well, fortunately
we've already written it."
[chuckles] So it couldn't have
come at a better time
because, you know,
when the New York Times is writing
about your show in such a positive way,
it was like, what is going on here?
[chuckles] It's tr-- it's insane.
[man] Eugene Levy and his son, Dan--
-Are joining me now.
-The creator and star of--
My favorite show of all time.
-Schitt's Creek.
-[cheering]
[man] Eugene and Dan Levy just announced
that the show will be back for season six.
Guess what? And that is it.
[announcer]
Schitt's Creek has slowly become
one of the most beloved sitcoms
in North America,
but after six seasons,
80 episodes and four Emmy nominations,
the cast of this unlikely hit series
is preparing to say goodbye.
They're bowing out on their schedule,
not something that has always
been easy to do in the TV business.
Did you guys feel the earth
sort of shift earlier
when you announced that the show
was coming to an end?
Last season of Schitt's Creek.
Don't you want to do another season?
Please?
How are we ending the show now?
Why are you ending this thing?
This is like, a perfect show
with a perfect cast at the perfect time.
[Dan] We are three weeks into
what we call, like, an idea incubator,
which is when we get
all our writers together
and really just talk about
what we want from our season
and where we want our
characters to end up.
It's just a bit different this year
because it's a bigger conversation
when you're talking about
where do you want your characters
to end up for the rest of their lives.
Little bit more pressure.
-So, where did we leave off?
-[woman] Act two.
[Dan] That last episode is about the fans.
If we've done our job okay,
then I think we should be set up
to wrap this show up
in a really special way.
I do remember when the idea first sparked,
and I remember Daniel driving
over to my parents' house,
writing the pilot presentation.
I came to him with the idea of exploring
what it would look like
for a wealthy family
to lose their money.
It was really quite simple.
I mean, he just said,
would you be interested in working with me
on developing a TV show,
and that set my heart to palpitating.
I didn't have any idea what I was doing.
So he was very legitimate in being scared.
[Eugene] What would happen on camera
was still a bit of an unknown.
I'd certainly seen him on MTV,
I knew that he was great on camera,
he had a great presence,
but could he handle a scripted
half-hour show? Still didn't know.
I'd seen the "rich people
lose their money" concept
played out in sitcoms,
but I'd never seen it articulated
through a slightly more sophisticated
comedic lens.
He wanted the same sensibility
that Chris Guest and I
had put into our movies,
which is good character-based comedy,
good grounded stuff.
You want an emotional investment
in the characters.
[Dan] We worked on
just backstory for weeks.
To the point where I was
sort of like, Dad, ugh,
can we just, like, move on?
He was like, no, we can't move on until
we know exactly who these people are.
-Good morning.
-First day.
Happy first day.
[man] If I could just gather
anybody that's outside in the peripherals
to step in for a moment,
just, we can just give
the floor to Eugene.
Thank you, everyone.
Hi, everybody.
I just wanted to say this morning,
of course, is kind of monumental in a way
because it's our very first shooting day
of our very last season.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
We have 14 episodes to wrap this shit up,
so let's make it worthwhile,
let's have fun and let's give it our all.
When we finally put it together
and realized this is the show,
it seemed like, you know,
it had good bones, as they say.
But when we finally cast it,
that was really when we realized,
wow, we're onto something
really good here.
My dad had asked Catherine
to be a part of the presentation pilot.
She's always like a first choice.
She was a first choice with the movies
that Chris and I did,
I mean, number one name,
let's get Catherine.
She had said yes, conditionally.
It's just 15 minutes
and then, you know,
if it sells, even if it sells,
you know, I won't bug you
about doing the role. [laughs]
And then the show got bought
and we had to go back to her and say,
remember that show that we shot
that was 14 minutes?
Do you want to do that now
for 13 episodes?
I said, no,
I don't think so.
I'm kind of busy doing nothing.
I said, call her back, tell her,
let's just look at one year,
we'll go one year at a time
and if it's not gonna work,
it's not gonna work.
And he called her,
and she said yes.
And the rest is history.
So stupid.
Really, it's lame to talk about...
not wanting to do it at the beginning.
'Cause how stupid would I have been,
not to have done it?
[Mark] All right,
you ready for the first shot
of season six?
-Ow!
-Game on.
And... action!
[Alexis] Okay. Welcome home.
Alexis! Your father and I
are going to meet for a celebratory lunch
when he's done at the bank--
[Dan] Alexis was a character
that we had a hard time casting.
We must have seen a hundred people.
I was in LA for pilot season, and...
[laughs]
...things leading up to that point
had not been going great.
I'm feeling rusty. Yes.
I hadn't worked in over two years.
The universe was really
screaming in my ear,
like, this is not for you,
and literally the next day
I got an email for an audition
for a show called Schitt's Creek.
Hi. My name is Annie Murphy.
[Dan] Annie came in,
and she wasn't really made up
and she had a bun in her hair,
and she walked in with this
sort of casual nonchalance,
and I called my dad
after the audition and I said,
I think we have something here.
So we brought her out for the test
and she came into the room
and it was, it was magic.
Twyla! I didn't know that you two were--
Did you wanna come in?
I was just about to make some tea.
Mm, no.
My life just changed in that moment.
In a really, really big way.
Dustin Milligan.
This friend of mine, you know,
we sort of knew each other
through the Canadian circles in LA,
his name was Dan Levy,
and he said, there's this show
that's going.
And in my head I was like, whoa,
am I about to get offered a role?
And then, it was like,
for you to audition for this role,
and I was like, okay,
got it, cool, cool, cool.
Okay, just relax. If it's a heart attack,
you're way too far from the hospital
to make it through the night.
-What?
-Kidding.
When the breakdown finally arrived,
you know,
I saw the names, Levy and O'Hara,
and the nerves just kind of take over
and then the work ethic takes over,
and yeah, I think I managed
to put all that aside.
They ain't come in different colors,
princess.
Orange is the new orange.
[Emily] I got a call from my agent
and at the time I was getting, like,
audition anxiety to the point of, like,
if I walked in an audition room,
I would break out in hives,
like, full body hives.
And so I told my US agent,
I'm like, I can't audition
anymore, I'll just,
I'll put myself on tape,
and he dropped me.
[laughs]
And that's fair,
I totally, totally get it. Um...
but then my Canadian agent kept me,
and she's like, just go in,
they're Canadian, they're nice.
Emily Hampshire.
I just remember, this is so dumb
and I hope I didn't do this,
I hope this is, like, a dream
that didn't actually happen.
I just remember rotary-dialing
an imaginary phone.
That happened.
-What the hell is this?
-The town sign.
My agent called and said, hey,
there's a show that's being cast out of
Toronto and it's called Schitt's Creek,
and I'm like, what? What did you just say?
Because I was like,
there's no show called Schitt's Creek
that's going to be on Canadian television.
Sarah was in the pilot as Twyla,
but it was a different version of Twyla.
She was very nerdy and introverted
and there was a sadness to her.
We do manicures.
Um, her salon is called Lucky Nail.
The transition between that
and the Twyla that exists now
is just such a sunnier woman.
Just this little ray of sunshine.
Cheeto?
The day before I found out
I got the part of Jocelyn,
I filled out an online application
to stock the shelves at Petco,
but you needed to operate a forklift,
and I thought that was
a bad idea in general.
-Hi, Patrick. Oh, I'm--
-David Rose.
I watched the first episode,
and I remember being
quite excited about it
and I didn't want to catch up
when I had the audition,
because I was like,
I'm gonna blow this
out of proportion for myself
and like, get in my head about it.
The more you want it,
the harder the audition is.
So I was like, if I can trick myself
into not wanting this too much,
it will be to my benefit.
Great. Well, here's my card...
...and I feel like you will need it.
Uh, you know what? I think I'm good.
What a lot of shows have to worry about
in the first season
is character.
Did we hire the right people,
are they working out?
That was never a concern for us,
which is a huge luxury.
Our cast knew who they were,
came in and sat
so firm in those roles,
they knew who they were from day one.
-Cut.
-Cut. Yeah, yeah.
-First scene in the can. Yeah!
-Happy, happy, happy.
-Whoo!
-Yeah!
Last first-- Last first scene.
Boom, boom, boom.
Okay, go ahead, do it again, go.
Yeah, so as long as you go past the ears,
-the camera will sell it.
-Okay.
After the presentation
and they made the deal with CBC,
Eugene and Daniel invited me to lunch.
We started talking about the character.
And I thought, oh, rich lady.
I don't want to just look
like a clich rich lady,
and so I went online
and I found Daphne Guinness.
[Dan] She came to me with some references
in terms of how the character would look
and she was thinking of having
this sort of accent.
It's even more vicious
than Vivian getting trampled
while honeymooning in Pamplona-aaaa....
-[man] That's great.
-...aaaaaaaa.
The wigs weren't in it
and the vocabulary wasn't in it.
You know, that's what I got to add.
I remember finding it all quite dazzling.
Little did I know at the time,
just how much Catherine
brings to the table.
I just asked if I could wear
lots of wigs... [laughs]
...depending on my mood.
It works for fashion reasons,
it works for hiding
or revealing what I'm feeling,
it works as a protective helmet. [laughs]
So it's just too much fun.
Everybody's outfits are incredible.
You're making all sorts of top-ten lists,
including Vogue's Best Dressed.
Catherine and I
do hours and hours of fittings
before we start shooting,
like, hours and hours.
Today's Catherine's second
fitting of, hopefully,
three, likely four or five.
[Dan] Oh, yeah.
[woman] It needs a lot of jewelry, Dan.
-Yeah, exactly.
-It just needs some sparkle.
Wardrobe is probably the most
important element in storytelling,
outside of actually writing,
because we, as people,
say so much about who we are
and what we believe in, and what we want,
and what we think of ourselves
by the way that we dress.
Maybe just pull it in a bit.
It's better when they're up here, huh?
-Isn't it?
-Yeah.
So to me, wardrobe was like,
a huge focus.
Making sure that we really thought through
each of our characters,
making sure that the details were there.
I think that is what's different
about Schitt's Creek,
it's as though the clothing
was thought about at the same time
as the character development
and everything else,
so it's become, it's inherent to the show.
Casual, understated.
Mm-hmm. Going to celebrate
that successful bank loan.
-Exactly.
-Money.
[Dan] My mandate
when we started this show
was that I wanted the clothes to feel real
and I wanted people
who were interested in fashion
to be able to recognize pieces
and say like,
okay, so this isn't just someone
doing Zara doing Balenciaga.
It's like the girl from The Fifth Element
put a Dries dress on.
At first I was watching it and I was like,
wait, is that, is that McQueen or--
And I sort of thought it was a wardrobe
inspired by these designers,
and then I kept looking,
I was like, wait, I have
that Balenciaga, you know.
So then I realized it was
the real deal and I was like,
oh, okay. You know, respect.
I found this McQueen dress for $300
and the price tag was on it,
and it retails for much,
much more than that.
I think it got harder, season after season
because we kept pushing the boundaries
of how far we could take our budget,
but part of that, I think,
is what makes the show what it is.
We're really scrappy
and all good things come out
of a lot of, sort of,
hard work and sweat and tears.
I think the investment
being put into wardrobe
was a smart investment
because it said so much
about who the characters were.
You had a whole visual story
and a whole way of understanding
the characters through the clothing.
The outfits, you become the person
when you look in the mirror and you see,
oh, that's who she is.
And I don't know if Catherine
works that way or not,
but it sure is wonderful to see
what she's gonna wear each week.
[Catherine] When you get these kinds of
clothes on, you just feel different.
You stand differently,
you move differently,
people look at you differently
and I feed off of all of it.
[Dan] It's important for us to make sure
that when Catherine comes in
for her wardrobe fittings,
that we are bringing clothes
that she can dive into.
And I think, vice versa,
the clothes help inspire her
in certain areas
to just take that character into new
and wonderful directions.
Something like a Marvel hero coming out.
-Yeah.
-Yeah. It is.
[laughs]
I like this now.
[chatter]
[man] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
let's let the actors have the floor now,
the rehearsal's coming up.
This scene, between the writers and I,
probably did about seven drafts.
It's really hard to tell
the story of a love story
that in the end is still a love story.
It didn't end because they stopped
loving each other,
it ended because circumstance
stood in their way,
and that circumstance was their own growth
and that's a wonderful thing.
[man] Off the mark.
And action!
You can't move back here, Ted.
You've just been offered
the job of your dreams
and there's no turning back now.
What about you?
What are you gonna do?
This might come as a shock to you, Ted,
but... I can't move to the Galapagos.
I wouldn't have let you even if you tried.
I hope you know that I don't think
I'm ever going to find another woman
who makes me feel the way that you do.
I love you, Ted.
I love you too.
And cut.
-Thank you.
-[sharp exhale]
Wow. Funny.
[laughter]
[Dan] It is a sad day on set.
When people are emotional at a rehearsal,
it means that something's working.
[Sarah] I don't know,
it just hit me, just now.
I was like totally fine before and then...
[Annie] All during the scene, I was fine.
Shouldn't have been.
Was fine, more or less.
And then I walked out
and Eugene Levy was standing there
with his arms open
and his eyes full of tears
and just said, Annie,
and his voice broke
and he hugged me and he,
I felt his chest,
like, heave a little bit,
and I burst into tears immediately
and had to just walk it off.
Yeah, it was pretty waterworky back there.
Yeah, a sad Eugene Levy is...
that's a heartbreaker.
This town might just be your saving grace.
At least for a while.
[Will Arnett] I had a bunch of friends
who would watch the show
and I thought, is it gonna be good?
I kind of wasn't sure
what to expect from the series.
I think it started, at least,
from a point of a kind of recognition
of Catherine and Eugene.
I absolutely have loved them,
ever since SCTV.
So I tuned in, you know,
just to see what they were up to
and I got hooked.
It's like butter when they work together
because they anticipate
what the next person is gonna do.
That's pure chemistry.
I'm sure they had that
right when they first met each other.
It is beautiful to watch.
You can tell they really love each other,
they respect each other,
they dig each other.
[laughs]
We were always
the little engine that could,
you know, just doing our show,
doing a good job.
And it just started, kind of,
percolating and, and crossing the border.
You would see really, like,
prominent film critics
on Twitter talking about it.
[Itzkoff] It was really
a kind of grassroots,
word-of-mouth phenomenon.
[man] I slowly got into Schitt's Creek,
I feel like, around season two.
But it was a show that you would always
sort of hear people talk about.
It kind of feels like the show has built
in the perfect way.
Like, nothing happened too soon
and the love that started to come in
was really well earned.
I think it's safe to say
that the quality of the show
just continued to improve,
especially in the later seasons.
I think everybody across the board
became more comfortable
in the skin of their characters,
the characters themselves became richer
and the storylines
that they were able to tell
were just a lot more, I think,
involving and affecting.
I think you're my best friend.
It takes people time to find things now,
but if a show is creative enough,
funny enough,
caring enough,
people start talking about it.
I was just telling everybody.
I'd be filling up my car
and be like, have you seen
Schitt's Creek? It's unbelievable.
I think it's a testament to Dan and Eugene
and their desire to force an aesthetic,
to force a look of the show.
It was very clear to all involved,
this was something that, as intended,
was pushing the boundaries
for what Canadian comedy could be.
Next step is to fold in the cheese.
What does that mean?
What does fold in the cheese mean?
You fold it in.
The awareness for the show
really picked up.
I mean, I saw it everywhere,
I saw it in airports,
I saw it on the street,
and that's when people started
talking about the show.
Love the show, hey, love Schitt's Creek.
Saw Schitt's Creek the other night,
loved it.
It was like a tidal wave.
[whooshing]
[cheering and screaming]
It was one of those shows
that felt like a hidden treasure.
It sort of felt like
it came out of nowhere.
[Amy Sedaris] Really, you heard about it,
but you're like, what is it?
And then all of a sudden it's this thing.
You guys met the Nicole Kidman.
-[Dan] Oh, my God.
-I mean, she's a fan of the show,
she tagged you guys on Instagram.
[applause]
The show he's on with his father,
which is on Pop TV,
is hilarious, I watch it all the time.
The cast of one of my favorite shows.
Congratulations, it's a hit.
You know what I love? Schitt's Creek.
I am starstruck and comedy struck.
I'm nervous to interview you
because I don't want to screw it up.
-Schitt's Creek.
-Catherine O'Hara.
Schitt's Creek.
-I wanna take you home!
-Oh, well, you can.
[man] You're making all sorts
of top-ten lists.
[man] Dan and Eugene Levy
are joining me now.
Finally getting the Emmy love.
That's got to feel good.
It's been insane.
[Cameron Crowe] Every line's classic,
it's so well written.
But they take the time to give
you the moments between the lines, too.
And that's good.
Is something wrong, David?
No.
It's the best thing on TV right now.
Our favorite show ever.
We were like, fans from day one.
We know every single episode,
every single word.
Everyone I meet, I tell them
they have to watch the show.
-I love Alexis.
-I love David, I have him on my chest.
My whole family watches it,
so it's something that we all share.
Every Sunday we watch from season one
all the way to season five.
I flew in from Honolulu, Hawaii,
to be here.
If you're a real fan, you've gotta come.
[Dan] She plays my best friend,
Stevie Budd, on Schitt's Creek.
-[cheering]
-[Emily] When we go do our tours,
the energy and kind of love you get
from the audience,
while it's amazing
because it's masses of people,
but it's also like nothing else
because it's so loving
and with each other,
and I think it's because of
what the show puts out there,
that goodness begets goodness,
it just does, it works that way.
[Catherine] It's like they have
found their sisters and brothers
and they are kindred spirits
and they, I don't know,
they bring all this love that they feel
they've gotten from the show
and they bring it to us,
like, a thousand-fold.
It's hard to describe how, how passionate
these people are about the show.
I'm so used to the internet being, like,
a cesspool of awful news
that I'm always sort of inspired
and impressed
by how the fans of the show have really
taken the philosophy of the show
and really ran with it in their own lives.
In a time where it was super dark,
it kind of came in and filled
that void in a lot of ways.
The majority of people,
they say it's an escape for them.
You can watch it and just laugh
and there's love,
and there's empathy,
and I can't think of another show
that does that.
Maybe everybody just thought
they were privately watching by themselves
and then suddenly discovered, oh, wait,
there's another fan over here,
and there's another fan,
and like, all of a sudden
we all realized we were fans of the show.
So many times, I'm laughing
and then I'm crying,
like, like heartbreaking crying,
and just loving every aspect of it.
You see a family learn more and more
the value of the everyday,
of relationships.
You know, that's what life is about.
Schitt's Creek is joy,
it's the hardest thing
to get right, you know.
It's the easiest thing to take for granted
and the hardest thing to get right.
It makes me happy
and that's what television
should do, isn't it?
We're in season 6 and we're ending,
and people are like, how can you end
when I've just found you?
I think time is gonna be
very, very good to this show.
It already has been.
I just wish it would go longer. [laughs]
Hi! I'm Moira Rose.
[Phillip Picardi] Moira Rose
has all of the elements
of the straight, female character
who becomes a gay icon.
-She is over-the-top.
-[screams]
She's always dressed up,
she's self-involved.
Nothing about me or my performance?
It's Night of 1,000 Moiras!
We're all here tonight to pay homage
to the newest and greatest gay icon,
Moira Rose.
I would like all of the Moiras
to make their way onto the stage.
This night is so incredible and so cool
because there's so many people
in our LGBTQ community
who love Schitt's Creek
and love what they represent.
Put your hands together
for the cast of Schitt's Creek!
[cheering]
Getting to see someone who like,
really just owns everything about herself
and is so un-self-conscious,
is really beautiful.
[Phillip] And I think what's
different about Moira
than the other kind of like outlandish
gay characters we've seen,
is that Moira actually does have
a heart of gold
and she actually has real substance,
and so she feels like a very
modern version of a gay icon.
I think that the LGBT community
has responded so well to Schitt's Creek
because it isn't questioned,
it isn't a big deal
and that's what makes it so, so great.
I do drink red wine.
But I also drink white wine.
Yeah, so you're just really open
to all wines.
I like the wine and not the label.
Does that make sense?
I remember reading that and texting Dan
and just being like, I fucking love this
because it so eloquently
and naturally within the scene,
without it being preachy or anything,
says so much about the message
of the show,
which is about representation
and inclusivity
and I think that is why people
are responding to it,
because it's a tipping point
to a certain degree.
Like, enough is enough,
we can live this way, take a look.
It also is pretty funny.
[Dan] I got a tweet from a guy who said
that he used the wine metaphor
to come out to his family.
And I thought,
that's a pretty amazing thing.
That's something you don't think about
when you are sitting down
to write a television show.
It just would have never occurred to me
that it's better to do a show
where there is no homophobia,
than to do a show that speaks to it
and talks about how it does, but like,
what a paradigm shift.
I think at the time, you know,
writing David as a queer character
was something
that I just wanted to do,
I didn't do it to make
a political statement,
it was just who he was in my head.
And I was shocked by how novel
that seemed to people.
[Rizwan] I think there was an article
that was written
that I thought described
the show really well,
where it said, Schitt's Creek has created
a better world than we live in.
I remember the gays started
really freaking out
when Dan and Patrick's
relationship took off.
There was particularly this one scene
where Patrick sings to him
and it's such a beautiful moment
because when you see
gay relationships on screen
and the way that they're portrayed,
they're often portrayed through a lens
of tragedy or strife or struggle, right?
It's like, look at all we had to overcome
to love each other, you know?
And so it felt like this moment
where we got to see ourselves
just being in love and being joyful,
so I think that scene was
a watershed moment
in queer representation
in television history.
And I think there was
something to me, too,
that felt very, very truly queer
and gay about that moment,
because I think the character of David
has a kind of, gay archness, right?
Which is very, you know,
it's very familiar, you know?
It's kind of campy
and some of that is the result of,
even though the show
doesn't depict homophobia,
it's a life of not seeing yourself,
it's a life of not being told
you'll get true love,
it's a life of not being told
that your love matters.
And so, watching that,
that archness break,
I think was something
that could be meaningful
to any viewer because it was so beautiful,
but I think for people who know that,
from the inside out,
there was something in watching
that emotional journey
that was like, oh, wow.
That's what was so moving to me.
I do feel like when someone
who has opposing beliefs
sits down in front of their TV
and watches,
we're not teaching them a lesson,
we're showing them
what life could be like.
And I think that's a really
fundamental element,
if I were to sort of psychoanalyze
the change that's been happening.
People feel safe enough to question,
are my beliefs outdated?
Am I being told to believe
something that isn't true?
Because I love this character,
and I want him to succeed.
So, why am I feeling like he shouldn't,
politically or religiously?
I think we all just need
a safe space to learn,
at the end of the day.
I never learn when I feel like
I'm being taught a lesson.
[Catherine] I've never thought
the show was laying out any message.
It just is.
It's just an example of how life can be,
and you're laughing.
What better way to open
someone's heart and soul.
[Noah] It's a major contribution from Dan
and from the writers on the show
and from the networks involved,
like it's--
To, to put that positivity out there,
that's the thing that we sort of, I think,
have come to hang our hats on as a show.
-What a day!
-What a day!
-Happy Pride!
-Happy Pride!
That kissing billboard.
How important was that for you?
So important. I mean,
the fact that we had a network
that supported us enough
to put up a three-story billboard
of two men kissing
speaks volumes for the network
and I think it's just a lovely
representation of our show.
I've driven by it, Noah and I actually
went and took a photo in front of it
and it was a really emotional thing,
it's like, I've never seen
anything like it
and I'm proud to have been a part of that.
It's one of the first times I've ever
seen that on the side of a building.
That's you on stage at the GLAAD awards,
you were giving Dan Levy
a special award for his work
in making Schitt's Creek
a homophobia-free zone.
So, what's it been like
to be a part of a show
that's breaking ground like this?
Are you hearing from people?
We all have gotten letters
from people who, um,
after watching the show,
have, have felt the courage
to come out to their families,
or parents who have accepted
their kids because,
after seeing how Johnny and Moira
have treated their queer son.
So...
it's been a very, very, very special
experience because of that.
This is a letter from a Facebook group
called Serendipity Doo Dah.
It's a group of moms with LGBTQ kids
and they have written you a letter
to thank you for everything
that you've done for their kids
and the community that you represent.
[sobs]
Why did--
Oh, my God.
-Look, it's all the names, all these kids.
-Oh, my God.
Can you read the letter?
You want me to read it?
"Dear Mr. Dan Levy and cast, crew,
and writers of Schitt's Creek,
we belong to a large, private
Facebook group called
Serendipity Doo Dah for Moms,
home of the momma bears.
We have more than 5,000 moms in the group
and many of us are working
to make the world a kinder, safer,
more loving place for all LGBTQ
people to live.
More than 1,800 of us
are signing this letter
because we wanted to say thank you
for the LGBTQ characters,
relationships and storylines
that you have included in Schitt's Creek.
Your commitment to represent
love and tolerance in your show
is so important to families like ours.
Your willingness to explore,
inform and educate
about LGBTQ people and their relationships
in an entertaining
but respectful and positive manner
sets a tone that is often missing.
You have created new ways
for queer viewers
to see themselves represented,
and in its own way
that is just as important
as the battles we are still fighting.
Therefore, the work you have all done
on Schitt's Creek
has encouraged us greatly
and given us hope
about the future for our kids.
We sincerely believe
that shows like Schitt's Creek
will serve as a catalyst
to help change the world
into a kinder, safer,
more loving place
for all LGBTQ people to live,
and because of that,
we will remain forever grateful.
You've made a lot of momma bears happy,
and as a result,
you have a whole bunch of fans forever.
With sincere gratitude and respect."
[sniffling]
-Wow.
-[sobbing]
[Dan] Okay.
Well, can I see that?
I am very proud of the fact
that this show sort of,
shines like a positive light
out there into people's homes.
But the fact that people
are also experiencing
something deeper through the show is...
you can't ask for anything better,
it's wonderful.
[chatter]
-Oh, hi.
-Hi.
[Noah] Like life, when you know
that there's an end to it,
it makes the in-between feel meaningful,
and you feel like you've
got to make the most of it.
Did David say something to upset you?
He can be cruel,
but it's all fear-based, dear,
-so please don't take it personally.
-[laughter]
No, I just realized that this is like,
the last time we're all
gonna be here, like this.
[Annie] Not only is it
incredible to have a job,
but it's incredible to have a job
on a show that I love
and that has affected
the lives of other people
in such a big way.
[Dan] I've never liked a smile
as much as I like yours.
I've never felt as safe as I do
when I'm with you.
I've never felt love like I do...
[clears throat]
...when we're together.
[crying] But knowing that
you'll always be waiting...
I can't read it!
[laughter]
[Catherine]
It hits me in waves that it's the end.
We don't watch each other
shoot every scene,
but in the table-read,
when you read the script,
you're there to watch every character
do their scene. That was killer.
[Eugene] All right, driver. We're ready.
[Noah] We watch the car
continue down the road
and into the distance. End of series.
[Dan] Has it hit me yet?
I think so.
I feel like I've processed it thoroughly
and properly.
But who knows.
Who knows what the day will bring.
I think it must have been
a really hard decision
to, to call this one quits,
but I can't help but thinking that it's,
somehow it's right.
I am perpetually impressed
by the grace of our fans
because, while they were quite upset
and saddened by the news,
there was this positive sentiment of like,
we understand.
[Karen] To have something
to look forward to...
is what I had for six years.
I knew that for a few months
I was gonna get to go to work
and feel...
and feel joy.
Yes, last day.
Last, sad day.
[Eugene] I'm sure it will hit me
in our last scene,
on our last day,
when we actually leave
the kids and the motel.
And in a major way,
it probably will hit me
two or three weeks after we stop shooting,
when I finally sit back and say,
oh, my God, what have we done?
[laughs]
Why is it ending?
-Happy last day!
-Happy last day.
[Annie] It's gonna be
a really hard goodbye
and I've tried to just
kind of compartmentalize
the extreme sadness
that I know I'm gonna feel
and the extreme void in my life.
Mark.
This has been a constant for six years
and that's not going to be there anymore,
so that's tough,
but the friendships that I have made
are so special,
and I'm going to be inviting myself over
to Catherine O'Hara's house for dinner
for years to come.
-Cut.
-Cutting.
-Let, uh... let us check that.
-Yeah.
[sobs, sniffles]
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
she's the best sister ever.
That's a series wrap,
a Schitt's Creek wrap on Annie Murphy.
[cheering, whooping, applause]
I am proud of all of the people
that helped create her
and helped create the show, and...
Urgh... I didn't think
this was gonna happen.
[man] Three, two, one!
[chatter, laughter]
[Sarah] The show has definitely
created a family.
Everyone is so respectful of each other
and that tone was set really early on.
Inclusion and respect
and warmth and friendship,
and it's just been
this amazing group of people
that have so much fun together.
-Aw, Chris.
-Love you. Thank you so much.
I'll miss getting to see you this much.
I will miss seeing you. Thank you so much.
[Dustin] There is just this extra-nice,
lovely layer of gratitude
and appreciation for what it is
that we're doing.
-Faster.
-[laughs]
[Noah] It was an incredibly
welcoming place to be,
from the read-throughs
to costume fittings,
to my first day on set.
[man] That's also a series wrap
for Daniel Levy.
[cheering]
[Eugene] Wow.
Oh, you're both brilliant. Brilliant.
[Emily] I feel like,
so grateful that I got to be
part of something
that I think is forever and is special
and made a, made a mark.
The whole experience has been,
it's just been magical.
It doesn't feel like six years.
I think you feel the impact
of the show ending
more significantly because
of how much people love it.
There has been a love
that has been offered with the show,
that people feel
and they've given it back to us
in an incredible amount.
We feel it, we feel it.
It's so special that it's become
this little phenomenon
that was born in our family.
And I think that's
the trippiest part of it all,
is that this is my family.
[Eugene] I think mainly,
I'll miss just coming to work
every day with these people.
We've had the greatest crew,
many of whom were with us
from the very beginning.
A great cast of characters,
And the opportunity of having
had a chance to work with, uh,
with Sarah and Daniel on this.
[Sarah] It's, um...
it's something that
I'll never get the opportunity to do again
and I do not take for granted one day
that I have been so lucky to be able
to work with my family.
I don't know. A lot.
I'll miss a lot.
[snorts softly]
I do this thing when I cry where I snort,
sounds like a warthog.
Um... I'll miss a lot of... everything.
I think it'll all come together
in just a giant cry at some point,
but I can't pinpoint exactly
what that day will be.
But I'll call you.
[Eugene] I feel good about the fact
that this will end
on a... on a beautiful high.
And yeah, it is sad,
but it was six beautiful years
working with some really,
really beautiful people.
[laughs]
You're so happy that I'm crying.
That's terrible, stop.
It's just the...
it's like a family.
So it's hard to say goodbye.
And that town you passed through,
it's not called Schittsville.
It's called Schitt's Creek.
And it's where we live.
[Dan] It's an amazing thing
to have a chapter of our lives
documented like this,
and to be able to go back and look at it
when we're all old and crusty
and say like,
well, we had this.
[imitating wheels squeaking]
[Dan Levy] I don't think
there's been a single day
over the past seven years
where I haven't thought about the show.
So, is that taxing?
No, but it's certainly all-consuming.
I still don't think
I've fully processed the fact
that people are watching,
And I don't think,
I don't think I ever want to...
[elevator beeps]
...because I think part of the joy
of experiencing this
has just been the fact that it,
it has felt quite small.
For three months, we are in Toronto,
making the show completely by ourselves.
It's funny because I feel like
the show sort of took a turn
in terms of the level of
notoriety that it achieved
within the past year.
And I remember people asking me,
"Do you feel the weight
of people's expectations
when you're writing the last season?"
And I was like, "Well, fortunately
we've already written it."
[chuckles] So it couldn't have
come at a better time
because, you know,
when the New York Times is writing
about your show in such a positive way,
it was like, what is going on here?
[chuckles] It's tr-- it's insane.
[man] Eugene Levy and his son, Dan--
-Are joining me now.
-The creator and star of--
My favorite show of all time.
-Schitt's Creek.
-[cheering]
[man] Eugene and Dan Levy just announced
that the show will be back for season six.
Guess what? And that is it.
[announcer]
Schitt's Creek has slowly become
one of the most beloved sitcoms
in North America,
but after six seasons,
80 episodes and four Emmy nominations,
the cast of this unlikely hit series
is preparing to say goodbye.
They're bowing out on their schedule,
not something that has always
been easy to do in the TV business.
Did you guys feel the earth
sort of shift earlier
when you announced that the show
was coming to an end?
Last season of Schitt's Creek.
Don't you want to do another season?
Please?
How are we ending the show now?
Why are you ending this thing?
This is like, a perfect show
with a perfect cast at the perfect time.
[Dan] We are three weeks into
what we call, like, an idea incubator,
which is when we get
all our writers together
and really just talk about
what we want from our season
and where we want our
characters to end up.
It's just a bit different this year
because it's a bigger conversation
when you're talking about
where do you want your characters
to end up for the rest of their lives.
Little bit more pressure.
-So, where did we leave off?
-[woman] Act two.
[Dan] That last episode is about the fans.
If we've done our job okay,
then I think we should be set up
to wrap this show up
in a really special way.
I do remember when the idea first sparked,
and I remember Daniel driving
over to my parents' house,
writing the pilot presentation.
I came to him with the idea of exploring
what it would look like
for a wealthy family
to lose their money.
It was really quite simple.
I mean, he just said,
would you be interested in working with me
on developing a TV show,
and that set my heart to palpitating.
I didn't have any idea what I was doing.
So he was very legitimate in being scared.
[Eugene] What would happen on camera
was still a bit of an unknown.
I'd certainly seen him on MTV,
I knew that he was great on camera,
he had a great presence,
but could he handle a scripted
half-hour show? Still didn't know.
I'd seen the "rich people
lose their money" concept
played out in sitcoms,
but I'd never seen it articulated
through a slightly more sophisticated
comedic lens.
He wanted the same sensibility
that Chris Guest and I
had put into our movies,
which is good character-based comedy,
good grounded stuff.
You want an emotional investment
in the characters.
[Dan] We worked on
just backstory for weeks.
To the point where I was
sort of like, Dad, ugh,
can we just, like, move on?
He was like, no, we can't move on until
we know exactly who these people are.
-Good morning.
-First day.
Happy first day.
[man] If I could just gather
anybody that's outside in the peripherals
to step in for a moment,
just, we can just give
the floor to Eugene.
Thank you, everyone.
Hi, everybody.
I just wanted to say this morning,
of course, is kind of monumental in a way
because it's our very first shooting day
of our very last season.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
We have 14 episodes to wrap this shit up,
so let's make it worthwhile,
let's have fun and let's give it our all.
When we finally put it together
and realized this is the show,
it seemed like, you know,
it had good bones, as they say.
But when we finally cast it,
that was really when we realized,
wow, we're onto something
really good here.
My dad had asked Catherine
to be a part of the presentation pilot.
She's always like a first choice.
She was a first choice with the movies
that Chris and I did,
I mean, number one name,
let's get Catherine.
She had said yes, conditionally.
It's just 15 minutes
and then, you know,
if it sells, even if it sells,
you know, I won't bug you
about doing the role. [laughs]
And then the show got bought
and we had to go back to her and say,
remember that show that we shot
that was 14 minutes?
Do you want to do that now
for 13 episodes?
I said, no,
I don't think so.
I'm kind of busy doing nothing.
I said, call her back, tell her,
let's just look at one year,
we'll go one year at a time
and if it's not gonna work,
it's not gonna work.
And he called her,
and she said yes.
And the rest is history.
So stupid.
Really, it's lame to talk about...
not wanting to do it at the beginning.
'Cause how stupid would I have been,
not to have done it?
[Mark] All right,
you ready for the first shot
of season six?
-Ow!
-Game on.
And... action!
[Alexis] Okay. Welcome home.
Alexis! Your father and I
are going to meet for a celebratory lunch
when he's done at the bank--
[Dan] Alexis was a character
that we had a hard time casting.
We must have seen a hundred people.
I was in LA for pilot season, and...
[laughs]
...things leading up to that point
had not been going great.
I'm feeling rusty. Yes.
I hadn't worked in over two years.
The universe was really
screaming in my ear,
like, this is not for you,
and literally the next day
I got an email for an audition
for a show called Schitt's Creek.
Hi. My name is Annie Murphy.
[Dan] Annie came in,
and she wasn't really made up
and she had a bun in her hair,
and she walked in with this
sort of casual nonchalance,
and I called my dad
after the audition and I said,
I think we have something here.
So we brought her out for the test
and she came into the room
and it was, it was magic.
Twyla! I didn't know that you two were--
Did you wanna come in?
I was just about to make some tea.
Mm, no.
My life just changed in that moment.
In a really, really big way.
Dustin Milligan.
This friend of mine, you know,
we sort of knew each other
through the Canadian circles in LA,
his name was Dan Levy,
and he said, there's this show
that's going.
And in my head I was like, whoa,
am I about to get offered a role?
And then, it was like,
for you to audition for this role,
and I was like, okay,
got it, cool, cool, cool.
Okay, just relax. If it's a heart attack,
you're way too far from the hospital
to make it through the night.
-What?
-Kidding.
When the breakdown finally arrived,
you know,
I saw the names, Levy and O'Hara,
and the nerves just kind of take over
and then the work ethic takes over,
and yeah, I think I managed
to put all that aside.
They ain't come in different colors,
princess.
Orange is the new orange.
[Emily] I got a call from my agent
and at the time I was getting, like,
audition anxiety to the point of, like,
if I walked in an audition room,
I would break out in hives,
like, full body hives.
And so I told my US agent,
I'm like, I can't audition
anymore, I'll just,
I'll put myself on tape,
and he dropped me.
[laughs]
And that's fair,
I totally, totally get it. Um...
but then my Canadian agent kept me,
and she's like, just go in,
they're Canadian, they're nice.
Emily Hampshire.
I just remember, this is so dumb
and I hope I didn't do this,
I hope this is, like, a dream
that didn't actually happen.
I just remember rotary-dialing
an imaginary phone.
That happened.
-What the hell is this?
-The town sign.
My agent called and said, hey,
there's a show that's being cast out of
Toronto and it's called Schitt's Creek,
and I'm like, what? What did you just say?
Because I was like,
there's no show called Schitt's Creek
that's going to be on Canadian television.
Sarah was in the pilot as Twyla,
but it was a different version of Twyla.
She was very nerdy and introverted
and there was a sadness to her.
We do manicures.
Um, her salon is called Lucky Nail.
The transition between that
and the Twyla that exists now
is just such a sunnier woman.
Just this little ray of sunshine.
Cheeto?
The day before I found out
I got the part of Jocelyn,
I filled out an online application
to stock the shelves at Petco,
but you needed to operate a forklift,
and I thought that was
a bad idea in general.
-Hi, Patrick. Oh, I'm--
-David Rose.
I watched the first episode,
and I remember being
quite excited about it
and I didn't want to catch up
when I had the audition,
because I was like,
I'm gonna blow this
out of proportion for myself
and like, get in my head about it.
The more you want it,
the harder the audition is.
So I was like, if I can trick myself
into not wanting this too much,
it will be to my benefit.
Great. Well, here's my card...
...and I feel like you will need it.
Uh, you know what? I think I'm good.
What a lot of shows have to worry about
in the first season
is character.
Did we hire the right people,
are they working out?
That was never a concern for us,
which is a huge luxury.
Our cast knew who they were,
came in and sat
so firm in those roles,
they knew who they were from day one.
-Cut.
-Cut. Yeah, yeah.
-First scene in the can. Yeah!
-Happy, happy, happy.
-Whoo!
-Yeah!
Last first-- Last first scene.
Boom, boom, boom.
Okay, go ahead, do it again, go.
Yeah, so as long as you go past the ears,
-the camera will sell it.
-Okay.
After the presentation
and they made the deal with CBC,
Eugene and Daniel invited me to lunch.
We started talking about the character.
And I thought, oh, rich lady.
I don't want to just look
like a clich rich lady,
and so I went online
and I found Daphne Guinness.
[Dan] She came to me with some references
in terms of how the character would look
and she was thinking of having
this sort of accent.
It's even more vicious
than Vivian getting trampled
while honeymooning in Pamplona-aaaa....
-[man] That's great.
-...aaaaaaaa.
The wigs weren't in it
and the vocabulary wasn't in it.
You know, that's what I got to add.
I remember finding it all quite dazzling.
Little did I know at the time,
just how much Catherine
brings to the table.
I just asked if I could wear
lots of wigs... [laughs]
...depending on my mood.
It works for fashion reasons,
it works for hiding
or revealing what I'm feeling,
it works as a protective helmet. [laughs]
So it's just too much fun.
Everybody's outfits are incredible.
You're making all sorts of top-ten lists,
including Vogue's Best Dressed.
Catherine and I
do hours and hours of fittings
before we start shooting,
like, hours and hours.
Today's Catherine's second
fitting of, hopefully,
three, likely four or five.
[Dan] Oh, yeah.
[woman] It needs a lot of jewelry, Dan.
-Yeah, exactly.
-It just needs some sparkle.
Wardrobe is probably the most
important element in storytelling,
outside of actually writing,
because we, as people,
say so much about who we are
and what we believe in, and what we want,
and what we think of ourselves
by the way that we dress.
Maybe just pull it in a bit.
It's better when they're up here, huh?
-Isn't it?
-Yeah.
So to me, wardrobe was like,
a huge focus.
Making sure that we really thought through
each of our characters,
making sure that the details were there.
I think that is what's different
about Schitt's Creek,
it's as though the clothing
was thought about at the same time
as the character development
and everything else,
so it's become, it's inherent to the show.
Casual, understated.
Mm-hmm. Going to celebrate
that successful bank loan.
-Exactly.
-Money.
[Dan] My mandate
when we started this show
was that I wanted the clothes to feel real
and I wanted people
who were interested in fashion
to be able to recognize pieces
and say like,
okay, so this isn't just someone
doing Zara doing Balenciaga.
It's like the girl from The Fifth Element
put a Dries dress on.
At first I was watching it and I was like,
wait, is that, is that McQueen or--
And I sort of thought it was a wardrobe
inspired by these designers,
and then I kept looking,
I was like, wait, I have
that Balenciaga, you know.
So then I realized it was
the real deal and I was like,
oh, okay. You know, respect.
I found this McQueen dress for $300
and the price tag was on it,
and it retails for much,
much more than that.
I think it got harder, season after season
because we kept pushing the boundaries
of how far we could take our budget,
but part of that, I think,
is what makes the show what it is.
We're really scrappy
and all good things come out
of a lot of, sort of,
hard work and sweat and tears.
I think the investment
being put into wardrobe
was a smart investment
because it said so much
about who the characters were.
You had a whole visual story
and a whole way of understanding
the characters through the clothing.
The outfits, you become the person
when you look in the mirror and you see,
oh, that's who she is.
And I don't know if Catherine
works that way or not,
but it sure is wonderful to see
what she's gonna wear each week.
[Catherine] When you get these kinds of
clothes on, you just feel different.
You stand differently,
you move differently,
people look at you differently
and I feed off of all of it.
[Dan] It's important for us to make sure
that when Catherine comes in
for her wardrobe fittings,
that we are bringing clothes
that she can dive into.
And I think, vice versa,
the clothes help inspire her
in certain areas
to just take that character into new
and wonderful directions.
Something like a Marvel hero coming out.
-Yeah.
-Yeah. It is.
[laughs]
I like this now.
[chatter]
[man] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
let's let the actors have the floor now,
the rehearsal's coming up.
This scene, between the writers and I,
probably did about seven drafts.
It's really hard to tell
the story of a love story
that in the end is still a love story.
It didn't end because they stopped
loving each other,
it ended because circumstance
stood in their way,
and that circumstance was their own growth
and that's a wonderful thing.
[man] Off the mark.
And action!
You can't move back here, Ted.
You've just been offered
the job of your dreams
and there's no turning back now.
What about you?
What are you gonna do?
This might come as a shock to you, Ted,
but... I can't move to the Galapagos.
I wouldn't have let you even if you tried.
I hope you know that I don't think
I'm ever going to find another woman
who makes me feel the way that you do.
I love you, Ted.
I love you too.
And cut.
-Thank you.
-[sharp exhale]
Wow. Funny.
[laughter]
[Dan] It is a sad day on set.
When people are emotional at a rehearsal,
it means that something's working.
[Sarah] I don't know,
it just hit me, just now.
I was like totally fine before and then...
[Annie] All during the scene, I was fine.
Shouldn't have been.
Was fine, more or less.
And then I walked out
and Eugene Levy was standing there
with his arms open
and his eyes full of tears
and just said, Annie,
and his voice broke
and he hugged me and he,
I felt his chest,
like, heave a little bit,
and I burst into tears immediately
and had to just walk it off.
Yeah, it was pretty waterworky back there.
Yeah, a sad Eugene Levy is...
that's a heartbreaker.
This town might just be your saving grace.
At least for a while.
[Will Arnett] I had a bunch of friends
who would watch the show
and I thought, is it gonna be good?
I kind of wasn't sure
what to expect from the series.
I think it started, at least,
from a point of a kind of recognition
of Catherine and Eugene.
I absolutely have loved them,
ever since SCTV.
So I tuned in, you know,
just to see what they were up to
and I got hooked.
It's like butter when they work together
because they anticipate
what the next person is gonna do.
That's pure chemistry.
I'm sure they had that
right when they first met each other.
It is beautiful to watch.
You can tell they really love each other,
they respect each other,
they dig each other.
[laughs]
We were always
the little engine that could,
you know, just doing our show,
doing a good job.
And it just started, kind of,
percolating and, and crossing the border.
You would see really, like,
prominent film critics
on Twitter talking about it.
[Itzkoff] It was really
a kind of grassroots,
word-of-mouth phenomenon.
[man] I slowly got into Schitt's Creek,
I feel like, around season two.
But it was a show that you would always
sort of hear people talk about.
It kind of feels like the show has built
in the perfect way.
Like, nothing happened too soon
and the love that started to come in
was really well earned.
I think it's safe to say
that the quality of the show
just continued to improve,
especially in the later seasons.
I think everybody across the board
became more comfortable
in the skin of their characters,
the characters themselves became richer
and the storylines
that they were able to tell
were just a lot more, I think,
involving and affecting.
I think you're my best friend.
It takes people time to find things now,
but if a show is creative enough,
funny enough,
caring enough,
people start talking about it.
I was just telling everybody.
I'd be filling up my car
and be like, have you seen
Schitt's Creek? It's unbelievable.
I think it's a testament to Dan and Eugene
and their desire to force an aesthetic,
to force a look of the show.
It was very clear to all involved,
this was something that, as intended,
was pushing the boundaries
for what Canadian comedy could be.
Next step is to fold in the cheese.
What does that mean?
What does fold in the cheese mean?
You fold it in.
The awareness for the show
really picked up.
I mean, I saw it everywhere,
I saw it in airports,
I saw it on the street,
and that's when people started
talking about the show.
Love the show, hey, love Schitt's Creek.
Saw Schitt's Creek the other night,
loved it.
It was like a tidal wave.
[whooshing]
[cheering and screaming]
It was one of those shows
that felt like a hidden treasure.
It sort of felt like
it came out of nowhere.
[Amy Sedaris] Really, you heard about it,
but you're like, what is it?
And then all of a sudden it's this thing.
You guys met the Nicole Kidman.
-[Dan] Oh, my God.
-I mean, she's a fan of the show,
she tagged you guys on Instagram.
[applause]
The show he's on with his father,
which is on Pop TV,
is hilarious, I watch it all the time.
The cast of one of my favorite shows.
Congratulations, it's a hit.
You know what I love? Schitt's Creek.
I am starstruck and comedy struck.
I'm nervous to interview you
because I don't want to screw it up.
-Schitt's Creek.
-Catherine O'Hara.
Schitt's Creek.
-I wanna take you home!
-Oh, well, you can.
[man] You're making all sorts
of top-ten lists.
[man] Dan and Eugene Levy
are joining me now.
Finally getting the Emmy love.
That's got to feel good.
It's been insane.
[Cameron Crowe] Every line's classic,
it's so well written.
But they take the time to give
you the moments between the lines, too.
And that's good.
Is something wrong, David?
No.
It's the best thing on TV right now.
Our favorite show ever.
We were like, fans from day one.
We know every single episode,
every single word.
Everyone I meet, I tell them
they have to watch the show.
-I love Alexis.
-I love David, I have him on my chest.
My whole family watches it,
so it's something that we all share.
Every Sunday we watch from season one
all the way to season five.
I flew in from Honolulu, Hawaii,
to be here.
If you're a real fan, you've gotta come.
[Dan] She plays my best friend,
Stevie Budd, on Schitt's Creek.
-[cheering]
-[Emily] When we go do our tours,
the energy and kind of love you get
from the audience,
while it's amazing
because it's masses of people,
but it's also like nothing else
because it's so loving
and with each other,
and I think it's because of
what the show puts out there,
that goodness begets goodness,
it just does, it works that way.
[Catherine] It's like they have
found their sisters and brothers
and they are kindred spirits
and they, I don't know,
they bring all this love that they feel
they've gotten from the show
and they bring it to us,
like, a thousand-fold.
It's hard to describe how, how passionate
these people are about the show.
I'm so used to the internet being, like,
a cesspool of awful news
that I'm always sort of inspired
and impressed
by how the fans of the show have really
taken the philosophy of the show
and really ran with it in their own lives.
In a time where it was super dark,
it kind of came in and filled
that void in a lot of ways.
The majority of people,
they say it's an escape for them.
You can watch it and just laugh
and there's love,
and there's empathy,
and I can't think of another show
that does that.
Maybe everybody just thought
they were privately watching by themselves
and then suddenly discovered, oh, wait,
there's another fan over here,
and there's another fan,
and like, all of a sudden
we all realized we were fans of the show.
So many times, I'm laughing
and then I'm crying,
like, like heartbreaking crying,
and just loving every aspect of it.
You see a family learn more and more
the value of the everyday,
of relationships.
You know, that's what life is about.
Schitt's Creek is joy,
it's the hardest thing
to get right, you know.
It's the easiest thing to take for granted
and the hardest thing to get right.
It makes me happy
and that's what television
should do, isn't it?
We're in season 6 and we're ending,
and people are like, how can you end
when I've just found you?
I think time is gonna be
very, very good to this show.
It already has been.
I just wish it would go longer. [laughs]
Hi! I'm Moira Rose.
[Phillip Picardi] Moira Rose
has all of the elements
of the straight, female character
who becomes a gay icon.
-She is over-the-top.
-[screams]
She's always dressed up,
she's self-involved.
Nothing about me or my performance?
It's Night of 1,000 Moiras!
We're all here tonight to pay homage
to the newest and greatest gay icon,
Moira Rose.
I would like all of the Moiras
to make their way onto the stage.
This night is so incredible and so cool
because there's so many people
in our LGBTQ community
who love Schitt's Creek
and love what they represent.
Put your hands together
for the cast of Schitt's Creek!
[cheering]
Getting to see someone who like,
really just owns everything about herself
and is so un-self-conscious,
is really beautiful.
[Phillip] And I think what's
different about Moira
than the other kind of like outlandish
gay characters we've seen,
is that Moira actually does have
a heart of gold
and she actually has real substance,
and so she feels like a very
modern version of a gay icon.
I think that the LGBT community
has responded so well to Schitt's Creek
because it isn't questioned,
it isn't a big deal
and that's what makes it so, so great.
I do drink red wine.
But I also drink white wine.
Yeah, so you're just really open
to all wines.
I like the wine and not the label.
Does that make sense?
I remember reading that and texting Dan
and just being like, I fucking love this
because it so eloquently
and naturally within the scene,
without it being preachy or anything,
says so much about the message
of the show,
which is about representation
and inclusivity
and I think that is why people
are responding to it,
because it's a tipping point
to a certain degree.
Like, enough is enough,
we can live this way, take a look.
It also is pretty funny.
[Dan] I got a tweet from a guy who said
that he used the wine metaphor
to come out to his family.
And I thought,
that's a pretty amazing thing.
That's something you don't think about
when you are sitting down
to write a television show.
It just would have never occurred to me
that it's better to do a show
where there is no homophobia,
than to do a show that speaks to it
and talks about how it does, but like,
what a paradigm shift.
I think at the time, you know,
writing David as a queer character
was something
that I just wanted to do,
I didn't do it to make
a political statement,
it was just who he was in my head.
And I was shocked by how novel
that seemed to people.
[Rizwan] I think there was an article
that was written
that I thought described
the show really well,
where it said, Schitt's Creek has created
a better world than we live in.
I remember the gays started
really freaking out
when Dan and Patrick's
relationship took off.
There was particularly this one scene
where Patrick sings to him
and it's such a beautiful moment
because when you see
gay relationships on screen
and the way that they're portrayed,
they're often portrayed through a lens
of tragedy or strife or struggle, right?
It's like, look at all we had to overcome
to love each other, you know?
And so it felt like this moment
where we got to see ourselves
just being in love and being joyful,
so I think that scene was
a watershed moment
in queer representation
in television history.
And I think there was
something to me, too,
that felt very, very truly queer
and gay about that moment,
because I think the character of David
has a kind of, gay archness, right?
Which is very, you know,
it's very familiar, you know?
It's kind of campy
and some of that is the result of,
even though the show
doesn't depict homophobia,
it's a life of not seeing yourself,
it's a life of not being told
you'll get true love,
it's a life of not being told
that your love matters.
And so, watching that,
that archness break,
I think was something
that could be meaningful
to any viewer because it was so beautiful,
but I think for people who know that,
from the inside out,
there was something in watching
that emotional journey
that was like, oh, wow.
That's what was so moving to me.
I do feel like when someone
who has opposing beliefs
sits down in front of their TV
and watches,
we're not teaching them a lesson,
we're showing them
what life could be like.
And I think that's a really
fundamental element,
if I were to sort of psychoanalyze
the change that's been happening.
People feel safe enough to question,
are my beliefs outdated?
Am I being told to believe
something that isn't true?
Because I love this character,
and I want him to succeed.
So, why am I feeling like he shouldn't,
politically or religiously?
I think we all just need
a safe space to learn,
at the end of the day.
I never learn when I feel like
I'm being taught a lesson.
[Catherine] I've never thought
the show was laying out any message.
It just is.
It's just an example of how life can be,
and you're laughing.
What better way to open
someone's heart and soul.
[Noah] It's a major contribution from Dan
and from the writers on the show
and from the networks involved,
like it's--
To, to put that positivity out there,
that's the thing that we sort of, I think,
have come to hang our hats on as a show.
-What a day!
-What a day!
-Happy Pride!
-Happy Pride!
That kissing billboard.
How important was that for you?
So important. I mean,
the fact that we had a network
that supported us enough
to put up a three-story billboard
of two men kissing
speaks volumes for the network
and I think it's just a lovely
representation of our show.
I've driven by it, Noah and I actually
went and took a photo in front of it
and it was a really emotional thing,
it's like, I've never seen
anything like it
and I'm proud to have been a part of that.
It's one of the first times I've ever
seen that on the side of a building.
That's you on stage at the GLAAD awards,
you were giving Dan Levy
a special award for his work
in making Schitt's Creek
a homophobia-free zone.
So, what's it been like
to be a part of a show
that's breaking ground like this?
Are you hearing from people?
We all have gotten letters
from people who, um,
after watching the show,
have, have felt the courage
to come out to their families,
or parents who have accepted
their kids because,
after seeing how Johnny and Moira
have treated their queer son.
So...
it's been a very, very, very special
experience because of that.
This is a letter from a Facebook group
called Serendipity Doo Dah.
It's a group of moms with LGBTQ kids
and they have written you a letter
to thank you for everything
that you've done for their kids
and the community that you represent.
[sobs]
Why did--
Oh, my God.
-Look, it's all the names, all these kids.
-Oh, my God.
Can you read the letter?
You want me to read it?
"Dear Mr. Dan Levy and cast, crew,
and writers of Schitt's Creek,
we belong to a large, private
Facebook group called
Serendipity Doo Dah for Moms,
home of the momma bears.
We have more than 5,000 moms in the group
and many of us are working
to make the world a kinder, safer,
more loving place for all LGBTQ
people to live.
More than 1,800 of us
are signing this letter
because we wanted to say thank you
for the LGBTQ characters,
relationships and storylines
that you have included in Schitt's Creek.
Your commitment to represent
love and tolerance in your show
is so important to families like ours.
Your willingness to explore,
inform and educate
about LGBTQ people and their relationships
in an entertaining
but respectful and positive manner
sets a tone that is often missing.
You have created new ways
for queer viewers
to see themselves represented,
and in its own way
that is just as important
as the battles we are still fighting.
Therefore, the work you have all done
on Schitt's Creek
has encouraged us greatly
and given us hope
about the future for our kids.
We sincerely believe
that shows like Schitt's Creek
will serve as a catalyst
to help change the world
into a kinder, safer,
more loving place
for all LGBTQ people to live,
and because of that,
we will remain forever grateful.
You've made a lot of momma bears happy,
and as a result,
you have a whole bunch of fans forever.
With sincere gratitude and respect."
[sniffling]
-Wow.
-[sobbing]
[Dan] Okay.
Well, can I see that?
I am very proud of the fact
that this show sort of,
shines like a positive light
out there into people's homes.
But the fact that people
are also experiencing
something deeper through the show is...
you can't ask for anything better,
it's wonderful.
[chatter]
-Oh, hi.
-Hi.
[Noah] Like life, when you know
that there's an end to it,
it makes the in-between feel meaningful,
and you feel like you've
got to make the most of it.
Did David say something to upset you?
He can be cruel,
but it's all fear-based, dear,
-so please don't take it personally.
-[laughter]
No, I just realized that this is like,
the last time we're all
gonna be here, like this.
[Annie] Not only is it
incredible to have a job,
but it's incredible to have a job
on a show that I love
and that has affected
the lives of other people
in such a big way.
[Dan] I've never liked a smile
as much as I like yours.
I've never felt as safe as I do
when I'm with you.
I've never felt love like I do...
[clears throat]
...when we're together.
[crying] But knowing that
you'll always be waiting...
I can't read it!
[laughter]
[Catherine]
It hits me in waves that it's the end.
We don't watch each other
shoot every scene,
but in the table-read,
when you read the script,
you're there to watch every character
do their scene. That was killer.
[Eugene] All right, driver. We're ready.
[Noah] We watch the car
continue down the road
and into the distance. End of series.
[Dan] Has it hit me yet?
I think so.
I feel like I've processed it thoroughly
and properly.
But who knows.
Who knows what the day will bring.
I think it must have been
a really hard decision
to, to call this one quits,
but I can't help but thinking that it's,
somehow it's right.
I am perpetually impressed
by the grace of our fans
because, while they were quite upset
and saddened by the news,
there was this positive sentiment of like,
we understand.
[Karen] To have something
to look forward to...
is what I had for six years.
I knew that for a few months
I was gonna get to go to work
and feel...
and feel joy.
Yes, last day.
Last, sad day.
[Eugene] I'm sure it will hit me
in our last scene,
on our last day,
when we actually leave
the kids and the motel.
And in a major way,
it probably will hit me
two or three weeks after we stop shooting,
when I finally sit back and say,
oh, my God, what have we done?
[laughs]
Why is it ending?
-Happy last day!
-Happy last day.
[Annie] It's gonna be
a really hard goodbye
and I've tried to just
kind of compartmentalize
the extreme sadness
that I know I'm gonna feel
and the extreme void in my life.
Mark.
This has been a constant for six years
and that's not going to be there anymore,
so that's tough,
but the friendships that I have made
are so special,
and I'm going to be inviting myself over
to Catherine O'Hara's house for dinner
for years to come.
-Cut.
-Cutting.
-Let, uh... let us check that.
-Yeah.
[sobs, sniffles]
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
she's the best sister ever.
That's a series wrap,
a Schitt's Creek wrap on Annie Murphy.
[cheering, whooping, applause]
I am proud of all of the people
that helped create her
and helped create the show, and...
Urgh... I didn't think
this was gonna happen.
[man] Three, two, one!
[chatter, laughter]
[Sarah] The show has definitely
created a family.
Everyone is so respectful of each other
and that tone was set really early on.
Inclusion and respect
and warmth and friendship,
and it's just been
this amazing group of people
that have so much fun together.
-Aw, Chris.
-Love you. Thank you so much.
I'll miss getting to see you this much.
I will miss seeing you. Thank you so much.
[Dustin] There is just this extra-nice,
lovely layer of gratitude
and appreciation for what it is
that we're doing.
-Faster.
-[laughs]
[Noah] It was an incredibly
welcoming place to be,
from the read-throughs
to costume fittings,
to my first day on set.
[man] That's also a series wrap
for Daniel Levy.
[cheering]
[Eugene] Wow.
Oh, you're both brilliant. Brilliant.
[Emily] I feel like,
so grateful that I got to be
part of something
that I think is forever and is special
and made a, made a mark.
The whole experience has been,
it's just been magical.
It doesn't feel like six years.
I think you feel the impact
of the show ending
more significantly because
of how much people love it.
There has been a love
that has been offered with the show,
that people feel
and they've given it back to us
in an incredible amount.
We feel it, we feel it.
It's so special that it's become
this little phenomenon
that was born in our family.
And I think that's
the trippiest part of it all,
is that this is my family.
[Eugene] I think mainly,
I'll miss just coming to work
every day with these people.
We've had the greatest crew,
many of whom were with us
from the very beginning.
A great cast of characters,
And the opportunity of having
had a chance to work with, uh,
with Sarah and Daniel on this.
[Sarah] It's, um...
it's something that
I'll never get the opportunity to do again
and I do not take for granted one day
that I have been so lucky to be able
to work with my family.
I don't know. A lot.
I'll miss a lot.
[snorts softly]
I do this thing when I cry where I snort,
sounds like a warthog.
Um... I'll miss a lot of... everything.
I think it'll all come together
in just a giant cry at some point,
but I can't pinpoint exactly
what that day will be.
But I'll call you.
[Eugene] I feel good about the fact
that this will end
on a... on a beautiful high.
And yeah, it is sad,
but it was six beautiful years
working with some really,
really beautiful people.
[laughs]
You're so happy that I'm crying.
That's terrible, stop.
It's just the...
it's like a family.
So it's hard to say goodbye.
And that town you passed through,
it's not called Schittsville.
It's called Schitt's Creek.
And it's where we live.
[Dan] It's an amazing thing
to have a chapter of our lives
documented like this,
and to be able to go back and look at it
when we're all old and crusty
and say like,
well, we had this.
[imitating wheels squeaking]