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Q: What's Deedle-Dee Productions? It seems like their name is at the end of all my favorite shows.

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

The title cards at the end of TV shows can suggest the existence of a company somewhere with a headquarters, an HR department and all the rest, but they're often just people.

This is the case with Deedle-Dee Productions, which is comedy writer Greg Daniels ("The Office") operating under a company name. That's not to say he doesn't have staff, but the shows that feature the garishly colored Deedle-Dee Productions card at the end are the various sitcoms produced and written by Daniels.

The company might seem to be everywhere because they weren't just any sitcoms — Daniels held the pen on a few of the most important sitcoms of the past 20 years.

Daniels started as a writer on "Saturday Night Live," but Deedle-Dee began with "King of the Hill," which Daniels co-created in 1997 with fellow sitcom great Mike Judge.

From there, Daniels went on to create "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation." Together, those three shows helped to define the post-laugh track era of TV comedy.

Presumably the company's name comes from Daniels' last name, though he's never really addressed it in interviews. However, he did say in a "Parks and Recreation" DVD special feature that the colorful title card you refer to was designed by one of his children.

 

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