Why Modern Family didn't follow The Office and reveal its documentary crew

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“Look, it’s a valid idea," co-creator Christopher Lloyd tells EW of breaking the fourth wall. "Obviously, we started out in our pilot having that person be a character. And then the more we thought about, we thought, 'That might take the audience out of it.' And then having lived in a mockumentary form without literally a crew for 250 episodes, it felt like it might’ve been to meta or too cute to maybe do that for us. The Office made you aware that they were actual people much more than we did. We were just using it as a technique more than a sort of an actual reality.”

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