Or any parenting, period.
"It's the polar opposite of 'Sunny.' The characters are really, really optimistic. Really like the kindest, sweetest, most optimistic characters on television," McElhenney said during a recent Fox Networks party.
"The world that they inhabit is really dark and at times really brutal, but they never waver from their optimism."
McElhenney, who with his wife (and "Sunny" co-star) Kaitlin Olson - also one of the voice actors in "Unsupervised" - is expecting their second son in April, has come a long way from the struggling actor who famously made the original "It's Always Sunny" pilot for a few hundred bucks.
"I wouldn't say [it's] moguldom," McElhenney said. "But we have, you know, a lot of opportunities right now because of 'Sunny' and we have a lot of people that we work with that have a lot of ideas and we want to give them the same opportunities that we had when we first started."
"Unsupervised" was co-created by Rosell with "Sunny" writers Hornsby (star of the short-lived CBS sitcom, "How to Be a Gentleman") and Scott Marder.
"The germ of it was us joking around in the writers' room of 'It's Always Sunny,' kind of improvising as these two . . . boys who sort of don't understand how dire their situation is," said Rosell, who grew up in Mullica Hill, N.J., with, he assured me, "great parents [Bob and Eileen Rosell] who were always around and who were very hands-on in raising me."
However, he added, "I experienced a lot of kids who may have had similarities to these guys."
Where his own background comes in - he's a 1997 grad of Clearview Regional High School - is more in the memories of what it's like to be an adolescent boy.
