With a fourth season of their series officially off the table, Happy Endings showrunners David Caspe and Jonathan Groff now have time to sit back, relax, and answer questions about the season-four episodes they don’t get to make. Well-intentioned questions that look biting when removed from their original context, like “As far as crushing disappointments go, where does this one rank?” and “How close were you to a deal?”—questions posed not by a passive-aggressive mother caricatured mid-scene by Casey Wilson’s Penny (a character whose time on TV has come to an end), but rather TV Line. Caspe and Groff were then asked what a non-existent season four won’t have in store for Happy Endings, a television series that is no longer on the air. A hookup between unlucky-in-love Penny and Zachary Knighton’s loveable doofus, Dave? “Maybe,” Caspe said, noting that the groundwork for such a pairing was laid in what turned out to be the show’s series finale.