"30 Rock" executive producer and co-showrunner Robert Carlock was asked in a 2009 interview if Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander), Toofer Spurlock (Keith Powell), and J.D.Lutz (John Lutz)—the staff writers of the fictitious show "The Girlie Show with Tracy Jordan" ("TGS")—were going to be seen more in the upcoming season, to which he replied, "One of the great things about this show and the blessing and the curse is that we have so many characters and so many different interactions between characters that work so well.