bob: this is nice. roomy. i thought there would be more weirdos. abishola: you are the weirdo. emily vanderwerff: the sitcom is important in american culture because it's where we work out our anxieties about society. bob: so, where you from? abishola: nigeria. bob: wow, that's a heck of a commute, huh? emily vanderwerff: we have class. we have race. we have gender. all of it's here, because we are a nation of people who came from somewhere else.