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MEGAN MULLALLY:Youre not the boss of me
NICK OFFERMAN:Goddammit.
MULLALLY:And we have arrived at .
Credit: Emily Shur
Will you shut up for one second?
MULLALLY:Its a new topic.
Although I dont know what well say, because weve never had a fight.
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(Laughs) In eighteen years.
Weve just been blissfully happy.
Just cracking each other up.
He acts like Ron, and I act like Karen .
OFFERMAN:Sometimes when we dont fight, we dont have sex afterward.
MULLALLY:Were too busy having sex to fight.
OFFERMAN:It would be like the Death of Love.
MULLALLY:I will saywere pretty lucky.
Early on, our fights were more splashy than they are now.
Now theyre pretty boring.
But we had some good ones early on.
OFFERMAN:I feel like we have a real complementary set of personalities and dispositions.
The RPMs I run on, and yours .
MULLALLY:Im a lot more mellow than Nick is.
(Laughs)
OFFERMAN:Youre all chill.
Its hard to get a rise out of you.
(Both laugh)
OFFERMAN:And Im like a fing moth in a lamp.
OFFERMAN:We had to figure out, pretty quickly, how to compromise our yin and our yang.
MULLALLY:I call Nick Farmer Joe sometimes.
Because hes so fing slow.
Because he fing WALKS s slow.
And Id say, Use your legs!
OFFERMAN:(Laughs) Farmer Joe?
MULLALLY:Pick up the pace, Geegaw.
OFFERMAN:And to his credit, Geegaw picked up the pace .
MULLALLY:He picked it up, and I slowed down.
Because I was walking at fullon Midtown Manhattan pace, and he was walking at Corn Shucking pace.
OFFERMAN:As one does .
It goes both ways.
The husbands would bitch about their wives, and the wives would hilariously bitch about their husbands.
Once I got into this marriage
MULLALLY:Which one?
OFFERMAN:This one right here.
and I immediately recognized that I didnt want to be like that.
MULLALLY:Its hard to complain with a mouthful of puss.
OFFERMAN:(Laughs) True dat.
The example of my mom and dad has always helped me so much.
In terms of swallowing my male pride.
MULLALLY:Its helped me as well.
OFFERMAN:Go on .
(Both laugh)(Inaudible for a bit)
OFFERMAN:But heres a slightly different tack.
We never really fight about the tangible things.
(Joking voice) Youve got to stop buying so many fancy hats!
MULLALLY:I really need to stop doing that, though.
OFFERMAN:Youre welcome to do as you yo in the hat department.
MULLALLY:Thank you.
OFFERMAN:So generally, when we fight, its about our state of being at the moment.
And that always turns into a perceived slight.
Or just anythingdealing with stress on some level.
I need to blow off some steam, so what the f are you doing with that suitcase?
It has nothing to do with the suitcaseit has everything to do with our state of mind.
MULLALLY:Just us being stressed out in general.
And then some fight will start over something really stupid.
MULLALLY:Oh my god, I agree.
OFFERMAN:F off.
MULLALLY:But I .
