# Bill Nuss (Mee-Ow show / NBC exec / 21 Jump Street ep / Pacific Blue creator) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/bill-nuss-mee-ow-show-nbc-exec-21-jump-street-ep-pacific-blue-creator Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/bill-nuss-mee-ow-show-nbc-exec-21-jump-street-ep-pacific-blue-creator.md Podcast: [Ian Talks Comedy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290) Published: 2026-08-08T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-fermaglich/episodes/Bill-Nuss-Mee-Ow-show--NBC-exec--21-Jump-Street-ep--Pacific-Blue-creator-e3moo04 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/21d579e4/podcast/play/123542980/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-30%2F97caabaa-c20a-0eb4-e532-11246e10d45f.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/bill-nuss-mee-ow-show-nbc-exec-21-jump-street-ep-pacific-blue-creator Duration seconds: 2945 ## Resource Bill Nuss joined me to discuss watching Off. Joe Bolton as a child; writing to Johnny Carson; his love of Honeymooners; going to film school backward; creating the Mee-Ow show at Northwestern with partner Dusty Kay; Seth Myers crediting it with his pursuing comedy; meeting Brandon Tartikoff; auditioning for SNL; Brandon gets them a pitch at Eight is Enough; going with Brandon as an exec to NBC; creation of Diff'rent Strokes; being in the room when the cancellation of SNL was discussed; worked on Cannell and Larson series; asked to write for A-Team & later 21 Jump Street; casting Johnny Depp; writing the Hulk Hogan A-Team episodes; "Lease with an Option to Buy" w/ Della Reese and worst episode of A-Team; writing a Psycho homage for Knight Rider and a The God's Must Be Crazy takeoff for the A-Team; creating the Booker character for Jump Street; favorite Jump Streets; Raven; guesting on his shows; The Hat Squad; Renegade; directing was easy for him; favorite episode of Booker; creating Pacific Blue; WWE & Mario Lopez; PB episodes "Stargazer' and "59 Minutes"; creating North Shore and having young Jason Momoa in the cast; NCIS; Hawaii 5-0; his passion project, the musical version of The Honeymooners ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ian-talks-comedy-140290/episodes/bill-nuss-mee-ow-show-nbc-exec-21-jump-street-ep-pacific-blue-creator/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ian-talks-comedy-140290/bill-nuss-mee-ow-show-nbc-exec-21-jump-street-ep-pacific-blue-creator.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.