"You love abbreviations on Happy Endings. Is the ultimate scene in your mind one where your characters don’t say a single full word? Is there ever a thing as too many abbrevs?
Yes, there is definitely a feeling of too many. I think we have reached critical mass on abbreviations. We’re never looking to put them in, you know. Sometimes they happen: People just write them when it sounds funny, or when they seem to make sense. But we pretty quickly this year felt like, “Okay, this is kind of annoying now.” So our only way would to do it would be to make fun of it. In the Valentine’s Day episode, a guy breaks up with Penny because she abbreviates everything. She says, “He hated it when I said 'ahmazing,' but I barely even said it this season.” And then Max says, “Do you mean winter?” And she says, “Yeah, it’s more of a summer word.” So that was us basically saying we know this is kind of annoying, and we’re going to stop doing it. That being said, we hit it one more time in the finale. But it could be the last time Penny says “amahzing.” "
