Mentor and mentee in a Writers Guild program that pairs veteran and novice TV writers, they agree that Annie Hall is not a “manic pixie dreamgirl” (although Michael is not sure what that is) and that it would be a horrible idea to remake the movie that bears her name. Unless the new Annie were black, suggests Ian persuasively. Two generations of television, plus one generation of music from Amy Leon and Avishai.

• •  PERSON: Annie Hall
  •  PLACE: Barney Greenglass
  •  THING: seltzer
  •  RANDY’S PERSON: Zippy, a chimp