RELATED: What We Do in the Shadows Season 3, Episode 9 'A Farewell' Recap & Spoilers There's no sense of time, the sunlight is deliberately blocked so people spend all their money. "We were just like 'This is a perfect place to put vampires. "This was something that came up in the writer's room I think pretty early," she said. Sarah Naftalis, who wrote "The Casino," discussed the genesis of the episode. That's fine.' So, it was very nice of him." And fortunately, Chuck Lorre himself saw that we reached out to him and he was like, 'No, that seems funny. You can't do anything.' And we were like, 'Well, that's like half the episode,' I mean like, there's no way to replace it, it can't be like a Cheers slot machine or something. You can't show any clips of The Big Bang Theory. "Not only is it real," Simms explained, "But for four months we were preparing that episode and we'd gotten all the legal clearances to use it, and then 48 hours before we were going to shoot the episode we got a message from a legal department at Warner Bros. RELATED: WWDITS: Harvey Guillén Teases Guillermo's Vampire-Hunting Future However, the branding of the machine ended up causing trouble for the show. Specifically, they were asked if the The Big Bang Theory slot machine that Nandor (Kayvan Novak) becomes addicted to was actually real, to which director Yana Gorskaya confirmed that it was. Paul Simms, showrunner for What We Do in the Shadows, revealed that when an episode of the show was in peril, salvation came from an unlikely source: sitcom legend Chuck Lorre.ĭuring the Shadows panel at New York Comic Con 2021 attended by CBR, the guests were asked about one of the details from the episode "The Casino", in which the main cast takes a weekend vacation to Atlantic City.