Art Imitates Life on '$#*! My Dad Says' as Henry Sets Out to Write About His Dad (VIDEO)

CBS's other Thursday comedy is still coming together creatively, but it's starting to find its voice. It also, apparently, is giving a shout-out of sorts to its own genesis. 'S#*! My Dad Says' (Thu., 8:30PM on CBS) is based on a real Twitter feed, and now book, written by Justin Halpern about living with his father.

As the series is based on his life, maybe it was inevitable that Henry (Justin's TV counterpart) would reach a point where he would start writing about his experiences living with his father. On 'Seinfeld,' they eventually had the character Jerry pitching and working on a sitcom pilot for NBC, mirroring the comedian's real life experiences creating that show.

We're not sure taking things that far would work for 'S#*! My Dad Says,' as it would completely change the current family-based tone of the series, but maybe if the well starts to run dry they'll consider it.

The fictional chronicling of the cranky dad was initiated by Ed interrupting one of Henry's pitch meetings with a magazine editor to complain about Henry doing an entire load of laundry for one pair of underwear. We're going to have to kind of side with Ed on this one. That does seem incredibly wasteful. And what happened to the underwear that it needed a solo run? On second thought, we probably don't want to know.

"I've taken the liberty of siphoning off all of the water from the washing machine," Ed told his son. "That water is now your water supply for the rest of the week."

After hearing Ed rant on the phone, the editor told Henry to write about that. "Guy in his 20s moves back in with his dad. It's current, and besides, he's really funny." In Halpern's case, it was more luck and happenstance that his Twitter feed was discovered and led to this series, but ultimately writing about his father is what gave Justin a new direction in his own life, and the same might happen for Henry.