-Welcome back, everybody.
We are hanging with our pal Anthony Anderson right here.
[ Cheers and applause ] We love you.
Stars on the eighth and final season of "Black-ish."
You're pulling out all the stops for the final season.
-Yeah, we got to, man. We got to go out with a bang.
-I mean, Michelle Obama. -Yeah, yeah.
-How did you get -- [ Cheers and applause ]
How did you get hooked up with that?
-Well, they were fans of the show.
The Obamas were fans of the show, and I found this out
the first time I went to the White House
when they were in office.
And it was just like a "Key & Peele" sketch, man.
You know, they were talking -- you know, Obama sees a brother
and just daps him up and all that.
I was at the end of the line, because I wanted to, you know,
spend some time with him and all that.
You saw him over there -- "Hello, Mr. White Guy."
Yes. Hello, Mr. White Guy."
And he sees me.
And, you know, he has a place that he stands.
He left the place that he was standing.
He was like, "Yo, Anth, what's up, man?!"
[ Cheers and applause ]
Took me to Michelle.
He left his post, took me to Michelle and was like,
"Michelle, look who's here -- Anth from 'Black-ish.'
Tell him how much we love the show."
And they went on for about a good three minutes about
how much they love the show, the family watches it.
It's appointment television.
Now, mind you, my encounter was
only supposed to be about 10 or 15 seconds.
-Of course. -At that time.
It lasted about a good three minutes, man.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-From then on,
we just had a great relationship,
and Tracee Ellis Ross made the call for the final season
to First Lady Obama and said, you know,
"We would love to have you on the show.
Do you think you could do this?" And she agreed.
-Big final season.
-Yeah. -Big final season.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
And that's how we start it.
-Now, you -- This is a very successful show.
It's the end of this awesome run.
Do you get emotional? Does it get sad?
-It did. It was bittersweet.
You know, I wasn't as emotional as I thought I would be
at the final episode,
the final day of the final episode because, you know,
we knew going into it that this day was coming.
What affected me most was I went back a week and a half ago to do
my final voiceover for the final episode,
and as I was driving past our sound stage to get to
the ADR booth, the elephant doors to our sound stage
was open, and it was empty on the inside.
And that's when it hit me, you know, I was hit with the flood
of emotions that I thought I wasn't going to have about that.
And so, after my ADR session, I went in there,
made a little video, and it was sad.
I'm getting emotional right now just remembering that moment.
And it was -- it was sad to see
everything out of that sound stage.
-It's all gone. -Yeah.
You know, that was my home for eight years.
-Made all of those memories. -Yeah.
-Yeah. Well, we appreciate what you put into it, bud.
-Yeah. Thank you, brother. -Yeah, we really do. Yeah.
-Thank you. -We really do.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross
in tomorrow night's episode of "Black-ish."
Take a look at this.
-We met somebody special, like special special.
-They might not want to care about who we met tonight.
-Oh, probably not. -It was Michelle Obama!
-Michelle Obama?!
-Are you sure it was really her?
You've been fooled by Barack Obama impersonators before.
-Okay, he was pretending not to be himself
so he wouldn't draw a crowd, fool.
-And we know it was her because we connected like we've known
each other forever and we had a conversation
that was about being parents.
-Mm-hmm. -And professionals.
-Yes. -And honestly it was --
What's the word? -Oh.
-Magical.
-Yeah! Anthony Anderson, everybody.
Do not miss the final season of "Black-ish"
Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.