Then when I was working on the first episodes of the series, he needed to have something in his refrigerator. What does he have in his refrigerator? Well, we know he likes yogurt. And then the writer of the second episode, Alfredo Barrios, thought that was funny and so he threw a yogurt into his episode. And once you get a yogurt in a pilot and two episodes, man, you gotta keep going. So it becomes – it’s just sort of fun. At the same time, I will say that it was inspired by some research that we did, or actually discussions that I had with Michael Wilson [consulting producer]. The essence of which is that operatives do find themselves in circumstances where they need cheap sources of healthy protein. Michael Wilson’s preferred source of cheap protein was canned tuna fish. So Michael could just as easily have been a tuna fish man, but we made him a yogurt man.

Matt Nix discusses the prominent role of yogurt in Burn Notice. Jeffrey Donovan tries to offer a more sensible rationale (video, on Hulu.) Yes, it took me this long to get caught up on Burn Notice’s finale, and while the recap from What’s Alan Watching? is good, the sight of seeing Carla unceremoniously shot—yes! Tricia Helfer’s character dies again and again and again, thanks to precedent set by BSG—was extremely satisfying.