Here's something to get activity on this board going. Should Mike and Molly have a baby? My take on this subject is no, because it would take the focus away from characters like Carl, Samuel and Molly's family to focusing a lot more on the title characters entering parenthood. It would be a major shark jump.

With the recent news that Mike & Molly is cancelled after season 6, is it or is it not the right time for the titular couple to have a baby?

Here is a story at TV Guide from late November 2013 about M&M' new direction for season 4. Its showrunner Al Higgins claimed that that "new direction" was "necessary".

Now that they're happily married though, Higgins admits that the writers have been "scrambling for stories a little bit". Much of Season 3 followed Mike and Molly's quest to start a family, but the original pregnancy story line planned for Season 4 has now been indefinitely shelved.

"If she's pregnant, there's no physical comedy," Higgins says. "We asked Melissa, 'Do you mind that you're not pregnant?' And she said, 'Oh, my God! That's great. I can do things then!' So we were all excited about no baby! We're not going to go crazy with the physicality; we pulled it back. It's got to be part of the story and grounded. As a writer, it's harder to find conflict when everything is good, especially in comedy. In many ways, [the change] was necessary."

The full story: http://www.tvguide.com/news/mike-molly-al-higgins-new-show-direction-1073800/