There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot.

We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like, "No." Then we finally were picked up. It is hard not to start thinking of story lines. It is like doodling.

We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work.