Two years ago it felt novel to do the East Side and then tons of other stuff have come up set in that world, but we still liked it. It felt like people are using East Side in other shows because it is cool.

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

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

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

Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.

I don't think it feels like a burden. We did not really think of it ["Mary and Jane"] that way. I think it is certainly how we branded. The thing it does is enables us to be a little bit surreal.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.