The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.

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 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.

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

We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.

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

The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.