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.

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

It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music now? It's all original programming.

We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every episode. That is what we took advantage of.

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

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.

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