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

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

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

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

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.

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.