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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.

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Harry Elfont
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: April 5
Film Director
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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.
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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.
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I don't think we had a hard time with [Mary and Jane]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.
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The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.
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We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.
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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.
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Somebody said, there is no show if it goes legal. But actually, there is.
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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.
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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.
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