DEN OF GEEK: Right off the bat, as someone that is from Toronto and has actually done comedy at the Rivoli, watching this show just made me smile so much. To see you guys doing an Entourage title sequence but with Toronto iconography was sort of mind blowing.

MATT JOHNSON: It was a dream come true for us, too, because we never had a VFX artist who could pull off these big things like fancy title sequences. It turned into such a perfect fit though because it’s so rare to see a stupid, schlocky comedy show combine very low production value with things like that. Stuff that makes you go, “How is this show even capable of doing this? Did they hire somebody else to do this? And if so, why?” It’s just one of our favorite things to do, with some really good title sequences on the horizon.

DEN OF GEEK: I was a fan of you guys back when this was only a web series, but talk about that process of transitioning from that to a full television show.

MATT JOHNSON: Yeah, for us it was mostly a process of trying to figure out how to keep it as much like the web series as we could. So much of the pressure that Jay and I faced when we were younger and making the web series saw people saying, “Why don’t you make a pilot or something?” But that felt like it was getting away from so much of the stuff that we liked about working on the internet. Doing things without permission. Doing things without a script. Doing plots that don’t go anywhere. All of those tenants of web series, especially in the mid-2000s, were all things that we really liked.

So for us it was less about trying to upgrade the series for TV and more about trying to figure out how to not lose the formal approach of working with no budget. A lot of restraint was in play. We’d be like, “Well, do we hire actors for this? No, we do it just like we did the web series with no actors. Do we build sets when we want to do something more complicated? No.” Even though we have the money to do these things that other television shows would do to solve these problems, we are always adamant that we must do everything in the real world as much as possible because that’s what makes the show good in our opinion.