I’m definitely open to everything, it’s just that I’m a little reckless and like doing many different things. Part of the show grew out of having all of these disparate ideas. When I watch something, the thing that always tickles me the most is just when cool ideas pop up and I’m always chasing those. The reason that I love sketch shows and Monty Pythonis just that they throw so many ideas at you, and this is just another way to do that. That said, what I like about this show is that there isone episode that’s basically one story and I’d love to do more that are like that. I’d like to do an episode where every story is like eight seconds long. You’re kind of required to take advantage of that freedom if you’re not setting a consistent format with how many stories are in each episode. You’ve got to do everything.

The series also looks beautiful. Was this always the style that you had in mind for the show?

Yeah, for sure. I sort of started with the novelty of what if we cared a lot about beauty and tone. Things are just more interesting when you operate from that place of heightened emotion and things are bittersweet or melancholy. To me, my drive is always, what’s funny? But things become funnier if they have a deeper emotional complexity to them because that’s just a more fucked up laugh. It’s a stranger laugh that taps into such a weird place. So we were always driving for this degree of beauty with the show’s look, but that also just costs a lot of money to do things right.

How long does it take to put something like this together because it just looks so ornate and detailed?

The whole season of six probably took ten months. We did a pilot, which was very instructive. I had done tiny stop-motion things before, but never on this level. And Cat Solen was instrumental in all of this stuff and she has all of the practical skills in putting something like this together. So I wrote the pilot and then learned what worked for the format and then was able to later write for that format and what we could afford in that format. It’s stop-motion so we always try to keep it at movie-level quality, but we also only get one take.