TREY: no. we thought, we
seriously thought we'd be about 3 episodes and out.
MATT: yeah we thought the
pilot would fail.
TREY: yeah..
MATT: and then when we got
the series, we thought we'd be 3 episodes cancelled.
yanked.
TREY: because people did
get pissed off. my mom was pissed off.
DM: she's one of the one's
that got turned away.
TREY: no she wouldnt even
come.
DM: she does not like the
whole thing?
TREY: no, well now she
does, but at first she was like, "you know the
drawings are so cute why do they have to say the
f-word?" so i talked about it with matt and i said
you know maybe the drawings are real cute we don't have
to say the f-word. matt said no-
MATT: fuck that
DM: now the first thing was
that christmas thing that i saw floating around. who put
that out? george clooney made-
TREY: well no it was just a
friend of ours who wanted a christmas card and matt and i
did it cause we needed money for christmas presents, so
we did it for like 700 bucks. didnt even put our names on
it cause we didnt think anything of it. and we're like
okay here's this piece of crap whatever. and then we're
getting calls from people in new york and florida going
"you gotta see this thing i just saw with santa
claus and jesus" and we're like oh we did that. you
know and then it was just all over the place.
MATT: copies of copies. it
was really strange.
DM: now you guys seem like
you don't buy any of the shit to some extent. i think
thats what comes through in the cartoon. people are so..i
mean anybody who creates a character that has a celery
stalk for an arm and patrick duffy for a leg, i think has
pretty much gone off the main drag, and ah..but yet now,
you read in the trades you signed big deal. great you
know its about time you mades some money off it cause i
am sure every t-shirt manufacturer in the country is
making a killing off of this. does it scare you in the
least? i know you want to get rich. everybody likes to
get rich, there's nothing wrong with that. does it scare
you that you might become the people that you make fun
of?
MATT: become everything we
used to hate?
TREY: well you know its
true because the thing is when we came to LA and we were
such losers that our favorite thing to do was to like go
to bars and try to find someone famous and fart on them
and get a picture of it.
MATT: we were at a party
and richard dreyfuss was there and trey was like "i
have to fart" i'm like "lets get a
picture!" and then he walks over and we have a...and
i just whipped it out and took this picture figuring it
would just be a blue blur of his shirt."here's trey
farting on richard dreyfuss" but it turned out
pretty good. you see richard back there, and you see trey
like (does action) squeezing it out.
TREY: the best one was
danny devito. cause i mean he's just right there at my
ass level. what sucks about it now we have so little time
but its like oh lets go hang out at a bar and its like
you know i see people now coming "lets go fart on
those guys" they want to fart on us now.
MATT: thats gonna happen
now that we told that story.
TREY: yeah everyone's gonna
fart on us.
DN: who better in the world
to fart on then dick dreyfuss. he just turned around
"that was no boating accident!" why...i hate to
even ask cause i know you'll think he's an asshole for
asking this but do you consider yourself rebellious? or
do you just consider that you've found a knitch market
that creates that rabid fandom. or do you really just
think the reason people like it is that they find it so
cathartic that you piss on everything that is almost
sacred?
TREY: i think that thats
the thing. we never considered..we don't think of
ourselves as rebels. we don't say okay what can we do
thats going to piss everyone off. you know i mean we
entered every show with "well what happened to us in
3rd grade?" we had a dog that ran away. okay lets
make him gay. and it wasn't really a matter of, and it
still isn't we're not in the business of like "who
can we offend? who can we piss off?" it just happens
naturally.
