Workaholics’ Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, and Anders Holm | The A.V. Club

AVC: Was there anything you definitely didn’t want to do on the show?

AH: I didn’t want to reference Star Wars. Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of Star Wars references, I know it’s written by a 40-year-old dude. Like, a shitload of kids at his house. I don’t know, it seems fake. 

BA: It’s Avatar, biatch!

AD: Yep, Avatar all day.

AH: We’re Avatar, it’s going to be a lot of Avatar-heavy references. No, we have a lot of Lord Of The Rings references. I don’t know, it just seems like Star Wars always seems dated when I see, like, twentysomethings talking about it like it was the best thing that ever happened to them.

AD: We didn’t really want it to be an office show. We wanted it to be about these three guys who live together and work together, and they just happen to work together in the same office and everything. We didn’t want it to be, like, every story has to revolve around the office. You know, it’s about these guys fresh out of college and in their life and the adventures they go on.

AH: Like Curb Your Enthusiasm isn’t about showbiz; it’s about Larry David and Jeff Garlin. It’s about the relationship between those two guys and the trouble they get into, and they just happen to work in Hollywood.