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AmericanVandals634 karma

Dan Lagana has a teenage step-son, so that experience helps. And we do interview younger people, both in high school and recent grads. But honestly, we're kinda just really cool young people who totally get it and we like to keep things 100%

AmericanVandals508 karma

Yeah, there's been a handful. I'm so happy the studio/network/unions allowed us to make fictional joke credits.

AmericanVandals498 karma

Exactly when the glitch actually happened! We were working on episode 204 when the glitch screwed up our phones and we thought this would be a good complicating factor to mix things up mid-season!

AmericanVandals487 karma

Melvin came up with it! We wanted to give him a celebration gesture, but our ideas were too lame - one was him shooting a bow and arrow into the crowd, the other was him baking cookies. The violin was cooler than either of those.

AmericanVandals428 karma

The episodes are all fully scripted before production, but we do a tremendous amount of improv on set to make it feel as doc-ish as possible. So we’ll let the Dylan Maxwell school board hearing or the Kevin McClain run for 15 minutes without calling cut. We’ll let Tyler (Peter) conduct his own interviews with major suspects, so that it will actually feel like an interview subject coming up with answers on the spot to questions that a teenager wrote. Shooting tons of footage that isn’t in the script allows us to edit it like a documentary, which is probably the most painstaking part of the process. Sorry if this is a rambling answer. But basically, it’s fully scripted by our super talented writers, and then there’s an incredible amount improvisation by our super talented cast, for our super talented editors to sort through for months.