He believes the production of his Netflix special benefited from the mandatory delay caused by COVID-19, allowing for script and content analysis that otherwise would not have occurred.

“it actually i think helped us in the long in the in the grand scheme of things in the moment we would have never been able to tell but having that extra time allowed us to like analyze certain scripts make more images and like really look at the flow of the content in a way that we wouldn't been abl”

Rob McElhenney asserts that despicable behavior remains a valid and effective source of comedy.

“it is funny it because it is despicable and and despicable behavior is funny it always has been it always has been”

Constraint-based limitations actually helped to refine and focus Smosh's unique comedic style in the early days.

“in fact I'd say I was saying this the other day the only reason that I and I I feel were able to focus so much on the creative in those earliest days and hone in on what made smash so special was because we had so many limitations we had no money we only had a webcam that was attached by a wire”