Angie Tribecais an unassuming parody of police procedurals.

A serial killer on the loose effectively ups the stakes this year.

Thats a nice dimension to add to your character.

Also that Atkins is helping you, rather than against the promotion.

Yeah, we started doing stuff in season two that became more of a connective tissue between episodes.

Thats kind of just one of the ways in which the show has hit its stride.

I love that this is a show where quite literally anything can happen.

Theres a very elastic reality in play.

Is that a lot more appealing to get to mess around with than some comedy that is grounded?

Well thats always been the fun part of the show, getting to treat it like its a drama.

It started in this Zucker Brothers,Airplanesort of world.

The nit shifted a bit to lampoon all of those shows likeCSI: MiamiandNCIS.

Actually, what the whole show is doing is that its really just normalizing absurdity.

Weve been doing it for two seasons already, so were ahead of the curve.

Were just taking the weird things that happen and treat them like every day occurrences.

Does this year get even crazier?

Well we go and solve a crime in space this season.

What feels kind of like an endless mine allows us all of these different places to go.

Can we really go into an anti-gravity ship and do crime in outer space?

And the writers responded, Oh yeah, this is based on arealepisode ofCSI: Miami.

Theres just so much content from those shows and such a trove of crazy episodes to pull from.

Then theres also just some really creative visual stuff that goes down this season.

We have an episode thats shot like a film noir.

Story-wise, what location would you like to see the show go to if you had your say?

So we can pop into those worlds, and we can pop out of them.

Like for our Miami episode, all we did was put plastic flamingos on yards.

We were making fun of going to Miami.

We see that there is a New Orleans equivalent of Atkins thats out there.

He was playing different versions of himself.

Those were some of the times on set where it was the hardest not to laugh.

Talk a little about all of that.

Well after season two, Angie becomes obsessed.

She gets obsessed with catching criminals and tracking these larger storylines.

She goes off on her own and is kind of a renegade in that way.

She does that in season two with James Francos character and trying to take down this political scandal.

Its the same thing in this season with Chris Pines character, whos doing a Hannibal Lecter thing.

Hes mentoring Angie to catch this serial killer that the show has been tracking.

Are there any particular directions that youd like to see things go with Giels?

Obviously there is all the Lieutenant stuff, but beyond that.

Hell just be a Lieutenant, but doing the exact same stuff.

Yeah, it would only service it for the scenes where its needed.

its like playing a video game where you just press the reset button.

This show is just so funny and it really makes me laugh like nothing else on TV.

Do you have a favorite gag or scene from the show?

Its so funny because every time we read something on the page, Ill be like, Thats wild.

How are we going to pull that off?

But then its always so amazing to actually see it get done.

Rob Huebel plays this sort of futurist Elon Musk pop in of character there.

That was one of the wildest ones we did because we had never been in that world before.

And of course, anything with animals!

joke with Admiral Ackbar in the court room.

And you actually have Admiral Ackbar in there.

If you could play any other character on the show, who would it be?

You know, I love when Alfred Molina comes in and plays our mad scientist, Dr. Edelweiss.

He gives information, but always has a new gag whenever he comes in.

Like one season hes dealing with all of these shady business deals.

Or in another one hes got a different handicap each week.

Any chance we could get a flashback episode down the road thats just their adventures together?

I would love to see that.

But that was definitely one of the trippier scenes to film.

Angie Tribecasthird season premieres on TBS on April 10that 10:30 p.m.