After producing a number of successful unscripted series as well as its sketch comedy show, Out of Order, Barstool Sports is now jumping into the scripted realm with their new comedy series, Les Mascots. Premiering this Tuesday on the Out of Order YouTube channel, the seven episode series is Barstool’s first official scripted series and features Barstool stars John Feitelberg, Harry Settel and Tommy Smokes from co-creator Owen Roeder, who also works on the Barstool sketch comedy show Out of Order.

The show follows a half-baked film major (Settel) from LA, who is sent to NYC to stay with- and make a documentary about- his uncle (Feitelberg), a supposedly ultra-suc-cessful Broadway actor. However, upon arrival, Dustin discovers a hidden truth: Henry shares a cramped apartment with an eccentric roommate (Smokes) and worse, they scrape by performing as Elmo and Cookie Monster in Times Square.

The idea for the show seemed so obvious that it’s almost surprising Hollywood hadn’t already done something like it, so much that Feitelberg actually got tricked into thinking this show wasn’t such an original idea.

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“I just did a podcast where they pranked me and told me that three other comedians had done this show and it took me two days to ask Tommy if that was true and he was like no you idiot no one has ever done this,” he said.

Smokes says the idea for doing a scripted show came to be when Roeder approached him about what were his thoughts about doing a series revolving around these characters everyone is constantly seeing around Times Square.

“Owen came up with the idea of doing a more scripted series where it was centered around these two characters, delusional actor types whose day job is that they are the Times Square Cookie Monster and Elmo,” Smokes said. “Started writing it for a little bit, took some time off and started recasting it a little bit and reshuffling and just came to the conclusion of making it a full blown Out of Order production. They had always talked about doing a feature film and had a script for a movie and decided that might be difficult.”

(Smokes sarcastically goes on to say how easy a TV show would be produce suggesting that the seven episodes were no small feat to assemble).

Once the scripts were finished and the cast was put together using mainly people from the Out of Order sketch team, production was off to the races. While the crew stuck to the scripts and very rarely ad-libbed any of the lines, when it came to production, co-creator and director Mikey Pavinelli said the shooting style was a “100 percent Guerilla” using the handheld cameras they had at the company and only really getting a permit if they were stopped by cops and asked to stop shooting.

“It was kind of a run and gun style shoot throughout New York City,” he said. “In Times Square we would just hope no one would come up to us when we were on the red steps and just shoot as long as we could until we got yelled at.”

And the finished product is as seamless as anything you would see on a network that is constantly pumping out these shows on a weekly basis from the laugh out loud script to the high-quality cinematography, one would think this is exactly something a network would want to add to an upcoming slate. All that being said, when it comes to where you can watch each episode every Tuesday at 8pm eastern, the group is going the same route as they did for how audiences consumed Out Of Order episodes by dropping it on Out of Order’s YouTube Channel.

“I had a buddy in Hollywood and I sent him the script for the pilot and he did say it was really good and worth shopping if we wanted to but then wondered if we were allowed to do that,” Feitelberg said. “So we kept filming as those conversations were ongoing and kind of just got to the point where things weren’t moving fast enough over there and we just wanted to put out and just basically came to conclusion to just put it out ourselves.”

Smokes is still holing out hope that Netflix swoops in and says they want but for now the channel will suffice and the data shows from the Out of Order episodes, that Barstool’s loyal fans are showing up no matter where the episodes drop. Since the sketch comedy series premiered, the total impressions have hit around 150 million with total views on full episodes reaching 1.5 million, an impressive number for something thats only being pushed on socials and only found on YouTube.

When it comes to the company’s support, Smokes jokes that most people here probably still don’t know that its happening but in terms of help, Feitelberg adds that its been amazing the amount of people that have helped in getting it off the ground. As for what’s up next, Feitelberg, Pavinelli and Smokes are all down to not only do more seasons of Les Mascots but expanded on more scripted shows down the road.

“I remember my first year end meeting with Dave I’d love to make a Barstool sitcom and he was like I don’t think we could do that and seven years later we just did it,” Smokes said. “The most fun I’ve ever had with the company and certainly the thing I’m most proud of.”