After five hilarious seasons and a theatrically released movie of Reno 911!, show cops Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon are still patrolling and fumbling their way through the streets of Reno, Nevada. Now that Reno 911!: Miami - The Movie: More Busted Than Ever Unrated Cut is out on store shelves as of September 23, the guys who play Deputy Travis Junior and Lieutenant Jim Dangle have been flashing their lights and sounding the sirens while pulling over the press to talk about the latest DVD Reno 911 release.

Late last week while we were inspecting Reno 911!: Miami - The Movie: More Busted Than Ever Unrated on DVD, Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon pulled us over just before we were about to hit the information highway off-ramp. When it comes to laughing your butt off while talking to Reno's finest, you could call our convo unrated and uncut just like the DVD. And we're glad we were more busted than ever, too.

THE DEADBOLT: Hi, guys. First of all, Ben, happy belated birthday.

BEN GARANT: Well, thank you very much. We missed you at the party, it was a lot of fun.

THOMAS LENNON: We had a bouncy house.

GARANT: It was wicked.

LENNON: Things went f**king off in the bouncy house.

THE DEADBOLT: With you guys there, I can imagine.

LENNON: Oh yeah, two Jews in a bouncy house.

GARANT: Dude.

THE DEADBOLT: It seems like Comedy Central let’s you guys get away with anything and you can say whatever you want. What’s it like working over there?

LENNON: I’m trying to think of the last time we actually got a note on the show. It was...

GARANT: Yeah, that’s kind of why we’re here.

LENNON: No, that’s precisely why we’re here because the pay is not that amazing. The last time we got a note on the show - Come to think of it, we didn’t get very many notes on the movie either.

THE DEADBOLT: Well, that’s a good thing, right?

LENNON: Yeah, well, for better or for worse, because we know what we’re doing is some really dumb shit. Maybe no one just has anything to say about it? Like when they see our eight minute jack-off ballet, it’s like, 'Well, what would you comment about it? Either you hate it or it’s perfect.'

THE DEABOLT: I know that you don’t really work off of scripts on the series, but did you go into the feature the same way?

LENNON: Pretty much exactly, yeah.

GARANT: Just like the show, we have an outline that’s pretty thorough. We don’t have any dialogue written. Also, while we’re on set we kind of stray from the outline. Usually the stuff that strays from the outline is the funniest stuff, kind of, so it’s fun. It’s a good process that I don’t think the show would feel the same any other way. When we write dialogue, or even rehearse stuff too much, it just doesn’t feel as real. So it’s fun.

THE DEADBOLT: How do you deal with guest stars if you don’t write dialogue?

LENNON: Generally, the people we bring in are pretty strong improvisers. Like on the movie - [Paul] Rudd we worked with a lot and he’s very good to improvise with. He’s actually a remarkably good improviser. And often the people we tend to work with aren’t really stars in movie star terms, but they’re stars in the improv comedy world.

GARANT: We go for people who we know can riff like crazy. So even when we had George Lopez on the show, we worked with him prior to that and hung out with him prior to that. So we knew you could kind of let him go off. With the movie there are more. There’s like thirty people from the show are in the movie and it was really our 'go to' funny people who we know if you put them on camera they’re going to be pretty hilarious.

THE DEADBOLT: Who’s idea was it to put Niecy in a thong, because she seemed to like it enough to wear it on the red carpet?

LENNON: She was so excited about that, it was very strange. First off, that was one of the reasons we wanted to do the movie. We wanted to do the masturbation ballet sequence, we wanted to see Niecy in a prosthetic thong - for the record by the way cost $25,000.

GARANT: That was exactly as expensive as the big giant whale that blew up. Big booty cost twenty five grand.

LENNON: It was really amazing because we had it made by this guy who’s a genius who does this sort of thing and then Niecy was very excited to try it on. And we were at our office in Hollywood and went out in the parking lot to see what it looked like in the light, to see how realistic it was. So basically me and Ben were like down on our knees with our faces one inch away from her prosthetic ass, pinching it and touching it. And people were like driving by and coming and going who I don’t think...

GARANT: They didn’t know it was fake.

LENNON: They didn’t know that we were looking at a prosthetic. They just thought we were two obviously very weird pervs with moustaches, like squeezing and kneading into her super booty. It’s a really remarkable piece, it’s in storage here somewhere.

THE DEADBOLT: I thought it was real.

LENNON: A lot of people did. Actually, when we were shooting in Miami, first off - a lot of cell phone pictures were taken of it but our biggest surprise was how people weren’t that phased by it. No one seemed to think it was that amazing, because they thought it was real [laughs].

THE DEADBOLT: As for the $25,000 whale, Ben, what is that slimy substance that you get all over yourself?

GARANT: Oh, it was truly horrible. We had the same special effects team that had just gotten off of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3, so they still had all of these buckets of that weird Kraken goop that sprayed Johnny Depp at the end of the movie. So that’s probably as close to super-stardom as I’ll ever get, is that. I was sprayed by the same goop as Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean [laughs]. It was horrible. It was this chemical - It didn’t smell but, oh, it felt terrible.

LENNON: That was an awful day, except for that Irina Voronina was with us just basically wearing almost no clothes at all. That makes you bring you’re A-game.

THE DEADBOLT: I’ve always wanted to ask you guys what the real Reno police thinks of you?

LENNON: We’ve been to Reno on a couple of occasions...

GARANT: We went there last. We went there for a contest. Some fans of the show got to party with us in Reno. We suggested Vegas, but I guess Reno made more sense. And we got off of the plane, and I guess people knew we were coming, so there were four Reno P.D. waiting for us in the reception at the airport. We were really, really nervous, but they came just to get their pictures taken with us.

LENNON: Yeah, they were really super nice. Nobody likes the show more than actual law enforcement officers. I was actually invited - I was the grand marshal of The University of Nevada Reno Homecoming Parade last year. It was a lot of fun. Although, at the same time, it’s a very small town. So one of the things about the parade is most of the town is already in the parade, so there’s not that many people left to look at it.

THE DEADBOLT: One of my favorite lines in the show was when Jim and Junior are standing in the middle of the street talking about whether Junior looks gay or not and Junior says, ‘Well, when I’m standing next to you with this moustache I do.’ Do you always come up with that stuff on the spot?

LENNON: We improv seriously, unless there’s a stunt or special effects. You know, something’s going to explode or a cat going into an air conditioner, we don’t really discuss it. Some stuff less, some stuff more. But certainly like when we do those, we never discuss it. I actually try to improvise all of the announcements in the morning briefing. As I walk in the room, I write down three or four things but I try not to think about them the day before.

GARANT: He also surprises us a lot in there. Like in the morning briefing he’ll say, ‘Ah, so Junior. You had something you wanted to say about fish sticks or something?’

THE DEADBOLT: Ben, since you also directed the film, what’s it like working both in front of and behind the camera?

GARANT: It’s interesting. You can see - Well, it’s very fun. Tom and I do pretty much everything equally. Like the prep is what it’s all about, you just have to be ready for anything to happen when we’re there that day. So it’s preparing all of the special effects and the whale, the extras, and dealing with the EPA so that you can run around on the beach and... like all that shit. But then when you’re on set you can watch, especially on the show. Tom and I directing while we’re on camera. Like you can hear us say, ‘No, sir. Would you not stand over there.’ And because we’re cops it makes sense, but you can hear us. And if you’re looking for it, we direct as Dangle and Junior all of the time because you kind of have to, because it’s improv. By the fourth take things feel pretty stale and you kind of blew it. So you need to get it right that first or second take. So you can watch us direct on camera and it’s neat. But we also hire people we trust so they don’t need tons of direction.

THE DEADBOLT: Does it feel weird for you guys to walk around without the vests, the glasses, and the shorts when you’re not working?

LENNON: Well, I always have the gun with me even if I don’t need it. That’s my only rule. I’ll be in the shorts anywhere, I don’t care, as long as I have the gun with me. And it’s weird because I found out when I have the shorts on I can carry a gun anywhere in the United States. It’s crazy. We walked around Times Square with a Beretta. We went into the Mandarin Oriental in Miami. Pretty much we checked into a Four Seasons in every city in America while we were touring for the movie in character. We just walked right up to the door and I was in the hot blue shorts, huge gun, and everybody just said, ‘Good morning, sir.’

GARANT: [laughs] It’s pretty funny. Actually, the reaction in Miami was, ‘Oh, that happens all the time. Guys with shorts and guns come into this hotel all the time.’

LENNON: Guys in ladies' hot pants with a giant Beretta.

THE DEADBOLT: What’s the long term plan for the series? Does it have an end date or will you guys keep going on forever like The Simpsons?

LENNON: We will run this thing into the ground until we have jumped six or seven or eight sharks. We made a concerted effort to intentionally jump the shark last year so now the pressure is really off. [laughs]