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"Workaholics" star Anders Holm is a former collegiate swimmer who loves hip-hop and drives Volvos because he's "keeping it real Swedish."

In quite a stretch, on the show he plays TelAmeriCorp's Anders Holmvik, a former swimmer who loves hip-hop and drives a Volvo.

The series, written primarily by Holm and his co-stars Blake Anderson ("Blake Chesterfield Henderson") and Adam DeVine ("Adam DeMamp"), has added several odd new phrases to the lexicon and been a success for Comedy Central. Season 3 premieres Tuesday night at 10:30 p.m. ET.

The TV version of the 'Ders has name-dropped Michael Phelps ("Phelps changed everything") and offered to represent Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte to improve his Q Score and get him "Saturday Night Live" hosting gigs.

Playbook spoke with Holm about swimming, Phelps, the new season, and how Wes Anderson inspired him to write a terrible screenplay.

So you were a swimmer at Wisconsin?

Yeah, I swam there for two-and-a-half years before I was terminated from the team for bad behavior.

Got kicked off the team for being too fresh?

I was too fresh, yes. But I'm a Badger 'til I die. I still got the letter jacket, and I rep it. You can't take that away from me.

Which would be The Ders' dream? Winning a Source Award, or an Olympic race?

I think it would be an Olympic race, because he could get on the podium. You know how they play the national anthem? You could have one of the homeys go into the sound booth and put on that Marvin Gaye version. That, like, disco version. And he would be up there just kinda trottin' back and forth. Just steppin'. I think that's how it would go down.

Will there be new catchphrases on the show this year that we also can't print on our website?

Yes. Yeah, yeah, sure. There will be. It's funny they're, like, catchphrases when really it's just all the bulls--- that we say in the writer's room to each other. Like when I go off to write a script, I'll just be like, "Oh, he'll say this because it's what we say all the time." We just get bored with our slang very quickly and come up with new stuff. Then we put it in the scripts and it ends up being catchphrases. Some comedians or comedy people think it's corny, but I'm just like, whatever, man. This is our language. This is how we speak with each other. It's not necessarily supposed to be like "That's the ticket!" from "SNL" or something.

Since you've got this juggernaut of a show, how many Volvos are in your fleet now?

I have one Volvo. I had one back in the day before the show, which wasn't as old as the one on the show, and I thought, "Ahh, I think it's time to upgrade." So I got the new one. So I could be like the dude from "Twilight." I got the car and they were like [in movie commercial guy voice] "It's in 'Twilight.'" And I was like, "Ahh, s---." Now I'm just a vampire dude.