To find ourselves in a position where we are actually making something that is for a really cool network and that people are getting to see it’s kind of a dream come true. We both admire each other’s sensibilities. It’s as if you are not even being paid, you are doing it because it’s fun. And it says a lot when you love working with someone on stuff just for the fuck of it. We gravitated towards each other and love working with each other. Justin Roiland: Yeah…Harmon and I have been friends for over 10 years.
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Was it love at first sight between you two given your own controversial, dark work on the online cartoon series The House of Cosby? Justin, you met Dan through the short film competition Channel 101. Now you are able to say, “I’m an alcoholic, I don’t give a shit…you have to know that right away.” That’s not how Justin and I set out to make Rick and Morty. So there is a very natural human dose of, “Screw this! I’m tired of feeling about things!” After a nasty breakup, your next relationship tends to have you waving red flags over your head. I was the only person that was going to be heartbroken if this thing just dropped off the face of the earth. And as the seasons went on and the show became more important to me and more tenuous at NBC, I realized I was in a very precarious position emotionally. Things were never ideal at Community and yet it was the most important thing in my life. Rick and Morty was always my exit strategy.
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Were you taking out all your frustrations and anger with the dirty politics of network TV into Rick and Morty?ĭan Harmon: I do think there was a huge element of that going on. This is a much darker, brazenly offensive show and at times goes to places that most cartoons would dare to go. VIBE: The genesis of Rick and Morty began during your very public and nasty split from the NBC comedy Community. From their obsessions over all things hip-hop to why Rick is the ultimate asshole, this is their wild and wacky story. With today’s bells-and-whistles video release of the complete 1st season of the cult cable favorite, VIBE sat down with the sardonic brains behind the acclaimed series: NBC’s Community mastermind Dan Harmon and House of Cosby’s architect Justin Roiland. Indeed, things turn pretty absurdly hilarious, dark and wrong in every perceivable way on Rick and Morty. Instead, he opts to use a disastrous love potion that turns on both males and females, gets caught watching porn by his dad and impregnates an alien sex robot given to him by his grand pops. And Morty, Rick’s clueless grandson, is an awkward teenager who can never gather up the courage to ask the pretty girl in high school out on a date. That elder genius level scientist is a mean-spirited, insult-dropping, belligerent drunk who at times purposely puts his family in harms way all in the name of science (and his boundless ego). However, the animated series Rick and Morty goes off the rails. It’s the kind of go-to science fiction trope that has been gloriously perfected by such iconic vehicles as TV’s long-running Doctor Who and the classic Back to the Future film franchise. The unlikely duo often times find themselves in a barrage of mishaps whether its through time traveling, investigating other dimensions or facing off against hostile space aliens. A cantankerous, beyond genius scientist takes his much younger, wide-eye companion on a series of otherworldly adventures. The premise behind Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim standout Rick and Morty is not exactly groundbreaking.