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Meta fourth-wall breaks work when viewers stay emotionally invested
“I think that's one of the funniest parts of the show is that you can weave in and out of the fourth wall, but still, you're still invested in the story.”
Rick and Morty writers consider Anatomy Park one of their weaker episodes
“Anatomy Park is, is, you know, is considered maybe one of the weaker episodes, at least by us, because it's just a Jurassic Park spoof meets a Fantastic Voyage trope spoof that's been done a thousand times.”
Rick and Morty has a darker sensibility than Futurama ever possessed
“Rick and Morty is like, it's sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, and it's dark, as dark as my sensibility is, which featurama never really was, as dark as I think ultimately I liked to write, and then just doing it with your friends.”
Unlike Futurama's staff, Rick and Morty writers have no science backgrounds
“Admittedly, unlike Futurama, none of us on the staff have, we are barely educated. We're not mathematicians. We don't really know that much about science. We're writing from the point of view of tropes and genre stuff, and we want to tell good stories.”
Justin Roiland wanted to base the Citadel of Ricks on Halo
“I think that Justin wanted to base the Citadel of Rix off of something from Halo.”
Dan Guterman is a key ingredient to Rick and Morty's greatness
“Dan Gooderman, a writer, producer on Rick and Morty, and one of the biggest ingredients of making that show great in the last two seasons.”
Hand-drawn pupils are Justin Roiland's signature aesthetic from early cartoons
“That's absolutely Justin's signature aesthetic. Because he, I think from the early days of his cartoons, he did that.”
Rick and Morty writers did not know Marvel's Council of Reeds
“People did say, did you guys rip off the Council of Reeds, which is a storyline from the Fantastic Four, which is a bunch of Reed Richards from different parallel realities in the Marvel Universe formed a Council of Reeds. No, we didn't know about that.”
Rick and Morty writers debated whether Mr. Meeseeks was human-sized
“And Justin, and it was, I'm not kidding, it was the blue dress, gold dress of the writers room, because half the people reading the same script and crew imagined them life-size, and half imagined them as tiny little gremlin things, or smaller than gremlins.”