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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.”
Creators must make content specifically for an audience of one
“That's the number one advice, is just make the stuff that you want to watch, and you really, you have to just make it for an audience of one, and of course hope that, that ends up resonating with an audience of millions”
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.”
Ryan Ridley gave Kumail Nanjiani his first acting role in a sketch
“I gave Kumail Nanjiani his first role. In fact, I confirmed that. I hung out with him a couple weeks ago, and I was like, was Vive, this video Danny and I made, was that your first acting role? He's like, yeah. So you can look that up.”
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.”
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.”
Abed Gheith is the real-life basis for Community's Abed Nadir
“My friend Abed Gaith, who is the basis of the Abed Nadir character in Community”
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.”
The Ricks Must Be Crazy originated from a dipping sauce pitch
“Justin had this idea of That Rick had some machine that it would, he would liquefy an entire civilization because it was the only way to create this incredibly delicious dipping sauce he loved.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Virtual Rick-ality contains a knockoff Roy Easter egg
“I think in the virtual reality in the virtual reality game, virtual Rickality, I think it's called I think Justin told me there's a scene, there's an Easter egg where you play a knockoff version of Roy.”