1. DAN HARMON’S FILM FESTIVAL SPURRED HIS COLLABORATION WITH CO-CREATOR JUSTIN ROILAND.
The creative duo behind Rick and Morty, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, met each other through Channel 101, Harmon’s film festival. Roiland would submit work for the festival that were “intended to just shock people” but that Harmon found to be hilarious.
When Adult Swim contacted Harmon to create a 30-minute animated series for the network, he thought Roiland’s sensibilities would be a perfect fit for the network because, as Harmon put it, “He is the target for a lot of their stuff. And he’s also, like me, really passionate about story and franchise.”
2. RICK AND MORTY WAS INSPIRED BY ROILAND’S UNIQUE TAKE ON BACK TO THE FUTURE.
The idea behind Rick and Morty spun out of one of Roiland’s earlier Channel 101 ideas called The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti. The relationship between Rick and Morty has always taken cues from Doc Brown and Marty McFly from Back to the Future, but Roiland’s first take on the idea really drove this point home with a twist. At this point in his career, Roiland was simply daring lawyers to come after him, and nothing exemplified his attitude more than his X-rated Doc and Marty shorts:
“I actually made this as a way to poke fun at the idea of getting cease and desist letters. At the time (October 2006) I had nothing to lose and my original intention was to call this ‘back to the future: the new official universal studios cartoon featuring the new Doc Brown and Marty McFly’ and then I’d just sit back and wait for a letter from their lawyers to arrive. That’s actually why it’s so filthy. I was just looking to ‘troll’ a big studio.”
Even though Rick and Morty’s final show is much removed from the litigious (and public relations) problems that Roiland’s original cartoon had, he says, “some of the raw energy behind the voice performances is sort of still intact, especially for Rick. That’s the beginning of it.”
3. RICK SANCHEZ AS “THE SEAM BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.”
Though you can enjoy Rick and Morty simply as a whacky cartoon show with some adult humour, you can also look deeper into the human condition and wrestle with the existence of god itself through these characters. Harmon, in a video promoting the show’s second season, talked about how the series is constantly searching for some sort of meaning in the meaninglessness of life.
One of the main conflicts, according to Harmon, is the idea of the creator against the created. This is seen in Rick’s apathy toward his own creations throughout the show, like Abradolf Lincler, Rick’s half-Lincoln, half-Hitler experiment that’s hell-bent on revenge. Harmon calls Rick “The seam between god and man,” and his nihilistic apathy toward his own creations is echoed in Joseph Campbell’s belief that god is an impersonal cosmic force.
On a more cheerful note, Harmon disagrees with Rick’s sentiment that nothing really matters, saying that type of philosophy “gets you nowhere.”
4. THE SHOW’S THEME SONG WAS INSPIRED BY DOCTOR WHO
Rick and Morty’s theme tune is classic sci-fi, and to get the familiar, otherworldly synth sound of the genre, the creators looked to both Doctor Who and Farscape for inspiration. When asked about the show’s music in an interview with , Roiland said:
“The theme song is written by the guy who wrote the Wizards of Waverly Place theme song, who is a very good friend of mine. I told him I was a big fan of Farscape and that I wanted to combine Farscape’s theme with Doctor Who’s theme, and that’s basically what our theme song is. It’s this amazing original piece that takes the best aspects of those two themes and mashes them together. Super Sci-Fi.”
The original version of the theme can be heard in Roiland’s debut at Adult Swim with a cartoon called Dog World.
5. RICK’S BURPING WAS CREATED BY A RECORDING ROOM BLOOPER.
Burping is a trademark of Rick’s character, but Roiland told Entertainment Weekly that the inspiration for it was a complete accident:
“In 2006, or something, I was recording the voices for this short The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti. I was having fun doing these really crappy Doc Brown and Marty McFly impressions. During the middle of a line a burp came out naturally. It was just so funny and gross. I was like, ‘Well, let’s see if I can do that again for a couple more lines.’ Then, with Rick and Morty, Dan [Harmon, the show’s co-creator] was like, ‘Hey, Adult Swim wants to do a show, do you have any ideas?’ I said, ‘Well, what about these two voices?’ Right out of the gate, the burping was part of it.”
Though Rick accents many a conversation with a characteristic burp, Roiland actually has a hard time getting so gassy. He basically tells the audio engineer to keep the recording going as he drinks “a low-calorie beer and a bottle of water” to get the effect right.
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