Meeseeks and Destroy - Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Bryan Newton, Ryan Ridley There’s no rap from Morty in the actual episode, but you can hear what it would have sounded like in the commentary.This “worrisome” episode is inspired by the 1965 war thriller 36 Hours starring James Garner, in which his character wakes up and realizes he’s in a staged situation in order to extract military secrets from him.Night Shaym-aliens! - Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Tom Kauffman, and Ryan Ridley.

coli” chasing the gang through the hobo Santa weren’t scientifically accurate they looked more like bacteriophages, if you were wondering. Someone more knowledgeable about microorganisms and immunology than any of the writers pointed out that the “E.Pancho’s shoulder tattoo of the hand holding the knife is the same tattoo that Ninja from Die Antwoord has on his chest.Jerry’s Dad is Dana Carvey and Echo Kellum voices Jacob. Originally, Jacob’s character had a drug aspect to it, involving acid.The amusement park idea came way later in the process. Harmon says the “anti-device human holiday” story didn’t really work in this episode.This began as a Thanksgiving episode about zombies inside of a human body.Pancakes Rob Paulsen voices Snowball, of course and Maurice LaMarche played the scary class teacher.Īnatomy Park - Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Eric Acosta, Wade Randolph Lots of these commentaries are out of order and completely chaotic, which fits. There’s a lot of drunk rapping in this particular commentary.

Snuffles/Snowball is designed after Roiland’s pup Jerry, right down to the blue collar.Lawnmower Dog - Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Ryan Ridley The family arguing in the garage was the first thing ever animated for the series, all done in-house.If you were put off by Rick burping all the time and the heavy repetition of each other’s names, you’re in good company Donald Glover and even Harmon himself felt the same way, and Roiland admitted that there was too much of it in the pilot.When Rick pulls the two halves of the mega seed apart, you can see two seeds in there, which was an animation mistake.Harmon talks about the story circle and how Rick and Morty is two acts, meaning “the act break comes after the meeting with the goddess instead of the atonement with the father.”.And when he appears opposite Rick, the more chaotic and demanding side, the two of them form a walking bipolar disorder. It was important to Harmon to establish Morty as being a bit depressed and having a learning disability in order to make him more relatable.The original cold open was a weird version of Rick and Morty in their garage summoning a dinosaur, but Harmon and Roiland sent Adult Swim a few different shorts featuring a more assertive and less “punching bag” version of Morty.Drafted in 6 hours between Sesaon 3 and non-Season 4 of Community in Harmon’s office.Pilot - Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, and Ryan Elder Jokes closes things out, so get up on outta here!.If you want to see Roiland and Ridley dance around in a puddle of “piss” in the middle of their office though, this is the featurette for you! (Kudos to whoever edited all this nonsense together.) The behind-the-scenes featurette devolves into anarchy, which you might expect.In fact, Dan Harmon offers commentary on just how badly he fails. There’s a “Fact or Fiction” section which writer Ryan Ridley fails miserably.We also get a tour of all three bathrooms at Starburns Industries.Staff writer Tom Kauffman and writer/producer Ryan Ridley talk about the writers’ room, which includes an anecdote about Roiland watching people on the street below with binoculars.

Vatche interviews crew members like supervising director Pete Michels, color supervisor Jason Boesch, director Bryan Newton, storyboard artist Dan O’Connor, director Stephen Sandoval, art director James McDermott, editor Lee Harting, background design lead Andrew DeLange, and Pup Pup the dog.

Dan Harmon: “From a distance, it would sometimes look like a bunch of guys jus fuckin’ around.” Their daily schedule is basically a few hours of screwing around until Roiland says something funny that starts the storytelling spiraling.

This gives us a peek into the “unstructured” storywriting process.

It focuses on Season 1 (and can probably be found on the Season 1 DVD/Blu-ray as well) and reveals actual recording sessions and story meetings.

Host Vatche Panos, co-creator Dan Harmon, and co-creator Justin Roiland awkwardly walk viewers through this featurette that goes behind the scenes of the making of the show.

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