Careercow Dan Harmon - Creator of Community, co-creator of Rick and Morty, and barely functional alcoholic

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The VB guys have free range for the most part.
But they fucked Brendon Small and Metalocalypse fans hard. Small basically begged them to let him make a finale and they refused. He eventually did make a disguised one.

Harmon will probably fuck Rick and Morty up like he did Community.
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What was the disguised Metalocalypse finale?
 
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Found the subreddit where Dan Harmon got butthurt and started and internet slapfight with people who said they didn't like season 3 of Community. If you have the time scroll through his threads because he says some real lolworthy shit (along with a few instances of fans white-knighting him that personally got a chuckle out of me, but I digress) including one bit where he compares some of the criticism to Jeffery Dahmer. Some other segments I found noteworthy are here, here, and here. If anyone finds any other choice bits feel free to share them.

Also from his Tumblr a rather rambling apology (archive) for saying "There's something exciting about being held down and watching your family get raped on a beach. It's liberating." regarding season 4 of Community. Supposedly the podcast in question is this one, but I'm not enough of a masochist to sift through and find it.

(On a side note I did also find it somewhat amusing that a lot of the "journalist" gossip sites that reported about what a piece of shit Harmon was for the above rape comments seemed to have gotten amnesia about those articles after Harmon went off on that rant about fans allegedly harassing the female staff members on R&M and went right back to praising him.)
 
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Chan the Wizard said:
The VB guys have free range for the most part.
But they fucked Brendon Small and Metalocalypse fans hard. Small basically begged them to let him make a finale and they refused. He eventually did make a disguised one.

Harmon will probably fuck Rick and Morty up like he did Community.
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Maybe they will make good and pair Brendon up with Roiland.
 
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This article was linked in the rick and morty community thread by pnihwyr it's a look at one of the times Harmon went nuts on a fan for no reason. I found a storify that lays out the entire event, including the shitty idea he was virtue signalling to Todd Barry when he lost his nana.

As an aside, while reading through the Harmontown reddit community's reaction to the tantrum I saw this post -
We've never seen this part of Dan before. It's one thing to write a nasty letter to Sarah Silverman or make a song calling Rob Schrab an asshole. They're his friends and colleagues, they can take it.

But Randomly picking a twitter follower and using all your writing skills to try to hurt them? That's not a fair fight, that's a rich grown white man beating the shit out of a random kid half his age and half his weight who isn't even a fluent speaker of English. That's Harmon acting like a thug.
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Is anyone familiar with the spats with Silverman and Schrab? The Sarah Silverman letter was sent after she fired him and used to be up on his MySpace page, but I haven't been able to find it. I have no clue about the song, but I assume it's sad and pathetic.
 
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I knew Silverman ended up firing Harmon pretty early on into the project because he was being such a massive prick, but this the first I heard about the letter. Seems like Harmon might've scrubbed his Myspace clean, and the only archives of it that exist are in screencaps in bits and pieces, and the only full archive doesn't appear to work because some dumbass on reddit only ever shared it as a google drive link.

As for the Schrab thing, that appears to be referring to this:
But to be fair on the song, while cringe-worthy, Schrab appears to be "in" on it at the very least. But considering Harmon's history of doing everything listed in the song, it does come off as him projecting like no tomorrow. All that's missing is the wife-beating... as far as we know.
 
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Well, it's not the whole thing, but I found another reddit thread that has bits of his Myspace Rant to Sarah Silverman post-firing. Just from the few excerpts it sounds like a damn goldmine:

Dan Harmon said:
Pain is a living thing that wants to spread. When you get hurt by someone, you want to hurt them back. You might even want to hurt others. But can break the cycle if you choose to break it. Feel the pain, feel the urge to spread it, and realize that the person who hurt you, by definition, is overflowing with it. They don't need to be punished because they're already serving a life sentence.
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Dan "It's 5 o'clock Every Hour of Every Day" Harmon said:
Sometimes, in this business, you meet bad people. Reversed people, dishonest people, what the less enlightened would call evil people. They're really just mentally ill people that choose to be ashamed of their illness and strive to make that shame yours instead.

Some people are bona-fide crazy people and they live with a very real shame, a very real fear of being "caught" being crazy, being "pitied" for being crazy, and they will do anything and say anything, and hurt anyone, or suck anyone's dick, to keep that day from coming.

These are people that feel like they have to claw at the world with white knuckles just to keep from flying off into obscurity. Unconsciously, they know there is a reason why nobody will work with them, in spite of their talent and charm, and behind closed doors, they often find themselves curled up and bursting into tears. They claw at their melting bodies and brains and they convulse to try to get their record to stop skipping but nothing works.

So they put on their makeup, take a deep breath and step outside into a world that they believe hates them, and as far as they're concerned, it's time for the rest of us to make it up to them. Time for us to pay their piper. Their pain is going to be yours, by hook or by crook. If you ever find yourself working with someone like that, get out fast and stay quiet.
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Also according to the thread, he supposedly deleted all his Myspace posts around the time Community was green lit, so it sounds like he was trying to delay the inevitable by destroying the evidence of what an asshole he was before an executive found it lol
 
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