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

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His ex is actually not bad looking. I'm not sure how old she is, but in this picture here, Dan looks more like her dad than her husband.

Way to go, doofus. You managed to score a cute redhead while looking like someone Chris Hansen would ask to have a seat, and then you lost her by being a self-important alcoholic jackass.
 
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MightyBiteySnake said:
Rickturian Mortydate wasn’t even a horrible episode it was just a terrible season finale and wreaks of Harmon being indignant.
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It wasn't supposed to be the finale - they planned S3 to be 14 episodes, and they turned the 10th episode from a standard run-of-the-mill ep into the finale.
Dan Harmon said:
I don’t want to poison the well but the finale is a great episode that we finale-ified when we realized we weren’t going to be able to make 14. It’s Rick in a conflict with the president of the United States. Keith David returns to reprise his role. And that’s the main story of that episode, Rick vs. the United States.
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Dan Harmon, in a rare moment of self-reflection, blames himself - well, his inner perfectionist, at least.
Dan Harmon said:
I don’t think so, but you shouldn’t trust me, because I mostly blame myself for doing 10 instead of 14. I’m still learning how to do the show efficiently while catering to the perfectionist in all of us. I would like to think I’ve learned enough from my mistakes in season 3 that we could definitely do 14 now, but then I have to say, “Yeah but you’re the guy who says we can do 14 who turned out to be wrong so we’re not listening to you now.” The nice healthy way to approach this is I want to prove it with the first 10 of season 4 — prove it to ourselves, to production, to the network — that it’s so easy that we’ll earn additional episodes. Because I never got this far [working on NBC’s] Community. I fell apart in season 3 of Community and got fired in season 4. Now I’m about to do season 4 of Rick and Morty and want to prove that I’ve grown.
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One can only guess where the "creative differences" between Roiland and Harmon sit in this mess.

Sources:
http://heavy.com/entertainment/2017...posed-to-be-14-episodes-not-10-what-happened/
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/26/rick-morty-dan-harmon-interview/
http://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2017/09/27/rick-and-morty-season-3-cut-short
 
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Sexy Times Hitler said:
I really respect Dan's work on Community, but my God is he such a self-destructive man-baby. I genuinely wonder why Adult Swim keeps enabling him unless Roiland's doing all the actual legwork on the show.
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The only things I heard dan did for the show was get roiland's foot in the door at adult swim and a few of those shows in that cable episode. Who know's what he's actually doing now
 
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I actually really liked the finale, but I can agree that it wasn’t exactly the best episode to end the season on. I do like that there wasn’t a huge cliffhanger though, since the next season isn’t coming for, to quote Mr PoopyButthole, “a really long time”.

It sucks to see Harmon...sucks so much, but I think I can still enjoy the stuff he makes. Separate the creator from the creation and all that.
 
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Darwin Watterson said:
View attachment 296689 His ex is actually not bad looking. I'm not sure how old she is, but in this picture here, Dan looks more like her dad than her husband.

Way to go, doofus. You managed to score a cute redhead while looking like someone Chris Hansen would ask to have a seat, and then you lost her by being a self-important alcoholic jackass.
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Supposedly he kept trying to cheat on her with Cody Heller, a writer for some Hulu series
 
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TiggerNits said:
Supposedly he kept trying to cheat on her with Cody Heller, a writer for some Hulu series
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Harmon's not a good looking guy, and he doesn't have a nice personality to offset that. He really can't afford to do that kinda shit. He should've been happy that a reasonably attractive woman decided that she wanted to marry him to begin with.
 
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Why does this show have finales anyway
dunno how it goes in adult swim but here in EU channels buy rights to this show and broadcast it in random order, like simpsons or family guy
that's how the show should be treaten, as a dumb distraction with the word fuck you watch right after lunch
 
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Dan Harmon talks about his Asperger's Syndrome, while also talking about the nature of his self-inserts in Community. Jeff represents the sexy version of Harmon; the one who is assertive and doesn't care about other's opinions, but Abed represents his shy and awkward nature who is frustrated with his isolation.

Harmon initially identified with Jeff more, but eventually began to see himself as Abed (especially after taking an online test), who uses Jeff as a Trojan Horse to convey his opinions under a bold and confident manner. He's afraid of the evolution-based feeling of humiliation that follows social rejection, so he has to conform. He also hints that he drinks alcohol to remove his timidity and possess that confidence he desires.

He concludes that all of us are weirdos who have to keep in line with the social constructions and behaviors of our day, and that normal people just have different masks.


This might explain the nature of many of his twitter meltdowns; the combined resentment felt by "not fitting in" along with the fear-inhibiting nature of alcohol allows him to become a torrent of opinions that show that he is secretly full of himself and his own non-conformist nature behind the timidity that builds up his anger.

It also, once again, explains the characterization of Rick; a nilhistic genius who can do anything he wants who is also an alcoholic.
 
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Somsnosa said:
Why does this show have finales anyway
dunno how it goes in adult swim but here in EU channels buy rights to this show and broadcast it in random order, like simpsons or family guy
that's how the show should be treaten, as a dumb distraction with the word fuck you watch right after lunch
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Shows in the U.S. tend to have “seasons”, typically a 12-24 episode block of a show before taking breaks ranging from half a year to a full year. The last episode of the season is called a “finale” as it’s the last episode for a whole, and will usually end with some kind of hook to make you want to tune in next season.
 
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MightyBiteySnake said:
Rickturian Mortydate wasn’t even a horrible episode it was just a terrible season finale and wreaks of Harmon being indignant.
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I'd have to disagree with your caveat and argue that it was a horrible episode and the worst of the series, even putting aside whether it was a finale or not.

The A plot involving Rick's pissing contest with the President was pointless, dumb and, worst of all, completely unfunny. It also was extremely poor political satire, because it undermined its own message: clearly Harmon was trying to provide some ham-fisted commentary about the powers of the Presidency being overreaching with respect to surveillance, drone strikes, etc., but the problem with that is that the context of some alcoholic, unstable, untrustworthy demigod madman like Rick existing (not to mention all the various alien and interdimensional threats to humanity) actually provides much stronger justification for the state to have those powers than any argument that exists in reality.

The B plot involving Beth and Jerry getting back together just felt lazy, rushed and contrived. Especially when one compares it with the first interdimensional cable and the couples therapy episodes which both did a much, much better and more credible and compelling job of illustrating why the two of them would choose to stay together in spite of times when they felt doubts. It's a path that the show has gone down multiple times before so it was already stale, and the finale also did by far the worst job the show has ever done addressing it.

It was just a horribly written episode all around and would be coming from anyone, but it's especially egregious coming from a pretentious douchebag who likes to provide patronizing, sophomoric lectures about the hero's journey and such.
 
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