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

One Man Bland said:

I find it kind of funny how in some of the behind the scenes material for season 3 that Roiland's not only barely in these, but he seems really uninterested in any of the "plot" related stuff. And how despite Roiland being the creator of the show and the one who voices Rick, while Harmon and his buddies are waxing about how subversive the finale was all Roiland has to say about it was that he liked the ending with Mr. Poopybutthole - a joke character.

I honestly won't be surprised if Roiland gets burnt out by season 4.
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"What the fuck, Dan, I just wanted to get paid money to draw stupid shit, why're you dragging this politics shit into it?"
 
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If there isn't a season 4, I highly doubt it will be because Adult Swim doesn't want it. Season 3 has had the highest ratings to date, and AS clearly recognized it as being a cash cow by season 2 to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if by season 3 they'd given Roiland and Harmon a quota to have at least one, for lack of a better phrase, "meme-able" Rick catchphrase per episode that they could slap onto a t-shirt and spam on all their social media accounts.

However, between the Szechuan sauce drama giving the fanbase a reputation of being full of exceptional edgelords and the creators behind it like Harmon making asses of themselves on Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if the more casual fans lose interest and season 4 isn't nearly as anticipated... if it ever manages to get out of production hell that is.
 
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One Man Bland said:
If there isn't a season 4, I highly doubt it will be because Adult Swim doesn't want it. Season 3 has had the highest ratings to date, and AS clearly recognized it as being a cash cow by season 2 to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if by season 3 they'd given Roiland and Harmon a quota to have at least one, for lack of a better phrase, "meme-able" Rick catchphrase per episode that they could slap onto a t-shirt and spam on all their social media accounts.
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Lolno, they have a long running history of self sabotage out of spite. Williams Street is made of morons. Years ago, they scrubbed their lineup of all their anime and crammed it with all their shitty reappropriated Hanna/Barbera cartoons and their ratings plummet. They were eventually forced to go back on this decision.
 
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One Man Bland said:
If there isn't a season 4, I highly doubt it will be because Adult Swim doesn't want it. Season 3 has had the highest ratings to date, and AS clearly recognized it as being a cash cow by season 2 to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if by season 3 they'd given Roiland and Harmon a quota to have at least one, for lack of a better phrase, "meme-able" Rick catchphrase per episode that they could slap onto a t-shirt and spam on all their social media accounts.

However, between the Szechuan sauce drama giving the fanbase a reputation of being full of exceptional edgelords and the creators behind it like Harmon making asses of themselves on Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if the more casual fans lose interest and season 4 isn't nearly as anticipated... if it ever manages to get out of production hell that is.
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This is what Wikipedia had to say about Community, season 4:
Harmon served as the series' showrunner for its first three seasons, but was fired prior to the fourth and replaced by writers David Guarascio and Moses Port.

Luckily, he’s a self-sabotaging faggot, so I guess we will see a rerun of the Community crash-and-burn.
 
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One Man Bland said:

I find it kind of funny how in some of the behind the scenes material for season 3 that Roiland's not only barely in these, but he seems really uninterested in any of the "plot" related stuff. And how despite Roiland being the creator of the show and the one who voices Rick, while Harmon and his buddies are waxing about how subversive the finale was all Roiland has to say about it was that he liked the ending with Mr. Poopybutthole - a joke character.

I honestly won't be surprised if Roiland gets burnt out by season 4.
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I have never seen so many guys verbally jacking off to the idea of "Oh, god, what a blessing it would be to be an idiot like Jerry instead of cursed with vast intellect like we Ricks are. Only idiots can truly be happy."

Roiland may have his issues, but he's by far the least pretentious out of everyone involved. It's kind of refreshing to have someone just be like "Hey, I like poop jokes because shitting is hilarious" instead of waxing poetic about the nature of humor as a whole.
 
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I have never seen so many guys verbally jacking off to the idea of "Oh, god, what a blessing it would be to be an idiot like Jerry instead of cursed with vast intellect like we Ricks are. Only idiots can truly be happy."
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Believe me, that isn't even the worst example of this sort of mental masturbation. If you really want to see a bunch of doughy middle age men get high off their own farts, check out the one for the ABCs of Beth:


It's always these same 3 guys too, even when they aren't credited for writing the episode.
 
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I think there will absolutely be a 4th season and I'm sure AS is already begging for it. AS doesn't have shit for original programming right now and they hit the jackpot with R&M. I can see the 4th season losing steam and/or being the last season if they take for-fucking-ever to release it again. If it seriously takes them years, way less people are going to give a shit.

Those behind the scenes videos aren't terrible except for Harmon's parts. "His stupidity allows for concepts like romance" jesus fucking christ dude get your head out of your own ass for one second, it'd probably make you a lot happier.
 
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Smiling Honeybadger said:
Why the fuck is there a documentary about this guy that is well over an hour long?! The autistic hype around Rick & Morty aside, he does not strike me ad that much of a big shot? Okay, admittedly, I never heard of him and maybe he is a huge star in good old America?

Or is it simply autistic navel gazing again?
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Squealer the Animalist said:
I'm not sure how the specific circumstances arose for Harmon to receive his own documentary.
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He funded the whole thing himself. He and his business partner are producers and his studio owns it. He talks about it on his podcast. They chose the director because he and hs gf/ now ex-wife watched one of his other crap docs on Netflix. It’s a big vanity piece because he was bummed about his show failing, basically a knock-off of Conan O’Brian’s tour/ doc.
 
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One Man Bland said:
Believe me, that isn't even the worst example of this sort of mental masturbation. If you really want to see a bunch of doughy middle age men get high off their own farts, check out the one for the ABCs of Beth:


It's always these same 3 guys too, even when they aren't credited for writing the episode.
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I actually really enjoyed Season 3 of Rick and Morty, albeit I'm very, very new to the series as a whole. I caught the tail-end of Season 2 while some friends were rewatching the series and the first episode of Season 3 convinced me to check it out. It's fun, but not the huge masturbatory intellectual show that people prod it up to me.

What I find baffling about Season 3 is how the show seems almost proud of itself for focusing on the "development" of the main characters when they don't really "develop" moreso they become desensitized by their surroundings and flaws.

From my perspective, I got the impression that Rick is unintentionally bringing out the best in his family by forcing them to come to terms with their worst aspects, a la the Toxic episode. He's not doing it on purpose because he could care less (mostly) but everyone in the cast seems to learn to shrug off their hang ups and decide to roll with their lives in spite of how fucked up they all actually are. The finale, to me, seemed like it would work better if Rick admitted that he only had himself to blame for bringing Jerry into the picture but they shot themselves in the foot with the whole gimmick of the episode. Kind of like an anti-character development where instead of taking their toxic behaviors out on the world like Rick does or striving to improve their flaws, the family just owns up to it and decide to accept it.

However, watching these post-episode think-pieces by the creators of the show makes me understand where these pseudo-intellectual blow-hards come from. There isn't any great subversion or philosophies explored in Season 3 but they treat it like there's this underlying sophistication to the stories they're telling. Except there isn't. Evil Morty isn't clever, it's just interesting within the context of the show. Same with the Pickle Rick episode, or the ABC's of Beth episode. Taken by themselves they work decent enough as an entertaining piece of media, but the ideas and scenarios presented aren't pushing boundaries yet specifically Harmon seems infatuated with this idea that they're breaking new ground.

The only thing that makes Season 3 any different from any other shows are the characters of Rick and Morty. What they do, who they interact with, the "lessons" learned have all been explored by other shows and forms of media, and way better as well. Fuck, the science of the show is magic-y as fuck, but fans and the creators seem to be under the impression that they cracked some sort of unsolvable math equation.

Reading through this thread really does paint the impression of Dan Harmon projecting his pseudo-intellectualism onto a show that features a character constantly pissing herself as one of it's running gags.

The show's most popular secondary character is named Mr. Poopy Butthole.

Where do the creators get off thinking they created the cure for cancer?
 
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