Rick And Morty 10 Facts You Never Knew About The Making Of The Show

Rick And Morty: 10 Facts You Never Knew About The Making Of The Show

Rick and Morty has achieved a lot of success over its run and there is a lot for the creators to be proud of. Here are 10 things fans may not know.

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Rick and Morty is one of those shows that seems like it would be a lot of fun to be a part of. From its hilarious improvisation to its intense action sequences, there’s no doubt that despite its challenges, the creative team of Rick and Morty have a lot to be proud of when it comes to this show.

A lot of things had to fall into place in order for the show to achieve the success that it has, and after the release of season 4, it’s clear that the creative aspects of the show are still going strong. Here are 10 facts that audiences may not know about the making of Rick and Morty.

10 The Butter Robot Was Voiced By An App

The voice of the small, seemingly sentient robot that Rick built to pass butter at the table is actually from a text-to-voice app that Justin Roiland had to use earlier in his career. Roiland’s voice was so shot after voicing Lemongrab from Adventure Time that he had to rely on the app in order to speak for a period of time.

Roiland later realized it would be the perfect voice for Butter Robot, and lo and behold that’s what they decided to use to voice this small character.

9 Morty Was Almost Voiced By Someone Else

When Harmon and Roiland were working to get Rick and Morty on Adult Swim, they were told by creative director Mike Lazzo that while he liked Rick’s character he wasn’t as big a fan of Morty, and they felt Morty should be recast. This was disappointing for Roiland who loved riffing back and forth between the two characters.

However, after submitting their top three auditionees, Lazzo told them it wasn’t Morty’s voice that he disliked, it was more so the fact that he was a punching bag for Rick. Thus, Justin went back to voicing Morty after he and Harmon wrote in some instances of Morty standing up to Rick. (Source: Ryan George)

8 Rick And Morty’s Personalities

As previously stated, there were some challenges early on in writing the characters of Rick and Morty and giving their dynamic relationship balance. Dan Harmon has likened Rick and Morty’s personalities to being representative of bipolar disorder, with Rick representing the manic episodes and Morty representing the depressive episodes.

This description highlights the fact that while Rick and Morty’s relationship is dysfunctional in many ways, they also need each other and work together better than anyone else in their world.

7 Wait Times Between Seasons

The reasons for the long wait times between each season is because unlike most animated shows that have seasons created simultaneously and separated by a few months, Rick and Morty’s seasons are announced after they are finished and have a two-year gap between each season.

This is part of why waiting for a new season to come out feels like an eternity. While it’s not typically how things are done, this system has worked well for the creators and two years is still worth the wait for most fans. (Source IMDb)

6 Going Off Script

It’s clear from episodes like “Interdimensional Cable” that improvisation is a creative tool sometimes used during the making of Rick and Morty, but audiences might be surprised at just how often it’s utilized.

It’s pretty obvious just by the sheer ridiculousness of some of the commercials in “Interdimensional Cable” in which Roiland’s voice can be heard laughing through the lines that he was making it up as he went. However, this episode isn’t the only instance where improv was used. Phrases like “wubba lubba dub-dub” and even the cold open sequence of the pilot episode were also done off the cuff.

5 No Time Traveling (With Few Exceptions)

The show creators have said that they don’t want to utilize time travel as a plot device, unlike in Back to the Future, the film that inspired the creation of the characters. There are instances where this rule is broken, however, like in “A Rickle In Time” and “Rattlestar Ricklactica”. A box in Rick’s garage labeled “time travel stuff” indicates that Rick could time travel more often if he wants to, and Morty challenges this further in “The Vat of Acid Episode.”

Things take a dark turn in this episode when Rick reveals that rather than pausing time, Morty has been replacing other killed off Mortys in on other timelines, and all of the bad stuff he had been doing was actually happening. So this episode actually stays true to the “no time-traveling” rule.

4 Many Inspirations

Besides the obvious draws from Back to the Future, many episodes and concepts from Rick and Morty are shaped by other films and television beloved by the creators and writers. For example, the idea from “Total Rickall,” an episode where characters appear out of nowhere but are accepted as longtime members of the family comes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Buffy’s sister Dawn randomly appears into the show.

Another example is the giant floating heads in “Get Schwifty,” which draws inspiration from a 1974 Sean Connery film, Zardoz. Even small details in the character design, like the characters’ lips drooping when they’re confused, is a homage to Ren & Stimpy. These are just a few of the dozens of references and tributes to various visual media spanning from the ’60s through to recent times.

3 Disgusting Doodles

Looking again at the character design, there are plenty of unique human and non-human characters on Rick and Morty, with some more pleasing to the eye than others. The various alien creatures on the show can be especially gross-looking.

A few of the aliens from Rick and Morty actually came from random scribbles drawn by Justin Roiland, and it doesn’t take a vivid imagination to see that some of these offbeat characters are styled after genitalia, sperm and feces.

2 Diverse Soundtrack

Music is a big part of Rick and Morty, and it’s filled with hilarious and memorable original songs like “Get Schwifty,” “The Rick Dance,” and “Let Me Out.” The show also features songs from other various artists, including “For The Damaged Coda” by Blonde Redhead, “Look On Down From The Bridge” by Mazzy Star, and the now-iconic “Do You Feel It?” by Chaos Chaos, to name a few.

There are also instances where the Rick and Morty creators will collaborate with artists on songs, like for “Goodbye Moonmen” with Jermaine Clement, and “Terryfold,” which features both Justin Roiland and Chaos Chaos.

1 World Ender

There are a variety of high-intensity and pulse-pounding sequences throughout Rick and Morty. Even in the early days of the show, the creators always tried to include sci-fi action that would keep audiences at the edge of their seats.

Back during the early stages of writing, Justin Roiland originally wanted each episode of Rick and Morty to include them destroying the Earth. While this does still happen in some episodes like “Rick Potion #9,” if the destruction of Earth happened every episode, it would undercut some of the thrills and get old after awhile.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/rick-and-morty-facts-about-making-of-show/

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