12/02/2013

Community's Dan Harmon Launches Rick and Morty IGN All

Debuting Monday night on Adult Swim (though you can watch the pilot now via YouTube, embedded below), Rick and Morty is a new animated series from Community creator Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, a writer and actor whose many animation voice over roles include Adventure Time, Fish Hooks and Gravity Falls.


Rick and Morty began life as a Back to the Future parody short Roiland did a few years ago, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, presented at Channel 101, the short film festival Harmon co-founded with Rob Schrab. That short got really lewd, really quickly, with “Doc” tricking the less than bright “Mharti” (both voiced by Roiland) into, well, licking his balls. Rick and Morty reimagines the character in a less lurid but still outrageous scenario, as the brilliant scientist Rick brings his grandson Morty on all sorts of fantastical adventures, with little care for the danger he’s putting Morty and others in.


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