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Who doesn’t like Ricky and Morty? It doesn’t seem to matter whether you first saw this animated show when it was brand new back in 2013, or you only just found out about it during its most recent run in 2019 – everybody who’s seen the show falls in love with it. Thanks to circulation around the world via Netflix, the cartoon is now just as popular in Europe as it is in the United States of America, and its global audience continues to grow. It may not be as mainstream as South Park or Family Guy, but it has a huge base of devoted fans.
Even those fans might be surprised by some of the information that we’re about to give out today, though. No matter what your favorite television show, movie, or band is, there’s always one or two things that you don’t know about it. Information that hides in the shadows. Little facts that have somehow managed to stay hidden from view! We’ve been giving Rick and Morty our full attention, and we’ve discovered some little known facts about it that we think will blow your mind whether you’re a Rick and Morty superfan or not. Without further ado, here are five Rick and Morty facts that most fans will have no idea about!
Its Creators Hate Your Favorite Episode
We’ll make no pretense of being psychic, but we bet we can guess what your favorite Rick and Morty episode of all time is. It’s ‘A Rickle In Time,’ the episode that kicked off the second season. We know that at least half of you are impressed right now, while the other half are wondering why we didn’t say anything about inter-dimensional cable. We’ll take that! ‘A Rickle In Time’ is, without a shadow of a doubt, an all-time classic episode. It manages to comment on modern society without beating us over the head with its message, it’s funny, and it’s clever. Just don’t expect Dan Harmon or Justin Roiland to join in with your praise of it.
As the first episode of the show’s second run, it was vital that the creators got it absolutely right, or they risked the failure of the show. They managed to get it over the line, but they were never totally happy with the episode’s structure. Roiland once went as far as saying that writing the episode was ‘brutal’ in an interview with Rolling Stone and that he fell out with Harmon about it. It’s probably not one they ever re-watch together.
It’s Become A Casino Attraction
We’re especially confident that we’ll surprise the majority of Rick and Morty fans with this because it’s a very recent development. As of February 2020, there’s an official game at UK Online Slots website based in the Rick and Morty universe, and using a lot of Rick and Morty’s sounds and visuals. It’s been approved by Roiland and Harmon, so this online slots game isn’t just an attempt to cash in on the property – it’s something that the people who make the show have seen and confirmed they’re happy to put their name on. Perhaps that’s because it isn’t just any old online slots game – it’s actually a ‘Megaways’ slot with more than one hundred thousand potential ways to win open to players at all times. Many classic entertainment properties of the past have been turned into online slots. Very few get the complicated ‘Megaways’ treatment – but then Rick and Morty isn’t any old show. We know that online slots probably aren’t of interest to all of our readers, but if they’re among your hobbies, you may want to give it a look.
Its Best Known Catchphrase Was A Fluke
There are a few catchphrases associated with Rick and Morty (‘show me what you got’ being our favorite), but the best-known of all of them is probably the faintly-ludicrous ‘wubalubadubdub,’ which is used by Rick as a sign-off on jokes. That’s despite the fact that in the language of the show’s Bird People, it means ‘I am in great pain, please help me.’ Aside from the line not meaning what Rick actually thinks it means (Rick thinks he’s stolen it from Arsenio Hall), it also wasn’t written as it eventually appeared. Justin Roiland voices Rick, and was coming to the end of a long session in the recording booth when he was required to read a Three Stooges-influenced line at the end of a joke. By his own admission, he completely flubbed the line, and ‘wubalubadubdub’ is what we ended up with. After hearing the line back, the writers decided they’d accidentally created magic and decided to leave it in.
It Owes A Little Something To Doctor Who
Like many American science fiction-themed shows, Rick and Morty owes more than a little to the BBC’s British science-fiction juggernaut Doctor Who. Doctor Who has been on the air since 1963, and so its influence has been felt in generations of science fiction shows since. Roiland is a huge Doctor Who fan and had the British show in mind when he was looking for someone to write him a theme song for Rick and Morty. He sought out Ryan Elder, a personal friend of his, and told him he wanted something that sounded like a cross between the theme from Doctor Who and the theme from Farscape. If you go to YouTube and play the themes back and back, the resemblance is obvious. We’re surprised Roiland admitted this because we think it’s close enough for them to get sued!
The First Episode Was Written In One Sitting
How long do you imagine that it takes a television writer to come up with a quality script for a single episode of television? A few days? A week? Maybe even a month or two if they’re writing multiple drafts? That’s often the case, but apparently not so much when it comes to Rick and Morty. The final script of the very first episode was completed in just six hours. Harmon and Roiland sat on the floor of Roiland’s apartments with their laptops debating how and when to go about writing the newly-commissioned show when Harmon said that if they didn’t write it right then and there they might not get round to it for months – and so they wrote it then and there. What they came up with after those six hours is what ended up on the screen, with no amendments.
How many of these facts did you know before? We hope at least some of them were new to you. Thanks for stopping by and checking them out!