Rick and Morty may be a show about profound ideas like sentient pickles and reproducing
with love robots, but creating an episode is far from an easy task.
There were 18 months between seasons two and three, and the wait for Season 4 looks like
more of the same.
In all of the infinite multiverses, why are we stuck in the one where new Rick and Morty
takes so long to produce?
Here's why you shouldn't hold your breath for Season 4 any time soon.
What did you do while you were waiting?
Hopefully you didn't just f--- around and waste your life!"
No one's started it yet
One of the show's key writers, Ryan Ridley, revealed a surprising lack of progress on
the continued adventures of Rick and Morty after season three.
In an interview with the podcast The Detroit Cast, Ridley expressed his frustration.
"As far as I know, no one's working on the show.
And I'm certainly not.
Uh, so I don't know what's going on.
I haven't heard anything."
"Oh boy."
"Yeah, they really take their time."
Ridley highlighted that, if the timeline between a script's completion and the airing of the
show reflects the previous production schedule, a cycle of eight months, new Rick and Morty
episodes won't air until late 2019.
And as of this video, Adult Swim hasn't even confirmed that they want a fourth season,
although it seems very unlikely it won't happen….
eventually.
"On behalf of the audience here, get your s--- together.
It's a TV show.
Get in the goddam room and do the work."
Perfectionism
Rick and Morty has avoided a Sophomore Slump, but the show's ever-growing popularity has
increased the pressure on co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland.
As the pair faced constant queries on the status of the upcoming third season, they
spoke openly about the weight of expectation they were both feeling, telling the panel
at 2017's San Diego Comic Con,
"Truly that's why I think we're a little late.
Is that we care so much and we panic and we freak out that it's not good enough."
Later adding,
"We're afraid of letting you down.
There's a lot of you — you're kind of scary."
The fear of letting people down is aggravated by the pair's extremely high standards.
Harmon took to Twitter to explain,
"The reason S3 took long is because it took long to write, because it was S3 of a show
that we were scared to make worse than S2 or S1."
Animation takes time
In addition to writing unusually complicated storylines, Rick and Morty takes a long time
to animate.
Animators use Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Harmony software to animate the show, a much
longer process than many cartoons use, which Roiland explained to Spreaker podcast:
"It's one of the downfalls of doing the show ina program like Harmony and doing builds
as opposed to traditional 2D animation."
Harmon and Roiland's perfectionism extends to this animation, too.
Making their task harder is the fact that the show is often visually dense, filled with
dozens of bizarre aliens and weird environments, all of which have their own animation problems
to solve.
Krombopulos Michael's weird dangles aren't going to animate themselves.
The toxic fans
It's unfair to lump all Rick and Morty fans together, but some fans' idea of dedication
to the show has reached intense levels.
"Ohh wee, you think Rick's gonna get out of jail?
Ohh wee, yyy-you think your family's gonna rescue him?
Hahaha!
Ohh wee.
Ohh wee!"
This toxic fandom has resulted in increased pressure on Harmon's entire creative team,
particularly the show's female writers, who were harassed online and had their personal
details shared, which led to Harmon denouncing this segment of fans.
He told Entertainment Weekly,
"These knobs want to protect the content they think they own, and somehow combine that with
their need to be proud of something they have, which is often only their race or gender."
"Any epiphanies about gender politics were a projection of your feminine insecurity.
But hey why don't you have a big spaceship?
Go ride around and have a jolly, old time."
But wait, it gets dumber.
In Season 3's premiere, Rick drives to McDonald's in search of Szechuan sauce, a limited-release
dipping sauce that really existed in 1998.
"Welcome to Mcdonalds, can i take your order?"
"Yeah I'd like to get a 10 piece McNugget.
And a bunch of the szechuan sauce, like as much as you're allowed to give me."
This seemingly innocuous sequence rapidly spawned a pop culture phenomenon.
The following day an online petition was launched to bring the sauce back.
Momentum grew; jugs of the sauce saved from 1998 were selling for thousands of dollars
on eBay.
Then things got out of hand in October 2017, after McDonald's agreed to release limited
supplies for one day only.
Fans waited in line for hours, but unsurprisingly, supplies quickly ran out, causing a nationwide
meltdown, resulting in the harassment of McDonald's employees and generally embarrassing behavior
by Rick and Morty fans.
(idiotic mobs getting rowdy over a condiment)
"It's chaos at a McDonalds over, of all things, szechuan sauce."
From small plot point to full-on pop-culture meltdown, Roiland and Harmon were both aware
of the ripple effect of their work, which isn't exactly positive for the creative process.
Even TMZ caught up with Roiland over the debacle, and he wasn't thrilled.
"I don't know.
I was bummed out really for the workers.
I was like, uh, well the whole thing was bad on every side."
Surprise?
No script.
No confirmation.
No Szechuan sauce.
It feels like the wait might just be forever.
But let's not despair too soon.
Although it's reasonable to prepare for a long wait, there could be more from Rick and
Morty before the estimated late-2019 release date.
The show loves to keep fans guessing, like when the third season made an unexpected launch
on April Fool's day in 2017, without so much as a Tweet to prepare people.
So could the same thing happen again?
The more conspiratorial fans think that the absence of information is just a marketing
tool to ease the pressure on Harmon and Roiland.
Knowing how frenzied speculation became last year, what better way to avoid it than to
make everyone think production hasn't even started?
They've said so
In the post-credits sequence following Season 2's finale, we were informed that audiences
would be in for a long wait before Rick and Morty returned.
"Tune in to Rick and Morty season three, in like a year and a half, or longer."
Since that actually happened, it's safe to say that the word of Mr. Poopybutthole can
be trusted.
He returned for a post-credits scene after Season 3's finale as well.
In a typically self-aware nod at how his previous promise fueled online speculation, this time
he didn't specify a timeframe.
"See ya for season four in like… a really long time!
I might even have a big, white Santa Claus beard!"
As recently as January 2018, Adult Swim told Variety that there was "no timing to share
on premiere or status of production."
In March, Harmon confirmed the same on Twitter.
There's no chance Adult Swim won't renew the series, though, since season 3 smashed the
network's ratings records.
So, when?
"I dunno, when I feel like it?"
"Damn girl, you needa chill out."
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