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We just dumped a few dozen Rick and Morty facts on your doorstep, and we kindly ask that you not be a “Jerry” about the whole situation. Sure, they might have less-than-ideal personality traits, and will probably be a bad influence on your kid(s), but they can teach you a thing or two about a show that we all love so very much.

And hey, they might even be your gateway into season after season of nonsensical fun!

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MV A Rick and Morty plotline was written just to piss off the show's alt=right fans. In Rick and Morty Season 4, Episode 1, Rick drops into a dystopia

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Fans found out why Season 3 of Rick & Morty was delayed.

CRACKED JUSTIN ROILAND & DAN HARMON About Rick & Morty Season 3 delays, Harmon said, We have fights all the time and then we have fights about why we're having fights. That's why it's taking longer! All this fighting! — Inverse / Hollywood Reporter / NY Times

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'Rick and Morty'

Rick and Morty's pilot episode was written in six hours. When the pitch was accepted by Adult Swim, Justin Roiland convinced Dan Harmon to just crank out a draft in Harmon's office rather than do it over three months. CRACKED.COM — Los Angeles Times

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Creative Freedom

adult swim Creative freedom comes first Showrunners like Rick and Morty's Dan Harmon have raved about the level of creative freedom they are allowed, which is what many feel makes the programming so unique. CRACKED.COM — Cartoon Network
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Justin Roiland

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS JUSTIN ROILAND GOT DRUNK FOR AN EPISODE. Rick MoRtY M Season three episode Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender' features Rick getting blackout drunk. At the suggestion of Dan Harmon, Roiland actually got drunk while recording lines for the episode. — Digital Spy

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Dan Harmon

HOT Morty nonious Claptl'ap Rick and Easter Eggs The ending vanity card refers to Dan Harmon's love life. The card at the end of the episodes featured clay versions of Harmon and his then-wife Erin McGathy until their divorce. It would then feature Harmon alone until uniting with his now-fiancée Cody Heller. CRACKED.COM — Source: Heavy

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Rick and Morty really, really rubbed it in for Jerry in Season 3. 55 Not only does the wind whisper loser when he's around, but spineless, insecure Jerry wears a robe with a Chinese symbol that means weak. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS SQUANCHY ALMOST HAD A STANDALONE EPISODE. Rick w Morty The creators revealed that the original idea for season two's episode The Wedding Squanchers was to set the story on Squanchy's home planet and focus it on exploring the character. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS JUSTIN ROILAND ALMOST DIDN'T VOICE BOTH RICK AND MORTY. Rick w Monty Adult Swim didn't think Morty's character was working with Roiland, so an audition process was started to get a new voice actor. Eventually, the team realized Morty's character was the problem and not the voice. After rewriting the part, Adult Swim gave Roiland a green light to voice Morty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rick and Morty

BEHIND-THE-SCENESPACTS PICKLE RICK WAS INSPIRED BY AN EPISODE OF BREAKING BAD. Rick M According to Dan Harmon, season three's Pickle Rick episode was influenced by Breaking Bad's season two episode 4 Days Out. In the episode, Walt and Jesse get stuck in the desert and have to use their smarts to escape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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McDonald's egged on sci-fi nerds sze CHUA sauce MU DEAL not the CRACKED.COM After the notorious Rick & Morty Szechuan sauce episode, McDonald's very publicly over-promised a limited time return of their signature sugar goop. Fans turned out in droves, and were extremely miffed when they quickly ran out. Dan Harmon says the show had nothing to do with the promotion -- Ronald brought this on himself. — Source

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon voiced Dr. Wong in the classic Rick And Morty episode Pickle Rick. CRACKED COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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Sarah Chalke

Sarah Chalke is Beth Smith Rick ANd Morty Sarah Chalke entered our lives first on Roseanne, and then as Elliot on Scrubs. Nowadays she plays Beth Smith, a dedicated (and occasionally homicidal) veterinary horse surgeon on Rick and Morty. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Faded Celebrities With Secret Lives In Cartoons

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Episode Titles

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs Most episode titles reference pop culture. The vast majority of episodes are portmanteaus referring to Rick and/or Morty, mixed in with a title from popular films, songs, books, and TV shows. Some examples include A Rickle in Time, Ricksy Business, and Mortyplycity. CRACKED.COM — Source: Reddit

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Snuffles

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs Lawnmower Dog snuffles/snowball references Justin Roiland's failed pitch. The dog's design and the concept of the episode was taken from a Justin Roiland pitch for an animated show called Dog World. CRACKED.COM — Source: WatchMojo.com/YouTube

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Plane Crash

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs The vat of Acid Episode They reference a real-life plane crash. Morty gets in a plane crash in the mountains on Flight 571 - a real 1972 plane crash in the Andes, with few survivors and cases of cannibalism (depicted in the 1993 movie Alive). CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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Ice Cream

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs CANDY CAINES BOLDEN BERRY ROBBIE ROAD 1 San BREMNERMINT RHEES N PIECES per CU BUTTER SCOTT The vat of Acid Episode several background designers became ice cream flavors. The flavors listed in the ice cream parlor are named after members of the background design team, like Chris Bolden and Michelle Rhees. CRACKED.COM — Source: GameSpot

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Smith Home

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs The damage to the house never gets fully fixed. If you pay attention to the Smith home, you can still see cracks in the driveway, the exterior, and other damage caused by Rick and Morty's misadventures throughout the series. CRACKED.COM — Source: WatchMojo.com/YouTube

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Doofus Rick

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs TITANIC Jerry keeps a Doofus Rick photo in his garage. Doofus Rick is the only Rick who was ever genuinely nice to Jerry. He's not a bad guy for someone who eats poop. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

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Community

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs Auto Erotic Assimilation Rick recreates community. Dan Harmon pokes fun at his Community experience when Rick asks the hive-mind Unity to make the performers of a TV show happy cry, make fun of the blonde one, cancel the show, then uncancel it - just like the real-life Community. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Clip on YouTube, CBR

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Stan and Rick

CRACKED.COM ? CROSSOVER EASTER EGGS GRAVITY FALLS AND RICK AND MORTY Grunkle Stan's things are sucked into a portal - and then fall out of another portal in front of several Ricks. — Source: Decider, YouTube

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Rick and Morty

Shows about mental illness XX RICK AND MORTY ALCOHOLISM The origin of Pickle Rick is a study on a narcissistic, depressed alcoholic who cries on a toilet while laughing at himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: Willow Springs Recovery

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Rick and Morty

Stephen Colbert Rick and Morty The prolific talk show host and The Daily Show alum appeared in the episode The Ricks Must Be Crazy as the most intelligent member of the species whose sole purpose is to power Rick's spaceship. Fellow Daily Show alum and talk show host John Oliver makes an appearance in the episode Anatomy Park. CRACKED.COM — Source

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RICK & MORTY

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE RICK & MORTY THEME SONG WASN'T ACTUALLY WRITTEN FOR RICK & MORTY. It was for Dog World, a proposed Justin Roiland show (that never got made) about a world where dogs kind of evolved from humans. — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE CREATORS DON'T KNOW WHICH BETH IS A CLONE. Rick Mony goal Dan Harmon says that Rick saying he's a terrible father for not knowing which Beth is the real one is a metaphor for the writing team being bad writers because they themselves still haven't decided which one is a clone. CRACKED.COM — CinemaBlend

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Michael Waldron

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MICHAEL WALDRON TURNED DOWN RICK AND MORTY FOR LOKI. LOKY OMATE EVEN Dis Waldron was offered to take over as showrunner for Rick and Morty after being a writer on the show for a couple of years. He decided to turn the job down so he could be the head writer for Loki. CRACKED.COM — Bleeding Cool

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES SFACTS THE SHOW STARTED AS AN R-RATED. PARODY. Rick Mory A Rick and Morty's first versions appeared all the way back in 2006, in Justin Roiland's The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti- a raunchy parody of Back to the Future that was meant to poke fun of — VICE

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESp CFACTS ALL OF RICK'S BURPS ARE REAL. Rick MaR RAN Justin Roiland can't burp on command so he has to sit in a recording booth with a drink and blow air into his stomach to produce the burps. He calls the process disgusting and painful - -which is why Rick — VICE

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESP FACTS MORTY'S POOPY UNDERWEAR IS BASED ON A REAL STORY. Rick MoRS And In season one episode Something Ricked This Way Comes, Jerry tells a story about Morty throwing his soiled underwear out of a window - this is something that Dan Hamon actually did once as a kid. — Film School Rejects

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MR. MEESEEKS WAS CREATED OUT OF BOREDOM. Rick MoRtS A The concept got its start after Justin Roiland randomly started yelling I'm mister Meeseeks during a writing session for a completely different story - one that he hated for being too complex and boring. — Reddit

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESP SFACTS KING JELLYBEAN ORIGINATED ON A DIFFERENT SHOW. Rics Mers An The king/molester started off as Crumply Crumplestien on Justin Roiland's animated short series, Unbelievable Tales. If his voice seems familiar, that's because the character is voiced by Tom Kenny (the voice of Spongebob Squarepants). — FANDOM

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS YOU CAN PLAY JERRY'S BALLOON GAME. 21 Rick Ad MORS The creators took the balloon popping game Jerry plays on his tablet in season one episode Something Ricked This Way Comes and developed IT into a real mobile game, Rick And Morty: Jerry's Game. — Screen Rant

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Rick and Morty

Surprising Sources Of Inspiration For Your Fav Characters - Birdperson in Rick and Morty is inspired by Buck Rogers's sidekick. — Source: Film School Rejects, Fandom.com

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Rick and Morty

RICK AND MORTY ONCE KILLED THE SIMPSONS. In a crossover promo for Rick and Morty, Morty accidentally crashes Rick's spaceship into the Simpsons family

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In the very first scene of Rick and Morty, Morty has to disarm a neutrino bomb, built by a drunk Rick, to save humanity. SEASON EPISODE 1 SEASON 3, EP

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