Rick and Morty Livestream Announced, Dan Harmon Shuts Down Cancellation Rumors
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The longer fans have had to wait for the highly anticipated third season of Rick and Morty, the more understandably antsy we have all gotten about the reasons behind the delays. The April Fools Day episode was an unbelievably pleasant surprise, but recently, articles have surfaced speculating as to whether the show’s future had been compromised by fights between co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland.
Helping to put those rumors to bed is the announcement of a “LIVE, spontaneous evening of Rick and Morty” with the show’s creators, livestreaming on Adult Swim this Thursday, June 29.
The details of the event are vague and tickets to be in the audience sold out in a matter of minutes. Will it be a Q&A about the content of the season? Will we finally get a season three premiere date? Will Roiland do an in-character improv session? Will they get drunk and contemplate the meaning of life? Your guess is just as good as ours, but as we have been told, “Don’t miss it. Or be late. Trust us.”
The announcement comes just after a recent “hungover thread” on Twitter from Harmon, in which he directly addressed the aforementioned show-threatening rumors.
According to Harmon, the reason the third season took so long is simply that it took the duo a long time to write it. He says they were afraid to make the season any worse than the first or second and, because of this, they chased perfectionism and it took longer than anyone could have anticipated.
He also clears up any fears that he and Roiland were fighting, saying that if that had been the case, they would have been too eager to share the news themselves to keep it a secret before concluding, “JUSTIN IS A PIECE OF SHIT I’M GOING TO FIST FIGHT,” of course.
The Rick and Morty livestream begins on AdultSwim.com at 9 p.m. EDT on Thursday. Read Dan Harmon’s reassuring Twitter rant below.
Justin and I are very regretful about the season taking way too long. I want to explain “what happened” because it’s way less dramatic
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
And Christ knows if you’ve ever seen MY name on the internet I’ve only got myself to blame for an association with intrigue/confusion/drama
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
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.
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
Is going to have a falseness. If I say “we overthought” someone else could say “well, no, we thought the right amount,” it’s like talking
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
But don’t worry about the content, because, the reason overthought slows you down is, you just do way more versions of stuff than needed.
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
That took way too fucking long to write because it just seems like the same stuff that took way less time to write. That’s it. Boring answer
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
And because I’m Dan Harmon, so it’s a smart fucking first guess, it just happens to be hilariously not true even in the slightest.
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
We’d be all too eager to share it with you.
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
So that’s it. I shouldn’t have started a thread when i need to pack for airport, but that’s it. We took too long writing. Totes regrets.
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
It happened. That’s how it works. You do something you don’t know you’re doing and then you’re like oh I did that and then you do otherwise
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
Like I said it breaks my heart to think of some kid reading one of these clickbait pieces after all the energy that kid has put into fandom.
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
A part of. So..it makes sense that when you take something that loved and delay it this long and let the internet simmer, you get this stuff
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017
End of threaddddddd so hungover
— Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 24, 2017