The two showrunners allowed themselves to be cajoled into a bit of improvisation recently for Yahoo TV. It showed the two improvising commercials for Old Mayonnaise Emporium and Big Bad Bill’s House of Barking Dogs and Chainsaws. With his creative deft, Roiland immediately busts out new characters with his typical rambling bonhomie. Harmon mostly laughs on the video.
Fans describe the video as basically “Interdimensional Cable 2.1” and it also revealed something about the working relationship between Roiland and Harmon.
Roiland is the kind who dives into jokes. He is a gushing front of creativity who does not really care whether or not anything makes much sense. Harmon’s job is boxing out the best Roiland moments and giving them shape and structure.
This symbiotic relationship between the two showrunners has made “Rick and Morty” feel so freewheeling while adhering to the kind of dense plotting Harmon played on Community is the show’s greatest strength.
It was sometime in February when “Rick and Morty” voice actors stepped into the booth to start recording Season 3 premiere episode.
It was actually Mike McMahan, writer for “Rick and Morty” and the creator of the popular Twitter account TNG Season 8, who confirmed that recording for episode 301 of the TV series has already begun when he posted on Twitter on February 11 that the voice actors were already burning the midnight oil for the scheduled recording the following day.
McMahan is credited for writing the script of the first episode of “Rick and Morty” which carried a working title of episode 301.