It was hilarious, it was brilliant and it gave us one of the greatest TV moments of the year in the form of 'Pickle Rick', but sadly season three of Adult Swim's Rick And Morty was over all too soon for everyone's liking.
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However, as the show's popularity continues to snowball, its creators are getting ready to keep us all satisfied with an extended episode count for season four. Let's just hope it doesn't take another two years to get here.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, co-creator Dan Harmon revealed his plans for the next instalment, the validity of certain fan rumours and much, much more.
When asked if 10 episodes was the sweet spot for maintaining the quality of the show, he said: "I don't think so, but you shouldn't trust me, because I mostly blame myself for doing 10 instead of 14.
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"I'm still learning how to do the show efficiently while catering to the perfectionist in all of us. I would like to think I've learned enough from my mistakes in season 3 that we could definitely do 14 now, but then I have to say, 'Yeah, but you're the guy who says we can do 14 who turned out to be wrong so we're not listening to you now'.
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"The nice, healthy way to approach this is I want to prove it with the first 10 of season 4 - prove it to ourselves, to production, to the network - that it's so easy that we'll earn additional episodes. Because I never got this far [working on NBC's] Community. I fell apart in season 3 of Community and got fired in season 4. Now I'm about to do season 4 of Rick and Morty and want to prove that I've grown."
Harmon also revealed that while the episode count would go up, it might mean a couple of the episodes aren't up to his usual exacting standards.
"We don't believe in the concept of 'this one's allowed to be shitty'," he said.
"With Community, Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, who worked on Scrubs for eight years, said, 'Look, man, you're stressing yourself out a lot ... stop killing yourself, let one of these be a standard house number'.
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"On Rick and Morty we haven't really gotten there. The closest we got was The Purge episode because we hit a brick wall trying to do the finale. Because we couldn't figure out the finale I was allowed to just crap out this Purge Planet idea because it was a way to solve the scheduling emergency - let's just do a one-off and move it up on the schedule and let the finale be a cliffhanger instead of a two-parter. And that Purge episode is fun and great. I can feel it's 'good enough' quality.
"I think the audience would vote unanimously for the idea of 14 episodes instead of 10 on the condition that four of them would be [Purge Planet level] episodes."
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