Usually I know right away what I want to write but for the first time in 5 years, my mind is drawing a blank. Thank you for driving me crazy and for keeping me on my toes on a daily basis. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Read our review of the latest episode here, and go inside Gao’s excellent “Pickle Rick” with an Adult Swim featurette here.Cover Design and Formatting: Just write. Rick and Morty airs Sundays at 11:30 p.m. It’s nice to see Harmon step up and speak out against this kind of garbage person. Whether it’s fans thinking they have the right to harass Harmon and Justin Roiland on Twitter (“Where’s season three?!”) or thinking it’s okay to terrorize the show’s female writers simply for being women, the show certainly does, as Harmon acknowledges, attract a particularly virulent strain of asshole. Rick and Morty, for whatever reason, tends to inspire a great deal of fan entitlement. There’s a bunch of reasons why we don’t accurately reflect how many writers contribute to each episode in the credits.” The reason one person’s name goes on an episode is that someone has to and everyone deserves one of those times at bat where they have to do all the grunt work-they have to do all the outlining, sometimes, if they’re willing to, they can expand into the post-production process. It’s frustrating enough having run Community for several years to see threads like, ‘Oh well, it makes sense this episode was written by Andy Bobrow because when Hilary Winston wrote her episode she tends to linger more on dialogue and Andy is better at the I-want-to-hold-you moments.’ And I want to scream at my computer: ‘You idiots, we all write the show together!’ If you can tell the difference between one writer and another on a show I’m running I’ve probably gotten so lazy that it hasn’t all been blended and refined in the usual process. “It’s total ignorance of how writing a television show works. Harmon also pointed out that these trolls are operating under a fundamental misunderstanding of how TV writing happens: They represent some shit that I probably believed when I was 15.” But at the same time, individually, these aren’t politicians and don’t represent politics. You can’t just insist that everybody who watches your show get their head on straight … And I’m speaking for myself-I don’t want the show to have a political stance. And the only thing I can say is if you’re lucky enough to make a show that is really good that people like, that means some bad people are going to like it, too. I’ve made no bones about the fact that I loathe these people. It’s offensive to me as someone who was born male and white, and still works way harder than them, that there’s some white male trying to further some creepy agenda by ‘protecting’ my work. “These knobs, that 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. Harmon continued, pulling no punches in his assessment of this unfortunate subset of his show’s fan base: Because to the extent that you get can get a girl to shriek about a frog you’ve proven girls are girly and there’s no crime in assaulting her with a frog because it’s all in the name of proving something. And part of it is a testosterone-based subculture patting themselves on the back for trolling these women. “I was familiar going into the third season, having talked to Felicia Day, that any high-profile women get doxxed, they get harassed, they get threatened, they get slandered. Show co-creator Dan Harmon spoke to EW about this awfulness, and did not hold back in condemning the trolls, calling their behavior “disgusting.” “I’m on a Twitter sabbatical, so the last thing I saw about that was, and I’ve seen the tweets they’ve sent to the female writer,” Harmon told EW. But as EW points out, after the season’s second and third episodes, “ Rickmancing the Stone” and “ Pickle Rick,” were credited to female Rick and Morty writers Jane Becker and Jessica Gao, respectively, both scribes were attacked on Twitter and doxxed by angry, misogynistic fans. Rick and Morty’s writers’ room recently made a move towards gender balance and away from boys club, and the results so far in the show’s long-awaited third season have been superlative.
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