'Rick And Morty' Season 2 Ordered By Adult Swim: Dan Harmon Justin Roiland And Chris Parnell Talk About New Season At Comic Con [VIDEO]

"Rick and Morty" Season 2 is coming, creators and cast sat down at San Diego Comic Con to talk about what is next for the series. 

As "Rick and Morty" heads toward its second season, Harmon and Roiland took a few minutes to talk with reporters about the show's success, and its second year at Comic-Con International. (quotes origonally published at Hitfix.com, but are from the comic con panel) 

Speaking on season 1, Harmon said, "The reviews have been great. We had a million viewers at the beginning of the season and ended with close to 2 million. Everybody around us that usually makes us miserable because all they care about is numbers and money is really thrilled with the show. To me, it's to the point of where all of a sudden I can care about ratings and things. With "Community," I always have to be like, "Ratings don't matter," but for the sake of my own sanity. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. We are the number one-rated animated show on IMDb. The important thing about this convention, and I think it's going to change everything, because I know it changed it for "Community," there's no way this simulator imagined the actual sound of a room full of people actually responding. And we've aired an entire series of "Rick and Morty" between these two Comic-Cons, so Justin is about to go out in front of thousands of people and hear for the first time this really weird sound that never really gets out of your bone marrow."

Roiland said, "Last year it was a weird panel because we were pitching it. We were, like, in this small room in the convention floor. It felt like we were pitching the show to executives in a big room of them. I was like, "It's good, I promise it's good!" This year we're going into a room where people presumably all have seen every episode or a significant number of them. When I said we were in a bubble, I mean production-wise. We're working our asses off for Season 2. You kind of are in a bubble in regards to that, what we're about to maybe, if you're not wrong, we get out there and there's just crickets."

Roiland: "You have to have a full working knowledge of 4chan because there's a lot of different boards, and some are horrible and offensive and terrible. Some are very moderate. The cartoon one is the one I troll on the most. I should not say this but I'm going to: Early on when the show first started to air, I would go on and I would go through the board and I would find a "Rick and Morty" thread that someone started, and then I would be like, "Man, fuck this show! I hate the fucking voice of Rick." I would be the most aggressively angry anonymous voice on the thing. And then of course, as it happened, so many people did eventually have that opinion, and I was like, "I was meaner to myself than that guy was, and it doesn't even bother me." It's so weird.

When asked about the progress on season 2, Grammer said, " We're in the middle of it."

Parnell said, " I don't think we're in the middle of it. I think we're doing a lot of this season. I think we're doing more than -

Grammer," More than 10, really. I've done seven, six or seven episodes so far, maybe five or six. So they come every two weeks. They have the storylines written up for a long time and then they'll finish a script in two weeks and they'll get it and they'll record it."

Grammer:" I know the season opener has a lot of multiverses, like many, many different universes happening at the same time, so you'll get to see different version of our characters in different realities. It's very ambitious."

Grammer: "I think we were at the Rick and Morty premiere party, and I heard two animators in the bathroom. I was eavesdropping, obviously, in the ladies room. They were saying how much fun Rick and Morty was to animate, like, it's their favorite show to animate. I don't think they knew I was the chick who was voicing Summer. I was just this chick staring awkwardly in the bathroom. But they were like, "I wish I could do more Rick and Morty animation because it's so fun, it's so creative. You have all these different universes and different kinds of characters that they get to create that allows for I think a lot of creativity on all fronts, I think even from our side too. It was fun. And it's just fantastic. They're geniuses." What can I say? It takes a genius to makes a hit show."

"Season 2 is going to be more intergalactic than Season 1," Harmon teased. "In Season 1, we learned that we weren't confined. ... We're mixing it up a lot in Season 2."

"You'll see different character parents, new cool characters you all haven't ever seen before," Roiland added. "There's a teensy-weensy bit of the multiverse stuff. There's no time traveling, but there's some time issues that you can all get ready to look forward to."

A  fan asked if there was any way viewers would get another fun party episode like the season finale "Ricksy Business." "That's going to be our 'Treehouse of Horror'," Roiland said, referring to The Simpsons' Halloween tradition. "We were going to do one of those every season. There's another episode. It's got a different title but these guys were up till 5 a.m. writing the B story for it last week. I'm excited! It's a Jerry story."

One of the final questions for the panelists was whether they had advice for aspiring writers. "Just do whatever you have to do to make stuff," Roiland replied. "If you can, try to make something once a month, and when I say make something, I say finish shooting."

Season 2 of "Rick and Morty" is coming to Adult Swim in 2015

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