So far on Rick and Morty’s at present airing fifth season, we’ve seen issues like Rick squabbling with oceanic royalty, your entire Smith-Sanchez clan battling a number of “decoys” of themselves, and a really humorous, very karaoke-involved riff on Hellraiser’s “pain is pleasure” schtick. In different phrases, it’s been a killer season to this point for the hit Adult Swim collection, so we have been wanting to see what its San Diego Comic-Con @ Home panel had in retailer.

Assembled to debate all issues Rick and Morty, with an emphasis on season 5, have been co-creator and government producer Dan Harmon and showrunner and government producer Scott Marder (however not, curiously, co-creator and government producer Justin Roiland, who voices each title characters), in addition to solid members Chris Parnell (Jerry), Sarah Chalke (Beth), and Spencer Grammer (Summer), plus some “special guests” (skip forward to 23:40 if you wish to hear Roiland actually telephone in just a few phrases from “Rick” and “Morty”).

Shrug. It’s enjoyable to see these people yukking it up collectively, however this panel—which provided no new footage or bulletins—was extraordinarily light-weight. There was some dialogue of season 5 character Mr. Nimbus, who was impressed by David Bowie but additionally, as Harmon put it, “the question ‘How could you be into Sub-Mariner in high school without getting beaten up every day?,’ And then we asked ourselves ‘What if the goal was to get beaten up’?” Another subject that got here up was how the present is “becoming a little bit more than just Rick and Morty,” in accordance with showrunner Marder, particularly with the rising friction between the title characters and Summer’s expanded function as a sidekick.

Mostly, although, it was the solid, minus Roiland, having a mini-reunion and answering pointless questions (“Which character has milk for dinner?”) whereas Harmon often made random observations like “a car is like a shoe for your whole body” and Marder admitted to by no means listening to the track “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (the context of both of these isn’t even value explaining). Look, Rick and Morty doesn’t need to do something extra, ever, to endear itself to its followers—the present is already a smash hit, and there are new episodes at present airing each week proper now. But it’s totally skippable panels like this that basically make us miss the fan interplay facet of San Diego Comic-Con, the place one yr we noticed a bunch step as much as the mic to ask a query whereas wearing excellent Vindicators costumes. Million Ants, women and gents!

Rick and Morty airs Sunday nights on Adult Swim.

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