Trivia / Rick And Morty S 5 E 4 Rickdependence Spray

• Creator Backlash: Each episode of Rick and Morty comes with an accompanying "Inside the Episode" video on Adult Swim's YouTube channel in which the production team explain where each episode comes from and what it's trying to do. For this episode, we basically got the episode's writer and director reacting to their episode with complete bemusement while Dan Harmon complains about how much the script got away from them.
  Nick Rutherford: I still don't know how this is allowed to be on TV, to be honest... and it turned out disgusting and tasteless.
• Troubled Production: If this article from Decider is anything to go by, the writing process for this episode was very hectic and unfocused, with Dan Harmon admitting that he wrote the episode because "I wanted to see like the sort of old-school Jumanji sequence where people had to ride sperm", with no thought or care being put into the rest of the story. This resulted in numerous rewrites; the CHUDs didn't even exist in the script's first draft.

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