History Trivia / RickAndMorty

** Creator/Peter Dinklage is the Hans Gruber Alien in "Roy: A Mort Well-Lived".

** Creator/SteveBuschemi is Eddie the Tina-Teer in "A Rick-Convenient Mort".

** Creator/SteveBuschemmi is Eddie the Tina-Teer in "A Rick-Convenient Mort".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** An alternate scene for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Dd_CKzAoE 'Rick Potion #9']] has [[spoiler:alternate]] Rick and Morty [[spoiler:explode into pieces, unlike in the completed episode. Rick also has to scrape his scrotum off of the ceiling.]]
** An episode where Morty has to enter Jessica's bloodstream in an attempt to save her from an injury was [[http://vimeo.com/67767694 storyboarded]], but not produced for unknown reasons. "Anatomy Park" was probably inspired by this episode.
** Season 3 was originally supposed to consist of 14 episodes until production issues made them cut it down to 10. DvdCommentary revealed a lot of unused plans for season 3:
*** The original idea for "Vindicators 3: The Return Of World Ender" was Rick and a girlfriend sleeping with a superhero. The B-plot of this story that was cut was Morty wanting to revisit the power suit from the episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E9LookWhosPurging Look Who's Purging Now]]" because he has a crush on a Vindicator that was cut out of the episode, Arrowgirl[=/=]Quiver, who matures into Arrowwoman. The power suit gets upgraded with an AI. Morty, the AI and Arrowgirl[=/=]Quiver would have a love triangle that ends with Arrowgirl[=/=]Quiver choosing the suit because Morty could not keep up with her sexually. More scrapped members of the Vindicators include: Dr. Reach, the man with stretching powers; Siamese twins, where one is very fit and attractive, and the other one isn't; and a knitting grandma. At one point, the Vindicators all had sidekicks. Million Ants' sidekick was named Three Ants, and Morty and the sidekicks saved the day. Another storyline was a pneumatic tube that moves World Ender's body.
*** The original idea for "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy" was for Rick and Jerry to go to this bar and bond over a fake adventure they make up, then a real adventure happens. Then the writers came up with the idea of an immortality resort.
*** The original idea for "Rest and Ricklaxation" was this concept called Shallow Morty, which was this evil version of Morty that was floating around and haunting him. Also, Jessica originally had a bigger role in this episode and was even split into positive and negative personalities.
*** "The Ricklantis Mixup" was originally going to be 21 short stories about the Citadel. Originally, the Rick that runs the Citadel was going to be the Rick in the garage scene in "The Rickshank Redemption". Slick Morty was going to be shown alive on a garbage pile on a planet that Rick refuses to leave a tip on.
*** "Morty's Mind Blowers" originally was going to show a memory where Rick was with baby Morty, and as he leaves, Summer sees him and tells her parents she saw an old man.
*** In "The [=ABCs=] of Beth", originally Tommy was going to think he was Beth.
*** "The Rickchurian Mortydate" was not originally going to be the season 3 finale, but when the season was cut down from 14 episodes to 10 episodes, it was re-written as the finale.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsWlaz97p4 The animatic for "A Rickle in Time"]] shows Shleemypants as customer service for the time-freezing device rather than just a cop trying to arrest Rick for stealing time crystals who hoped to be promoted for it. In addition, he even carried a "synchronisation sphere" that allowed Rick, Morty and Summer to see all the other possibilities at once before they were synchronized.
** According to the Inside the Episode video for "Mort Dinner Rick Andre", Mr. Nimbus was originally going to appear much sooner in the series and play a big part in Rick's backstory, explaining why Rick [[RememberTheNewGuy apparently]] knows the guy. However, Mr. Nimbus' original introductory episode got scrapped and it wouldn't be until Season 5 that he was finally introduced, albeit differently then intended.

** Happens twice in the '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vN_PEmeKb0 State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen]]' Rick and Morty parody skit. The first time is when in the middle of the video Roiland breaks character out of Morty for a moment when he's unable to contain his laughter over the absurdity of the argument with the accused [[TalkingToHimself Rick.]] Then again with Rick when he threatens [[CrossesTheLineTwice to murder the judge's kids]] and he cracks up right at the end of the line about [[BlackComedy 'knocking their brains out with a hammer'.]]

* OldShame: Justin Roiland considers "Interdimensional Cable II: Tempting Fate" to be this. He even told people several weeks in advance to not get their hopes up for that episode.

* TalkingToHimself: Both Rick and Morty are voiced by [[DescendedCreator Justin Roiland]]. In "Meeseeks and Destroy" Roiland plays about forty Meeseeks and again in any episode with the Council of Ricks, in which the characters Roiland plays are literally different version of the same person talking to himself. The ultimate example has to be "The Ricklantis Mix-up" which is [[spoiler:entirely composed of dialogue between multiple Ricks and multiple Mortys and as such only has a single voice actor carrying an entire episode, and somehow conveying that two particular voices with slight inflections are somehow multiple characters]].
** This is continued in Rick: A Mort Well Lived, where Roiland voices most of the episode barring the interjection of Summer's B-plot.

** Creator/KeithDavid is Reverse Giraffe in "Total Rickall" and the President in "Get Schwifty" and "The Rickchurian Mortydate".

** Creator/DavidCross of ''Series/MrShow'' and ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' fame plays the Zigerion leader.
** Creator/ClaudiaBlack can be heard as an alien queen on Gazorpazorp and Ventriloquiver in "One Crew over the Crewcoo's Morty".

** Creator/KeithDavid is Reverse Giraffe in "Total Rickall" and the President in "Get Schwifty" and "The Rickchurian Mortydate."
** [[Series/{{Veep}} Mike McLintock]] is Sleepy Gary from "Total Rickall.".
** Creator/KurtwoodSmith is General Nathan in "Get Schwifty."
** Creator/StephenColbert is Zeep Xanflorp in "The Ricks Must Be Crazy."

** Creator/WernerHerzog is the old wheelchair-bound alien at the hospital.
** [[Film/OfficeSpace Gary]] [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Cole]] as the alien doctor.

** Creator/LiamCunningham and Creator/MatthewBroderick are Balthromaw and the Talking Cat in "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty"

* TheDanza: Creator/ThomasMiddleditch as Tommy Lipkip in "The {{ABC}}s of Beth".

** Creator/ChrisParnell, Creator/SarahChalke and Creator/SpencerGrammer are Jerry, Beth and Summer, respectively.

** Jerry's father is Creator/DanaCarvey .

** Creator/JohnOliver, before ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', was Dr. Xenon Bloom.

** Creator/SusanSarandon is Dr. Wong in "Pickle Rick" and "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri".

** Happens twice in the '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vN_PEmeKb0 State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen]]' Rick and Morty parody skit. The first time is when in the middle of the video Justin breaks character out of Morty for a moment when he's unable to contain his laughter over the absurdity of the argument with the accused [[TalkingToHimself Rick.]] Then again with Rick when he threatens [[CrossesTheLineTwice to murder the judge's kids]] and he cracks up right at the end of the line about [[BlackComedy 'knocking their brains out with a hammer'.]]

* ExecutiveMeddling: A positive case. In their initial pitch to Adult Swim, Dan and Justin had Morty written to be much more of a {{Buttmonkey}} who was there merely to absorb the abuse Rick throws at him. Some AS executives didn't like this version of Morty, so Dan and Justin completely rewrote his character into the current Morty, who's not afraid to stand up to Rick if the need arises.

** This is continued in Rick: A Mort Well Lived, where Justin voices most of the episode barring the interjection of Summer's B-plot.

** Creator/ClaudiaBlack can be heard as an alien queen on Gazorpazorp and Ventriloquiver in
"One Crew over the Crewcoo's Morty".

** [[UsefulNotes/PsaceX Elon Musk]] appears as interdimensional counterpart Elon Tusk.

** Creator/ElonMusk appears as interdimensional counterpart Elon Tusk.

** Creator/ClaudiaBlack can be heard as an alien queen on Gazorpazorp.

* TalkingToHimself: Both Rick and Morty are voiced by [[DescendedCreator Justin Roiland]]. Taken UpToEleven in "Meeseeks and Destroy" when Roiland plays about forty Meeseeks and again in any episode with the Council of Ricks, in which the characters Roiland plays are literally different version of the same person talking to himself. The ultimate example has to be "The Ricklantis Mix-up" which is [[spoiler:entirely composed of dialogue between multiple Ricks and multiple Mortys and as such only has a single voice actor carrying an entire episode, and somehow conveying that two particular voices with slight inflections are somehow multiple characters]].

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** [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick Sanchez]]
** [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]]

** In May 2018, Adult Swim picked up the series for an additional 70 episodes, the largest episode order ever given by the network. For comparison, it took ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' over a decade to reach 70 episodes over six seasons.