Rick and Morty Season 8 Showrunner on how the series is modeled by pure creative chaos

That balance between completely fantastic absurdity and deeper narrative threads in adult swims Rick and Morty It is part of the philosophy of show design. And second showrunner Scott MarderOften it starts with an undeniable spark … an idea too good to be ignored.

Marder, who led animated science fiction Juggernaut together with the co-creator Dan HarmonHe recently shared some information on how the sausage is made at the Rick and Morty headquarters.

As they try to model every season with both the episodic standards and the serialized arches in mind, sometimes a single pitch kicks the door and requires its place. Marder says:

“There is not really ignoring the fact that we could start one day trying to face something, and then someone will launch such an inevitable idea, and will excite Dan [Harmon]And it will excite me so much that we don’t even need to articulate that for now we are going to this, because it is unleashing so much joy. “

That spontaneous and chaotic energy is something that Rick and Morty The writers’ room embraces itself and should. Some ideas simply divert the day and in the end they form where the show goes. Marder continued:

“You did not enter a Tuesday waiting to listen to him, and you can’t stay it once you have heard it, and suddenly this is episode Otto.

“Everyone is just assembling, and then we find a method for madness and a form for a season that makes him feel as if we had broken him in the order in which I saw him, but it is really only finding the things that we find most attractive and more convincing and obtaining the maximum type of excitement go to a room at a given time.”

It is that mix of instinct and improvisation it keeps Rick and Morty Feeling fresh even if he heads towards his eighth season, which is previewed on Sunday 25 May 2025. Fans can expect the usual mix of alienation with high concept and chaos led by the character.