2 Hours Of Rick And Morty Scandals To Fall Asleep To

This video covers the real-life production scandals, delays, and controversies behind Adult Swim's animated series Rick and Morty, including the rumored Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon feud, the two-year gap before season 3, the season 4 contract standoff, and the 2017 McDonald's Szechuan sauce frenzy. The video traces two separate production crises that stalled Rick and Morty for years: an eighteen-month gap after the season 2 finale that fans blamed on a feud between creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, and a later twenty-five-month gap before season 4 caused by an actual contract dispute with Turner Broadcasting's Adult Swim network. It also covers the 2017 Szechuan sauce controversy, in which a joke about a discontinued McDonald's dipping sauce led to real-world crowds, police calls, and a nationwide product re-release. A final section examines the doxxing of two Rick and Morty writers, Jane Becker and Jessica Gao, by fans on 4chan after the show's writers' room was expanded to a 50/50 gender split. What's covered in this video: How "The Wedding Squanchers" season 2 finale in October 2015 set up a cliffhanger that led to nearly two years of silence before season 3. Why fans believed Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland were feuding, and how Harmon publicly denied it on Twitter, calling the rumor "hilariously not true even in the slightest." How season 3 actually returned: a surprise April Fools' Day 2017 premiere of "The Rickshank Rickdemption" that looped for four hours before the regular season resumed in July, with only 10 of a planned 14 episodes produced. How Harmon explained the delay as perfectionism and fear of making a worse season than the first two, saying "it's late because of us, it's late because of me." How a March 2018 tweet revealed season 4 hadn't been ordered due to contract negotiations between Harmon, Roiland, and Turner Broadcasting's Adult Swim. How the standoff ended in May 2018 with a 70-episode order, bringing the series total to 101 episodes, announced by Harmon and Roiland in a homemade video filmed in Harmon's shower. How Rick's improvised rant about McDonald's discontinued Szechuan sauce, a 1998 Mulan promotional tie-in, turned into a real-world McDonald's cultural moment. How McDonald's October 2017 one-day Szechuan sauce re-release ran out in minutes, leading to police being called to locations in Los Angeles and Wellington, Florida, and crowds chanting "We want sauce." How McDonald's apologized and, in February 2018, shipped roughly 20 million sauce packets nationwide to correct the shortage. How the season 3 writers' room was expanded to include four new female writers, Jane Becker, Jessica Gao, Sarah Carbiener, and Erica Rosbe, and how Becker and Gao were doxxed on 4chan after their episodes aired. Mentioned in this video: Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Adult Swim, Turner Broadcasting, Paper Town, The Wedding Squanchers, The Rickshank Rickdemption, The Rickchurian Mortydate, Rickmancing the Stone, Pickle Rick, McDonald's, Szechuan sauce, Mulan, Disney, Chicken McNuggets, Happy Meals, Jane Becker, Jessica Gao, Sarah Carbiener, Erica Rosbe, 4chan, Los Angeles, Wellington, Palm Beach County, Florida, Twitter Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:40 The Show Vanishes For Years 9:10 Contract War Freezes Season Four 15:00 Rick's Szechuan Sauce Obsession 18:21 McDonald's Sauce Riot Erupts 26:41 Writers Doxxed After Premiere 36:42 Froopyland's Disturbing Secret 47:33 Harmon's Buried Scandal Resurfaces 58:23 The Seventy-Episode Gamble 1:08:24 A Meta Episode's Eerie Warning 1:17:34 Squanch Games' Hidden Lawsuit 1:29:15 Roiland's Domestic Violence Case 1:42:36 Adult Swim Severs Ties 1:56:47 Secretly Recasting Rick and Morty 2:08:28 Critics vs Fans: The Verdict