{"id":1916,"date":"2017-08-25T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/08\/25\/watch-how-an-episode-of-rick-and-morty-is-written\/"},"modified":"2017-08-25T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:45:00","slug":"watch-how-an-episode-of-rick-and-morty-is-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/08\/25\/watch-how-an-episode-of-rick-and-morty-is-written\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How an Episode of ‘Rick and Morty’ is Written"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.” \u2014Morty
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\nRick and Morty <\/em>is one of the strangest hit shows to come out in quite a while. <\/em>The Back to the Future <\/em>parody sci-fi cartoon series takes audiences along on the adventures of a slobbering mad scientist and his anxiety-ridden grandson, and though the journies of these twisted Doc Brown and Marty McFly characters may be absurd in content, they’re anything but in structure. \n<\/p>\n


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\nIn this video, James Hayes of FilmInTheMaking breaks down how Rick and Morty <\/em>creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland approach telling some of the wildest stories on TV by using a simple story structure concept called the “story circle” inspired by Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. \n<\/p>\n


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\nHarmon and Roiland’s approach to storytelling looks a lot like Campbell’s monomyth\u2014and not just because they’re both depicted as circles. They both have: \n<\/p>\n

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