Entertainment Weekly is finally asking the important questions. Like why does our favorite alcoholic, child-endangering grandpa from the returning Rick and Morty burp so much?
According to co-creator Justin Roiland (I would’ve loved to have heard Dan Harmon pontificate on this), Rick’s burping was a funny accident:
In 2006, or something, I was recording the voices for this short The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti. I was having fun doing these really crappy Doc Brown and Marty McFly impressions. During the middle of a line a burp came out naturally. It was just so funny and gross. I was like, “Well, let’s see if I can do that again for a couple more lines.” Then, with Rick and Morty, Dan (Harmon, the show’s co-creator) was like, “Hey, Adult Swim wants to do a show, do you have any ideas?” I said, “Well, what about these two voices?” Right out of the gate, the burping was part of it.
Other fun trivia from the interview reveals that Scrubs alumna Sarah Chalke — who voices Morty’s mother — can burp on command and Roiland draws the line at farting, refusing to feature it. Probably for the best.
(Via EW)
