'Rick And Morty' Season 2 Ordered By Adult Swim: Creators Dan Harmon Of 'Community' And Justin Roiland Talk About New Season, Watch Animation Trailer [VIDEO]

"Rick And Morty" Season 2 has been ordered by Adult Swim, creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon went to Comic Con to discuss what comes next for their breakout comedy hit.

In terms of where they are in production, they're still working on the last two scripts for the season.

Roiland indicated that fans could expect to see "interesting pairings" of characters that weren't seen in the first season. Harmon noted that the show's second season would be "more intergalactic" than the first. Interpret that however you like, but it probably means that instead of travelling through parallel dimensions in multiple universes, will go a greater distance in the shows central univers .At Comic Con Roiland was apprehensive about saying too much, "I'm like a politician right now," he told the group. "I'm saying nothing and rambling." But he and Harmon let the group in on a few not-so-spoilerish tidbits.

Sci-fi is central to the show. If you haven't noticed this already, and you should have, "Rick and Morty" started out as a "Back to the Future" parody that Roiland made for Harmon's Channel 101. The show pretty much gives its own description in the pilot episode calling itself "high concept science fiction rigormoral"

"I think my philosophy with sci-fi is to focus more on the fi than the sci," said Harmon. "I think people like it when it holds up a little bit to logical scrutiny, but that logic can often be magically enforced." Harmon related their rationale to a certain long-running British television franchise.

"You can just tell people that Doctor Who's TARDIS is larger on the inside than it is on the outside, and he can explain that with what we call gobbledegook in the writer's room," he said. The intricacies aren't that important. "I think that what's more important to sci-fi is that people recognize a mythologized version of something that they have encountered in their lives."

Roiland says that the sci-fi concepts audiences love are "cool points of entry." For Rick's inventions, they will think about the devices that they would want to see. "We'll have fun and screw around in the writer's room and, at a certain point, we start to lock things down and it turns out that we come up with this cool story," said Roiland.

Check back often for more information about "Rick And Morty" season 2 as it becomes available 

A fan at the comic con panel captured this video of the animation

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