From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to a special edition of the treatment recorded before a live audience.

I interviewed Dan Harmon, creator of community and executive producer of that show

and Rick and Morty a few weeks ago at a private home in Pasadena.

Here's the conversation.

Thank you for having me.

They've vested me with some tasks back there.

You guys have to know that we're recording

and you have to turn off your cell phones and there's uh 70 silver Priuses with their lights on

that last one was just a little public radio joke it would would only play in this room, a block away from here.

They wouldn't even laugh at that.

I wrote it over by the Canapes,

which I just found out were not pronounced Canapes.

So it's not Crudites either then, right?

No, not Crudites.

Another public radio joke. It's already gotten too esoteric in here. Did you know that the Kudites either then, right? No, not Kruidites. Another public radio joke.

It's already gotten too esoteric in here.

Did you know that the Kruidites actually defeated the Hittite?

The Centipides outside the Hellraiser?

That's in the next sequel.

I have to say one of the things I love so much about your work is even just thinking about, you know, Rick and Morty.

First of all, a TV show where the young, the kid has a name of an old Jewish comedian and the grandpa is named Rick.

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