Dan Harmon wants to take another shot at a 14-episode Rick And Morty season

None of which has stopped Harmon from trying again, according to an Entertainment Weekly interview that went up yesterday. Harmon—who’s vocally still smarting from the fact that season 3 is when he started to lose his handle on his last series, NBC’s Community—says he’s hoping that Rick And Morty is finally settling into a groove that will allow season four to be 14 episodes long. The trick, apparently, is to be more open to the concept of “good enough”; Harmon explicitly cited season two’s “Look Who’s Purging Now”—which was produced on a rush order, after the show’s writings staff couldn’t figure out where to take the season’s originally two-part finale—as an example of a happy medium between “absolutely perfect” and “funny enough to air.”

“And that Purge episode is fun and great,” Harmon said in the interview, which also contains his thoughts on Game Of Thrones, the nebulous paradox of character growth, and his previously reported comments on the sexist “knobs” who attack the show’s female writers in an effort to somehow “protect” it. “I can feel it’s ‘good enough’ quality. I think the audience would vote unanimously for the idea of 14 episodes instead of 10 on the condition that 4 of them would be [Purge Planet level] episodes.” (Given the rabidity and self-described elitism of the worst elements of the show’s fanbase, that assertion seems less certain than Harmon might think, although if it gets us more Rick And Morty, we’re happy to see where it goes.)