Former Community writer Megan Ganz calls out Dan Harmon for misconduct
Recently, Rick And Morty co-creator Dan Harmon tweeted that 2017 was “truly the Year Of The Asshole,” alluding to some misdeeds of his own. This caught the attention of Megan Ganz, a writer who worked with Harmon on Community and was responsible for many of the best episodes in seasons two and three—not to mention the fact that she was one of the few trusted voices keeping the show afloat in its rocky fourth season. Ganz responded to Harmon, asking him to be “more specific” and adding that “redemption follows allocution.”
This kicked off a conversation between the two of them, with further implications that Harmon had mistreated Ganz while she worked on Community. He admits to crossing lines, abusing his power, and treating Ganz “like garbage,” but he also puts the responsibility on her to tell him how to make things right:
Ganz doesn’t really accept his apology, choosing instead to go into how the mistreatment impacted her and how Harmon acknowledging his wrongdoing on Twitter doesn’t change how he behaved while working on Community: