For a cable cartoon show for grownups, Rick and Morty is actually doing exceptionally well. It consistently gets several times more weekly viewers than Archer has ever had.

Runs in the family.

Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame, from Africa, the power of Earth; from North America, Wheeler, with the power of Fire; from the Soviet Union, Linka, with the power of…

(shhh….don't tell anyone, but I've never actually seen it)

Oh, you'll find this amusing: The suit Charlie Chaplin was buried in.

Produce a sitcom starring Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and try to poison Adult Swim with it?

And a good way to get the ADL on your case.

I don't even know anymore…

Hey now. The guy has been doing nothing but cashing checks for the past 20 years. That's tiring work, worthy of high praise.

"the kind of fourth-wall breaking nonsense that might damage the hallowed sanctity of the long-running show"

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TV shows often have these things called scripts…

I think you mean Drake, grandpa.

I got in one little Celebrity Center and L Ron just stared

Yup.

In half-hour instalments, at a later date.

Yeah. In real life it would have taken forever, like just a really long time, with the SKREEE-urrr-SKREEEEE-urrr-SKREEE-urrr and everything. Would have been a funny awkward moment. But Arrested Development already did that joke.

Right? Also comics:

Yes, because science fiction and cryptoracism have never before been linked.

TCM airs reruns of The Dick Cavett Show, introduced TCM-style by Dick Cavett.