Read the full interview below to hear more about the differences between Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites, what itâs like working with Dan Harmon, and why McMahan is the perfect person to create a new Star Trek show set in the TNG era. Can you give us an update on when itâs coming out? Given his obsession with the genre, it shouldnât come as a surprise that McMahan is branching out with not just one but two new sci-fi animated shows. The result, then, is something that will be very familiar to the devoted fan base of the aforementioned show, yet somehow becomes a welcome and often delightfully silly supplement, instead of a potentially inferior imitation. So we were using Dan Harmon's methods and his Story Circle, but that's kind of the extent of it. Yeah, they picked us up for two seasons. Season 4 of Rick and Morty, and the latest episode in particular, feel like a direct response to obsessive fans, telling them to stop looking for clues and theories and to just enjoy the show. Essentially, if you like Rick & Morty, you’ll likely find yourself drawn to Solar Opposites. Writing it feels incredibly different from writing Rick and Morty. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. After co-creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, McMahan was one of the first people hired to work on the show. That’s no surprise, as the foul-mouthed cartoon hails from Rick & Morty co-creator and voice actor, Justin Roiland, and Mike McMahan, a former writer’s assistant on the very same show. Related: How Solar Opposites connects Rick and Morty and The Simpsons in one shared universe. Earlier this year, McMahan responded to the comparisons being made between Solar Opposites and Rick and Morty, saying the Hulu show was more of a "classic sitcom". he said. But when asked to define his role in creating and guiding Rick and Morty, McMahan tells Inverse that it boils to one simple thing: His love of science fiction. I canât remember the genesis of the Pupa exactly, but we wanted a character that was a non-speaking baby. It's very specific to his voice, his character, and his view of the chaotic universe with his nihilism. Fans of Justin Roiland (Solar Opposites) and Dan Harmon's (Community) Adult Swim series Rick and Morty are well aware of the wacky nature of the show.Still, it came as a fun surprise … Roiland and McMahan take the notion of a small-scale alien invasion and turn it into an unruly and often surprising domestic comedy, complete with the kind of TV-MA-level language and extreme violence that can only be pulled off on an animated series. It seems clear that Solar Opposites isn’t meant to be a Dan Harmon-less … Instantly. How does he perceive reality? "It would be everybody sitting in a room and they'd be writing emails asking the Power Rangers to do a crossover with Star Trek the whole time, and then at the end they'd be like 'Woah, we're out of time!'" The two shows are so similar in tone, subject matter, and humor that such a comparison is inevitable, but it’s also kind of the point. It's really about family and people that want stuff but don't want to admit it, who are kind of dumb and really naive. Kevin is a member of the TCA. But that being said, I think because people love Rick and Morty and because every episode takes so long to cook and get where we need it to be, it's tempting to try to define the show based on each episode that comes out.