Harmon took the blame for the series delay and boiled it down to creative complications, saying “it’s late because of me.”
“If Justin [Roiland,
Rick and Morty co-creator] were here he’d agree,” Harmon elaborated. “He and I would go, ‘Yeah, we fucked up,’ and it’s hard to put your finger on how we fucked up.
Rick and Morty keeps taking longer and longer to write, and I don’t know why.”
He said that he and Roiland have difficulty producing the series, attributing some of the issues to differences between the two creators.
“We have fights all the time and then we have fights about why we’re having fights,” Harmon said. “Well, we didn’t fight during Season 2, that’s why it’s taking longer! All this fighting! So OK, let’s stop fighting!”
Despite
showing a sneak peak of the season in December, Harmon could not give a tentative plan for the series’ return.
“I don’t have a release date for Season 3,” Harmon revealed. “It’s not that I know it and I’m not allowed to say it—it’s [Adult Swim’s] domain.”