IQ Requirement Lowered for Newest Season of Rick & Morty
Media literacy dip could mean the end for the show.
Editor’s Note: This scoop originally appeared on The Hollywood Time$ Substack on May 19, 2025
From the bushes outside of the cave that now serves as Cartoon Network’s HQ, I can now confirm that the usual IQ requirement needed to get into Rick & Morty has been lowered for the upcoming eighth season. Show co-creator, Dan Harmon, discussed the requirement changes during a recent podcast interview on the Joe Rogan Experience.
“Joe, I don’t know if you know this, but people are getting dumber every day,” Harmon said before Rogan interrupted him to compliment his deltoids. “The folks at Adult Swim sent out a survey to our viewers, asking about their satisfaction and the number one response we got was, ‘What the hell is going on?’ Mind you, this did not pertain to anything in the show. Those surveyed had no idea what was going on in the survey. Even with everything spelled out throughout the surveying process. I mean for Christ’s sake it was a Google Form. There were idiots asking Grok ‘what a survey is’ in the form.”
Rogan went on to ask Jimmy to pull up pics of the surveys discussed. Rogan then let out a long ‘wwooowwww’ before Harmon got into what they were doing with these new findings.
“We had to scrap all of season 8 at one point,” Harmon said, as Rogan let out another ‘wooowwww’. “If these people do not understand surveys, there is no way they are going to get an episode about Rick’s high school bully being the invincible man. Or the episode about the death of animation, that loses elements of animation with each passing scene, no way in hell they are going to keep up with that one. I wanted to do another story wheel episode, but even the writer’s room told me ‘Enough is enough,’ so, we went back to the drawing board entirely and just produced the dumbest season of TV you have ever seen. It was either that or get canceled.”
After 30 more ‘wowwws’ Rogan finally brought some insight into the conversation.
“You know, Dan. Surveys are pretty hard,” Rogan said before returning to the topic of Harmon’s deltoids. “Like seriously, dude, whatever shoulder lifts you’re doing, you’ve got to tell me.”
Harmon is repped by CAA. The bush I hid in for this story was an American Cress, a spicy little thing.
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