It’s not a surprise that Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s Rick and Morty found an audience and some critical praise when it debuted last December. As has been seen with Community, Harmon’s comedy has a way of either getting into people’s bones or bouncing off of them entirely, but the dimension-hopping cartoon comedy wasn’t supposed to be as popular as it was for Adult Swim, and nobody likely expected Rick and Morty to so quickly find itself in the conversation when people discuss the best and funniest cartoon on television.

In recognition of their outstanding first season (which is now available on DVD and Blu Ray) and in anticipation of the upcoming second season, Harmon and Roiland came to New York Comic Con to talk about the show and its future during a stellar panel and a roundtable, which we were a part of.

On whether we might see the Rick and Morty puppets, used to market the DVD, on the show at some point:

Roiland: I don’t think so. That was really just an experiment. My sister’s boyfriend was on that Jim Henson Creature Challenge show. He was one of the contestants. Just incredibly talented and [he] makes the weirdest, eeriest, most unsettling creatures. And so I pitched it to Adult Swim and they were into it as a way to promote the DVD and I was thrilled because I was like, “Oh we get to make a couple of creepy Rick and Morty puppets out of the deal.” And then yeah, I was like “lets just lean in and use these things.” And I recorded a ton of stuff and then we filmed like a full day. A bunch of ads and a bunch exclusive content for websites. But I think it would just be bizarre to do a show with them as puppets. It would be confusing, I think, for people who aren’t familiar with the show. They’d be like, “well wait a minute, what the fuck is… what is this?”