Brian Wysol is someone from the animation industry to keep an eye on. The writer cut his teeth on absurdist animated shorts for the popular alt venue Channel 101 before then graduating to writing for Adult Swim programs like Robot Chicken and Rick and Morty. Wysol is now in charge of his own series, Hot Streets, which just debuted this Sunday.

Hot Streets follows the exploits of a covert department from the FBI that focuses on supernatural activity. The series effectively avoids the clichés of typical police procedurals and instead focuses on ridiculous characters and insane storylines. Even though Hot Streets is a brand new show from Wysol, it still shares a few surface level similarities with Rick and Morty. For instance, both shows have a science fiction slant and feel like comedies where literally anything can happen.

When discussing his new series with Den of Geek, Wysol elaborated on how both shows are alike and dissimilar.

“Well coming from that [Rick and Morty’s] writers’ room I definitely use a lot of the same storytelling techniques.” Wysol gets into the specifics of this and explained, “Dan Harmon notoriously uses a circle to structure his stories, which we also do on Hot Streets.”