If you make a lot of bad life decisions or you’re just old, you might be unaware that the best television show airing is Rick And Morty: a high-concept, sci-fi, animated, action-adventure comedy from creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, about a kid and his sociopathic, alcoholic, genius scientist of a grandfather going on adventures across an infinite multiverse. If you’re British, you get a bit of a pass as the show is only just premiering in the United Kingdom, and how kind of you to wait for it and not realize how easy (and fun!) it is to steal stuff off the internet.

If you are someone still unacquainted with Rick And Morty, you’re most likely to know Dan Harmon as the creator of Community, the most clever sitcom of the past decade, and Justin Roiland as the awesome, somewhat painful voice of the Earl of Lemongrab on Adventure Time. But they’ve done a lot of great stuff in addition to that. Harmon created (and was subsequently fired from) The Sarah Silverman Program, on which Roiland was a writer, actor, and animator and the two also worked together on the quickly-canceled but truly brilliant sketch comedy show on VH1 called Acceptable.TV, which featured an amazing, recurring, animated sketch called Mr. Sprinkles.

Mr. Sprinkles seems to have sadly been mostly lost to the past, but, as Harmon and Roiland’s first collaborative animated effort, it is absolutely worth seeking out, whether you’re already a Rick And Morty fan or are looking for something of a primer. The first six episodes have been cut together here, and the last two can be found on VH1’s website. Mr. Sprinkles is highly recommended as it’s stuck with those who have seen it as something of a life-changing work and the entire saga is only 21-minutes long. Also, I spoil the ending right at the start of this interview.

There’s already a lot out there about the genesis and process of creating Rick And Morty, so I chose to ask Harmon and Roiland about stuff I haven’t seen covered quite as often: their work on Mr. Sprinkles, the music of Rick And Morty, and the function of the darker elements in all their creations. This latter topic they had a lot of thoughts on, making for an interview almost entirely about darkness, but I feel it’s important to note that what makes Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s work together so special is that it always comes with equal measures of comedy, horror, and heart. And it should be very clear from the interview that they put a ton of consideration and effort into everything they make.