•  I was in the editing bay with Dan doing 308 stuff, which was very hard, like, 308 was really difficult to edit and I learned a lot, I don't know anything about edit, but it was one of those episodes where you're, to the last minute you're like "Is this crazy, insane? Is anybody gonna like this at all?" So I was happy that everybody... So then we're doing these final editing passes and somebody comes in and says "Dan, can we talk to you in the hall?" and I just had the ere of being like... bad. You just felt like you were going into the principal's office. So he walks out of the room and he comes back in and it was just like the whole mood changed, and I didn't know why and he didn't tell me and then we went back to the writers room and they gathered us into the corner room, they were like "Okay, so..." We found out about it 10 minutes before it was on Deadline Hollywood. It was already kind of happening.

thebookofkells:

“Yes, I believe in my heart of hearts that, to quote Stuart Cornfeld, a producer working for Ben Stiller’s Red Hour, “talent will out.” Talent will out. If you should be doing what you are doing, either by grace of God or the industry’s greed, you are going to be discovered. The difficulty is that you can’t control when (That, by the way, is the unfair syndrome that results in, for instance, there not being enough black voices in television. Disenfranchised demographics statistically don’t have the outside support system to pursue a career as frivolous and unpredictable as writing so you have Harvard graduates giving jobs to Harvard graduates in precisely the vocations that require their sheltered point of view the least, which leads to bad TV which leads to disenfranchisement of unsheltered demographics but that’s an answer to a different question and now the Ketel One is doing the talking). But yes, short or tall, black or white, male or female, weird or handsome, if you are talented, your talent will out. It will rise to the top. And one of the least likable aspects of my personality, by all reports, is that I associate talent with “goodness.” So by my perverse definitions, yes, good writing and good people rise to the top and get to make a difference. It’s just very important that MORE OF US TRY. I’m looking at you, sixth grade black girl in a public school that likes to write but isn’t being told writing is an option by anyone. Maybe it’s not an option but if it’s your COMPULSION, I believe you owe it to your God, your government and yourself to indulge it come hell or high water.”

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-Dan Harmon

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theongreyjoy:

On a final note, Dan Harmon finally responds about shipping, and it turns out that in the canon!verse, no one will be endgame.

• Dan: We researched the kind of dogs that I might get if I was going to get a dog now that I'm fired, and uh, Community was my dog. It has sadly stopped fetching my slippers and has in fact taken to pissing on my face in my sleep and having panels at Comic Con without me, which you know iiiii ahhhh
• Erin: Dan while that was happening, how did you react?
• Dan: I started cleaning my house. Just for two days I just started moving boxes around, and I was like muttering things like *mumbles* "you hated nerds". And then I would find out I made a shelf wrong and I would just kick it across the room like AH FUCK IT AH SHIT I HATE MY FUCKING LIFE. I'm a wreck. The show broke up with me, it dumped me. You know when you dump somebody-don't "Aww" me. I mean don't do anything, you can do whatever you want, but don't feel sorry for me. I'm not saying these things to elicit pity it's a confession, I need to get this off my chest. I feel warped and bad and petty about it. Outside I smile at people and I go, you know they drive by and go "Toot toot you got fired, woah," and I go "Good morning Ralph. I guess they wanted to go in a different direction. Just taking out the trash." It's my duty, you know, to keep a smile. I am bummed out.
• Erin: It's ok to be bummed out
• Dan: I love my show. What if they took your baby, what if they came in your window, took your baby? What if they just took your baby?
• Erin: You'd probably fix up your house
• Dan: You'd probably start cleaning your house. Working on your shelving units and every once in a while you'd find out that for the third time you had the Home Depot guy cut it a tenth of an inch too long so it still doesn't fit in the fucking thing and then you just erupt into WWAHHHH SHELVING UNITS WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING FIRE ME THEN?