The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti is the short that inspired Rick and Morty. It was created by Justin Roiland and produced by Comic Sacrifice.
Background
The short was intended to annoy Universal's lawyers for using ''Back to the Future imagery. Three other shorts were created, the first to promote the comic "Scud: The Disposable Assassin", the second to promote the the creative freedom of Channel 101, and the last is a Gatorade commercial.
Justin Roiland said : "I actually made this as a way to poke fun at the idea of getting cease and desist letters. At the time (October 2006) I had nothing to lose and my original intention was to call this "back to the future: the new official universal studios cartoon featuring the new Doc Brown and Marty McFly" and then I'd just sit back and wait for a letter from their lawyers to arrive. That's actually why it's so filthy. I was just looking to "troll" a big studio. Then, as I began editing the radio play and boarding it, the two characters ended up becoming something different than just a bad impression of Doc and Marty from BTTF. They slowly became two of my favorite characters that I've ever voiced. I backed down on the cease and desist bait and changed the spelling of their names and whatever else I could still change. I mean, it's still ultimately a back to the future joke/ (parody?), but to me all these years later, these two characters have become something of their own. You'll see as you go through this website that these voices pop up in several of my failed pilots."
Plot
Mharti's kite is stuck in a tree and Doc must help him retrieve it by getting--well...
Characters
- Doc Smith
- Mharti McDonhalds
Locations
Videos
The entire short is available on Justin Roiland's Vimeo account :
Short to promote Scud: The Disposable Assassin
The second short, released the December 03, 2006, promote the creative freedom of Channel101, and it's available here.
The last short is a Gatorade commercial for Channel 101 2007 Channy Awards :
