Rick and Morty’s creators to internet: You might be overthinking the canon stuff

polygon.com:

Going into season 6, it seemed possible that Rick and Morty’s main Rick (from universe C-137) would pull another fast one on the audience. Though things seemed dire at the end of season 5, with Evil Morty blowing up the multiverse as we knew it and leaving the titular Rick and Morty in limbo as they tried to escape a destructing Council of Ricks, it wouldn’t be the first time Rick managed to come out on top. At the beginning of season 3 he destroyed the Galactic Federation’s whole system from inside their prison.

But the glimpse of Rick C-137’s backstory was much darker than we had seen up till now. C-137 Rick watched his wife get killed by another Rick, and — after some time spent trying to hunt him down, killing various Ricks, and generally getting messed up — eventually crash-landed himself into a timeline where a Rick had abandoned his grown-up daughter and settled in.

It’s understandable if you have some disbelief that this is the backstory on Rick and Morty’s Rick, or if he still had another trick up his sleeve in the season 6 opener. But co-creator Dan Harmon is here to remind us to chill the fuck out.

“There’s so much more to the story,” Harmon tells Polygon. “But I’m very comfortable saying I don’t like to be coy, and in instances where we are being ambiguous, we always say we’re being ambiguous.”

For comparison he cites season 3’s “The Rickshank Rickdemption” and what he dubs the “Shoney’s Revelation,” when Rick appeared to be trapped in a tragic memory to bait the Galactic Federation poking around in his brain. At the time Harmon says it was shown as potentially a fabrication, but one that Harmon himself liked as an actual backstory.

“I was happy [making it appear fake] because I myself felt that that was