Ice Tea! ‘Rick and Morty’s epic new cameo has been 8 years in the making.

I Rick and Morty In the universe—or, at the very least, in one in every of them—Ice-T is the only famous musician still alive.

Fans will recall that in the Season 2 episode, “Get Swifty,” Rick and Morty teamed up with rappers to jot down successful song as a part of an intergalactic music competition when every other famous musician had Earthquake at the Grammys. Death occurs during They win the competition, but only after Ice-T (who, it seems, is secretly an alien named Water-T who has been banished from his home planet for being too insensitive). Eventually learns to care again. Yeah, that does not make much sense, but there it’s Rick and Morty for you

Anyway, the reason we bring this up is because you may not know that Ice-T (aka, Tracy Lauren Merrow) didn’t voice Ice-T in “Get Schwifty.” Instead, he was voiced by Dan Harmon. But now, eight years later, Rick and Morty are patching things up.

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I Rick and Morty In Season 7 Episode 7, “Rise of the Numericans: The Movie,” Ice/Water-T finally returns to resolve the epic cliffhanger from the “Get Swifty” post-credits scene. Back then, we saw Water-T return to his home planet and reunite along with his father Helium-Q, just for an enemy attack to kill his father and put his planet in danger. went. Turns out, the letter-sized aliens are engaged in an epic conflict with their number-sized enemies.

The new episode opens moments later, with Water-T fighting off his attackers before running to Earth for help. Surprisingly, they usually are not on the lookout for Rick, but Morty’s math teacher, Mr. Goldenfold. Morty comes along for the ride as they engage in a fast-paced and surprisingly coherent 22-minute Star Wars parody. There’s motion, there’s romance, and there’s friendship, in addition to quippy one-liners and a musical number. Perhaps the best? The real Ice-T voices Water-T’s father, Helium-Q, who’s killed in the opening scene only to reappear later as a Force ghost.

Dan Harmon, Ice-T, and Rick and Morty

For Dan Harmon, Ice-T is popping on. Rick and Morty A dream greater than a decade in the making. Or, more precisely, a “realization of the concept”.

As a part of a Q&A video GQ Profile In 2018, Harmon talks about the origins of the Season 2 episode “Get Swifty”, where the character Water-T first debuted.

“I love Ice-T, and it would be fantastic to have him come and do Ice-T or Water-T or some other role,” Harmon explained. GQ. “He could be vice president or whatever. It would be great to work with him sometime. I like his voice. That’s why I do a dumb impression of him.”

Despite how much Harmon wanted Ice-T on the show, even before making “Get Swifty” he was frightened about what would occur if the rapper said no. eventually Rick and Morty It was hardly the global sensation it’s now when the episode was in production around early 2015.

“There’s a weird side to people doing impressions, which is if you just do it, it’s okay because it’s a parody,” Harmon said. “But if you ask them to be on your show and they say no and then you do an impression of them, that’s called ripping them off and they can sue you.” After that, the only option left for Harmon was to make the impression himself. (Harmon lends his voice to many characters on the show, including Bird Person, Mr. Nimbus, and Tickets Please Guy.) Harmon’s Ice-T impression, nonetheless, had a much earlier history.

Dungeons and Dragons Connection

Before taking it out Rick and MortyHarmon used his Ice-T impression. Episode No. 92 (“It’s not personal, it’s business”) of his podcast Harmon Town was released in February 2014 while talking about how Ice-T narrated the story of Dungeons & Dragons as a part of a fortieth anniversary anthology. Harmon reproduces just a few lines from him, and the group has a fast D&D session with Harmon’s Ice-T as the dungeon master.

Just just a few weeks ago, Ice-T spoke on his podcast. (*8*)The final level About narrating a 40-page D&D story for Audible, here’s why. Harmon Town The staff was debating it.

“I read an audiobook … they said, ‘Ice we want you to read this book.’ They didn’t tell me it was a Motherfuckin’ Dungeons & Dragons book! Ice-T said, referring to the tabletop role-playing game as “a few of the most insane, deeply, deeply silly shit ever invented.” Where “Mother Fox talks like Yoda” he thought would be easy to read. It wasn’t. It was better to hear him talk about reading.

Ice-T said, “Seeing me trying to the left while attempting to read some Dungeons & Dragons shit with my South Central educated ass, talking about Pegasuses and Pegasi (that are winged horses). could be cool,” Ice-T said. “Then this Mother Faker has a sword that talks to her and shit! … Mother Fakers live in places that don’t exist. … My God.”

Ice read RA Salvatore’s. Comrades at OddsIncludes one in every of 12 stories. Signs of Drizzt: Collected Stories (You can take heed to it. Here). Sean Aston, Weird Al Yankovic, David Duchoni, and Dan Harmon himself were also included in the anthology to have fun D&D’s fortieth anniversary this 12 months. So you possibly can see why Harmon and friends might wish to speak about Ice-T’s introduction to D&D, considering Harmon Town Dungeons & Dragons focuses heavily on gameplay.

How did you discover out about Ice Tea? Rick and Morty

Despite Harmon saying that he never directly approached Ice-T about “Get Swifty”, Ice’s people were aware of it during production.

“Word came while we were on tour that they were doing one. Rick and Morty About me,” Ice-T revealed another time In May 2020. “I love it. Rick and Morty And I just went, ‘Tell them not to piss me off.’ … My role isn’t over so there’s a chance he’ll come back, and the only reason I didn’t speak up was because I was on tour in Europe at the time.

Days after “Get Schwifty” originally aired in August 2015, a fan shared a clip of Ice-T from the episode. “This happens to the cartoonist after many drugs….fn crazy!!” They Answered. Almost four years later, Ice is far more positive about the whole thing: “I got a lot of love from my side. Rick and Morty Appearance!” he wrote Twitter In May 2019.

Interestingly, with the hormone Q&A GQ A very public plea from 2018 included: “Ice-T, that is my personal appeal to you. Please come and speak up. Rick and Morty“

As it turns out, Ice-T was listening, and now we have the most epic of all Rick and Morty Ever episodes, complete with a badass rap number. The fact that Harmon reprises the role of Water-T while Ice-T voices the character’s father feels just right. Somewhere out there, Dan Harmon has a big smile on his face thanks to this episode.