Lightning In A Bottle
Adult Swim
Harmon said they wrote the pilot script between six and eight hours. “Yeah, we broke the story the same day that we pitched it to the network and then went and drafted it up right after that,” Roiland told the LA Times. “It’s not always that fast. It was kind of lightning in a bottle. Dan was kind of ready to call it a day, and I just felt it. I was like, ‘It’s in my head now.’ And I will procrastinate pretty bad. But that day, for some reason, I was like, we need to do it.”
Harmon elaborated: “We literally had just sold the idea to Nick Weidenfeld (then head of program development for Adult Swim), and he was walking out of my unfurnished, empty Community office where I pitched it to him. We were sitting on the floor, cross-legged with laptops, and I was about to get up and go home, and (Roiland) said, ‘Wait, if you go home, it might take us three months to write this thing. Stay here right now, and we can write it in six hours.’ He just had a premonition about that. It was between Seasons 2 and 3 of Community.”
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