The future of the popular Adult Swim cartoon “Rick and Morty” is uncertain after co-creator, and voice of the two main characters, Justin Roiland was fired, but fans think they’ve found a solution in the form of a viral TikTok creator.
Sacramento-based TikTok user Sean Dorrough has attracted two million TikTok followers and 67,700 Instagram followers mostly because of his spot-on “Rick and Morty” voices. Now his fans are petitioning Warner Bros. Discovery to hire him as Roiland’s replacement, which they claim will be a seamless transition.
They keep tagging Adult Swim and leaving comments on Dorrough’s accounts saying, “Replace Justin for Rick and Morty,” and “Any calls from Adult Swim yet?”
Roiland was let go from the network after it came to light that he’d been charged with two felonies, including one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and or deceit, as The Daily Wire previously reported. Adult Swim announced Roiland was out on January 24.
“Rick and Morty” is a popular sci-fi animated sitcom that debuted in 2013. It relies on dark humor and features the main character Morty Smith journeying across the universe and between alternate realities with his eccentric, sarcastic grandfather Rick Sanchez. Roiland was the voice of both characters, meaning now these parts will need to be recast.
Social media users are convinced that Dorrough is the right person for the job. The creator told Insider on Wednesday he started doing impressions after a fellow child in foster care taught him how to mimic Donald Duck when he was 6. “I’ve been doing impressions ever since,” he told the publication.
Even Roiland weighed in on Dorrough’s talent in the past. “That’s scary, scary, scary close,” he told Vanity Fair in July of the TikTok star’s impressions of Rick and Morty.
“If you were to play that next to me doing it, people would have a hard time knowing which was which,” he continued. The “Rick & Morty” co-creator said he told Dorrough personally that no one would be able to tell their voices apart, though he did express that the social media star needed to work on his Rick impression.
“He was interviewing people for his job without even knowing it lol,” one of the top comments on the YouTube video of the interview says.
While Dorrough hasn’t been tapped for auditions just yet, he did tell Insider that he’s ready if it comes to that. “I’m very familiar with the characters, their mannerisms, and their personalities,” he told Insider of potentially working on “Rick and Morty.”
“I am confident that I could do the role,” he concluded.