Dan Harmon#Baby doll video

Daniel James Harmon{{cite podcast|last=Harmon|first=Dan|title=Harmontown Episode 319: Goodbye Sam|website=Harmontown|publisher=Starburns Audio|date=January 31, 2019|time=11:00|url=https://www.harmontown.com/2019/01/episode-goodbye-sam/|access-date=February 14, 2019}} was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 3, 1973. He graduated from Brown Deer High School in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, and attended Marquette University. He briefly attended Glendale Community College in Glendale, California, an experience which would later form the basis of his sitcom Community.{{cite news |last1=Ebright |first1=Olsen |title=NBC's "Community" Based on Glendale Community College |url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/television/NBC-Community-Joel-McHale-Glendale-College-59652387.html |access-date=July 7, 2014 |work=NBC Los Angeles |date=September 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714113658/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/television/NBC-Community-Joel-McHale-Glendale-College-59652387.html |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=live}}

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Harmon was a member of ComedySportz in Milwaukee, alongside Rob Schrab, a member of the sketch troupe The Dead Alewives. They produced an album, Take Down the Grand Master, in 1996. Harmon frequently appeared at Milwaukee's Safehouse free comedy stage early in his career. A notable routine was a song about masturbation.

Harmon co-created the television pilot Heat Vision and Jack (starring Owen Wilson and Jack Black) and several Channel 101 shows, some featuring Black, Drew Carey, and Sarah Silverman. He co-created Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program and served as head writer for several episodes.

Harmon portrayed a highly fictionalized version of Ted Templeman on two episodes of the Channel 101 web series Yacht Rock, a satirical history of soft rock, featuring stories about Templeman's collaborations with The Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald and Van Halen. He was the creator, executive producer, and a featured performer in Acceptable.TV, a Channel 101-based sketch show airing for eight episodes in March 2007 on VH1. He and Rob Schrab co-wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated film Monster House. He is credited with writing part of Rob Schrab's comic book series Scud: The Disposable Assassin, as well as the spin-off comic series La Cosa Nostroid.

In 2009, Harmon's sitcom Community, inspired by his own community college experiences, was picked up by NBC to be in its fall lineup. Harmon served as executive producer and showrunner for 3 seasons until May 18, 2012, when it was announced that Harmon was being terminated from his position on Community as a result of creative conflicts between himself and Sony executives.{{cite news |last1=Rose |first1=Lacey |title='Community's' Dan Harmon Reveals the Wild Story Behind His Firing and Rehiring |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/communitys-dan-harmon-reveals-wild-586084 |access-date=July 7, 2014 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=July 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708061249/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/communitys-dan-harmon-reveals-wild-586084 |archive-date=July 8, 2014 |url-status=live}} On June 1, 2013, Harmon announced that he would be returning to Community, serving as co-showrunner along with Chris McKenna;Simpson, Connor (June 1, 2013). "[http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/06/dan-harmon-officially-returning-community/65791 Dan Harmon Is Officially Returning to 'Community.'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609031428/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/06/dan-harmon-officially-returning-community/65791/ |date=2013-06-09 }}" TheAtlanticWire.com. Retrieved June 6, 2013.Harris, Aisha (June 3, 2013). "[http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/03/dan_harmon_returning_to_community_for_fifth_season.html The Brightest Timeline: Dan Harmon Returning to Community] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607045810/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/03/dan_harmon_returning_to_community_for_fifth_season.html |date=2013-06-07 }}." Slate.com. Retrieved June 6, 2013. this was confirmed by Sony Pictures on June 10.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2013/06/done-deal-dan-harmon-chris-mckenna-to-return-to-community-for-season-5-517128/ |title=DONE DEAL: Dan Harmon & Chris McKenna To Return To 'Community' For Season 5 |work=Deadline Hollywood |first=Nellie |last=Andreeva |date=June 10, 2013 |access-date=June 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613113903/http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/done-deal-dan-harmon-chris-mckenna-to-return-to-community-for-season-5/ |archive-date=June 13, 2013 |url-status=live}} NBC cancelled the show after its fifth season in May 2014,{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27372623 |title=Community TV show "difficult" to resurrect says creator |last=Butterly |first=Amelia |date=May 12, 2014 |website=BBC |access-date=May 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512165415/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27372623 |archive-date=May 12, 2014 |url-status=live}} after which Harmon announced on June 30, 2014, that Yahoo! had renewed the series for a 13-episode sixth season to air online on Yahoo! Screen.{{Cite news |url=http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-renewed-by-yahoo-for-sixth-season-movie-to-follow |title='Community' renewed by Yahoo for sixth season; movie to follow? |last=Sepinwall |first=Alan |date=June 30, 2014 |work=HitFix |access-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630223148/http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-renewed-by-yahoo-for-sixth-season-movie-to-follow |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |url-status=live}} In a 2024 interview, returning star Yvette Nicole Brown confirmed that Community movie's script is ready, and the movie is in the works.{{Cite web |last=Garner |first=Glenn |date=2024-10-04 |title='Community' Movie Is Being "Reworked" But Yvette Nicole Brown Says "A Script Exists" |url=https://deadline.com/2024/10/community-movie-being-reworked-yvette-nicole-brown-says-script-exists-1236107256/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

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On May 23, 2011, Harmon began hosting a monthly live comedy show and podcast at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood called Harmontown. After his firing from Community, the show became weekly. The show is co-hosted by Jeff B. Davis. Harmontown has included a regular segment where the hosts played an ongoing campaign of pen-and-paper role-playing games, first Dungeons & Dragons, and later Shadowrun, with the help of show Game Master Spencer Crittenden. The segment inspired the Seeso original animated series HarmonQuest. The show has included multiple celebrity guests. Harmon and Davis took the show on tour in early 2013, which was the subject of a documentary. The documentary, also called Harmontown, was produced by director Neil Berkeley that follows Harmon, Davis, McGathy, and Crittenden. It premiered at the Austin Film Festival SXSW on March 8, 2014.{{cite news |last=DeFore |first=John |title=Harmontown: SXSW Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/harmontown-sxsw-review-687305 |access-date=April 10, 2014 |newspaper=Hollywood Reporter |date=March 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608234022/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/harmontown-sxsw-review-687305 |archive-date=June 8, 2014 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Lies |first=Erica |title=Diving Into the Cult of Dan Harmon in 'Harmontown' |url=http://splitsider.com/2014/04/diving-into-the-cult-of-harmon-in-harmontown/ |access-date=April 10, 2014 |newspaper=Splitsider |date=April 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410055448/http://splitsider.com/2014/04/diving-into-the-cult-of-harmon-in-harmontown/ |archive-date=April 10, 2014 |url-status=dead }} On September 10, 2019, the Harmontown Twitter account announced that the podcast would be coming to an end,{{cite tweet |author=Harmontown |author-link=Harmontown |user=Harmontown |number=1171524760959799298 |date=September 10, 2019 |title=All good things must come to an end, and Harmontown is no exception. The final Harmontown episode will be in December 2019. If you're a subscriber or want to be an audience member for one of our last shows, see our post: https://reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/d2dxnb/harmontown_is_ending/|access-date=December 5, 2019}} and its final episode was published on December 5, 2019.{{cite podcast|last=Harmon|first=Dan|title=Harmontown Episode 360: Cliffhanger!|website=Harmontown|publisher=Starburns Audio|date=December 5, 2019|time=2:21:09|url=https://www.harmontown.com/2019/12/episode-cliffhanger/|access-date=December 10, 2019}}

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During the first season of Community, Harmon also co-founded Starburns Industries with several people including Dino Stamatopoulos, who played a character called Star-Burns on Community. In its first year, the company produced a stop-motion episode of Community which garnered the company an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation. Starburns Industries was then involved in the creation of Rick and Morty and animated films Anomalisa and Bubbles. It has also produced season 2 of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole and the special Beforel Orel for Adult Swim, HarmonQuest for Seeso and VRV and Animals for HBO.{{cite web|url=https://www.starburnsindustries.com/about|title=About|website=starburnsind|language=en|access-date=November 5, 2019}}

In 2013, Harmon published the book You'll Be Perfect When You're Dead.{{cite web |url=http://www.thecomedybureau.com/post/40028441528/dan-harmon-book-now-available |title=Dan Harmon's "You'll Be Perfect When You're Dead" Now Available |access-date=December 11, 2014 |website=The Comedy Bureau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113233535/http://www.thecomedybureau.com/post/40028441528/dan-harmon-book-now-available |archive-date=January 13, 2015 |url-status=live}}

Harmon left the company in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Wit |first1=Alex Dudok de |title='Rick And Morty' Co-Creator Dan Harmon Has Left Starburns Industries, The Company He Co-Founded |url=https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/rick-and-morty-creator-dan-harmon-has-left-starburns-industries-the-company-he-co-founded-184683.html |work=Cartoon Brew |date=January 14, 2020}} The studio's output declined steadily after the departure, with their only released projects after 2020 being The Freak Brothers and Slippin' Jimmy.

Harmon and co-showrunner Justin Roiland began developing ideas for an animated show during Harmon's yearlong break from Community.{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Ivan |title=Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland on 'Rick and Morty', How 'Community' Is Like 'Star Trek', and Puberty |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/01/rick-and-morty-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland-interview.html |access-date=July 7, 2014 |work=Vulture |date=January 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706120428/http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/rick-and-morty-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland-interview.html |archive-date=July 6, 2014 |url-status=live}} For its fall 2012 season, Adult Swim ordered a 30-minute animated pilot from Harmon and Roiland. The pilot, Rick and Morty, is about the adventures of a brilliant but mean-spirited inventor and his less-than-genius grandson.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/adult-swim-pilots-community-harold-kumar-324657 |title=Upfronts 2012: Adult Swim Orders Eight Pilots, Including a Project From 'Community's' Dan Harmon |work=Hollywood Reporter |first=Lacey |last=Rose |date=May 15, 2012 |access-date=May 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519232740/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/adult-swim-pilots-community-harold-kumar-324657 |archive-date=May 19, 2012 |url-status=live}} The show premiered on December 2, 2013, and was renewed for second and third seasons.{{cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Leslie |title=Dan Harmon's 'Rick and Morty' Renewed for Second Season |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dan-harmons-rick-morty-renewed-679875 |access-date=March 27, 2014 |newspaper=Hollywood Reporter |date=February 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317173533/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dan-harmons-rick-morty-renewed-679875 |archive-date=March 17, 2014 |url-status=live}} In May 2018, Rick and Morty was renewed for a further 70 episodes after Harmon and Roiland came to an agreement with Adult Swim.{{Cite news |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/rick-and-morty-renewed-adult-swim-1202805945/ |title='Rick and Morty' Scores 70-Episode Order at Adult Swim |last=Otterson |first=Joe |date=May 10, 2018 |work=Variety |access-date=May 14, 2018 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514105925/http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/rick-and-morty-renewed-adult-swim-1202805945/ |archive-date=May 14, 2018 |url-status=live}} The series' fourth season concluded in May 2020. Harmon voiced the recurring character of Bird Person. In January 2023, Harmon became the sole showrunner after Roiland was dismissed from the series amidst domestic assault charges.{{cite web | url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/adult-swim-fires-justin-roiland-rick-and-morty-recast-1234803538/ | title=Adult Swim Severs Ties with Justin Roiland: 'Rick and Morty Will Continue' | date=January 24, 2023 }}{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Lacey |date=September 27, 2023 |title=Dan Harmon Is Ready to Talk About All of It (Including the Justin Roiland Drama) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/dan-harmon-interview-rick-morty-community-krapopolis-justin-roiland-1235600699/ |access-date=October 11, 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

It was announced through the online site The A.V. Club in July 2017 that Harmon and Evan Katz would adapt Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan into a television series.{{cite news |last=Hurley |first=Laura |title=Rick And Morty Co-Creator Dan Harmon Has A Completely Unexpected New Show In The Works |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1682599/rick-and-morty-co-creator-dan-harmon-has-a-completely-unexpected-new-show-in-the-works |access-date=July 18, 2017 |website=Cinema Blend |date=July 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719025450/http://www.cinemablend.com/television/1682599/rick-and-morty-co-creator-dan-harmon-has-a-completely-unexpected-new-show-in-the-works |archive-date=July 19, 2017 |url-status=live}} As of October 2021, no more details have been released.

In June 2020, it was announced that Fox has greenlit an animated comedy series from Harmon. The series will be set in Ancient Greece and is a co-production between Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment. On May 17, 2021, it was announced that the series would be titled Krapopolis.{{cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|title=Dan Harmon's Animated Series 'Krapopolis' To Be Created On Blockchain & Sell NFTs In A First For Fox|url=https://deadline.com/2021/05/dan-harmon-animated-series-krapopolis-blockchain-nfts-fox-1234758337/|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=May 17, 2021}} The series is the first fully-owned new-Fox series.{{cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|title='Fox Greenlights Fully Owned Animated Series From Dan Harmon As Company Forges Path Being Linear & AVOD Player In SVOD-Dominated World|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/fox-dan-harmon-animated-series-fully-owned-linear-avod-player-svod-world-1234689042/|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=February 8, 2021}}

Harmon adapted the hero's journey, a well-known storytelling framework, for use in television; he calls this technique the "story circle".{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/09/mf_harmon/all/ |title=How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community |last=Raftery |first=Brian |date=September 22, 2011 |magazine=Wired |access-date=March 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323180511/https://www.wired.com/2011/09/mf_harmon/all/ |archive-date=March 23, 2017 |url-status=live}} He began developing the technique while stuck on a screenplay in the late 1990s, and wanted to codify the storytelling process to unveil the "structure" that powers movies and TV shows. He said, "I was thinking, there must be some symmetry to this. Some simplicity." While working on Channel 101, he found that many of the directors he was working with claimed that they were unable to write plots for television shows.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_aFOnT04g |title=Dan Harmon, Community – XOXO Festival (2012) |website=YouTube |date=November 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111170232/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_aFOnT04g |archive-date=January 11, 2015 |url-status=live}} This prompted him to simplify Joseph Campbell's structure of the hero's journey into a circular eight-step process that would reliably produce coherent stories.

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The story circle can supposedly be applied to all stories. Harmon uses it whenever he is writing a new story, saying, "I can't not see that circle. It's tattooed on my brain." The circle is divided into eight segments, each representing a stage of the plot: a character is introduced, wants something, enters a new environment, adapts to that environment, achieves their goal, encounters problems as a result of this, leaves that world, and is changed as a result. He writes the steps as follows:

1. A character is in a zone of comfort or familiarity.
2. They desire something.
3. They enter an unfamiliar situation.
4. They adapt to that situation.
5. They get that which they wanted.
6. They pay a heavy price for it.
7. They return to their familiar situation.
8. They have changed as a result of the journey.

Campbell's structure of the hero's journey is the main influence in Harmon's technique. In a blog post detailing the second sector of the circle, Harmon explained, "The point of this part of the circle is, our protagonist has been thrown into the water and now it's sink or swim. In Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell actually evokes the image of a digestive tract, breaking the hero down, divesting him of neuroses, stripping him of fear and desire. There's no room for bullshit in the unconscious basement. Asthma inhalers, eyeglasses, credit cards, fratty boyfriends, promotions, toupees, and cell phones can't save you here. The purpose here has become refreshingly—and frighteningly—simple."{{cite web |url=http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_104:_The_Juicy_Details |title=Story Structure 104: The Juicy Details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116155248/http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_104:_The_Juicy_Details |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |url-status=live}} The hero's journey has been adapted for screen and television writing before, most notably by former Disney developmental executive Christopher Vogler in his book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. Harmon has noted this book as an influence on the technique, as well as the work of Syd Field. Star Wars is an example of a film that consciously set out to use the hero's journey as a template for storytelling success.{{Cite web|url=https://www.starwars.com/news/mythic-discovery-within-the-inner-reaches-of-outer-space-joseph-campbell-meets-george-lucas-part-i|title=Mythic Discovery: Revisiting the Meeting between George Lucas and Joseph Campbell|date=October 22, 2015|website=StarWars.com}}

Harmon states that this circular structure of storytelling can be applied both to film and TV, suggesting in a Channel 101 blog that only the final intentions are different: "A feature film's job is to send you out of the theatre on a high in 90 minutes. Television's job is to keep you glued to the television for your entire life. This doesn't entail making stories any less circular (TV circles are so circular they're sometimes irritatingly predictable). It just means that the focus of step 8 is less riling-things-up and more getting-things-back-to-where-they-started."{{Cite web |title=Does this circle represent every TV show and film there is? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11351923/Does-this-circle-represent-every-TV-show-and-film-there-is.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120053122/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11351923/Does-this-circle-represent-every-TV-show-and-film-there-is.html |archive-date=January 20, 2023 |access-date=August 7, 2023 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=January 17, 2015 }} He has used the story circle technique extensively throughout projects such as Community{{cite web |url=http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/75209394079/some-community-whiteboards-for-episodes-1-and-2 |title=Some Community whiteboards for episodes 1 and 2. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118042318/http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/75209394079/some-community-whiteboards-for-episodes-1-and-2 |archive-date=January 18, 2017 |url-status=live}} and Rick and Morty.{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/fictionhub/rick-and-morty-writers-room-c2b79d6fe43c#.ngyyaswgr |title=Rick and Morty writer's room |last=Alez |first=Ray |date=July 16, 2016 |website=Medium |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116173817/https://medium.com/fictionhub/rick-and-morty-writers-room-c2b79d6fe43c#.ngyyaswgr |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |url-status=live}} In an interview with Collider, writer Adam Chitwood said, "Rick and Morty debuted in 2013 to a serious degree of anticipation, as it marked a new animated venture for Community creator Dan Harmon, but it was the marriage of Harmon's adeptness for structure and character and co-creator Justin Roiland's insanely creative/sometimes insane mind that made Rick and Morty much more than just another animated TV series for adults."

In an interview with Vulture, Harmon named a number of films, television shows, books, and artists that have shaped his writing style. This includes the films RoboCop and Network; the television shows Cheers, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Second City Television, and Twin Peaks; the books Slaughterhouse-Five and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; the play Sexual Perversity in Chicago; and writers, artists, and comedians including Garry Shandling, George Lucas, Spalding Gray, Charlie Kaufman, Woody Allen, Tom Kenny, and Chris Elliott.{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/12/dan-harmon-explains-his-cultural-influences.html|title=Dan Harmon Explains His Cultural Influences|work=Vulture|first=Jennifer|last=Vineyard|date=December 29, 2013 |access-date=July 17, 2020}}

In the same Vulture interview, Harmon mentioned Dungeons & Dragons, musician Tori Amos, and evolutionary anthropologist Elaine Morgan as influences. He singled out Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis, calling it a "peaceful, interesting, mythical concept, and a scientific one, that maybe the origin of Homo sapiens was kind of a fairy tale". For Rick and Morty, Harmon and co-creator Justin Roiland listed a number of influences on the show's style, including, Saturday Night Live, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, and the cult sci-fi film Zardoz.{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/rick-morty-influences-dan-harmon-justin-roiland.html|title=Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland on How Doctor Who, Beer, and Their Moms Influenced Rick and Morty|work=Vulture|first=Simon|last=Abrams|date=September 14, 2015 |access-date=July 17, 2020}}

In July 2009, Harmon was nominated in two Emmy categories for his part in writing the 81st Academy Awards telecast: Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, the latter of which he was awarded for "Hugh Jackman Opening Number" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 2018 and 2020, Harmon won the Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program" as the executive producer of Rick and Morty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/rick-and-morty|title=Rick And Morty|website=Television Academy}}

He was also nominated with Chris McKenna for a Hugo award for writing the Community episode, "Remedial Chaos Theory".{{cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2012-hugo-awards/|title = 2012 Hugo Awards|date = April 7, 2012}}

In 2011, while writing the character Abed for Community, Harmon realized through researching the character's traits that he might have Asperger syndrome. He consulted a doctor about it and concluded that he himself is on the spectrum.{{cite web |last=Lyons |first=Margaret |title=Community's Dan Harmon Discovered He had Asperger's While Writing Abed's Character |website=Vulture |date=September 23, 2011 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2011/09/community-dan-harmon-wired-aspergers-abed.html |access-date=May 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506214135/http://www.vulture.com/2011/09/community-dan-harmon-wired-aspergers-abed.html |archive-date=May 6, 2017 |url-status=live}} On a podcast hosted by Kevin Pollak, he said, "I know I'm not normal, but I think the important thing is that [...] I started to discover that I had a lot more in common with Abed than I did with Jeff."Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/Emo-OT3RzQc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140422194247/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emo-OT3RzQc&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emo-OT3RzQc&t=325s| title = Dan Harmon talks about Asperger's syndrome - Why Abed is a shaman [SubEng] [SubIta] | website=YouTube| date = February 14, 2014 }}{{cbignore}}

Harmon proposed to his girlfriend Erin McGathy in December 2013,{{cite web |last=McGathy |first=Erin |title=Erin McGathy, "Engaged!" |url=http://instagram.com/p/iesS5ICYRT/# |work=Instagram |publisher=Instagram.com |access-date=March 27, 2014 |date=December 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004231418/http://instagram.com/p/iesS5ICYRT |archive-date=October 4, 2014 |url-status=live}} and they were married in November 2014.{{cite web |url=http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/11/community-showrunner-dan-harmon-got-married-this-weekend-and-the-wedding-was-amazing/ |title='Community' Showrunner Dan Harmon Got Married This Weekend, And The Wedding Was Amazing |last1=Rowles |first1=Dustin |date=November 17, 2014 |website=Uproxx |access-date=December 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211122430/http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/11/community-showrunner-dan-harmon-got-married-this-weekend-and-the-wedding-was-amazing/ |archive-date=December 11, 2014 |url-status=live}} They announced they were divorcing in October 2015.{{cite tweet |first=Erin |last=McGathy |author-link=Erin McGathy |user=ErinMcGathy |number=653001328789098497 |date=October 10, 2015 |title=Sad to announce that @danharmon and I are divorcing. We ask that you respect our privacy as we discuss it openly on our respective podcasts |access-date=October 11, 2015}} In 2016, Harmon started dating TV writer Cody Heller.{{cite web|url=https://showbizpost.com/who-is-dan-harmons-girlfriend-cody-heller-her-wiki-height-net-worth-job-affair-family/|title = Who is Dan Harmon's girlfriend Cody Heller? Wiki: Height, Net Worth, Job|date = May 22, 2021}} In January 2019, Heller proposed to Harmon and the couple are now engaged.{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BsKGHBjFEPk/ |title=Cody Heller on Instagram: "Sorry the audio is bad, I filmed this video of me proposing to my boyfriend from above the glass ceiling" |publisher=Instagram.com |date= |accessdate=April 29, 2022}} Heller adapted a real-life experience with Harmon into the TV series Dummy, starring Anna Kendrick as Heller and Donal Logue as Harmon.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-dummy-the-quibi-show-about-rick-and-morty-creator-dan-harmons-sex-doll|title = Inside the Hilarious Show About a Famous Hollywood Boyfriend's Sex Doll|newspaper = The Daily Beast|date = April 18, 2020|last1 = Stern|first1 = Marlow}}

On January 2, 2018, Harmon alluded to sexual misconduct from himself towards other people. Megan Ganz, a writer who worked with him on Community, named herself as a victim of his misconduct. In response to his apology and willingness to make things right, Ganz said that while she appreciated his gestures, she was not yet ready to forgive him.{{cite web |last1=Barsanti |first1=Sam |title=Former Community writer Megan Ganz calls out Dan Harmon for misconduct |url=https://www.avclub.com/former-community-writer-megan-ganz-calls-out-dan-harmon-1821754073 |website=The A.V. Club |date=January 3, 2018 |access-date=January 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104013427/https://www.avclub.com/former-community-writer-megan-ganz-calls-out-dan-harmon-1821754073 |archive-date=January 4, 2018 |url-status=live}} After the exchange, he made a lengthy apology on his podcast Harmontown and went into detail about his wrongdoings, which included making advances on Ganz and then mistreating her after she turned him down. Ganz ultimately accepted his apology; she said that she felt vindicated by his admission, called it a "masterclass in how to apologize", and urged her Twitter followers to listen to it.{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/11/16879702/dan-harmon-apology-megan-ganz-community |journal=Vox |title=Most harassment apologies are just damage control. Dan Harmon's was a self-reckoning. |date=January 11, 2018 |access-date=January 12, 2018 |first=Caroline |last=Framke |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112071319/https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/11/16879702/dan-harmon-apology-megan-ganz-community |archive-date=January 12, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/arts/dan-harmon-megan-ganz.html |journal=The New York Times |title=Megan Ganz on Dan Harmon's Apology: 'I Felt Vindicated' |date=January 14, 2018 |access-date=January 14, 2018 |first=Jonah Engel |last=Bromwich |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113163515/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/arts/dan-harmon-megan-ganz.html |archive-date=January 13, 2018 |url-status=live}}

In July 2018, Harmon received criticism when a comedy skit from 2009 resurfaced. The video, titled "Daryl", was intended to be a parody of Dexter and featured Harmon acting out raping a baby (which, in the video, was a doll). Harmon apologized for the video and said, "In 2009, I made a 'pilot' which strove to parody the series Dexter and only succeeded in offending. I quickly realized the content was way too distasteful and took the video down immediately. Nobody should ever have to see what you saw and for that, I sincerely apologize." Adult Swim released a statement criticizing the video, but appeared to be satisfied with Harmon's apology.{{cite web |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/rick-and-mortys-dan-harmon-deletes-twitter-after-controversial-video-emerges/ |title=Rick and Morty's Dan Harmon apologizes for baby doll video, Adult Swim forgives him |last=Little |first=Morgan |date=July 23, 2018 |website=CNET |access-date=July 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724174023/https://www.cnet.com/news/rick-and-mortys-dan-harmon-deletes-twitter-after-controversial-video-emerges/ |archive-date=July 24, 2018 |url-status=live}} Multiple sources associated Harmon's decision to delete his Twitter account with the backlash.{{cite web |last1=Harmon |first1=Steph |title=Dan Harmon apologises and quits Twitter after obscene video sketch resurfaces |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/24/dan-harmon-deletes-twitter-account-after-obscene-video-sketch-resurfaces |website=The Guardian |access-date=September 8, 2018 |date=July 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906081936/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/24/dan-harmon-deletes-twitter-account-after-obscene-video-sketch-resurfaces |archive-date=September 6, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web| title = Dan Harmon Leaves Twitter After Offensive Video Surfaces| author = Alexandra August| work = ScreenRant| date = July 24, 2018| access-date = October 9, 2021| url = https://screenrant.com/dan-harmon-leaves-twitter-rick-morty-offensive-video}}{{cite web |title=Rick and Morty co-creator leaves Twitter after 4chan, far-right spread old, offensive skit |author=Julia Alexander |work=Polygon |date=July 23, 2018 |access-date=October 9, 2021 |url= https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/23/17604178/rick-morty-dan-harmon-twitter-4chan-reddit-far-right |quote=It's hard to ignore the timing of Harmon's departure right as a graphic sketch he starred in, "Daryl," resurfaces. }} However, on an episode of Harmontown in February 2019, he revealed that he had deleted his Twitter account prior to the backlash in response to Disney's firing of James Gunn for jokes that Gunn had made on Twitter between 2008 and 2012.{{cite podcast|last=Harmon|first=Dan|url= https://www.harmontown.com/2019/02/episode-this-much-funches/| title=This Much Funches|website=Harmontown|publisher=Starburns Audio| date=February 7, 2019| minutes=65}}

• Scud: The Disposable Assassin #4–5, 8–9, 13–15 & 17–19 (co-writer and illustrator Rob Schrab, co-writer Mondy Carter, colorist Zac Rybacki, Fireman Press, 1994)
• La Cosa Nostroid #1–9 (illustrator Edward Clayton, Fireman Press, 1996)
• Monster House (illustrator and co-writer Simeon Wilkins, IDW Publishing, 2006){{cite web |url=https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR063230 |title=MONSTER HOUSE ONE SHOT |website=previewsworld.com |access-date=January 14, 2023}}

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