Dan Harmon, the co-creator of "Rick and Morty" and creator of "Community," deleted his Twitter account Monday after a disturbing 2009 video resurfaced online.
The video broke out toward the end of the weekend while Harmon was at San Diego Comic-Con partaking in a drunken, fake radio show-style panel discussion with fellow "Rick and Morty" creator Justin Roiland and voice actress Cassie Steele.
Harmon deleted his social media account soon after.
The "Daryl" video _ it was the first in a two-episode parody series that was supposedly a send-up of Showtime's serial-killer drama "Dexter" _ went up in June 2009 via Channel 101, a monthly short-film competition created by Harmon and writing partner Rob Schrab.
Harmon starts off the video saying, "Hi, I'm Dan Harmon. You're about to watch my controversial new pilot, 'Daryl.'" The viewer soon sees Harmon's character breaking into a house and simulating rape on a baby doll.
This is not the first time he has taken part in creepy behavior.
He was called out on Twitter earlier this year by co-writer Megan Ganz for sexually assaulting her on set, which he then apologized for in his podcast, "Harmontown."
"I want to say I did it by not thinking about it and I got away with it by not thinking about it," Harmon said on the podcast. "And if she hadn't mentioned something on Twitter, I would have continued to not have to not think about it, although I did walk around with my stomach in knots about it, but I wouldn't have had to talk about it."
Calling it "a masterclass in how to apologize," Ganz accepted the apology.
The Times has reached out to Harmon and the team at "Rick and Morty" for comment.
