i'm mr meeseeks look at me rick and morty thread

i'm mr meeseeks look at me!

i watch each episode multiple times and they only get funnier each time. simulation ep funniest so far but meeseeks is hilarious

this show is the best

this show has made me re-identify entirely w/ my name

this show is incredible.

the Mr Meeseeks episode is the first one I've seen that I thought was funny

u didn't like the simulation episode? i thought the jerry subplot was hysterical. "yep."

i hate community so i'm surprised i like this show. i wish it was somewhat less southparky/scatological/trollish but there's enough of interest to make it worthwhile

The pilot left me cold and I haven't really been paying attention to it

friend showed me the mr meeseeks episode the other day. it was super funny but did u notice that the characters keep stuttering and going "uhhh"? whats up with that

i think the pilot was the weakest ep so far (the m night shmalyalien one was the best) tho i was already really impressed by the art + humor from the beginning

slow down. looking good. my man!

also every single glitch gag was hilarious

Fucking love this show, but yeah, the pilot is easily the weakest episode. The voice actors hadn't really settled in, and their verbal tics were really annoying.

I also kind of can't deal with the slobber/vomit on Rick's chin

I really hate the non-Rick and Morty characters, particularly the dad. Are there any episodes where the dad is not in it at all?

The dad is hilarious in the simulation episode.

Watching the pilot, Rick sounds an awful lot like he's based on Dan Harmon's verbal tics and heavy drinking

i endorse this television

Roiland's original short from 2006 is here: http://vimeo.com/m/49664066

it's pretty bad imo, but the voices are almost all the way there.

I should mention that video is totally nsfw at all and extremely juvenile

The guy who does the voices of both Rick and Morty is also Earl of Lemongrab!

figures

also House of Cosbys iirc

http://www.avclub.com/article/rick-and-morty-officially-renewed-for-a-second-sea-107698

HA! of COURSE the guy behind House of Cosbys did this. "Roooooooooo-deeeeeeeeeee! Theeeeeeee-ooooooooooo!"

oh man this show. that meeseeks bit, the way they kept throwing "i'm mr meeseeks! look at me!" in the middle of their speeches, basically anytime a meeseeks was on screen, slayed me. anyone know how any episodes there'll be? also why have so many american tv show taken a break these past two weeks?

olympics

my guess is that the first season will have 10. Moral Orel had 10 in the first season, as did Frankenhole (MO got an expanded second season, Frankenhole just got 10 more). Squidbillies only had 6, and Venture Bros had 13 in the first season.

ah ok thx jvc
mordy, are any of those shows anything like rick & morty? i'm in the mood for smth good. have watched a half ep of venture bros and not really into it tbh.

squidbillies is stupid, but moral orel is alltime classic imho. also try china, il, metalocalypse + frisky dingo (by the guy who does archer now) - none of them are like rick + morty but they're all off-beat stoner friendly cartoons that premiered on adult swim so in that way they're all exactly like rick + morty.

I really should give this another try, the pilot really didn't work for me but I keep hearing it's gotten better.

Venture Bros will always be the ultimate Adult Swim animated thing but the long breaks between seasons drive me nuts.

this probably sounds like an excuse, but venture bros takes patience. i basically hated it at first, but it builds on itself and just keeps getting better as it goes. easily one of the best things adult swim has aired.

there's eleven episodes in season one btw, so five still to come.

"i really cronenberged up the world today"

omg mazzy star

<3 this show

Yeah, I just caught up with the last two episodes and now I'm a convert.

This is Earth Radio. And now, here's...human music:
https://m.soundcloud.com/el_der/human-music-as-featured-in

Can't get over mr meeseeks

this is back for 5 new episodes starting monday btw

Reddit AMA w/ Roiland and Harmon:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/202owt/we_are_dan_harmon_and_justin_roiland_creators_of/

last episode was every bad thing about harmon's style rolled into one: vapid sentimentality, pointless improvisational teenage blathering heavy on the pop culture references, fourth wall breaking, DEEP MEANING without meaning ("i eat breakfast every morning twenty yards from my rotting corpse")... it's been a mostly good and occasionally very good show until here but man do i hope they hold off on this penny arcade ish in the future

http://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/20nnms/rick_and_morty_rixty_minutes_season_1_episode_8/
ugh

Oh, I fucking loved this episode. Might be my third favorite, after Meeeseeeks and the alien simulator.

lol i really liked this episode too - not sure i'd put it in my top 3 tho bc cronenberg ep was still better + this seemed more improv/pastiche which is great + hilarious but maybe not quite as masterful as some of the others?

Is this the one with the sex robot? That one is the first I actually disliked. The Marmaduke writer appearing at the end seemed very "Family Guy" and too many of the jokes relied on tired "battle of the sexes" tropes.

no, this is the one w/ the tv + alternate reality device. i thought the conclusion was even a little affecting. and the improv commercials + shows were hilarious

yeah same here, found the ep v entertaining. dunno why but the whole fake doors thing, including r&m's bewilderement at whether it was an ad or a movie or reality tv, really got me.

I was hoping they'd stick with the spiderweb-pooping teddy bear a little longer.

different strokes i guess? really really disliked this one; "family guy" comparisons felt painfully appropriate.

to me it sounded like a bunch of stoners in a room telling each other jokes and then having them animated

I liked it, but for those who don't, is it really fair to blame this on Harmon? I mean, the improvised "alien TV" thing is basically a half-hour version of the "alien news" gag from House of Cosbys...

my few attempts at community made me fear this ep was what the whole series would be about but there's certainly blame to go around

aw rick is still watching ball fondlers when summer comes back.
is it me or in just about every other episode the dad has something happen that makes him feel good about himself, feel competent/relevant, only to crushingly return hto his more usual mediocrity. apple ad campaign being a major success in the alien's virtual reality, he's some kind of survival hero protecting his daughter and wife, this time he's a big celebrity on pluto etc.
also the opening & closing bits of butter robot wondeing about his purpose and summer & rick montage killed me.

the butter robot opening just slayed me. "what is my purpose?" "you pass the butter" "oh my goddddddd" "welcome to the team, pal."

http://meeseeks.com/

Sepinwall did an extended interview with Dan Harmon, and just posted the last bit which was all about R&M.

Phones a la clams, and phonesghetti with phoneballs.

Mr Meeseeks was the only episode of this I've enjoyed without reservation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecYoSvGO60

https://www.facebook.com/adultswim/videos/10153387105301745/?permPage=1

so we're only three episodes in, but this show is kind of consistently good now somehow. They dropped the Family Guy style cultural dada and are focusing on two or three clever ideas per ep and then engaging in adventure time style world building / character development. Hope they stay the course.

Yeah first three eps have been great, and the first episode might be my favorite thing they've done so far. The show's way better when it sticks to crazy ideas instead of pop culture refs. Futurama's the same way. They also need to cut back on the sentimental moments, they always feel thrown in and unearned. That's one thing Futurama did way better.

watched the mr meeseeks episode last night and now i'm completely 100% sold.

episode 4 of season 2 probably my favourite episode to date
watched it for the third time this morning

New season has hit it out the park every episode.I don't find the emotional/sentimental bits unearned at all; character is v much at the heart of this show, it's never just wacky adventures in space (tho it's that as well)

watched the infinite probability television ep yesterday... man!

be sure to watch "total rickall" too

Total Rickall was one of my favorites. fucking great concept.

New season has hit it out the park every episode.I don't find the emotional/sentimental bits unearned at all; character is v much at the heart of this show, it's never just wacky adventures in space (tho it's that as well)

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Mr Poopybutthole's fate was sincerely heartbreaking.

that sentence was hard to type.

on the one hand i felt the giant heads host a reality show music contest... and the fate of the world is at stake! conceit was stale but on the other i must shamefully admit that i kinda like "get shwifty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dicQ1N1R_Fo

wanna underline SHAMEFULLY btw

after my effusive praise upthread, shwifty felt like a comedown. its one of the weakest episodes of this or last season. I don't believe Rick would care too much about saving the world, morty's story didn't really add anything and the organised religion satire was route one of a kind that this show doesn't usually sink to. i wouldn't mind all this if the episode made me laugh but it missed that goal as well for me. it all felt a bit community s6. after 4 episodes of unadulterated joy they're due a coaster i suppose.

otoh, the song's a jam

i like this show but i rarely find it funny

I will never not laugh at the "Summer, where are my testicles" scene.

the one where they're just watching random TV tapped into something preternaturally funny for me. I could just watch that forever.

"Get Schwifty" and "Raise the Posterior" were in the adventure game.
https://youtu.be/rYX_UaXU4LE?t=41m22s

Didn't feel the last episode. I read the story "Microcosmic God" last year (also the inspiration of that Simpsons episode and that South Park episode). I think its ending hinted at recursively small worlds as well. It also has a creator who intentionally wiped out major portions of the micro population to have them evolve -- far darker than having them exercise to run a car battery. The show's B-plot was T2 kneecap shooting taken to a comedic extreme and I liked it.

I really liked this one.

For real? Nobody's going to talk about this week's special surprise guest star?

it was a nice touch

I should really be tired of [redacted] making voice cameos and milking his shtick but I'm really not

he did it in penguins of madagascar too (first 5 minutes for the curious)

it was the perfect voice for that little speech.

anyway this episode was weak. nothing as inspired as the door commercial that keeps on going from the first infinite tv.

the episodes focused on dick jokes and non-sequiturs are nowhere near as good as the ones that are myth building based

"Glip Glop?” You're lucky a Traflorkian doesn't hear you say that."

I thought both TV eps were kind of weak but I did appreciate the alien How It's Made. nailed the voiceover style and the background music so perfectly

(in the 1st one I liked the extended fake doors ad, and the ~emotional twist~ was strangely affecting the first time, but it didn't stand up to a 2nd viewing. also I always appreciate a moment of Belly nostalgia obv)

I love the alien names in this show. Shrimpy Pibbles, St. Gloopy Noops hospital, Andy Daly's character a while back being called Krombopulos Michael...just all of it.

Shrimpy Pibbles: Fruity Pebbles
Gloopy Noops: Froot Loops

wonderful season straight through and brilliant finale. can't wait for season 3.

i love how the cob planet was intolerable.

Rick's speech note -- "(trail off) (crumple up note) (ad-lib)" -- killed me.

a few clunkers (please no more non sequitur alien tv episodes) but otherwise, really a solid season.

fwiw i thought the second infinite tv episode was much funnier the second time i saw it. i guess i just rlly like throwaway jokes. anyway is season 3 really a year and a half away like they said at the end of the show?

for those of you going through withdrawal, i'm here to say that the Rick and Morty comic is aces and worth trying.

rick and morty is funny but all those baby words they use for everything are not funny

https://www.daylightcurfew.com/pages/daylight-curfew-advanced-list-signup

I don't even watch this show really but this is pretty amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXB988kF3hI

Lol okay, that is great

"You can't smile in court, that's a violation" gets me every time for some reason. more than the cock references.

season 2 blu-ray is completely worth it for the plumbus instruction manual alone

I got about 2 minutes into that video before I realized what they were doing. That's awesome.

I binge watched season 2 a couple of weeks ago on Hulu and it was absolutely amazing. I keep telling my wife about it even though she very clearly does not GAF. "Total Rickall" and the Tiny Rick episode were better than pretty much anything else on television.

The writing on Season 2 is so, so good.

And the universe is already so well realised.

thought this would be an update about a new season :-(

"Get Schwifty was a jam."

shit on the floooor

"We could put it right back and pretend we never saw it, like we did with dad's mannequin leg."

Wait, did their animators actually try to unionize and got squashed from above?

Had to look up the nearly inaudible thing Rick said while watching 9/11: "They're gonna use this as an excuse to take away our freedom!"

Not the funniest episode, but probably the craziest one they've done

prob not lasting very long but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064JuSdj7ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGRDCRuPklc

It was good. Hopefully they can keep it up.

Good ep. I now have high expectations for the next season.

xxp: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/rick-and-morty-co-creator-justin-roiland-fuck-the-union-103723.html
the comments are worth reading

i also had no idea 1) this was a thing, 2) the whole show was created as a sophomoric mike and ike style back to the future satire, 3) so much teabagging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTlK3perdI

Excellent episode.

Trying to watch this from the very start but the pilot is such utter horseshit that I'm very tempted to not continue. Is there a DRASTIC improvement?

Yes. Drastic.

so much teabagging

it is almost as if they thought that the very idea of teabagging was hilarious in itself and its hilarity was inexhaustible, like some frigging eternal flame. they were wrong.

it gets better but i think a lot of charm was there from the beginning. (and it's actually the kind of thing i'd be surprised if imago liked it)

context: i think bojack horseman is fucking brilliant, i like some adult swim and uh idk i can't watch family guy, which this resembles (observation courtesy tt)

tried 3 eps (including Meeseeks) and yeah this isn't for me (tho nor is Bojack)

I would be surprised if u didn't like this show, lj

it's too vulgar for lj

You gotta get to at least the simulation episode.

it's so prog, though. also i seem to recall it starting out way more douchey in a Family Guy way, which it totally shakes off

Trying to watch this from the very start but the pilot is such utter horseshit that I'm very tempted to not continue.

Later episodes help establish their universe a lot better. Once I understood it, the pilot and every other episode became a lot more engaging.

Family Guy is unwatchable.

bojack is far more grounded and kind-hearted than rick and morty, tho rick and morty is more laugh out loud funny. Besides being two excellent animated shows, I don't really see many similarities between the two.

Bojack is devastating. imo R&M is slightly lighter subject matter.

Any similarities were mentioned here: http://www.avclub.com/article/bojack-horseman-rick-and-morty-and-art-cynical-sin-223245

I sort of think if you don't dig the pilot at least a bit you won't dig the rest of it. I thought the pilot was great.

the second episode had Scary Terry and robot dogs ("Where are my testicles, Summer?") so if you don't get on board there I don't know what to tell you.

I sort of think if you don't dig the pilot at least a bit you won't dig the rest of it. I thought the pilot was great.

I loathed the pilot. Couldn't get on board with the show until Mr Meeseeks.

I agree that meeseeks is where it takes off. the vocal tics take a lot of getting used to.

The pilot was a little rough, but Scary Terry got me hooked. "Awwwww, bitch!" was a turning point.

pilot's fine, but it's difficult to get a solid read on the show from one episode. i mean, you shouldn't be getting "family guy" out of it...

kid has daydream of fondling girl's breasts, but oh no! he is fondling his teacher's moobs! the lolz! then loads of bum and poo jokes coz lol bum and lol poo

will give it more chances but that was a very, very inauspicious opening gambit

Later episodes do focus more on the meta science fictional than the scatalogical.

xp five more minutes of this and I'm gonna get mad!

Not my fault this is happening

I'm glad to know that you're above any and all scatalogical types of humor. Bully for your evolved attitude toward poop and boobs

Rick Potion No. 9.

that was the episode where i realized this show was amazing. it's a p ridiculous episode but they slow things down at the end and it is nothing short of fantastic.

Pilot charmed me by setting up the premise of the Doc/Marty relationship where Doc is a raging drunk who pulls Marty out of bed in the middle of the night for some insane adventure he's caught himself up in. Which alone is pretty funny and engaging enough to outweigh "moob" jokes or whatever that I don't even remember.

IDK, pilot episodes are tricky because it seems like anyone getting into a successful, well-loved show once it's established approaches them sneering, arms crossed, and all IMPRESS ME pretty much always.

Show me what you got!

I went into the show via the simulation episode and worked backwards. that worked out pretty well.

Jerry's B-plot in the simulation episode is my favorite family storyline of the series.

You're now listening to earth radio. Here's "Human Music."

My man!

when the generic guy kept saying "my man" i LOLed cos I imagined Big HOOS saying it....

Please save us all and this thread and quit watching now lj

Although the "Jerry daycare" b-plot is also pure gold, as is "Jerry and Beth hit a deer."

LJ i love you but i really don't think this show is for you.

i saw the pilot and first couple of eps but quickly lost interest. "Back to the Future But Drunk" as a premise is not very interesting.

haha i like that premise

total rickall i think is my fav episode of anything tbf

Human music. I like it!

FFS, "Back to the Future but drunk" doesn't exactly do justice to where this show goes, was just the initial hook for me in the first episode. But tbr that probably is enough of a premise to build a funny cartoon tv show, fuiud.

I am clearly an idiot for not recognising the back to the future link. Great show, the micro universes one in the second series had me it stitches.

my brother and sil dressed as marty + jennifer for purim and their baby as doc and we realized that they could've just as easily have been morty, summer + rick.

TINY Rick

aw :) rick and mordy!

I didn't figure out the BTTF thing until I stumbled across the first short.

it only occurred to me sorta out of the blue like last week

Just rewatched the pilot again and it's probably the best pilot they could make for something like this. Don't really see it as any outlier, but obv. your appreciation for this show or any other depends on some amount of familiarity.

This is the moment I knew this show was special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItV8utelYlc

maybe a lil too nerdy but i lol'd

https://i.redd.it/rjf301no0lvy.jpg

returning july 30th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ornXZGEFcds

dope. would love a list of animators.

synergy

Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/vNEIfHTmNU

— Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) July 30, 2017

the new one was very good, "darkest year of our adventures" doesn't seem like a stretch

i hope jerry remains a minor character. i hate how the simpsons turned into the homer show.

I agree, Jerry is the one character who seems like an archetype (he particularly reminds me of Randy Marsh).

Mordy killing people with buff arm and simultaneously apologizing was dope

i lol'd hard out loud 5-6 times this ep so i guess the magic has not worn off yet

Both of the scenes with Rick's Summer and Morty robots were great. "Save it for the Semantics Dome, E.B. White" was a line for the ages.

holy crap, that line killed me.

Also, when robot Morty freaked out and then rebooted.

yes robot morty was my favorite part of the episode

"haha ah jeez, my sister died in the spaghetti"

love this show unreservedly

the wind whispering "loseeerrrrrr" at Jerry killed me

FAMILY THERAPY
COPROPHAGIA RECOVERY

Another A+ episode. I almost couldn't stop laughing at "Wait, do *I* have infinite daughters?" "Nope. No, you do not."

yes, a great episode. i was bothered at first by the over-the-top violence, but it served a purpose--these are the lengths rick is willing to go to in order to skip family therapy

pickle rick sounded terrible on paper but worked excessively well as a joke delivery device in practice
the commitment and long term engagement with campy pop-culture ideas puts R&M sometimes perilously close to Family Guy territory but they somehow manage to always save the day with a strong underlying intelligence and a genuine nihilism that rings true

3 for 3 this season

yeah this episode was completely rickdiculous, but that was what made it so damn awesome.

We watched GoT and this back to back the other night and my bf then said "well, I'm ruined for TV forever now nothings gonna top that"

great ep, especially loved the therapists speech at the end

I was flummoxed at her being unfazed by pickle rick's existence but then again this is a therapist for poop eaters, so.

I was flummoxed at her being unfazed by pickle rick's existence but then again this is a therapist for poop eaters, so.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce)

Everyone in the world of R&M is unfazed by crazy sci-fi shit it seems. Fair enough if your planet was in an intergalactic talent show.

Incredible episode. This show's storytelling chops are second to none at the moment.

Having Simpsons and KOTH vets like Wes Archer and Dominic Polcino on staff has been extremely helpful.

recently found out that a friend of mine is an editor on this?

BTW the show now has its own quote/meme/GIF generator: https://masterofallscience.com/

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S02E02/339631.jpg?b64lines=IExvb2sgYXQgdGhpcyAtLSB5b3UgYmVhdCBjYW5jZXIsIGFuZCB0aGVuIHlvdSB3ZW50CiBiYWNrIHRvIHdvcmsgYXQgdGhlIGNhcnBldCBzdG9yZT8gQm9vIQ==

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S02E09/1291415.jpg?b64lines=SmVycnksIHdoYXQgaXMgIlRhZGRpIE1hc29uIExMQywiIAphbmQgd2h5IGlzIG91ciBwaG9uZSBiaWxsICQ3MDA_

this is going to make naming my fantasy football team so much easier (I was Ball Fondlers last season).

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E08/AtOVC91HhfZ95Mwn22oZFRbuaqA=.gif

oh shit i didn't even notice you could make GIFs

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E05/vp8s7_Z9B2W_7jfXi5KbHbSExeQ=.gif

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E03/diMfLNDlNpeXSNfNCMQohyvbGts=.gif

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E04/eabVgZKiCGqbQw8mjzA2VsO5gBo=.gif

https://masterofallscience.com/gif/S01E02/868493/872663/QXd3LCBiaXRjaC4gSSBkb24ndAoga25vdyB3aGF0IHRvIHNheS4=

https://masterofallscience.com/gif/S01E02/868493/872663.gif?b64lines=QXd3LCBiaXRjaC4gSSBkb24ndAoga25vdyB3aGF0IHRvIHNheS4=

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E04/9owsgPGnMGEA9VR2uLztiOSA3ys=.gif

haha yes

good utility

http://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E01/Nopr9XMsFWrN1zpj7DDpkQYn__k%3D.gif

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E02/QfN_IDEBAJKtUsC2jQySCeQssyI=.gif

LOL

http://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E04/Sul-akBROe3XMjjyO9_Rt3BZNvQ%3D.gif

one more:
http://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E05/GsOXOBOGrvl4IBzOzdgdbku8lYI%3D.gif

and one more for reference in future:
http://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E05/Uua81-Gc4FdCh1vK27jEmeD0Jr4%3D.gif

Pickle Rick yelling out a war cry as he ran toward the rats probably caused me to wake up my neighbors

https://masterofallscience.com/gif/S01E08/219302/221388/IEkgbWVhbiwgdGhlcmUncyBzbyAgbWFueSBhbnRzIGluIG15IGV5ZXMu

oops i didnt embed that soz

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E08/Jq27hk_cNjz_nCyvmQpGKz1qL1k=.gif

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S02E08/389055.jpg?b64lines=IElzIGl0ICBpbXBvcnRhbnQgdGhhdCB3ZSBrbm93IHdobyBKYW4gTWljaGFlbCBWaW5jZW50CiB3YXMuLi4gLSBJbiBvcmRlciB0byBnZXQgdGhpcz8KTm9wZS4=

ykes that was huge wtf

So I put on the latest episode and my mother in law sits down about a minute in, making a big fuss that i not stop whatever it is i wanted to watch. She sat through the entire thing god bless her (she had previously been watching Highway to Heaven).

aw

Pickle Rick was great. I wonder if the writers sometimes pick the hardest concepts they can think of, in order to challenge themselves

It was a pretty bizarre concept. "haha he turned himself into a pickle and cant turn back now he's stuffed... oh wait but hes NOT!"

He was, you could say....

In a pickle.

https://media.giphy.com/media/v9rfTQBNqdsSA/giphy.gif

using brains of dead rodents/insects as motor was boss

xpost oh jeezus Trayce

i was genuinely sad that Beth and Rick ignored the kids' hints that they wanted to continue therapy

was hoping Trayce's gif would be of Rick putting on sunglasses

The guy who wrote the theme song/does the score got his musical start at my shop so I feel I have finally contributed something worthwhile to the world.

I mean hopefully my kids will exceed that but you know the jury is still out on them.

was hoping Trayce's gif would be of Rick putting on sunglasses

DAMMIT.

http://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E02/puEE6fbj0OBmLAZRepNqpkOXfuQ%3D.gif

"so anyway, Dr WONG....racist name, by the way..."

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E04/aqRBFADiNbTbu3PDb7iUsxyEbiM=.gif

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/TaTef

Dude built a 1:1 scale Pickle Rick.

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E11/iD9ryeacWqzRoDfLrxe-3Nd6uv4=.gif

how does that get built so fast?!

He says he spent 12 hours on a sunday doing it. Thats dedication!

Also, thats awesome :D

I am not feeling this series at all so far :-(

ok

http://i.imgur.com/mLAjKr1.gif

Whaaat, it has been great!

what episodes have you watched?

first three. I just haven't found them very funny.

And you liked the previous seasons?

yeah i was gonna say: first three of this season or of the first season? cuz i think they've been pretty on this year so far.

First three of the first season were pretty great too, iirc. Show has been extremely consistent

And then this happened

not sure if yr post means it was good or bad

way too mean-spirited, rick too evil.

def was a dark episode (just found online)

also they are way about the poop this year

Rick has always been a dick tho!

I mean ok, he sent himself to prison to save the rest of the family but that aside...

this was like one of those eps where you're like "maybe they're doing this to remind all of their fans who think rick rules that he actually sucks" but then you remember that the creators probably also think rick rules

This show rules ass btw

I'm finding the tone in s3 straying too much into meta and referential territory. I like the anarchic, offbeat, conceptual stuff (Meeseeks, house party, Poopybumhole, interdimensional TV), and I'm just not fussed about Mad Max and action movie parodies. Makes me feel like I'm watching a Futurama/Family Guy mash-up, which was something they were always good at avoiding.
We end up with long action sequences taking place in increasingly outlandish worldscapes, so far removed from the familial setting that gave the previous episodes that good push-pull against reality.
Rick is now such a genius he's basically a superman. I didn't find the pickle episode half as cool as it could have been - once he had worked out how to control the cockroach it just devolved into an action parody, whereas I felt that his journey as a pickle could have been smarter.
Cutting Jerry out the picture is also detrimental to the humour in this series. Is there a reason for this? like did the actor have to take time off?
I guess I'm just not finding this series all that funny which is the main complaint

Got say I partly agree with DL here. I am still enjoying it, but finding no real lol moments so far this series.

Not sure if it's MORE meta/referential than before. S1 played with Inception, Nightmare on Elm Street, Fantastic Voyage, that Steven King rip etc. And pickle ep didn't ref anything outside of generic action movie tropes. Not being funny is the real kicker, though I want to watch some S1 to dlb-check that its R&M that's changed and not me.

Okay I'll give you that. And it's nice that with the Mad Max one, they're not making explicit references to specific Mad Max scenes, just going for Mad Max-esque which is a good move. I was wondering if the pickle episode was referencing any specific film that I'd not seen before or not.

any movie where a souped-up action hero takes out evil russians?

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E04/LBgkTTs5p3S5NOLqVm5nOvKdg7w=.gif

xp - John Wick, obv. Whose nom de guerre refers to the Russian bogeyman a witch in a house on chicken legs, whereas Pickle Rick is named after the Russian bogeyman word for "pickle." And walks around in a "house" on rat legs.

My wife was appalled by the sequence of Pickle Rick murdering the rats. It was one of those moments that recalibrated what I was used to with what I was actually watching, kind of like when I step back and think about exactly how much gore is in your average episode of Superjail!

I enjoyed the episode and I really liked Mordy in the Vindicators episode but I think I'm gonna stay on my current "will watch if I happen to be up, otherwise will not seek out" plan.

lol "Morty"

oops

Got say I partly agree with DL here. I am still enjoying it, but finding no real lol moments so far this series.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, August 14, 2017 6:52 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This show has never really been about LOL moments, ever. I've never found it all that funny in the knee jerk punchline sense, it's more like watching an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption executed tightly. It's in the form of a family guy type show but it's very different in its aims

I disagree.. the first two series have provided me with A LOT of proper laughs in the last couple of years. I can see the comparisons with Family Guy and Futurama but it felt more in line, humour-wise with all those Adult Swim things from the 2000s like Aqua Teen and Sealab - just stream of conscious and unfussy-feeling

I feel like you have grossly misread this show if you're comparing it to ATHF and Sealab 2021.

pickle rick owned

this show has brought plenty of LOLs in the first two seasons, but i'm also finding it a little light in that department in S3. enjoying the show and its storylines nonetheless.

i dunno, i guess there were some funny jokes, but to me this show being a family guy/archer style show is kind of a misdirection. not that those jokes are always bad per se, but they're kind of not the point.

like, the EB White dome line wasn't really funny to me either... or its humor is more deeply related to the nature of the characters than it is the actual punchline itself? idk. the overall absurdity of the situation is where the humor emanates for me, a more generalized aura of this show is hilarious mixes with awe-inspiring at times, rather than it being some rapid collection of good jokes or punchlines

It almost feels like an even more extreme version of bojack horseman in this regard, in that that shoe is still tied to explicit JOKES in a way this feels less concerned with

*that show. not that shoe

family guy/archer style show

???????

Next day opinion on s3e4: Drunk Rick designed the traps to be easy, mitigating his evilness a bit. I like how he had a snide idea for the first trick and then ran out of ideas. Still, he did put deathtraps up, even when he didn't know how awful the Vindicators were.

???????

― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, August 14, 2017 2:24 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

animated rapid fire punchline parade

Rick and Morty is funny as hell but it's not 30 Rock one-liner funny, and thank fucking Christ for that

(no disrespect for 30 Rock, but it's more the outlandish situations and Rick's deadpan delivery that make for the hilarity on this show)

xxp Maybe we're getting different things out of it but that's not what Archer strikes me as at all. Yes, the jokes come often, but the show is way, way more driven by character and plot (and even some serialization!). It strikes me more as an EXTREMELY heightened version of something like Arrested Development.

Yeah people who note (or criticize!) that about archer arent getting archer, I'm inclined to think.

It's a workplace comedy that happens to be about an alcoholic secret agent, his mother and their colleagues. You could do it as a live-action single-camera and lose nothing!

And re the AD ref, it helps half that shows cast voice the actors in Archer!

Anyway! Off topic.

I don't mean to conflate archer and family guy but I think both are way more joke driven than this show is, which is more "clever" than funny imo

idk. to me, the show is very quotable and heavy on the laughs. the fact that the jokes are not just jokes-for-jokes-sake (interdimensional TV aside) and are driven by character development make them land a lot harder

I mean there's quotes I love to recite w/ friends but they are better in context of the show

Anyway. At start of ep when Rick is passed out on the meeting room table and i was like... "wait... is he lying in puddles of his own SHIT?!"

...and he was.

haha me too. I was p sure that's what it was but half-doubted they'd go all in.

another shit episode!

We end up with long action sequences taking place in increasingly outlandish worldscapes, so far removed from the familial setting that gave the previous episodes that good push-pull against reality.

There was one of those in literally the first episode of the whole series though! And the one in the episode you're referring too was very deliberately and explicitly contrasted with a mundane family therapy session! I don't think the show has changed so much as you're suffering from diminishing returns. Personally I find it sharper, funnier and more imaginative than ever.

yeah i get all that. I'm not sure, I just find the humour to be less madcap. Felt the very first ever episode worked fine as an intro to the characters but still feeling its way around. The universe of R&M really sets in a couple of episodes later. These just haven't tickled me as much as things like Meeseeks, Mr Poopybutthole or the House Party episode. Like, in those the madcap sci-fi action takes place around the family home. In these last ones it's more 'Oh shit is happening at home, so let's fuck off as far away from it as possible for no other reason than we can have an adventure loosely parodying a movie'. It's a matter of taste of course, but to me the manic, unpredictable nature of the humour has been replaced by manic, unpredictable plotlines and situations. The distinction is one of comedy and farce, to me, and while it's still an enjoyable show with some amusing moments, it's not making me laugh or raise my eyebrows in awe (and yeah it is an AWEsome show in many ways) like it once did

S02 def got better as I watched it more. Just the same, S03E01 & S03E02 felt especially packed with subtleties, and I need to watch them a few more times. It's too soon to assess.

s01e10, close rick-counters of the rick kind, is monumental

Yea that one is huge. Every time I see it I remember that the Eye-Patch Morty story is still unresolved.

maybe one day i'll return to this horrible show but it's important to note that bojack horseman is returning soon :)

Yea lots of great shows returning in the next 8-10 weeks. Exciting stuff.

Imago hating this is all the evidence I needed to know it's a+ great

^

on the other hand, deej liking R+M is enough for me to question whether it's good after all.
conflicted.

can confirm that the last episode made me lol a bit, although i re-watched the Meeseeks episode again the other day and their voices alone had me in stitches

Risotto Groupon

Dog Latin is tripping imo show is better than its ever been, really grabbing onto what's good about it but not so self aware that it's reduced to mannerism

I love this show and that should matter to everyone.

Noop Noop's (Noob Noob?) "God-DAMN!" has been the constant refrain playing in my head for the last week.

Very similar to poopybutthole's "ooo-wee!" but yes

*opens social media to see President Soup-For-Brains Looks Directly Into Solar Eclipse*

goddd-DAMNN

Man Rick and Morty *really* keeping up w/ current events huh

"lisa?"

the tech support team escaping was A+

Loved the metajoke about the camp name: "Like they gave up naming it halfway through." (cf. King Flippy Nips, Scroopy Noopers, Shrimply Pibbles)

last night's might have been the best episode yet

ultra-confident morty cracked me up with nearly every line

another great one. i don't have much to say about it. i'd say the best episodes of the season are 1-2-3 and this one, followed by 5 then 4 easily the worst.

Huh I thought this one was the weakest - the premise didn't seem quite as well thought through. Still great though.

Detoxified Morty going nutso in the restaurant was a highlight.

i think this week's is going to stand up to repeated viewings better than any other episode so far this season.

gotta agree with chap – fine eposide, but the weakest so far this season.

tho garbage Rick being the one who also suffered from emotional attachments to family was a quality twist!

Great episode imo

So catching up with cult cartoons, I'm really enjoying this one! It's like Dr. Who crossed with Beavis and Butthead.

another classic in the books

this weeks one did my head in! also i'm certain i missed a jillion refs

blonde redhead in the credits was awesome

Yeah.

the opening set to 'in the city' the joe walsh song >>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLV_hSj_uE

That was great, but I'm always wanting this show to get more into its sf elements. Actually think it's doing a better job of having fun with the "Council of Reeds" idea than Fantastic Four ever did (tho "fun" wasn't really the goal there, I guess).

Holy shit am I surprised how much I like this show. I'm only on season 2 but it's like (as mentioned)Dr. Who plus Back to the Future plus Beavis and Butthead plus Ren and Stimpy plus Aqua Teen Hunger Force plus Futurama divided by, I dunno, Phineas and Ferb. The only bad thing I can say about it right now is how sure I am there is no way in hell I could get my wife to sit through it.

latest ep. is Citadel of Ricks a parody of something specific? some of the jokes seemed like i was supposed to "get" a reference that wasn't there for me

*LOVED latest ep

the marty kid team is based on stand by me, otherwise i don't think there's a specific parody.

It was definitely pulling from that last Dredd movie a bit, but sorta like the Stand By Me thing, not an outright homage or parody.

I think the most direct ref is the Interdimensional Council of Reeds from Fantastic Four

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Interdimensional_Council_of_Reeds_(Multiverse)

weird how ilx always drops the closing parenthesis from urls that end in one

marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Interdimensional_Council_of_Reeds_(Multiverse)

latest ep. is Citadel of Ricks a parody of something specific? some of the jokes seemed like i was supposed to "get" a reference that wasn't there for me

― flopson, Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*LOVED latest ep

― flopson, Sunday, September 17, 2017 1:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you seen the earlier episodes? the evil morty who won the presidency & council of ricks were all in earlier eps

Holy shit am I surprised how much I like this show. I'm only on season 2 but it's like (as mentioned)Dr. Who plus Back to the Future plus Beavis and Butthead plus Ren and Stimpy plus Aqua Teen Hunger Force plus Futurama divided by, I dunno, Phineas and Ferb. The only bad thing I can say about it right now is how sure I am there is no way in hell I could get my wife to sit through it.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:05 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i went back and watched a bunch of s1 and man, s3 is a huge improvement. a lot of the jokes in some of my fav episodes ("total rickall") don't even land really. Everything feels really tightened up

the cop morty storyline felt very training day

also, total rickall is still the GOAT episode and i mourn the loss of pencilvester and reverse giraffe every day

the cop morty storyline felt very training day

― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Sunday, September 17, 2017 3:46 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah def

have you seen the earlier episodes? the evil morty who won the presidency & council of ricks were all in earlier eps

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, September 17, 2017 4:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmm i've watched every episode but have no recollection of this [/stoner]

on that note i'm rewatching from season 1. v v funny but also helping to put in perspective, now confident there is no drop-off in season 3

one thing that got a lot better is rick's ad-libbing

Enjoyed the last couple of episodes but disagree that this season is any better than the previous ones. The first couple of eps of s1 are a bit 'finding its feet' but other than that it's gold

Last nights ep was pretty dece. The funniest thing for me tho was something happening in the background for 5 seconds - House Hunters! I almost died laughing, and it was such a dumb joke.

i wanted to spend a little more time with the Truth Tortoise.

More Tortoise!

Just saw Total Rickall, what a dark, hilarious - but also dark - show this is.

sandman references wrt truth tortoise very nerdy
loved that the punchline to mindblowers was that summer is THE TRUE PUPPETMASTER

spotted by my wife:

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S03E08/292083.jpg?b64lines=

also enjoyed:

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S03E08/1131255.jpg?b64lines=IOKZquKZqg==

try that again, evol j

Rick breaks fourth wall often. Morty and Summer were subtly approaching this in the new one.

I guess I'm thinking of when he said "Save it for Youtube" or whatever the quote was.

Harmon suggested "Interdimensional Cable" was gonna be their "Treehouse Of Horror" so I guess they gave up on that idea.

this wasn't the world's most mind blowing ep but it was a very clever way of doing a 'clip show of clips you haven't seen' ep lol

Harmon and co. did a similar thing in the third season of Community

I guess it was the inverse of Total Rickall which was a clip show of clips that even the characters on the show never saw.

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S03E08/1207373.jpg?b64lines=IFRoZXJlJ3MgYSAgQ3JhZnRzbWFuIG5lYXJieS4gIEkgY2FuIHNtZWxsIGl0Lg==

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E08/Yr5d1ZtH2DrHedd_d_VvTGfWhuQ=.gif

my favorite part was the light switch joke. one of those jokes you might hear in a bar, but with extra wtfness.

the part with Morty using the magnet to attract hot girls was hilarious only cos it was painfully obv what he was going to do the moment he started inching towards the machine

xpost lol yeah "grab a shovel".

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewers head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/6qhaln/only_high_iqs_watch_rick_and_morty/

and here is where the show gets ruined

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

...it's on his dicc

The shift toward that stuff has been amazing - it's an Adult Swim stoner cartoon for fuck's sake.

can't wait for the "I liked Rick and Morty PRIOR to Pickle Rick, Posers" Reddit

he spells personal "personnel" :-/

Maybe I'm naive to how comically pathetic people can be, but that post and a good chunk of the stuff posted on the ilx Reddit thread totally come off as fake.

yeah circa it's a good pt - it seems like some level of trolling

idk I had someone in earnest tell me that if I didn't think he was "one hell if an intellectual" that I could go get fucked

this one has to be trolling, but probably it's based on moronic superiority comments people have actually said when talking about the show

for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons.

This cant be a serious thing right

and that's the wayyyyyyy the news goes

could be faaaaakkkkke
but since immersing myself in right wing memes and learning about incels and shit i have completely lost perspective.

well, if you guys would bother to read down in the comments...

https://imgur.com/vM2luKP

https://i.imgur.com/vM2luKP.png

that's the original comment they're making fun of. no idea if that one is for real or not tho.

i don't want to know anything about hardcore fans of this show unless they are ITT or my IRL pals, it'll just ruin it

God, those 2 men need a fucking wash.

R&M-haters on twitter have grown moderately louder in the past 2-3 weeks.

Over/under 25% of those people actually watch the show?

I'll take the under

there's also this

https://www.avclub.com/dan-harmon-is-pissed-at-rick-and-morty-fans-for-harassi-1818628816

Well that is pretty gross.

Not that it matters but Jessica Gao is one of the best writers on the show, responsible for Pickle Rick among others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzA3WxAxwQ
boooooo

"i'm a beetle. Paul is dead."?

this show is like it's always sunny in philadelphia to me; it's def funny but it only has one mode and the energy is always exactly the same, so it's just tiresome to watch

O look who it is

this show is like it's always sunny in philadelphia to me; it's def funny but it only has one mode and the energy is always exactly the same, so it's just tiresome to watch

I like this show a good bit, but I get this.

Er, I’d be a little more generous, just is one that I can only do in 1-2 episode stretches.

luckily it's designed to be watched in 1-episode stretches

holy fuck just saw the bit about R&M fans harassing female writing staff. ftr I support punching both Nazis and the unfuckables who doxx the woman who wrote pickle rick. are you fucking kidding me.

adult swim should reair the pickle Rick episode in place of a new one just to spite them

luckily it's designed to be watched in 1-episode stretches

Ha, otm.

I'm still pacing my way through season 2, which has been great. I love the show's dedication to alien landscapes that look largely like (or actually are) butts, and also its hilarious lack of effort in naming characters or other aliens. Like, "This is my friend, uh, Gleep Glorp." Or "Mr. Poopybutthole."

poor old mr poopy butthole

I think the tone can actually shift pretty radically on this show between episodes, I don't find it nearly as one more as always sunny or say archer

It's also insane that these nerds have decided the show sucks now that women write it when the show is obviously the best its ever been

Not that I have any yearning to see R&M go full South Park. But if they had an episode where they mocked/emasculated those “unfuckables” I would be massively amused.

*one note xp

"my hands are dry! my hands are dry!"

Finally caught up with the most recent three episodes. Agree that this season is knocking it out of the park, and I can't imagine how tough it was to pull off that Citadel episode. Most of the Mortys are voiced just differently enough to distinguish them, but they're all still Morty.

Favorite moment:

https://masterofallscience.com/gif/S03E08/883925/887887.gif?b64lines=T2gsIGV2ZXJ5dGhpbmcncyBjcm9va2VkISAKUmVhbGl0eSBpcyBwb2lzb24hIEkgd2FudCB0bwogZ28gYmFjayEgSSBoYXRlIHRoaXMh

Watched the 'outtakes' episode last night and woke up this morning with my laptop still on beside my bed, lights off, trying to recall if I'd watched the whole thing or fallen asleep first... PSYCH PSYCH PSYCH!

haha nice

Finally finished the second season. Good stuff, it's all so cynical I can't tell if the sentimental music cues - Mazzy Star, Elliott Smith, NIN's "Hurt" - are part of the joke.

Most of the Mortys are voiced just differently enough to distinguish them, but they're all still Morty.

Yeah this is an important point and I noticed it. Roiland's a pretty decent voice actor these days.

He's been the Mozart of voice actors since Adventure Time's Lemongrab days.

ACCEPTABLE

Saw that Harmon interview where he derides "The Purge" as "good enough" or something, and I thought, huh? I liked that one better than the Mad Max one, as far as riffs on movies go - or I like them equally - but more importantly, "The Purge" gave a satisfying payoff to seeing them in the exosuits every credit sequence. For that matter, the excellent rule of threes payoff when you hear a muffled "Feels Good" playing offscreen before they go on a rampage made me laugh my ass off.

Also it has one of my favorite throwaway lines.

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S02E09/173006.jpg?b64lines=IEFsc28sIGlmIHlvdSB0ZWxsIHlvdXIgbW9tIGFib3V0IHRoaXMsICBJJ2xsCiBwdXJnZSB5b3UuIA==

so like

do they believe the dipping sauce is actually notably good and worth going to effort to obtain because the cartoon character said it was,or

my son talked me into taking him to a McDonald's for this yesterday and of course there was no sauce to be had

but the experience and subsequent internet meltdown really made me feel like a citizen of the future

nerd culture is so centred on unquestioning commodity consumption the poor guys get a li'l freaked out when the commodity isn't there for them to consume

Odds that if I go on eBay I'm gonna find un-opened containers of this stuff for $150 each?

10:1

odds that when it arrives in the mail, it's just tubs of Arby's sauce married together?

If I ever found myself pitching a fit over some dipping sauce, I would be… Morty-fied.

— Dan Scary (@djperry1973) October 8, 2017

yesterday nerds once again ruined what was a fun tossoff in-joke

I put just as much blame (or more) on McDonalds for trying to cash in on this tossoff in-joke, which they should have left at sending the creators some sauce or probably just making one tweet. The whole sitch is so dumb

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rick-and-Morty-Szechuan-Sauce-1-OZ-/253198452121?hash=item3af3cdc599:g:xP0AAOSwwGdZ2mTx

In terms of the sauce cartoon itself, I feel like it fell off pretty hard after the citadel episode

i liked morty's mindblowers but in general i agree. am really not a fan of rick's "i'm a cool dude drinkin martinis" stance, which feels like a a shift. he was always an alcoholic but it was always kinda scary and ambiguous, now it feels faintly fedora-ish (though i could be projecting this latest sauce thing onto it)

Well, at some point he basically exists as a God, right? It's hard to make that too compelling.

yeah they acknowledge that he's basically a god in the show's universe. As referenced below, and during basically the entire season finale

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E04/vFinAA40HezRQJuhQwT5XTGorRY=.gif

I like that they seem to be moving away from that idea by making him the low man on the totem pole in the Smith family--sure he can do anything, but he can't force his family to love and respect him. should be interesting to explore that

Rick seems to have shifted more into being a high-functioning psychopath rather than the drooling, burping, stuttering fuckup drunk he was in S1, and people love those high-functioning psychopaths.

people low-functioning psychopaths love those high-functioning psychopaths

they're just like us

we are all morty

so did episode 10 happen and i missed it, or...?

hey ulysses, ep. 10 "The Rickchurian Mortydate" aired on October 1

got it, have found and watched since posting. not bad, still inventive but a bit more on the family guy spectrum on the way out the door.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLobT2EVAAAS4qN.jpg

if i had to see this you do too pic.twitter.com/imGd9qxu5P

— Fate/SN Creator (@lolita108go) October 9, 2017

oh my god

i liked rick and morty but now that some of its dumbest fans went insane, i must stop liking it & think it’s bad. that’s the law of online

— Hippo (@InternetHippo) October 9, 2017

I'm still very uncomfy with the fact these guys did a pilot cartoon that literally involved a man making his grandson suck his dick to make a time machine work.

I like the show a lot, but this keeps really, really bugging me. It was disgusting.

Not "these guys" (just Roiland), not a pilot, and eleven years ago, as a short joke in frustrated response to threats from Bill Cosby's lawyers. (Not that anyone oughtn't feel grossed out about it, but it isn't actually an intentional part of the development of "Rick & Morty," of which I've seen 3 or 4 episodes so am therefore a Nazi.)

Fair point, yeah. Still.

that whole freakout pickle rick thing was basically "I am Cornholio I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE" 2017

last episode of the season was like the worst one but good season overall

i hope the show outright antagonizes its dipshit fans

cosine

that whole freakout pickle rick thing was basically "I am Cornholio I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE" 2017

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:42 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In my experience and recollection, 18 year olds are on the whole pretty dumb, (even the ones with 'higher than average IQ'). They're not averse to making asses of themselves in public the name of some TV show they saw and showing off to their friends. They see this kind of thing as subversive and system-baiting, while the rest of the world looks on and says 'you dummies don't even get it'. I'm not defending this sort of thing, but it's more a reflection of people who are barely out of their teens getting turnt and getting out of control than anything to do with R&M.

Admittedly all I've seen is that stupid copypasta of the guy who says he has R&M tattoos and the vid upthread of the bro screaming and jumping on the counter.. Did I miss much else?

partly i think social media just magnifies these effin weirdos

like im sure simpsons had just as many dipshit fans. i was OBSESSED w that show as a kid! i mean i never jumped on a fast food counter over it but im sure shit happened w/ the extreme wing of fandom we just never heard about

if 7-11 fucked up the kwik-e-mart promotion they did nerds woulda lost their fuckin minds too

I have had a visceral antipathy towards fandom of pretty much every stripe ever since buying a magazine about the history of Doctor Who when I was 12 and seeing pictures from a convention in the back; I loved the show, wanted to immerse myself in details about the stories and the production, even wanted to be the first American companion to appear on it, but I looked at the pictures of adults dressing up as the Doctor and his companions during a time period that wasn't Halloween and my overarching reaction was "this is not and never will be me".

So, when I see things like current fans harassing McDonald's employees for not having some special dipping sauce, my first reaction is always "who broke you?" and it's rare that I have a second one.

When I first found out about Comic Con (San Diego's), it was 1993, I was in grad school in OC, and I was going "Huh, there was a comic convention all this time in the city I pretty much grew up in? Seems like I missed out." Nowadays I'm all "Yeah...glad I never went down that road."

As I get older I'm getting way more into cosplay & cons type stuff, and I still think this is fucking unbelievably stupid.

that whole freakout pickle rick thing was basically "I am Cornholio I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE" 2017
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses)

The Great Cornholio was the first thing I thought of when I saw this video, too.

I went to a comic convention when I was a kid because I loved comics and it sounded like it would therefore be fun. Instead, it was a profoundly alienating experience as I realized I really had no interest in obsessively hunting down rare comics and collectibles. This convention was extremely small and tame compared to what they have now, which looks like the deepest pit of hell to me. Now you can chase down collectibles while muscling your way through a massive mob of cosplayers or wait endlessly in line to have some kind of geek hero worship experience. The kind of mentality you would need to endure and even enjoy this is exactly what it would take to drive hours to be the first in line for a sauce packet.

^ this is total bullshit. Go to SPX or TCAF or CXC or Short Run or CALA or Thought Bubble or Angoulême or Amadora de BD or BCGF or... (etc etc)

I mean, I'm sure there are smaller, less insane, and more fun conventions than the big name ones. And obviously many, many people enjoy these, which is fine. For me though, any comic convention of any size is going to be an alienating and unfun experience. I get that is mostly me, but I also believe that a strongly consumer-as-fan experience is inherently alienating.

I would like to meet the Hernandez bros some day though...

This convention was extremely small and tame compared to what they have now, which looks like the deepest pit of hell to me. Now you can chase down collectibles while muscling your way through a massive mob of cosplayers or wait endlessly in line to have some kind of geek hero worship experience.

None of these are features of the conventions I mentioned.

I've been to Star Wars Celebration four times. One's experience of a con is what they make of it -- my first time I had no idea what to expect and came out kinda miserable. But you have to pick and choose. Want to sleep overnight in a line to be the first to see a trailer or a panel? Great! Go nuts! I did that ten years ago, don't want to do it anymore. Want to scramble to be the first to get an exclusive collectible? You can do that, or not. I did that with one (1) item I wanted at the last con, and I was in line for maybe 20 minutes. You can just walk around and look at some of the hard work that goes into costumes/cosplay, or hang and talk to other fans, or attend the smaller panels, whatever you want to do. At this most recent SWC, they had a room that was literally just showing episodes of "Star Wars: Rebels" all day and you could sit in there if you wanted.

Cosplay just = people having fun. Not my kind of fun, but I dunno.. It's fandom, and fandom shows itself in different ways and through different demographics. Not going to start demonising that just because a few kids acted like buffoons in a restaurant. Was it just this counter-top guy or did it get worse?

yeah I know some pretty amiable and chill folks who occasionally cosplay. that said...

when I see things like current fans harassing McDonald's employees for not having some special dipping sauce, my first reaction is always "who broke you?" and it's rare that I have a second one

otm x10000

my only convention experience was Walker Stalker, and I only went because Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill were there. My son was a huge fan of Matt Smith's Doctor so we sprung for the autographs. Those three are very lovely and friendly people who were super nice to my 8 year old. But the lines were terrible and this was a really small convention. My son wants to go to san diego comic-con but I don't know if I can handle it.

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I am still reeling from Whiney's link. Wow.

jesus fucking christ, Harmon's twitter oubursts have got me shook. I've certainly heard he's an asshole before but never really cared enough to investigate that since I didn't think it had any relevance to my enjoyment of his shows. but damn, I mean...this motherfucker is something else.

fedora readings off the chart, captain

i thought this dude was alright until I read that just now. yikes.

that "open source boob project" is really something

Dude was doing this during Community's heyday as well; it's part of why he got fired IIRC

the reaction of some dudes to mild dissent is really something sometimes

was watching norm macdonald's interview with sarah silverman, she said the reason harmon left The Silverman Show was "there's only room for one genius asshole on this show and it's gotta be me, i'm in the title"

Harmon has always been more of an asshole than he is talented

I give most of the credit for R&M's goodness to Roiland (who based on the union fracas is almost certainly also an asshole)

Based on that union thing and not knowing much else I assumed Harmon was probably the better of the two, but accidentally reading some of his self-consciously eccentric twitter word stew for ~5 seconds the other day had me wanting to escape my own skin

Shocked that the dudes behind Rick & Morty (of all shows!) might be assholes.

adam - what's the context of that tweet? is he saying that to a mcdonalds employee?? jfc

he was arguing on twitter with someone who pointed out that his "mcdonald's ripped us off with this unofficial promotion" stance was a little rich given that R&M is just edgy-nerd Back to the Future

McDonald’s Rick And Morty-inspired Schezuan sauce promotion ended without anybody seeming like they really got what they wanted out of it: McDonald’s came off like out-of-touch, withholding monsters for underestimating how badly people would be craving the promotional sauce. Rick And Morty looked bad by association. And none of the actual participants in the event—both the fans who lined up for blocks only to be denied their precious condiments, and the minimum-wage workers who had to field angry demands from people shouting “Wubba-lubba-dub-dub” in their faces for a solid Saturday—seemed to have much fun.

The day’s events do seem to have at least one winner, though: Michigan resident Rachel Marie, who apparently managed to trade a rare packet of the Szechuan sauce for an actual, working car. According to The Drive, Marie originally went on Facebook with her prize, looking to offload it in exchange for some collectible pins; instead, some sauce-loving maniac offered her a 2004 Volkswagen GTI. Faster than you can say, “Oh god, Rick would hate this,” she snatched up the trade, netting a new used car, while the car’s former owner got the warm satisfaction of knowing they’ve now become a new milestone in the fields of obsessive, potentially toxic fandom. (Meanwhile, McDonald’s has said it’s bringing the sauce back, some time soon, so all the food-goo profiteers out there had better be sure to prepare their garage or driveway for all the new wheels they’ll certainly soon be bringing home.)

all the fan drama aside - this season has been unfunny and a chore to get through

xp pretty sure that's how supreme got to be worth a billion

from the scraps of info I pick up harmon is a massive kingmaker (the other one being scott aukerman) in LA wrt to comedians getting on shows and writing credits and all that shit... im sure this great power has given him great responsibility. lol jk.

McDonald’s came off like out-of-touch, withholding monsters for underestimating how badly people would be craving the promotional sauce

No, they came off like a corporation who misjudged the scope and execution of a marketing opportunity. The only monsters were the fans.

(Obviously McD's *is* a monster in all other respects outside of this situation but that's another matter)

My take is McDonalds wanted news footage of people stomping up and down demanding McDonalds products. Rick and Morty fans got played.

"These people who sell poison food to people, they're going to be fair dealers to us! We're RICK AND MORTY fans, after all!"

all the fan drama aside - this season has been unfunny and a chore to get through

― kurt schwitterz, Friday, October 13, 2017 1:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel the exact opposite, last episode aside I think it's way more consistent and tighter than any other season

definitely less LOLs

slightly hard for me to judge cos i binge-watched the first two seasons whilst high but i haven't really been watching it for lulz since then, just enjoying the stories

Y'all crazy. Season 3 was good as hell, except for the relatively limp finale -- which tbf seemed to be teeing up a specific narrative arc for S4

The finale was funny, just not at the level of the previous episodes. I might have liked it a little more than most because I freakin love Keith David as the President

definitely less LOLs

― flopson, Saturday, 14 October 2017 06:31 (fourteen hours ago) Permalink

there were some really, really lame and labored jokes in those first two seasons...even 'total rickall' which is one of my favorite episodes, just lazy shit like 'ooohhh i get it like the butler did it' that fills like time filler more than an actual punchline

*feels

i never really died laughing as i did during some of the best moments of s1&2. maybe i should have said powerLOLs qua hoos. still funny and good but i kept waiting to lose my shit at something. maybe the teaser e1 is the only exception. still think it was good, my xp is similar to NV's

seemed to be teeing up a specific narrative arc for S4

eh every time they've hinted at this its ended up being a red herring, wouldnt hold my breath

idk i never got powerlols exactly it was always more clever than funny

Yeah that but it's still v good, I don't see a drop off, just development

NV OTM, I don't watch this show for the LOLs but for the stories

And yes, s03e10 was a dip but I've enjoyed the stories this season a huge amount. Pickle Rick FTW.

I really think this season was a noticeable step down. Still enjoyable creative, but I’m going full episodes without a single chuckle. I guess ppl here mostly think it’s better than ever, but yeah, definitely disagree.

Also I kinda hated Pickle Rick and how it seemed to be consciously designed to be a catch phrase/action figure/mascot or whatever. And the ~darkness~ this season seemed strangely forced.

didn't feel forced at all! if anything it succeeded despite seeming like exactly the kind of thing that *wouldn't* be a catch phrase

Your chance to participate in an episode commentary for the season 3 DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YKSRQe_zUQ

"Mr. Poopybutthole is . . . an adult Meeseeks."
"That's canon."

http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/elastic-man/

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top left link here
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squanch games releases Trover Saves the Universe with T-Pain promo video/song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwwhKugYCKc

New series starts here tomorrow so fucking stoked no spoils please

it's been good! first ep better than second imo.

Yeah I think my boy's seen it and said the first ep was a winner

Felt like season 3 was real hit or miss and honestly just too misanthropic at times for my own tastes. hopefully season 4 is a little lighter.

s4e2 is a mix of "life means nothing" and relentless scatalogical humor, so maybe skip that one

I think about the awfulness of Rick a lot but then I remember how many other cartoon assholes I enjoy and I kinda don't care what the writerly intentions are, I have to see him as a portrait of a shitbag and probably a critique of a section of the fanbase

i'd have a beer with tom but jerry really grinds my gears

Yep

the show pretty explicitly criticizes rick. i know there's this media critique that even condemning some sorts of behavior valorizes + promotes them nonetheless just by portraying them (all those shows where you identify with tony soprano or malcolm's dad) but i don't know how the show could do more to demonstrate that they think rick's ideology is hollow and empty and leads to a life of misery?

I think that's right but then he's portrayed as uber-capable in every area beyond the emotional and you can see why idiots don't realise he's not supposed to be a hero

(all those shows where you identify with tony soprano or malcolm's dad)

lol it thought you were actually talking about Malcolm In The Middle here and I was like "I never watched that show, was the dad really such a bad guy??"

I think that's right but then he's portrayed as uber-capable in every area beyond the emotional and you can see why idiots don't realise he's not supposed to be a hero

^^^ this

lol it thought you were actually talking about Malcolm In The Middle here and I was like "I never watched that show, was the dad really such a bad guy??"

^^^ also this

malcolm's dad

I thought we were talking about Malcolm-Jamal Warner

exceeding my expectations so far, toilet jokes aside.

guess I should finally get around to watching this. usually so punctual with this show.

omg. loved the first ep

"You die tomorrow, no matter what. This is what bullies call a 'fait accompli'".

Enjoyed it but it felt weirdly rushed somehow? It rarely makes me lol anyway, it's a different kind of pleasure. Still v happy there's new stuff.

loved the most recent ep, think it's the best this season. pretty much every aspect of the snake planet made me laugh. good Jerry plot too

the silent snake planet sci-fi movie satires were pretty great

Easily my favorite of the season, maybe my all-time favorite R&M episode. "Snake jazz" killed me.

best part was all the snakes watching in awe as Hissler's palace overflows with time travelling snake corpses

i came with "Hissler" on my own, btw.

the heist episode was so good, i watched it a second time

i dont know if its from the new season or not

Snake Planet was hilarious.

best part was all the snakes watching in awe as Hissler's palace overflows with time travelling snake corpses

yeah i lolled at that, also when the warning note to Snake Lincoln just said "SSSS"

I thought the heist episode (this season) was really funny and I also thought the dragon episode was funny. I mean, they've all been funny so far.

omg snake jazz!!

just saw my first ep of this, the heist ep, that was some silly funny shit. i’m rather mystified by who the audience is tho, references are old and rapid. if i existed in 2014 when thred started i’d have like 6 years of viewing by which to suss it out.

I don't get some of the references and I'm older than most of the viewing audience, so I imagine much of the audience doesn't either. The sheer volume of stuff - plot, dialogue, visuals, and gags - means it's still enjoyable even if you miss some things

That said, I am a little surprised the show is as popular as it is

I think they threw in too many ephemeral goods (boglins, ecto-coolers, etc.) this season to avoid future mulan sauce incidents, where fanatics went after the single ephemeral good they mentioned.

did the ch4 showing of these peter out after 4 or 5 episodes?

I've not seen a new one since Xmas

Seems to have for now, I assume it's just a hiatus

it was a five episode mini-season.

New ones due around April?

yea they're doing half-season rollouts.

I think this is probably why in the UK E4 were going to hang back and just broadcast the series in spring when it was complete. Glad they didn't wait tbf to them

Not unusual for animated shows. Bojack is doing a similar thing -- ending their series tomorrow with the last four eps.

Fuck, is it only four more BoJack? I assumed there'd be another 8

No, it's 8.

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i literally haven't watched 4 shows on the list :D

not because i don't even own a television, i just mostly play video games or watch old documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ELLT17GYQ

ironic ads are still ads iirc

xp My mistake!

wtf is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yg4ImnYwA

Rick and Morty wake in fright.

aired on april 1st a year after the surprise season 3 premiere.

Back next month

You heard it here third. #RickandMorty returns May 3 on @adultswim pic.twitter.com/KvbqK9eKDI

— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) April 1, 2020

Yay, I'll have to stay in for those

https://teenage.engineering/store/po-137/

odd...

(pocket-calculator-sized synthesizer with rick and morty samples)

Well that was the trollingest episode of any show ever, i am grudgingly impressed

One anthology movie set on a train was Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. I'm sure there have been others.

ok i laughed a bunch at this one esp towards the end

season 4 still isn't on UK netflix which is quite annoying seeing as this is near enough the only show I've seen on it that I like and actually consistently makes me laugh.

I was in a daft giggly mood this aft and couldn't stop laughing at the ep where he turns himself into a pickle to escape therapy and the vindicators one with the ghost train hero "all aboard!".

xxp i was sure that it was gonna be a snowpiercer-type deal, but it pivoted rather impressively from there lol

definitely too much to absorb in my first viewing. lots of funny gags, though, especially the bechdel test one

man the bechdel joke one felt very much like chum for its core audience

i understand that, but there were plenty of layers of irony in there--it was a shot at critics who think the show doesn't have well-drawn female characters, an in-character joke about a 14-year-old boy's idea about how women communicate with each other, etc.

for sure, but the show DOESN'T have well-drawn female characters (or any characters really, everybody's a vehicle) and the "is lesbian part of her job description" line in tandem with the suggestion that "hey that DID meet the bechdel test, suck it feminists" all added up to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExUyyfT-DdM

(or any characters really, everybody's a vehicle)

rick is certainly a vehicle for whatever pops into the creators' heads, but come on.

> season 4 still isn't on UK netflix

second half of season 4 starts on e4 on thursday

VC, beyond the thin veneer of one sentence character (Jerry is a narcissist fuck-up, Summer is the renegade teen who's as smart as she thinks she is), I read ALL the characters as vehicles for whatever pops into the creators' heads! Which is fine, I'm not watching this for dramatic insight, I'm watching it for the yuks. The issue for me is when they get into 'makes u think' social commentary with particular hamhandedness on topics that they not only don't care about but that don't concern them in the slightest. This was one of those.

best thing about this episode was no jerry, the worst character

Calz they are on channel 4 now

ffs why am I paying for netflix!

meh still not on My4 player tho

I was in a daft giggly mood this aft and couldn't stop laughing at the ep where he turns himself into a pickle to escape therapy and the vindicators one with the ghost train hero "all aboard!".

― calzino, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:34 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

The pickle Rick outtakes crack me up, as does them spending time and money animating them

https://youtu.be/XSqi5s3rfqk

hah voice actor totally losing his shit over the whole concept!

watched one episode of Solar Opposites and i suppose i'll watch the rest in a self-loathing late night blitz but man this is worse than Final Space and Final Space was not good.

also jeez did Roiland HAVE to do the lead character with Rick's voice? And personality traits? It's disconcerting.

on all4 or whatever it’s called s4 starts with.. episode 6? (and there’s a coronavirus reference!)

"S4" is the extension of the shortened S3

It's the story train one, was on actual TV on Thursday.

this show is epic.

I didn't love last week's story, but the finale made up for it.

Need to watch that one. The vat of acid episode was some dark shit.

A lot of the past 2-3 years of TV seems like high-concept for the sake of high-concept and that episode was one example imo.

lol “high concept for its own sake” is the entire usp of this show tbf

Yes but there are usually other things going on that make it fun.

My mistake, Vat of Acid was good. I was referring to the camping trip episode.

the second half of this season didn't sit well with me

i haven't actually seen s4 as yet, it's only on Netflix UK in a couple of weeks I believe. I only just watched the first 3 seasons.

the new episodes are on All4 right now

the show has a habit of filling harmon's "fun stuff" segment with bland violence.

Has anyone seen Solar Opposites? Because the one (shitty) episode I saw played like a b-story Rick & Morty with none of the stuff that makes R&M good. In case anyone is wondering about Roiland's contributions vs. Harmon. With Solar Opposites in mind, the gross violence in particular I presume is Roiland's contribution.

...

And indeed, back from a visit to Wikipedia:

At Channel 101, participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot, and a live audience decides which pilots continue as a series. Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004. His pilots typically consisted of shock value—"sick and twisted" elements that received a confused reaction from the audience.

the WACKY SUBVERSIVE CYNICAL world of Roiland is unfortunately getting family guy formulaic imo

Yeah it was fresh in the channel 101 days, less so now

i enjoyed the solar opposites season but i wouldn't recommend it to ilx

i'll watch anything with andy daly in it tho tbph i'm even all caught up on bananas for bonanza

It's def not highbrow enough for ILX.

I'm halfway through the season. The wikipedia says it eventually gets more serialized which is a bummer because I expected a lower stakes outlet for Roiland-style chaos ie House Of Cosbys. Instead it's sci-fi Bob's Burgers with weaker jokes. But otherwise the stories are bizarre and engaging and I'm enjoying it.

I found Roiland voicing the lead to be massively distracting, since he plays a scientist who sounds like Rick, right down to the stammer. The first episode I thought had some good jokes in it, but also a lot of not good jokes. So ... totally average.

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Dunno if anyone has been watching this season, but after a great first episode, the last few have been pretty bad. episode 4 was probably my least favorite episode they've ever done

Still some great gags and ideas, but definitely feeling like more of chore this time. I think the unpleasantness of it all is starting to grind me down - kind of feel that now is not the right time for art this deeply cynical.

the episode names bear little relation to the contents, and aren't referenced outside the epg. if episode 4 is the cenobite episode then i think i agree.

the decoys episode seemed like a episode-length version of the snake civil-time-war sequence from the previous series and became hard to follow after 5 minutes. i did like the wooden puppets though.

still need to watch the last couple of eps, still love this show, stop watching and shut up if you're not into it

became hard to follow after 5 minutes.

This was part of the joke surely?

I look forward to the fascinating future of this thread, nothing but NV posting unequivocal praise.

I remembered this show existed yesterday and caught up to the point of the vat of acid episode which was pretty great tbh, structured kind of like a Stewart Lee shaggy dog story gag

Yeah the show's at its best when it's playing with structure.

> This was part of the joke surely?

i know, but it's a thin line between writing something clever that loses the viewer and writing something that's nonsense and loses the viewer and if the viewer's lost then how do they know which this is? (and does it matter?)

haven’t watched this week’s, but i thought the first couple eps were top tier, the third was spotty with a few funny moments speckled within way too much wanton violence, and the fourth was just too much

i loved this week's, didn't mind the cum episode fwiw, even if it was very lowbrow.

the Cenobite ep was pretty hilarious

the 4th one seemed… off? I’m not a huge R&M stan but I enjoy it and catch up every now and again. thematically v much in the wheelhouse, but the writing seemed particularly lazy and comic beats seemed forced or something idk. might have been the edible I took. anyway, I’m probably thinking about this way too much

I didn't like the one with Captain Planet, seemed so pat I was waiting for a twist. It's hard to care about characters they've worked so hard to make you dislike or not care about.

Exactly how I felt about ep 4, will. Most of the jokes fell flat and every element felt like something they'd done better before. I didn't find the most recent episode that funny either but at least it had something new

I did totally love the first episode with the time door and the king of the ocean, instant classic

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

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This show is still really hit and miss these days, but having Peter Dinklage doing the voice of the Alien Hans Gruber was an inspired choice.

agreed on the hit and miss, that last "nightpeople" episode is the worst it's ever been but they've connected a few eps prior this year

forgot that this was back

Yeah it's weird that it's back so soon (haven't watched any of the new season yet)

I saw a couple of eps and they were solid/more of the same/meta/dark/funny/nihilistic/sentimental. But then I forgot it was back again, lol.

the one i saw, probably the 1st episode, did feel like fan-service and nothing else.

i was hoping that the resolution to season 5 would've stemmed the fan service a bit. still gonna watch tho

to me, the plot-heavy episodes where a million things are happening (like ep 1) are so disappointing. so much writing and animation effort to make something overwhelming and unpleasant and usually not even that funny. I've liked all the other episodes so far, and the night people one was actually my favorite

we're definitely looking for different things out of this show i think. at this point i'm happy for it to be a self referential nihilistic sci-fi romp that breaks the fourth wall while doing teraflop twilight zone bullshit.

I mean, there's a good chance I'm in the minority on that opinion. My favorite eps have tended to be low on overarching plot, low on sentimentality and seriousness, high on sci-fi concept

The Fortune Cookie one was pretty funny.

i think i liked the "summer does a die hard" episode best fwiw

^finally watching now and lolz, love Grandsonism as well

"holy war"
"Holier war"
"Holiest war ever!"

This season had some inspired episodes, a step up from the previous season. Finale was great

not great

Justin Roiland has been charged with one count of domestic battery with corporal injury & one count of false imprisonment by menace/violence/fraud/deceit.

(Source: https://t.co/YZwm5vuJjU) pic.twitter.com/kR9DUDckWB

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 12, 2023

I had only watched the first episode of this show before yesterday. My son had shown it to me when he was in middle school and I was thoroughly repulsed and never went back for more. For whatever reason, yesterday I decided to give it another chance and threw a few more episodes on. I'm still skeptical that I'll find much value in it, but my plan was to keep trying to engage. Then as soon as I flipped it off, I went to check the news and saw the news about his domestic violence.

i watched a couple episodes and fucking hated it

I generally like the show and often find it to be funny and clever, but sometimes only fitfully. Afaict it def. has more than its share of gross meme-lord fans, though. As does/did South Park, too.

I watched it for a while hoping it would move past the nihilism and edginess but despite a couple of teases it never followed through so I gave up after a couple of seasons

it's less overtly misogynistic than something like family guy but there is a pervasive sense of unexamined male geekdom to the whole thing which is offputting and while I wouldn't have guessed this it's not a massive surprise unfortunately

south park is indefensible but can also be a lot funnier. neither is as clever as it thinks it is

it honestly did feel like it moved past a lot of the edgelord-ness in this sixth season (with some notable exceptions), and while it feels like harmon is responsible for most of what makes the show great, roiland doing all the voices will make it hard for me to watch this again

Looks like he was first charged in May 2020, arrested and released in that August, then arraigned in October 2020. Was this reported two years ago?

it has been transitioning into worldbuilding as coin of the realm and has honestly been doing a fairly good job of it.
this case is, as you said, not great

First I've heard of this case, very disappointing. I've enjoyed the show up to and including the most recent season but I'm probably off the train now

Love it when some dude gets busted and people parade out saying they’ve always hated the guy and his work. Perennial.

great reading comprehension

a lot of people got their knives out about louie after the wanking thing became better known but at least some of those people had already been pointing out the red flags in that show for a while (and getting a lot of flack for it) - they didn't know how real it was either - but it became easier to do this once everyone knew about his behaviour. there's some of that going on here I think - it could look like gloating but it could also reflect a hope that such criticism won't be automatically shouted down

many awful stories about this scumbag here

Justin Roiland has a track record of using social media to hit up and exploit vulnerable people and minors and I believe this is an open secret in the industry, he used my sexual trauma and my love for RaM to groom me and I am just one of SO MANY. I am so glad this is public.

— arlo 👽 (@arlocado) January 12, 2023

i don't doubt these stories, but it's weird to me that things like this are still coming out now; like, why didn't this come out during the metoo explosion a few years ago?

why does anyone start a relationship with a famous man over the internet? why? where do you think it is going to go? henry winkler isn't out there contacting abused young women on twitter and insinuating himself into their lives. tom hanks doesn't IM teens on instagram. the only people who do this shit are toxic and bad.

celebrities should have DM capabilities removed by these platforms by default. no good will come of it.

he’s such a wack ass fucking nerd. like he actually talks like a rick and morty character irl lmao