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Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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ultramiraculous posted:

So:

Alien intestines -> No.

Anatomically Correct Vagina (teeth included) -> Yes?

I...think you may need to take a sex education course outside of Texas.

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Oct 22, 2000

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grate deceiver posted:

Or try dating human women for a change.

Well, at least something that doesn't require summoning instead of a phone call.

We could allow a whitelist to include the girl from Weird Science, however.

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Oct 22, 2000

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A MIRACLE posted:

Should this be stickied?

Testicles can stick pretty well on their own, I think.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Useless Shotgun posted:

"Why would a Pop-Tart want to live inside a toaster Rick? I mean, that would be the scariest place for them to live!"

I loving love this show.

You're missing the point. Why would he drive a smaller toaster with wheels?

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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<use swift stylus strokes to guide Morty's tongue to Rick's balls>

<press 'A' to drink a beer>

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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Funkmaster General posted:

Answer 1) The aliens are just retarded and got the recipe wrong. It still exploded because it's still cesium and water.

Answer 2) Someone just mixed up the colors and you're a sperg for noticing.

Did you not see that the post was an homage to the Simpsons itchy and scratchy episode with a similar occurrence? You can notice all sorts of things and not be spergin'.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Typical posted:

The ratings are good, like 1.5 million viewers usually. plus online viewership wich is good. they really need people to watch online / buy the youtube/itunes episodes




Yes there will be. I forgot to post about it.

How many episodes are supposed to be in a season? That should be in the purchasing information I think. I couldn't find it at youtube when I clicked on the purchase button.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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CelticPredator, that's a great picture.

Also, holy gently caress, what a great episode. I mean, Jesus. Amazing.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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TheModernAmerican posted:

Guess I should be that guy, but that jelly bean scene went on just a bit too long, left a sour taste in my mouth.

Otherwise, this was another amazing episode. The way they keep playing with expectations and throwing them away before you can fully form them is the smartest writing I've seen in a while.

It was supposed to. You're not supposed to be able to laugh off attempted rape. Even in a cartoon. There were some dark themes and scenes here.

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Oct 22, 2000

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TheModernAmerican posted:

I guess? It's a pretty stark tonal shift from 20 minutes of jokes to 15 seconds of "this is a dark scene please don't laugh". There isn't much of a precedent in the rest of the series so far.

The blue dudes were going to commit murder in order to kill themselves - they were literally in pain by being in the world. They also had tried to kill each other. The giant slipped and killed himself with a blow to the head, leaving his wife and baby alone.

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Oct 22, 2000

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TO be honest that Unbelievable Tales short was pretty loving dumb. It was old hat standard violence with kinda standard torture-porn 101 stuff. There was nothing interesting about it.

I don't like movies like SAW or Human Centipede or other revenge torture porn stuff, so maybe it's not for me, but it was really unimaginative and, as I wrote before, just dumb.

I wouldn't even call it shocking, just blah.

If the ball licking pre-rick and morty and this is what he comes up with on his own then he really does need that additional restraint normal TV provides. And other writers to help him, probably.

Drifter fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jan 21, 2014

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Oct 22, 2000

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ashpanash posted:

The first Doc and Mharti short was just a silly sex joke. A good one, but at its core a silly sex joke.

Unbelievable Tales is basically a horror show masquerading as a comic short.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I huffed in amusement a time or two during the ball-lick short :ughh:, but only having watched those two shorts, alongside having watched the R&M episodes, clearly any four minutes of his collaborative work with R&M is leaps better than the four minutes of his written only by him shorts.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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I have a dickwolves T-shirt some of you may be interested in purchasing.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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TheModernAmerican posted:

After sitting on it for a day, my reaction was appropriate. This post is related to my conclusion, the show moves at an incredibly frenetic pace, so any one scene is going to be very short. It's part of what makes it good. And it allowed a scene later to show Rick's nicer side, which will hopefully become the start of a more meaningful exploration of the characters.

What was your reaction, that you were upset/disturbed by the scene, or that you thought the scene shouldn't have been included unless it had dwelt less on the negative aspects of assault?

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Oct 22, 2000

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padijun posted:

:words:

that's completely ignoring the b-plot of the meeseeks, which was amazing.

It really was an incredible episode.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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I was murdered once, and I have some serious trigger issues as a result.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Gaunab posted:

The focus on that specific scene is strange. You guys are obsessed with rape.

Maybe it's the jellybean.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Pick posted:

I never thought I'd be the person who was arguing in favor of a rape scene but seriously there was no joke here, it had a thematic point, and if anything it was a fair portrayal of how an almost-rape can gently caress up someone terribly (where it's often brushed off as an "oh no, I barely avoided rape!" instead of narrowly avoiding rape being its own trauma). Nobody downplayed it, there was nothing humorous about it, and it underscored the terror a kid feels. It's dramatically better than almost any other sexual assault scene I've seen in television media.

I don't know, Jodie Foster was pretty hot.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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I just tried to lick a jellybean. Oh man I'm triggering so hard.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Gaunab posted:

As I was watching the rape scene I couldn't help but think of the indescribable pleasure Morty would have experienced if he had licked mr. jellybean and laughed.

The only way to top this scene is to have Rick and a walking gummi bear do heinous things to one another.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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Last Chance posted:

Wasn't that confirmed a couple of weeks ago?

Unofficially.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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Holy loving poo poo. :catstare:

This show is loving nuts.

Although...the female only plot gags felt very Futurama.

Drifter fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Mar 11, 2014

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Oct 22, 2000

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Android Blues posted:

I loved the Marmaduke thing, but the women-only planet plot felt really lazy and uninspired. "Women like shoes, feelings and chocolate" isn't exactly the freshest material in the world.

*fart*

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Oct 22, 2000

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VideoTapir posted:

Or Seth McFarlane.

It was shades of Family Guy.

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Oct 22, 2000

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LeJackal posted:

You guys were not paying attention, at all. The Futurama episode was a misogynist power fantasy where scantily-clad women were 'in charge' but ultimately they all competed to have sex with the male characters, and their society was undone by Bender's intrinsic 'superior' masculinity. In this episode, sex was completely divorced from the proceedings, Rick had nothing to offer or leverage in that society(besides insult), and tellingly at the end men as a gender are redeemed (partly) not by the intrinsic masculine phallus, but by creative works which demonstrate a prized and ungendered quality.

In short: Futurama has sex object amazons defeated by a robopenis. Rick and Morty have an intelligent cultured matriarchy defeated by a confrontation with their own gender bias.

Okay, so points 'A' and 'Z' were unique, but points 'B' through 'Y'

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Although...the female only plot gags felt very Futurama.

Can you understand the difference between the humor elements and the sociopolitical gender-implications or whatever?

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Oct 22, 2000

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spikenigma posted:

I'm gonna say yeah, it kind of does.

You can be annoyed by jokes you've heard rehashed countless times before without actually caring on a deeply personal level about the content of those jokes, you know.

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Oct 22, 2000

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spikenigma posted:

I'm going to go ahead and say that somebody who specifically :argh:s about stereotypical women jokes in an episode where the male side of the race were all, to a person - genentically, murdering, warmongering rapists probably has an axe to grind. :)

Or maybe they were just like "Jesus, not this old poo poo again," and failed to make note of the 5% old rehashed male jokes as well in their post. Sometimes a joke you've heard before is just a joke you're heard before and not a howl of rage to the gods of misanthropy.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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spikenigma posted:

Yeah, I'm sure you're right.

"Meh, I've heard that joke before" is surely a more frequent an opinion on this site than

:supaburn:

You just have to weed through the poorly explained hyperbole.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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LeJackal posted:

Well the problem is that the jokes aren't the same and the setting is entirely different, but people in and outside of this thread are either unwilling or unable to look at anything presented to them in any but the most shallow of views.

The jokes are exactly the same, but I'm sorry pointing that out apparently has to come with a trigger warning or something.

It's no big deal, the show was good but they've had far more original and interesting jokes in the past, and even in that particular episode.

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Oct 22, 2000

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LeJackal posted:

I guess I missed the WNBA joke, or the ones about Rick getting hosed to death. What about the gag where Rick fucks his way out of the situation? I missed that one too.

You're sure missing a lot over here. Like the point.

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Oct 22, 2000

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MariusLecter posted:

Same Joke? Maybe. But Lawnmower Dog was actually good.

Lawnmower dog was great.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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LeJackal posted:

Those jokes were done before, so it must be boring garbage.

Where?

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

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I don't remember that South Park episode, I'll watch it when I get a chance. What other big name shows did an Inception episode around that time? Any worth watching?

LeJackal posted:

This is exactly the point, thank you.

Before you got a rage-boner I don't see where anyone said is was exactly like Futurama until you started autistically sperglording over your misunderstanding about people saying certain scenes had a 'been done before' feeling to it. Maybe the scene resolved differently, but the jokes felt familiar and blase.

It felt like it, it tread similar ground, it felt samey and some jokes elicited a feeling of deja-vu, but no one came out and said it copied what Futurama did until you confused me or someone else into exasperatingly hardlining down a path because you took a psych of women's class back in '03 that you vaguely remember.

You were so intent on proving an imagined thing wrong that your frothing prevented you from understanding the point, which was that it was disappointingnot as funny that a show that usually took humor in interesting directions spent time on a scene that went down a very familiar path as many other sitcoms and cartoons.

I'm glad it sounds like you do now, though. So next time both read better and frame your words better.

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Oct 22, 2000

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How many more episodes will we get this first season? I'm totally psyched to watch them all. Will there be any more breaks and stuff in between them?



LeJackal posted:

You need to read your own posts.

Only if you read the rest of my sentence.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Ahaha, spider-bear was great. "I agree, where's this going?"

Also, 4 more episodes (3 after this one) is far too few for me to deal with now. :qq:

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Oct 22, 2000

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Occupation posted:

Didn't Silk Road get shut down literally because it was in part a human sex trafficking operation

Mostly I thought it was mostly Drug stuff and something about contract killing stuff, right? I'm pretty sure drug trafficking was the main reason, though.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Occupation posted:

human lives are, cynically speaking, a fungible good

They should really see a doctor about that.

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Oct 22, 2000

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Pick posted:

That preview had me laughing the whole way. "I agree, where's this going?"

Could you imagine a Corn universe version of Bee Movie?

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Oct 22, 2000

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Planet Piss posted:

Yeah this next one is looking really promising! Multiple timeline stories have infinite humor possibilities

By the way, I'm working on making Mr. Meeseeks plush dolls! I'll post pics here when they're done, which should be in the next couple days

If it's not done by tomorrow he'll be in horrible agony until you finish.

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Oct 22, 2000

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You guys are talking about an episode that will air next week, or is it up on youtube already?

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