Rick and Morty: AND AWAAAAAAAAAAY WE GO!

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Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

The newest episode of this was fantastic. That's all I can really say.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2013 01:36

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 08:32

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I'd just like to pop into this thread and shout through cupped hands "I told you so!". I was onboard since the youtube shorts, really, but this 2nd episode really knocked it out of the park.

*Cups Hands* Fuuuuuck youuuuuuu!

# ¿ Dec 13, 2013 06:56

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CelticPredator posted:

Three things.

One. Awesome Episode.

Two. Thanks for giving us, Coloradans the dick.

Three. How old is Morty? Despite what the commercial says, I do believe he's 14. Considering he's in High School. Unless he's in one of those middle school/high school hybrids.

Yeah I don't think his age/mental age are going to be very sturdy things. In the first episode, his class was doing simple addition tables during math class..

# ¿ Dec 17, 2013 14:51

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Loved that episode. Echoing the sentiment that it's nice that Rick Sanchez is not completely heartless and does care about his family. Jerry... Poor Jerry.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 15:05

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Rick and Morty is great on so many levels. Speaking of levels, did you work on the Rushed Licensed Adventure game? Loved that too.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2014 06:17

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That post-credits scene. Jesus Christ.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 05:44

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Alan Smithee posted:

Not to be a stickler Meseeks but...they didn't take 2 strokes off his game, his wife did

But the Meseeks caused his wife to help him take two strokes off.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 23:03

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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

Did anyone else find a startling similarity between Dan Harmon and the Giant? I was getting serious caricature vibes from that brief scene.

Definitely. I'm also 90% sure Harmon voiced the priest-looking guy (who also sorta looked like him) during the post-credits scene.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 19:36

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I say this every week about this show but man, that was some good television.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 14:26

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Ariza posted:

I know I'm going to be alone here, but my favorite part of this show so far is when his math teacher is watching the stupid TV show before they 'incept' him. 'You don't know me.' 'Nice Mrs. Pancakes, real nice.' Wheat thins? I'll take two.

It's the small things.

"Nice to wheat you!"

# ¿ Jan 29, 2014 03:37

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TwoPair posted:

This should really be the new thread title.

Seconding this.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2014 05:05

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The only thing that throws a wrench into the Rick is Morty speculation (it is speculation, not a spoiler) is that the creators have said that they aren't going to do time travel stories.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2014 15:53

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I'll toxx right now. If at any time in Rick and Morty's adventures it is revealed that Rick is in fact an older Morty, ban me.

Doesn't count if they suffer some kind of teleporter malfunction and become spliced with each other.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2014 04:05

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# ¿ Jan 31, 2014 07:01

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Billy Idle posted:

Did anyone else notice that the ending of this last episode was pretty similar conceptually to the ending of the first Back to the Future? Marty McFly's basically living out the rest of his life in an alternate universe created by his changes to the past. The only difference is this reality--rather than being perfectly identical to the original one in every way--is actually populated by happier, more successful versions of his loved ones who have lived completely different lives than the people Marty grew up with, which in a way is even creepier.

Not really similar because of reasons you mention in your post.

Doesn't the fact that the alternate reality in Rick and Morty is identical and Morty being traumatized make the concepts completely different?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2014 00:47

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Billy Idle posted:

Both scenarios involve someone having to live out the rest of their lives in a universe populated by loved ones who metaphysically are not the same people they've always known. You don't see any similarities?

And that last part doesn't even make sense as an objection. "This show obviously isn't a spoof on Back to the Future because Marty was never traumatized on an existential level by all the weird poo poo Doc Brown put him through." I'm saying it almost struck me as a commentary on the common observation that Marty from Back to the Future should have been weirded out by the situation.

Okay fair enough on that last bit, but for the record, I didn't say:

"This show obviously isn't a spoof on Back to the Future ..."

It just seems like the similarities in that particular episode begin and end at "Morty/Marty's in an alternate universe now." If Rick and Morty had went back in time and fixed their mistake and somehow returned to the present without killing their alt-universe counterparts, would there even be an existential crisis?

I don't know, but this is really starting to venture into a certain "thinking about it" territory that probably isn't that worthwhile.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2014 01:33

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Chiming in on the love for the stuttering and other vocal tics. Sometimes I crack up just because of their speech patterns-- even when there's no joke.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2014 06:36

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Wasn't that confirmed a couple of weeks ago?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2014 22:21

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Republican Vampire posted:

The dog is called Snuffles, which it dismisses as its slave name. It prefers to be called Snowball.

The dog leaves the family to found a new techno-augmented cybernetic canine civilization in episode two.

That is what happened to the dog.

Pretty concise, Morty.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2014 07:06

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Maybe there will be an episode that addresses it. Maybe Rick drinks some kind of super-booze that he concocted with -- eh fan fiction territory. Staying out.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2014 18:43

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Tuxedo Jack posted:

"Mr. Meeseeks, please count to 10 by 3's."

Wait, would happen if you gave a Meeseek's an impossible task?

I think they explored something similar to this in an episode of Rick and Morty.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 16:09

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Tuxedo Jack posted:

But in the episode, killing Jerry solved the request, which made it possible. A hypothetically impossible task, like counting to 10 by threes, would not be resolved by killing the person who asked them to do it.

This hiatus has gone on far too long...

What if the Meeseeks started counting from -1?

As you can see, I'm also counting down the days until more Rick and Morty!

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 16:31

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I do like Rick's attempts at being a comedian/writer/Arsenio. Wub a dub dub!

# ¿ Mar 12, 2014 13:57

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I loved this episode so drat much. I had to pause after each TV show Rick and Morty were watching so I didn't miss anything from laughing so much. I don't think any of the shows fell flat with me.

Even the corn bit was funny for the sole reason that when one ear of corn gets shot, part of his "head" pops like popcorn.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2014 14:44

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Swan Curry posted:

'Took inspiration' was probably the wrong way to say it.What I meant was that the two voices sound quite alike,and that it's interesting to see him adapt a voice from something he'd previously done and use it for a completely different character.

I don't know man, seems pretty far-fetched to me. A creative person "borrowing" from older work. I don't think so.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 19:15

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Yodzilla posted:

Goddamn I love this show. Did I mishear or did they manage to sneak an uncensored "gently caress" into Rick's slap flight with the Devil while bleeping out other random crap?

I swear I heard this too, but I thought it was my imagination.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2014 17:34

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What if there's more than one parallel dimension that has the designation C137 because whatever determines the designation is different in that dimension?

Last Chance fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 27, 2014

# ¿ Mar 27, 2014 22:35

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Weird, I thought tomorrow was Monday too. Rickdiculous.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2014 16:51

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Well, I guess we know how Robot Morty works in the intro. Great episode.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2014 06:43

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Drifter posted:

Frick.

drat.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 01:01

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James Cameronions

# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 05:51

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I guess Jerry doesn't give birth til next season?

# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 15:19

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Gorilla Salad posted:

Hey, given that was actually have people who worked on the show in this thread, can one of you guys ask Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon what's so bad about puffy vaginas?

Because it's really been bugging me.

I think this was answered via some reddit ama thing or some other interview. Someone said the puffy vagina thing was sort of a filler/placeholder joke, but they never got around to putting something else... in there.

edit: beaten

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 18:05

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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

This is the thing I think I laughed the hardest at, all season. The giant, naked hobo floating over the US. Then the blood rain for Christmas. The sheer absurdity and brilliance of it was an instant classic!

I'm surprised most people seem to think this was one of the worst episodes in the season.

What, really? It's one of the strongest in the season.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 20:47

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Bust Rodd posted:

I just looked up the animated Doc & Mharti shorts and they are terrible. It's super obvious that Roiland cannot write and that Ridley & Harmon just keep justin on the rails, so to speak.

I'm so glad about this, because this show is unreal

Glad we finally have an expert critic on Roiland's writing in this thread to let us know the true secret formula behind Rick and Morty's success...

Although I did like his House of Cosbys thing a while back.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2014 17:14

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This one's good too. Couldn't find a YouTube link

http://video.adultswim.com/rick-and-morty/not-real-life.html

# ¿ May 7, 2014 20:40

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Drifter posted:

I HATE HATE HATE those stupid Justin Rowland short things, not because they're gross or anything but because they're lazy and just lovely, but I swear to god the Rick and Morty stuff is some of the most entertaining television I've seen in years.

Thanks for posting these little previews/commercials for the show.

Drifter posted:

Taken as a process, sure, but self contained they are pretty lovely with overdrawn jokes that are stale and one noted and unoriginal - that's what I mean by lazy, not that it doesn't take an amount of work to create output. They are an 8 year old's version of what humor is. I get that you want to defend him, but note I'm not saying he's a bad person or anything, simply that when a person is yet again raping a kid, or loving a kid in their shoulder, or cutting their face off, it's just...it's the torture porn of humor. There's nothing else to it. It's a little kid yelling 'Penis!' at a supermarket. It's 'technically' part of what humor can be, in that it pushes against expectations and societal norms of behavior, but without anything else to it, it's a very singular, unrefined and lazy way to do it.

It's absolutely fine that you find it enjoyable, and if it gets further creative juices rolling in the guy's mind then fantastic, but at best they're really really unfunny boring lovely roughdrafts to a final version that is great.

Glad we've got Dr. Jokes in this thread again to make sure we find and map exactly out how and why Rick and Morty is funny.

# ¿ May 8, 2014 00:04