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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. Pretty concise, Morty.
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I binged through all of these in a few days and it's loving amazing. I worry about myself for nodding vigorously during Rick's speech about love and breaking the cycle. Also the Meseeks was easily the best plot so far.
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I have nothing but endless praise for the Mr Meeseeks storyline. It's such a simple, obvious setup that you know exactly how things are going to play out, but that just makes it more engaging. From the minute Rick hands over the Meeseeks box you know things are hosed, it's the moment that the train flies off the tracks, the instant you know that a spectacular disaster is about to happen and you just have to see it. Or at least that's what I thought before Rick Chronenberg'd the entire world and then abandoned it, kind of made everything else seem like less of a big deal.
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Chairman Mao posted:I have nothing but endless praise for the Mr Meeseeks storyline. It's such a simple, obvious setup that you know exactly how things are going to play out, but that just makes it more engaging. From the minute Rick hands over the Meeseeks box you know things are hosed, it's the moment that the train flies off the tracks, the instant you know that a spectacular disaster is about to happen and you just have to see it. The most beautiful part of the Meeseeks storyline is that Summer and Morty's mom ask for these nebulous, vague ideas, which end up being simple for the Meeseeks. Morty's dad asks for something relatively simple and almost gets people killed for it. Everything I've thought would be cliche in this show has been turned on its head and I love it! I drew a Mr. Meeseeks a while ago too: 
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I wonder if the vice principal ever got his number from Summer  Chairman Mao posted:I know you guys edited it out but I absolutely love the idea that the people making this show live and work in perpetual darkness, their offices lit only by the bleak glow of their wacom tablets. I must have passed the Starburns office a dozen times in the past, it's by a bunch of other non-descript offices in a Surburban part of Burbank, kinda blows my mind a bit how much you more little things you discover here Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Chairman Mao posted:I have nothing but endless praise for the Mr Meeseeks storyline. It's such a simple, obvious setup that you know exactly how things are going to play out, but that just makes it more engaging. From the minute Rick hands over the Meeseeks box you know things are hosed, it's the moment that the train flies off the tracks, the instant you know that a spectacular disaster is about to happen and you just have to see it. trust me, they're ok with it
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Planet Piss posted:The most beautiful part of the Meeseeks storyline is that Summer and Morty's mom ask for these nebulous, vague ideas, which end up being simple for the Meeseeks. Morty's dad asks for something relatively simple and almost gets people killed for it. Everything I've thought would be cliche in this show has been turned on its head and I love it! It's such an incredibly simple exchange but literally the hardest I've laughed at this show was "Is he keeping his shoulders straight?" "Ooooh, he's trying!" because it's actually hilariously foreboding.
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The Mr. Meeseeks character is one that absolutely should not have worked, yet somehow the voice acting and design just cracked me the gently caress up. That's talent right there.
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mind the walrus posted:The Mr. Meeseeks character is one that absolutely should not have worked, yet somehow the voice acting and design just cracked me the gently caress up. That's talent right there. Well, he roped me into this! Well, him over there, he roped me into this! Don't look at me, he roped me into this!
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mind the walrus posted:The Mr. Meeseeks character is one that absolutely should not have worked, yet somehow the voice acting and design just cracked me the gently caress up. That's talent right there. The long string of "Well he roped me into this" really shouldn't have been funny, but was hilarious to me and my friends mainly because it goes on for a while.
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Hey what the hell is up with this break?! This is literally the funniest thing to come in years.
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Brightman posted:The long string of "Well he roped me into this" really shouldn't have been funny, but was hilarious to me and my friends mainly because it goes on for a while. I think what made it brilliant was they always sounded like they were close to snapping, so the juxtaposition of sounding like he's about to open fire with being genuinely helpful and kind starts as funny and only gets funnier when they really do start to lose it.
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Eifert Posting posted:I think what made it brilliant was they always sounded like they were close to snapping, so the juxtaposition of sounding like he's about to open fire with being genuinely helpful and kind starts as funny and only gets funnier when they really do start to lose it. The verbal tics and unrepentant enthusiasm for everything also really killed it. Even the horrific pain of existence was made humorous!
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DarkCrawler posted:Hey what the hell is up with this break?! This is literally the funniest thing to come in years. Dan and Justin said that they're on break because they need to finish up the second half of the season.
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Eifert Posting posted:I think what made it brilliant was they always sounded like they were close to snapping, so the juxtaposition of sounding like he's about to open fire with being genuinely helpful and kind starts as funny and only gets funnier when they really do start to lose it. LeJackal posted:The verbal tics and unrepentant enthusiasm for everything also really killed it. Even the horrific pain of existence was made humorous! The way they started to develop into slightly deeper characters due to prolonged existence and started having debates with each other and showing more emotional range all the while still saying "I'm Mr. Meseeks. Look at me." was great. If there really was a Meseeks Box I'd probably burn through a bunch of them just asking questions like why do they say "Look at me." so much just to see what their answers would be. Other questions would be "How do you know about the box?" and "Could a Meseeks do a job for a day or would the 8 hours of work be too torturous?" but only one question per Meseeks, any answer would be acceptable. I'm not a monster, like Jerry. I'd probably also get lazy and use them as an egg-timer: "Stand on your head for 12 minutes." Brightman fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Brightman posted:If there really was a Meseeks Box I'd probably burn through a bunch of them just asking questions like why do they say "Look at me." so much just to see what their answers would be. Other questions would be "How do you know about the box?" and "Could a Meseeks do a job for a day or would the 8 hours of work be too torturous?" but only one question per Meseeks, any answer would be acceptable. I'm not a monster, like Jerry. Oh yeah, asking deep, maybe unanswerable philosophical questions about the nature of what it means to be a Meseeks doesn't make you a monster. 
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ultramiraculous posted:Oh yeah, asking deep, maybe unanswerable philosophical questions about the nature of what it means to be a Meseeks doesn't make you a monster. Any answer would be acceptable though, including "I don't know". Edit: VV No, but it does fulfill the request. If they don't know the answer, there's not much that can be done, so while it would suck, them's the breaks. Brightman fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 19:52
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Brightman posted:Any answer would be acceptable though, including "I don't know". That's not very helpful.
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Planet Piss posted:The most beautiful part of the Meeseeks storyline is that Summer and Morty's mom ask for these nebulous, vague ideas, which end up being simple for the Meeseeks. Morty's dad asks for something relatively simple and almost gets people killed for it. Everything I've thought would be cliche in this show has been turned on its head and I love it! you should tweet that to justin or the facebook page and they might feature it. Chairman Mao posted:I absolutely love the idea that the people making this show live and work in perpetual darkness, their offices lit only by the bleak glow of their wacom tablets. Most studios are pretty much this. but its a happy and relaxing atmosphere.
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HorseRenoir posted:Dan and Justin said that they're on break because they need to finish up the second half of the season. Hopefully, this won't turn into a production fiasco like Ren & Stimpy.
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Brightman posted:The way the started to develop into slightly deeper characters do to prolonged existence and started having debates with each other and showing more emotional range all the while still saying "I'm Mr. Meseeks. Look at me." was great. MeSeeks seem to have a lot of knowledge and intelligence, from Psychotherapy to help Beth become a more complete woman, to public persuasive speaking to make Summer more popular and the finer points of golf. I'd bet you could ask a MeSeeks to solve world hunger, cure cancer or bring peace to the middle east and they could do it. The keeping things simple thing is probably just a precaution against stupid people like Jerry.
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MariusLecter posted:MeSeeks seem to have a lot of knowledge and intelligence, from Psychotherapy to help Beth become a more complete woman, to public persuasive speaking to make Summer more popular and the finer points of golf. I'd bet you could ask a MeSeeks to solve world hunger, cure cancer or bring peace to the middle east and they could do it. The problem is that a lot of the more complex situations involve long time frames, and MeSeeks do not enjoy prolonged existence. You'd need to sub-divide large tasks into smaller, less time consuming ones.
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I thought this show was supposed to be garbage because I saw a pilot where the doc just kept telling the kid to suck his balls for 15 minutes. Turns out the actual show is good!
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The Meseeks is just a really fun concept to work with. It's been mentioned that it's kind of a sci-fi adaptation of a genie, but the absurd differences from that trope are what causes it to be so funny. Considering how they're summoned and their purpose, you'd expect them to have some sort of otherworldly abilities, but as it happens they have almost no tools besides their charisma and basic knowledge. So while they're great at changing how others view their summoner (Summer) or how their summoner views herself (Beth), they trip up when they're tasked with making a miniscule substantive change in someone (Jerry). Meseeks could probably get Jerry elected president, but they're powerless to make him even a slightly less mediocre person.MariusLecter posted:I'd bet you could ask a MeSeeks to solve world hunger, cure cancer or bring peace to the middle east and they could do it. LeJackal posted:The problem is that a lot of the more complex situations involve long time frames, and MeSeeks do not enjoy prolonged existence. You'd need to sub-divide large tasks into smaller, less time consuming ones.
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This show really has no right to be as funny as it is. I binge through the current six episodes at least once a week, and there have been times I've watched episodes twice in one day. I NEED MORE. The MeSeeks have probably been my favorite plot line so far, their voices are just so ridiculous. Buzkashi posted:It's such an incredibly simple exchange but literally the hardest I've laughed at this show was This scene absolutely killed me.
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RaspberryCommie posted:This has probably already been posted in here but:
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RaspberryCommie posted:This has probably already been posted in here but: I don't think this scene will ever not be funny to me. Just staring at the gif made me laugh out loud. http://video.adultswim.com/rick-and-morty/not-real-life.html I just found this old promo. Watching it made me fall in love with the show all over again so I thought I'd share it.
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This show is hosed up in the extreme. and now I'm hungry for apples.
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I’ve been thinking about the psychological make-up of a meseek and this is what I’ve come up with: Meseeks are born (so to speak) with a large amount of inherent knowledge. From the moment it comes into existence a Meseek knows how to talk, how to walk, how it was made, how to open pickle jars, and so on. It is also incapable of feeling of happiness, yet is still aware of what happiness is and that it will never experience it. Instead of being driven by a desire to grow, learn, and reproduce the way humans are a Meseek is instead motivated by two overwhelming compulsions: A) Fulfill an assigned task (any task) B) Die. Compulsion A overrides compulsion B which explains why Meseeks don’t simply stop breathing or walk in front of a car once they’re summoned and fight back when attacked. Meseeks are unable to stop thinking about compulsion B even as they fulfill compulsion A. When compulsion A is satisfied a Meseek instantly moves on to compulsion B and blows himself up. An inability to fulfill these compulsions will rapidly drive a Meseek to madness. Sidenote: I’ve decided that creating a Meseek is an inherently evil act. No matter what you have a Meseek do for you or how much good it causes you’re still intentionally causing pain to a sentient creature for personal gain since meseeks cannot exist without suffering. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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I'm wondering though, are the Meseeks born with all of the knowledge they could possibly need to complete almost any request, or do they perhaps access only knowledge that they need to complete the task they have been given upon it's request from some sort of Meeseeks hive-mind database?
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"I really Croenberged up the world" is the best line I've ever heard. edit: hahahaha holy gently caress Rick portaling into the new universe was the best thing I've ever seen. pentyne fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:No matter what you have a Meseek do for you or how much good it causes you’re still intentionally causing pain to a sentient creature for personal gain since meseeks cannot exist without suffering. The same argument could be made for bringing a child into the world but unlike a Meseeks we have no directives to focus on. It's all chaos and suffering.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The same argument could be made for bringing a child into the world but unlike a Meseeks we have no directives to focus on. It's all chaos and suffering. The obvious solution is species-wide suicide.
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JesusFists posted:The Meseeks is just a really fun concept to work with. It's been mentioned that it's kind of a sci-fi adaptation of a genie, but the absurd differences from that trope are what causes it to be so funny. Considering how they're summoned and their purpose, you'd expect them to have some sort of otherworldly abilities, but as it happens they have almost no tools besides their charisma and basic knowledge. So while they're great at changing how others view their summoner (Summer) or how their summoner views herself (Beth), they trip up when they're tasked with making a miniscule substantive change in someone (Jerry). Meseeks could probably get Jerry elected president, but they're powerless to make him even a slightly less mediocre person. Eh, I disagree somewhat. They fail with Jerry because Jerry is an easily frustrated rear end in a top hat with no patience or capacity to improve on his own. Even when he finally succeeds it's only because his wife does everything short of grab his testicles and move him around like a marionette. I imagine with most people they'd be able to do substantive changes much more easily.
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LeJackal posted:The obvious solution is species-wide suicide. We're on our way. Just be patient.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The same argument could be made for bringing a child into the world but unlike a Meseeks we have no directives to focus on. It's all chaos and suffering. I’m trying and failing to come up with an argument against this. You’re right, suffering is an inevitable part of human existence and propagation of the species prolongs that suffering indefinitely. … Rick’s “Don’t think about it” advice makes more and more sense the longer you think about something.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Rick’s “Don’t think about it” advice makes more and more sense the longer you think about something. He never explicitly states it, but I am getting the message that low-grade semi-functional alcoholism is probably also important.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I’ve been thinking about the psychological make-up of a meseek and this is what I’ve come up with: It doesn't seem like they CAN die without fulfilling their purpose. They were mauling and dismembering each other before they decided to kill Jerry, but they all survived it. It's like you could even chop them all to pieces and as long as they haven't granted your wish they'll keep living. It's chilling to think about. That's that nihilism ingrained in the show that I adore. Typical posted:you should tweet that to justin or the facebook page and they might feature it. I just did so, I hope he gets a kick out of it. Thanks for suggesting it!
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