Rick and Morty Griefing Thread - Now With 300% More Incest!

[Chuck McGill]

I sailed some high seas for this season and immediately got nastygrammed by my ISP for the torrenting, lol. I watched them and... eh? It was about the same as usual. The new voice actors did okay, Roiland apparently hadn't set foot in the writers' room ever since Harmon filled it with his cronies, so the writing wasn't different. I was neither wowed nor disgusted. All the people thirsty for Roiland's dick saying it would nosedive without him were wrong, as again, he'd been forced out of a creative role years ago. Would it be a superior show today if Harmon had gotten ousted instead? Maybe. Roiland's lol random adlibbing stuff was hit or miss to me.

I still don't think the current seasons come close to seasons 1-2, it gets away with it by being slightly better than anything else coming and being hard-carried by the quality of earlier seasons. The primary difference I've noticed is how they portray Rick as a flawed character. In the earlier seasons, Rick being a flawed person was patently obvious, as he regularly made retarded mistakes like thinking vole DNA would make people more likely to mate and mantis DNA would make people less likely to mate. They didn't need to tell you he was flawed, it was patently obvious that he was from his actions. But come season 3 Harmon had read one too many "You missed the point by idolizing them" memes and felt he had to do something to counteract this. So now Rick simultaneously became unkillable and omniscient AND the show moved away from organically showing his flaws and loaded the show up with shit like that chink therapist dressing him down after meeting him for all of 15 seconds. The season 2 episode where Rick and Jerry are arguing with each other did something similar, but you could at least buy into it since Rick and Jerry spend every day interacting with each other, and it's conceivable to think there's a lot unsaid between the two of them. Seasons 3 and onward were just flooded with "Rick is le bad and toxic because...HE JUST IS, OKAY?????"

And Evil Morty's reveal that the Central Finite Curve was a playground for Ricks to have a safe space in just struck me as after-the-fact character assassination. Sure man, Rick goes to the trouble to isolate an entire section of time and space but just leaves in the Galactic Federation that's actually capable of giving him a run for his money for the yuks. It all smacks of Harmon forcefully trying to force redditors from idolizing Rick as a character and it's just so fucking gay. If Alan Moore ever published a sequel to Watchmen, I could imagine him trying this treatment with Rorsharch after the character received such a warm reception despite his intent towards making Rorsharch a bad character.

 

[Dr. Butt]

The new ultra-repulsive AGP staff writer (who I guess execs thought would be good optics to the woke fanbase in the wake of Roiland texting children?) is really leaking through onto the screen in new episodes. I had time to watch season 7 last week and googled "Gretchen Freud trans" after episode 3. He's somehow infused even the more boring episodes with a troon miasma, and absolutely ruined a lot of what made the dialogue great in the past.

@wtfNeedSignUp start with "Phantom of the Telethon" OR watch all the christmas specials in a row. Back on-topic, I personally found the evil morty showdown to be embarassing. It was such videogame addict reference shite, wouldn't be surprised if a troon storyboarded it by dipping his cock in ink and tracing over touhou animations.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Latest season seem to not "get" Rick.

He's stripped to the bare characteristics. Sure at first he seemed like an all-powerful demigod who could do anything, but the point was that he wasn't that all-powerful and people liked him cause he was more complex.

In the last season he's just a drunk with superpowers. He's not deep or smart and his flaws are he's a careless asshole?

Instead of building him up they've broken him down...

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Latest season seem to not "get" Rick.

He's stripped to the bare characteristics. Sure at first he seemed like an all-powerful demigod who could do anything, but the point was that he wasn't that all-powerful and people liked him cause he was more complex.

In the last season he's just a drunk with superpowers. He's not deep or smart and his flaws are he's a careless asshole?

Instead of building him up they've broken him down...

Idk, previous seasons Rick was way too powerful and smart, he was just not fun and could solve anything. This season Rick is more down to earth fuckup, which is less annoying.

Also new episode was alright, not bad but using the same jokes too much. Way less incest than I thought it would have.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Finally got around to start watching Season 7. I'm 4 episodes again and its...bad.

They've gotten into an unfortunate cycle of reusing and bringing back old characters and concepts. Unity is back, Mr. Poopybutthole is back, the therapist is back, and on and on and on...its boring.

I just got up to the spaghetti episode.

First of all, Rick can save spaghetti night by wiping everyone's memories. They literally used the mind wiping device in this episode.

Second, anyone catch that line from Jerry: "Can we just join the fascist half of the country, they get to do more. I'm just saying." Why are we calling half of the country fascist? Also, um, R&M writers, if they were truly fascist, wouldn't they be able to do less? Like, wouldn't their lives be more restrictive than the good and virtuous half of the country?

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

I straight up skipped the Ice-T episode. They made a whole ass episode based on an old post credits alphabet pun.

 

[Bonesjones]

Season 7 was definitely them beating a dead horse. None of the jokes landed, the call backs weren't call backs, just them grasping at anything that seemed familiar because they had no new ideas. I binged it all on Sunday and didn't laugh once, it was just a lot of "why even make this"? It wasn't even hateable just awful.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Finished watching Season 7 and it never got better.

There are now two types of Rick and Morty episodes: Ones that try hard to be shocking and fail to leave a mark and others that try to do recalls of past episodes to try and stir up nostalgic feelings for those earlier gems.

I will say this though. I didn't mind the new voices for Rick and Morty. It was noticeable in the first episode, but after that, they blended in so well, I completely forgot about the cast change.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Finished watching Season 7 and it never got better.

There are now two types of Rick and Morty episodes: Ones that try hard to be shocking and fail to leave a mark and others that try to do recalls of past episodes to try and stir up nostalgic feelings for those earlier gems.

I will say this though. I didn't mind the new voices for Rick and Morty. It was noticeable in the first episode, but after that, they blended in so well, I completely forgot about the cast change.

You forgot the third type: Incest fanfiction!

 

[RumblyTumbly]

You forgot the third type: Incest fanfiction!

I was about to say that falls under the try hard category, but they use incest as a plot point so frequently that you might have a point.

 

[Toolbox]

I was about to say that falls under the try hard category, but they use incest as a plot point so frequently that you might have a point.

It's not even tryhard, just incredibly obvious inclusion of the writer's fetish, same with the dragon stuff from the vs the president episode and whatever the hell happened in the wizard magic one. It not even being a joke has been discussed for a while, it's simply done too much.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[MirrorNoir]

Latest season seem to not "get" Rick.

He's stripped to the bare characteristics. Sure at first he seemed like an all-powerful demigod who could do anything, but the point was that he wasn't that all-powerful and people liked him cause he was more complex.

In the last season he's just a drunk with superpowers. He's not deep or smart and his flaws are he's a careless asshole?

Instead of building him up they've broken him down...

Rick was ALWAYS an unlikable piece of shit, not like you described him as. He was always Harmon and Roiland's idealized "I'm Godlike and everyone else is my slave or a NPC who exists to suck me off or for me to torture" Marty Stu abomination. He's a Lifetime Network domestic abuse drama villain at his core.

I kind of wonder if the season three premiere, which had Rick at his absolute worst up until that point, caused Adult Swim to intervene to force the season three finale to be Rick getting knocked down a couple of pegs and a status quo reset. Even if it meant Roiland and Harmon having to bring Jerry back after they were on the brink of letting Chris Parnell walk from the show permanently.

Breaking him down was kind of a necessity as far as pulling a Mr ______/Danny Glover, since they wrote themselves into a corner of going full villain protagonist with Rick and unlike Monarch and Dr. Mrs Monarch, Rick isn't the good kind of villain protagonist you can cheer for because he's pure 100% evil.

As for Jerry's line about the half of the country that was fascist and how they "could do more shit than the other half", that was kind of a stealth dig at how being a liberal who blanket calls anyone not 100% in lockstep with the left a fascist ironically has less freedom than the so called "fascist" they claim moral superiority over. Which makes me think it was a line thrown in by a California fag who had gotten red pilled about how the left and left run states like California are more repressive/anti-freedom than the so-called "fascist red states" and referred to an off-camera scene where Summer was being a worthless cunt (as usual) and was bullying Jerry into not doing something by claiming whatever he wanted to was something that "fascist red staters" did.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Rick was ALWAYS an unlikable piece of shit, not like you described him as. He was always Harmon and Roiland's idealized "I'm Godlike and everyone else is my slave or a NPC who exists to suck me off or for me to torture" Marty Stu abomination. He's a Lifetime Network domestic abuse drama villain at his core.

People didn't like Rick, they liked his character.

He always came off as a regular guy who accidentally uncovered the secrets of the universe and went about to fuck around and do shit that benefitted him personally, or interested him, instead of being some visionary or cult leader.

He came off as Godlike, and thought himself as that, but they showed that he's not and often fucks up and when a real threat comes up he's worth jack shit, whether H&R wrote that intentionally or not.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Now that the dust had settled did people really like the suicide spaghetti episode? I heard all the hype about how thought provoking and "intelligent" it was but when I saw it, it was one of the lamer episodes.

Was it stealth hyped since it was one of the first episodes without Justin? I never hear anyone talk about it when they list off good episodes.

 

[robobobo]

It was meh, but had some fuzzy edges to it that people could project smarter theories onto and claim that it was actually smart. It did some hand-waving and made noises about the complexity of life, but if you pay any attention you'll notice that it doesn't actually do anything with that premise. It just plops it on the screen to some melancholy song, then walks away. A lot like JJ Abrams with his shitty mysteries, they showed a premise to the audience but didn't have the skill to follow it up, leaving it to the viewers' imaginations to fill in the blanks.

 

[Trollblade69]

I assume people have now started watching the Rick &'Morty anime.

How much do you long for death?

 

[MirrorNoir]

It was interesting and a lot of the complaints I've seen appear to mostly be about how it tries to play the concept straight with Rick being less wacky and abusive and no meta.

If anything it kind of makes me hope it becomes the new standard version of R&M and Harmon is told to go fuck himself.

 

[The Last Stand]

It seems like the premise of Rick & Morty is unadulterated nihilism. I feel Rick himself is a self insert of the creator's self-proclaimed "genius" that allows him to be a miserable, cynical scientist while using his family as punching bags. If the Rick & Morty fandom is so enlightened by its supposed double entendres, why did they embarrass themselves over a McDonald's dipping sauce?

 

[Stab You in the Back]

It seems like the premise of Rick & Morty is unadulterated nihilism. I feel Rick himself is a self insert of the creator's self-proclaimed "genius" that allows him to be a miserable, cynical scientist while using his family as punching bags. If the Rick & Morty fandom is so enlightened by its supposed double entendres, why did they embarrass themselves over a McDonald's dipping sauce?

Have you been cryogenically frozen since 2017?