Rick and Morty

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Even when it's shitty CG, the animation is still stilted, brittle and limited. Actually, it's even worse than the show proper. The fight choreography is garbage too.

The show at least tries with justin's stiff designs. It might not succeed (Pickle Rick was probably the series' highlight visually), but it makes an attempt. This had the misfortune of Studio DEEN being behind it combined with the whole "2D art style doesn't work in 3D" thing.

 

[CWCissey]

Anyone else watch the first episode?

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Pickle Rick is in the house tonight

 

[GhostButt]

Anyone else watch the first episode?

yeah it was just a big lamp shading of harmon's "circle-jerk" writing theory, amounting to nothing more than "it's meta so you can't call it lazy, also we called it lazy first so now you can't neener neener"

Also a bechdel test moment that brought it up mockingly but ended up being a "this is how straight male authors write women" blue pill joke.

Only funny moment was jesus christ's cum gutters, and its already a pickle rick tier google bomb

 

[CWCissey]

yeah it was just a big lamp shading of harmon's "circle-jerk" writing theory, amounting to nothing more than "it's meta so you can't call it lazy, also we called it lazy first so now you can't neener neener"

Also a bechdel test moment that brought it up mockingly but ended up being a "this is how straight male authors write women" blue pill joke.

Only funny moment was jesus christ's cum gutters, and its already a pickle rick tier google bomb

Agreed, the easy cracks at the Bible was probably the only funny joke in this episode.

The Harley Quinn cartoon started on E4 tonight too, and Linder and I had so much more fun with that.

 

[FaramirG]

I've only watched two Harmon shows (Community/R&M) but it's weird how in both shows the main character is a middle-aged cynical alcoholic who just knows better than everyone else and has everything break his way. Also with the Jeff/Annie relationship in Community that's blatant projecting into his irl circumstances (Jeff is nearly 40, Annie is about 20, at the time Community was still on the air Harmon was in his 40s and his gf was in her 20s)....after a certain point in both shows, it stops being funny commentary and turns into relentlessly jerking off both characters (Rick brings down a galactic government in 5 minutes, Jeff has offers from a top law firm despite being a literal criminal without even an undergrad degree). They both start out just fine, but the ego creep gets unbearable after a while.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I've only watched two Harmon shows (Community/R&M) but it's weird how in both shows the main character is a middle-aged cynical alcoholic who just knows better than everyone else and has everything break his way. Also with the Jeff/Annie relationship in Community that's blatant projecting into his irl circumstances (Jeff is nearly 40, Annie is about 20, at the time Community was still on the air Harmon was in his 40s and his gf was in her 20s)....after a certain point in both shows, it stops being funny commentary and turns into relentlessly jerking off both characters (Rick brings down a galactic government in 5 minutes, Jeff has offers from a top law firm despite being a literal criminal without even an undergrad degree). They both start out just fine, but the ego creep gets unbearable after a while.

Also Annie was originally written as a little Asian girl and sees Jeff as a father figure...eww...

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I found the latest episode to be pretty funny, but I have low standards in humor at times so I don't know if that means anything. Although, now that I turned my brain back on I would like to mention how they just cucked their fanbase out of the possibility of Evil Morty's or Pheonix person & Whats-Her-Name's return.

 

[The Pink Panther]

I found the latest episode to be pretty funny, but I have low standards in humor at times so I don't know if that means anything. Although, now that I turned my brain back on I would like to mention how they just cucked their fanbase out of the possibility of Evil Morty's or Pheonix person & Whats-Her-Name's return.

I kinda hated that episode. It sounded like a bunch of garbled-up nonsense with lines referencing story trends or plots and most of it felt very aimless.

Near the same level of shittiness as the Season 3 finale imo.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I kinda hated that episode. It sounded like a bunch of garbled-up nonsense with lines referencing story trends or plots and most of it felt very aimless.

Near the same level of shittiness as the Season 3 finale imo.

Oh yeah, definitely, but that was what tickled me about this episode tbh.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Agreed, the easy cracks at the Bible was probably the only funny joke in this episode.

Those aren't even that funny because it is a joke that has been made since the fucking 90s by every Comedy written by somebody who hated that their parents believed in that icky Religion stuff.

 

[sasazuka]

Wasn't the ending a subtle jab against people who create religious fanart of cartoon and videogame characters praying to Jesus (a subgenre of which includes a surprisingly hefty amount of Christian Sonic the Hedgehog art)?

 

[Jack Awful]

One of the strengths of the good Rick and Morty episodes are their strong locations and ideas:

-Jurassic Park for germs inside a hobo.
-Incepting Morty's teacher's dreams to get him to pass Morty.
-Rick accidentally creates a series of super viruses that mutates the world and he has to find a cure.
-There's a tiny universe powering Rick's car battery that's just invented a tinier universe to power themselves.

This new one was a mess. They're on a train, but it's not really a train, it's a poorly disguised allegory for story structure and the network. Rick and Morty are there for some reason that's never explained, but it's not really them.

The cutaways to false endings where it shows different ways the entire series could all be a dream was funny and I actually laughed out loud when Rick and Morty started praying to Jesus.

Not as bad as Pickle Rick, but the series is still nowhere near where it was at its height.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

I liked the implication that, by having the idea that the machine they were in "dragged" the story out of them, that the Evil Morty plotline has more or less been obliterated. There have long since been rumblings that there was never an endgame for that and the second use of the character was just supposed to be an easter egg that the fanbase got way worked up over. Out of all of their cynical jabs at the fanbase, that stupid Uber Morty and his army of Rick underlings one was one I was happy to see just smacked to the ground.

 

[The Pink Panther]

I liked the implication that, by having the idea that the machine they were in "dragged" the story out of them, that the Evil Morty plotline has more or less been obliterated. There have long since been rumblings that there was never an endgame for that and the second use of the character was just supposed to be an easter egg that the fanbase got way worked up over. Out of all of their cynical jabs at the fanbase, that stupid Uber Morty and his army of Rick underlings one was one I was happy to see just smacked to the ground.

I kinda wanted to see that story go somewhere, it seemed promising.

 

[Make it 42%]

Solar Opposites is basically what you'd get if they picked one premise from Interdimensional Cable and stuck with it.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Solar Opposites is basically what you'd get if they picked one premise from Interdimensional Cable and stuck with it.

Is that a good thing or......

 

[Jack Awful]

Solar Opposites is basically what you'd get if they picked one premise from Interdimensional Cable and stuck with it.

Justin is probably writing only on Solar Opposites, which is why all these new episodes seem like they're trying to imitate his humor and style without fully grasping it.

 

[Chilson]

Is that a good thing or......

Well they had a "Feminist" episode and there is a bit of "subtle" woke shit that creeps into the rest. Beyond that its been pretty okay and typical Roland affair.

Edit: oh and for some reason, they really hate penn and teller. Is it because they are openly conservative or something?

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Those aren't even that funny because it is a joke that has been made since the fucking 90s by every Comedy written by somebody who hated that their parents believed in that icky Religion stuff.

The sad thing is, Harmon probably really thought he was stepping on some toes by including an anti-Jesus joke. I'll be genuinely impressed with him when he draws the prophet Mohammed wiping his own ass with pages from the Koran.