Rick and Morty

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RumblyTumbly said:
That...was actually a good scene.

Why spoil it in a sneak preview?
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Wouldn’t surprise me if by the end of the episode, he doesn’t make the date and they don’t get together, or it’s on an alternate earth or something.
 
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There are pretty much only two ways that you can get actual animation into a Western cartoon today, either be a retro throwback like the new Looney Tunes or the Cuphead series, or do it as a one off "joke" like "hey let's let some Japanese people animate our scribbly designs won't that be funny ha ha".

With this special though, since the director also wrote it, it seems he took his job seriously thus the short is free of any cancerous "lol Rick and Morty but animu XD lolololol" irony poisoning that may have been behind this decision.
 
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Here’s the plot summery for the “Genocider” anime short. It’s off Wikipedia, so take it as you will:

After being questioned as to the whereabouts of Rick C-137 after the disappearance of his own Rick, a Morty is tasked by the Council of the Citadel, overseen by a spectacled President Morty, to travel to Japan and stop "The Genocider" from attacking Ricks and Mortys in an attempt to find Rick C-137 to prevent them from joining forces. After arriving in Japan, Morty activates an inflatable beeper given to him by his Rick which leads him to an old apartment of his in Tokyo. Upon meeting Rick C-137, who shoots a second deformed Rick he derides as a clone, Morty is instructed by Rick C-137 to drink a blue potion after he (Rick) is gone, which will "make you Rip Van Winkle". After trapping Morty in a bubble and bidding him farewell, laughingly addressing him as "Rick Sanchez", Rick is pulled into the sky towards the ship of the Genocider, and then surrounded by various Ricks of the Citadel. Mocking them for having fallen for his trap, Rick activates several anime boosted power-ups, becoming "Super Rick" to avoid their gunfire, tricking them into firing their supergravity cannons into the Genocider, setting off a gravity explosion which destroys the ship, the city, and Rick himself. After the eyepatch-wearing Rick of the Genocider dies, a small robotic device President Morty had been holding—a similar device to the one he has used to control "Evil Rick" in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind"—stops beeping, inferring he was controlling the Genocider in addition to the Citadel. After being informed that Rick C-137 could not have survived the explosion, President Morty asks his subordinates to erect memorials for the fallen Ricks and walks out into the hallway alone to crush the device underfoot. After recalling a conversation between himself and Rick C-137 about their timeline, he turns around, looking somberly into the distance. As the explosion spreads, the Morty trapped in the bubble, having consumed the potion—consisting of Rick's memories and the excretions of the alien parasites from "Total Rickall"—transforms in Rick C-137, the potion having allowed Rick to take over his body. Accidentally activating his old answering machine, Rick discovers an old voicemail from Jerry several years prior informing him of Morty's birth and asking him to visit his daughter.]
 
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ωσкє вℓυє мυѕℓιм qυєєη said:
EmpLemon uploaded this video today and I think it was okay.
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I disagree with the video over the idea that Rick and Morty got worse because of the addition of more writers and appealing to normies. Besides Dan Harmon having some fetish of ruining his own material, the problem with Rick and Morty is that it always manipulated the audience to think there is something bigger/meaningful going on and when that bubble inevitably popped it's hard to look back at it in the same way.
 
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