Some episodes are great, others not so much
Rick And Morty
Woah early versions?
You've never seen the original shorts?
I can hardly recollect most of the episodes, but i can say the same about superjail.I guess its okay
grass tastes bad
The whole show is terrible, disfunctional humans interacting and gore somehow entertains people.
I have I'm just wondering if this is what the show was gonna originally be like.
The one with Rick killing the space heroes made me stop watching it. Cruelness and gore for cruelness and gore's sake.
It was at that point Rick and Morty stopped doing clever satire and began only doing "dude gore lmao" jokes to pad out the run time.
You see some of that start to show in Tiny Rick and The Purge but the main difference for me is that Rick isn't an insufferable D-bag godking yet. He actually needs help from Morty and Summer and can feel vulnerable. Also the jokes were better.
You just explained why Tiny Rick is probably the last good "highschool" episode this show will ever do.
Writing away Rick's codependence with the rest of the Smiths and making him some fully independent, omnipotent being (who's constantly smarmy no less) is the moment Rick and Morty lost itself and at least 80% of its comedic potential. Part of the fun was in seeing an out-of-this-world character deal with over-the-top situations in sloppy yet creative ways. Current Rick is ANYTHING but sloppy now. I cringed when he pulled out his cybernetics when cornered by Space Christians in the new season trailer
Yeah, I started to get pretty annoyed at the show using random death as a punchline. Like those heroes weren't bad people and just watching them die horribly while the ones still alive delve into despair wasn't even funny, all because Rick decided to get drunk and be an asshole.
Can you at least mentally distinguish seasons apart? Besides S7 being "the Rick Prime season"? I have trouble doing that with BoJack sometimes
Superjail! is current R&M's gore-focused humor but actually funny
What makes one work and the other not?
I guess because it's more fantastical but gritty? Random prisoners constantly getting gored for no reason constantly all the time forever goes from at first a bit shocking to 180ing to be hilarious because of how extra it is. Also you can't beat The Warden as an MC.
Also you can't beat The Warden as an MC
Lol you really can't, Warden is a DELIGHT
Rick stopped being a delight years ago
This show has aged like fuckin mayo in the hot summer sun, makes Family Guy look like a cinematic masterpiece, Ironically if it weren't for that lardo Dan Harmon (blamed by the remaining braindead fans for the show's decline) this show would've never found its footing.
Ryan Ridley also played a crucial role in piecing together Harmon and Roiland's distinct comedic sensibilities. Losing him along with McMahan and Kauffman really did a number on the show's writing.
The promo art just keeps getting uglier and uglier..
He just wanted the gosh dang nicest jail in the world and was never truly malicious, just childishly naive in a fun, morbid way. Rick is just a fuckwit that doesn't care about anything these days.
As someone fascinated with this show's ongoing identity crisis, I'm glad this video exists:
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It covers Rick and Morty's storied history through a mostly objective lens, from its early development to its latest controversies, even including lesser-known info like how part of the reason S3-S4 had the longest hiatus was because Adult Swim spent a lot of time before granting Harmon and Roiland their infamous 70-episode order, or how the Death Crystals episode quite literally made Rick immortal and removed the stake of death in the series. It also works as a nice refresher in the lead-up to Season 8. Highly recommend if you've got the time
garbage cartoon
Garbage opinion
It's not 2015 anymore.
Tricia Lane is hot. Some. other girls, too. And that's it.
The rest it's shit.
Art doesn’t age.
The hate for season 4 is wayyyy overblown. I get that the pivot to mostly episodic one-offs could be jarring for some after how serialized season 3 was, but it also housed some of the show's funniest bits.
Cold Open(?) is here youtube.com
Wet Kuat Amortican Summer was so bad I’m nervous about the first episode being a Summer one.
Also oh wow I think this’ll be the Summer turns 18 episode.
If IMDB isn’t bullshitting it’s a first time writer and a first time director.
Super Jail is sincere. Rick & Morty is not sincere.
Nipple jokes
No visible nipples
Fill directed three episodes this season.
How many writers did they lose after season 2 because it feels like something bigger happened than Roiland getting less control, like Harmon brought in some new writers and pretty much took Rick and Morty right out under Roiland’s feet, especially going by the ending of season 3’s first episode m.youtube.com
They've done enough time progression fakeouts by now that you should know better, especially with Harmon repeatedly boasting about his vision for the show becoming The Next Simpsons in that it could go on for years and years and YEARS.
No that’s what happened. The team broke up and Roiland got blackpilled on the whole thing and checked out.
Many of the OG writers mentioned were present for Season 3, but that was notoriously the boldest season they had all attempted by that point in the series run with the divorce arc and more prominent character drama.
It's starting with the FOURTH season that they all bailed and Harmon was exclusively writing the show with his new hires who were being mentored into capturing *his* version of Rick and Morty post-divorce arc. I always hesitate to blame new writers since each one joined long after the initial more comradely setup of the S1 & S2 writers' rooms. The blame should be firmly planted on Harmon and Roiland for both being so mentally/emotionally unstable that they'd scare away all their best friends after a mere two seasons and fail to maintain a professional working relationship so as to keep the show's balance of comedy and drama. A failed TV-writing duo whose separation had a massive snowball effect still felt to this day.
Most of the Season 8 writing credits have been attributed already:
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Episode 1: Summer of All Fears — Jess Lacher (first time)
Episode 2: Vakyrick — Unknown
Episode 3: The Rick, The Mort and The Ugly — Albro Lundy (Vat of Acid, Mortyplicity, Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort, Solaricks, The Jerrick Trap, Unmortricken) & James Siciliano (Morty’s Mind Blowers, Rattlestar Ricklactica, Childrick of Mort, Thanksploitation Spectacular, Analyze Piss, The Jerrick Trap, Unmortricken) & Michael Kellner (First Time)
Episode 4: The Last Temptation of Jerry — Beth Stelling (First Time)
Episode 5: Cryo Mort a Rickver — Heather Anne Campbell (Final DeSmithation, That’s Amorte, Fear no Mort)
Episode 6: The Curicksous Case of Bethjamin Button — Nick Rutherford (Rickdependance Spray, Juricksic Mort, How Poopy Got His Poop Back)
Episode 7: Ricker than Fiction — Unknown
Episode 8: Nomortland — Albro Lundy (Vat of Acid, Mortyplicity, Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort, Solaricks, The Jerrick Trap, Unmortricken) & James Siciliano (Morty’s Mind Blowers, Rattlestar Ricklactica, Childrick of Mort, Thanksploitation Spectacular, Analyze Piss, The Jerrick Trap, Unmortricken)
Episode 9: Morty Daddy — Scott Marder (Rickmurai Jack, Ricktional Mortpoons Rickmas Mortcation, Mort: Ragnarick)
Episode 10: Hot Rick — Albro Lundy (Vat of Acid, Mortyplicity, Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort, Solaricks, The Jerrick Trap, Unmortricken) & James Siciliano (Morty’s Mind Blowers, Rattlestar Ricklactica, Childrick of Mort, Thanksploitation Spectacular, Analyze Piss, The Jerrick Trap, Unmortricken)
Nick Rutherford is writing the Space Beth episode
can't make this shit up
Three Lundy and Sicilano episodes and one Marder episode
Plotbros, this season is gonna be full of it.
Heather episode
All of hers have been good
Nick Rutherford doing a Beth episode
Will we see the lowest the show can go?
Two first time female writers and Rutherford doing Space Beth
I don’t feel so good…
What will it take to hire Ridley and some other OG writers back?
I know Roiland probably won't return but I'll accept that if they can get some of the s1 + 2 staff back
They managed to get Ridley to regularly voice act again at least, season 4-6 really only had him in once a season cameos
Surely Nick can’t write four bad episodes in a row. Surely.
I think it’s just money.
My bet is that Harmon is such a shitheel to work with that they probably never want to write for him again
Harmon constantly makes enemies and sabotages his own projects. He was fired from Community and from the Sarah Silverman program. He alienated Roiland and then asked him in an interview why he didn't invite him to work on Solar Opposites
The interesting thing is that Ridley still comes back to do voices, for new characters specifically: youtube.com
I'm pretty sure you can even hear him in the mob scene of the S8 trailer. He hasn't entirely abandoned Rick and Morty, but I do wonder if Roiland's departure since then will get him back to feeling sour about the whole ordeal and get him to distance himself from the franchise once more...
Nick Rutherford is a wild case study. The guy actually comes from an Adult Swim background, yet somehow each and every one of his episodes is worse than the last. I BEEN lost patience with the guy.
Dude's been on the writing team since late Season 4, yet his only positive contribution to the show is voicing an antagonist bearing his likeness in one of my favorite episodes (penned by a different writer, to be fair). Do they keep him staffed on the show just for kicks or something?
Do they keep him staffed on the show just for kicks or something?
Nick Rutherford said in an interview recently that he likes working with Harmon and doesn't "get" where people are coming from when they bring up his career reputation. That might have something to do with it.
S7 E1 is my pick for the worst the show has ever gotten. All the other bottom tiers are bad Rick and Morty episodes, but How Poopy Got His Poop Back is uniquely awful because it isn’t even Rick and Morty, it’s closer to a zombie Simpsons episode.
As if it wasn't bad enough, they made it the SEASON PREMIERE
It looks like it would have been hand-drawn instead of puppeteered, which would have made it a lot funnier.
Bushworld Adventures is the ideal version. No drama, just silly setpieces and random twists.
SuperJail doesn't try to say anything deep, it knows its identity whereas the writers of Rick and Morty don't know what the show should be
The show has been in identity crisis since season 3. That sort of makes it interesting.