Fucking love this show, but yeah, the pilot is easily the weakest episode. The voice actors hadn't really settled in, and their verbal tics were really annoying.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
I also kind of can't deal with the slobber/vomit on Rick's chin
― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
I really hate the non-Rick and Morty characters, particularly the dad. Are there any episodes where the dad is not in it at all?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
The dad is hilarious in the simulation episode.
― Mordy , Tuesday, 4 February 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Watching the pilot, Rick sounds an awful lot like he's based on Dan Harmon's verbal tics and heavy drinking
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 07:20 (ten years ago) link
i endorse this television
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 07:34 (ten years ago) link
Roiland's original short from 2006 is here: http://vimeo.com/m/49664066
it's pretty bad imo, but the voices are almost all the way there.
― Clay, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 07:46 (ten years ago) link
I should mention that video is totally nsfw at all and extremely juvenile
― Clay, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 08:49 (ten years ago) link
The guy who does the voices of both Rick and Morty is also Earl of Lemongrab!
― Dan I., Sunday, 9 February 2014 05:52 (ten years ago) link
figures
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 9 February 2014 06:10 (ten years ago) link
also House of Cosbys iirc
― Simon H., Sunday, 9 February 2014 06:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/article/rick-and-morty-officially-renewed-for-a-second-sea-107698
― Mordy , Thursday, 13 February 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
HA! of COURSE the guy behind House of Cosbys did this. "Roooooooooo-deeeeeeeeeee! Theeeeeeee-ooooooooooo!"
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
oh man this show. that meeseeks bit, the way they kept throwing "i'm mr meeseeks! look at me!" in the middle of their speeches, basically anytime a meeseeks was on screen, slayed me. anyone know how any episodes there'll be? also why have so many american tv show taken a break these past two weeks?
― Jibe, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
olympics
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
my guess is that the first season will have 10. Moral Orel had 10 in the first season, as did Frankenhole (MO got an expanded second season, Frankenhole just got 10 more). Squidbillies only had 6, and Venture Bros had 13 in the first season.
― Mordy , Friday, 14 February 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
ah ok thx jvcmordy, are any of those shows anything like rick & morty? i'm in the mood for smth good. have watched a half ep of venture bros and not really into it tbh.
― Jibe, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
squidbillies is stupid, but moral orel is alltime classic imho. also try china, il, metalocalypse + frisky dingo (by the guy who does archer now) - none of them are like rick + morty but they're all off-beat stoner friendly cartoons that premiered on adult swim so in that way they're all exactly like rick + morty.
― Mordy , Friday, 14 February 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I really should give this another try, the pilot really didn't work for me but I keep hearing it's gotten better.
Venture Bros will always be the ultimate Adult Swim animated thing but the long breaks between seasons drive me nuts.
― Simon H., Friday, 14 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
this probably sounds like an excuse, but venture bros takes patience. i basically hated it at first, but it builds on itself and just keeps getting better as it goes. easily one of the best things adult swim has aired.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Friday, 14 February 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
there's eleven episodes in season one btw, so five still to come.
― Clay, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
"i really cronenberged up the world today"
― Treeship, Saturday, 15 February 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
omg mazzy star
― Treeship, Saturday, 15 February 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
<3 this show
Yeah, I just caught up with the last two episodes and now I'm a convert.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
This is Earth Radio. And now, here's...human music:https://m.soundcloud.com/el_der/human-music-as-featured-in
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Can't get over mr meeseeks
― Treeship, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
this is back for 5 new episodes starting monday btw
― Clay, Friday, 7 March 2014 06:38 (ten years ago) link
Reddit AMA w/ Roiland and Harmon:http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/202owt/we_are_dan_harmon_and_justin_roiland_creators_of/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
last episode was every bad thing about harmon's style rolled into one: vapid sentimentality, pointless improvisational teenage blathering heavy on the pop culture references, fourth wall breaking, DEEP MEANING without meaning ("i eat breakfast every morning twenty yards from my rotting corpse")... it's been a mostly good and occasionally very good show until here but man do i hope they hold off on this penny arcade ish in the future
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/20nnms/rick_and_morty_rixty_minutes_season_1_episode_8/ugh
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 March 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I fucking loved this episode. Might be my third favorite, after Meeeseeeks and the alien simulator.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 20 March 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
lol i really liked this episode too - not sure i'd put it in my top 3 tho bc cronenberg ep was still better + this seemed more improv/pastiche which is great + hilarious but maybe not quite as masterful as some of the others?
― Mordy , Thursday, 20 March 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Is this the one with the sex robot? That one is the first I actually disliked. The Marmaduke writer appearing at the end seemed very "Family Guy" and too many of the jokes relied on tired "battle of the sexes" tropes.
― Treeship, Thursday, 20 March 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
no, this is the one w/ the tv + alternate reality device. i thought the conclusion was even a little affecting. and the improv commercials + shows were hilarious
― Mordy , Thursday, 20 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah same here, found the ep v entertaining. dunno why but the whole fake doors thing, including r&m's bewilderement at whether it was an ad or a movie or reality tv, really got me.
― Jibe, Thursday, 20 March 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
I was hoping they'd stick with the spiderweb-pooping teddy bear a little longer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 20 March 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
different strokes i guess? really really disliked this one; "family guy" comparisons felt painfully appropriate.
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
to me it sounded like a bunch of stoners in a room telling each other jokes and then having them animated
― Mordy , Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
I liked it, but for those who don't, is it really fair to blame this on Harmon? I mean, the improvised "alien TV" thing is basically a half-hour version of the "alien news" gag from House of Cosbys...
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
my few attempts at community made me fear this ep was what the whole series would be about but there's certainly blame to go around
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
aw rick is still watching ball fondlers when summer comes back.is it me or in just about every other episode the dad has something happen that makes him feel good about himself, feel competent/relevant, only to crushingly return hto his more usual mediocrity. apple ad campaign being a major success in the alien's virtual reality, he's some kind of survival hero protecting his daughter and wife, this time he's a big celebrity on pluto etc.also the opening & closing bits of butter robot wondeing about his purpose and summer & rick montage killed me.
― Jibe, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
the butter robot opening just slayed me. "what is my purpose?" "you pass the butter" "oh my goddddddd" "welcome to the team, pal."
― Clay, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
http://meeseeks.com/
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
Sepinwall did an extended interview with Dan Harmon, and just posted the last bit which was all about R&M.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
Phones a la clams, and phonesghetti with phoneballs.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Mr Meeseeks was the only episode of this I've enjoyed without reservation
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecYoSvGO60
― Clay, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/adultswim/videos/10153387105301745/?permPage=1
― Mordy, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
so we're only three episodes in, but this show is kind of consistently good now somehow. They dropped the Family Guy style cultural dada and are focusing on two or three clever ideas per ep and then engaging in adventure time style world building / character development. Hope they stay the course.
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 07:52 (eight years ago) link
they replaced Kermit after Jim Henson died (twice) and the world didn't end so I'm sure they can find someone to do these cartoon voices
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:33 (one year ago) link
Dick Van Dyke getting a phone call
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link
Billy West can take over like he did when John K did basically the exact thing Roiland's done. lol.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
i was trying to remember which of those ren and stimpy guys turned out to be bad
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 03:36 (one year ago) link
I haven't watched Family Guy since the early seasons but people said the new actor for Cleveland is dead-on, and there are some pretty good R&M impersonators out there. I also didn't realize that Roiland has not been part of the writing for a few years now, so it seems they won't have too much trouble going forward
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 04:50 (one year ago) link
Other than waiting for Dan Harmon to do something he can’t wriggle out of
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
Roiland will still get royalties, i.e. make money off new eps, right?
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
morals clauses have gotten more popular since weinstein, so maybe not?
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 11:26 (one year ago) link
Good to see akm is comfortable enough to resume posting itt without addressing any of his victim blaming bs
― can you still hit dinngers (gyac), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
the ugly irony of morals clauses being wielded by massive media conglomerates tho, damn. like on the one hand, any way to force concrete negative consequences on famous jerks when they're revealed to be sexually manipulative/aggressive is good since the legal system is 99% useless, and the threat of getting their bag snatched might be enough to make some of them think twice before propositioning teenagers over snapchat or whatever. but then on the other loathsome hand, [soul-destroying list of corporate malfeasance redacted].
wish more of these wretched assholes could actually come to understand why doing this stuff is wrong, and then use their platforms & talent to communicate that to their stans.
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
He is also the heart of the show— Mr. Tweet (@elonmusk) January 25, 2023
― Number None, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
can he please just get a really time-consuming disease already
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
he just spent 44 billion dollars on one
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
haven't a bunch of abusers put moralizing at the heart of their work? thinking Louis CK's show, Cosby ...
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
I'm not saying your idea is bad, just ... abuse seems amazingly compatible with introspection, I guess.
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
Related: Dan Harmon did a confessional about his awful sexpest behavior some years after it happened, he sounded genuinely contrite about it
― Nhex, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Hasan even re-played Harmon’s apology video and walked his twitch stream audience thru why it was necessary, and pushed back on some of the weirder reactions in chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvuHr0-np4
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
abuse seems amazingly compatible with introspection, I guess.
i'm not quite sure i understand?
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
He's saying a lot of dudes who make a living off doing deep thought speeches about how and why they and/or men in general act shitty don't have any problem in continuing to act shitty despite being able to articulate that.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 26 January 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
I had only watched the first episode of this show before yesterday. My son had shown it to me when he was in middle school and I was thoroughly repulsed and never went back for more. For whatever reason, yesterday I decided to give it another chance and threw a few more episodes on. I'm still skeptical that I'll find much value in it, but my plan was to keep trying to engage. Then as soon as I flipped it off, I went to check the news and saw the news about his domestic violence.― peace, man, Friday, January 13, 2023 10:09 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― peace, man, Friday, January 13, 2023 10:09 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
Finished season 2 yesterday and I'm in no hurry to continue. I've seen enough to learn what people like about it, but have been overwhelmed by too many butts and pendulous testicular shapes to continue for now.
I knew about the Blonde Redhead song, but was surprised to hear it so early on in the series. However, the Tony! Toni! Tone! drop towards the end of season 2 blew my mind.
― peace, man, Friday, 27 January 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Go figure, his shitty behavior has been going on for years:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/justin-roiland-animation-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
Over the next two weeks, insiders say, advertisers panicked, lawyers huddled
many of his former colleagues say they haven’t heard from him in years, and when they have, it’s been unpleasant.
these guys that Justin hired were like, ‘Look, I drew a turd with eyes, let’s do a story about that.’ ”
‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could do this show in VR and never have to be near each other?’
at various points, his visitors included Kanye West, the comedians on Impractical Jokers and porn star Riley Reid, who gifted the room a succulent.
“It was something we just ignored because it was disgusting,” says an insider.
The behavior came to be expected, and though it was infuriating to collaborators, they say it was often excused by executives, chalked up to what one describes as “an eccentricity of a genius weirdo.”
His work, which has long made comedy hay of subjects like incest and sexual deviance, was now being viewed through a different lens.
“Now everything is going to have an asterisk on it.”
Koala Man and Solar Opposites were dire but I'm hopeful R&M will rebalance a bit. They should do totally different voices!
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
Solar Opposites was hideous shit, just aggressively unfunny stupidity
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
Someone I read suggested next season they should get different celebrities to voice R&M for one episode each, which I think would be fun
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:34 (one year ago) link
Ving Rhames as Mordy
― waiting on a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
Can’t believe we’re going to have to put an asterisk on incest
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link
Other show sources say he’d derail pitches and interrupt with sophomoric non sequiturs like, “What if his brains were on the outside?”
you can't interrupt with sophomoric non sequiturs in here gentlemen this is the rick and morty writer's room
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
Ha yeah when I read that I thought "how is that not like any random episode already ffs"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
seriously, like the episode where Rick gets drunk and passes out in his own diarrhea (shit, was it even only one episode?)
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link
Wow sounds like a great show
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
It actually has something going for it in the first couple seasons!
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:11 (one year ago) link
I don't think there was a bad season.
The example I gave was to illustrate how silly it was at times which is why objecting to his sophomoric ideas was silly (as opposed to some of the much more heinous shit he's been accused of)
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
I don’t know, Pickle Rick was very much a nadir for me
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:12 (one year ago) link
It had an overall great concept but was already getting into dimishing returns territory, putting aside the puerile shit like the abovementioned. There's only so much you can do with "ha ha we can just make up anything cos we broke the rules of physics" before it just starts getting confusing and repetitive.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 February 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
there's infinite shit you can do if you have a bit of imagination but maybe you need to be less attached to your shitty characters and their unfunny dynamics
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 9 February 2023 01:17 (one year ago) link
yea the first few episodes I watched of this show got me pretty excited but once you see a bad episode you kinda lose all enthusiasm for it. definitely some funny bits but there's very much a "dude staring at you while he plays his favorite Family Guy clips" vibe to it
when I discovered Xavier: Renegade Angel one of my first thoughts (outside of "what the fuck?") was "this is what Rick and Morty was trying to do"...feel like you can't just commit halfway to this sort of thing
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
how surprisinghttps://www.okayplayer.com/justin-roiland-grooming-allegations
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 September 2023 18:06 (nine months ago) link
https://wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-56.png
― budo jeru, Thursday, 14 September 2023 20:10 (nine months ago) link