i'm mr meeseeks look at me rick and morty thread

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.

there's eleven episodes in season one btw, so five still to come.

"i really cronenberged up the world today"

omg mazzy star

<3 this show

Yeah, I just caught up with the last two episodes and now I'm a convert.

This is Earth Radio. And now, here's...human music:
https://m.soundcloud.com/el_der/human-music-as-featured-in

Can't get over mr meeseeks

this is back for 5 new episodes starting monday btw

Reddit AMA w/ Roiland and Harmon:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/202owt/we_are_dan_harmon_and_justin_roiland_creators_of/

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

http://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/20nnms/rick_and_morty_rixty_minutes_season_1_episode_8/
ugh

Oh, I fucking loved this episode. Might be my third favorite, after Meeeseeeks and the alien simulator.

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?

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.

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

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.

I was hoping they'd stick with the spiderweb-pooping teddy bear a little longer.

different strokes i guess? really really disliked this one; "family guy" comparisons felt painfully appropriate.

to me it sounded like a bunch of stoners in a room telling each other jokes and then having them animated

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...

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

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.

the butter robot opening just slayed me. "what is my purpose?" "you pass the butter" "oh my goddddddd" "welcome to the team, pal."

http://meeseeks.com/

Sepinwall did an extended interview with Dan Harmon, and just posted the last bit which was all about R&M.

Phones a la clams, and phonesghetti with phoneballs.

Mr Meeseeks was the only episode of this I've enjoyed without reservation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecYoSvGO60

https://www.facebook.com/adultswim/videos/10153387105301745/?permPage=1

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.

Yeah first three eps have been great, and the first episode might be my favorite thing they've done so far. The show's way better when it sticks to crazy ideas instead of pop culture refs. Futurama's the same way. They also need to cut back on the sentimental moments, they always feel thrown in and unearned. That's one thing Futurama did way better.

watched the mr meeseeks episode last night and now i'm completely 100% sold.

episode 4 of season 2 probably my favourite episode to date
watched it for the third time this morning

New season has hit it out the park every episode.I don't find the emotional/sentimental bits unearned at all; character is v much at the heart of this show, it's never just wacky adventures in space (tho it's that as well)

watched the infinite probability television ep yesterday... man!

be sure to watch "total rickall" too

Total Rickall was one of my favorites. fucking great concept.

New season has hit it out the park every episode.I don't find the emotional/sentimental bits unearned at all; character is v much at the heart of this show, it's never just wacky adventures in space (tho it's that as well)

― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Wednesday, August 19, 2015 11:41 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mr Poopybutthole's fate was sincerely heartbreaking.

that sentence was hard to type.

on the one hand i felt the giant heads host a reality show music contest... and the fate of the world is at stake! conceit was stale but on the other i must shamefully admit that i kinda like "get shwifty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dicQ1N1R_Fo

wanna underline SHAMEFULLY btw

after my effusive praise upthread, shwifty felt like a comedown. its one of the weakest episodes of this or last season. I don't believe Rick would care too much about saving the world, morty's story didn't really add anything and the organised religion satire was route one of a kind that this show doesn't usually sink to. i wouldn't mind all this if the episode made me laugh but it missed that goal as well for me. it all felt a bit community s6. after 4 episodes of unadulterated joy they're due a coaster i suppose.

otoh, the song's a jam

i like this show but i rarely find it funny

I will never not laugh at the "Summer, where are my testicles" scene.

the one where they're just watching random TV tapped into something preternaturally funny for me. I could just watch that forever.

"Get Schwifty" and "Raise the Posterior" were in the adventure game.
https://youtu.be/rYX_UaXU4LE?t=41m22s

Didn't feel the last episode. I read the story "Microcosmic God" last year (also the inspiration of that Simpsons episode and that South Park episode). I think its ending hinted at recursively small worlds as well. It also has a creator who intentionally wiped out major portions of the micro population to have them evolve -- far darker than having them exercise to run a car battery. The show's B-plot was T2 kneecap shooting taken to a comedic extreme and I liked it.

I really liked this one.

For real? Nobody's going to talk about this week's special surprise guest star?

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

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.

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/

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!

Solar Opposites was hideous shit, just aggressively unfunny stupidity

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

Ving Rhames as Mordy

Can’t believe we’re going to have to put an asterisk on incest

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

Ha yeah when I read that I thought "how is that not like any random episode already ffs"

seriously, like the episode where Rick gets drunk and passes out in his own diarrhea (shit, was it even only one episode?)

Wow sounds like a great show

It actually has something going for it in the first couple seasons!

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)

I don’t know, Pickle Rick was very much a nadir for me

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.

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

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

how surprising

https://www.okayplayer.com/justin-roiland-grooming-allegations

https://wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-56.png