how does that get built so fast?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
He says he spent 12 hours on a sunday doing it. Thats dedication!
Also, thats awesome :D
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 11 August 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
I am not feeling this series at all so far :-(
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
ok
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mLAjKr1.gif
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Sunday, 13 August 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
Whaaat, it has been great!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 13 August 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
what episodes have you watched?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 13 August 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
first three. I just haven't found them very funny.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 14 August 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
And you liked the previous seasons?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 August 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say: first three of this season or of the first season? cuz i think they've been pretty on this year so far.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 14 August 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
First three of the first season were pretty great too, iirc. Show has been extremely consistent
― Vinnie, Monday, 14 August 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
And then this happened
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 August 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
not sure if yr post means it was good or bad
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 August 2017 04:38 (six years ago) link
way too mean-spirited, rick too evil.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 14 August 2017 05:14 (six years ago) link
def was a dark episode (just found online)
also they are way about the poop this year
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 August 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
Rick has always been a dick tho!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 14 August 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
I mean ok, he sent himself to prison to save the rest of the family but that aside...
this was like one of those eps where you're like "maybe they're doing this to remind all of their fans who think rick rules that he actually sucks" but then you remember that the creators probably also think rick rules
― flippy bard (Will M.), Monday, 14 August 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
This show rules ass btw
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 August 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
I'm finding the tone in s3 straying too much into meta and referential territory. I like the anarchic, offbeat, conceptual stuff (Meeseeks, house party, Poopybumhole, interdimensional TV), and I'm just not fussed about Mad Max and action movie parodies. Makes me feel like I'm watching a Futurama/Family Guy mash-up, which was something they were always good at avoiding. We end up with long action sequences taking place in increasingly outlandish worldscapes, so far removed from the familial setting that gave the previous episodes that good push-pull against reality.Rick is now such a genius he's basically a superman. I didn't find the pickle episode half as cool as it could have been - once he had worked out how to control the cockroach it just devolved into an action parody, whereas I felt that his journey as a pickle could have been smarter.Cutting Jerry out the picture is also detrimental to the humour in this series. Is there a reason for this? like did the actor have to take time off? I guess I'm just not finding this series all that funny which is the main complaint
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 14 August 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
Got say I partly agree with DL here. I am still enjoying it, but finding no real lol moments so far this series.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 14 August 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
Not sure if it's MORE meta/referential than before. S1 played with Inception, Nightmare on Elm Street, Fantastic Voyage, that Steven King rip etc. And pickle ep didn't ref anything outside of generic action movie tropes. Not being funny is the real kicker, though I want to watch some S1 to dlb-check that its R&M that's changed and not me.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Monday, 14 August 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
Okay I'll give you that. And it's nice that with the Mad Max one, they're not making explicit references to specific Mad Max scenes, just going for Mad Max-esque which is a good move. I was wondering if the pickle episode was referencing any specific film that I'd not seen before or not.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 14 August 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
any movie where a souped-up action hero takes out evil russians?
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 August 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E04/LBgkTTs5p3S5NOLqVm5nOvKdg7w=.gif
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 August 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
xp - John Wick, obv. Whose nom de guerre refers to the Russian bogeyman a witch in a house on chicken legs, whereas Pickle Rick is named after the Russian bogeyman word for "pickle." And walks around in a "house" on rat legs.
― oder doch?, Monday, 14 August 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
My wife was appalled by the sequence of Pickle Rick murdering the rats. It was one of those moments that recalibrated what I was used to with what I was actually watching, kind of like when I step back and think about exactly how much gore is in your average episode of Superjail!
I enjoyed the episode and I really liked Mordy in the Vindicators episode but I think I'm gonna stay on my current "will watch if I happen to be up, otherwise will not seek out" plan.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 14 August 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
lol "Morty"
oops
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 14 August 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, August 14, 2017 6:52 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This show has never really been about LOL moments, ever. I've never found it all that funny in the knee jerk punchline sense, it's more like watching an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption executed tightly. It's in the form of a family guy type show but it's very different in its aims
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 August 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I disagree.. the first two series have provided me with A LOT of proper laughs in the last couple of years. I can see the comparisons with Family Guy and Futurama but it felt more in line, humour-wise with all those Adult Swim things from the 2000s like Aqua Teen and Sealab - just stream of conscious and unfussy-feeling
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 14 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
I feel like you have grossly misread this show if you're comparing it to ATHF and Sealab 2021.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 14 August 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
pickle rick owned
― ||||||||, Monday, 14 August 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
this show has brought plenty of LOLs in the first two seasons, but i'm also finding it a little light in that department in S3. enjoying the show and its storylines nonetheless.
― circa1916, Monday, 14 August 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
i dunno, i guess there were some funny jokes, but to me this show being a family guy/archer style show is kind of a misdirection. not that those jokes are always bad per se, but they're kind of not the point.
like, the EB White dome line wasn't really funny to me either... or its humor is more deeply related to the nature of the characters than it is the actual punchline itself? idk. the overall absurdity of the situation is where the humor emanates for me, a more generalized aura of this show is hilarious mixes with awe-inspiring at times, rather than it being some rapid collection of good jokes or punchlines
It almost feels like an even more extreme version of bojack horseman in this regard, in that that shoe is still tied to explicit JOKES in a way this feels less concerned with
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
*that show. not that shoe
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
family guy/archer style show
???????
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Next day opinion on s3e4: Drunk Rick designed the traps to be easy, mitigating his evilness a bit. I like how he had a snide idea for the first trick and then ran out of ideas. Still, he did put deathtraps up, even when he didn't know how awful the Vindicators were.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 14 August 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, August 14, 2017 2:24 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
animated rapid fire punchline parade
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 14 August 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Rick and Morty is funny as hell but it's not 30 Rock one-liner funny, and thank fucking Christ for that
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
(no disrespect for 30 Rock, but it's more the outlandish situations and Rick's deadpan delivery that make for the hilarity on this show)
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
xxp Maybe we're getting different things out of it but that's not what Archer strikes me as at all. Yes, the jokes come often, but the show is way, way more driven by character and plot (and even some serialization!). It strikes me more as an EXTREMELY heightened version of something like Arrested Development.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
Yeah people who note (or criticize!) that about archer arent getting archer, I'm inclined to think.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 14 August 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
It's a workplace comedy that happens to be about an alcoholic secret agent, his mother and their colleagues. You could do it as a live-action single-camera and lose nothing!
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
And re the AD ref, it helps half that shows cast voice the actors in Archer!
Anyway! Off topic.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
I don't mean to conflate archer and family guy but I think both are way more joke driven than this show is, which is more "clever" than funny imo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
idk. to me, the show is very quotable and heavy on the laughs. the fact that the jokes are not just jokes-for-jokes-sake (interdimensional TV aside) and are driven by character development make them land a lot harder
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
I mean there's quotes I love to recite w/ friends but they are better in context of the show
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
Anyway. At start of ep when Rick is passed out on the meeting room table and i was like... "wait... is he lying in puddles of his own SHIT?!"
...and he was.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
haha me too. I was p sure that's what it was but half-doubted they'd go all in.
another shit episode!
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
We end up with long action sequences taking place in increasingly outlandish worldscapes, so far removed from the familial setting that gave the previous episodes that good push-pull against reality.
There was one of those in literally the first episode of the whole series though! And the one in the episode you're referring too was very deliberately and explicitly contrasted with a mundane family therapy session! I don't think the show has changed so much as you're suffering from diminishing returns. Personally I find it sharper, funnier and more imaginative than ever.
― chap, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link