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

Got say I partly agree with DL here. I am still enjoying it, but finding no real lol moments so far this series.

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.

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.

any movie where a souped-up action hero takes out evil russians?

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E04/LBgkTTs5p3S5NOLqVm5nOvKdg7w=.gif

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.

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.

lol "Morty"

oops

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, 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

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

I feel like you have grossly misread this show if you're comparing it to ATHF and Sealab 2021.

pickle rick owned

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.

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

*that show. not that shoe

family guy/archer style show

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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.

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― 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

Rick and Morty is funny as hell but it's not 30 Rock one-liner funny, and thank fucking Christ for that

(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)

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.

Yeah people who note (or criticize!) that about archer arent getting archer, I'm inclined to think.

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!

And re the AD ref, it helps half that shows cast voice the actors in Archer!

Anyway! Off topic.

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

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

I mean there's quotes I love to recite w/ friends but they are better in context of the show

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.

haha me too. I was p sure that's what it was but half-doubted they'd go all in.

another shit episode!

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.

yeah i get all that. I'm not sure, I just find the humour to be less madcap. Felt the very first ever episode worked fine as an intro to the characters but still feeling its way around. The universe of R&M really sets in a couple of episodes later. These just haven't tickled me as much as things like Meeseeks, Mr Poopybutthole or the House Party episode. Like, in those the madcap sci-fi action takes place around the family home. In these last ones it's more 'Oh shit is happening at home, so let's fuck off as far away from it as possible for no other reason than we can have an adventure loosely parodying a movie'. It's a matter of taste of course, but to me the manic, unpredictable nature of the humour has been replaced by manic, unpredictable plotlines and situations. The distinction is one of comedy and farce, to me, and while it's still an enjoyable show with some amusing moments, it's not making me laugh or raise my eyebrows in awe (and yeah it is an AWEsome show in many ways) like it once did

S02 def got better as I watched it more. Just the same, S03E01 & S03E02 felt especially packed with subtleties, and I need to watch them a few more times. It's too soon to assess.

s01e10, close rick-counters of the rick kind, is monumental

Yea that one is huge. Every time I see it I remember that the Eye-Patch Morty story is still unresolved.

maybe one day i'll return to this horrible show but it's important to note that bojack horseman is returning soon :)

Yea lots of great shows returning in the next 8-10 weeks. Exciting stuff.

Imago hating this is all the evidence I needed to know it's a+ great

^

on the other hand, deej liking R+M is enough for me to question whether it's good after all.
conflicted.

can confirm that the last episode made me lol a bit, although i re-watched the Meeseeks episode again the other day and their voices alone had me in stitches

Risotto Groupon

Dog Latin is tripping imo show is better than its ever been, really grabbing onto what's good about it but not so self aware that it's reduced to mannerism

I love this show and that should matter to everyone.

Noop Noop's (Noob Noob?) "God-DAMN!" has been the constant refrain playing in my head for the last week.

Very similar to poopybutthole's "ooo-wee!" but yes

*opens social media to see President Soup-For-Brains Looks Directly Into Solar Eclipse*

goddd-DAMNN

Man Rick and Morty *really* keeping up w/ current events huh

"lisa?"

the tech support team escaping was A+

Loved the metajoke about the camp name: "Like they gave up naming it halfway through." (cf. King Flippy Nips, Scroopy Noopers, Shrimply Pibbles)