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

R&M-haters on twitter have grown moderately louder in the past 2-3 weeks.

Over/under 25% of those people actually watch the show?

I'll take the under

there's also this

https://www.avclub.com/dan-harmon-is-pissed-at-rick-and-morty-fans-for-harassi-1818628816

Well that is pretty gross.

Not that it matters but Jessica Gao is one of the best writers on the show, responsible for Pickle Rick among others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzA3WxAxwQ
boooooo

"i'm a beetle. Paul is dead."?

this show is like it's always sunny in philadelphia to me; it's def funny but it only has one mode and the energy is always exactly the same, so it's just tiresome to watch

O look who it is

this show is like it's always sunny in philadelphia to me; it's def funny but it only has one mode and the energy is always exactly the same, so it's just tiresome to watch

I like this show a good bit, but I get this.

Er, I’d be a little more generous, just is one that I can only do in 1-2 episode stretches.

luckily it's designed to be watched in 1-episode stretches

holy fuck just saw the bit about R&M fans harassing female writing staff. ftr I support punching both Nazis and the unfuckables who doxx the woman who wrote pickle rick. are you fucking kidding me.

adult swim should reair the pickle Rick episode in place of a new one just to spite them

luckily it's designed to be watched in 1-episode stretches

Ha, otm.

I'm still pacing my way through season 2, which has been great. I love the show's dedication to alien landscapes that look largely like (or actually are) butts, and also its hilarious lack of effort in naming characters or other aliens. Like, "This is my friend, uh, Gleep Glorp." Or "Mr. Poopybutthole."

poor old mr poopy butthole

I think the tone can actually shift pretty radically on this show between episodes, I don't find it nearly as one more as always sunny or say archer

It's also insane that these nerds have decided the show sucks now that women write it when the show is obviously the best its ever been

Not that I have any yearning to see R&M go full South Park. But if they had an episode where they mocked/emasculated those “unfuckables” I would be massively amused.

*one note xp

"my hands are dry! my hands are dry!"

Finally caught up with the most recent three episodes. Agree that this season is knocking it out of the park, and I can't imagine how tough it was to pull off that Citadel episode. Most of the Mortys are voiced just differently enough to distinguish them, but they're all still Morty.

Favorite moment:

https://masterofallscience.com/gif/S03E08/883925/887887.gif?b64lines=T2gsIGV2ZXJ5dGhpbmcncyBjcm9va2VkISAKUmVhbGl0eSBpcyBwb2lzb24hIEkgd2FudCB0bwogZ28gYmFjayEgSSBoYXRlIHRoaXMh

Watched the 'outtakes' episode last night and woke up this morning with my laptop still on beside my bed, lights off, trying to recall if I'd watched the whole thing or fallen asleep first... PSYCH PSYCH PSYCH!

haha nice

Finally finished the second season. Good stuff, it's all so cynical I can't tell if the sentimental music cues - Mazzy Star, Elliott Smith, NIN's "Hurt" - are part of the joke.

Most of the Mortys are voiced just differently enough to distinguish them, but they're all still Morty.

Yeah this is an important point and I noticed it. Roiland's a pretty decent voice actor these days.

He's been the Mozart of voice actors since Adventure Time's Lemongrab days.

ACCEPTABLE

Saw that Harmon interview where he derides "The Purge" as "good enough" or something, and I thought, huh? I liked that one better than the Mad Max one, as far as riffs on movies go - or I like them equally - but more importantly, "The Purge" gave a satisfying payoff to seeing them in the exosuits every credit sequence. For that matter, the excellent rule of threes payoff when you hear a muffled "Feels Good" playing offscreen before they go on a rampage made me laugh my ass off.

Also it has one of my favorite throwaway lines.

https://masterofallscience.com/meme/S02E09/173006.jpg?b64lines=IEFsc28sIGlmIHlvdSB0ZWxsIHlvdXIgbW9tIGFib3V0IHRoaXMsICBJJ2xsCiBwdXJnZSB5b3UuIA==

so like

do they believe the dipping sauce is actually notably good and worth going to effort to obtain because the cartoon character said it was,or

my son talked me into taking him to a McDonald's for this yesterday and of course there was no sauce to be had

but the experience and subsequent internet meltdown really made me feel like a citizen of the future

nerd culture is so centred on unquestioning commodity consumption the poor guys get a li'l freaked out when the commodity isn't there for them to consume

Odds that if I go on eBay I'm gonna find un-opened containers of this stuff for $150 each?

10:1

odds that when it arrives in the mail, it's just tubs of Arby's sauce married together?

If I ever found myself pitching a fit over some dipping sauce, I would be… Morty-fied.

— Dan Scary (@djperry1973) October 8, 2017

yesterday nerds once again ruined what was a fun tossoff in-joke

I put just as much blame (or more) on McDonalds for trying to cash in on this tossoff in-joke, which they should have left at sending the creators some sauce or probably just making one tweet. The whole sitch is so dumb

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rick-and-Morty-Szechuan-Sauce-1-OZ-/253198452121?hash=item3af3cdc599:g:xP0AAOSwwGdZ2mTx

In terms of the sauce cartoon itself, I feel like it fell off pretty hard after the citadel episode

i liked morty's mindblowers but in general i agree. am really not a fan of rick's "i'm a cool dude drinkin martinis" stance, which feels like a a shift. he was always an alcoholic but it was always kinda scary and ambiguous, now it feels faintly fedora-ish (though i could be projecting this latest sauce thing onto it)

Well, at some point he basically exists as a God, right? It's hard to make that too compelling.

yeah they acknowledge that he's basically a god in the show's universe. As referenced below, and during basically the entire season finale

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S03E04/vFinAA40HezRQJuhQwT5XTGorRY=.gif

I like that they seem to be moving away from that idea by making him the low man on the totem pole in the Smith family--sure he can do anything, but he can't force his family to love and respect him. should be interesting to explore that

Rick seems to have shifted more into being a high-functioning psychopath rather than the drooling, burping, stuttering fuckup drunk he was in S1, and people love those high-functioning psychopaths.

people low-functioning psychopaths love those high-functioning psychopaths

they're just like us

we are all morty

so did episode 10 happen and i missed it, or...?

hey ulysses, ep. 10 "The Rickchurian Mortydate" aired on October 1

got it, have found and watched since posting. not bad, still inventive but a bit more on the family guy spectrum on the way out the door.