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

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLobT2EVAAAS4qN.jpg

if i had to see this you do too pic.twitter.com/imGd9qxu5P

— Fate/SN Creator (@lolita108go) October 9, 2017

oh my god

i liked rick and morty but now that some of its dumbest fans went insane, i must stop liking it & think it’s bad. that’s the law of online

— Hippo (@InternetHippo) October 9, 2017

I'm still very uncomfy with the fact these guys did a pilot cartoon that literally involved a man making his grandson suck his dick to make a time machine work.

I like the show a lot, but this keeps really, really bugging me. It was disgusting.

Not "these guys" (just Roiland), not a pilot, and eleven years ago, as a short joke in frustrated response to threats from Bill Cosby's lawyers. (Not that anyone oughtn't feel grossed out about it, but it isn't actually an intentional part of the development of "Rick & Morty," of which I've seen 3 or 4 episodes so am therefore a Nazi.)

Fair point, yeah. Still.

that whole freakout pickle rick thing was basically "I am Cornholio I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE" 2017

last episode of the season was like the worst one but good season overall

i hope the show outright antagonizes its dipshit fans

cosine

that whole freakout pickle rick thing was basically "I am Cornholio I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE" 2017

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:42 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In my experience and recollection, 18 year olds are on the whole pretty dumb, (even the ones with 'higher than average IQ'). They're not averse to making asses of themselves in public the name of some TV show they saw and showing off to their friends. They see this kind of thing as subversive and system-baiting, while the rest of the world looks on and says 'you dummies don't even get it'. I'm not defending this sort of thing, but it's more a reflection of people who are barely out of their teens getting turnt and getting out of control than anything to do with R&M.

Admittedly all I've seen is that stupid copypasta of the guy who says he has R&M tattoos and the vid upthread of the bro screaming and jumping on the counter.. Did I miss much else?

partly i think social media just magnifies these effin weirdos

like im sure simpsons had just as many dipshit fans. i was OBSESSED w that show as a kid! i mean i never jumped on a fast food counter over it but im sure shit happened w/ the extreme wing of fandom we just never heard about

if 7-11 fucked up the kwik-e-mart promotion they did nerds woulda lost their fuckin minds too

I have had a visceral antipathy towards fandom of pretty much every stripe ever since buying a magazine about the history of Doctor Who when I was 12 and seeing pictures from a convention in the back; I loved the show, wanted to immerse myself in details about the stories and the production, even wanted to be the first American companion to appear on it, but I looked at the pictures of adults dressing up as the Doctor and his companions during a time period that wasn't Halloween and my overarching reaction was "this is not and never will be me".

So, when I see things like current fans harassing McDonald's employees for not having some special dipping sauce, my first reaction is always "who broke you?" and it's rare that I have a second one.

When I first found out about Comic Con (San Diego's), it was 1993, I was in grad school in OC, and I was going "Huh, there was a comic convention all this time in the city I pretty much grew up in? Seems like I missed out." Nowadays I'm all "Yeah...glad I never went down that road."

As I get older I'm getting way more into cosplay & cons type stuff, and I still think this is fucking unbelievably stupid.

that whole freakout pickle rick thing was basically "I am Cornholio I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE" 2017
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses)

The Great Cornholio was the first thing I thought of when I saw this video, too.

I went to a comic convention when I was a kid because I loved comics and it sounded like it would therefore be fun. Instead, it was a profoundly alienating experience as I realized I really had no interest in obsessively hunting down rare comics and collectibles. This convention was extremely small and tame compared to what they have now, which looks like the deepest pit of hell to me. Now you can chase down collectibles while muscling your way through a massive mob of cosplayers or wait endlessly in line to have some kind of geek hero worship experience. The kind of mentality you would need to endure and even enjoy this is exactly what it would take to drive hours to be the first in line for a sauce packet.

^ this is total bullshit. Go to SPX or TCAF or CXC or Short Run or CALA or Thought Bubble or Angoulême or Amadora de BD or BCGF or... (etc etc)

I mean, I'm sure there are smaller, less insane, and more fun conventions than the big name ones. And obviously many, many people enjoy these, which is fine. For me though, any comic convention of any size is going to be an alienating and unfun experience. I get that is mostly me, but I also believe that a strongly consumer-as-fan experience is inherently alienating.

I would like to meet the Hernandez bros some day though...