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

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New series starts here tomorrow so fucking stoked no spoils please

it's been good! first ep better than second imo.

Yeah I think my boy's seen it and said the first ep was a winner

Felt like season 3 was real hit or miss and honestly just too misanthropic at times for my own tastes. hopefully season 4 is a little lighter.

s4e2 is a mix of "life means nothing" and relentless scatalogical humor, so maybe skip that one

I think about the awfulness of Rick a lot but then I remember how many other cartoon assholes I enjoy and I kinda don't care what the writerly intentions are, I have to see him as a portrait of a shitbag and probably a critique of a section of the fanbase

i'd have a beer with tom but jerry really grinds my gears

Yep

the show pretty explicitly criticizes rick. i know there's this media critique that even condemning some sorts of behavior valorizes + promotes them nonetheless just by portraying them (all those shows where you identify with tony soprano or malcolm's dad) but i don't know how the show could do more to demonstrate that they think rick's ideology is hollow and empty and leads to a life of misery?

I think that's right but then he's portrayed as uber-capable in every area beyond the emotional and you can see why idiots don't realise he's not supposed to be a hero

(all those shows where you identify with tony soprano or malcolm's dad)

lol it thought you were actually talking about Malcolm In The Middle here and I was like "I never watched that show, was the dad really such a bad guy??"

I think that's right but then he's portrayed as uber-capable in every area beyond the emotional and you can see why idiots don't realise he's not supposed to be a hero

^^^ this

lol it thought you were actually talking about Malcolm In The Middle here and I was like "I never watched that show, was the dad really such a bad guy??"

^^^ also this

malcolm's dad

I thought we were talking about Malcolm-Jamal Warner

exceeding my expectations so far, toilet jokes aside.

guess I should finally get around to watching this. usually so punctual with this show.

omg. loved the first ep

"You die tomorrow, no matter what. This is what bullies call a 'fait accompli'".

Enjoyed it but it felt weirdly rushed somehow? It rarely makes me lol anyway, it's a different kind of pleasure. Still v happy there's new stuff.

loved the most recent ep, think it's the best this season. pretty much every aspect of the snake planet made me laugh. good Jerry plot too

the silent snake planet sci-fi movie satires were pretty great

Easily my favorite of the season, maybe my all-time favorite R&M episode. "Snake jazz" killed me.

best part was all the snakes watching in awe as Hissler's palace overflows with time travelling snake corpses

i came with "Hissler" on my own, btw.

the heist episode was so good, i watched it a second time

i dont know if its from the new season or not

Snake Planet was hilarious.

best part was all the snakes watching in awe as Hissler's palace overflows with time travelling snake corpses

yeah i lolled at that, also when the warning note to Snake Lincoln just said "SSSS"

I thought the heist episode (this season) was really funny and I also thought the dragon episode was funny. I mean, they've all been funny so far.

omg snake jazz!!

just saw my first ep of this, the heist ep, that was some silly funny shit. i’m rather mystified by who the audience is tho, references are old and rapid. if i existed in 2014 when thred started i’d have like 6 years of viewing by which to suss it out.

I don't get some of the references and I'm older than most of the viewing audience, so I imagine much of the audience doesn't either. The sheer volume of stuff - plot, dialogue, visuals, and gags - means it's still enjoyable even if you miss some things

That said, I am a little surprised the show is as popular as it is

I think they threw in too many ephemeral goods (boglins, ecto-coolers, etc.) this season to avoid future mulan sauce incidents, where fanatics went after the single ephemeral good they mentioned.

did the ch4 showing of these peter out after 4 or 5 episodes?

I've not seen a new one since Xmas

Seems to have for now, I assume it's just a hiatus

it was a five episode mini-season.

New ones due around April?

yea they're doing half-season rollouts.

I think this is probably why in the UK E4 were going to hang back and just broadcast the series in spring when it was complete. Glad they didn't wait tbf to them

Not unusual for animated shows. Bojack is doing a similar thing -- ending their series tomorrow with the last four eps.

Fuck, is it only four more BoJack? I assumed there'd be another 8

No, it's 8.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

i literally haven't watched 4 shows on the list :D

not because i don't even own a television, i just mostly play video games or watch old documentaries

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