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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ELLT17GYQ

ironic ads are still ads iirc

xp My mistake!

wtf is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yg4ImnYwA

Rick and Morty wake in fright.

aired on april 1st a year after the surprise season 3 premiere.

Back next month

You heard it here third. #RickandMorty returns May 3 on @adultswim pic.twitter.com/KvbqK9eKDI

— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) April 1, 2020

Yay, I'll have to stay in for those

https://teenage.engineering/store/po-137/

odd...

(pocket-calculator-sized synthesizer with rick and morty samples)

Well that was the trollingest episode of any show ever, i am grudgingly impressed

One anthology movie set on a train was Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. I'm sure there have been others.

ok i laughed a bunch at this one esp towards the end

season 4 still isn't on UK netflix which is quite annoying seeing as this is near enough the only show I've seen on it that I like and actually consistently makes me laugh.

I was in a daft giggly mood this aft and couldn't stop laughing at the ep where he turns himself into a pickle to escape therapy and the vindicators one with the ghost train hero "all aboard!".

xxp i was sure that it was gonna be a snowpiercer-type deal, but it pivoted rather impressively from there lol

definitely too much to absorb in my first viewing. lots of funny gags, though, especially the bechdel test one

man the bechdel joke one felt very much like chum for its core audience

i understand that, but there were plenty of layers of irony in there--it was a shot at critics who think the show doesn't have well-drawn female characters, an in-character joke about a 14-year-old boy's idea about how women communicate with each other, etc.

for sure, but the show DOESN'T have well-drawn female characters (or any characters really, everybody's a vehicle) and the "is lesbian part of her job description" line in tandem with the suggestion that "hey that DID meet the bechdel test, suck it feminists" all added up to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExUyyfT-DdM

(or any characters really, everybody's a vehicle)

rick is certainly a vehicle for whatever pops into the creators' heads, but come on.

> season 4 still isn't on UK netflix

second half of season 4 starts on e4 on thursday

VC, beyond the thin veneer of one sentence character (Jerry is a narcissist fuck-up, Summer is the renegade teen who's as smart as she thinks she is), I read ALL the characters as vehicles for whatever pops into the creators' heads! Which is fine, I'm not watching this for dramatic insight, I'm watching it for the yuks. The issue for me is when they get into 'makes u think' social commentary with particular hamhandedness on topics that they not only don't care about but that don't concern them in the slightest. This was one of those.

best thing about this episode was no jerry, the worst character

Calz they are on channel 4 now

ffs why am I paying for netflix!

meh still not on My4 player tho

I was in a daft giggly mood this aft and couldn't stop laughing at the ep where he turns himself into a pickle to escape therapy and the vindicators one with the ghost train hero "all aboard!".

― calzino, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:34 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

The pickle Rick outtakes crack me up, as does them spending time and money animating them

https://youtu.be/XSqi5s3rfqk

hah voice actor totally losing his shit over the whole concept!

watched one episode of Solar Opposites and i suppose i'll watch the rest in a self-loathing late night blitz but man this is worse than Final Space and Final Space was not good.

also jeez did Roiland HAVE to do the lead character with Rick's voice? And personality traits? It's disconcerting.

on all4 or whatever it’s called s4 starts with.. episode 6? (and there’s a coronavirus reference!)

"S4" is the extension of the shortened S3

It's the story train one, was on actual TV on Thursday.

this show is epic.

I didn't love last week's story, but the finale made up for it.

Need to watch that one. The vat of acid episode was some dark shit.

A lot of the past 2-3 years of TV seems like high-concept for the sake of high-concept and that episode was one example imo.

lol “high concept for its own sake” is the entire usp of this show tbf

Yes but there are usually other things going on that make it fun.

My mistake, Vat of Acid was good. I was referring to the camping trip episode.

the second half of this season didn't sit well with me

i haven't actually seen s4 as yet, it's only on Netflix UK in a couple of weeks I believe. I only just watched the first 3 seasons.

the new episodes are on All4 right now