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

was hoping Trayce's gif would be of Rick putting on sunglasses

DAMMIT.

http://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E02/puEE6fbj0OBmLAZRepNqpkOXfuQ%3D.gif

"so anyway, Dr WONG....racist name, by the way..."

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S02E04/aqRBFADiNbTbu3PDb7iUsxyEbiM=.gif

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/TaTef

Dude built a 1:1 scale Pickle Rick.

https://masterofallscience.com/video/S01E11/iD9ryeacWqzRoDfLrxe-3Nd6uv4=.gif

how does that get built so fast?!

He says he spent 12 hours on a sunday doing it. Thats dedication!

Also, thats awesome :D

I am not feeling this series at all so far :-(

ok

http://i.imgur.com/mLAjKr1.gif

Whaaat, it has been great!

what episodes have you watched?

first three. I just haven't found them very funny.

And you liked the previous seasons?

yeah i was gonna say: first three of this season or of the first season? cuz i think they've been pretty on this year so far.

First three of the first season were pretty great too, iirc. Show has been extremely consistent

And then this happened

not sure if yr post means it was good or bad

way too mean-spirited, rick too evil.

def was a dark episode (just found online)

also they are way about the poop this year

Rick has always been a dick tho!

I mean ok, he sent himself to prison to save the rest of the family but that aside...

this was like one of those eps where you're like "maybe they're doing this to remind all of their fans who think rick rules that he actually sucks" but then you remember that the creators probably also think rick rules

This show rules ass btw

I'm finding the tone in s3 straying too much into meta and referential territory. I like the anarchic, offbeat, conceptual stuff (Meeseeks, house party, Poopybumhole, interdimensional TV), and I'm just not fussed about Mad Max and action movie parodies. Makes me feel like I'm watching a Futurama/Family Guy mash-up, which was something they were always good at avoiding.
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.
Rick is now such a genius he's basically a superman. I didn't find the pickle episode half as cool as it could have been - once he had worked out how to control the cockroach it just devolved into an action parody, whereas I felt that his journey as a pickle could have been smarter.
Cutting Jerry out the picture is also detrimental to the humour in this series. Is there a reason for this? like did the actor have to take time off?
I guess I'm just not finding this series all that funny which is the main complaint

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

???????

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.

???????

― 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.