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

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

the show has a habit of filling harmon's "fun stuff" segment with bland violence.

Has anyone seen Solar Opposites? Because the one (shitty) episode I saw played like a b-story Rick & Morty with none of the stuff that makes R&M good. In case anyone is wondering about Roiland's contributions vs. Harmon. With Solar Opposites in mind, the gross violence in particular I presume is Roiland's contribution.

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And indeed, back from a visit to Wikipedia:

At Channel 101, participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot, and a live audience decides which pilots continue as a series. Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004. His pilots typically consisted of shock value—"sick and twisted" elements that received a confused reaction from the audience.

the WACKY SUBVERSIVE CYNICAL world of Roiland is unfortunately getting family guy formulaic imo

Yeah it was fresh in the channel 101 days, less so now

i enjoyed the solar opposites season but i wouldn't recommend it to ilx

i'll watch anything with andy daly in it tho tbph i'm even all caught up on bananas for bonanza

It's def not highbrow enough for ILX.

I'm halfway through the season. The wikipedia says it eventually gets more serialized which is a bummer because I expected a lower stakes outlet for Roiland-style chaos ie House Of Cosbys. Instead it's sci-fi Bob's Burgers with weaker jokes. But otherwise the stories are bizarre and engaging and I'm enjoying it.

I found Roiland voicing the lead to be massively distracting, since he plays a scientist who sounds like Rick, right down to the stammer. The first episode I thought had some good jokes in it, but also a lot of not good jokes. So ... totally average.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

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 (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Dunno if anyone has been watching this season, but after a great first episode, the last few have been pretty bad. episode 4 was probably my least favorite episode they've ever done

Still some great gags and ideas, but definitely feeling like more of chore this time. I think the unpleasantness of it all is starting to grind me down - kind of feel that now is not the right time for art this deeply cynical.

the episode names bear little relation to the contents, and aren't referenced outside the epg. if episode 4 is the cenobite episode then i think i agree.

the decoys episode seemed like a episode-length version of the snake civil-time-war sequence from the previous series and became hard to follow after 5 minutes. i did like the wooden puppets though.

still need to watch the last couple of eps, still love this show, stop watching and shut up if you're not into it

became hard to follow after 5 minutes.

This was part of the joke surely?

I look forward to the fascinating future of this thread, nothing but NV posting unequivocal praise.

I remembered this show existed yesterday and caught up to the point of the vat of acid episode which was pretty great tbh, structured kind of like a Stewart Lee shaggy dog story gag

Yeah the show's at its best when it's playing with structure.

> This was part of the joke surely?

i know, but it's a thin line between writing something clever that loses the viewer and writing something that's nonsense and loses the viewer and if the viewer's lost then how do they know which this is? (and does it matter?)

haven’t watched this week’s, but i thought the first couple eps were top tier, the third was spotty with a few funny moments speckled within way too much wanton violence, and the fourth was just too much

i loved this week's, didn't mind the cum episode fwiw, even if it was very lowbrow.

the Cenobite ep was pretty hilarious

the 4th one seemed… off? I’m not a huge R&M stan but I enjoy it and catch up every now and again. thematically v much in the wheelhouse, but the writing seemed particularly lazy and comic beats seemed forced or something idk. might have been the edible I took. anyway, I’m probably thinking about this way too much

I didn't like the one with Captain Planet, seemed so pat I was waiting for a twist. It's hard to care about characters they've worked so hard to make you dislike or not care about.

Exactly how I felt about ep 4, will. Most of the jokes fell flat and every element felt like something they'd done better before. I didn't find the most recent episode that funny either but at least it had something new

I did totally love the first episode with the time door and the king of the ocean, instant classic

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

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 (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

This show is still really hit and miss these days, but having Peter Dinklage doing the voice of the Alien Hans Gruber was an inspired choice.

agreed on the hit and miss, that last "nightpeople" episode is the worst it's ever been but they've connected a few eps prior this year

forgot that this was back

Yeah it's weird that it's back so soon (haven't watched any of the new season yet)

I saw a couple of eps and they were solid/more of the same/meta/dark/funny/nihilistic/sentimental. But then I forgot it was back again, lol.

the one i saw, probably the 1st episode, did feel like fan-service and nothing else.

i was hoping that the resolution to season 5 would've stemmed the fan service a bit. still gonna watch tho

to me, the plot-heavy episodes where a million things are happening (like ep 1) are so disappointing. so much writing and animation effort to make something overwhelming and unpleasant and usually not even that funny. I've liked all the other episodes so far, and the night people one was actually my favorite

we're definitely looking for different things out of this show i think. at this point i'm happy for it to be a self referential nihilistic sci-fi romp that breaks the fourth wall while doing teraflop twilight zone bullshit.

I mean, there's a good chance I'm in the minority on that opinion. My favorite eps have tended to be low on overarching plot, low on sentimentality and seriousness, high on sci-fi concept

The Fortune Cookie one was pretty funny.

i think i liked the "summer does a die hard" episode best fwiw

^finally watching now and lolz, love Grandsonism as well

"holy war"
"Holier war"
"Holiest war ever!"

This season had some inspired episodes, a step up from the previous season. Finale was great

not great

Justin Roiland has been charged with one count of domestic battery with corporal injury & one count of false imprisonment by menace/violence/fraud/deceit.

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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 12, 2023

I had only watched the first episode of this show before yesterday. My son had shown it to me when he was in middle school and I was thoroughly repulsed and never went back for more. For whatever reason, yesterday I decided to give it another chance and threw a few more episodes on. I'm still skeptical that I'll find much value in it, but my plan was to keep trying to engage. Then as soon as I flipped it off, I went to check the news and saw the news about his domestic violence.

i watched a couple episodes and fucking hated it

I generally like the show and often find it to be funny and clever, but sometimes only fitfully. Afaict it def. has more than its share of gross meme-lord fans, though. As does/did South Park, too.

I watched it for a while hoping it would move past the nihilism and edginess but despite a couple of teases it never followed through so I gave up after a couple of seasons

it's less overtly misogynistic than something like family guy but there is a pervasive sense of unexamined male geekdom to the whole thing which is offputting and while I wouldn't have guessed this it's not a massive surprise unfortunately

south park is indefensible but can also be a lot funnier. neither is as clever as it thinks it is

it honestly did feel like it moved past a lot of the edgelord-ness in this sixth season (with some notable exceptions), and while it feels like harmon is responsible for most of what makes the show great, roiland doing all the voices will make it hard for me to watch this again

Looks like he was first charged in May 2020, arrested and released in that August, then arraigned in October 2020. Was this reported two years ago?

it has been transitioning into worldbuilding as coin of the realm and has honestly been doing a fairly good job of it.
this case is, as you said, not great

First I've heard of this case, very disappointing. I've enjoyed the show up to and including the most recent season but I'm probably off the train now