Go figure, his shitty behavior has been going on for years:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/justin-roiland-animation-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
Over the next two weeks, insiders say, advertisers panicked, lawyers huddled
many of his former colleagues say they haven’t heard from him in years, and when they have, it’s been unpleasant.
these guys that Justin hired were like, ‘Look, I drew a turd with eyes, let’s do a story about that.’ ”
‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could do this show in VR and never have to be near each other?’
at various points, his visitors included Kanye West, the comedians on Impractical Jokers and porn star Riley Reid, who gifted the room a succulent.
“It was something we just ignored because it was disgusting,” says an insider.
The behavior came to be expected, and though it was infuriating to collaborators, they say it was often excused by executives, chalked up to what one describes as “an eccentricity of a genius weirdo.”
His work, which has long made comedy hay of subjects like incest and sexual deviance, was now being viewed through a different lens.
“Now everything is going to have an asterisk on it.”
Koala Man and Solar Opposites were dire but I'm hopeful R&M will rebalance a bit. They should do totally different voices!
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
Solar Opposites was hideous shit, just aggressively unfunny stupidity
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
Someone I read suggested next season they should get different celebrities to voice R&M for one episode each, which I think would be fun
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:34 (one year ago) link
Ving Rhames as Mordy
― waiting on a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
Can’t believe we’re going to have to put an asterisk on incest
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 23:55 (one year ago) link
Other show sources say he’d derail pitches and interrupt with sophomoric non sequiturs like, “What if his brains were on the outside?”
you can't interrupt with sophomoric non sequiturs in here gentlemen this is the rick and morty writer's room
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
Ha yeah when I read that I thought "how is that not like any random episode already ffs"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
seriously, like the episode where Rick gets drunk and passes out in his own diarrhea (shit, was it even only one episode?)
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link
Wow sounds like a great show
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
It actually has something going for it in the first couple seasons!
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:11 (one year ago) link
I don't think there was a bad season.
The example I gave was to illustrate how silly it was at times which is why objecting to his sophomoric ideas was silly (as opposed to some of the much more heinous shit he's been accused of)
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
I don’t know, Pickle Rick was very much a nadir for me
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:12 (one year ago) link
It had an overall great concept but was already getting into dimishing returns territory, putting aside the puerile shit like the abovementioned. There's only so much you can do with "ha ha we can just make up anything cos we broke the rules of physics" before it just starts getting confusing and repetitive.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 February 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
there's infinite shit you can do if you have a bit of imagination but maybe you need to be less attached to your shitty characters and their unfunny dynamics
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 9 February 2023 01:17 (one year ago) link
yea the first few episodes I watched of this show got me pretty excited but once you see a bad episode you kinda lose all enthusiasm for it. definitely some funny bits but there's very much a "dude staring at you while he plays his favorite Family Guy clips" vibe to it
when I discovered Xavier: Renegade Angel one of my first thoughts (outside of "what the fuck?") was "this is what Rick and Morty was trying to do"...feel like you can't just commit halfway to this sort of thing
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
how surprisinghttps://www.okayplayer.com/justin-roiland-grooming-allegations
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 September 2023 18:06 (seven months ago) link
https://wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-56.png
― budo jeru, Thursday, 14 September 2023 20:10 (seven months ago) link