>They are currently in the process of recasting Justin's characters, but no voice has been chosen yet. They liken it to how other VAs have taken on the role of Bugs Bunny.
>Season 8 was fully written, and Season 9 was partially written before the writer's strike. There are already discussions regarding Season 10, and no plans to stop anytime soon
>Season 7 is currently scheduled for this September, with them trying to stick to this yearly schedule going forward,
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>There are already discussions regarding Season 10, and no plans to stop anytime soon
RICK AND MORTY FOREVER A HUNDRED YEARS ANON!!
So Rick and Morty is gonna be the new Family Guy. I'm okay with that. The animation team are killing it.
How about the writing team?
They're fine. The meta jokes and constant references to contemporary culture (twitter/tiktok/celebrities) are more often misses than hits but the characters are more likeable than they were in seasons 3-4, the lore is as great as ever, and the one-offs are still capable of being decent (see vat of acid, decoys, night family, pissmaster, etc.).
The show appears worse because there's a lot of mid to shitty content spread throughout seasons 3-6 but take all of the good episodes throughout that time frame, put them together, and you got an additional season or two of Rick and Morty's golden era.
>the characters are more likeable than they were in seasons 3-4
Summer and Morty are insufferable now
>Rick and Morty is gonna be the new Family Guy.
It's literally already been that for half a decade.
It's funny. I'm seeing way more unironic love for Family Guy these days, whereas everyone's bored with Rick & Morty. A lot has changed since the 2010s.
The hate Family Guy got was overblown and Matt and Trey acted like homosexuals as if their humor and writing is top notch.
>The hate Family Guy got was overblown
Nah, that's just nostalgia kicking in. The actual plots are terrible but the one off jokes are pretty good.
The hate it got was the original viewers just getting tired of the constant gag reuse and repeating story lines.
It's just that it's been on for so long that it's found a new audience with the younger generation whose been using it as YouTube poop on tiktok
people realized that family guy was, for the most part, still pretty funny throughout the early 2010s
Because early revival Family Guy was legitimately good and not enough people gave it a chance because of muh meg abuse.
As someone who used to hate Family Guy, I still maintain that the early revival seasons were mediocre but not awful, but as the show progressed, it became funnier in my opinion. The show became became completely irrelevant and started mocking everything and somehow it works
Family Guy and American Dad hasn't rotted as much as The Simpsons or as fast as R&M.
They AT LEAST try to be funny.
Family Guy is still mostly miss and sometimes hit but at least it's not non-stop cancer like the Simpsons. American Dad is probably the most consistently funny adult cartoon currently, alongside Beavis and Butthead.
Does Rick still drool in the show?
megaseed addiction. His tolerance is way, way higher than Morty's was at the end of the first episode, but he still bears the unmistakable signs of someone using a megaseed to artificially enhance his already-prodigious intelligence.
There is no way in hell that the writers are going to pass up on tying in the megaseeds to the overarching lore much like they did with the Central Finite Curve, something that was mentioned twice in the show before it was elaborated on further in the season 5 finale. I'd honestly think it would be pretty cool if they did and the idea of making people see the seeds in some dark and depressing new light despite being introduced to us in that "YOU GOTTA SHOVE THEM WAAAAAY UP YOUR BUTT MORTY!" scene would be funny in that kind of endearingly autistic Kingdom Hearts-esque fanfiction style.
>something that was mentioned twice in the show before it was elaborated on further in the season 5 finale
really?
It was mentioned by one of the members of the council in that season 1 Evil Morty episode and again in the ad for Simple Rick's cookies in the season 3 citadel episode.
>it’s real
no they literally deleted rick's drovl by season 3, along with his burping and stuttering
I thought for sure this would’ve humbled them and gotten the crew to close out the series in ten seasons. Do none of the writers or directors have original pitches of their own? Adult Swim can still make money off of the Rick and Morty brand via merch, even without new episodes.
adult swim should buy Inside Job, no, it NEEDS to.
Everyone forgot about Inside Job the moment Velma premiered. The show is deader than dead.
Imagine being killed by VELMA of all things
Happens all the time with streamed shows. We've just got our first Hilda thread in three months.
The show kinda sucked except like 2 of the later episodes
Justin getting fired and the plan to get new voices for Rick and Morty has transferred the show into a zoombie, because that means the entire cast and staff are replaceable and the show can basically keep going on for ages without any of the original people involved.
Rick and Morty Forever!
>Adult Swim can still make money off of the Rick and Morty brand via merch, even without new episodes.
Can they? Skimming tv and co it seems like AS is always on the verge of bankruptcy and losing their shows
They ordered like 70 episodes after season 3 so those episodes will be made no matter what.
That's fine. The idea is that the series SHOULD end at season 10.
Inside Job was terrible though, even fricking Mulligan was better.
bait
Reagan was only good when she was with Brett because alone was insufferable how obvious of a self-insertion she was
That's why the only episode that doesn't suck apart from project reboot is brettwork
the rest of the cast were just one dimensional jokes, and trying to make Gigi Reagan's friends and give her more screen time just for having a vegana was bad
In the end the worst enemy for the show was Shion herself, at least in the second part they left the boomer bad mentality
Also how are they supposed to have S7 ready for September if they STILL haven't locked in on a replacement for Roiland's voices? This shit isn't coming till early next year. I thought for sure they would just make do with the anime in the meantime.
I am so excited for the anime
why?
I’ve always enjoyed the special Rick and Morty anime shorts. I also love the Japanese VAs, so I’m really looking forward to for more.
Story goes that Roiland did all of his VO work for season seven before the scandal broke. And that due to budget issues and network/corporate issues, they have to use Justin's VO work so that they have time to not frick up the recast/have the cash to get people hired that won't kill the show like the Tracy Morgan debacle did Squidbillies
What?
Adult Swim is under intense pressure to perform right now and their budget has been cut considerably. Also, they bet EVERYTHING on Rick and Morty and more to the point, the Rick and Morty renewal had a poison pill clause in it that pays Harmon big bucks if the show gets canceled before airing the 70 episodes in the contract. So they can't do a petty ass "frick you" like they did with Squidbillies, where they tanked an IP just to spite the voice actor.
So not only do they have to find a proper new voice actor for Rick and Morty, one that can carry the show forward and keep the money train moving, but they don't have the cash or wiggle room to splurge on celebrity stunt casting shit. They have to get someone who will work cheap and yet also do a 10/10 job replacing Roiland AND who fans will accept right off the bat. No wiggle room for growing into the roles nor can they get cute and splurge huge sums of money for Aaron Paul, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Lloyd, Michael J Fox, or any other big name double act types for stunt casting.
Hence them using Roiland's work for season seven; to buy themselves some time as they start auditioning people and hoping against hope that Discovery will up their budget so they don't have to go with the best but cheapest option.
Isn't this why Family Guy recasted Cleveland with a nobody from YouTube?
The guy was pretty popular on Youtube for his Cleveland impression.
In fairness that guy is really good, I somehow happened to catch the first episode with him in it before hearing the news and didn't even realise it was a different guy.
> tanked an IP just to spite the voice actor
it’s cute that you think squidbillies running in its 10th+ year was some kind of cultural juggernaut and not a forgettable has-been
Heisenberg Rick now that would be something
>Tracy Morgan debacle
I'm 99% sure they did that on purpose to kill the show.
>hat won't kill the show like the Tracy Morgan debacle did Squidbillies
Squidbillies was already going to be dead no matter who they got the VA for it, they decided might as well get a black guy as a joke
I mean who gives a shit about Tracy Morgan? That shit didn't even cross my radar until this thread, while I was absolutely aware Early got fired for being a chud. That was the death sentence right there.
Only difference with Rick and Morty is that they have a fricking contract with X number of episodes remaining.
I personally would have gotten Eddie Murphy.
>There are already discussions regarding Season 10, and no plans to stop anytime soon
They really think they are getting more seasons? At best they will finish the contract and AS will milk the IP with random spin-offs and what ifs like the anime version.
Makes sense. Wouldn't be surprised if they get the new VA, announce him/them before season 7 airs and credit them for the roles when it's still Roiland's audio.
>it's fricking nothing
Reminder Roiland is a based autist manchild
How can people still defend him? The comments on AS's social media are embarrassing
I know you're a convicted rapist and planning to abduct children.
What's with the anons that hate Justin being child abducting pedophiles?
Twitter tourists. If you disagree with me, you're a pedophile. Doesn't matter what it is. Do you like Pepsi when I prefer Coke? You're a pedophile.
Justin is against the pedos and drug addicts which is why the judge let him go so that's why they targeted him.
I knew it was some sort of orchestrated thing
>Willingly go to work for a show heavily featuring penis monsters
>Think it's weird that penis monsters get drawn around the office
?
That’s the ONE part in that whole article I think the journalist made up. The female writers knew exactly what kind of show they’d signed up for. One of the most recent episodes about Morty keeping medieval knights from cutting his dick off was written by a woman.
The real issue was Roiland being a fricking baby and pissing everyone off by refusing to sit down and contribute for an hour or two.
Didn't Harmon more or less shut him out of the writer's room starting with season 3?
>Morty keeping medieval knights from cutting his dick off was written by a woman.
based female shota lover?
>The female writers knew exactly what kind of show they’d signed up for
Lol
Season 2 wasn't as good as season 1.
>reporting unconfirmed rumors
>being moronic
>penis roosters
Why is that a problem for le female writers? It's gender equality, you get to deal with men's banter
Femanon here. It's not a problem, but we just don't find dicks funny. It's like how some people find cross dressing hilarious but for me and others it's actually worse than offensive- it's boring. The only time I can recall crossdressing done well for comedic effect was in Mulan when the three soldiers infiltrate the palace dressed as concubines.
How do you feel about the way Summer and Beth have been used and developed over the course of the series? Personally I love "Night Family," but I can't stand Summer otherwise. Beth is hit-or-miss. I like when she interacts with her dad tho.
That sequence from your pic was hilarious primarily because of their voice actresses' deliveries.
Anyways, I've always regarded Beth poorly for getting pregnant in high school and not getting an abortion because of a flat tire. She chose her shitty situation and her superiority complex rubs me wrong.
Summer, on the other hand, is probably my favorite family member. I respect her morality and common "no shits given" attitude. She is a much better sidekick to Rick than Morty because Morty is so meek while Summer's attitude goes toe-to-toe with Rick's.
>I love Summer
>Beth should have aborted her though
>I like when she interacts with her dad tho.
Speaking of interaction, have we ever gotten a Rick/Jerry/Summer episode? If it were in the earlier seasons it would be nothing but straight up Jerry bullying but I can't see that being the case now outside of a very few but tame moments of two-sided banter.
the joke in crossdressing is "look he's descending to the lowest station in the social hierarchy - the place of a woman! How humiliating and degrading"
of course women can't laugh about that
Dan Harmon should've known what he was getting into knowing he agreed to head a show based on a YouTube short about Marty sucking on Doc Brown's balls.
Don't forget Harmon being a workplace predator and sexual harasser.
It's okay he wrote a really good apology for that.
You joke but YEAH, Understanding why you have done something bad and making amends for it is kind of fricking important for being a good person
Also a well known drunk.
this entire thing is harmon trying to rehabilitate his industry image after people agreed he was a shithead in the late 2010's
Man Harmon is such a homosexual hack. He acts like he’s such a genius writer “mathematical about story”. The best part of Rick and morty wasn’t the 4 act structure, it was how witty the dialogue could be at its best and the unhinged ideas. Let’s be real jokes like gazorpazorpfield was all roiland
>show goes to shit as soon as they hired females
heh
So do you think roiland leaving will help or hurt viewership of the show?
I unironically think it will cause a mild initial spike in viewership for the next season because people will be curious about what it will be like without him, me included. But once we all see that it's sufficiently forgettably adequate so as to downplay Roiland, there won't be much desire and it will probably slowly fade.
And this is pretty minor in general--the majority of the stoners and normies who watch Rick and Morty probably don't even have much concept of who Justin Roiland even is.
>the majority of the stoners and normies who watch Rick and Morty probably don't even have much concept of who Justin Roiland even is
https://twitter.com/RottingVale/status/1563398187741691904
>Anyone here a fan of Justin Roiland?
>*silence*
>Rick and Morty?
>*minor applause*
Damn.
It's definitely a net positive. People were already hating on Roiland when his fps game dropped last winter. I barely saw any buzz around Season 6, but Roiland's firing put Rick and Morty back on the map this year by making it controversial and a topic of argument. The reveal of the new voices will literally break the internet, whenever that'll be
>Google "Justin Roiland Minors" for a full list.
Yeah. People started getting tired of him. You can only do the same "oh jeez ooo wee poopooballs" overexplaining gag so many times.
>will literally break the internet,
Not trying to defend Roiland, but I think you're giving RNM's popularity too much credit compared to how it is now.
Maybe you’re right
>People were already hating on Roiland when his fps game dropped last winter.
I felt the exact fatigue as well with High on Life. Roiland can only do two voices and has the same exact humor.
I remember people saying roiland has good voice range but he really doesn't it's just those two voices and then slightly variations on those two voices, when's the last time he was in something and nobody recognized him afterwards
>They liken it to how other VAs have taken on the role of Bugs Bunny.
Then their voices are well and truely fricked then. (Unless they rehire Justin)
It's not the 90's or the 00's anymore. People will immediately be able to tell the diff between Justin and his replacements, and it will likely kill the show.
>and it will likely kill the show
lol
Is that lol in agreement or disagreement? Why are you showing me this pic? When was it taken?
Shows gonna die. There’s no right move here. Keep him on and redditors seethe. Kick him off and normies seethe. Cancel the show and redditors/normies seethe.
>Cancel the show and redditors/normies seethe.
And I win!
>They liken it to how other VAs have taken on the role of Bugs Bunny.
That sounds really fricking copey but then again I guess I wasn't expecting them to say "yeah, we've gotta recast him cause he sexted little girls" on-stage at Annecy.
Is that not the truth though?
Yes but as any non-autistic individual should know you don't just blurt out the truth when the truth hurts and there's millions of bucks involved.
Funniest shit I've ever seen.
Yeah, and none of them have been as good as Mel Blanc
>Season 9 was partially written before the writer's strike.
So should expect another major quality decline? I'm hoping for it.
Season 6 felt like a step up from 3-5, so I feel pretty good about it. I'm really interested in the anime too.
t.> Optimistic NPC
>t. midwit complaint addict
>Any dunks on reddit-tier lovers of tasteless horseshit is complaining.
You really showed me anon. But I kinda feel bad for you, since your setting yourself up for failure. If you think any of these plot points will end resolved in a meaningful way when 4 seasons of episodic shit are up next, I don't what to tell you.
You used "NPC" as an insult unironically. Get some self-awareness.
Season 3 was the strongest season. IMO, Season 5 was stronger than Season 4, but in Season 6, some of the glaring flaws made themselves more apparent.
>Season 3 was the strongest season.
Imagine being this wrong. This was when the problems became more glaring, even to normies.
Third had the stronger, consistent narrative. Fourth and fifth was throwing everything at the wall and seeing what stuck.
>the stronger, consistent narrative
What are you on? Things got resent at the end of the season and the Jerry/Beth divorce arc added nothing in the end. Morty becoming more assertive was good, but to the point were he can but heads with Rick on an equal footing? That should've happened at the beginning of season 4, not 3.
Ehhh, it was a step up from 4-5. I still don't get the hate for Season 3. Yes, it had the first signs of the writers making unfavorable decisions like reversing status quo shifts or using gore as a punchline, but the divorce arc and how it was explored among the family was something I found interesting. S3 also had some of the show's best episodes like the toxic Rick & Morty one.
4-5 were the first seasons written with that 70-episode order in mind, so they felt way more experimental, with a sense that the writers were starting to stretch out their overarching narrative for even longer. S6 definitely feels like they've got a better grasp on how to move things forward tho.
Roiland should just be back to do the voices. It was dropped. Life goes the frick on.
The domestic abuse charges were dropped. The sexting to minors screenshots are still there.
And is anything being done about it or did people get bored and move on to something else?
It's still damaging.
Every time someone famous "talked inappropriately to minors" it's always stretched so goddamn thin it's ridiculous. Are the texts online? I'm curious.
The texts were posted in threads a while back when the charges came out.
I'll look around them. I'm not excusing what the guy did, but usually with stuff like this nothing adds up, it's a giveaway at the beginning of the conversation and the guy is fricking moronic/horny enough to keep it going.
It's far more cringy then actually sick she creepy.
Think a middle age man trying to use 2004 something awful humor to pick up 17 years old
A middle-aged man trying to "pick up" a high school girl is pretty fricking creepy and I don't get why homosexuals here will cry and insist it isn't.
Texting someone isn't the same as "picking them up" even if what he did was wrong
Hollywood tolerates it for everyone else in their world. Roiland only got the axe so they can claim R&M.
It's the application of law and morality only when it is convenient
>Roiland only got the axe so they can claim R&M.
And mostly because nobody liked the guy. Harmon is just as dirty as Justin, but Harmon has more connections, so he doesn't get exiled.
It's just weird creepy incriminating posts from 2015. There's not really anything to be "done" about it other than have the companies not associate with him, and that's already happened.
>incriminating
Charges were dropped.
He asked one girl if she was gonna get Morty tattooed on her chest. Does it get much worse than that?
…her little morties…
You’re either a bad faith actor or a complete moron
Except Mel Blanc didn't get fired for phony assault charges.
Greed is at an all time high.
Which side was responsible for the disastrous writing like "Beth fricks her clone but it's a serious drama" and "Morty's jizz impregnated Summers Egg and they had a giant baby named Naruto"
Harmon. That’s all Harmon. He’s the one who hired all the new writers, and he’s the one they all reported to.
Just get Michel Cusack and don't comment on them suddenly being Australians again.
Didnt the stuff with Roiland go nowhere? Im not sure how involved he was with the show by the time they shitcanned him but it seems like they did it for nothing
I didn't watch Rick & Morty for the same reasons I didn't listen to Linkin Park until Chester Bennington killed himself
Now is my time
Now I can say Rick & Mortal was smart and funny because everything new will be bad
Oh, and I'm supposed to mention Xavier Renegade Angel is the better show.
Because Xavier Renegade Angel is the better show.
It's just better.
Just kill the series please, there are literally only 2 good season
which ones?
scrap seasons 2, 3, and 4 and take enough episodes out of those to make two seasons.
>rewatching Season 1, up to episode 7
>every episode was good
>Rick is actually engaged in the plots instead of shitting on everything because he's an overpowered cyborg drunk on pessimism
>it's clear that Rick cares about Morty while future seasons has Rick traumatizing Morty for fun and insisting too hard that the relationship is toxic
>Summer and Beth aren't just clones of Rick
Comfy. We have to go back.
Beth is one of the most glaring examples of how hard the show shifted.
>We have to go back.
We literally can’t
Ridley leaving was the show's greatest casualty.
I want a documentary on the season 3 behind the scenes shitshow
Fricking same. Tom Kauffman and Mike McMahan also seemed to understand how to strike the perfect balance between Harmon and Roiland's different styles. I'd pay good money for a book chronicling the fallout between Seasons 3 and 4.
>That israeli parenthesis used ironically
>Check his Twitter account. Jesus Christ, it's just as terrible as I expected
>This guy talks more about Trump and that Swedish teenager environmentalist than his actual work as a writer
Why do American writers, from both sides of the political spectrum, act more like political activists than actually tweet about their work and projects? One of the biggest regrets I have is seeing the writers twitter accounts because they're such insufferable c**ts that are obsessed about politics as sport fans are about their teams.
Reinfield was only okay
🙁
>season 10
>they actually think this show can survive a major VA change when it’s numbers were already slipping
I see they are choosing the rude awakening route
They dont think it for sure will, they hope it will. AS put all their eggs on the rick and morty basket and had several seasons bought already, so if it fails thats a huge fricking blow to them.
Does Rick and Morty hate its viewers, itself, or both?
Both
Both. The show itself has become Rick. It's too meta for its own good. The writers need to just write what they want to write, instead you get dogshit episodic content while they only put actual effort into lore episodes, which they then complain about because they feel the fans are forcing them to write about Evil Morty and shit. The whole serialized vs episodic thing Rick and Morty has going on needs to be completely dropped and forgotten because it's fricking schizophrenic.
Didn’t you hear, anon? ONE HUNDRED YEARSSS
>Season 7 will be the one where Main Rick will finally hunt down Rick Prime and avenge his family, which means travelling multiverse involving countless realities.
Am I just too dumb and being filtered by the infinite realities concept in this show because I can't seem to grasp the alternate realities part that apparently follows what we believe is possible in real life. So correct me if I got this wrong:
The shows operates on the many-worlds interpretation theory, where there are infinite constantly dividing universes based on outcomes or results of various variables. Main Rick is attempting to kill the alternate version of himself, Rick Prime. But how is that possible, given the conditions and what infinite universes entail? Main Rick would have to kill literally infinite versions of Rick Prime, because every time he succeeded, there’s another reality or result where he didn’t and Rick Prime survived, right?
That means the idea of there’s only one "Main Rick" makes no sense in the first place as there should be infinite "Main Ricks” based on the MWI theory splitting off and creating universes where he is hunting down the infinite versions of “Prime Rick.” So that means countless realities are being created by the countless results and variables of “Main Rick” and “Prime Rick” fighting each other.
You’re getting into “why hasn’t Morty aged” territory. Don’t overthink it, man.
Damnit Planetina was the best thing they ever made.
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Maybe universes don't divide every time there's a "chance" of something happening, maybe there's some other trigger. Maybe universes don't split at all anymore, but some just never diverged in any major way, so there's universes that are basically spares to one another.
That's pretty much the only way the setting makes sense. The amount of universes existing, or at the very least the ones with Rick/Morty present in them, is very clearly finite and doesn't grow much, if at all.
When will Evil Morty make a comeback? I only watch this for him because he constantly calls out the MCs, and how they're much more evil than him. He pretty much carried season 5.
evil morty nope'd the frick out of the show. bringing him back would completely undercut the season 5 finale and his entire character for the sake of a cheap twist which is why it's totally gonna happen in the next season complete with a dozen "ironic" jokes about what a bad idea it is to do it.
Dan Harmon confirmed that this won't be the last time we'll be seeing him. I wonder if he was sent back to his original universe during Solaricks and is now trapped in it yet again thanks to the dinosaurs sealing up the rift. If that were the case he'd probably snap after all he's done to escape it the first time.
I dunno, evil morty used a different type of portal fluid from the one rick reset
True but you're talking about portal travel. What's to say that the act of resetting portal travelers can't extend beyond the CFC if one of its inhabitants ventured outside of it? It would be one thing if the rift was closed back up immediately after Evil Morty left but that wasn't the case though. Even if I'm wrong, I just believe that there has to be something there with the rift arc that we should see down the road because I really don't want to believe that the writers came up with an interesting idea just to not only do absolutely nothing with it but also cowardly finding an excuse to "resolve" it as if it never happened besides having half the season temporarily ban Rick from using portal travel. That is unless they wanted to evoke a lovecraftian "the true horror is whatever your mind conjures up" whenever you think of people or things that outclass Rick in intelligence and power. I would have also thought that we'd see characters invading the CFC that were previously outside of it but since even the writers know as little about the science behind it all as we are, hopefully they'll use this time to come up with something interesting in the future.
>>They are currently in the process of recasting Justin's characters
Tf he LITERALLY did nothing wrong
What's the point of even continuing without Roiland? Like him or not a good deal of the shows content was just him ad-libbing and throwing out ideas. Solar Opposites barely feels like a different show even though Harmon isn't on it.
They already bought like 70 episodes. If they stop now that's cash thrown into the trash. And they can't bring him back because that'd be bad PR.
Plus didn't Solar Opposites dump him too?
Solar Opposites was basically a "Frick you" to Harmon, because apparently the whole fricking scam on this shit is to get yourself a producer credit, get yourself cast as a voice, and just soak up them residuals as you turn production over to up and comers with the idea they bust their ass for a show with your name on it.
I feel like Solar Opposites came about because Roiland convinced McMahan that Harmon was the fricking problem, only for McMahan to frick off and do Lower Decks because he realized Roiland was the fricking problem.
Now Harmon is stuck with Rick and Morty, McMahan is doing ok for himself, and Roiland got himself fricking cancelled because of course he did.
>and Roiland got himself fricking cancelled because of course he did
I've been listening to older episode commentary, and I feel like Roiland was always bound to frick up his career one way or another (17:40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVXPSkg9Sps&t=1060s
From what I've heard, McMahan seems to still be pretty involved in Solar Opposites. It's always been more his show than Roiland's. With that and LD, I'd say the guy is doing VERY well for himself.
It's just weird, Solar Opposites seemed to do everything Rick and Morty did just with more precision. Even the family drama stuff is better. It's more grounded and relatable than the Rick and Morty family drama, even though they are fricking aliens.
Harmon literally does not seem to be a factor in what made Rick and Morty what it is l, outside of things people DON'T like about the show like Beth drama.
Any word on when Season 4 is coming? And how likely is it that they were able to dub over Roiland's lines on time?
Rumor has it S4 drops in August
I know! I feel like a crazy person! Solar Opposites seems like everything that should be cringeworthy and desperate and stupid in all the bad ways, and instead it's weirdly wholesome, extremely well-written and stupid in all the best ways? I feel like I'm losing my mind, like all the signs point to "this show should fricking suck", like some Paradise P.D. completely forgettable ripoff show taking another show's art style and doing nothing with it, but then you get episodes that genuinely make you have to stop and just stare into the middle distance. The fricking 'standing in line' episode fricking ruled, and I can't believe I'm saying that out loud.
>No Justin Roiland
Dropped
>charges dropped back in march without ever making it to trial because the state couldn't find any evidence of it actually happening or anyone who could back up the claims
>no plans to just bring him back
Fricking kneejerk reactions.
>Harmon hires hack writers and puts his agenda in R&M
>Justin is a fricking manbaby and doesn't wanna write for his shit anymore because he wants to coast off this forever, letting Dan take over
Who's fault is it for killing R&M?
>Who's fault is it for killing R&M?
Dan and Justin for agreeing to make a show together and somehow failing to maintain a healthy partnership five years in. Why even pitch the show in the first place if you couldn't see yourselves committing? Harmon should've made a cartoon with Rob Schrab from the get-go: https://youtu.be/PQ076dVvHm8
Schrab's addition to the writers' room is the main thing giving me hope that Rick and Morty's gonna be just fine moving forward. He might actually help Harmon stick to a stronger vision now.
Justin was literally throwing shit at the wall and constantly throwing pilots out for over a decade hoping something would stuck. I don't think he was particularly invested in any of them. A lot of them seem to be deliberately push the envelope on what is considered marketable and ok to show on TV and a lot of minor characters and jokes in Rick and Morty originate from those pilots.
Don't care what anyone says. I fricken loved Night Family.
Wait, seriously? People didn't like the Night Family? I mean, I don't want to see more of them, but it was a fun concept that didn't overstay its' welcome. They actually built to it, we were told exactly what was happening and why, AND they worked an action setpiece into it. It was perfectly fine! One of the best? Not necessarily, but I wouldn't remove it, it was great.
JUST CANCEL THE SHOW GOD DAMN IT, FRICK YOU ADULT SWIM FRICK YOUUUUU
>posts Family Guy reaction image
Pick a side, anon.
Family Guy has actually been pretty good lately, not sure why or how they did it.
Oh definitely, I agree.
But on that note, I feel like Family Guy is more deserving of being dubbed "the incest cartoon" since at least the characters in Rick and Morty always treat incest with the level of disgust it deserves. FG has done TONS of jokes casually teasing incestuous relationships among the Griffins yet everyone seems to forget that. Sure, the in-world logic of FG is far more outlandish than Rick and Morty's, to the point where the Griffins are basically just a cast of gag characters parading as a "classic sitcom family," but the point still stands. And don't even get me started with American Dad
>not sure why or how they did it.
Might be their parent company holding them by the short and curlies.
Disney is forcing them to cut back on the shock humor which ironically helped them. Only real casualty is Quagmire.
I'm betting they'll bring Justin back for the season after this one and lampshade it at the end of the first episode.
>"New season! With the original voice actors!"
Anyone here hope that that Prime Rick wasn't actually responsible for killing Protagonist Rick's family? It would be a great twist and the audience never actually saw who actually planted the bomb. So Show Rick killing all those alternate versions of himself in hopes of killing the guy he thinks is responsible just demonstrates how he's no better and ultimately wasted his life for nothing.
Life doesn’t matter, MO*burp*ORTY!
I hope so. I love alternate versions of the Smith/Sanchez family just challenging the notion that their show counterparts, such as Main Rick and Main Morty, have any leg to stand on because they have as TVtropes calls it, "Protagonist-Centered Morality" simply because they happen to be what the audience is focused on.
Hermit Jerry just calling out Main Morty for abandoning his real family for alternate versions of themselves was the highlight of season 6. And no matter how much Main Morty and Rick subscribe to the notion that infinite alternate versions of everyone around them, including their family, means their lives are interchangeable and thus meaningless shows how much that's horseshit.
Hermit Jerry proves it when he rejects Morty's offer that he can help him by sending him to another reality where he can replace Summer, Beth, and even Morty himself with that reality, and Jerry just mocks him for not getting it and how their lives matters to him. Morty just ends up crying, because deep down he knows his real father is right.
And it's even more satisfying when Morty tries to defend himself by stating the apocalypse he started made Jerry "cooler" in his eyes, only for Jerry to show even more disgust at his son for thinking that matters when he stated to Morty his real sister and mom died and Morty doesn't even act bothered by it.
"It improved you" and "We can get you a new family" to Hermit Jerry, his real father, just shows how soulless Morty became. I hope Hermit Jerry remains dead and doesn't get resurrected. All the people he loved are dead along with his world. There's no his Morty and Prime Rick.
And Morty just offered to give Jerry a new family. He didn't offer to be his son again. That's his father. This isn't an alternate universe version of his father. That is literally his universe's dad. Morty can't even say he wants to be Hermit Jerry's son again, because he doesn't see himself as that anymore, and that's honestly worse than having a family member that's dead.
>It improved you
This was a clever jab at fans who thought the same thing. Meta humor done right for once.
Jerry Prime deserved better
It would be nice to have him come into contact with another Beth, Summer and Morty who have also been screwed over by Ricks and they manage to make a new functional Smith family somewhere with no Ricks.
Agreed but let's not downplay how much the second Jerry got fricked over.
>Still had his moments where he was humbled and tried to improve himself as seen in the pluto and deer episodes.
>Got swapped with the wrong family through no fault of his own and likely suffered even worse abuse than main/third Jerry did.
>Assuming that both the 1st and 2nd Jerry won't be seen again, the latter arguably got the worst fate purely because it's possible that he is now a prisoner in his own mind instead of at least being outright dead like Hermit Jerry.
>His fate happened because of Rick's carelessness and his final moment was watching his family abandon him yet again before being assimilated.
Shit was fricked up.
Mr Frundles was by far one of the season’s highlights. Both hilarious AND horrifying
I always like when R&M has an interesting sci-fi idea and then doesn't drill it into the dirt and just kind of lets it go to be filled in by your own imagination. Like how Rick could have fricked a planet, like mechanically. Don't worry about it! Who is mr. frundles? How does it spread? Don't worry about it! The point is it's a cool idea, a cool image, a cool situation to imagine possibilities from.
I'd still rank the talking cat amongst the top 10 scenes of the show. It gives you just enough information to make your mind run wild and serves as a vehicle in humanizing the characters with both Rick showing genuine kindness and Jerry demonstrating a rare and admirable moment of courage.
I know being given an answer is missing the point but I don't care. I'm still obsessed with the cat to the point where I honestly thought that he was behind the plot of the fortune cookie episode (I mean c'mon, an incest plot involving Jerry's elderly mother, reality warping powers being involved, and the gross alien that could have been a mutated Balthromaw as a result of soul bonding with him) as well as wishing that his secret will play a role in defeating Rick Prime. Imagine RP's fate not only being truly disturbing but as he frantically cries out asking what the frick is happening to him, Rick merely responds coldly by saying "Don't think about it."
I did really like that we're never told his backstory because anything they told us would be less interesting than what you invent in your head, you just leave that gap open and write everything around it. I like to imagine he's the corporeal shell of some sort of horrifying demon, not that the cat himself is bad at all, really, just that he's the chaff to the wheat that was some horrible demonic force that had its' own whole storyline going on somewhere completely unrelated to Rick.
I wouldn't be a fan of this happening because it would completely deflate the hype that they're clearly trying to build up for Rick Prime. Also, why would RP be portrayed as some mysterious, narcissistic, evil(er) version of Rick only for it all to amount to a misunderstanding? Sounds just as disappointing as reducing the diamond authority from Steven Universe from incomprehensibly powerful alien overlords to goofy wine aunts. And if that were truly the case, why is RP so paranoid and always expecting people to be hunting him down 24/7? Not to mention that it would all fly in the face of Rick's character development in the way that RP is supposed to show what Rick would become if he TRULY embraced his toxic "nothing but me matters" philosophy that's already been exposed as nothing more than machismo and a coping mechanism for the emptiness of his life.
Aside from all that, I'm scared for Hermit Jerry and I'm worried that RP will revive him, just like how main Jerry was healed from being shot multiple times at that alien hospital in the interdimensional cable 2 episode and use him in some gruesome experiment that's meant to psychologically torture the duo in a future encounter.
To be fair, Main Rick was already killing alternate Ricks without even investigating if they were like Rick Prime and killed probably killed hundreds of Ricks indiscriminately who were probably innocent in the flashbacks. Even if Rick Prime claimed he had nothing to do with the bombing and was only avoiding Main Rick because he knew he was gunning for him, Main Rick wouldn't believe him and probably wouldn't even care like with all the other Ricks he killed off just to make sure.
That part always bugged the shit out of me. There he was, going around literally shooting first and not asking questions at all and it was portrayed so sympathetically and as some dark and shameful secret. As long as the "Rick Prime is innocent, Main Rick is the real monster" theory is executed in an interesting way, then I won't have a problem with it because it truly is the theory that makes the most sense.
While we're talking about theories, I kind of wanted to share my own that's been stirring around in my noggin for a while. Did anyone else think that the dialogue between Main Rick and Rick Prime sounded weird in the flashback? Sure RP sounds narcissistic about wanting to be a god but at the same time, Main Rick didn't sound any better smiling to himself all smugly and practically claiming "well I guess I really am some sort of special snowflake" when asked who the frick he thought he was. Maybe I'm just being pedantic but I think it could add credence to the idea that we are not getting the full side of the story in the interaction.
*portrayed so sympathetically and not as some dark and shameful secret*
>spoiler
I wouldn't read into it too much. That flashback was written along with late Season 2/early Season 3, so it's possible they hadn't solidified Rick Prime's motivations just yet. I feel like it wasn't until maybe the Citadel presidential campaign episode, the Froopyland episode, and Story Train that the writers finally started centering on where they wanted to take the story and characters.
Weren't all charges dropped tho? Why not rehire Justin?
idk probably because no one likes him and everyone agrees he's a nightmare to work with.
Here’s what you do
>kill off Rick and Morty
>get the Rick and Morty from bushworld adventures
That’s it.
Sorry if I'm moronic and not in the know, but I thought it got proven that the allegations that were put against him ended up being false or the like, is he just getting witch hunted or am I incorrect?
Doesn't matter. Being accused, even if unfounded or proven false, is enough to get you fired and ostracized.
Roiland being a fellow Summer lover is enough for me to always be on his side through thick and thin.
Will they consider replacing Roiland with that tiktok guy that sounds identical to him?
His Rick is spotty and he doesn't have that Roiland delivery
Justin needs an assbeating but taking his show away? Thats just too cruel.
The official Adult Swim youtube page still frequently uploads and profits off of Rick & Morty videos featuring Roiland's voice. I hope they backpedal on replacing him.
Every show produced by Dan Harmon will eventually become about Dan harmons divorce
Jerry is a robot
Morty gets a multi dimensional cellphone
Rick becomes a bear
Something happens and duru dududu
it would be pretty funny for one episode's 'b-plot' to be Jerry got turned into a bear and that's a whole thing happening in the background while the A-story happens, that's the kind of thing they do on Solar Opposites every once in a while and it goes great.
RICK AND MORTY SEASON SEVEN
HUNTING MY NEMESIS
Reddit show
The red is dead sweatie.
Exodus soon, it will be a 4chud show
Its a very creative show I cannot deny that, but I dont like swearing and sex jokes, and I dont have usually problems with ecchi
Agreed. It's an alright show but it doesn't hold a candle to VeggieTales.
>They liken it to how other VAs have taken on the role of Bugs Bunny
Characters get recast all the time. Original actors get recast all the time. Why bring up Bugs Bunny specifically?
Why does it matter which particular example they used? Did you want a list of every character that's ever been recasted, just for the sake of fairness?
Because outside of Mel Blanc and maybe Eric Bauza, Bugs has never had a consistent voice actor. It could have been Billy West after Space Jam, but weird WB politics prevented that.