>ep 1 awful >ep 2 pretty great >ep 3 solid, but kind of boring >ep 4 fantastic >ep 5 another kind of fantastic, less for me >ep 6 okay >ep 7 terrible >ep 8 legitimately embarassing, like shockingly bad >ep 9 pretty good, cool ideas
There weren't any great episodes this season
The best this season was able to do was "barely watchable" with Jerricky and the Rick Prime episode
The worst of this season is easily the worst of the show so far.
>how poopy got his poop back
garbage >the jerrick trap
good >air force wong
good >that's amorte
great >unmortricken
good >rickfending your mort
good >wet kuat amortican summer
meh >rise of the numbericons: the movie
literally the worst episode the show has ever put out >mort: ragnarick
very good
lets just post our opinions too see what the consensus is >how poopy got his poop back
dogshit >the jerrick trap
cool >air force wong
decent >that's amorte
good >unmortricken
amazing >rickfending your mort
great >wet kuat amortican summer
half bad half good, but honestly more bad than good >rise of the numbericons: the movie
i laughed sometimes but it looks like a 20 minute post credits gag, its ok >mort: ragnarick
pretty decent
>how poopy got his poop back
literally the worst episode the show has ever put out, not even Rick and Morty. >the jerrick trap
good, bit of a weak conclusion but solid premise, good characterization, some decent gags. >air force wong
Mid, better than a President/Dr. Wong episode has any right being, but worse than the return of Unity should be. Harmed most by lack of nuance in the resolution between Unity and Rick. >that's amorte
Great, borderline classic, no notes. >unmortricken
Great, one of the best lore ‘sodes, respect for not stringing the audience along and getting the tone right. >rickfending your mort
Great, one of the best anthology ‘sodes, best characterization for Rick and Morty in literal seasons, some classic-era tier gags. >wet kuat amortican summer
Garbage, worst characterization of Summer/Rick/Morty in the series and a waste of a good premise. Writer should not be renewed for Season 8. >rise of the numbericons: the movie
Mid (underrated), cute jokes and bold not to have Rick around but Morty should have been better in his solo adventure. >mort: ragnarick
Mid (overrated) a waste of an amazing premise for Rick (discovering the afterlife) for what amounts to a season 5-style shitpost. Also worst dunk on religious belief in the series, show should be above fully being on Rick’s side of the topic.
Would you explain why you think "Rise of the Numbericons" is better than "How Poopy got his poop back?" More specifically, what do you find redeeming or interesting about the Numbericons episode?
5 months ago
Anonymous
the jokes, the poopy episode tried to force jokes with shitty references, it was not funny at all and honestly kinda painful to watch, atleast the numbericons had some funny jokes like the poisoned roof or the guy actually shooting him in the dick, it kept me entertained
5 months ago
Anonymous
Numbericons was funny and had the benefit of exploring Goldenfold (I want the side characters to get more play as the show settles in to the post-prime era). It was a wacky episode without falling into the usual trappings (grossout). I didn’t love it, mostly because Morty wasn’t given a chance to shine more, but it’s way better than S7E1 which just failed to give anything to any of the characters, lacked good jokes, lacked a fun concept and just got bogged down with one reference. Also Numbericons at least gave the art team a chance to shine, S7E1 was just dull dull dull.
>how poopy got his poop back
shit >the jerrick trap
decent >air force wong
shit >that's amorte
good until the ending then it became shit >unmortricken
good >rickfending your mort
good >wet kuat amortican summer
shit >rise of the numbericons: the movie
shit >mort: ragnarick
shit
>poopy butthole
Terrible >jerrick trap
watchable >air force wong
unwatchable >that's amorte
good premise, godawful execution, ending so bad it makes me angry >unmortricken
decent >rickfending your mort
barely watchable >wet kuat
awful >rise of the numbericons
unwatchable >ragnarick
ok
Everything this season is below the decent post-season-2 episodes. The one with Mr Nimbus is my litmus test - any worse than that and it's just not worth watching.
its just so weird to me how you people base the first two seasons as some sort of bench mark for the series, what do those season offer that has been lacking in more recent ones? what am i not understanding?
5 months ago
Anonymous
>what do those season offer that has been lacking in more recent ones
much more consistent vision. after season 2 all the new writers came in all with different ideas of what R&M should be which is why every episode is a coin flip on if it's good or not
5 months ago
Anonymous
it was the time where rick and morty was still consistent in its quality
also nostalgia for a time when rick and morty was still considered cool
describe to me this consistency, what was the supposed trajectory that rick and morty were heading with their characters.
5 months ago
Anonymous
two things, one is that the episodes were always decently funny and followed a similar pattern, sci fi adventures with interesting concepts that get developed, there was no sperm episode or bawd dragon, every episode was atleast a 7 or more, and the second thing is that it had no lore basically, no rick prime, we had evil morty but that was it and it wasnt developed at all
as an example of how concepts got more developed them see the car battery episode, they got this concept of a universe in a battery and got the most out of it by creating a inception type situation, now see episode 9, we had a concept but it did not get developed at all
5 months ago
Anonymous
>we had a concept but it did not get developed at all
tell me how this most recent concept of finding an afterlife, using and abusing its potential was "not developed"
i understand how you would be upset with lore, theyre both trying to take it seriously and not take it seriously at the same time and are screwing it up. imo
5 months ago
Anonymous
as anons said, finding characters who died, rick developing himself to not be an nihilistic atheist c**t, rick could jump through various after lifes, meeting god, idk, but they decided to just steal energy, revive a few times and go, the last half was just them trying to kill the pope which is uninteresting, fricking stupid
5 months ago
Anonymous
>tell me how this most recent concept of finding an afterlife, using and abusing its potential was "not developed"
It was developed but it was really fricking stupid. Valhalla, Bigfoot, the Pope, Pokémon? Was this an adventure of the Rick and Morty who appeared in Space Jam before their timely deaths or something? This was uncreative shit.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I'm sure you'll figure it out someday, Dan
5 months ago
Anonymous
it was the time where rick and morty was still consistent in its quality
also nostalgia for a time when rick and morty was still considered cool
5 months ago
Anonymous
>also nostalgia for a time when rick and morty was still considered cool
You are perhaps correct about this one. Shit such as memetic Pickle Rick and the szechuan sauce incident all hit about the same time.
5 months ago
Anonymous
They're just consistently funny with consistently good premises. Things got more sitcom-y and less funny as Roiland and Harmon went more hands-off.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Is anyone seriously going to act like it is particularly surprising that the first two seasons of a show are likely to be amongst it's most defining seasons?
At any rate, R&M hit hard and found it's popularity early on. It has clearly been largely downhill for much of its fan reception post Season 2.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I think mostly the novelty of the show wore off, and the audience had a better idea of what to expect. Smuggling the megaseeds in the pilot and morty getting molested--and almost raped--by the pastry mayor were shocking and new and set expectations for how the show could be.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>what do those season offer that has been lacking in more recent ones?
Humour. Sans Bushworld every episode after s2 has seriously lacked in humour compared to those.
I watch the show to be entertained, not to see Harmon's A grade Harvard writers jerking themselves off.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Structured immaculately >Hilarious >Every character dynamic was interesting and worked well to generate humor and conflict >Earnest but with just enough edge >Perfect blend of silly and serious >Clever high-concept premises, sometimes multiple an episode
Early R&M was an elevation of the standard adult cartoon comedy. It was a dumb show written smartly. Low brow high art.
5 months ago
Anonymous
The show didn’t take itself seriously or tried to be edgy when darker themes were used.
It's weird that Mr. Nimbus is where you draw the line. That was a fricking good season premiere, especially since it managed to achieve that without being plot-heavy. Definitely one of the better recent episodes.
I also find it interesting that you didn't like Rickfending Your Mort. I wouldn't call it "barely watchable," but I did feel like it was overhyped a little. What didn't you like about it?
5 months ago
Anonymous
This episode should have ended with Jerry's foibles being so cringeworthy that the observers frick off and die. Ending a story in a courtroom has been done to death.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It just wasn't very funny which is the only job a clip episode has
5 months ago
Anonymous
>saying this about the only funny episode of the season
???
>how poopy got his poop back
bad >the jerrick trap
okay >air force wong
didn't watch >that's amorte
boring >unmortricken
pretty good >rickfending your mort
good >wet kuat amortican summer
absolute shit >rise of the numbericons: the movie
not even watching this one >mort: ragnarick
good
>how poopy got his poop back
literally the worst episode the show has ever put out, not even Rick and Morty. >the jerrick trap
good, bit of a weak conclusion but solid premise, good characterization, some decent gags. >air force wong
Mid, better than a President/Dr. Wong episode has any right being, but worse than the return of Unity should be. Harmed most by lack of nuance in the resolution between Unity and Rick. >that's amorte
Great, borderline classic, no notes. >unmortricken
Great, one of the best lore ‘sodes, respect for not stringing the audience along and getting the tone right. >rickfending your mort
Great, one of the best anthology ‘sodes, best characterization for Rick and Morty in literal seasons, some classic-era tier gags. >wet kuat amortican summer
Garbage, worst characterization of Summer/Rick/Morty in the series and a waste of a good premise. Writer should not be renewed for Season 8. >rise of the numbericons: the movie
Mid (underrated), cute jokes and bold not to have Rick around but Morty should have been better in his solo adventure. >mort: ragnarick
Mid (overrated) a waste of an amazing premise for Rick (discovering the afterlife) for what amounts to a season 5-style shitpost. Also worst dunk on religious belief in the series, show should be above fully being on Rick’s side of the topic.
>>how poopy got his poop back >okay >>the jerrick trap >good >>air force wong >crappy >>that's amorte >okay
>great
your mort >okay, worse than the story train and morty's mindblowers but better than the improv bits of interdimensional cable >>wet kuat amortican summer >crappy >>rise of the numbericons: the movie >bottom 5 episode >>mort: ragnarick >very good
>how poopy got his poop back
Just boring 2/10 >the jerrick trap
Fun 7/10 >air force wong
Dumb 3/10 >that's amorte
Eh 4/10 >unmortricken
Cool visuals, stupid plot handling, ruined by evil morty 5/10 >rickfending your mort
Funny 8/10 >wet kuat amortican summer
Eh 5/10 >rise of the numbericons: the movie
Stupid, should've been left as a post credit gag. Morty is also annoying in this episode 4/10 >mort: ragnarick
dumb fun 6/10
>Poopy butthole
4/10 they tried but couldn't pull it off >Jerry and Rick
8/10 could have been better but Jerry and Rick episodes are the best and most memable I'm not complaining >Rehash characters bonanza
2/10 it was turning off the tv tier >Spaghetti
4/10 like the poopy butthole episode could have been good but they couldn't pull it off >Rick prime
Extremely weak, both story and visually they had Rick pull of better tricks as background jokes in previous episodes, you can tell they didn't have the budget this season, the reaction Rick has at the end is meant to mirror mortys reaction when he buries himself but if feels like checking a box they really fricked this one up
2/10 >Movie parody episode
They parodied a movie, always the worst episode in every season
2/10 >Numbers
0/10 one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life, Simpsons episodes in current season are better >Bigfoot
8/10 I liked this one, small adventure, bigfoot worked pretty well, didn't end with Rick blowing up a planet but it didn't need to
Overall 2 good episodes which we are used to but the rest were just so bad, 2 2/10 and 1 0/10 it can't recover from this
>Poopy
Bad >Jerrick
Good >Wong
Bad >Amorte
Great >Unmortricken
Don't really care for Evil Morty coming back (felt like that thread closed off nicely two seasons ago.) but episode was good. >Rickfending
Good >Kuat
Bad >Numbericons
Painfully bad. (Rickdependance Spray is still the worst in the series, however.)
My biggest complaint (outside of it not being funny) is that there's barely been any episodes with Rick and Morty together on an adventure this season. It's almost like how Adventure Time focused way more on side characters later on than the title characters I care about.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if every side character wasn't so one note.
[...]
Rick and Morty haven't even been together this season that much.
Probably a rejected scripts season, everyone is too busy ruining Hollywood that's why it was both so bad and so strange at the same time, the episodes don't fit together, it's episodic but when you get a team of writers in a room write a season themes show up like this character shows up more in this season or Rick is more like this or that.
This season is probably just scripts they didn't use in other seasons
That explains all the "muh fascists" lines this season, they probably got traumatized by January 6.
5 months ago
Anonymous
All seasons going forward will have about a 2 year gap between writing and actually airing, Season 9 is being written this year.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Really? Back in the Simpsons days they churned out around 25 episodes of gold a year, and now they need 2 years to make 10 passable ones?
5 months ago
Anonymous
Rick and Morty (and a lot of adult swim shows) have always sorta functioned this way, the unusual 70 episode renewal in 2018 just gives them a lot more time to get these episodes out every year.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Falling up Rick and Morty writers are now busy writing marvel movies because they got poached back when normies discovered Rick and Morty after it went downhill, they are going to jump ship too since they probably write marvel movies when marvel was still successful riding the plot lines and characters that got people into marvel
Is there a name for the opposite of flanderization? Because the less crazy, simple and selfish Rick is the worse the show get, that's why the Pilot and Bushworld are still the funniest episodes, Rick is just completely insane there.
Rick has been flanderized in both directions. He went from wacky, drunken autistic science grandpa to “what if the joker (literally me btw) was a God among mortals” to “muh mental health”. Personally I prefer what Rick is now to what he was in Season 3/4/5, but, still not quite as fun as he used to be. The real victim is Morty, they literally just forgot how to write him.
It's so weird that the people that claim to hate this show the most are the same ones that watch every episode multiple times every day. Stop watching the show if you don't like it, it's literally that simple.
I do wish the professional haters would stop shitting up the threads (like, if the past few seasons aren’t doing anything for you, all you’re doing is complaining) but I do think there have been enough bad episodes this season to have good faith assessments on what the show is doing right or wrong. I get frustrated when people shit on good episodes, but not so much when the episodes are bad (S7E1, S7E7) or even mediocre (S7E3, S7E8, S7E9).
yeah, how dare people make a thread to diagnose what is going wrong with a show they loved for 6 seasons. if only they stuck to their own threads, huh?
"Diagnose" like they have expertise in this field. But sure, they are allowed to make those threads. One anon's criticism of that behavior is not a slight against their God-given right to be a b***h online.
why would you need expertise to diagnose how you feel?
it's almost like several people coming together and discussing something allows them to put ideas about it together and form stronger opinions or something. gee
Yes, there are people who watch Rick and Morty every day, they go to sleep and they wake up with Rick and Morty playing, they keep a notebook to write everything they don't like which they review every day and they live entirely on your head
I keep watching because I used to like this show, I keep coming back in the feint hope that the show improves, even though I know it never will and I have no power to change it, so all I end up doing is complaining about it. I have Stockholm syndrome.
It bothers me that the writers all thought this episode was the funniest thing ever, reminds me of how the Bob's Burgers team still thinks they're writing comedy gold nowadays. It sucks because one show suffers from playing it too safe, while the other suffers from straight up lacking identity. Very few of the present writers know how to write Rick and Morty to be actually FUNNY. You'll get the odd highlight like Night Family or Decoys, but then you have something like last night's.
They're just consistently funny with consistently good premises. Things got more sitcom-y and less funny as Roiland and Harmon went more hands-off.
"Too sitcom-y" is right. The jokes feel strained and forced.
It bothers me that the writers all thought this episode was the funniest thing ever, reminds me of how the Bob's Burgers team still thinks they're writing comedy gold nowadays. It sucks because one show suffers from playing it too safe, while the other suffers from straight up lacking identity. Very few of the present writers know how to write Rick and Morty to be actually FUNNY. You'll get the odd highlight like Night Family or Decoys, but then you have something like last night's.
[...]
"Too sitcom-y" is right. The jokes feel strained and forced.
Comedy constantly pushes forward and becomes more crude, more abstract, as novelty is an extremely important element of comedy.
Harmon and his writers are just fricking old. The things they see as shocking subversive comedy are played out and lame at this point. Just look at how funny they thought the basic concept of "serious movie but the characters are letters and numbers" was.
I'd be laughing too if I was able to sell an episode which had nothing to do with the show itself beyond a lead offering meta commentary and a background character getting a little more focus while we run a 5 year old joke in to the ground.
Ugh what is it that makes Summer so fricking hot. The art style isn't that appealing to begin with, her design isn't that good and she just feels petty most of the time.
i think it has something to do with her relation to the main characters, if she was just like a background character nobody would bat that much of an eye, but because shes mortys sister somehow that factors in to her attractiveness, dont tell me to explain thats just how it works
>how poopy got his poop back
bad >the jerrick trap
great >air force wong
pretty good >that's amorte
great >unmortricken
fantastic >rickfending your mort
good >wet kuat amortican summer
decent but not for me >rise of the numbericons: the movie
truly awful >mort: ragnarok
haven't seen it yet
>people consistenly refusing to even engage with episode 8
give it a chance, sure it should have been at most a youtube special like vindicators 2 but still, was funny if you dont treat it like a typical R&M episode
I’m so bummed you guys. I loved episode 2 but the premiere and 3 were duds. And then we had episode 4-6 which was such a good run. I was feeling so good about the show again and this season was looking up. Where did it go wrong? Sigh. I don’t even know what to expect from the finale. But I bet it won’t be anywhere as good as episode 5 was.
Frankly, I'm not expecting the finale to be a huge gamechanger or anything. "Unmortricken" already gave us the big lore epic of the season, so if "Fear No Mort" can just be a fun episode about how desensitized Rick and Morty are to scary shit, I'll be satisfied.
Just PLEASE BE FUNNY. No more overly analytical shit or anti-comedy like the current writers are prone to do. I want JOKES.
>mosaic censorship
If the DVD gets released, then it better be uncensored.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Never going to happen.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Boondocks and venture bros had uncensored penis. I assume the rick and morty physical release also have it uncensored.
5 months ago
Anonymous
That's what pisses me off so much about Adult Swim's handling of Rick and Morty. The "uncensored" versions still pixelate any and all nudity. It's always been this way. I don't know if it being such a mainstream cartoon is what scares them out of showing their 2010s Bugs Bunny's genitals so casually, but that shouldn't matter in a show that's so regularly graphic and vulgar anyway. SHOW RICK'S PENIS.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It’s probably like Drawn Together where they didn’t actually animate any nudity to begin with since it was covered up anyways. In that case Comedy Central actually paid to have the show sent back to the animation studio and add nudity into the censored scenes for the DVD release (so they could advertise it as “fully uncensored”), Adult Swim doesn’t wanna pay for that shit.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Lmao is that "added nudity" story true? That's crazy.
Anyway I know penises are actually drawn. At least Rick's. I've seen a few uncensored model sheets over the years and even a shot of Rick destroying Operation Phoenix where his dick and balls are on full display. Adult Swim is run by cowards now. You can't show characters having their heads exploding every other episode but draw the line at a penis in a TV-MA cartoon.
5 months ago
Anonymous
i honestly think it's funnier censored where his thighs are so fat you can't see shit
5 months ago
Anonymous
Lmao is that "added nudity" story true? That's crazy.
Anyway I know penises are actually drawn. At least Rick's. I've seen a few uncensored model sheets over the years and even a shot of Rick destroying Operation Phoenix where his dick and balls are on full display. Adult Swim is run by cowards now. You can't show characters having their heads exploding every other episode but draw the line at a penis in a TV-MA cartoon.
I don't think they have the balls to show underage characters naked uncensored, and I'm pretty sure the animators didn't do it in the first place (or maybe very crude color spots/doodles). But yeah it's really dumb that you can show decapitation and people killing themselves but not flacid dick and balls.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Drawn Together did it. Baby version of Captain Hero had his wiener and balls out at a point even.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Drawn Together was much more edgy than Rick & Morty
5 months ago
Anonymous
All seasons considered, drawn together was also much funnier.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I can see the art team chickening out of drawing the kids' genitals (even when it's done in a non-sexual way like BoJack was able to do), but I know for a fact that Rick has a fully nude model. It's dumb that the U.S. is so puritanical when it comes to casual cartoon nudity but is just fine with something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7EtdkRZ2Q
>rick wants to raid heaven for resources >does it effortlessly, the only complication is that morty is too empathetic once again >"complication" doesn't affect them until halfway through the episode where rick just apologizes >suddenly they're all good and team up to beat the big bad where they repeat the same sequence over and over but not in a funny or clever way
meh. i feel like they're trying to balance god rick + therapy rick but it's awkward and not done well. rick shouldn't be able to raid valhalla effortlessly and having him win over bigfoot with a half-assed apology is just boring. i dunno, they have interesting ideas for plots but they just keep retreading the same beats. it had some amusing moments but it's getting tiresome
The best part is the moment was completely gratuitous and unnecessary. They went out of their way to throw us a bone(r). Thanks team, very based of you.
>episode 1
bad >episode 2
decent >episode 3
mediocre >episode 4
good >episode 5
really good >episode 6
really good >episode 7
bad >episode 8
really bad >episode 9
ok
Numbericons and this episode are the exact same level of quality, dumb fun, passable, not great.
The only reason people rate Numbericons low and this episode high is because most of the fanbase is obsessed with Rick.
>Jokes weren't annoying
The decimal henchman that loves his job was the worst example of letting a joke land, then bludgeoning you over the head with it I've seen in the show so far. Lots of examples this season alone.
>you fricks lied about it bouncing back
No one here ever said that. I saw people say it on twitter and reddit, but that's only because Roiland got fired
I liked that one, it felt unique and used the family well. I don't think any episode from this season used the characters well aside from the clipshow one.
I don’t completely understand why people hate that one episode. Is it the dragons, the paraphilia they represent, or the cringe humor that makes people uncomfortable? I don’t think it’s one of the best episodes, but I did find it amusing.
The series became shit season 3 episode 1. It started all the crap that ruined the show. >Rick is a god >Summer "strong woman" >Conflict resolved through a pointless combat >Jerry nothing but a punching bag >Forced lore
Never.
Even when Rick promised Morty that they were going to Boobworld in the dinosaur episode they had to cancel the trip when Morty felt sick from portal frickery.
R&M felt like it did the story arc thing to separate itself from the regular gag of the week type shows and at first it was cool. But then, at least to me, it felt as if the writers actively loathed the audience for caring about the story. It is entirely their fault for creating one in the first place, but around the szechuan sauce period of R&M it really started to feel like the show just hated its fan base. Everything since has felt like a "fine here's a story-bone" that was slapped together to get what must have felt to them as the arbitrary plot part of R&M going. This season finally decided to wrap it up, but it did so in a way that Morty and Rick feel off now, like the several seasons of character change got wiped away and now it doesn't have the plot (which if you liked it means the show is worse) and if you're like me and didn't care about the plot it feels like all that growth that stemmed from it got thrown out the window and we're back to status quo. I honestly think R&M would benefit from just having the series be about different ricks and their morties rather than these main 2, it's more opportunities for wacky stories and it's entirely free of the stories shackles without having to upset canon or retroactively change characters.
>Unmortricken was put in the middle of the season as a surprise >Fallout of that episode is still being explored in future seasons >New voices are having fun >Beth and Jerry’s voice actors like where the relationship has gone, think of them in a better place now >Summer’s actress likes how she’s developed into a bit of an action star, hopes to see that side of her more >Jerry’s actor wants more Jerry/Rick time >Showrunner sees this family as the one that Rick is committing to, signaling that this found family is likely staying for the long haul. >Wants to do Interdimensional Cable 3 with the new actors. >Hottie Snatchers was originally a whole episode but they scrapped it because it felt “too South Park”. >They’ve got plans up until Season 10.
>Rick’s struggle with the aftermath of killing Rick Prime is not an issue that Rick and Morty is going to sweep under the rug after season seven, Marder added. “We’re in the middle of writing [season] nine right now; it’s something that we’re still exploring.”
This appeals to me, unfortunately. I don't want Rick and Morty to be a drama, but I do want to see long-form story beats like this get some follow through.
Here’s a summary if you’re too lazy to install an adblocker or use an archive:
>Unmortricken was put in the middle of the season as a surprise >Fallout of that episode is still being explored in future seasons >New voices are having fun >Beth and Jerry’s voice actors like where the relationship has gone, think of them in a better place now >Summer’s actress likes how she’s developed into a bit of an action star, hopes to see that side of her more >Jerry’s actor wants more Jerry/Rick time >Showrunner sees this family as the one that Rick is committing to, signaling that this found family is likely staying for the long haul. >Wants to do Interdimensional Cable 3 with the new actors. >Hottie Snatchers was originally a whole episode but they scrapped it because it felt “too South Park”. >They’ve got plans up until Season 10.
In my opinion, whatever the episodes are good or bad, one thing's for sure: The new voice actors drag whatever quality this new episodes have down to the floor (at times, at least) due to their inaccurate impression of the characters.
Pretty good episode, actually felt like something out of the early seasons structure-wise, with Rick having some scheme but things fricking up because of something he didn't bother to account for. It was nice to actually have a brief B-Plot for a change too.
>ep1 (how poopy got his poop back)
awful, poopybutthole doesn't warrant his own episode. >ep2 (jerrick trap)
alright, got a few laughs out of it. >ep3 (air force wong)
meh, they brought back rick and unity's relationship but did literally nothing with it. >ep4 (that's amorte)
meh, tries too hard to be poignant. >ep5 (unmortrickin)
good, although we really didn't need to bring back evil morty and it sucks we didn't get to see prime's backstory. >ep6 (rickfending your mort)
incredible. classic s1-2 style humor, haven't laughed this hard since s3 >ep7 (wet hot rickmortican summer)
awful, repeating the same "joke" for 22 minutes isn't comedy. >ep8 (rise of the numbercons)
awful, they really thought the end tag from get schwifty warranted a full 22-minute episode. >ep9 (mort rangnorick)
awful, heaven and the afterlife have so much story potential but as usual the writers do nothing interesting with it.
unless they knock ep10 out of the park it's looking like an absolute dud of a season. they can't even use firing justin as an excuse because they wrote it when he was still employed.
There were a couple good ones but most of it was unbearably bad or boring. I liked the one where they fought Evil Rick, the one with the observers, the one where jerry and rick merged and the last one where they died and went to valhalla.
That Ice T one and the one with the therapist were horrible. The Quato one was mid.
That's something you NEVER want Rick and Morty to become: Boring. I actually thought the Ice-T one was a decent one-off with a different format than what we're used to. Unity episode wasn't boring, just not very funny.
Its written by a bunch of unfunny women and male allies, they tried to hard to make some deeper emotional message and meaning behind what was a funny odd couple hilarious hijinks adult theme cartoon.
Not everything has to have 20 dimensional characters with 40D chess 2deep4u storylines that over arc.
I think you really have it slightly incorrect. The classic era was about writing a dumb show really intelligently. There were emotional beats and character growth moments, organically strewn about the fun. The issue isn’t that the new writers are too pretentious, the issue is that they are inconsistent at the ratio of fun to serious. Some episodes are borderline shitposts (a lot of Season 5 was them dropping most serious elements). The solution isn’t to stop caring and just do goofy shit, the solution is to work to blend it better once again.
The clear cut between drama and comedy really was the killer. Nobody wants to tune in to a comedy and find it SRSBSNS or the polar opposite, there needs to be an attempt to meld the two, which recent R&M just kinda fails at
I don't think anyone wants to watch a clown drink his sorrows, flat out. Gotta have a honk or clown car in there somwhere
Holy shit people are fricking babies. Numbericons shouldn't be judged like a typical episode, because it's NOT a typical episode. It was a stupid over-the-top action movie parody separate from Rick and Morty, and the dumb stuff like "I had to go 'P'" or the poisoned ceiling made it one of the funnier episodes in recent memory
Plus it was far more entertaining than many of their typical episodes. There's no way it deserves to be at the bottom, maybe slightly below average. Not when there's such stupid shit like kuato in the same season
It's an episode of Rick and Morty, not an episode of the upcoming lucrative Ice-T spin-off, so I'm going to judge it as a Rick and Morty episode, homosexual.
Only episodes I really disliked this season were the Poopy one and the spaghetti one. Some were boring like Quato and Vahala but it was mostly ok. Even the letters and numbers one was nice I don't get the hate, it wasn't very exciting but it was a nice change of pace. Also I don't get the hype for Jerrick I found it pretty boring too but not too bad either.
>never participate in production of the show (aside from voicing characters) >whenever he used to be involved he would be disruptive and unfocused >wrongly assume voicing the title characters can prevent any sort of firing >everyone just gets the impression he's an butthole and is more than willing to throw him under the bus the first chance they get
I kinda feel bad for him though, Harmon brought in his Community buddies and ruined the show.
>I kinda feel bad for him
I don't. He took this all for granted. Roiland could've formally said he'd be pulling away from the writers' room and would just do voices and minor executive duties moving forward. The way he went about it instead was super unprofessional and childish. I don't support Harmon's handling of the writing since then, but I can't put too much blame on him. Practically every one of the original writers left after Season 3. Harmon literally had no other option but to scout for any replacements he could. From the recent interviews, it also sounds like he had his and Roiland's best interests in mind when adding more writers. He already knew how stressful showrunning can be, so he wanted to make it easier for the two of them. Both guys are frickups, but one of them at least made an effort to hold things together in the midst of losing so many key writers that early, even if the results have made the show inconsistent in quality.
Dad has no game but insists on trying during the period of time that was essentially illegal and Mom is an unbelievably vain c**t that's become incensed, publically, over Dad trying to make some cash
Both parties are daft idiots and anon as well for REEEEing over the moron Roiland being the glue for the series, the thread having numerous instances of it's failings without him
It wasn't just Roiland's involvement, it was the natural rapport he had with all the original writers. Once Ryan Ridley and everyone left, the production became a shitshow and Harmon has since been wrestling with trying to get back to "classic adventures" while also continuing his overly analytical screenwriting jerkoff pitches that turn the audience away. We have now had more seasons sans the original writing staff than with, so the show is too far gone to ever recapture that same lightning-in-a-bottle energy that put it on the map in the first place. Best you can hope for is the occasional standout episode like Night Family.
Roiland is a creative who isn't suited for long running projects. He gets bored and fricks off to do something else. Dude is industry savvy though. Sold Rick and Morty and saddled Harmon with show running, because Harmon has something to lose. Then he turned around and did the same with Mcmahan and and
Solar Opposites. Then he got in to that vidya money with High on Life. Now he has frick you money and doesn't give two shits about ever working again. Assuming he doesn't OD.
What did he even do? As far as I know all the drama started because a grill sued him for abuse or something and he won the case, and recently I've seen people accusing him of being a pedo? What's up with that?
by chatting up if you mean drunkenly calling an underage girl jailbait and actively being thirst trapped. He also made weird remarks about her being damaged or some shit, so he was just exposed as being the person you could have probably already assessed he was. The show is full of his sexual derangement, as many toons
It depends on who you ask, but it's certainly not a noteworthy episode. I think it's better because at least it wasn't one joke repeated over and over like Wet Kuat Amortican Summer.
This season has excelled at one thing only: continuity. Just needs to be funnier and prioritize Morty as a character. He feels like an afterthought now.
First 2 seasons were building up to something and then they just shat their pants and gave up with season 3 opening, show never really recovered since.
>First 2 seasons were building up to something and then they just shat their pants
It's a shame. They did continuity great without hitting you over the head with it.
>Universe Hopping
Brought up when Morty is talking Summer out of running away; Presented seriously; is relevant to the current situation.
>Wubba-lubba Dub Dub!
Starts as a joke, but is later revealed to mean "I am in great pain". The first time Rick uses this phrase is in "Meeseeks and Destroy" after he realizes Morty was almost raped by a jellybean. He uses it again in "Raising Gazorpazorp" after getting choked by a telekinetic woman. He says "What's the opposite of Wubba-lubba Dub Dub?", which on second viewing you realize that he's enjoying it.
First 2 seasons were building up to something and then they just shat their pants and gave up with season 3 opening, show never really recovered since.
[...] >First 2 seasons were building up to something and then they just shat their pants
It's a shame. They did continuity great without hitting you over the head with it.
>Universe Hopping
Brought up when Morty is talking Summer out of running away; Presented seriously; is relevant to the current situation.
>Wubba-lubba Dub Dub!
Starts as a joke, but is later revealed to mean "I am in great pain". The first time Rick uses this phrase is in "Meeseeks and Destroy" after he realizes Morty was almost raped by a jellybean. He uses it again in "Raising Gazorpazorp" after getting choked by a telekinetic woman. He says "What's the opposite of Wubba-lubba Dub Dub?", which on second viewing you realize that he's enjoying it.
One thing I noticed with the pilot is the idea that only Rick can travel dimensions is a retcon (to be retconned again with the dinosaurs I guess, actually the dinosaurs basically contradict everything about the central finite curve) since during the pilot rick says they went to another dimension to get the mega seed, and yet when needing to get back home Rick was able to just hit a bunch of buttons on a federation technology.
I always took it as blue portals simply transporting from one location to another in the same dimension. Rick could've just hacked into that tech and made it function for interdimensional travel before dismantling it off-screen.
Real answer is that it’s a literal pilot episode and Dan and Justin hadn’t considered the intricacies of how portal tech works in the show just yet.
>Real answer is that it’s a literal pilot episode and Dan and Justin hadn’t considered the intricacies of how portal tech works in the show just yet.
Really thought something would come of this. Maybe they'll bring back the worm shit for the finale/movie.
5 months ago
Anonymous
That teaser got my hyped up for fricking NOTHING
5 months ago
Anonymous
You should keep your expectations low for this series.
>continuity
except that the writers hate continuity. in fact they lampshade this fact many times in the show.
look at season 6... in episode 1 the rick-prime thread is introduced, yet it's ignored for the rest of the season as well as the first part of season 7 (save for a few throwaway lines in unrelated episodes). rick's wife was killed by prime, yet instead of hunting him he's doing wacky shit like making suicide-spaghetti. then in episode 5 he suddenly tracks him down and kills him, what a thrilling plotline...
also in season 6 there was no portal travel, but the writers failed to do anything interesting with it and in the end they played it off as a joke ("talking dinosaurs magically fixed it, frick you").
>conveniently leaving out the added context of that line
You are not slick.
The writers do care about plot progression. It's just that they have to keep reminding Harmon it's a big part of what makes the show so interesting. Harmon is usually only focused on making sitcom-y episodic adventures--which are ironically not that funny these days--so the whole writing staff compromises and draaags out the overarching story so Rick and Morty can last longer than 5 seasons. They've even admitted to this in a recent interview since fans keep confusing their slow narrative pacing as the writers "not wanting to do story episodes."
Anyway, when I said "continuity," I was referring to their acknowledgement of the show's big supporting cast and established multiverse, which you confused for "plot progression." The last two seasons have had a ton of little callbacks and older characters making surprise returns. Unity, Rick's fear of pirates, Jerryboree, lots of impressive stuff. As for plot progression, it's been slow but generally consistent. If you pay attention, it's only ever Rick who refuses plot progression. That seems fitting for a character who makes meta commentary already and who's got a tragic past he wants to keep secret. Morty had to literally PRY Rick's backstory out of him. I won't defend their resolution of the Broken Portal Travel arc, that dinosaur episode was kinda boring and forgettable. But I did find it cool how they spent that period stuck in one dimension exploring Rick's relationship with each Smith episode by episode. That felt intentional and gave Season 6 some nice structure even without any Rick Prime mention till the literal last minute of the finale.
Frick, since I’ve refused to watch Season 7, I’m starting to feel left out due to some of the references used, here.
Perhaps I should watch clips of it on YouTube…
Just watch it. If you're interested in the show enough to step into a thread let alone read the Wiki, you might as well throw on 1-2 episodes a night and catch up in time for the (hopefully serviceable) finale on Sunday.
Yeah, I just finished watching Unmortricken not too long ago. I may not pursue any other episodes this season, if that’s one of the best episodes this season – it felt predictable and underwhelming. The voice acting is somewhat better than what I was expecting, but something’s off about Morty’s voice, like he’s in the middle of puberty… and his voice seems to have entered puberty as well.
His voice’s crack has a crack.
It's a very slow season that came back to a lull after Rick Prime was defeated. The only people satisfied are the Summer spammers with nothing better to do. Anyone actually wanting to discuss the show has gotten tired of giving it second chances (me).
>cold open of next weeks season >morty and rick go through scare festival, meet up with the guy we saw in the preview >they travel to earth, get into some fricked up hijinks, >the guy goes too far, rick decides to deal with him >transfers his conciousness into a cat >it was revealed this was an alternate rick and morty all along, send this cat to our rick and mortys dimension
If he's treated seriously like Evil Morty, it's what the show needs. After watching Poopy, Kuato, and Valhalla and comparing them to Unmortricken, it's time for Cinemaphile to grow up out of its "too cool for lore" phase and admit that exploring the fricked up setting that is the multiverse is what made the show so beloved since season 1.
I didn't take the eyepatch-wearing, diabolical, mustache-twirling, evil mastermind Morty seriously either and dismissed him as a joke for being a seemingly ridiculous polar opposite of our main neurotic Morty but it wasn't until they explored his motives revolving around the ugly history of the citadel in Rickmurai Jack and his origins in Unmortricken that I really grew to like him for being something other than a typical, jobbing bad guy. If they can do something with the cat that's similar in quality to Evil Morty, everyone wouldn't stop talking about it for weeks.
Sometimes, it’s best to leave things mysterious, like the bowl of petunias saying only, “Oh no, not again,” after being called into existence, because no answer could be satisfying or funny enough. But sometimes, also like the bowl of petunias, the revealed answer is actually worth it. That was an amazing payoff in the otherwise lackluster Life, the Universe, and Everything.
They wouldn't need to give an actual answer. There's always room for leaving in some extra details through the dialogue of other characters reacting to the cat's secret, the graphic or strange physical side effects of soul bonding with him, the cat having weird but vague evil plans that, although would seem innocuous to us, would scare the shit out of Rick because he would know the real implications of the aftermath should the cat accomplish his goals, etc. I'm no writer but give the crew enough time to collaborate ideas and I'm sure they could come up with a fun, high stakes story arc like with the Cronenbergs and the like.
Both extremes are moronic. The people who call anything that isn’t lore filler or a waste of time are obnoxious, and so are the people who turn their nose up at anything that takes itself seriously.
R&M is both, usually at the same time, almost always dressed as Superman.
>R&M is both, usually at the same time, almost always dressed as Superman.
I would be cool with this if only the recent episodic comedies were of the same quality as seasons 1-2 and/or the couple of decent post season 3 ones like vat of acid, decoys, night family, etc. Because the idea of the silly one-offs from here on out being more of the same caliber as season 7 completely sucks the hype out of me. Even season 5 didn't have this bad of a slump.
>If they can do something with the cat that's similar in quality to Evil Morty, everyone wouldn't stop talking about it for weeks.
I think the easiest way to determine if this holds any truth would be by looking at the A-plot of the episode, the bawd Dragons, and how they got a followup in the comics with the 4 issue mini-run R&M: Worlds Apart.
Sure, it's not by the writers of the show, but I wouldn't call it worse than the worst episodes we've gotten.
Sometimes, it’s best to leave things mysterious, like the bowl of petunias saying only, “Oh no, not again,” after being called into existence, because no answer could be satisfying or funny enough. But sometimes, also like the bowl of petunias, the revealed answer is actually worth it. That was an amazing payoff in the otherwise lackluster Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Both extremes are moronic. The people who call anything that isn’t lore filler or a waste of time are obnoxious, and so are the people who turn their nose up at anything that takes itself seriously.
R&M is both, usually at the same time, almost always dressed as Superman.
Not everything needs answers. The point of the cat was LITERALLY a reminder to the audience to just let a goofy cartoon be a goofy cartoon sometimes. You don't need "lore" or "backstories" for every fricking thing. Ants in My Eyes Johnson is a guy with ants in his eyes. Why? WHO CARES
>Ants in My Eyes Johnson is a guy with ants in his eyes. Why?
he explains it in the same scene, though. >And also, I can't feel anything either, did I mention that? But that's not as catchy as having ants in your eyes!
but i get your point
Well, when rumors surface about something someone has done, that works for you, you’re going to do whatever it takes to keep them from making your company look bad, whether or not the rumors are true.
Adult Swim made that decision to fire Justin to save face.
It wasn't just Roiland's involvement, it was the natural rapport he had with all the original writers. Once Ryan Ridley and everyone left, the production became a shitshow and Harmon has since been wrestling with trying to get back to "classic adventures" while also continuing his overly analytical screenwriting jerkoff pitches that turn the audience away. We have now had more seasons sans the original writing staff than with, so the show is too far gone to ever recapture that same lightning-in-a-bottle energy that put it on the map in the first place. Best you can hope for is the occasional standout episode like Night Family.
>dragon episode
holy shit there are so many episode competing to be the worst episode ever that i forgot that existed.
Do you really think the dragon one is worse than rickdependence spray and the new water T episode?
>the funniest cold open
it was a decent cold open, not the funniest by a long shot however. hell even the sperm monster episode has a better cold open. also... >"you know who's into dragons morty? nerds that refuse to admit they're christian."
was that supposed to be a joke? did they steal a manatee from fox to write that one? (nerd + dragon + christian = joke).
>Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.
Rise of the numbericons is easily the worst thing that's been put on adult swim.
If you told me ait was an episode writting by a moronic adlibbing fan of the show I'd unironically be like >Oh that makes sense.
I have no idea how an actual writer made it and no one told him >What the frick is this? go back and do it again.
but they're only writing 10 episodes over the course of a year. it's not insane to expect a higher level of effort when shows with 20+ episode-seasons had better quality.
but they're only writing 10 episodes over the course of a year. it's not insane to expect a higher level of effort when shows with 20+ episode-seasons had better quality.
70 guaranteed episodes means they can just put out a half-baked season or two without worrying about immediate cancellation, hopefully a huge renewal like this doesn't happen again.
I think How Poopy made me question the quality of the season a little and the Kuato episode desperately needed a B-plot but I didn't mind Numericons, outside of it missing Rick which was a bizarre choice
>Modern show is still my favorite currently airing cartoon.
Same. It's still super creative. But I honestly find the MacFarlane cartoons more consistently funny these days. Rick and Morty's "comedy" just doesn't hit the same
>spoiler
God no. Tell Harmon to frick off with his "forever and ever" mindset and to close things out in 13 seasons or less. We do not need to drag this out any longer. The people want payoff. I'm people. I want payoff.
>The people want payoff. I'm people. I want payoff.
with Rick Prime dead, the only payoff there could possibly be is Morty growing a spine or getting a date with Jessica.
My thoughts were "Season 3 was a real step down from the first 2 seasons, I hope that it was an anomaly and the show gets better, and if it doesn't I hope there's no post-episode 100 reorder."
Looking at where the show went and where it is now, I can say that was an extremely optimistic outlook.
That was after season 3 had aired, which at the time was the worst season the show put out, my immediate thought was how the show was already shitting the bed 30 episodes in and we're not even halfway through at that point.
it makes more sense when you think of syndication. once a show hits 100 episodes the network can sell it off for other networks to plays reruns with. at the time of this deal the show had 30 episodes (excluding the pilot), the 70-episode deal brings the total episodes to 100 which allows AS to sell the rights for syndication. expect to see rick and morty reruns on comedy central starting sometime in 2027.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Hopefully, the world will end before that happens.
Rewatching the series, I really miss Roiland's sense of humor in season 1, I feel it was already struggling to stay afloat in season 2 and it's completely gone in season 3.
At the time it was the obvious shark jump/end of classic era moment, but over time it’s become less hated. Most people seem to either think 4/5 or 6/7 is the worst era depending on what they value more. People who watch for the comedy think we’re in the worst era now and people who watched for the characters and ideas think we were in the worst era in 4/5. Season 3 gets shit on more for what it wasn’t than what it was.
Most people who hated season 3 used braindead excuses like "muh female writers" or "muh normies" or something to justify it. S3 did deserve to be criticized because it wasn't as consistent as s1 and s2, and at the time it did have the lowest lows in the series, but many of its good episodes were some of the best episodes in all of Rick and morty. And now when you compare it to later seasons, it's so many levels clear of them, anyone who still thinks it's the worst season is likely just high on contrarianism
Steven sounded like a fat boy in season 1, but got more and more high pitched with every season. Except for the epilogue season, which takes place 2 years after the show, so his voice is deeper again.
This season really made the last season look a lot better. Last season just felt like bad rick and Morty, it doesn't even feel like rick and Morty anymore now. The spaghetti episode was alright, it felt the closest to older season but episode 1 really showed they have no idea what they're doing anymore.
Its also really obvious they wanted to wrap up the rick prime storyline quick and never mention it ever again. Do we even know Rick Primes backstory or why he did everything?
Prime existed to give a reason for Rick to be fricked up, and die so he can move on. He served he purpose pretty much flawlessly. Your more complex villain progressed in that same episode, and is now more powerful than ever.
>Prime existed to give a reason for Rick to be fricked up,
Rick doesn't need a reason to be fricked up, especially not such a generic, clichéd, and shallow reason that the show originally came up with for the sake of mocking the idea. Rick Prime's real purpose is to cater to the lore crowd and make Rick look better.
>Your more complex villain progressed in that same episode, and is now more powerful than ever
oh great, can't wait to see the one-off evil morty returns episode in season 9 that has no impact to the status quo...
Alright…
Since I could tolerate Unmortricken, I suppose I should take another crack at Season 7 by watching That’s Amorte.
I feel like I’m walking through a minefield, doing this. I’m going to take a shower, first.
I’m going to revise what I had just posted. Most of the episode felt bland, but there were one or two things that were a little amusing to me. I did feel it went downhill during the salisbury steak scene, at the end. I’m just not a fan of cliche endings where a stupid joke is made and everyone laughs as the camera pulls away from the house.
Spaghetti was a fine episode. It just wasn’t the funniest and maybe the life-spanning montage felt a little too long and hamfisted (they need to come up with more creative ways to tug at the audience's heartstrings), but the ending was solid. Don't question Rick's process.
I'm not condoning Rick's actions, I'm just saying it's a fitting conclusion to the episode that works in series context. Rick is always right. The Smiths are all monsters who grovel at his feet. And majority of the world still eats meat despite the alternatives proposed.
If they didn't look like humans, Morty probably wouldn't have cared, and then the episode wouldn't have happened. The entire thing is built around the wacky sitcom twist in the cold open with you wondering the whole time "what's wrong with the spaghetti?" and then the stupid trite reveal that it's being scooped out of some guy's chest cavity, and Rick comically rolling his eyes over Morty haranguing him again. It's so fricking self-aware and elbowing the audience in the ribs so hard they break.
I genuinely considered dropping the show over that episode, it was so bad. The only reason I came back was because the next episode teaser was about Rick Prime, which you KNOW they did that on purpose because there were other people like me who would be ready to drop the show over That's Amorte. I genuinely think this episode is worse than the Horse Semen one, that's how bad it is.
The premiere was terrible, then a few episode after that it seemed like it was on an upward trajectory, the peak being the spaghetti and Rick prime episodes, and then a little dip with the observers, and then another dip with the kuato things, and then a BIG step down with the Water T episode, and then a blah episode about vikings that just didn't pay off. Season 7 is competing with 5 for weakest overall, in spite of a few funny moments.
If they didn't look like humans, Morty probably wouldn't have cared, and then the episode wouldn't have happened. The entire thing is built around the wacky sitcom twist in the cold open with you wondering the whole time "what's wrong with the spaghetti?" and then the stupid trite reveal that it's being scooped out of some guy's chest cavity, and Rick comically rolling his eyes over Morty haranguing him again. It's so fricking self-aware and elbowing the audience in the ribs so hard they break.
I genuinely considered dropping the show over that episode, it was so bad. The only reason I came back was because the next episode teaser was about Rick Prime, which you KNOW they did that on purpose because there were other people like me who would be ready to drop the show over That's Amorte. I genuinely think this episode is worse than the Horse Semen one, that's how bad it is.
oh yeah, and here's how i rate the season
>poopy butthole episode
I thought it was only mediocre up until hugh jackman killed the predator. Everything after and including that was shit. D+ >The Jerrick Trap
The cliched mafioso took up too much of the b-plot, and I would've liked more Burgers & Fries action. B- >Air Force Wong
The first good Wong episode, because it makes her into an actual character instead of just a mouthpiece for the writers. That scene with Unity was a little melodramatic. B+ >That's Amorte
i've made my thoughts clear already. F- >Unmortricken
I had a lot of my expectations for what was outside the central finite curve dashed with this episode, but that's separate from how good the episode actually was. Evil Morty is a little bit too much of a Mary Sue when it comes to helping Rick find & defeat Prime, but the rest of it was fine by me. I even like bringing back Slowmobius. A- >Rickfending Your Mort
I would've liked them to do more of the audit before they pivoted to the Observer being a douche, but that's just my personal view. B+ >Wet Kuat Amortican Summer
About as bad as the Die Hard episode with no B-plot to distract you from how this is the same joke for 22 minutes. Everything after they get onto the boat (guy revealing he's a kuato-kuato-kuato, the little robot he pilots, Kuato!Morty joining the Frolf team) redeems it ever so slightly. C >Numbericons episode
If you're that curious about what Mr. Goldenfold would be like as a character, read the current run of the comics instead. D >Mort: Ragnarick
Absolutely no complaints. Best episode of the season. A+
The spaghetti episode was your stupid goofy romp. >LOOK AT THI SPLANET IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM MORTY. IT'S NOT IN ANOTHER DIMENSION IT'S JUST A COUPLE LIGHTYEARS AWAY. WHEN THE PEOPLE DIE HERE, THEIR BRAIN CHEMISTRY TURNS THEIR GUTS INTO SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS. >AW GEEZ RICK I SURE DO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT THIS RANDOM GUY FOR EATING HIM, CAN'T I APOLOGIZE FOR EATING HIM AT THE FUNERAL DESPITE THESE PEOPLE HAVING NO CLUE WHAT THE HELL I'M TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE DESPITE BEING ALMOST IDENTICAL TO EARTH THEY NEVER DEVELOPED A NOODLE AND PASTA DISH. >NOW YOU FRICKED UP MORTY! ALIEN KAMALA HARRIS WANTS YOU TO BE THE BRAND AMBASSADOR FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET KILLING THEMSELVES TO MAKE THIS SPAGHETTI. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY WITH THIS SUICIDE BAITING PLANET MORTY! >AW GEEZ HOW COULD I LET THIS HAPPEN EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO CLUE IT WOULD HAPPEN, RICK. YOU GOTTA CRASH THEIR ECONOMY RICK, LIKE YOU DID WITH THE FEDERATION IN THE SEASON 3 PREMIERE. >BOY, I WISH I COULD MORTY, BUT I DON'T DO THINGS THAT EASILY ANYMORE. THAT'S TOO POWERFUL FOR ME TO BE, I GOTTA FUMBLE AROUND DESPITE REPEATEDLY CALLING MYSELF THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE MULTIVERSE, MORTY. I GOTTA DO THIS THX-1138 PARODY. >AW GEEZ, NOW THEY DON'T LIKE THE NEW ETHICAL SPAGHETTI, RICK. THEY'RE STORMING THE FACTORIES EVEN THOUGH NOONE IN REAL LIFE HAS EVER GOTTEN THIS UPSET OVER THEM CHANGING THE RECIPE FOR PEPSI. >HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO MORTY. I AM A NIHILIST, BUT I KNOW HOW OTHER PEOPLE WITH EMPATHY BEHAVE SO I CAN TRICK THEM INTO FEELING BAD ABOUT EATING SPAGHETTI GUTS MORTY. I CAN PLAY THEM THIS MAN'S LIFE AND THEY'LL FEEL BAD FOR HIM MORTY. WE CAN'T AFFORD SARAH MCLACHLAN MUSIC BUT IT'LL BE THE SAME THING. >WOW, YOU REALLY SAVED THE DAY RICK. YOU CONVINCED ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT HUMAN SUFFERING SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED JUST BECAUSE THEY WANT TO EAT A CERTAIN FOOD. THEY'LL NEVER WANT TO EAT THEIR SPAGHETTICIDE AGAIN. I COULD SURE GO FOR A CHOCOLATE BAR, HOW ABOUT YOU?
I'd tell you to have a nice day, but you'd just spaghett
>either
so you admit that you didn't read my initial criticisms and thus have no actual counter-arguments as to why the episode wasn't bad.
go back to whatever circlejerk social site you normally call home, where you and all the other troglodytes can pretend like you know what makes for intelligent writing.
Oh, I do apologize for not making a soundbite for you to easily dismiss. Brevity IS the Soul of Wit. Lemme just pull my thesis statement out from the original diatribe for you. >This episode's writing is like if SNL made a skit about the show without actually understanding what makes the show funny.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Now we can have a conversation instead of writing books to each other.
Rather than a self parody, I would argue that the episode stands out from the rest by tackling moral questions that do not have easy answers, treating those questions honestly, and not offering an easy solution (because there isn’t one). No, it isn’t as funny as the show tends to be, the focus on the episode was on other things (ethical dilemmas, Rick vs Mortys mindset, and why neither of them are satisfactorily the “right answer”).
5 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, that's what I meant when I said this guy
>poopy butthole
Terrible >jerrick trap
watchable >air force wong
unwatchable >that's amorte
good premise, godawful execution, ending so bad it makes me angry >unmortricken
decent >rickfending your mort
barely watchable >wet kuat
awful >rise of the numbericons
unwatchable >ragnarick
ok
Everything this season is below the decent post-season-2 episodes. The one with Mr Nimbus is my litmus test - any worse than that and it's just not worth watching.
was one of the 2 people in this thread who correctly appraised the episode. >good premise, godawful execution, ending so bad it makes me angry
This episode is fundamentally different from the Vat of Acid because it's Morty questioning Rick over something he takes for granted, rather than questioning Rick over one of hi half-baked solutions. That is something that would be good to explore, to continue to hammer in that overarcing conflict between Rick & Morty's mentalities as has been done since the first season.
It's just not done well. There's tremendous difficulty in deciphering what the staff meant to sell as a joke, and what they meant to be taken as a sacrosanct component of the point they were making.
The script needed more revisions, better timing, maybe even a partial rework of some odd or end. I don't know what could be done to improve this episode when it all feels so rote.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Alright, we disagree, that’s fine. To me, the episode worked well at getting across all perspectives on the topic of ethical consumption. The family represents the status quo, Rick is the facilitator of the status quo, and Morty is the person who tries to change it. Through the show’s usual formula of “Morty goes against Rick, it bites him in the ass” they were able to tell a story about a problem that has no clean solutions, in a way that is neither too on the nose and preachy, nor too abstract so its nonsensical (as good sci-fi tends to do). Everyone is right and wrong, that’s just how it is. You either make peace with it actively like Rick or go back to ignorance about it like Morty. It was a tough needle to thread and I think they did. That’s why I say it’s a stand out from the season.
I've got some problems with the retcon of all versions of Diane dying and not just the main rick's Diane
If the omega device is what killed his Diane why did it kill all Dianes but only one Rick's Beth? they both died to the same device
If all Ricks "leave" their Dianes like Beth always says they do, and all versions of Diane died at the same cosmic moment, who the frick raised Beth after she was a child? She didn't mention any orphanage, in fact every reference to their past life makes it seem like Diane was alive until at least high school >maybe some dimensions were further along in time and Diane died "later"
Every Rick, every Morty and every other Smith we've ever seen was the same age so it's safe to assume all dimensions are on the same timeline
for a show that hates continuity they keep adding continuity that just makes no sense
The assumption is that the device that killed our Rick’s Diane and Beth isn’t the omega device, the omega device we see isn’t portable.
Prime killed our Rick’s Diane and Beth and then killed all other Dianes later at an unspecified point.
>The assumption is that the device that killed our Rick’s Diane and Beth isn’t the omega device, the omega device we see isn’t portable.
The Omega device we see is an upgrade, Rick prime directly states that it can now be used more than one time, but lets assume you're right and he killed Rick's Diane with something conventional and then wiped them all later.
Why would he wipe all Dianes from existence when him and our Rick never got close to meeting again after the bomb?
Rick prime claims that only himself and our Rick actually invented portal travel, that intrinsically means that every other Rick took the offer and he wouldn't need to spite them, all other Rick's Dianes dying were just collateral damage from him spiting our Rick for refusing.
What happens in between that moment and when the series takes place is a big question mark. We don’t have the answers yet.
Practically, the writers need Diane dead across infinity (Rick can’t just move on to a new Diane like he’s done in the past with all other family members + permadeath reintroduced into the series), and his Beth needs to be dead but not all Beths.
No, it’s not neat (relying on pushing big questions into a mystery box) and it does need to be elaborated on later.
>permadeath reintroduced into the series
I am SO fricking glad they found a way to do this. It was bad enough when the Operation Phoenix backups made Rick immortal (even if being revived would still take effort), but then the increasing level of cybernetic enhancements robbed the show of any real stakes for a good while. That Phoenix Person fight was cool and all, but I knew Rick wasn't in any real danger. I admire the writers constantly wanting to one-up themselves with how insane the bigger world of the show can get, but you still need actual stakes if you're serious about taking on an overarching story. The Omega Device is the best thing they ever did to save their asses.
>Why would he wipe all Dianes from existence when him and our Rick never got close to meeting again after the bomb?
Because Prime couldn’t cope with the fact that other Ricks were happy with mundane lives without portal travel >Rick prime claims that only himself and our Rick actually invented portal travel
Originally that was probably the case. But other Ricks probably figured it out at later points (possibly after Prime used the Omega Device)
While Season 3 did feel different from the first two seasons, I didn’t start disliking episodes until the middle of Season 4 and it wasn’t until Season 5 that I started to hate seasons as well.
There’s only one or two episodes worth rewatching in Seasons 5 and 6.
Season 4 has maybe two episodes I didn't like (Dragons and Camping), but I'm 50-50 on Season 5. The first two episodes are great, Planetina is okay, 4-7 are either weak or some of the worst fricking episodes ever, and 8-10 are amazing. Season 5 was the series low for me. It's been on a slow and inconsistent upswing since then.
>it's a space Beth episode >it's a president episode >it's a Wong episode >it's a Birdperson/Gearface/Squanch episode >it's an Ice-T episode >it's an IRL celebrity episode
>Rick leaves Morty in a different dimension so he can work on becoming more assertive >eventually, the Citadel of Ricks brings a Rick and his Morty to the same dimension as punishment >this Rick’s Morty happens to be female and wants her Rick to call her Morticia >due to her not being his original Morty and she is just another Morty to him, Rick will continue to address Morticia as “Morty” >after awhile, Morty ascertains how similar Morticia is to him by asking her about her dimension >finds out her dimension is the same as his, with the only difference being that it had a female Morty
You must not be reading the live threads.
By episode 6 it felt like we were back, but 7, 8 and 9 are bad (along with 1). Yeah, it’s been a rough season.
3 great episodes, 1 good episode, 3 mid episodes and two garbage episodes is unironically an improvement.
>ep 1 boring
>ep 2 some good moments
>ep 3 meh
>ep 4 meh
>ep 5 enjoyable (great by your standard)
>ep 6 meh
>ep 7 unwatchable
>ep 8 didn't watch
>ep 9 boring
If you got nothing out of Spaghetti or Observers then maybe drop it?
>ep 1 awful
>ep 2 pretty great
>ep 3 solid, but kind of boring
>ep 4 fantastic
>ep 5 another kind of fantastic, less for me
>ep 6 okay
>ep 7 terrible
>ep 8 legitimately embarassing, like shockingly bad
>ep 9 pretty good, cool ideas
only episodes 1 and 8 were bad this season
the rest were passable or actually good
this
There weren't any great episodes this season
The best this season was able to do was "barely watchable" with Jerricky and the Rick Prime episode
The worst of this season is easily the worst of the show so far.
>how poopy got his poop back
garbage
>the jerrick trap
good
>air force wong
good
>that's amorte
great
>unmortricken
good
>rickfending your mort
good
>wet kuat amortican summer
meh
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
literally the worst episode the show has ever put out
>mort: ragnarick
very good
but that's just my opinion
lets just post our opinions too see what the consensus is
>how poopy got his poop back
dogshit
>the jerrick trap
cool
>air force wong
decent
>that's amorte
good
>unmortricken
amazing
>rickfending your mort
great
>wet kuat amortican summer
half bad half good, but honestly more bad than good
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
i laughed sometimes but it looks like a 20 minute post credits gag, its ok
>mort: ragnarick
pretty decent
Would you explain why you think "Rise of the Numbericons" is better than "How Poopy got his poop back?" More specifically, what do you find redeeming or interesting about the Numbericons episode?
the jokes, the poopy episode tried to force jokes with shitty references, it was not funny at all and honestly kinda painful to watch, atleast the numbericons had some funny jokes like the poisoned roof or the guy actually shooting him in the dick, it kept me entertained
Numbericons was funny and had the benefit of exploring Goldenfold (I want the side characters to get more play as the show settles in to the post-prime era). It was a wacky episode without falling into the usual trappings (grossout). I didn’t love it, mostly because Morty wasn’t given a chance to shine more, but it’s way better than S7E1 which just failed to give anything to any of the characters, lacked good jokes, lacked a fun concept and just got bogged down with one reference. Also Numbericons at least gave the art team a chance to shine, S7E1 was just dull dull dull.
>how poopy got his poop back
shit
>the jerrick trap
decent
>air force wong
shit
>that's amorte
good until the ending then it became shit
>unmortricken
good
>rickfending your mort
good
>wet kuat amortican summer
shit
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
shit
>mort: ragnarick
shit
>poopy butthole
Terrible
>jerrick trap
watchable
>air force wong
unwatchable
>that's amorte
good premise, godawful execution, ending so bad it makes me angry
>unmortricken
decent
>rickfending your mort
barely watchable
>wet kuat
awful
>rise of the numbericons
unwatchable
>ragnarick
ok
Everything this season is below the decent post-season-2 episodes. The one with Mr Nimbus is my litmus test - any worse than that and it's just not worth watching.
its just so weird to me how you people base the first two seasons as some sort of bench mark for the series, what do those season offer that has been lacking in more recent ones? what am i not understanding?
>what do those season offer that has been lacking in more recent ones
much more consistent vision. after season 2 all the new writers came in all with different ideas of what R&M should be which is why every episode is a coin flip on if it's good or not
describe to me this consistency, what was the supposed trajectory that rick and morty were heading with their characters.
two things, one is that the episodes were always decently funny and followed a similar pattern, sci fi adventures with interesting concepts that get developed, there was no sperm episode or bawd dragon, every episode was atleast a 7 or more, and the second thing is that it had no lore basically, no rick prime, we had evil morty but that was it and it wasnt developed at all
as an example of how concepts got more developed them see the car battery episode, they got this concept of a universe in a battery and got the most out of it by creating a inception type situation, now see episode 9, we had a concept but it did not get developed at all
>we had a concept but it did not get developed at all
tell me how this most recent concept of finding an afterlife, using and abusing its potential was "not developed"
i understand how you would be upset with lore, theyre both trying to take it seriously and not take it seriously at the same time and are screwing it up. imo
as anons said, finding characters who died, rick developing himself to not be an nihilistic atheist c**t, rick could jump through various after lifes, meeting god, idk, but they decided to just steal energy, revive a few times and go, the last half was just them trying to kill the pope which is uninteresting, fricking stupid
>tell me how this most recent concept of finding an afterlife, using and abusing its potential was "not developed"
It was developed but it was really fricking stupid. Valhalla, Bigfoot, the Pope, Pokémon? Was this an adventure of the Rick and Morty who appeared in Space Jam before their timely deaths or something? This was uncreative shit.
I'm sure you'll figure it out someday, Dan
it was the time where rick and morty was still consistent in its quality
also nostalgia for a time when rick and morty was still considered cool
>also nostalgia for a time when rick and morty was still considered cool
You are perhaps correct about this one. Shit such as memetic Pickle Rick and the szechuan sauce incident all hit about the same time.
They're just consistently funny with consistently good premises. Things got more sitcom-y and less funny as Roiland and Harmon went more hands-off.
Is anyone seriously going to act like it is particularly surprising that the first two seasons of a show are likely to be amongst it's most defining seasons?
At any rate, R&M hit hard and found it's popularity early on. It has clearly been largely downhill for much of its fan reception post Season 2.
I think mostly the novelty of the show wore off, and the audience had a better idea of what to expect. Smuggling the megaseeds in the pilot and morty getting molested--and almost raped--by the pastry mayor were shocking and new and set expectations for how the show could be.
>what do those season offer that has been lacking in more recent ones?
Humour. Sans Bushworld every episode after s2 has seriously lacked in humour compared to those.
I watch the show to be entertained, not to see Harmon's A grade Harvard writers jerking themselves off.
>Structured immaculately
>Hilarious
>Every character dynamic was interesting and worked well to generate humor and conflict
>Earnest but with just enough edge
>Perfect blend of silly and serious
>Clever high-concept premises, sometimes multiple an episode
Early R&M was an elevation of the standard adult cartoon comedy. It was a dumb show written smartly. Low brow high art.
The show didn’t take itself seriously or tried to be edgy when darker themes were used.
So far, this has been the only correct ratings in this thread.
It's weird that Mr. Nimbus is where you draw the line. That was a fricking good season premiere, especially since it managed to achieve that without being plot-heavy. Definitely one of the better recent episodes.
I also find it interesting that you didn't like Rickfending Your Mort. I wouldn't call it "barely watchable," but I did feel like it was overhyped a little. What didn't you like about it?
This episode should have ended with Jerry's foibles being so cringeworthy that the observers frick off and die. Ending a story in a courtroom has been done to death.
It just wasn't very funny which is the only job a clip episode has
>saying this about the only funny episode of the season
???
>how poopy got his poop back
bad
>the jerrick trap
okay
>air force wong
didn't watch
>that's amorte
boring
>unmortricken
pretty good
>rickfending your mort
good
>wet kuat amortican summer
absolute shit
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
not even watching this one
>mort: ragnarick
good
>how poopy got his poop back
literally the worst episode the show has ever put out, not even Rick and Morty.
>the jerrick trap
good, bit of a weak conclusion but solid premise, good characterization, some decent gags.
>air force wong
Mid, better than a President/Dr. Wong episode has any right being, but worse than the return of Unity should be. Harmed most by lack of nuance in the resolution between Unity and Rick.
>that's amorte
Great, borderline classic, no notes.
>unmortricken
Great, one of the best lore ‘sodes, respect for not stringing the audience along and getting the tone right.
>rickfending your mort
Great, one of the best anthology ‘sodes, best characterization for Rick and Morty in literal seasons, some classic-era tier gags.
>wet kuat amortican summer
Garbage, worst characterization of Summer/Rick/Morty in the series and a waste of a good premise. Writer should not be renewed for Season 8.
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
Mid (underrated), cute jokes and bold not to have Rick around but Morty should have been better in his solo adventure.
>mort: ragnarick
Mid (overrated) a waste of an amazing premise for Rick (discovering the afterlife) for what amounts to a season 5-style shitpost. Also worst dunk on religious belief in the series, show should be above fully being on Rick’s side of the topic.
end your life
>>how poopy got his poop back
>okay
>>the jerrick trap
>good
>>air force wong
>crappy
>>that's amorte
>okay
>great
your mort
>okay, worse than the story train and morty's mindblowers but better than the improv bits of interdimensional cable
>>wet kuat amortican summer
>crappy
>>rise of the numbericons: the movie
>bottom 5 episode
>>mort: ragnarick
>very good
Who are you quoting?
>how poopy got his poop back
Just boring 2/10
>the jerrick trap
Fun 7/10
>air force wong
Dumb 3/10
>that's amorte
Eh 4/10
>unmortricken
Cool visuals, stupid plot handling, ruined by evil morty 5/10
>rickfending your mort
Funny 8/10
>wet kuat amortican summer
Eh 5/10
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
Stupid, should've been left as a post credit gag. Morty is also annoying in this episode 4/10
>mort: ragnarick
dumb fun 6/10
>Poopy butthole
4/10 they tried but couldn't pull it off
>Jerry and Rick
8/10 could have been better but Jerry and Rick episodes are the best and most memable I'm not complaining
>Rehash characters bonanza
2/10 it was turning off the tv tier
>Spaghetti
4/10 like the poopy butthole episode could have been good but they couldn't pull it off
>Rick prime
Extremely weak, both story and visually they had Rick pull of better tricks as background jokes in previous episodes, you can tell they didn't have the budget this season, the reaction Rick has at the end is meant to mirror mortys reaction when he buries himself but if feels like checking a box they really fricked this one up
2/10
>Movie parody episode
They parodied a movie, always the worst episode in every season
2/10
>Numbers
0/10 one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life, Simpsons episodes in current season are better
>Bigfoot
8/10 I liked this one, small adventure, bigfoot worked pretty well, didn't end with Rick blowing up a planet but it didn't need to
Overall 2 good episodes which we are used to but the rest were just so bad, 2 2/10 and 1 0/10 it can't recover from this
>Poopy
Bad
>Jerrick
Good
>Wong
Bad
>Amorte
Great
>Unmortricken
Don't really care for Evil Morty coming back (felt like that thread closed off nicely two seasons ago.) but episode was good.
>Rickfending
Good
>Kuat
Bad
>Numbericons
Painfully bad. (Rickdependance Spray is still the worst in the series, however.)
My biggest complaint (outside of it not being funny) is that there's barely been any episodes with Rick and Morty together on an adventure this season. It's almost like how Adventure Time focused way more on side characters later on than the title characters I care about.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if every side character wasn't so one note.
Has Rick ever yelled at Morty for being moronic, this season?
Honestly a lot of this season is very forgettable for me so I don't remember specifics
Rick and Morty haven't even been together this season that much.
That's what I'm saying, I was rewatching season 1 today and I miss the goofy adventures they had together.
Probably a rejected scripts season, everyone is too busy ruining Hollywood that's why it was both so bad and so strange at the same time, the episodes don't fit together, it's episodic but when you get a team of writers in a room write a season themes show up like this character shows up more in this season or Rick is more like this or that.
This season is probably just scripts they didn't use in other seasons
Let's hope you're right because that might mean they get their shit together for season 8, relatively speaking
These episodes were written in 2021
That explains all the "muh fascists" lines this season, they probably got traumatized by January 6.
All seasons going forward will have about a 2 year gap between writing and actually airing, Season 9 is being written this year.
Really? Back in the Simpsons days they churned out around 25 episodes of gold a year, and now they need 2 years to make 10 passable ones?
Rick and Morty (and a lot of adult swim shows) have always sorta functioned this way, the unusual 70 episode renewal in 2018 just gives them a lot more time to get these episodes out every year.
Falling up Rick and Morty writers are now busy writing marvel movies because they got poached back when normies discovered Rick and Morty after it went downhill, they are going to jump ship too since they probably write marvel movies when marvel was still successful riding the plot lines and characters that got people into marvel
I would buy half of them being written in 2021 maybe
Maybe during the "plot episode", episode 1.
Is there a name for the opposite of flanderization? Because the less crazy, simple and selfish Rick is the worse the show get, that's why the Pilot and Bushworld are still the funniest episodes, Rick is just completely insane there.
Rick has been flanderized in both directions. He went from wacky, drunken autistic science grandpa to “what if the joker (literally me btw) was a God among mortals” to “muh mental health”. Personally I prefer what Rick is now to what he was in Season 3/4/5, but, still not quite as fun as he used to be. The real victim is Morty, they literally just forgot how to write him.
pilot rick is great because he sounds like that chipper caring grandfather lilt to his voice where he sounds like hes trying to sound soothing
It's so weird that the people that claim to hate this show the most are the same ones that watch every episode multiple times every day. Stop watching the show if you don't like it, it's literally that simple.
I do wish the professional haters would stop shitting up the threads (like, if the past few seasons aren’t doing anything for you, all you’re doing is complaining) but I do think there have been enough bad episodes this season to have good faith assessments on what the show is doing right or wrong. I get frustrated when people shit on good episodes, but not so much when the episodes are bad (S7E1, S7E7) or even mediocre (S7E3, S7E8, S7E9).
yeah, how dare people make a thread to diagnose what is going wrong with a show they loved for 6 seasons. if only they stuck to their own threads, huh?
"Diagnose" like they have expertise in this field. But sure, they are allowed to make those threads. One anon's criticism of that behavior is not a slight against their God-given right to be a b***h online.
why would you need expertise to diagnose how you feel?
it's almost like several people coming together and discussing something allows them to put ideas about it together and form stronger opinions or something. gee
loved for 6 seasons...?
season 3 the show became bad overnight. Suddenly i was watching something like Bojack Horseman.
stopped there
Yes, there are people who watch Rick and Morty every day, they go to sleep and they wake up with Rick and Morty playing, they keep a notebook to write everything they don't like which they review every day and they live entirely on your head
Mate, did you really not understand that anon was using hyperbole. He was clearly not being literal, you fricking dunce.
I keep watching because I used to like this show, I keep coming back in the feint hope that the show improves, even though I know it never will and I have no power to change it, so all I end up doing is complaining about it. I have Stockholm syndrome.
It's not great, but it's a slight improvement over the previous dogshit
Overall
S1 ≈ S2 > S3 > S4 > S7 > S6 > (shit) > S5 (ironically s5 opener is the best episode since s3 ended)
>BA > S1 ≈ S2 > S3 > S4 > S7 > S6 > S5
Ya made a mistake there, but I fixed it for ya mate.
I'm really glad this introduced me to Michael Cusack. Been a fan ever since. I can't wait for Yolo season 3 and I wish him all the best.
The coffee short is what got me interested.
When they did Bushworld Adventures I was so psyched.
aw yeh?
Inside the Episode:
this b***h looks like pipins from lord of the rings
seriously look at it
It bothers me that the writers all thought this episode was the funniest thing ever, reminds me of how the Bob's Burgers team still thinks they're writing comedy gold nowadays. It sucks because one show suffers from playing it too safe, while the other suffers from straight up lacking identity. Very few of the present writers know how to write Rick and Morty to be actually FUNNY. You'll get the odd highlight like Night Family or Decoys, but then you have something like last night's.
"Too sitcom-y" is right. The jokes feel strained and forced.
Comedy constantly pushes forward and becomes more crude, more abstract, as novelty is an extremely important element of comedy.
Harmon and his writers are just fricking old. The things they see as shocking subversive comedy are played out and lame at this point. Just look at how funny they thought the basic concept of "serious movie but the characters are letters and numbers" was.
I'd be laughing too if I was able to sell an episode which had nothing to do with the show itself beyond a lead offering meta commentary and a background character getting a little more focus while we run a 5 year old joke in to the ground.
>tfw no gf obsessed with vikings
the show is just too streamlined
it turned into a least viable product that stopped being viable
Shit eaters think shit tastes great. Why are you surprised?
> kick main creative voice off the show
> show quality does not imorove
many such cases
it did not imorove since season 3 and roiland was still there
Wasn't he essentially forced out at the end of season 2 when they brought in all those shitty new writers and Dan had a divorce?
the last episode he wrote was for season 8 (morty's mindblowers)
So the one good episode in the season, makes sense.
Because he was still there when they made this season. He's just dubbed over
Ugh what is it that makes Summer so fricking hot. The art style isn't that appealing to begin with, her design isn't that good and she just feels petty most of the time.
i think it has something to do with her relation to the main characters, if she was just like a background character nobody would bat that much of an eye, but because shes mortys sister somehow that factors in to her attractiveness, dont tell me to explain thats just how it works
>don't cry because it's over,smile cause it happened
just watch the first two seasons and ignore all the garbage that came after
>how poopy got his poop back
bad
>the jerrick trap
great
>air force wong
pretty good
>that's amorte
great
>unmortricken
fantastic
>rickfending your mort
good
>wet kuat amortican summer
decent but not for me
>rise of the numbericons: the movie
truly awful
>mort: ragnarok
haven't seen it yet
>people consistenly refusing to even engage with episode 8
give it a chance, sure it should have been at most a youtube special like vindicators 2 but still, was funny if you dont treat it like a typical R&M episode
I engaged with it plenty when I forced myself to sit through it.
it doesn't deserve any more of my attention.
I’m so bummed you guys. I loved episode 2 but the premiere and 3 were duds. And then we had episode 4-6 which was such a good run. I was feeling so good about the show again and this season was looking up. Where did it go wrong? Sigh. I don’t even know what to expect from the finale. But I bet it won’t be anywhere as good as episode 5 was.
Frankly, I'm not expecting the finale to be a huge gamechanger or anything. "Unmortricken" already gave us the big lore epic of the season, so if "Fear No Mort" can just be a fun episode about how desensitized Rick and Morty are to scary shit, I'll be satisfied.
Just PLEASE BE FUNNY. No more overly analytical shit or anti-comedy like the current writers are prone to do. I want JOKES.
the episode was good. people shit on it for no reason.
It was serviceable.
service these nuts
Post Summer ass.
Props to Summer's VA for getting paid to say 2 lines the whole ep.
>mosaic censorship
If the DVD gets released, then it better be uncensored.
Never going to happen.
Boondocks and venture bros had uncensored penis. I assume the rick and morty physical release also have it uncensored.
That's what pisses me off so much about Adult Swim's handling of Rick and Morty. The "uncensored" versions still pixelate any and all nudity. It's always been this way. I don't know if it being such a mainstream cartoon is what scares them out of showing their 2010s Bugs Bunny's genitals so casually, but that shouldn't matter in a show that's so regularly graphic and vulgar anyway. SHOW RICK'S PENIS.
It’s probably like Drawn Together where they didn’t actually animate any nudity to begin with since it was covered up anyways. In that case Comedy Central actually paid to have the show sent back to the animation studio and add nudity into the censored scenes for the DVD release (so they could advertise it as “fully uncensored”), Adult Swim doesn’t wanna pay for that shit.
Lmao is that "added nudity" story true? That's crazy.
Anyway I know penises are actually drawn. At least Rick's. I've seen a few uncensored model sheets over the years and even a shot of Rick destroying Operation Phoenix where his dick and balls are on full display. Adult Swim is run by cowards now. You can't show characters having their heads exploding every other episode but draw the line at a penis in a TV-MA cartoon.
i honestly think it's funnier censored where his thighs are so fat you can't see shit
I don't think they have the balls to show underage characters naked uncensored, and I'm pretty sure the animators didn't do it in the first place (or maybe very crude color spots/doodles). But yeah it's really dumb that you can show decapitation and people killing themselves but not flacid dick and balls.
Drawn Together did it. Baby version of Captain Hero had his wiener and balls out at a point even.
Drawn Together was much more edgy than Rick & Morty
All seasons considered, drawn together was also much funnier.
I can see the art team chickening out of drawing the kids' genitals (even when it's done in a non-sexual way like BoJack was able to do), but I know for a fact that Rick has a fully nude model. It's dumb that the U.S. is so puritanical when it comes to casual cartoon nudity but is just fine with something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7EtdkRZ2Q
>bigfoot in Summer's body
>doesn't comment AT ALL on the boobs
fake and gay
It was good until the episode with Ice Cube.
>add femo*ds to the writers room and kick the main guy behind the show
>writing quality goes down the drain
Most of us said it would be shit you jackass.
mid episode ngl
>watching this floundering franchise when you could just see Bushworld again
>rick wants to raid heaven for resources
>does it effortlessly, the only complication is that morty is too empathetic once again
>"complication" doesn't affect them until halfway through the episode where rick just apologizes
>suddenly they're all good and team up to beat the big bad where they repeat the same sequence over and over but not in a funny or clever way
meh. i feel like they're trying to balance god rick + therapy rick but it's awkward and not done well. rick shouldn't be able to raid valhalla effortlessly and having him win over bigfoot with a half-assed apology is just boring. i dunno, they have interesting ideas for plots but they just keep retreading the same beats. it had some amusing moments but it's getting tiresome
I liked it with all the viking stuff, almost lost me near the end but the Live Die Repeat sequence saved the ep for me.
why is there so much incest/
Because that’s Dan Harmon’s kink, followed by masturbation.
The best part is the moment was completely gratuitous and unnecessary. They went out of their way to throw us a bone(r). Thanks team, very based of you.
It's left over from when it was just a Back to the Future parody since McFly almost banged his mom.
That's not incest, Morty is just desensitized to seeing his sister nude.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I, too, would be desensitized by the sight of my sister being naked after I fricked her.
Bravo, Harmon.
What are the chances that Dan Harmon is aware – and has played – A Way Back Home?
Non-zero. Actually, the “go on, get” “stop throwing stuff at me” joke is in the first few minutes of that game… gets the noggin joggin.
Could be the reason the A Way Back Home dev dropped off the face of the earth. A cease and desist letter will do that.
Just let Night Mirror finish his version pls
>episode 1
bad
>episode 2
decent
>episode 3
mediocre
>episode 4
good
>episode 5
really good
>episode 6
really good
>episode 7
bad
>episode 8
really bad
>episode 9
ok
I liked Numbericons, it was fun
youre worse than hitler and satan according to most anons then
Numbericons and this episode are the exact same level of quality, dumb fun, passable, not great.
The only reason people rate Numbericons low and this episode high is because most of the fanbase is obsessed with Rick.
I liked it too, it flowed well and the jokes weren't annoying.
>Jokes weren't annoying
The decimal henchman that loves his job was the worst example of letting a joke land, then bludgeoning you over the head with it I've seen in the show so far. Lots of examples this season alone.
Too many examples. Worst part is that they KNOW this shit is more annoying than funny, but they still go through with it.
Yeah it's pretty weak
>you fricks lied about it bouncing back
No one here ever said that. I saw people say it on twitter and reddit, but that's only because Roiland got fired
I didn't say it would bounce back
How do the Season 7 episodes hold up compared to Season 5’s Mortyplicity aka the clone family episode?
Decoy* family episode.
That episode was good, but it's a bit overrated.
I liked that one, it felt unique and used the family well. I don't think any episode from this season used the characters well aside from the clipshow one.
The kuato episode was better
Kys
How many more seasons until it’s over?
After next week's finale, they have to produce season 8, 9, and 10 to satisfy their contract. Hopefully it ends there.
90 more years.
I liked the latest ep. Numerous laughs. Highlights how fricked up Rick is offscreen. Don't like how quickly he b***hed out and apologized to everyone
We need the bawd-dragons back. I miss Deborah.
I don’t completely understand why people hate that one episode. Is it the dragons, the paraphilia they represent, or the cringe humor that makes people uncomfortable? I don’t think it’s one of the best episodes, but I did find it amusing.
I think the talking cat subplot was pretty bad.
They did the Rick Prime episode and it has been all shit since
Pickle Rick was the jump the shark moment, and Roiland's ousting was officially when the show hit zombie mode
The series became shit season 3 episode 1. It started all the crap that ruined the show.
>Rick is a god
>Summer "strong woman"
>Conflict resolved through a pointless combat
>Jerry nothing but a punching bag
>Forced lore
So when the frick are we going to get a boob world episode?
Never going to happen.
Never.
Even when Rick promised Morty that they were going to Boobworld in the dinosaur episode they had to cancel the trip when Morty felt sick from portal frickery.
on the whole its still good
overvalidating ice t was a good idea
R&M felt like it did the story arc thing to separate itself from the regular gag of the week type shows and at first it was cool. But then, at least to me, it felt as if the writers actively loathed the audience for caring about the story. It is entirely their fault for creating one in the first place, but around the szechuan sauce period of R&M it really started to feel like the show just hated its fan base. Everything since has felt like a "fine here's a story-bone" that was slapped together to get what must have felt to them as the arbitrary plot part of R&M going. This season finally decided to wrap it up, but it did so in a way that Morty and Rick feel off now, like the several seasons of character change got wiped away and now it doesn't have the plot (which if you liked it means the show is worse) and if you're like me and didn't care about the plot it feels like all that growth that stemmed from it got thrown out the window and we're back to status quo. I honestly think R&M would benefit from just having the series be about different ricks and their morties rather than these main 2, it's more opportunities for wacky stories and it's entirely free of the stories shackles without having to upset canon or retroactively change characters.
I feel like the show would benefit from Morty getting older at this point.
I have only watched the lore episode where they kill rick prime (found it okay) what''s the best episode?
Recent interview:
https://gizmodo.com/rick-and-morty-s7-interview-adult-swim-scott-marder-1851078472
>Unmortricken was put in the middle of the season as a surprise
>Fallout of that episode is still being explored in future seasons
>New voices are having fun
>Beth and Jerry’s voice actors like where the relationship has gone, think of them in a better place now
>Summer’s actress likes how she’s developed into a bit of an action star, hopes to see that side of her more
>Jerry’s actor wants more Jerry/Rick time
>Showrunner sees this family as the one that Rick is committing to, signaling that this found family is likely staying for the long haul.
>Wants to do Interdimensional Cable 3 with the new actors.
>Hottie Snatchers was originally a whole episode but they scrapped it because it felt “too South Park”.
>They’ve got plans up until Season 10.
Oh and the biggest one, the season finale is teased as a particularly good episode.
Just like the spaghetti one amirite, I don't trust them anymore I'll believe it when I see it.
Spaghetti was good, so yeah.
>Don't worry there is still Interdimensional cable to look fowards to
Remember when it was rick and morty. And the family was off doing their own separate thing.
Dumb argument. Total Rickall and Night Family are both fantastic.
>Rick’s struggle with the aftermath of killing Rick Prime is not an issue that Rick and Morty is going to sweep under the rug after season seven, Marder added. “We’re in the middle of writing [season] nine right now; it’s something that we’re still exploring.”
This appeals to me, unfortunately. I don't want Rick and Morty to be a drama, but I do want to see long-form story beats like this get some follow through.
It would be fricking lame if they didn’t, yeah it’s good to hear.
>Gizmodo
Shill shill industry plant shill plant shill
Here’s a summary if you’re too lazy to install an adblocker or use an archive:
In my opinion, whatever the episodes are good or bad, one thing's for sure: The new voice actors drag whatever quality this new episodes have down to the floor (at times, at least) due to their inaccurate impression of the characters.
Pretty good episode, actually felt like something out of the early seasons structure-wise, with Rick having some scheme but things fricking up because of something he didn't bother to account for. It was nice to actually have a brief B-Plot for a change too.
>ep1 (how poopy got his poop back)
awful, poopybutthole doesn't warrant his own episode.
>ep2 (jerrick trap)
alright, got a few laughs out of it.
>ep3 (air force wong)
meh, they brought back rick and unity's relationship but did literally nothing with it.
>ep4 (that's amorte)
meh, tries too hard to be poignant.
>ep5 (unmortrickin)
good, although we really didn't need to bring back evil morty and it sucks we didn't get to see prime's backstory.
>ep6 (rickfending your mort)
incredible. classic s1-2 style humor, haven't laughed this hard since s3
>ep7 (wet hot rickmortican summer)
awful, repeating the same "joke" for 22 minutes isn't comedy.
>ep8 (rise of the numbercons)
awful, they really thought the end tag from get schwifty warranted a full 22-minute episode.
>ep9 (mort rangnorick)
awful, heaven and the afterlife have so much story potential but as usual the writers do nothing interesting with it.
unless they knock ep10 out of the park it's looking like an absolute dud of a season. they can't even use firing justin as an excuse because they wrote it when he was still employed.
there's NO WAY they called episode one THAT!!
There were a couple good ones but most of it was unbearably bad or boring. I liked the one where they fought Evil Rick, the one with the observers, the one where jerry and rick merged and the last one where they died and went to valhalla.
That Ice T one and the one with the therapist were horrible. The Quato one was mid.
That's something you NEVER want Rick and Morty to become: Boring. I actually thought the Ice-T one was a decent one-off with a different format than what we're used to. Unity episode wasn't boring, just not very funny.
Morty x Evil Morty when?
Its written by a bunch of unfunny women and male allies, they tried to hard to make some deeper emotional message and meaning behind what was a funny odd couple hilarious hijinks adult theme cartoon.
Not everything has to have 20 dimensional characters with 40D chess 2deep4u storylines that over arc.
I think you really have it slightly incorrect. The classic era was about writing a dumb show really intelligently. There were emotional beats and character growth moments, organically strewn about the fun. The issue isn’t that the new writers are too pretentious, the issue is that they are inconsistent at the ratio of fun to serious. Some episodes are borderline shitposts (a lot of Season 5 was them dropping most serious elements). The solution isn’t to stop caring and just do goofy shit, the solution is to work to blend it better once again.
wubalubadubdub homosexual.
Indeed, the writing room is just too stupid to write anything clever.
The clear cut between drama and comedy really was the killer. Nobody wants to tune in to a comedy and find it SRSBSNS or the polar opposite, there needs to be an attempt to meld the two, which recent R&M just kinda fails at
I don't think anyone wants to watch a clown drink his sorrows, flat out. Gotta have a honk or clown car in there somwhere
Awwww look at all these man-babies saying they disliked the show that they await so eagerly every week
4-6 got our hopes up because it was a great run. Then 7-9 was the opposite. So yeah. I dunno whether to have hope anymore or not.
>numericons is the new low
truly impressive
Season 6 was pretty nice actually, deserves that rating. Shame the Justin stuff happened after, though apparently 7 was already written before that.
It wasn't THAT bad, jesus.
Holy shit people are fricking babies. Numbericons shouldn't be judged like a typical episode, because it's NOT a typical episode. It was a stupid over-the-top action movie parody separate from Rick and Morty, and the dumb stuff like "I had to go 'P'" or the poisoned ceiling made it one of the funnier episodes in recent memory
It shouldn't be judged as a good episode either since it sucked ass.
Aw jeez
Yeah it was bad, but the semen episode, the kuato episode and the poopybutthole episode were way worse still. There was no need to rate it that low.
Plus it was far more entertaining than many of their typical episodes. There's no way it deserves to be at the bottom, maybe slightly below average. Not when there's such stupid shit like kuato in the same season
I’ll take silly stupid shit over boring shit anytime. At least the former gets a reaction out of you.
It's an episode of Rick and Morty, not an episode of the upcoming lucrative Ice-T spin-off, so I'm going to judge it as a Rick and Morty episode, homosexual.
It sucked.
Your opinion is the worst I've ever heard. Your life must be such a joke. Get some fricking standards.
>Rick and Morty
>has no rick
>morty might as well not be there
>is surprised it's shit
Only episodes I really disliked this season were the Poopy one and the spaghetti one. Some were boring like Quato and Vahala but it was mostly ok. Even the letters and numbers one was nice I don't get the hate, it wasn't very exciting but it was a nice change of pace. Also I don't get the hype for Jerrick I found it pretty boring too but not too bad either.
grass tastes bad
I still can’t get over how easily Justin Roiland could’ve avoided all of this
>never participate in production of the show (aside from voicing characters)
>whenever he used to be involved he would be disruptive and unfocused
>wrongly assume voicing the title characters can prevent any sort of firing
>everyone just gets the impression he's an butthole and is more than willing to throw him under the bus the first chance they get
I kinda feel bad for him though, Harmon brought in his Community buddies and ruined the show.
>I kinda feel bad for him
I don't. He took this all for granted. Roiland could've formally said he'd be pulling away from the writers' room and would just do voices and minor executive duties moving forward. The way he went about it instead was super unprofessional and childish. I don't support Harmon's handling of the writing since then, but I can't put too much blame on him. Practically every one of the original writers left after Season 3. Harmon literally had no other option but to scout for any replacements he could. From the recent interviews, it also sounds like he had his and Roiland's best interests in mind when adding more writers. He already knew how stressful showrunning can be, so he wanted to make it easier for the two of them. Both guys are frickups, but one of them at least made an effort to hold things together in the midst of losing so many key writers that early, even if the results have made the show inconsistent in quality.
We don’t know the whole story. I support Mommy and Daddy equally in the divorce.
Dad has no game but insists on trying during the period of time that was essentially illegal and Mom is an unbelievably vain c**t that's become incensed, publically, over Dad trying to make some cash
Both parties are daft idiots and anon as well for REEEEing over the moron Roiland being the glue for the series, the thread having numerous instances of it's failings without him
It wasn't just Roiland's involvement, it was the natural rapport he had with all the original writers. Once Ryan Ridley and everyone left, the production became a shitshow and Harmon has since been wrestling with trying to get back to "classic adventures" while also continuing his overly analytical screenwriting jerkoff pitches that turn the audience away. We have now had more seasons sans the original writing staff than with, so the show is too far gone to ever recapture that same lightning-in-a-bottle energy that put it on the map in the first place. Best you can hope for is the occasional standout episode like Night Family.
Roiland is a creative who isn't suited for long running projects. He gets bored and fricks off to do something else. Dude is industry savvy though. Sold Rick and Morty and saddled Harmon with show running, because Harmon has something to lose. Then he turned around and did the same with Mcmahan and and
Solar Opposites. Then he got in to that vidya money with High on Life. Now he has frick you money and doesn't give two shits about ever working again. Assuming he doesn't OD.
What did he even do? As far as I know all the drama started because a grill sued him for abuse or something and he won the case, and recently I've seen people accusing him of being a pedo? What's up with that?
the abuse case was a nothing burger. the damning evidence was him chatting up a minor on twitter
Ah damn, what a moron
by chatting up if you mean drunkenly calling an underage girl jailbait and actively being thirst trapped. He also made weird remarks about her being damaged or some shit, so he was just exposed as being the person you could have probably already assessed he was. The show is full of his sexual derangement, as many toons
damn
Wet kuat amortican summer was so fricking bad that I quit the show again. Apparently the next episode is worse? How is that even possible?
It depends on who you ask, but it's certainly not a noteworthy episode. I think it's better because at least it wasn't one joke repeated over and over like Wet Kuat Amortican Summer.
>wasn't even a Roiland riff
This season has excelled at one thing only: continuity. Just needs to be funnier and prioritize Morty as a character. He feels like an afterthought now.
the pirate line is dumb.
Rick isn't really scared of pirates, he just said that so the government would think they still had something on him.
>t. Rick
He is scared of pirates. And it's funny
Wrong. He is canonically terrified of pirates
>Emergency Exit
Aw geez, you really put a chicken door in your dungeon, Rick?
It’s actually a test. Smart people will run for the door whilst idiots confront the pirates
The next episode is gonna prove you wrong.
>you will regret your words and deeds
THE STUDENT BECOMES THE TEACHER
Frick, I need to watch the pilot again.
It’s a very good pilot to be fair
I've been re-watching Season 1 and just got to the finale. This is night-and-day compared to the current season.
Completely different team and at this point characters, yeah.
>First 2 seasons were building up to something and then they just shat their pants
It's a shame. They did continuity great without hitting you over the head with it.
>Universe Hopping
Brought up when Morty is talking Summer out of running away; Presented seriously; is relevant to the current situation.
>Wubba-lubba Dub Dub!
Starts as a joke, but is later revealed to mean "I am in great pain". The first time Rick uses this phrase is in "Meeseeks and Destroy" after he realizes Morty was almost raped by a jellybean. He uses it again in "Raising Gazorpazorp" after getting choked by a telekinetic woman. He says "What's the opposite of Wubba-lubba Dub Dub?", which on second viewing you realize that he's enjoying it.
First 2 seasons were building up to something and then they just shat their pants and gave up with season 3 opening, show never really recovered since.
Harmon’s big fricking ego thought he had a better idea with the divorce shit and they flanderized Rick to death.
One thing I noticed with the pilot is the idea that only Rick can travel dimensions is a retcon (to be retconned again with the dinosaurs I guess, actually the dinosaurs basically contradict everything about the central finite curve) since during the pilot rick says they went to another dimension to get the mega seed, and yet when needing to get back home Rick was able to just hit a bunch of buttons on a federation technology.
The pilot had Rick and Morty use alien tech to travel dimensions, the entire “they’re bureaucrata” thing
I always took it as blue portals simply transporting from one location to another in the same dimension. Rick could've just hacked into that tech and made it function for interdimensional travel before dismantling it off-screen.
Real answer is that it’s a literal pilot episode and Dan and Justin hadn’t considered the intricacies of how portal tech works in the show just yet.
>Real answer is that it’s a literal pilot episode and Dan and Justin hadn’t considered the intricacies of how portal tech works in the show just yet.
Really thought something would come of this. Maybe they'll bring back the worm shit for the finale/movie.
That teaser got my hyped up for fricking NOTHING
You should keep your expectations low for this series.
>continuity
except that the writers hate continuity. in fact they lampshade this fact many times in the show.
look at season 6... in episode 1 the rick-prime thread is introduced, yet it's ignored for the rest of the season as well as the first part of season 7 (save for a few throwaway lines in unrelated episodes). rick's wife was killed by prime, yet instead of hunting him he's doing wacky shit like making suicide-spaghetti. then in episode 5 he suddenly tracks him down and kills him, what a thrilling plotline...
also in season 6 there was no portal travel, but the writers failed to do anything interesting with it and in the end they played it off as a joke ("talking dinosaurs magically fixed it, frick you").
>conveniently leaving out the added context of that line
You are not slick.
The writers do care about plot progression. It's just that they have to keep reminding Harmon it's a big part of what makes the show so interesting. Harmon is usually only focused on making sitcom-y episodic adventures--which are ironically not that funny these days--so the whole writing staff compromises and draaags out the overarching story so Rick and Morty can last longer than 5 seasons. They've even admitted to this in a recent interview since fans keep confusing their slow narrative pacing as the writers "not wanting to do story episodes."
Anyway, when I said "continuity," I was referring to their acknowledgement of the show's big supporting cast and established multiverse, which you confused for "plot progression." The last two seasons have had a ton of little callbacks and older characters making surprise returns. Unity, Rick's fear of pirates, Jerryboree, lots of impressive stuff. As for plot progression, it's been slow but generally consistent. If you pay attention, it's only ever Rick who refuses plot progression. That seems fitting for a character who makes meta commentary already and who's got a tragic past he wants to keep secret. Morty had to literally PRY Rick's backstory out of him. I won't defend their resolution of the Broken Portal Travel arc, that dinosaur episode was kinda boring and forgettable. But I did find it cool how they spent that period stuck in one dimension exploring Rick's relationship with each Smith episode by episode. That felt intentional and gave Season 6 some nice structure even without any Rick Prime mention till the literal last minute of the finale.
>Season 7
Could've sworn this show ended already. Are they really going the way of the simpsons?
Frick, since I’ve refused to watch Season 7, I’m starting to feel left out due to some of the references used, here.
Perhaps I should watch clips of it on YouTube…
Better yet, I’ll just read the wiki.
Oof, bad idea. Now I’m even more curious.
Just watch it. If you're interested in the show enough to step into a thread let alone read the Wiki, you might as well throw on 1-2 episodes a night and catch up in time for the (hopefully serviceable) finale on Sunday.
Yeah, I just finished watching Unmortricken not too long ago. I may not pursue any other episodes this season, if that’s one of the best episodes this season – it felt predictable and underwhelming. The voice acting is somewhat better than what I was expecting, but something’s off about Morty’s voice, like he’s in the middle of puberty… and his voice seems to have entered puberty as well.
His voice’s crack has a crack.
need moar like that pic
Need more Tricia x Jerry in general
>summer ass thread doing better than this one
pretty much sums up the state of the show tbh
That one's talking about things people like. This one is just more complaining about what people hate. Makes sense.
It's a very slow season that came back to a lull after Rick Prime was defeated. The only people satisfied are the Summer spammers with nothing better to do. Anyone actually wanting to discuss the show has gotten tired of giving it second chances (me).
Are you wanting more of Morticia or something?
>entire multiverse of potential
>no episode exploring genderbent universe
probably this shows greatest wasted potential
Here you are
That’s just a mobile game, which isn’t canon.
no you fricking tard i meant like the whole universe being genderbent
what was he cooking
probably just did some space genocide and was laying low waiting for it to blow over
If they bring him back to try and expand on him I swear to god…
If this ever happens…
Bring me Harmon’s head.
>cold open of next weeks season
>morty and rick go through scare festival, meet up with the guy we saw in the preview
>they travel to earth, get into some fricked up hijinks,
>the guy goes too far, rick decides to deal with him
>transfers his conciousness into a cat
>it was revealed this was an alternate rick and morty all along, send this cat to our rick and mortys dimension
If he's treated seriously like Evil Morty, it's what the show needs. After watching Poopy, Kuato, and Valhalla and comparing them to Unmortricken, it's time for Cinemaphile to grow up out of its "too cool for lore" phase and admit that exploring the fricked up setting that is the multiverse is what made the show so beloved since season 1.
Why would you take a talking cat, who asks people why they don’t ask why it can talk and never explains why it can talk when asked, seriously?
I didn't take the eyepatch-wearing, diabolical, mustache-twirling, evil mastermind Morty seriously either and dismissed him as a joke for being a seemingly ridiculous polar opposite of our main neurotic Morty but it wasn't until they explored his motives revolving around the ugly history of the citadel in Rickmurai Jack and his origins in Unmortricken that I really grew to like him for being something other than a typical, jobbing bad guy. If they can do something with the cat that's similar in quality to Evil Morty, everyone wouldn't stop talking about it for weeks.
They wouldn't need to give an actual answer. There's always room for leaving in some extra details through the dialogue of other characters reacting to the cat's secret, the graphic or strange physical side effects of soul bonding with him, the cat having weird but vague evil plans that, although would seem innocuous to us, would scare the shit out of Rick because he would know the real implications of the aftermath should the cat accomplish his goals, etc. I'm no writer but give the crew enough time to collaborate ideas and I'm sure they could come up with a fun, high stakes story arc like with the Cronenbergs and the like.
>R&M is both, usually at the same time, almost always dressed as Superman.
I would be cool with this if only the recent episodic comedies were of the same quality as seasons 1-2 and/or the couple of decent post season 3 ones like vat of acid, decoys, night family, etc. Because the idea of the silly one-offs from here on out being more of the same caliber as season 7 completely sucks the hype out of me. Even season 5 didn't have this bad of a slump.
>If they can do something with the cat that's similar in quality to Evil Morty, everyone wouldn't stop talking about it for weeks.
I think the easiest way to determine if this holds any truth would be by looking at the A-plot of the episode, the bawd Dragons, and how they got a followup in the comics with the 4 issue mini-run R&M: Worlds Apart.
Sure, it's not by the writers of the show, but I wouldn't call it worse than the worst episodes we've gotten.
Sometimes, it’s best to leave things mysterious, like the bowl of petunias saying only, “Oh no, not again,” after being called into existence, because no answer could be satisfying or funny enough. But sometimes, also like the bowl of petunias, the revealed answer is actually worth it. That was an amazing payoff in the otherwise lackluster Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Both extremes are moronic. The people who call anything that isn’t lore filler or a waste of time are obnoxious, and so are the people who turn their nose up at anything that takes itself seriously.
R&M is both, usually at the same time, almost always dressed as Superman.
Not everything needs answers. The point of the cat was LITERALLY a reminder to the audience to just let a goofy cartoon be a goofy cartoon sometimes. You don't need "lore" or "backstories" for every fricking thing. Ants in My Eyes Johnson is a guy with ants in his eyes. Why? WHO CARES
>Ants in My Eyes Johnson is a guy with ants in his eyes. Why?
he explains it in the same scene, though.
>And also, I can't feel anything either, did I mention that? But that's not as catchy as having ants in your eyes!
but i get your point
Wasn’t he one of the cats from that story of cats gaining sentience and devouring an old couple that abused cats?
idk, you tell me
Who would have guessed that politicking out the main creator would kill the show?
Co-creator.
The brains of the operation. Harmon is floundering without him
Well, when rumors surface about something someone has done, that works for you, you’re going to do whatever it takes to keep them from making your company look bad, whether or not the rumors are true.
Adult Swim made that decision to fire Justin to save face.
Show died in season 3
>worst episode has the funniest cold open
Why do you think it’s the worst episode?
Rick didn’t turn into pickle
I’m getting tired of you high-maintenance morons.
Will the blue hair EVER be explained?
He’s secretly an anime character.
I'm ANIME RICK
Is this an accurate representation of a nerdy 50s/60s bedroom?
i'd say no, i dont think those style of drawers were in style back then.
Yeah, I didn’t think so, either.
>dragon episode
holy shit there are so many episode competing to be the worst episode ever that i forgot that existed.
Do you really think the dragon one is worse than rickdependence spray and the new water T episode?
NTA, but:
Rickdependance Spray < bawd Dragons < Water T < Pickle Rick
Pickle Rick was never even a bad episode. The memes and promos just got to be too much for some people so they took it out on the show.
I kinda like how it just becomes a throwaway reference once a season.
>the funniest cold open
it was a decent cold open, not the funniest by a long shot however. hell even the sperm monster episode has a better cold open. also...
>"you know who's into dragons morty? nerds that refuse to admit they're christian."
was that supposed to be a joke? did they steal a manatee from fox to write that one? (nerd + dragon + christian = joke).
Deadcat bounce
?
>Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.
Ah, okay. True, true.
Rise of the numbericons is easily the worst thing that's been put on adult swim.
If you told me ait was an episode writting by a moronic adlibbing fan of the show I'd unironically be like
>Oh that makes sense.
I have no idea how an actual writer made it and no one told him
>What the frick is this? go back and do it again.
70-episode order, anon. They're free to use their backup episode ideas to fill out a season.
but they're only writing 10 episodes over the course of a year. it's not insane to expect a higher level of effort when shows with 20+ episode-seasons had better quality.
70 guaranteed episodes means they can just put out a half-baked season or two without worrying about immediate cancellation, hopefully a huge renewal like this doesn't happen again.
I think How Poopy made me question the quality of the season a little and the Kuato episode desperately needed a B-plot but I didn't mind Numericons, outside of it missing Rick which was a bizarre choice
This season as a whole has been lacking in B-plots. I can't remember if it's the first to have that structure for that many episodes.
It’s taking me this long to realize that “a hundred years Rick and Morty” is just another catchphrase, like “wubba-lubba-dub-dub”.
they both mean "i am in great pain, please help me"?
What went through y'all's minds when that 70-episode order was first announced? We were just waiting on Season 4 at the time
>Sweet, more Rick and Morty!
Modern show is still my favorite currently airing cartoon. If it were up to me I’d have them renew it again
>Modern show is still my favorite currently airing cartoon.
Same. It's still super creative. But I honestly find the MacFarlane cartoons more consistently funny these days. Rick and Morty's "comedy" just doesn't hit the same
>spoiler
God no. Tell Harmon to frick off with his "forever and ever" mindset and to close things out in 13 seasons or less. We do not need to drag this out any longer. The people want payoff. I'm people. I want payoff.
>The people want payoff. I'm people. I want payoff.
with Rick Prime dead, the only payoff there could possibly be is Morty growing a spine or getting a date with Jessica.
Maybe not for 7 more seasons. I think anywhere between 10 and 15 + a movie is the sweet spot, unless they somehow hit a major second wind.
My thoughts were "Season 3 was a real step down from the first 2 seasons, I hope that it was an anomaly and the show gets better, and if it doesn't I hope there's no post-episode 100 reorder."
Looking at where the show went and where it is now, I can say that was an extremely optimistic outlook.
That was after season 3 had aired, which at the time was the worst season the show put out, my immediate thought was how the show was already shitting the bed 30 episodes in and we're not even halfway through at that point.
I had no fear, they had stories for years!
Dude, it's really not unusual at all for a show to have 100 episodes. Especially for a sitcom.
It is for an adult swim show. Not even their previous cash cow, ATHF, managed to have 100 half-hour episodes.
Getting renewed for 70 episodes all at once is VERY unusual. It was already clear by that point that the show was a hit, but this was ridiculous.
it makes more sense when you think of syndication. once a show hits 100 episodes the network can sell it off for other networks to plays reruns with. at the time of this deal the show had 30 episodes (excluding the pilot), the 70-episode deal brings the total episodes to 100 which allows AS to sell the rights for syndication. expect to see rick and morty reruns on comedy central starting sometime in 2027.
Hopefully, the world will end before that happens.
Rewatching the series, I really miss Roiland's sense of humor in season 1, I feel it was already struggling to stay afloat in season 2 and it's completely gone in season 3.
>Season 7
does not exists. It ended with Season 6.
The thing is, most of the seasons after 3 have been shit. It isn't due to Justin Roiland either, he has been absent for like 3 seasons.
Didn't people hate season 3 more than anything?
At the time it was the obvious shark jump/end of classic era moment, but over time it’s become less hated. Most people seem to either think 4/5 or 6/7 is the worst era depending on what they value more. People who watch for the comedy think we’re in the worst era now and people who watched for the characters and ideas think we were in the worst era in 4/5. Season 3 gets shit on more for what it wasn’t than what it was.
PERFECT breakdown. More people need to read this.
Most people who hated season 3 used braindead excuses like "muh female writers" or "muh normies" or something to justify it. S3 did deserve to be criticized because it wasn't as consistent as s1 and s2, and at the time it did have the lowest lows in the series, but many of its good episodes were some of the best episodes in all of Rick and morty. And now when you compare it to later seasons, it's so many levels clear of them, anyone who still thinks it's the worst season is likely just high on contrarianism
The female writers did do female writer things in S3 though.
I have a feeling the last episode is gonna be a treehouse of horror rip-off
So that's it huh
They're really just resetting the series and going to random wacky weekly goof stuff?
No, Evil Morty still has the weapon plans of the Omega device. But don't expect the show to follow that plot thread any time soon.
Holy frick, are you a goldfish? We just had our dour character study stuff, let a comedy show be silly for two seconds damn
Can it be funny tho??
I guess I’ll stop bumping these threads after this, since activity has dwindled.
There ain’t much to talk about. It’s mostly people b***hing.
Well, I get enjoyment from people b***hing.
Morty sounds like Steven universe and it annoys me.
I’m blessed not to know what Steven Universe sounds like.
Steven sounded like a fat boy in season 1, but got more and more high pitched with every season. Except for the epilogue season, which takes place 2 years after the show, so his voice is deeper again.
he's become more preachy over the seasons instead of scared and useless
I've been on Cinemaphile for a long time and I KNOW for a fact there are paid shills in this thread.
point em out
Read my fricking mind.
no, point em out
No, you read my fricking mind.
>there are shills in this thread
>where?
>ERM I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU????
kys gay
I’m not the anon who is claiming they know who the shills are.
Don't fricking reply to me then.
Frick you, you read my fricking mind again!
Droped after season 3 showed the quality of the show was all spent. Jesus Im glad i dodged seeing the shit ive heard it's become
Why is English grammar so fricking ambiguous?
This season really made the last season look a lot better. Last season just felt like bad rick and Morty, it doesn't even feel like rick and Morty anymore now. The spaghetti episode was alright, it felt the closest to older season but episode 1 really showed they have no idea what they're doing anymore.
Its also really obvious they wanted to wrap up the rick prime storyline quick and never mention it ever again. Do we even know Rick Primes backstory or why he did everything?
Prime existed to give a reason for Rick to be fricked up, and die so he can move on. He served he purpose pretty much flawlessly. Your more complex villain progressed in that same episode, and is now more powerful than ever.
>Prime existed to give a reason for Rick to be fricked up,
Rick doesn't need a reason to be fricked up, especially not such a generic, clichéd, and shallow reason that the show originally came up with for the sake of mocking the idea. Rick Prime's real purpose is to cater to the lore crowd and make Rick look better.
>Your more complex villain progressed in that same episode, and is now more powerful than ever
oh great, can't wait to see the one-off evil morty returns episode in season 9 that has no impact to the status quo...
>Last season just felt like bad rick and Morty
I agree. I can’t be bothered to rewatch most of the episodes from that season.
RICK!
(feat. Morty)
Walked in the club, it's just me and my shorty
Grippin' on my tool, yeah, I'm grippin' on my .40
Shootin' with that three, yeah, you know I'm very sporty
surprised they didn't point out the blatant 69 in Numbericons
So no one's gonna bring up the fact that rick jobbed to big foot?
the episode brought it up by addressing how rick underestimated the cryptid, why would we need to bring it up too?
He fricking kills armies without even trying, and you tell me he jobs to a slightly taller gorilla?
I'm not telling you anything the show didn't, hombre.
His goal was to die by Bigfoot to get into Valhalla
Dan Harmon needs to be stopped
How low will he go?
You know what would have made the last ep better? If they went to different afterlives every time they got killed by the pope.
Yeah that would’ve been fun. And less redundant.
Alright…
Since I could tolerate Unmortricken, I suppose I should take another crack at Season 7 by watching That’s Amorte.
I feel like I’m walking through a minefield, doing this. I’m going to take a shower, first.
It's just 22 minutes of your life wasted, 4 hours at most. Don't be so dramatic.
I’m going to revise what I had just posted. Most of the episode felt bland, but there were one or two things that were a little amusing to me. I did feel it went downhill during the salisbury steak scene, at the end. I’m just not a fan of cliche endings where a stupid joke is made and everyone laughs as the camera pulls away from the house.
The ending was more than a joke, it was an essential point being made.
Spaghetti was a fine episode. It just wasn’t the funniest and maybe the life-spanning montage felt a little too long and hamfisted (they need to come up with more creative ways to tug at the audience's heartstrings), but the ending was solid. Don't question Rick's process.
>Don't question Rick's process
Frick you, his methods should be questioned every once in a while.
I'm not condoning Rick's actions, I'm just saying it's a fitting conclusion to the episode that works in series context. Rick is always right. The Smiths are all monsters who grovel at his feet. And majority of the world still eats meat despite the alternatives proposed.
Was there a reason for making the spaghetti aliens look like exactly humans? Or was it just so it would seem more like cannibalism
I do believe it’s a cannibalism joke.
You just answered your own question. I'm sure the Smiths have eaten non-humanoid aliens before.
If they didn't look like humans, Morty probably wouldn't have cared, and then the episode wouldn't have happened. The entire thing is built around the wacky sitcom twist in the cold open with you wondering the whole time "what's wrong with the spaghetti?" and then the stupid trite reveal that it's being scooped out of some guy's chest cavity, and Rick comically rolling his eyes over Morty haranguing him again. It's so fricking self-aware and elbowing the audience in the ribs so hard they break.
I genuinely considered dropping the show over that episode, it was so bad. The only reason I came back was because the next episode teaser was about Rick Prime, which you KNOW they did that on purpose because there were other people like me who would be ready to drop the show over That's Amorte. I genuinely think this episode is worse than the Horse Semen one, that's how bad it is.
The premiere was terrible, then a few episode after that it seemed like it was on an upward trajectory, the peak being the spaghetti and Rick prime episodes, and then a little dip with the observers, and then another dip with the kuato things, and then a BIG step down with the Water T episode, and then a blah episode about vikings that just didn't pay off. Season 7 is competing with 5 for weakest overall, in spite of a few funny moments.
oh yeah, and here's how i rate the season
>poopy butthole episode
I thought it was only mediocre up until hugh jackman killed the predator. Everything after and including that was shit. D+
>The Jerrick Trap
The cliched mafioso took up too much of the b-plot, and I would've liked more Burgers & Fries action. B-
>Air Force Wong
The first good Wong episode, because it makes her into an actual character instead of just a mouthpiece for the writers. That scene with Unity was a little melodramatic. B+
>That's Amorte
i've made my thoughts clear already. F-
>Unmortricken
I had a lot of my expectations for what was outside the central finite curve dashed with this episode, but that's separate from how good the episode actually was. Evil Morty is a little bit too much of a Mary Sue when it comes to helping Rick find & defeat Prime, but the rest of it was fine by me. I even like bringing back Slowmobius. A-
>Rickfending Your Mort
I would've liked them to do more of the audit before they pivoted to the Observer being a douche, but that's just my personal view. B+
>Wet Kuat Amortican Summer
About as bad as the Die Hard episode with no B-plot to distract you from how this is the same joke for 22 minutes. Everything after they get onto the boat (guy revealing he's a kuato-kuato-kuato, the little robot he pilots, Kuato!Morty joining the Frolf team) redeems it ever so slightly. C
>Numbericons episode
If you're that curious about what Mr. Goldenfold would be like as a character, read the current run of the comics instead. D
>Mort: Ragnarick
Absolutely no complaints. Best episode of the season. A+
>That's Amorte
>i've made my thoughts clear already. F-
>Mort: Ragnarick
>Absolutely no complaints. Best episode of the season. A+
you’re opinions are objectively wrong and bad and you should feel bad
He gave the episode an A+ because we got to see Summer naked.
That's only why it got the + 😉
@141163029
I hate the Kuato episode. You can tell it was written by a w*man
Still better than the first season
It’s not only not shit, it’s one of the best episodes in the series.
>Thought Bigfoot and the Pope was A+
Yeah seems like you just want this show to be a goofy romp and don’t like it when it tries anything else.
The spaghetti episode was your stupid goofy romp.
>LOOK AT THI SPLANET IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM MORTY. IT'S NOT IN ANOTHER DIMENSION IT'S JUST A COUPLE LIGHTYEARS AWAY. WHEN THE PEOPLE DIE HERE, THEIR BRAIN CHEMISTRY TURNS THEIR GUTS INTO SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS.
>AW GEEZ RICK I SURE DO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT THIS RANDOM GUY FOR EATING HIM, CAN'T I APOLOGIZE FOR EATING HIM AT THE FUNERAL DESPITE THESE PEOPLE HAVING NO CLUE WHAT THE HELL I'M TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE DESPITE BEING ALMOST IDENTICAL TO EARTH THEY NEVER DEVELOPED A NOODLE AND PASTA DISH.
>NOW YOU FRICKED UP MORTY! ALIEN KAMALA HARRIS WANTS YOU TO BE THE BRAND AMBASSADOR FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET KILLING THEMSELVES TO MAKE THIS SPAGHETTI. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY WITH THIS SUICIDE BAITING PLANET MORTY!
>AW GEEZ HOW COULD I LET THIS HAPPEN EVEN THOUGH I HAD NO CLUE IT WOULD HAPPEN, RICK. YOU GOTTA CRASH THEIR ECONOMY RICK, LIKE YOU DID WITH THE FEDERATION IN THE SEASON 3 PREMIERE.
>BOY, I WISH I COULD MORTY, BUT I DON'T DO THINGS THAT EASILY ANYMORE. THAT'S TOO POWERFUL FOR ME TO BE, I GOTTA FUMBLE AROUND DESPITE REPEATEDLY CALLING MYSELF THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE MULTIVERSE, MORTY. I GOTTA DO THIS THX-1138 PARODY.
>AW GEEZ, NOW THEY DON'T LIKE THE NEW ETHICAL SPAGHETTI, RICK. THEY'RE STORMING THE FACTORIES EVEN THOUGH NOONE IN REAL LIFE HAS EVER GOTTEN THIS UPSET OVER THEM CHANGING THE RECIPE FOR PEPSI.
>HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO MORTY. I AM A NIHILIST, BUT I KNOW HOW OTHER PEOPLE WITH EMPATHY BEHAVE SO I CAN TRICK THEM INTO FEELING BAD ABOUT EATING SPAGHETTI GUTS MORTY. I CAN PLAY THEM THIS MAN'S LIFE AND THEY'LL FEEL BAD FOR HIM MORTY. WE CAN'T AFFORD SARAH MCLACHLAN MUSIC BUT IT'LL BE THE SAME THING.
>WOW, YOU REALLY SAVED THE DAY RICK. YOU CONVINCED ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT HUMAN SUFFERING SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED JUST BECAUSE THEY WANT TO EAT A CERTAIN FOOD. THEY'LL NEVER WANT TO EAT THEIR SPAGHETTICIDE AGAIN. I COULD SURE GO FOR A CHOCOLATE BAR, HOW ABOUT YOU?
I'd tell you to have a nice day, but you'd just spaghett
I’m not reading all that either.
>either
so you admit that you didn't read my initial criticisms and thus have no actual counter-arguments as to why the episode wasn't bad.
go back to whatever circlejerk social site you normally call home, where you and all the other troglodytes can pretend like you know what makes for intelligent writing.
If you can’t make your point concisely, you have no point to make.
Oh, I do apologize for not making a soundbite for you to easily dismiss. Brevity IS the Soul of Wit. Lemme just pull my thesis statement out from the original diatribe for you.
>This episode's writing is like if SNL made a skit about the show without actually understanding what makes the show funny.
Now we can have a conversation instead of writing books to each other.
Rather than a self parody, I would argue that the episode stands out from the rest by tackling moral questions that do not have easy answers, treating those questions honestly, and not offering an easy solution (because there isn’t one). No, it isn’t as funny as the show tends to be, the focus on the episode was on other things (ethical dilemmas, Rick vs Mortys mindset, and why neither of them are satisfactorily the “right answer”).
Yeah, that's what I meant when I said this guy
was one of the 2 people in this thread who correctly appraised the episode.
>good premise, godawful execution, ending so bad it makes me angry
This episode is fundamentally different from the Vat of Acid because it's Morty questioning Rick over something he takes for granted, rather than questioning Rick over one of hi half-baked solutions. That is something that would be good to explore, to continue to hammer in that overarcing conflict between Rick & Morty's mentalities as has been done since the first season.
It's just not done well. There's tremendous difficulty in deciphering what the staff meant to sell as a joke, and what they meant to be taken as a sacrosanct component of the point they were making.
The script needed more revisions, better timing, maybe even a partial rework of some odd or end. I don't know what could be done to improve this episode when it all feels so rote.
Alright, we disagree, that’s fine. To me, the episode worked well at getting across all perspectives on the topic of ethical consumption. The family represents the status quo, Rick is the facilitator of the status quo, and Morty is the person who tries to change it. Through the show’s usual formula of “Morty goes against Rick, it bites him in the ass” they were able to tell a story about a problem that has no clean solutions, in a way that is neither too on the nose and preachy, nor too abstract so its nonsensical (as good sci-fi tends to do). Everyone is right and wrong, that’s just how it is. You either make peace with it actively like Rick or go back to ignorance about it like Morty. It was a tough needle to thread and I think they did. That’s why I say it’s a stand out from the season.
You just made me gain a WAY bigger appreciation for That's Amorte. Bravo.
I've got some problems with the retcon of all versions of Diane dying and not just the main rick's Diane
If the omega device is what killed his Diane why did it kill all Dianes but only one Rick's Beth? they both died to the same device
If all Ricks "leave" their Dianes like Beth always says they do, and all versions of Diane died at the same cosmic moment, who the frick raised Beth after she was a child? She didn't mention any orphanage, in fact every reference to their past life makes it seem like Diane was alive until at least high school
>maybe some dimensions were further along in time and Diane died "later"
Every Rick, every Morty and every other Smith we've ever seen was the same age so it's safe to assume all dimensions are on the same timeline
for a show that hates continuity they keep adding continuity that just makes no sense
The assumption is that the device that killed our Rick’s Diane and Beth isn’t the omega device, the omega device we see isn’t portable.
Prime killed our Rick’s Diane and Beth and then killed all other Dianes later at an unspecified point.
>The assumption is that the device that killed our Rick’s Diane and Beth isn’t the omega device, the omega device we see isn’t portable.
The Omega device we see is an upgrade, Rick prime directly states that it can now be used more than one time, but lets assume you're right and he killed Rick's Diane with something conventional and then wiped them all later.
Why would he wipe all Dianes from existence when him and our Rick never got close to meeting again after the bomb?
Rick prime claims that only himself and our Rick actually invented portal travel, that intrinsically means that every other Rick took the offer and he wouldn't need to spite them, all other Rick's Dianes dying were just collateral damage from him spiting our Rick for refusing.
What happens in between that moment and when the series takes place is a big question mark. We don’t have the answers yet.
Practically, the writers need Diane dead across infinity (Rick can’t just move on to a new Diane like he’s done in the past with all other family members + permadeath reintroduced into the series), and his Beth needs to be dead but not all Beths.
No, it’s not neat (relying on pushing big questions into a mystery box) and it does need to be elaborated on later.
>permadeath reintroduced into the series
I am SO fricking glad they found a way to do this. It was bad enough when the Operation Phoenix backups made Rick immortal (even if being revived would still take effort), but then the increasing level of cybernetic enhancements robbed the show of any real stakes for a good while. That Phoenix Person fight was cool and all, but I knew Rick wasn't in any real danger. I admire the writers constantly wanting to one-up themselves with how insane the bigger world of the show can get, but you still need actual stakes if you're serious about taking on an overarching story. The Omega Device is the best thing they ever did to save their asses.
>Why would he wipe all Dianes from existence when him and our Rick never got close to meeting again after the bomb?
Because Prime couldn’t cope with the fact that other Ricks were happy with mundane lives without portal travel
>Rick prime claims that only himself and our Rick actually invented portal travel
Originally that was probably the case. But other Ricks probably figured it out at later points (possibly after Prime used the Omega Device)
You put way too much value in liking one shitty episode over the other.
The other thread finally died.
While Season 3 did feel different from the first two seasons, I didn’t start disliking episodes until the middle of Season 4 and it wasn’t until Season 5 that I started to hate seasons as well.
There’s only one or two episodes worth rewatching in Seasons 5 and 6.
Season 4 has maybe two episodes I didn't like (Dragons and Camping), but I'm 50-50 on Season 5. The first two episodes are great, Planetina is okay, 4-7 are either weak or some of the worst fricking episodes ever, and 8-10 are amazing. Season 5 was the series low for me. It's been on a slow and inconsistent upswing since then.
Is Dan actually autistic or is he self diagnosed?
He's an butthole regardless and ruined the show by making it a vent therapy session.
>it's a space Beth episode
>it's a president episode
>it's a Wong episode
>it's a Birdperson/Gearface/Squanch episode
>it's an Ice-T episode
>it's an IRL celebrity episode
The only one that season 7 didn't have is a space beth ep. Thanks you just jinxed the finale.
>Summer's on her period again
Why are you watching a canceled show?
>bouncing back
we have that cope every season
cute
what
>Rick leaves Morty in a different dimension so he can work on becoming more assertive
>eventually, the Citadel of Ricks brings a Rick and his Morty to the same dimension as punishment
>this Rick’s Morty happens to be female and wants her Rick to call her Morticia
>due to her not being his original Morty and she is just another Morty to him, Rick will continue to address Morticia as “Morty”
>after awhile, Morty ascertains how similar Morticia is to him by asking her about her dimension
>finds out her dimension is the same as his, with the only difference being that it had a female Morty
This game hasn’t turned me into a foot person, but I understand the fetish better because of it.
>I'm Snake-Rick!
Rick and Morty Season 7 tier list so far before 10 (Fear No Mort)
Episode 5 "Unmortricken" >>> Episode 6 "Rickfending Your Mort" >= Episode 2 "The Jerrick Trap" > Episode 4 "That's Amorte" > Episode 9 "Mort: Ragnarick" >> Episode 1 "How Poopy Got His Poop Back" > Episode 8 "Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie" >= Episode 3 "Air Force Wong" >>>>>>> *POWER GAP* >>>> Episode 7 "Wet Kuat Amortican Summer"
I don't understand how anyone can disagree with the season opener being the worst episode of the series thus far.
"OPEN your MIND" spam takes the garbage cake.
I thought the Space Jam joke was hilarious. Only joke this season that made me audibly laugh.