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Has anybody else seen this? I expected nothing and it turned out to actually be really funny in places. It's totally ridiculous, but Morty plays the perfect foil to Rick's insane-old-alcoholic-scientist.

I've seen the Christmas episode four times now and not one of the others.  It's beginning to bother me, but that one episode is better than what aqua teen has morphed in to over the last decade.

There was a recent episode where they get pulled into an alien holodeck by alien con artists that are actually complete idiots. The little jokes are everywhere and it's awesome.

Rick and Morty is a bonafide ratings hit for Adult Swim, beating out Archer last week.

All of the episodes aired so far are on youtube...  some legit (adult swim puts them up for a week or more free) and some are either semi-legit or not legit (youtube doesn't seem to be pulling them).  More people should be watching this!

It really is the best thing to come out of Adult Swim in ages.

It's amazingly funny, but I'm glad others are picking up on it! I hope they continue to do more.

This is a great, great animated show. Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are knocking it out of the park.

It might not be my favorite animated show, but it's certainly the best one in that I can show it to anyone, it's way more accessible.

I might still like China, IL more. I dunno.

For whatever reason, I was dying in the after credits scene from the last episode where Rick and Summer go around beating up (and spitting on) people they don't like.  There hasn't been any classic lines so far in this half of the season though....  not like the Hemmingway line or <robot voice>"Where are my testicles, Summer?"

I seriously can't believe more people here aren't watching it.

Yeah it's by far the best new comedy series out there right now :)

They have new episodes of this out now. The one with Rick getting sent before the Council of Ricks was awesome. It's got a lot of moments where I find myself laughing loudly in my house, and that's rare. They are starting to flesh out the other characters too, which is a good thing.

It was pretty rickdiculous.

"Everybody relax.  If I know these a-holes, and I *am* these a-holes..."

"Prepare to be emancipated from your own inferior genes!" - Abradolph Lincler

 :drill:

Going to necro this thread because I just recently got turned on to this show at a friend's house and it's fucking amazing and more folks here should be watching it.

Is there still only one season?

Yes, out on DVD now. Mr. Mizeks shilled it for them so their hands were clean. 

I may enjoy this show too much.

There should be a new season sometime this summer.

Sometimes science is a lot more art, than science. A lot of people don't get that.

I posted this in the Dota thread, but the creator and voices for Rick and Morty is doing an announcer pack for Dota 2.

Thought I'd try one episode because of this thread and wound up watching the whole damn season last night.  It's fantastic, going to order the dvd now.

No comments in 120 days? Who gives a fuck.

New episodes start Sunday. Here's an interview with Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon at AV club for you to chew on until then.
http://www.avclub.com/article/theres-one-secret-rick-and-morty-guys-will-never-r-222269?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_campaign=default

I now need to hunt down the reddit theory thread.

Oh shit, that's this Sunday?  That's gonna call for a viewing party.

OMG so excited!   :grin:

"Number one is me asshole."

This one had so many good moments. I loved the Jerry daycare and the Roy game the best, I think.

"You went back to the carpet store after beating cancer? Lame!"

"This guy's taking Roy off the grid, no social security number or anything!"

Wow, the ending to this one was fucking DARK

Quite. Even the tag, which was funny, was dark when you think about it. He just can't get over her. They're REALLY exploring Rick as a character this season.

I watched the first episode on Uverse on-demand a few weeks ago.  Last night I saw that they only had episode 3 and later available.  Whoops!  So I watched #3 anyway.

Upon reflection I'm going to watch the next episode, but I'm not sure I like where this show is heading if they are going to start drilling down into reality of characters that live in a completely unrealistic set of scenarios.

What you just described is pretty much the essence of any good work of science fiction.

And yeah, since the first couple of episodes of this show I've been watching it more as science fiction that happens to be hilarious than as a comedy that happens to have a sci-fi premise.  So I love that they're continuing to explore new concepts as well as the consequences of all the completely bizarre shit they've introduced (like the Jerry day care logically following from all the alternate Ricks being in contact and having a large set of needs in common).

I've only ever watched it as Sci-Fi comedy. It's part of the amazingness of the show to me, much like the science jokes that were in Futurama.

Watching my wife try to wrap her head around the multiverse of Ricks the first time was amazing, while it was only a natural sci-fi beat to me - who'd come across the premise before.


One of my favorite parts of that episode!

I don't quite understand what Paelos is saying but I think he means it doesn't make sense to deeply explore characters since the plot has shown they are almost interchangeable with others (in the multiverse).

We're still watching even though we know Rick and Morty aren't even in their own universe anymore, their version of Earth got "Cronenberged" and they just replaced a Rick and Morty duo that got killed.  Their real family are fighting in a (Rick induced, Morty inspired) post apocalypse nightmare.

I'm okay with it though because I care about all the Rick and Mortys out there - that didn't sell out and join the trans-dimensional council of Ricks.

Edit: You know what, this show is doomed because it requires too many brain cells.

I don't mind thinking about the characters, but the idea presented was that it was a comedy based on a series of insane sci-fi events.

The writers seem to be taking it into the real grimdark world of consequences of those comedic events. Which is not what I signed on for in a cartoon show. You can't take me on an episode of Family Guy and leave me with True Detective Season 1.

I had a long post halfway written breaking down all the "grimdark" stuff in the first season (starting in the pilot episode) so I could ask you what the hell you're smoking that you think that a bait and switch was pulled, but it started to feel eerily familiar and I remembered the Monopoly thread.   :awesome_for_real:

Heh.

Paelos' default interpretation of "Cartoon = Funny" seems to be the issue, really.

Because that's not the default in 2015. Certainly not on Adult Swim.

Why Oh WHY did I not see that coming.  That was fucking brilliant.  :drill:

Whatever fuckers it's back to funny again!  :why_so_serious:

Rick catch phrase montage was my favorite part.

Also Morty jerking in the kitchen yelling stop trying to shame me.

It was a very long and weird setup for a hell of a punchline, I'll give it that. I was bored waiting for the climax but that ending was fantastic. On the second viewing last night I caught that they'd put Mr Poopypants in the intro montage. Nicely done.

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That's the one that got me

Can't decide who the bigger prick is...Rick Sanchez or Stephen Colbert.  :drill:

Rick is, of course.

Colbert suppressed his ego so his world would live.

Rick would have said, "Fuck this" and gone to an alternate universe or simply escaped and lived in the 'real' world.

It kinda bugs me that the Microversians didn't either hook up the Miniverse or some other power generation system to the same "waste power disposal" circuit as the goobleboxes (which they could still do now, for that matter), or figure out before inventing the Miniverse that the "waste power" thing was superstition and they could generate 80% more power with way less infrastructure by cutting it.

It briefly bugged me that Rick made his power generation dependent on manual labor rather than creating a solar array (or Dyson sphere or something) inside the microverse and drawing his power from that.  But then I realized that he probably did it that way for his own entertainment more than anything.   :awesome_for_real:

Started watching this on Adult Swim while waiting for my next games in the Hex stress tourney. Only on S1E3 but damn, it's funny.

"IT'S HEPATITIS C! RUN!!!!"

Share a Coke with...

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 :drill:

Awesome.

I liked the tag with the vampire elder better than this episode. It was good, just not at the top of the pack by a good amount. I feel like there was a good idea there they forced out before letting it germinate a little more.

I thought the Jerry and Beth plot was pretty damn good.  Especially toward the end with them exploiting the "mythalogue" (or whatever they were) gizmo to a ridiculous degree.  That's the kind of goofy sci-fi shit that keeps me tuning in to this show.

My favorite thing about the Tiny Rick plot was the way they built up the vampire thing and then resolved it off-screen to fuck with the audience.   :awesome_for_real:

"Auto Erotic Assimilation" remains my favorite episode of the entire series and I don't ever expect them to top it, so at this point I'm just enjoying each new episode for what it is.

The fan-art being generated for this show is just sublime.

(https://i.imgur.com/j8iWe5b.jpg)

I thought the Jerry and Beth B-plot was actually better than the A-plot, a first for the series.

Where do I get this show ?

You can stream them on AdultSwim.com but I think it's region locked. Being a filthy Euro I think you'll need an eyepatch or inoculate yourself and try any of the 'free' streaming sites out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGL-buZ94Y

https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/388hxx/will_rick_morty_air_in_the_uk/

- It was picked up by some UK channel
- You can watch some of the episodes for free on adultswim.  Region locked, so you don't get all episodes, but some are available for preview.  Pilot is mediocre, but everything after is pretty much gold.

Half the time I'll just buy episodes on Itunes if I'm asleep when its on.  I consider it a donation to keeping the show on the air.

 :cry2:

I'm so conflicted I just don't know what to say. Great episode all around, though.

Love this show.

Setting themselves up for a hell of a season 3 opener.  I wonder if the new status quo on Earth will persist or if it'll be reset somehow.  Seems like a big strength of the show has always been the contrast between normal life on Earth and wacky adventures in space.

There's always Cronenberg Earth to go back to. Or any of the others.

It was a phenomenal season ender though, I especially liked the return of Mr Poopy Butthole.

Will the Rick-tocracy consent to having one of their own imprisoned by someone other than them?

The Circle of Life 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTQKxyJyxw)

 :drill:

I suspect next season will start with the whole family walking into the house, Rick saying something like "Wow, that was a pretty amazing prison escape and total defeat of the Federation. The most exciting thing ever. Anyone want breakfast?"

I laughed at that way harder than I probably should have, my wife doesn't watch the show and was very confused.

RISE!

SEASON 3 STARTS NAO!

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/streams

Cruel bastards!

However they did show a new episode at 11 and 11:30 in place of Samurai Jack and Dragonball Z Super. It was amazing much like the Mulan Szechuan sauce they did back in 1998.

If you didn't catch it they're replaying it at 10pm this week.

Also here (https://vid.me/JBhQ), albeit probably temporarily.

That was sublime.

Apparently they are making a Rick and Morty game for VR, which needless to say, I can't wait for.  They actually already made a short "game" called Accounting, which is fucking hysterical and has of course nothing to do with accounting.

you were almost correct, as long as you account for it being a fakeout

Oh holy shit, that was goddamn awesome.

There's also Pocket Mortys.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turner.pocketmorties&hl=en

Season 3 on July 30th.

"Only a show this smart could be this stupid."

 :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill:

https://youtu.be/DeAw6aXHzcY

"I refuse to answer a literal call to adventure, Morty.  Let it go to voicemail." - Rick

A reminder that this is back on tonight.

In other news, "the sauce" arrived:

https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/891521911460470784


 :drill: :drill: :drill:

The trouble with following Pickle Rick is that nothing can really follow Pickle Rick.

BTW it's really easy to make a better version of The Sauce--there's a good recipe that's been posted a lot on Reddit.

Rick and Jerry episode this Sunday. Looking forward to a great bonding experience.  :grin:

I'm enjoying this season but...


 :oh_i_see:

My favorite part of last night's episode was Morty stepping up and being the voice of sanity.  I'm sensing that he's getting a bit of a growing-up character arc this season, and I wonder if his line in last week's episode about Rick destroying his childhood was intended a little more seriously than it sounded.


As an aside, my favorite neighborhood bar has taken to showing Rick & Morty on the TV each Sunday night; it started off slow but word has gotten out and the place was packed last night.  I love it.

Don't get me wrong, I like the Avengers deconstructed, but I just loved the pure fuckery out of Pickle Rick.  I think it'll be hard to top that for me.

Pickle Rick may indeed be the pinnacle of this show, but I wouldn't put it past the creators to find a way to top it.

Just started binging on this, I can't believe I waited so long. Actually I'm fucking glad I waited this long, what's with the two year break between seasons?

All right, how long did it take everyone to call the reveal at the end of the last episode?  I think it didn't quite dawn on me until the Godfather-esque scene toward the end.

Which Morty was that? It seemed like I should know, but I've forgotten that one.

Eyepatch-Morty who built the MortyShield with the remote controlled Rick killing other Ricks. I called it early, the wife was surprised I was right at the end.

It'd been so long since we'd seen him he wasn't at the top of my mind, but if anyone else at the bar had yelled "EVIL MORTY" at any point after we saw a Morty running for president I would have instantly known they were right.

I thought it was him as soon as I saw there was a Morty running for President. Then again I've also been regularly watching reruns so most of the shows are still top of mind.

Arg, damn me for clicking this thread when we're behind on this in the UK.

DAMN ME.

(I would probably have figured it out early.)

Went back and watched the "Close Encounters of the Rick Kind" episode. Yeah, I would not have remembered that character at all but man, it just makes the latest episode that much better.

Just got turned onto this...watched the first 4 so far. Holy shit is it funny.  :heart:

And it gets better.

Season 3 still not on the apple store here, which sucks.

It's on youtube and I think Adult Swim's website... for free.  Maybe it is geolocked though?

https://www.youtube.com/show/rickandmorty

Edit:

Hmm.  Doesn't seem to be up for free anymore, though there are free livestreams up that appear legit.

Its also on Netflix here (AUS), though they get the new episodes almost a week late.

Hulu has seasons 1 and 2.

Also, try this:

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/

R&M is the only show on TV that I will actually watch on TV (which requires leaving my house and going someplace that has cable).

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Yeah, it was fun.

Morty's Mind Blowers was fucking awesome. Every time I think they can't get better, they do. Not quite Pickle Rick but really great.

Weird one this week, I wonder if it was a clone Beth AND a clone Rick at the end of the episode.

I got the feeling it was a clone Beth and didn't even contemplate it being a clone Rick, but of course the entire point of the ending is that it doesn't matter in the slightest.   :awesome_for_real:

I don't think it matters whether it's clone or not (unless they decide to do something with it later). Just having the choice should make Beth mellow out (and accept that she's more Rick than she was previously willing to admit).

What that episode got me curious about is whether Beth has the potential to be as much of a dangerous genius as Rick.  Will "future Beth" show up at some point as an antagonist?

This show just continues to be fucking amazing. Making an episode about how nothing matters and then the resolution ending up really being that nothing matters is brilliant. Also, there's muppet fucking and baby eating and it's FUNNY.

That was a searing disappointing finale.  But at least I was right and they never one-upped Pickle Rick.

Bring on the next batch.

I was kinda disappointed as well.
Still a fantastic season.

For one day only... SZECHUAN DIPPING SAUCE!
This Saturday, at participating McDonalds.. with their new Crispy Tenders


The McD website has a way to look for local stores NEAR U !?!
https://buttermilkcrispytenders.com/

Am old enough to remember the original. /drool

You like that? How about an over the top and thoroughly detailed reverse engineered recipe for it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhc_bXGvmp0&t=214s)? The guy also has some actually worthwhile recipe versions.

Also I quite enjoyed the finale, I kind of get that they did the reset but we actually had a bit of character growth while getting back to the start. In that way it's been rushed but actually way better than most shows that go for putting the status quo back.

Babish is one of the only YouTube channels I watch every new video of. Him and Primitive Technology. Amazing channels.

Not sure how S1 is better to reset to than S2. I'll have to watch the series again to see, but I thought Beth was pretty hostile towards Jerry & Summer even then. This is a complete shift, regardless.

In so far as it serves as a starting-off point for adventures, who cares?  The show is better with a little more Jerry in our lives.

Season 3 was supposed to be longer, but was cut down to 10 episodes and the last episode was a little rushed to get the season story line back where they wanted for season 4.  Supposedly was Dan Harmon dropping the ball rather than network interference.  People were pointing out the Citadel of Ricks episode would have been better as a season ender, but that didn't wind up the divorce storyline.

http://heavy.com/entertainment/2017/10/was-rick-and-morty-season-3-supposed-to-be-14-episodes-not-10-what-happened/

Citadel of Ricks was my second favourite and actually really, really needed some closure.

So, yeah, it should have been the finale.

I don't get why Pickle Rick is so great for you all? It started well, but went pretty quickly down to 'inter-dimensional cable' level quality. Which is not what I enjoy best about R&M, anyhow.

I put it on par with most of the other good episodes and a bit below their best.

Well fuck it, I agree with lamaros. World is ending, dogs and cats living together, etc.

Pickle Rick was awesome in all the ways that make the show absurd fun.

As for the finale, I thought it was a bit rushed but that the circle back around to the reset actually fit with a lot of the themes of the season, such as the ending of Pickle Rick.

Soon a secret love of Prometheus will bloom inside your heart.

What secret love. I'm on record sayin I liked it.

Thanks for that, it's interesting, I've always wondered how a Plumbus gets made.

Well fuck, the Stonestown McDonald's is gonna have the Szechuan sauce (the only one in all of SF).

I'm guessing it'll be an utter shitshow of high school students but I kinda feel like I gotta head out there tomorrow just to witness the spectacle.

It's not hard to make, plenty of recipes online.

To be honest I mostly want the poster and a couple of empty sauce packets to commemorate this weird little moment in pop culture.

BTW in case any of you were wondering.. that McDonald's thing was TOTAL BS, and a huge bait & switch.

Me and a couple of friends went to our "participating" store, and they had no sauce, posters or anything. The clueless burger slinger at the restaurant near me was apologetic, and I assumed it was only my location that got stiffed, until I got home from there and saw it wasn't an isolated incident.

Restaurants got at most 20 packets of sauce, and many listed on their website weren't even participating (like the one near me that was visited). I was actually surprised there wasn't McDonald's stores being destroyed by riots after reading that this was not isolated, and happened nearly everywhere.

Huffpost article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mcdonalds-szechuan-rick-morty-fans-pissed_us_59d95604e4b046f5ad98aab3

I also tweeted angrily at McDonald's because of this, and get more upset the longer I think about the hundreds of thousands of Rick and Morty fans that McDonalds DUPED. Seriously wish I hadn't posted about it to you guys, and hope that none of you had a similar experience because of my post.

psycho

There was only 20 packets per store, 200 stores in the whole country.

That's how you fuck up a great motherfucking viral marketing opportunity.

Yeah, I went out to the McD's near me that was allegedly participating and they had handmade signs taped up saying they were out of the chicken tenders and all "promotional materials" (ie the posters and the sauce).  I agree they fucked up what was otherwise a very clever move, I hadn't gone into a McDonald's with the intent of buying something for maybe a decade.  They must've had a lot of other people showing up to ask about the goddamn sauce which led to them putting the signs up; I even saw a few people walking around the mall with their Rick & Morty t-shirts.

Anyone want to bet that this packet (http://www.ebay.com/itm/RICK-AND-MORTY-Authentic-McDonalds-Szechuan-Sauce-Packet-RARE-161-/182814749976?hash=item2a909bb518:g:xMAAAOSwfglZ2X3b) never actually crossed the counter at McDonald's? That some of the participating stores that "never got" their sauce have managers obsessively reloading their PayPal page?

Yes, $176 Buy It Now for a single packet of sauce.

--Dave

Edit: Damn, I didn't think I was actually mad, but the number of typos I had to fix makes me think my subconscious is screaming.

Now I hope McDonald's does another run of that sauce, in exactly the same packets, just so that anyone who paid $200 for one feels like a complete goddamn idiot.

Thy wish is granted. On mobile so I can’t link properly but they announced its rerelease this winter on their Twitter today.

A friend called it “the Nintendo maneuver”.

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BBC:

Twitter:
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Do we have it too good?  :oh_i_see:

I would say yes, but Rick has taught me that nothing matters ever.

I honestly think anybody who drove 4 hours for that sauce should be quietly ushered into the back and made into Soylent Green. WTF. I have made it a ton of times at home. It's fine.

Participating mcdonalds was 7 minute drive, compared to one 2 mins the opposite way (not on participating list).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I...don't know why this thread is dead. Five episodes into the current season and the show continues to impress.

The dragon episode was fucking hysterical.

I think this thread died because the show is just funny as fuck, but the fan base outside f13 is such a twisted bunch of monkey nuts that discussion of the show usually devolves into "HOW DID YOU NOT GET THE GENIUS OF RICK AND MORTY!!!!"

Yeah, I watch it religiously, but actually being a "fan"? I'd rather come out as a furry.

--Dave

So say we all.

THERE'S A NEW SEASON ??!!!

 :rofl:

This series is great, bar the horrible dragon episode which felt like it was written by Seth McFarlane.

I just wanted to let you know that Google really wanted to translate this page for me.

I didn't let it.

Also sorry that lamaros could not comprehend the brilliance of the dragon episode.

The great thing about living offline is that I can be a fan of Rick & Morty without being a Rick & Morty Fan, or worrying about if I look like one.

JC the snake episode was brilliant. From mocking the culture and Summer with “snake jazz” to taking a shit on all Sci Fi time travel stories. The 80’s. The Snake MIB and Snake College Guy.  Even the Jerry plot was better than usual. Love that he takes care of himself and doesn’t acknowledge the plane crashing.

Jerry is such a quintessential white guy that way that it hurts.   :why_so_serious:

And we're back with Never Ricking Morty

It's way more enjoyable to watch than inter-dimensional cable. The next one was more normal.. and also a bit eh.

Less truly great episodes this season, but still fun watching.

I haven't watched any of the new episodes yet, but I will say this:  If they just sat on the couch and watched inter-dimensional cable every show, it would still be the funniest thing on TV.

New season (sans Roiland) is on Max.  It's good.  The spaghetti episode in particular is absolute top tier R&M if you ask me.

I agree. The spaghetti episode was fucking hilarious. I don't think they missed a beat without Roiland. If anything, shit got way darker. The hole episode was top notch as well.

Rolland was just doing the voices for a long time, no reason the show should decline in quality at all.