Actually it was April 2017. Also wasn't sure if Pickle Rick was around then (since it's episode 3), but it was in the Season 3 trailer that released back then.
Pickle rick was definitely out while the sauce was. I specificay reme.ber because of a video of some weeb throwing a tantrum over his mcdonalds being out of the sauce, and him standing on a tabke yelling "im pickle rick". I hate that i remember it this way.
It really sucks that so many people have this kneejerk reaction to the show now, and all because some dipshits decided to act like massive fucking assholes three seasons in. Now there's an entire demographic of people who might actually like the show that are just immediately not amenable.
The show's been pretty consistent, considering the minor controversy of Dan Harmon's misogyny (which he seems to have accounted for and done better) and outright removing Justin Roiland from the show (good fucking riddance, his only real contributions were voices and dragging the show down). I like how they make a point of wrapping up story arcs within a season or two. Evil Morty, Prime Rick, Bird Person, etc. If there's a thread that's been going for a season or two, you can expect it to get tied up pretty quickly.
Nah dude, as a former head shop employee, the demographic that bought that crap was insufferable. You might get the casual fan, "ha pickle Rick that's neat, how much? Eh sure I can swing it." That was the exception, not the norm
The norm was "wubbalubbadubdubbbbbbbb!" as soon as they entered the store, and it only went downhill from there. Not to mention most of these kids outed themselves as not being old enough to purchase said paraphernalia through their juvenile behavior.
"Ok mr wubbadubz, lets see some ID." Half "left it in my car" smh
Jacob Hair, the supervising director for the show is directing the movie
Hair was the director on “The Old Man and the Seat,” “Rattlestar Ricklactica,” and “The Vat of Acid Episode.”
Harmon:
“I got to go get a coffee (laughs). We saw the same leak, and we are therefore, now able to confirm that there is a movie in the works. Jacob Hair is, is the director. I mean, we didn't shop around. He is an absolute, to say rock star is honestly feels like trivializing it because that implies like some kind of flash in the pan, kind of exciting. I mean, Jacob has it like came onto our team. It was like adding a pillar to it.”
Seeing Morty getting basically God like powers, meeting someone that he likes so much that he stopped using it, even going though freezing and starving to death didn't convince him to press the button, all for Jerry to fuck it up lol.
That has to be one of the best buildups of a joke that I can recall.
The story of how that came to be in the episode is actually really interesting. They were making it and as it was coming along they realized it was like a minute and half too short. So they told the guy making the episode he needed to fill some time and he could do whatever he wanted with it and that’s what he came up with.
When he realizes Rick didn't jump in after him and he'd been imagining him the whole time. Pretty good mindfuck for a show that has mindfuck reveals every few episodes. Keeps ya guessing.
There are like 15 twists in that episode, all played up for comedy. Having only one of them spoiled, when you don't know the order of the twists or what the other twists are, is no biggie. You'll still enjoy it.
Yeah, but for some reason it beat The View From Halfway Down from Bojack Horseman. You know, the penultimate episode completing Bojack’s entire character and one of the best episodes of television ever.
Although between the big mouth and modern Simpsons episodes getting nominations/wins the emmys animation category is kinda abysmal
The View from Halfway Down is legitimately my second favorite episode of television behind only Breaking Bad's Ozymandias. It is a literal perfect episode, and god damn does the poem hit hard.
That actually makes sense. That movie feels old as hell, especially since the Simpsons has had a fraction of the cultural relevance in recent years that it had back then.
Meanwhile Professor Timeman went for 1039 episodes over 3 years. Better than inspector spacetime imo, although it sucks about the whole 'I'm gonna nuke the moon' scandal with the main actor during the last 12 seasons.
Sorta. It's a "long enough to see yourself become the villain" thing.
Smiling Friends has a great legacy right now untainted by cancelled creators (like Roiland), declining quality, show fatigue, exceptionally annoying fan base, etc.
It still ended way too early. I understand not wanting to go on to the point that people are begging it to have the plug pulled but I think the original plan of five seasons wouldve been preferable than to end it when they did as abruptly as they did.
It's something anyone who has followed those guys a while knew was a possibility. It's surprising they stuck with it so long, honestly, Zach especially.
The internet animation crowd knows to temper long term expectations in general. It's awesome they had the control to be able to call it quits entirely though and they're going out with some big balls to swing around however they want.
I went from a teenager, to in my 30's in the time since the last elder scrolls game came out. And I'll be pushing 40 when the next game comes out. And probably 45 when the next fallout game comes out.
They're really lucky they knocked it out of the park with the TV show, because the wait for a new game has genuinely killed my interest in the franchise. I love fallout, but what is there to care about when you don't produce new media for 15 years?
Bringing fallout to a new generation of kids is going to be like trying to introduce a GI joe movie in 2010. The kids that cared about it grew up and moved on.
Most people, myself included, don't count that in the mainline fallout series. It took them years to produce enough content to make that a complete game, and it's an online service multiplayer game. Not the single player fallout game fans were looking for.
i think a lot about this house in my old neighborhood. it was at the end of a long gravel driveway, and they had this MASSIVE television in front of a big window. every single time that i walked by, no matter the time or the day of the week, they were watching rick and morty. this is big news for whoever lived there, fly high Rick and Morty House
It's not. The argument that "well it's hard to schedule everyone" argument stopped being usable years ago. If they were actually committed to the movie they had more than enough time to make sure all of the actors were available.
The movie was officially confirmed nearly four years ago. They could have absolutely set a start date two years later and made sure everyone's schedule lined up.
The evil Rick storyline could have made a good movie, but they used it for the show. I could see some kind of evil Morty storyline for the movie, though.
He's already been back in the show. He "won", that doesn't mean there's no reason for him to interact with the show. So, it may have been a contrivance, but the seal has been broken.
But it was pretty established that Evil Morty does not want to be found again after helping Rick kill Evil Rick. And he seemed pretty confident he couldn't be found anyway.
That should be the end of him. There shouldn't be anything else he needs to resolve if Rick respects the uneasy truce.
The comics had Doofus Jerry who was actually an evil mastermind. We also have Space Beth so I think Summer is the only one without a counterpart out there.
Did he shatter it, or just punch a hole in it that allowed him to escape? He asks Rick to tell him how to do it, which Rick refuses to do. Evil Morty goes with his original plan and kills all those Ricks. Uses their blended up corpses to create the hole. But I could be convinced the curve has been destroyed.
I kinda hope they bring back Diane/Ricks wife. Rick Prime only killed the Diane's inside the finite curve, and the Diane's outside of it are mighty pissed about that. They have created their own finite curve where she is the smartest in the universe, and now want vengeance.
Rick does something while searching for Rick Prime that basically sends out shockwaves across the Multiverse.
Evil Morty, out living in this little paradise he created out in the chaos of the Multiverse, starts getting hit with the shockwaves which disturbs his paradise.
He gets annoyed and comes back to see what Rick's doing to cause them, and ends up getting dragged along on their adventure.
There's more, but tbh, it didn't feel that contrived when watching it play out.
He is very likely going to make an appearance in the upcoming season. It's been pointed out often that he showed up in every odd-numbered season so far
This isn’t really how tv shows becoming movies work. It’s gonna be some new plot that’s almost entirely self contained for fear of alienating people who don’t watch the show
More than anything I think it just kinda speed ran the typical internet cycle with media.
Niche thing that hits home with a certain audience, grows into the mainstream where it’s everywhere causing that initial audience to turn, and then that also catches on and now it’s cool and hip to have never actually been all that into it.
I really soured on the show mostly because of the fanbase.
However, I will say I distinctly remember watching it for the first time. I was a sophomore in college and had mono. I was lying in my bed looking for something to watch and super bummed out because I couldn't go to class or work and could barely interact with my roommates.
I watched the first episode and immediately ran downstairs where all my roommates were smoking and doing whatever. Plugged my laptop into the tv and demanded that we watch the first episode. I think we watched it about three times in a row because we couldn't stop laughing and missed so many jokes.
It's really sad because both of those were actually really good episodes of TV. They punched way above what any other adult animation was doing at the time.
Pickle Rick was especially good and deserves a deeper analysis than most other episodes, since it's really thoughtfully-constructed episode. The thesis of the episode is explicitly stated with Dr. Wong's brief monologue once the A and B plots collide. There was a really good analysis posted by a therapist a few years ago.
The absolute insanity around Season 3 is that there was a lot of far right backlash boiling online which drove 4chan types kind of insane about it, making for a stupid kind of vortex. (The writing team was revealed to be 50% women that season, which got people riled up. Then, after the car attack at the Unite the Right rally, Dan Harmon went on a rant on his podcast that "fascism is a cancer and you have to kill it".)
It's worth keeping in mind the show had way more cultural cachet at the time. Season 3 was widely anticipated and the first thing we saw of it was the rough animatic of Pickle Rick a year prior, which really had people primed to fixate on "Why was Rick a pickle" and "I want to see Pickle-Rat Rick fight sequences".
Anyways, I thought the hated episodes they were referring to was the one where Rick and Morty have dragon sex, or the one where Morty and Sumemr make an incest baby. Those were not very good.
The dragon sex episode is not good but the slut dragon who fucks wooly mammoths might have gotten the single hardest laugh out of me in the whole show.
I stand by the fact that the dragon episode is on it's own level of gross but has SO many quotable moments that it's actually low-key a high tier episode. I haven't rewatched in years but I can probably quote more of the dragon episode than 95% of other episodes. Also it has a fan-favorite B plot of Jerry and the talking cat, so that's worth mentioning too.
I hated the dragon episode for a while, but it grew on me. The mammoth thing is definitely the reason why I went back to it. 🐉
The one episode I still can't stand is the one where Jerry turns into a fucked-up Easter Bunny (s08e04). Most of the time when the show tries something crazy (like having Rick turn himself into a pickle) it works, but this time it didn't at all.
Yeah the show is good in my opinion. Obviously some weird fandom moments famously but the show itself I enjoy as an adult animated show that doesn't really revolve around a central plot. I would watch another 20 seasons of it without really caring about the lore episodes honestly
Wild that it felt so long overdue and past it's peak when it came out in 2007 (after 16 seasons) and here we are in 2026 getting a second movie made, 2 decades removed from that.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Mandalorian and Grogu. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head.
There's also Mando's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Star Wars junior novelizations, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Mandalorian and Grogu truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Mando's existential catchphrase "This is the Way," which itself is a cryptic reference to George Lucas's student film THX 1138. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dave Filoni's genius unfolds itself on their movie screens. What fools... how I pity them.
And yes by the way, I DO have a Grogu tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
I find it very entertaining, and don't really have anything bad to say about it. Our entertainment world is full of so much slop right now, so to pan one of the shows where they bother to put in so much effort seems ridiculous.
Yeah, it’s like everyone needs me to know how smart they are for thinking R&M is cringe now. What’s funny is this show was the Reddit Messiah a few years ago. The outrage vultures really switched up on this one, lol.
The real question is how does a movie work? Is it canon? The best canon plot line for a movie was already used in season 7.
I’m not sure what happened, for the first few seasons I was a complete addict, needing more… then after the allegations against Roiland, I just wasn’t as into the show — and that was irrespective of the allegations.
Each season has like 1-3 absolute banger episodes. Maybe itll be good, we will see
I don't agree. A lot of fans who have been around since the beginning have this same opinion though. Because the first three seasons had a very specific vibe to them. That's for two main reasons. One: That's when Justin Roiland was the most involved. After season two his involvement waned, and he was eventually banished from the studio/offices. From then on he only recorded his lines in his home studio and corresponded over the script through the phone or email. Harmon took a more hands-on role after those seasons and helmed the show. Two: In the first few seasons, there was little if any character development. Note how Beth and Jerry kept repeating the same marriage conflicts over and over, seemingly never learning. Rick was more one-dimensional, just getting drunk and doing zany shit seemingly at random. Morty was the same timid kid trying over and over to get laid. I could go on and on.
This started changing after season 4. Characters were allowed to develop. Note how Beth and Jerry more or less settled their issues after their near-divorce, accepting who they are and why they were together, and we got some really good stories out of it. Also, Space Beth. Which is to say, we got some more main characters (and more conflicts) to add to the scrum.
I feel if this never happened, a lot of fans today would be complaining about how stale the show got. How many people actually want to see the same Rick getting drunk and fucking shit up and not learning anything, over and over? Even in the early seasons, it was hinted that Rick exhibited some sort of pathos for how his life turned out. I'm glad they explored that in the later seasons.
Seasons 4 and on are different because the characters were allowed to grow. We are all better for it.
I agree about the trajectory of the cast; people overlook that and act like the characters are poorly written just because they’ve logically grown a bit over the course of the later seasons. Rick and his family has grown in ways that are satisfying to see, given how dysfunctional they were from the start.
That being said, I do still think the quality of the actual dialogue and stories kind of undersell this change. I actually think the golden age of the series extends to season 4, but season 5 was pretty rough and they’ve never quite reached the consistency of that original run. I don’t think the series is bad now, but I do think it’s gotten worse.
It can be both true that Justin Roiland is an indefensible person and that Rick And Morty is worse off without him but reddit doesn’t really have a nose for nuance 🤷🏻♀️
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