/cow/ - Lolcows

Archived the story about Roiland being a pedo as OP's Link wasn't working for me: http://archive.li/yNmxG

>>288441

>>288454

Roiland follows Hotwheels on twitter. He's admitted to going on both /co/'s undercover. There's plenty of edgy chan humor/references in all of his work.

>>288456

Yeah, Roiland seems to be pretty anti-SJW. There are a ot of rumors flying around that the reason it takes so much time between seasons is that Roiland and Harmon are constantly fighting. If you take into account Harmon's Asperger, the fact he is notoriously hard to work with and his "Trump voters are nazis and should be killed" stance, it sounds pretty likely.

>>288442

>🍟update🍔

God damn this was a painful nine minutes to sit through.

>>288441

I like some of the episodes, it's nice. Sometimes they say something, and then I smile. Like a couple of them suck and Harmon admitted that many season 3/2 episodes were complete shit. I've been losing favor of the show and i'm not really excited for season 4 though.

I go to see what other people who have seen it do, and they are complete fucking maniacs. They've been coaxed by capitalism into buying corporate meme sauce "as a joke" even though they believe in their heads that reddit and memey is the greatest show ever and they're higher beings who have IQs of 160+. I think it's something to do with a misunderstanding of philosophy. (Which they don't even come up with themselves, they have well edited flashy youtube videos explain how smart they are to themselves.) When you have an "ironic" public freakout about ©orporate McXD™© $auce and claim it's a joke, be aware of how you are what you pretend to be. Many of these people probably watch Sargon of Akkad and Black Pigeon Speaks while claiming to be a centrist, fedora in hand.

>>288467

Who is that gay kid in the first picture?

>>288468

I thought it was a pretty good explanation of why Rick and Morty fans with meme sauce were retarded: They missed the whole point of the joke, and that the joke was Rick is not someone who should be idolized, given that he did all the shit he did just for a fucking sauce. But they did anyway.

And to come to think of it, I knew there was a reason why this show never caught my interest.

Harmon neglecting Garfield the racist when?

>>288467

>They even bothered with the hand drawn pupils.

>>288481

Wait, if nothing matters in Dan Harmon's view, why is he making such a big deal about being being "racist"?

>>288485

The same reason why people who profess that nothing matters do still care about things: They're just bitter, trying to be smart, being a bunch of edgelords, being manchildren, or all of the above.

In other words, Dan Harmon only says that nothing matters, but he's just being a highschooler teenage emo or something.

>>288485

Ask him that on twitter and see what happens.

>>288489

*before the show begins

>>288468

>literally explaining the plot while needless inserting starbucks philosophy to make it seem more important than it is

>somehow its necessary to mention the nihilism and absurdism routinely found in adult swim animation for the last 20 years when rick and morty do it

2017: the year everyone forgot the venture brothers

>>288493

>>288493

C o n t e n t

word filter test:

cocks

c0ntent = cocks

>>288492

>likes some of the shittiest shows on television

Adult Swim's only good shows were World Peace and reruns of King of the Hill.

>>288493

>>288494

>>288495

Newfags.

>>288496

I hardly watch tv. I used to watch it when I was a kid or in high school.. when it was on late at night or something. I have never watched world peace. Sometimes a person will show adult swim in an online stream. That's about it for me.

From what I've heard Roiland is a cool dude, but he's fucking weird, Harmon is literally autistic and the [as] higher-ups made them hire female writers which turned the show into absolute shit.

wew

I feel bad for Roiland, though. He's not the only one that [as] fucked over, they cancelled several of their few enjoyable shows early because of (((moral reasons))), like World Peace and Moral Orel.

>>288504

I think it's more likely Harmon hired the female writers to "help" him get over his divorce while oblivious feminists saw it as a victory.

:|

>>288508

>IHE

>>288441

>1. Sent death threats to the staff because they hired female writers

To be fair that's the first sign things are about to go to shit. But, yeah the rest is full blown cringe.

yee

>>288479

* schmucks

>Here's a video of him screaming at a room full of people that they should go out and stab Trump voters for being nazis. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvsLLfRpLs)

You also left out the far funnier and more autistic fact that this derelict believes half of Americans are Nazis.

wubba lubba dub dub

>>288551

>the US has 320,000,000 people

>160,000,000 of them are Nazis

>the NSDAP at its peak at 8,500,000 members

>the US has almost 20 times more Nazis than Nazi Germany did

Then where the fuck are the camps and Swastikas? Does this man think?

>>288555

No, but even in Germany the Nazis won 40% of the vote tops in the last legitimate election in Germany. So, there are not only more Nazis by numbers, but also by proportion.

Who wants to see a video of Harmon pretending to rape a woman?

(This is from a "comedy" short from like 2003)

>>288567

LOOK AT ME, I'M DOING THE SAME EXACT FUCKING VOICE

would've been one hell of a funny shitstorm if it turned out that one of the feminist writers was responsible for the whole szechuan sauce bullshit

>>288644

so much cringe in just half a minute

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.

>>288681

If this isn't a copy pasta, you really are a total faggot because it's not rocket science to figure out half of the shit on Rick and Morty.

>>288644

>yfw Rick and Morty references this in Season 4

>>288708

It is

>>288719

I never understood the humor behind Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric. Both of them seemed like pretentious douche bags who live in their own little world, and none of their shows had any charm.

>>288467

>elfen lied OCs in this decade

>>288467

>Why are there so many girls out there that want to fuck Rick

Because being a insufferable and grumpy pseudo-intellectual is the new edgy nowadays, of course.

How did it get to that point, you ask? When the mainstream audiences finally learned how to act like anons on a imageboard. Which means, US.

You know what shit I'm fucking sick of hearing?

>yeah the fans are bad but the show is still good!!!

Or

>the fans and the haters are just as bad as each other!!!

I tell anybody who spouts this shit to go fuck themselves, the show and its fans are shit.

Come the fuck on.

>MR. POOPYBUTTHOLE XDD

>PICKLE RICK XDDD

>WUBBA LUBBA DUBDUB XDDDD

>AIDS XDDDDD

>EVERYTHING IS MEANINGLESS, WATCH TV XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

The show's "humour" is awful.

>>288834

>>EVERYTHING IS MEANINGLESS, WATCH TV XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

tbh I'm tired of all the cynicism and apathy of modern comedy. Nothing positive comes out of it.

>>288841

Go watch some anime, or read some manga.

>>288842

I dunno what you mean by that suggestion to that anon, but if that's expressing contempt because he's tired of this [current year]'s sour and downer attitude by telling him to watch animu or read Jap comics, then I'd say the meager and shallow cutesiness and optimism found in Chinktoons is preferable to the shit they're churning out in modern Western animation.

they come off as hipster douchebags but the show is entertaining. I mean the creators.

So is this sauce any good or was it just meh?

>>288855

>>>/reddit/

>>288860

Is that faggot's camo 12 kinds of shit or did you just set the JPEG quality as low as possible and resave it a few dozen times?

>>288477

An Alternate Morty called "Miami Morty."

>>288888

Don't click on this. I'm still in pain from the cringe.

>>288977

I'm sorry anon but you are currently suffering from cancer of the everything

>>288853

20 years from now, someone will bring this up, and the faggot who made that tweet is going to feel pretty dumb about it. God, I hate Rick and Morty fans.

>>288997

Naw. 20 years from now, nobody is going to care or remember.

>>288644

What the fuck is wrong with Americans?

>>289024

Oh they won't care about Rick and Morty when it's over. I mean for that fag's stupid enough to say he's done with McDonals after dressing up like Tumblr Rick.

>>289059

That pic isn't so bad because idk.. what's going on.

>>289065

👍I just don't know. 🍰🍩🍫☕🍵and tbh I don't want to know! It's a mystery that I never want to figure out! 🍮🎻

>>289067

I just started watching that vid that I posted. Those are some ugly cakes w/shitty decorating.

>>289068

>>289068

>..wow idk if that vid is a parody or what.. some of those aren't even cakes. I am convinced that video was made to irritate everyone. Kdone.

>>289064

It's amazing how much better that comic is if you get rid of the middle panel.

>>289070

👍feel free to edit it in ms paint!

>>289070

Brevity is the soul of wit; this is lost on most people.

>>288888

Nice quints, criminally unchecked

>>288853

She serious isn’t she? Wait. Or she a tranny?

>>289124

>she

>>289124

https://mobile.twitter.com/esternoons

Appears to be one of those ftm trannies.

>>288888

Who thought this was a great idea?

>>288888 (checked)

Chuck Lore is a terrible person and every show he's ever made has been shit. He's the person who made 2 1/2 Men, and Dharma and Greg. Now he's made this abortion.

>>289264

And he is also responsible for zimbabwe.

>>289253

>no how to take a screenshot tab

>no gaysex with hats on tab

try again

>>288888

WTF did I just watch? I knew network TV was cancer, but holy shit that's atrocious.

>>289321

How is it literally anything like Futurama?

>>289321

You forgot the part where they're clones of Stewie and Brian and every other "mad scientist with retarded sidekick" duo since Bride of Frankenstein

>>289353

It isn't. The writers of Futurama are educated so they have an understanding of how science works that goes beyond reddit makes.

>can we

>so can we please?

no you shitty fucking nigger

>>289321

implying futurama isn't shit aswell

>>289655

All cartoons are shit, honestly.

>>289655

It tried way too hard to be the new simpsons.

>>288441

Rick and Morty fans sure love their chicken tendies

just in case you didn't see it, here are Rick&Morty fans eating McDonalds sauce off the floor in a parking lot

>this is the future of America

>>291147

>THE NEW LISA SIMPSON

THAT'S FUCKING EXACTLY WHAT SUMMER IS TURNING INTO

I hate how this bitch went from a side character to a complete Mary Sue, fuck.

>>291345

Dude, calm down, it's just meant to look like a generic ass mad scientist dude. It's bland and plain, like the show and it's characters, that's why you mistook it for a Rick costume.

>>291321

Well yeah, generic teenage girls with ordinary teenage girl problems are always shit characters.

>>291422

Wasn't she supposed to be too incompetent to go on adventures?

Someone told me Rick and Morty is a stupid show. I scoffed at them and replied, "To be fair it takes an altitudinal IQ to comprehend, nein, fathom Rick and Morty. The humour is extrêmement subtile, and without a doctorate degree covering Bell inequalities, micro-lattice structures, and Schrödingerian quasi-contradictory quandaries et cetera (basically common knowledge among the top 10.3% among the world's best theoretical physicists) most of the jokes will evanesce or float away like Kantian noumena vis-a-vis Kantian phenomena, in other semantic units AKA words to plebes, as they say in some ethno-linguistic communities, but I digress: ありがとうございました. Furtherthus, to neologize a neologism henceforth, Rick’s existential-ideological naysaying, which is ITSELF located within/via Althusserian/Foucauldian poststructuralism along the subversive-critical lines of various neo-Marxist-Leninist-Maoist analyses - his tacit (cf. Polanyi) schemata appropriates affective resonances from Narodnaya Volya literature, AKA 네 엄마는 너무 뚱뚱해. The fans understand this 陰毛, as colloquially known (excepting for Gettier cases), to quote the Chinese media scholar Jean-Claude Baudrillard: "Un jugement négatif vous donne plus de satisfaction que d'éloges, à condition que cela ressemble à de la jalousie" ; they have the Intelligenz/くそ to truly (BUT WHAT IS TRUTH, cf. Sura 2:140, John 18:38) appreciate the Aristotelian-Thomistic-Hegelian synthetic a priori interpenetrative dialogic concealed within and without these tokens of jokes, to realise that they’re not just totalitarian HAHAHAs 😀 in a post-postmodern world of hegemonic HUHUHUs 😞 - light-hearted Chopin to your heavy-handed Brahms, if I may, no pun intended - they betoken something deep about Heidegerrian Dasein (cf. Mahabharata 5.39.58) through which we can, in the words of the poet William Wordsworth, 一个巫师从来没有迟到，他总是一个有力量的人 (Nǐ shìgè báich for those who aren’t fluent in Korean). m_nkind (note: "Mankind" is a sexist term, see Judith Butler's Gender Trouble published by Routledge, London:London March 1990) or should I say, specimens of m_nkind who manifest disaffection (i.e. βοηθήστε με, παρακαλώ να με βοηθήσει κανείς) contingent upon “their” finite liminal qualia vis-a-vis Rick & Morty’s transcendental apperception via meme-ification truly (but again, WHAT IS TRUTH? お前はもう死んでいる) ARE idiotos (masculine of idiota in German, contra p_triarchal discourse)- of course, necessarily they wouldn’t appreciate vis-a-vis their unity-of-consciousnesses, for instance, the linguistico-Bayesian formal articulation in Rick’s slogan existentiel “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a Derridian poly/hypertextual para-dactyllic reference to Turgenev’s Lacanian epic отцы и изюм (reminiscent of Turgenev's earlier вы используете переводчика, не так ли, сука?) I’m smirking right now in several languages just envisioning in my corpus callosoom one of those cisgendered, capitalist-fascist, hyper-Puritanical, anti-anti-anti-omnicorporatistic biguts scratching their 陰茎 (EXCUSE MY FRENCH) in anti-jouissance as polyglot, Renaissance Zen m_n Dan Harmon’s Minervian owl unfolds itself (Note: あなたは実際にこれを翻訳していたのですか？あなたはあなたの時間を無駄にしています ) at the break of dawn/don/DUNE (semantic balderdash!) on their Lovecraftian-boob-tubes, to subtly reference the semantic units of the Scottish philosopher David Hume who would also say: “あなたのママはとても太っている.” What 아 름 다 운 영 혼 을 가 진 바 보 들 .. je suis tout seul."

>>288481

>Rick is not someone who should be idolized

People looking up to Rick sort of reminds of of when the TV show House first came on the air and everyone was pretending to be like him. The fictional character they looked up to was clearly a deeply flawed individual who was unable to maintain healthy relationships and had a serious drug addiction. House's life was overtly portrayed as lonely and depressing and yet the normies idolized him.

I guess people interpret that kind of super edgy anti-social behavior as something desirable in the "current year" postmodern dystopia.

>>291427

Until they hired a bunch of stryng yndypyndynt wymyn writers who naturally had to turn Summer into a stryng yndypyndynt wymyn.

And now the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense considering Summer became a far more competent sidekick then Morty.

>>291515

>House's life was overtly portrayed as lonely and depressing and yet the normies idolized him.

Sage for off topic but this article might interest you https://archive.fo/MQgQe

>>291321

>implying she was ever a good character

She was always a boring cunt and that's all she can or will ever be.

>>291422

Wasn't the emphasis supposed to be about Morty being a little, useless cunt who realized he's part of something big when other versions of him got sick of their Rick's shit?! How do you go from that to Half-hour, Feminist-Social-Justice Power Hour!?

>New Lisa

Lisa was always a cunt on the Simpsons. She was supposed to be the level-headed one, but then they tried to make her a flawed character. Does she scream "SOCIAL JUSITCE!" in every fucking shit episode now?

>>291503

>Camel Crush cigarettes

Faggot.

>>291515

Doctor House shit his pants and did nothing wrong.

>used fiction magic to turn his painkiller from an epidemic life destroying drug into something that just takes his eternal pain away

>was always right with medical diagnoses and saved lives

>every time someone tried to force him off the pills THEY caused damage to patients' health

<but muh anti-social ;_;

>>288496

You missed

>Aqua Teen

>Space Ghost

>Venture Bros

>>291515

She hooked up with an idiot who wears a bucket on his head and they hunted and ate people together until rick destroyed their relationship by making life too normal. She wasn’t strong or independent. She was just being a god awful person. I think you entirely missed the point. Plus Rick repeatedly points out that Morty is the fun one to have adventures with. Not summer or Beth. I think you’re just looking for reasons to hate the show now that there are more female writers. I doubt that if you were not told about it ahead of time that you’d hold the same bias. I’m not saying it’s the greatest show ever. I’m just saying that your inserting a political bias.

>>291629

> How do you go from that to Half-hour, Feminist-Social-Justice Power Hour!?

Dan Harmon

>>291707

Also Sublab 2021, I remember they used to air Clone High, Undergrads and Mission Hill.

>>291678

His flaws helped the patients, but is that someone you want to idolize, imitate, be like? Most people don't have his intellect, if they act like him they will end up with all of his downsides and none of his ups. Being nihilistic doesn't automatically make you smart, and being a dick is much less amusing when dealing with people IRL, especially if you don't have his wit like most people probably don't. Essentially, House is a shit role model.

>>291768

>>291515

I feel the exact same way about Tony Montana from "Scarface". They fetishize about that scene with the pile of coke and the M16. Tony's life was a tragedy, that's the whole point of the story. He had to watch one of his friends get murdered with a chainsaw. He kills his best friend in a fit of rage. All of his body guards get killed in action…

>>291830

also he saw his sister naked finally only to have her get killed

>>291830

Yea, the people who idolize badass or edgy characters like Tony Montana, Walter White, etc, always seem to forget that everything went to shit with them and that it was their fault. Were there people in Shakespearean times who idolized macbeth like this?

>>291892

There definitely have been troubled characters that were idolized in the past. After Goethe had published 'The sorrows of young Werther' in the late 18th century, many young people idolized the sentimental/melancholic character, seeing his suicide as a way of rebellion against the older generation. The following trend of youth suicides even coined the term 'Werther-effect',which means that higly publicized suicides can cause an increase in the general suicide rate.

>>291147

Who the fuck is using r&m for racism? the altright fucking hates that show, and so does the left now because some of the jokes hurt their feefees

>>291321

>>291427

Indeed, tho summer was always supposed to be a secondary character, the dumb airhead sister

On the simpsons lisa used to be the voice of reason, then as the series went to shit writers turned her into a leftard parody, and after years of shitty seasons she became an actual non-ironic leftard so the writers could virtue-signal all they wanted

>>291422

Most people thought that was a shit episode tho.

The only good episodes of season 3 were the first one and the citadel one. All the others were half-assed at best or a marysue where some of the womyn writers they brought used jerry to project their unresolved daddy issues

>>291503

Post the chan version

>>288485

He's a piece of shit who got kicked out of every show he worked in. The one making this show even remotely funny is roiland who doesn't takes this shit too seriously

>>288491

>the venture brothers

Good show but the last season was shit, and they took 3 fucking years to make it

>>288555

>Does this man think?

Nope

>>291515

Most of the idiots who want to be like rick simply don't get the joke that the guy is supposed to be this super scientist and yet he's an alcoholic living in his son in law's garage

My guess is most of them are super edgy anti-social but they are also complete losers so rick is like this fantasy version of themselves who actually gets shit done they wish they could but IRL they are idiots who can't install shit without an app store

>>288467

>hispanic rick

Does this cunt even know his last name is sanchez? he's already hispanic

Anyway, practically all fangirls are fugly fatties so who cares

>>292103

>Does this cunt even know his last name is sanchez? he's already hispanic

It's because he's assimilated, speaks good English and is intelligent. All Hispanics have to be illegal aliens who lift free weights in the parking lot, right?

>>291585

That's the problem.

She used to be a random side-character, now she's a major character.

I 100% guarantee you that's because of the new writers.

>>292123

Female writers ruin everything and that includes gaming.

>>292122

The libtard racism of low expectations

>>292155

Excellent

>>288681

>>292198

Were they trying to be funny or what?

>>292198

>Illegal border wall

What

>>292272

Illegal alien border wall. Not illegal to be there.

>>289043

Drugs and estrogen from birth control slipping through water processing plants.

>>289043

Don’t lump me in with that sperg.

>>292517

Honestly, wasn't that mario in that advert was parody on Doc from Back to the Future? And Rick is a parody on Doc too? They both take from the same source.

>>292862

A parody of Albert Einstein like Doc was. And that would mean Rick is a parody of a parody. I'm not looking forward to Rickichu.

>>292517

>>288460

Ever wonder if they fight right up until the point Roiland starts Lemongrab screaming?

>>291719

Interestingly enough people actually published(I guess early self-published/author sponsored short runs) Sorrows of Young Wether fanfic, mainly to rewrite the novel with a happy ending. So yeah, some 1770s landwhale or autist was sperging over their "head canon" even back then.

>>293263

I think that got done because people were pulling Werthers when they were rejected by their most beloveds and the writer community felt kind of bad about it.

>>291892

I always hated that I related to Hamlet instead of Fortinbras

>>292952

Wtf is up with that accent?

>>299186

It's like a japanese guy trying to do an Italian accent. Or maybe vice versa.

>>291830

The original black and white one was way better

*looks at you smugly*

>>288467

Do they even try to imagine him in real life? Crazy elderly guy with unkempt hair and unibrow, ranting and being an asshole to everyone. Do there exist young girls attracted to that?

>>288472

3 was pretty fucking bad.

>>288460

>Make an episode about getting mcD sauce back

>whine like a cow with asbergers when they do it

>rape people

>>306063

Ever been through the Bible Belt™?

>>292800

Anarchists is that these days they are anti-gun, anti-individualism and specially anti-capitalism meaning that they are practically asking for a totalitarian government

>>293006

The first thing I thought when I saw the show was "back to the future on crack" (ghetto-grade crack btw)

>>306063

Its like weebs with their animu girls: they like him because its a fucking cartoon instead of an aging alcoholic that drools all the time

An animu girl will never get period farts for example

>>288472

>Harmon admitted that many season 3/2 episodes were complete shit.

Funny because he's the one that turned the show into complete shit with his white knight faggotry

>>306793

Of course this is a thing

>>292272

>palestine

>there are no boarders comrad

>let the refugees into Isreal

>so we can watch trash cartoon

>>291100

Bad deal unless she was fat. Should have forced her into a rape dungeon. Allow her to look at the sauce but not touch until she has served her "time". Then I would give her the sauce.

>>291135

>All that 56%

>>291503

>Hahaha! I'm a growed up but I am also be a baban!

Sickening.

>>304365

Cringe.

>>292198

EVERYONE ON SUICIDE WATCH

I’m going to come out and say it, I love Rick and Morty. It’s one of my top favorite shows, and it’s one of the few things in life I look forward to and keeps me going. Yet before even giving me a chance to explain my reasoning for it, /tv/ users will be as fast as lightning to tell me to go back to Reddit, or to dismiss Rick and Morty as “Reddit” in itself. At first, this merely seemed along the lines of the edgy contrarianism found within /tv/, much along the lines of the insufferable Star Wars prequels being “kino”. It seemed like nothing more than a mindless meme, so I paid them no mind and figured it would just die down eventually. But it didn’t, and only gained traction across many other boards on 8chan. It got so expansive that an infographic arose to explain why the show is dismissed as “Reddit”. The infographic starts with this opening statement:

“When Rick and Morty discussion pops up on /tv/, many will rightly criticize the show for being “Reddit”, an observation that is often outright denied or criticized for being too vague. While “Reddit” is used disperagingly for a reason, the term could use some clarification. Put succinctly, “Reddit” is used as an adjective to describe a program with certain characteristics designed to appeal to the same audience that heavily uses Reddit. These characteristics are contrived enough that they are easy to spot, and are as follows:”

So I read each and every one of the points on the infographic, and needless to say, none of them made sense to me. These are nothing more than baseless accusations that observe Rick and Morty in a surface-level manner with even more ignorance than the gullible normies swarming into the show’s fanbase, which pose a significant grievance to the fanbase’s veteran members, myself included. Rick and Morty has a unique integrity to it that I don’t think deserves to be ignored by the “Reddit” dismissal. Therefore, I’m going to debunk each and every one of the points that substantiate the claim that “Rick and Morty is Reddit”, exposing them for the fraudulent accusations they truly are.

“Glut of surface pop culture references: A Reddit user’s cultural references are restricted to Hollywood science fiction films and other “nerdy” fictional worlds. While these works can display thoughtfulness on their own, Rick and Morty will often soullessly deploy their aesthetics and jargon (ray-guns, wormholes, etc) without any sense of wonder. The show is effectively signaling a creativity it does not possess while simultaneously comforting the viewers with familiarity. In lieu of actual memorable moments, Rick and Morty will occasionally also resort to specific references to established intellectual properties (“Mad Max”).”

To start, the assumption that Rick and Morty’s science fiction references are not only heavily relied upon for the majority of its substance, but also that they stem from predominantly popular and well-known products like Mad Max or Star Wars, seems to imply that /tv/ users are making such an assumption from first glance of a few episodes, or worse yet, jumping right into season 3 without having seen the rest of the show. While there are admittedly references to more popular science fiction works in the show, i.e. Inception, Nightmare on Elm Street, Jurassic Park, The Purge and Mad Max, the amount of far more obscure science fiction works Rick and Morty alludes to is in far greater abundance. These include, but are not limited to, Lawnmower Man, Event Horizon, OVA Kite, the films and cinematic style of David Cronenberg, Zardoz, Bad Boy Bubby, Cloud Atlas, When a Stranger Calls, Hyperion, Buck Rogers, and quite a few Stephen King references, including Needful Things and The Langoliers. And most of the previously mentioned references are from season one alone, and were only the more prominent references to be listed compared to many, many others.

Fact of the matter is, Rick and Morty knows its sci-fi, and is profusely dense in its expanse of sci-fi. And it uses this to its advantage, utilizing a lot of B-movie and cult classic material to subvert either traditional societal mores, or even the source material itself. When it utilizes more popular science fiction references, it’s for the sole purpose of parody, which can be either direct or indirect, depending on the plot of the episode. Anatomy Park is a perfectly functional and very creative parody of Jurassic Park, going a step further than most Fantastic Voyage type parody plots by exploring how such shrinking technology could be fully capitalized on. Rick and Morty’s pop culture references are, in all actuality, quite rarely surface-level compared to the plethora of more obscure references that only hardcore science fiction enthusiasts will recognize upon first glance. Reddit’s attention span cannot possibly allow for such extensive trivia expertise.

>>310800

“Juvenile nihilism: Much like the denizens of r/atheism, Rick and Morty espouses the view that, since God is Dead, life is meaningless and all emotions are the result of strictly biological imperatives. This philosophy explains the show’s gratuitous violence and narrow view of a cold, uncaring universe. Rather than taking any joy in the art of expression, Rick and Morty assumes the passive attitude of an emotionally-maligned undergraduate who has just read his first Camus novel.”

I’m sorry, when has Rick and Morty ever explicitly stated that God is dead, or that life is meaningless?? Just because Rick is notorious for pontificating these blatant nihilistic broodings doesn’t mean that they reflect the attitude of the show itself. There’s a reason it’s called Rick and Morty, and not just Rick: The Show, or whatever. What appears to be Rick’s brand of nihilism is meant to be funny not because it’s pandered to fedora-adorned atheists via shameless preaching, but because of the results from the interactions Rick has with other characters of the show, specifically their discomfort and confusion. At least, that’s what the results warrant at first. As the show progresses, Rick’s influence on not just the people he’s around, but the very world they live in, takes an irreversible toll on them, as they involuntarily apply Rick’s influence to themselves, albeit in their own unique way.

From being around Rick the most, Morty understands him the best, and the nature of Rick’s influence can be perfectly described by Morty in the season 3 premiere episode, The Rickshank Redemption. Just because Rick is arguably the most genius man in the multiverse doesn’t mean that his particular genius is anything to aspire to. Many fantasize about possessing unstoppably vast intellects and argue that knowledge is power. Rick’s intellect is a unique anthesis to this aspiration, deconstructing any notion that knowledge results in power, even when action is applied. However soul-crushing and hopeless as this may sound on the surface, Rick’s actions indicate that he sees life not as meaningless, but a constant adventure that he must throw himself into in the name of science, regardless of who’s affected along the way. In that sense, Rick’s personal philosophy is not nihilism, but rather egoism, doing anything he wants without letting anything stand in his way.

In regards to the “God is dead” accusation, it’s implied in various instances in the show that Rick’s personal brand of atheism is likely a forced reaction from what could possibly be a religious upbringing early in his life, or maybe just theological insecurity. Despite his nearly godlike unstoppable intellect, Rick has had plenty of moments of weakness, reminding us that even his own vast genius cannot overcome his humanity, no matter how many times he insists he’s above it. His desensitization to the entirety of the multiverse in his travels, in addition to the enigmatic emotional baggage he must carry from his cryptic past, must beget a perspective of the universe that does seem quite cold and uncaring, hence is the only way he believes he can cope with it.

All of this applies exclusively to Rick and his character, not the attitude of the show itself.

>>310803

“Toilet humor/wacky babbling: When Rick and Morty can’t bother to shovel any more pseudo-intellectual fuel into the furnace of its cocks, it resorts to silly catchphrases and toilet jokes. One of the recurring side characters has the prestigious moniker of “Mr. Poopy Butthole”, and other catchphrases include the mouth confusion “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub”. These incidents could be excused as comic relief if they did not constitute the moments that fans quote most incessantly.”

Quantifiably speaking, the toilet humor in Rick and Morty is not shown in as much abundance as is being implied from this particular accusation. Even when toilet humor is utilized in Rick and Morty, it’s done with arguably a better sense of creativity than other shows, i.e. Jerry peeing on the guns of sentient dogs to display ownership of the guns, only to have his face shoved in his own urine by the dogs as punishment. Another example of this is my personal favorite, when Morty is forced to kill a sentient space cloud, previously named “Fart” by Rick, to prevent him from eradicating all carbon-based life in the universe; following this tragic and difficult choice, Rick tells Morty there are more sentient clouds coming to visit, which Morty is at first devastated in hearing, only to reveal a coarse fart from Rick’s own ass. I normally can’t stand fart jokes, so for such a joke as that to get a laugh out of me is nothing short of impressive.

There are actually far more intelligent meanings behind “Mr. Poopy Butthole” and “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” than on the surface; not to imply they’re genius-levels of comedy, they’re just smarter than they appear.

In the fourth episode of season 2, Total Rickall, the house is invaded with alien parasites that infiltrate the memories of its hosts and implants themselves as wacky characters, convincing their hosts that they’ve been with them all their lives and have a close sentimental bond with them. One of these zany characters is implied to be Mr. Poopy Butthole, but at the end of the episode, when he’s still among the family, Beth shoots him, believing him to be a parasite, with the shocking reveal that he was real the whole time, and Beth shooting him left him critically injured. The episode’s ending and its after-credits are both unexpectedly dark and heavy-hitting, instantaneously resonating with the viewers as they collectively expressed their worried concerns for a character named Mr. Poopy Butthole. It was all an elaborate ploy from Justin Roiland, co-creator and voice actor on Rick and Morty, to fuck with all of us. And it worked. Therefore, the comedy of a juvenile name like Mr. Poopy Butthole doesn’t come from the potty humor of the name itself, but from the intricate practical joke played on the audience that ends up shattering the 4th wall in a completely new way.

As for “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” and various other nonsense catchphrases, these are all meant to reflect the absurdity of the nature of such catchphrases as they’ve been previously utilized in other forms of media. Rick’s abundance of usage for “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub” in the first season is revealed all this time in the final episode of season 1, Ricksy Business, that the phrase is an alien expression which, translated to English, says, “I am in great pain, please help.” This revelation deconstructs the absurd nature of the catchphrase that was thought to have encompassed it in its earlier usage in season 1, subverting it into an aspect of character depth for Rick.

Granted, there’s no excusing the excess of these phrases being leaked into the more mainstream portion of Rick and Morty’s fanbase. What can I say? Normies will be normies, and these normies have likely only gotten into the series immediately following the launch of the Szechuan Sauce meme… very similar to how the excess of hate for Rick and Morty on 8chan and /tv/ has launched around the exact same point. Coincidence? I think not.

>>310804

“Irreverent violence: Like its contemporary animated program Family Guy, Rick and Morty will often utilize scenes of extreme violence. While this is by no means unique to the show, its own approach lacks the more beguiling uses of hyper-violence employed by talented creators (i.e. Verhoeven’s visceral interrogations of grisly spectatorship). Often Rick and Morty will tactlessly employ violence for a cheap shock, or tie it into another pop culture moment for a lazy juxtaposition. Since most fans of the show have likely never experienced the true trauma of violence themselves, these moments will come off as “daring” instead of trite and predictable.”

You know, I think this particular accusation can be perfectly combatted by this single quote from Morty in the eighth episode of season 2, “Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate”:

“Maybe people who create things aren’t concerned with your delicate sensibilities, you know? Maybe the species that communicate with each other through the filter of your comfort are less evolved than the ones that just communicate! Maybe your problems are your own to deal with, and maybe the public giving a shit about your feelings is a one-way ticket to extinction!”

In other words, the accusation in question is a straight-up Tumblrina-tier argument. I mean, God, it even reads like a haughty Tumblr post. In fact, it could even be argued that Morty’s outburst is meant to combat SJW attempts at filtering and censoring entertainment for the sake of “decency”, something I’d presume /tv/ would be on board with from the start. Of all the things to pride itself of, I never thought /tv/ would take inconsistency into account. Embarrassing, to say the least.

>>310805

“Corporate complicity: In one of the most egregious examples of product placement in recent memory, the season 3 premiere of the show included a subplot in which a main character laments the cancellation of a McDonald’s dipping sauce. The mention of this sauce cascaded into real life when the restaurant restored the sauce after much fanfare. Rather than viewing this incident with suspicion, fans of the show “ate it up” on social media, so to speak. Surely a program that is purportedly one of the “smartest shows on television” wouldn’t debase itself by catering to such obviously capitalist utilities?”

This is seriously a deliberately narrow way of viewing the Szechuan Sauce incident, as there’s a lot more to it than mere corporate shilling. Not only that, but the focus of this accusation here seems to be put exclusively on the Szechuan Sauce incident and not of any other similar instance, of which, there are only three total… which can all be certifiably confirmed as purely satirical in nature. The first instance of this satirical corporatism is a flashback looked upon in Total Rickall, where Rick frantically informs the family of a Wal-Mart sale for Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming systems, explaining a way to “flip those sons of bitches for $230 bucks easy”, and finishing his frenzy by facing the screen towards the viewer and saying, “Nintendo, give me free stuff!” What comes off as hastily inserted and shameless advertising very quickly shifts into blatant advocation for scalping, with the gall of topping it all off with “Nintendo, give me free stuff” ensuring that Nintendo couldn’t possibly have sanctioned their mention in this particular scene. It’s actually quite savage when you think about it.

The only other two mentions of namedropping corporate brands in Rick and Morty are both in The Rickshank Redemption, the first being Shoney’s, a family restaurant chain along the Eastern US border that’s arguably fading into obscurity. The mention of Shoney’s can be seen in two different ways, the first being a charitable act of promotion to help raise awareness of Shoney’s existence to the show’s audience, and the second being the show’s way of expressing how they can name-drop whatever brands they feel like, regardless of whether or not they even have permission to do so. Advertising in entertainment is usually the decision of marketing executives, who perpetuate the idea that it’s a privilege for shows to be kept afloat on the airwaves thanks to commercials funding them to begin with. So for such a decision to lie within the hands of cocks creators without the jurisdiction of marketing executives, or even the regard thereof, is nothing short of a middle finger to the nature of advertising itself.

The only remaining instance of this name-dropping is, of course, in the Szechuan Sauce itself. This sort of advertising is especially unique in that it’s not only solely the creators’ decision to include it in the show without McDonald’s having endorsed it to begin with, but that it’s a promotion for what was once a dead and forgotten condiment, one that was essentially resurrected by merely being mentioned on a show like Rick and Morty. The show is basically boasting a nearly unstoppable power now, a power that was once considered absolutely inconceivable and defies the very inherent nature of televised advertising itself: the power of the audience and creators over the advertisers, instead of it being traditionally the other way around. This is nothing short of revolutionary in the history of television. It isn’t debasing in the slightest, it’s actually the exact opposite.

>>310806

“In conclusion: Nobody cares if you enjoy watching Rick and Morty. However, the show is constructed so obviously that any denial of its formulaic appeal to the Reddit demographic is pure fraud. Additionally, any claim to its originality or intellectual status falls apart under close scrutiny. The fact that the show is so despised on /tv/ is due to the fact that all of this evidence is clear to those denouncing it. It is so clear, in fact, that any given copypasta mocking the show will single out a few of these facets. Don’t get defensive when directed back to Reddit, rather take the advice you will end up in more appropriate company.”

This conclusion here basically cements the thickheaded denial that /tv/ will display to any opposition to its forced memes and antagonistic nature, which is a subject entirely its own, and is better suited for another time. It’s basically brushing off any and all opportunity for legitimate debate over the quality of Rick and Morty by insisting it is exclusively Reddit and treats its testimony to such a flimsy excuse as essentially empirical in nature, without even having the slightest bit of self-awareness to the fact that the entire “Reddit” argument is, in every fiber of its being, a shameless ad-hominem, being utilized as a blanket statement to vilify the show as something it’s clearly not, solely for the self-satisfaction of the circlejerk mindset that opposes it to begin with. It’s an argument that refuses to acknowledge Rick and Morty’s merits as a show based upon its unconventional methods and sheer unpredictability. Yes, Rick and Morty is definitively unpredictable, and to deny that with such arrogant, baseless dismissals as it being “formulaic” would basically be admitting ignorance to the show’s true nature. Nobody could have possibly predicted a show like this doing things such as riding the beast of advertising like a racehorse, evoking the most absurd forms of investment from its fans, and even going as far as to air its third season premiere on April Fool’s Day with back-to-back repeats of the same episode up until midnight, all completely without warning.

The given conclusion here resorts to intellectual intimidation, with the aim of denying others the ability to rebut the fallacious arguments intended to label Rick and Morty and its fans as “Reddit”, much in the same way as the Nazi establishment dismissed Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as “Jewish physics”; how convenient that /tv/ happens to be infected by /pol/ all the same, isn’t it? If “nobody cares if you enjoy watching Rick and Morty”, then how come the mere mention of the show is immediately met with hostility and barbaric alienation? Don’t you figure the reason people are trying to discuss it on /tv/ and other boards on 8chan without being met with the “Reddit” dismissal is because they don’t want to be on Reddit to begin with? The reason so many people turn from 8chan to Reddit is because they’re looking for a platform of legitimate open discussion, completely unfiltered from mob mentalities, regardless of whether such mentalities are in support for the subject at hand or not. To be met with an equally obnoxious echo chamber as Reddit itself reeks of the most bitter irony of all, that instead of serving as a haven from Reddit, /tv/ and 8chan as a whole has fermented into the opposite side of the coin, the tails to the heads that is Reddit.

As for my conclusion, I likewise don’t care if you don’t like Rick and Morty. What I do care about, however, is that if you dislike it, you actually voice your honest thoughts and opinions on it to be open to unfiltered debate, instead of brushing it off as “Reddit”, with the sole intent of eliminating any argument before they even form. Even as much of a fan of the show as I am, I’m perfectly willing to admit it isn’t perfect, and I have my gripes with it. The “Rick Dance” in Ricksy Business was cringeworthy for me, and it was thankfully forgettable. The fourth episode of season 3, Pickle Rick, as awesome as I personally found the episode itself to be, was not the best introduction to Susan Sarandon for me. And even I’ll admit that the third season’s writers might be a detriment to the show’s integrity, as can be seen with explicitly liberal tendencies inserted into the writing that ruin what could otherwise be enjoyable humor with obnoxious liberal identity politics. I would love to see more actual discussion over the show without any childish mob mentalities hindering the desire to express one’s honest thoughts on it, hence why the “Rick and Morty is Reddit” meme needs to fucking die. It’s forced, obnoxious, and thoroughly fallacious. It has no place in legitimate discussion of Rick and Morty, and it never did to begin with. So stop using it. For Christ’s sake, stop using it. Please.

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>>310807

Nice blogpost, redditor.

>>310884

It's a copypasta faggot

>>288644

>That Naruto run at the end

No matter how many times i see this vid, it always makes me want to punch this guy in the face

As Jim fan and also a Rick and Morty fan. I feel ashamed of the rest of the fanbase.

>>288779

because of this, i have the opinion that one is a well crafted troll. Because if it isn't oh boy, i've lost hope.

<having any hope to start

>>430009

Pretty sure that one's real, but I think their deviantart is deactivated so I can't check.

Dan Harmon likes cuckolded porn.

>>288467

>Sidekick is an underage prostitute

lawl

>>429947

Why would you admit that?

>>293010

I'm pretty sure Harmon would be the one to do that.

>>288467

Same reason there are so many guys who jack it to straight shota tbh. Except girls are stupid so they turn their daddy porn fantasy into a "fandom".

>>430395

>He even came to the part where the white guy is licking the bull's dick clean

This should not be a surprise to anyone considering how much pro-degeneracy propaganda his cartoon is.

>>288467

>Why are there so many girls out there that want to fuck Rick, especially on Tumblr?

Daddy approval. The average tumbrtard is 90% daddy issues.

>>430626

IIRC the show also has the classic blonde cheerleader dating a nigger within the first few episodes.

>>288441

>Justin Roiland once got caught DMing underaged girls on twitter.

She was 17 you fucking dope. Don't grasp for straws if there aren't any.

>>430708

It's a redhead and its the main protagonist's love interest to boot.

>>288496

>king of the hill

>good

nah

American dad is a TBS show, but it is also on adult swim, that's good, I liked robot chicken when that was still ongoing, I'm sad about MDE being gone. Adult swim has a lot of absolute garbage. I can't believe I'm saying this but rick and morty is actually better than most of what is on adult swim right now. It may be the most reddit teir, but at least it isn't the most boring or crudely drawn(it is still pretty crudely drawn though)

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>>288647

That guy was actually making fun of the rick and morty fanbase. The Naruto run was intentional; all part of his script. He is without a doubt /ourguy

>>433250

I love Mumkey so goddamn much.

Pickle Ree/Chairman Mar is indeed a god

>>433250

>it was fake guys!

Ironically doing something is still doing it. It was pretty fucking obvious what he was doing, it doesn't excuse the fact that he is retarded for doing it.

>>433238

>implying it wasn't

You go to hell.

>>433250

>We gotta make this art guys. This art is my life. Because it's art.

>No. I like Rick and Morty. It's a good show.

Sure guy.

>>434594

The show that single handedly started the YouTube Poop genre. Thanks anon.

>>288888

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1bBcoyF2G0f

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>434677

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Someone post nigger rick

>>288491

Venture Brothers sucked, and wasn't much better when you think about it. It started to sink into Lolrandum-muhnostalgia shit-tier stuff around the end of Season 2, and added faggots like H Jon Benjamin into the show.

>>504298

How about no

I'm surprised chijo the tranny hasn't showed up in this thread.

>>509805

WUBALUBADUBDUB!

>>509805

I'M PEDO RIIIIIIIIIICK!K

>>509805

Somehow sjws and Rick and Morty fans will defend this sick fuck.

>>509975

Radical centrists already are defending the guy.

>>433250

>Hey guys, look at how retarded I am!!

>Jokes on them, I was just kidding

>>430395

The dude is talking about porn, cuckold porn, when he describes the guy licking the bulls dick, he describes him as "The kid from Pet Cemetery". No one else finds it a little odd that is the only description he could come up with?

>>509975

Astronomical IQs.

>>430626

>Same reason there are so many guys who jack it to straight shota

Hey, it's not my fault that most of the hentai cocks with MILFs is either Shota or NTR.

only reason Pickle Rick became a meme was to trigger Chris-chan

>>433238

Correct