# Rick and Morty renewed for 70 more episodes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929 "2018-05-10T17:42:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/21 "2018-05-11T12:28:58Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Especially if you’ve had real Szechuan sauce. I lived in China two years, but I don’t remember anything like that McDonald’s sauce. Having said that, sweet and sour is\* identical\* in China. Maybe one of the only things that was actually identical. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/22 "2018-05-11T17:33:26Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I lived in China two years, but I don’t remember anything like that McDonald’s sauce. Having said that, sweet and sour is\* identical\* in China. Maybe one of the only things that was actually identical. Don’t they have Szechuan Chicken or Beef in China or are those American creations? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/23 "2018-05-11T17:35:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I lived in China two years, but I don’t remember anything like that McDonald’s sauce. Having said that, sweet and sour is\* identical\* in China. Maybe one of the only things that was actually identical. Well right. It was an American invention by an American corporation for a tie-in campaign to an American movie about a Chinese woman. Only natural that it isn’t “real” Chinese sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/24 "2018-05-17T16:12:22Z")
Yeesh, 70? That’s a lot of episodes. I love the show, but I’m not sure how they’ll sustain it with any kind of quality that far down the road. _All_ of Rick’s moves are dick moves! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/25 "2018-05-17T16:18:43Z")
Wow, I never heard of it. I must be missing something GREAT, lost in my own tiny tv viewing world. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/26 "2018-05-17T16:43:03Z")
Eh, it is about a completely amoral superscientist with infinite versions of himself across the multiverse who casually destroys worlds and cultures while dragging along his idiot grandson as ‘camouflage’. It can be amazing, it can be hilarious, but it has attracted a very toxic fanbase, a significant portion of them who themselves want to be amoral assholes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/27 "2018-05-18T04:08:47Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Eh, it is about a completely amoral superscientist with infinite versions of himself across the multiverse who casually destroys worlds and cultures while dragging along his idiot grandson as ‘camouflage’. > > It can be amazing, it can be hilarious, but it has attracted a very toxic fanbase, a significant portion of them who themselves want to be amoral assholes. ☹ I’m a fan and I’d say this a pretty accurate, concise summation. You gotta admit: people without morals sure seem happy. I mean, there’s nothing standing in the way of them having what they want, so they usually get it, right? I’ve always been jealous of the ethically challenged in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/28 "2018-05-18T13:37:13Z")
Where did you get the idea that Rick is happy? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/29 "2018-05-18T16:18:50Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Where did you get the idea that Rick is happy? Where did you get the idea that I said Rick was happy? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/30 "2018-05-18T18:13:26Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Eh, it is about a completely amoral superscientist with infinite versions of himself across the multiverse who casually destroys worlds and cultures while dragging along his idiot grandson as ‘camouflage’. > > It can be amazing, it can be hilarious, but it has attracted a very toxic fanbase, a significant portion of them who themselves want to be amoral assholes. ☹ I enjoy the show and quite like it; but one thing that gives me pause, is that Rick is not just an immoral asshole - he’s a _relentlessly joyless_ immoral asshole, who hates himself as much as he hates everything else; you get the impression he wants to be less of an asshole (particularly to his own family), but simply doesn’t know how. Why anyone would want to be like Rick I have no idea; in the show, even _Rick_ doesn’t want to be like Rick. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/31 "2018-05-18T19:07:22Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Why anyone would want to be like Rick I have no idea; in the show, even _Rick_ doesn’t want to be like Rick. I dunno…he seems to take pride in being the Rickest Rick of them all. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/32 "2018-05-18T19:39:25Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I dunno…he seems to take pride in being the Rickest Rick of them all. But Ricks hate Rick. He’s the Rickest Rick … so the other Ricks hate him the _most_. From the Rickshank Redemption: > [@](#): > > Morty: It’s the Citadel of Ricks. All the different Ricks from all the different realities got together to hide here from the government. > > Summer: But if every Rick hates the government, why would they hate Grandpa? > > Morty: Because Ricks hate themselves the most. And our Rick is the most himself. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/33 "2018-05-18T19:46:50Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > But Ricks hate Rick. > > He’s the Rickest Rick … so the other Ricks hate him the _most_. > > From the Rickshank Redemption: I read that as them hating all the other Ricks because they are all raging narcissists. Rick is a depressed, nihilistic, alcoholic narcissist. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/34 "2018-05-18T19:56:51Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Why anyone would want to be like Rick I have no idea; in the show, even _Rick_ doesn’t want to be like Rick. It’s the same people who look up to the Joker, because you don’t fuck with them. They want to be the super smart dangerous crazy guy. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/35 "2018-05-18T20:56:31Z")
At least Dan Harmon unequivocally condemned his toxic fans. But 70eps of R&M is like 70 books from George RR Martin, ain’t gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/36 "2018-05-18T21:05:53Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > At least Dan Harmon unequivocally condemned his toxic fans. But 70eps of R&M is like 70 books from George RR Martin, ain’t gonna happen. It depends on what the contract says. If it demands 70 episodes and he signed it then he had better produce 70 episodes or expect a hefty financial penalty. If it is “up to” 70 episodes at a price per episode then I doubt he would do 70 in this lifetime (although seven episodes a year for ten years or ten episodes a year for seven years doesn’t sound too onerous). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/37 "2018-05-19T04:02:47Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I read that as them hating all the other Ricks because they are all raging narcissists. Rick is a depressed, nihilistic, alcoholic narcissist. You left out “amoral” and “gun-running.” ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929/38 "2018-05-19T04:30:02Z")
Just going from memory but Rick is the Rickest Rick because while all Ricks hate the government these other motherfucking Ricks “solved” the problem by forming a government. So they hate him because he is the “Rick” of the Rick government. Just as the Rick government is the “Rick” of the regular government. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-renewed-for-70-more-episodes/813929.md?page=1)