# Rick and Morty -- the new animated show from Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [January 21, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380 "2014-01-21T17:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/281 "2016-08-31T01:30:45Z")
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT! c ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/282 "2016-08-31T01:36:01Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT! > > c Let me out! Let me out! This is not a dance! I’m begging for help! I’m screaming for help! Please come let me out! **I’m dying in a vat in the garaaaaaaaaaaaaaage!** ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/283 "2016-08-31T04:00:21Z")
Spaghetti? Kangaroos? I’ve gotta check this place out. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/284 "2016-08-31T14:36:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Let me out! Let me out! > This is not a dance! > I’m begging for help! > I’m screaming for help! > Please come let me out! > **I’m dying in a vat in the garaaaaaaaaaaaaaage!** Oh, my god, Oh, my god! _crying_ What about your short game? ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/285 "2016-08-31T14:41:54Z")
_All_ of Rick’s moves are dick moves! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/286 "2016-08-31T15:08:37Z")
We loved the show, but for my money the best joke was after Morty has got his sex robot and he’s hitting it like it owes him money, and the scene is the family downstairs hearing the noise and feeling the ceiling shake. They say a few uncomfortable things… and you figure that’s the joke, ha ha, Morty’s humping the sex doll. Then suddenly you hear him running, and Morty dashes up to the table, sweating. He grabs the orange juice, drinks half of it, says “Uh… back upstairs!” and runs away. I don’t know why but we were just crying with laughter. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/287 "2016-08-31T16:26:48Z")
Whatever you do, don’t name it! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/288 "2016-08-31T16:50:16Z")
So when IS Ricksgiving, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/289 "2016-09-01T00:25:20Z")
…|…Peace among worlds, Rick. Peace among worlds…|… ---
**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:** [September 1, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/290 "2016-09-01T04:09:57Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > So when IS Ricksgiving, exactly? See post 276. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/291 "2016-09-01T04:38:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > See post 276. Specifically, it’s the day on which Rick gave the people of the microverse his Gooble-Box technology. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/292 "2016-09-01T21:32:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > See post 276. No, when is it in OUR universe? Is it before or after Spider Peace Day? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/293 "2016-09-02T03:50:34Z")
Spider Peace Day isn’t in our universe, either… but they were already celebrating Ricksgiving in that microverse _before_ RAM returned to be disgusted by the great-ice-cream-ruined-by-flies that was a result of Spider Peace Day. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/294 "2016-09-02T03:58:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Let me out! Let me out! > This is not a dance! > I’m begging for help! > I’m screaming for help! > Please come let me out! > **I’m dying in a vat in the garaaaaaaaaaaaaaage!** Tiny Rick! ---
**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:** [September 2, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/295 "2016-09-02T19:11:03Z")
Pretty specific pitch, Summer. I probably _could_ turn myself into a teenager and hang out in the zit-covered, hormone-addled, low-stakes assworld that is high school, but here’s my reverse ask: why in the f\_\_\_ would I ever do that, _ever_, and how _dare_ you even ask me that, and why aren’t you more ashamed of yourself? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/296 "2016-09-02T19:18:36Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Well, they aren’t similar in _tone_, that’s for damn sure. Yeah, it’s got an almost improvisational tone. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/297 "2016-09-02T19:39:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Pretty specific pitch, Summer. I probably _could_ turn myself into a teenager and hang out in the zit-covered, hormone-addled, low-stakes assworld that is high school, but here’s my reverse ask: why in the f\_\_\_ would I ever do that, _ever_, and how _dare_ you even ask me that, and why aren’t you more ashamed of yourself? Wasn’t the phrase zit-covered, hormone addled, **high-pressure** , low-stakes assworld that is high school"? Somehow I thought he included “high-pressure” among those other adjectives that accurately describe grades 9 to 12 (and, from my experience, 7 and 8). ---
**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:** [February 21, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/298 "2017-02-21T15:03:13Z")
I wrote it down at the time - pretty sure “high-pressure” wasn’t part of it. But hey, somebody posted the opening scene of R&M S3’s first episode!: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IwfHdO36Y&feature=youtu.be) ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/299 "2017-02-21T15:55:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I wrote it down at the time - pretty sure “high-pressure” wasn’t part of it. > > But hey, somebody posted the opening scene of R&M S3’s first episode!: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IwfHdO36Y&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IwfHdO36Y&feature=youtu.be) Now that’s just _nasty_. Anyway - as far as cartoon series go, I’m really enjoying _Star vs. The Forces of Evil_. It is often described as ‘like Rick and Morty, only for kids’, and there are certainly some similarities - though again, very different in tone (naturally). It’s a lot of fun, and fills the R&M apparently endless hiatus hole. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/300 "2017-03-07T17:06:10Z")
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