# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/602 "2019-10-08T16:11:44Z")
Half the season you deserve. All the season we could handle. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Looks good - Mr. Meeseeks! That gear-head guy! Woohoo! Gear-head guy? That’s like calling a Chinese person “Asia-face” ! > [@](#): > > What’s the police radio announcement at 0:39? Can’t quite make it out: “We’ve got a…” “We’ve got a Carrot-Top situation going down behind the mall.” ---
**Author:** ![Awgrimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Awgrimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Awgrimm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/603 "2019-10-08T16:27:20Z")
I thought they said “Akira situation.” ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/604 "2019-10-08T20:02:14Z")
Hmm. Not sure I get either of those references. > [@muldoonthief](#): > > …Gear-head guy? That’s like calling a Chinese person “Asia-face” !.. Yeah, yeah. Don’t break an arm jerking yourself off. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/605 "2019-10-09T14:01:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmm. Not sure I get either of those references. The Akira one would definitely fit R&M style: > [@](#): > > Set in a dystopian 2019, Akira tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, a leader of a local biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amidst chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. If it’s Carrot Top, I assume stupid props are involved. Eta: I hear “Akira”. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/606 "2019-10-09T14:24:00Z")
I heard Akira but I think Carrot-Top makes it funnier and more frightening at the same time. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/607 "2019-10-09T16:00:56Z")
The confusion is because they actually say “Akira type situation”. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/608 "2019-10-09T18:15:21Z")
Totally. But I think a police scanner saying “we’ve got a Carrot-Top situation going down behind the mall” is a much funnier and somehow much more sinister line and I think it would have fit perfectly with the shows oeuvre. I’m kind of disappointed, now, that they went for the easy Akira reference rather than the imaginatively oblique Carrot-Top invocation. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/609 "2019-10-10T01:29:17Z")
I’m sure they’ll do a good job on the Akira thing. Akira might be the new Cronenberg. I guess a Carrot Top situation might be some wormhole suddenly opening and dumping mountains of pun like objects. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/610 "2019-10-10T12:32:28Z")
I’m sticking with Carrot Top until the episode airs. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/611 "2019-10-10T16:09:34Z")
I don’t think i ever made the connection before of The Council of Ricks and the Council of Reeds (Richards) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/612 "2019-11-07T18:26:47Z")
Just a reminder that the new season starts this weekend. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/613 "2019-11-08T05:48:44Z")
Yup - Sunday night at 11:30pm EST, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/614 "2019-11-08T16:59:27Z")
Apparently Hulu and HBO Max will get the new episodes, but only 5 months after the season finale: ['Rick and Morty' to Stream on HBO Max - Variety](https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/rick-and-morty-hbo-max-1203387167/) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/615 "2019-11-10T19:08:58Z")
If you’re a cord cutter like me, you can buy the season on Amazon. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/616 "2019-11-10T19:55:58Z")
Does such a short season mean we’ll get more within the year? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/617 "2019-11-10T20:38:04Z")
So I was (am) a big fan of R&M. The second season episode where they are locked-down in the house with all the characters with fake memories–at least at one point in that episode, I was laughing so hard I had to shut it off and walk around outside to regain my composure. Probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything. …but last season, the show leaked across Reddit like a bad meme, and the fans there really did a lot towards ruining the show for me. For the first two seasons, there was some high-minded nuanced discussions breaking down elements of the episodes, which often contain extreme emotional depth. The Unity episode with the failed suicide at the end…stuff like that generated really great conversations. But then last season happened, and it’s just idiots screaming “I’M PICKLE RICK!!!” everywhere they can, like in political forums or anywhere else they could force it in. I don’t think it helps that the season had no definitive conclusion…iIrc the creators bickered or nitpicked the final episodes to a point they scrapped them, so the planned conclusion was replaced with just a middling episode. I’m sure I’m sounding like a “get of my lawn” type, but believe me, the reddit contingency has a habit of being so obnoxious it can turn you off in a hurry. I have it as well quarantined as I can, so I’m hoping I can get back to fully enjoying the show, and I hope this season is as good as the hype. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/618 "2019-11-10T20:54:12Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Does such a short season mean we’ll get more within the year? I think so. This is the first half of the season. More in the Spring maybe. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/619 "2019-11-10T21:14:33Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > So I was (am) a big fan of R&M. The second season episode where they are locked-down in the house with all the characters with fake memories–at least at one point in that episode, I was laughing so hard I had to shut it off and walk around outside to regain my composure. Probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything. I would just ignore everything but the show. I thought season 3 was great, but I will at least agree that Pickle Rick is not as great an episode as some people think. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/620 "2019-11-10T21:17:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I would just ignore everything but the show. I thought season 3 was great, but I will at least agree that Pickle Rick is not as great an episode as some people think. Maybe this will be the place to come for constructive episode discussions. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/621 "2019-11-10T21:25:35Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > Maybe this will be the place to come for constructive episode discussions. Only place I would go. I’m on reddit, but never visit the R&M subreddit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=32)