# 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:** 55
**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 26, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1082 "2022-09-26T08:10:52Z")
Felt very…mid 80s carpenter. But I can’t place which one, exactly. But I definitely enjoyed it. ---
**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 26, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1083 "2022-09-26T09:39:20Z")
This episode was a masterpiece. If this premise had been played straight, it would make an absolute horror classic. The '80s synth soundtrack was absolutely perfect. Little touches that I loved include; - Rick’s alarm clock that produces an egg, hatches it, insta-grows it into a rooster so it can crow for the Sun, then kills it. - “Boxer Lobster Boxers feel like they’re warm butter on your schwanz.” - Beth playing the “sad trombone” riff, then playing it in reverse when Morty shows up with cake. - Summer referring to the sleep deprivation suit as “all of this terrygilliam”. Funny that she’s never seen Die Hard but she’s familiar enough with the works of Terry Gilliam to associate him with extravagant and convoluted practical effects. - Beth having to burn all the DVDs with “day” in the title and saving the ones with “night” in the title. - Jerry getting a hard-on while fighting Night Beth. - “Exit 251 - An Airport” - The entire family mourning the Choco Taco at the end. - Gene. “Why even bother?” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1084 "2022-09-26T13:19:59Z")
There were a couple of MCU jokes (the Rocket/Chewbacca misdirect, the indestructible plates forging a-la Stormbreaker) and very Dalek-y voices for two of the robots so the Who references keep coming. Was the third robot doing Jerry Lewis? ---
**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:** [September 27, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1085 "2022-09-27T01:07:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This episode was a masterpiece. Concur! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1086 "2022-09-27T02:18:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Rick’s alarm clock that produces an egg, hatches it, insta-grows it into a rooster so it can crow for the Sun, then kills it. > [@MrDibble](#): > > …very Dalek-y voices for two of the robots so the Who references keep coming. There’s a bit in the Tom Baker serial, _City of Death_, where a human scientist is experimenting with time travel by manipulating the flow of time inside a sealed capsule, like Ricks alarm clock. He demonstrates his progress by rapidly aging an egg into a full grown chicken, then into a desiccated corpse. So I suspect that’s another Dr Who reference. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1087 "2022-09-27T02:48:04Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > I guess they were doing kind of a Night of the Comet/ 80’s horror vibe here. But if theres a more direct analogy I don’t know what movie it would be. A lot of _Black Mirror_ in it. And a little _The Mandalorian_. (Coincidentally, I rewatched _Night of the Comet_ just a few days ago. I didn’t see _any_ of that here.) ---
**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1088 "2022-09-27T03:00:45Z")
I kept thinking of the Jordan Peele movie Us. Great episode. I am really starting to like Jerry. He’s a Tori Amos fan! Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1089 "2022-09-27T03:17:16Z")
Just an 80s vibe, and the final sun raising shot and the synth soundtrack…dont know why I thought of Night of the Comet. I figured there had to be something more specific but I guess not, ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1090 "2022-09-27T03:28:58Z")
I don’t think im wrong in saying Rick and Morty is the best Sci-Fi show ever made, Its not Trek, cause that ranges from social analogy to just plain Space Opera. In fact thats what most Sci-fi does. Wheras while Rick and Morty does throw that in, (and add a dash of Southpark for potty humor) At its heart, they take a sci-fi concept and just let it run amuck. Like the Terminator snake time travel. You’d just have constant time travellers trying to correct what went wrong. Well at least in MHO its the best ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1091 "2022-09-27T22:46:10Z")
> [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](#): > > I kept thinking of the Jordan Peele movie Us. Me, too–though that stems more from the voices the cast adopted, than from the plotting. (I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to do those voices due to influence from _Us_.) I don’t think the Gasoline Factory, Dynamite Museum and Dry Leaf Storage facilities have been mentioned yet. So much good stuff in this episode! ---
**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:** [September 27, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1092 "2022-09-27T23:13:19Z")
The forging of unbreakable plates was an allusion to Infinity War, right? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1093 "2022-09-28T00:32:55Z")
I never saw _Infinity War_—I thought of objects in bescar on Mandalorian/Boba Fett. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1094 "2022-09-28T07:17:07Z")
IMO, it was more like _Infinity War_, with the deserted foundry and its sole giant occupant, than _The Mandolorian_’s artificer, but I can see how it has echoes of both. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1095 "2022-09-28T23:05:28Z")
I haven’t seen the _Mandalorian_ so I can’t speak to that similarity, but I immediately thought of the forging of Stormbringer and giant Dinklage ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1096 "2022-09-29T04:39:37Z")
Not one of the ‘you might have missed’ videos caught the Fabsolutely Abulous reference to Absolutely Fabulous and it made me feel old. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1097 "2022-10-03T07:46:56Z")
Two weeks after an episode about autophilia by clone, we get an incest-themed episode. Bizarre, but this one was more funny than cringe. Jerry complaining that he can’t throw up because Sleepy Gary ruined his gag reflex was probably the line that made me laugh the hardest, along with Old Man Huxley subtly implying that he caused the covid pandemic, and the security guard’s randomized fortune turning him into a robot tyrannosaur that proclaims “I AM THE SON OF GOD!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1098 "2022-10-03T08:12:44Z")
Technically, there’s another grandchild - the successful author Morty Smith junior. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1099 "2022-10-03T15:06:54Z")
It was a funny episode - I enjoy Rick+Jerry adventures. I liked the Sailor Moon gag, or rather the callback to it later. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1100 "2022-10-11T03:02:11Z")
This week’s episode was kinda meh compared to the last few, but it wasn’t bad. The main setup reminded me of _With Folded Hands_, which I’d be surprised if much of the show’s key demo was familiar with it. I wasn’t expecting to hear Lisa Kudrow’s voice coming out of a dinosaur, but it’s good that she’s still getting work - seems like she pretty much dropped off the face of the planet after Friends ended. I laughed pretty hard at President Curtis being addicted to molly and the post-credits revelation that the dinosaurs actually were totally radical skateboarders, as well as Rick’s insistence that the interstellar rift was “super-canonical” as if to poke fun at the kind of people who frequent the R&M subreddit and overthink every single little joke as if it were part of some master plan on the part of the writers. There’s going to be a 4-week hiatus before the next episode, presumably so they can time the season finale to air during November sweeps. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1101 "2022-10-11T14:24:04Z")
I liked this episode - I liked that the dinos weren’t secretly evil, and the stupid angry rock just gibbering in space made me laugh every time they jumped to it. Also, more MCU references! Also, Morty being pissed off that his “Clever girl” reference wasn’t noted. > [@Smapti](#): > > seems like she pretty much dropped off the face of the planet after Friends ended Eh? She’s been in lots of movies, and some TV series, like _Space Force_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=56)