# 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:** 56
**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 12, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1102 "2022-10-12T01:10:58Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Eh? She’s been in lots of movies, and some TV series, like _Space Force_ I checked her IMDB and I guess she has been in quite a few things, but nothing I’ve seen aside from Bojack Horseman, and I have zero memory of her character. Guess I just haven’t been watching the right shows. I always thought she was the best Friend, seeing as Ross, the largest one, refused to simply eat the other five. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1103 "2022-10-12T02:52:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This week’s episode was kinda meh I think drunk I texted my friends that it was “extremely meh” right after I watched it. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1104 "2022-10-12T17:32:40Z")
I think it may be that the other 5 episodes were excellent and this one was very ordinary. Do you think this one was a bringing-down-expectations episode to get us ready for more of the same in a month or are the writers setting us up for big stuff after the hiatus? ---
**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:** [October 12, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1105 "2022-10-12T23:05:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@MrDibble](#): > > > > Eh? She’s been in lots of movies, and some TV series, like _Space Force_ > > I checked her IMDB and I guess she has been in quite a few things, but nothing I’ve seen aside from Bojack Horseman, and I have zero memory of her character. Guess I just haven’t been watching the right shows. I always thought she was the best Friend, seeing as **Ross, the largest one, refused to simply eat the other five.** Well, _that_ took a turn. > (my bolding) ---
**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:** [October 12, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1106 "2022-10-12T23:19:31Z")
That’s from Futurama (or is it The Simpsons? Looked it up, I was right with my first thought). An alien wonders why Ross doesn’t eat the other friends. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1107 "2022-10-13T23:55:18Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > That’s from Futurama (or is it The Simpsons? Looked it up, I was right with my first thought). An alien wonders why Ross doesn’t eat the other friends. - I’m a _Futurama_ fan but hadn’t remembered this\*–ignorance fought! > / \* I’ve never seen a single episode of _Friends_, so that might have something to do with that line not registering with me. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1108 "2022-11-21T08:43:02Z")
Lots of great fourth wall humor in this episode. I loved the cold-open and the scenes with the ghost of Joseph Cambpell, and the post-credits scene with Tad Man which had absolutely nothing to do with anything. I’m a little disappointed that rick-plush.biz doesn’t actually have the off-model Rick plush for sale, though. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1109 "2022-11-21T16:11:15Z")
You mean _Tag Man?_ Did you get any of that?? ---
**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:** [November 21, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1110 "2022-11-21T23:20:42Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > You mean _Tag Man?_ Tag Man! I’m a Tag Ass Man! I’m an Ass Man now! I miss my wife. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1111 "2022-11-22T01:27:06Z")
I was a little ‘meh’ about this one (as with the train one from Season 4, referenced in this one). I mean, noodling about story/narrative/fiction is always at least interesting, and this _was_ interesting. (And I did like the “previously” scenes and the way they became more and more bizarre; nicely-done.) But the events of this episode could happen to _any_ characters, for the most part–any characters from almost any show, for that matter. And that’s not the case for the best of R&M. (For example, “Total Rickall” from 2015 couldn’t really have happened to any characters _other_ than Rick and the Smiths.) This one is still worth re-watching, though. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1112 "2022-11-22T19:27:33Z")
It occurs to me they missed using one of the most powerful story villains ever Toby Con Tinued. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8F5YWVr0fC8/hqdefault.jpg "Star Trek The Next Generation: Locutus. Most Epic To Be Continued") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F5YWVr0fC8) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1113 "2022-11-26T15:21:16Z")
First half of it I was highly amused, second half-- highly confused. It did not help that I did not know who Joseph Campbell was, although I have heard of The Hero’s Journey. I right away recognized the mean R&M creator (as opposed to the nice guy creator) as the hack writer. All in all, I agree with Rick, an episode made for a handful of critics. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1114 "2022-11-27T05:51:40Z")
I suspect what makes this season so ‘great’, is they’ve really leaned into “People like Rick and Morty because when they get the jokes it makes them feel smart” ---
**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:** [November 28, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1115 "2022-11-28T23:09:11Z")
I may be the only one who thinks this and it most likely makes me a terrible person for feeling this way, but I don’t like Rick being nice for the sake of being nice. So I felt better about this latest episode when he unloaded on poor, overburdened Morty. Which is good because the thing that I like a lot is when Morty can get some of his back from Rick. And this may have been a dig at fans who like to pick fights and be all around asshole fans but it says even more when the answer is to not be an asshole creator right back at them. Which, controversial again, I like it when asshole fans get clapped back. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1116 "2022-11-29T00:32:06Z")
I saw Adult Swim posted an announcement before the episode warning viewers the story would involve suicide and another one afterward with suicide and crisis lifelines. It made me wonder if AS had the original script changed so the subject matter would be treated more seriously. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1117 "2022-11-29T05:17:46Z")
“Is that man dead?” “Everything that happens in here is confidential, right?” “Everything except murder.” “Then he’s fine.” Great exchange. > [@NDP](#): > > It made me wonder if AS had the original script changed so the subject matter would be treated more seriously. My guess is that they got some backlash after the president of the Galactic Federation shot himself in the season 3 opener, and since the suicide scene in this episode is a lot more graphic and real, they wanted to make sure anyone in a bad place mentally was fairly warned. Adult Swim has allowed comedic depictions of suicide before, but there wasn’t much comedy in this one. Historically they haven’t censored much of anything aside from nudity and the Big Three curse words, except for back in the early 2000s when one of their S&P guys had a bug up his ass about people using the Lord’s name in vain and censored the “Sweet zombie Jesus!” in Futurama and wouldn’t let them air _Rejected_ by Dan Hertzfeldt. The latter at least produced a pretty funny episode of Aqua Teen Hungerforce where they kept calling Him “Gee Whiz” and Meatwad thought they were talking about Elvis. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1118 "2022-12-05T04:52:08Z")
I said it last week: I do not care for virtuous Rick. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1119 "2022-12-05T07:12:00Z")
The montage of Solar War I set to _Goodbye Blue Sky_ was AMAZING. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1120 "2022-12-05T09:50:05Z")
Mitchell! Webb! Harry Potter!! I enjoyed this one, although it felt short somehow. Liked the post-credits story, too. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1121 "2022-12-05T22:43:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The montage of Solar War I set to _Goodbye Blue Sky_ was AMAZING. I loved it, and was surprised they got the rights to use it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=57)