# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1222 "2023-10-20T00:20:27Z")
I did watch this, forgot about the voices, but did ask myself at the end: “wasn’t this funny once?” ---
**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 23, 2023, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1223 "2023-10-23T06:48:18Z")
Pretty amusing take on the whole body-swap trope in this episode. “Your dad’s a gay assassin? So cool and ordinary.” ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1224 "2023-10-23T07:47:36Z")
Both episodes so far this season have had a lot less Morty speaking than Rick. I’m wondering if that is meaningful somehow, in relation to the voice work. ---
**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 23, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1225 "2023-10-23T07:49:34Z")
The episodes were written and animated in 2021, AIUI, long before Roiland got canned, so any relation there is likely coincidental. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1226 "2023-10-23T20:19:36Z")
I like this second episode a lot more than the first one. I love Morty getting captured and bad-guys being afraid of him because of everything they know about Rick and Morty. Jerricky was great. Morty sounds terrific, honestly even better than Rick. I forget about voice changes most of the time, though. It’s been very smooth. ---
**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 30, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1227 "2023-10-30T07:39:33Z")
Great episode this week. I actually felt sad for Unity at the end. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1228 "2023-10-30T11:25:39Z")
I thought it was fine, but not as good as last week’s episode. I do think I actually noticed Morty sounded different in this episode, not having noticed in the previous two episodes. Rick is so good, I would have never known if I had not known. The guy they have doing Rick is excellent. The show seems unaffected by the voice changes since voicing is all Roiland was doing by the end, I think. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1229 "2023-11-06T10:37:59Z")
Welp, now I’m craving spaghetti. ---
**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 6, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1230 "2023-11-06T10:44:18Z")
“Have we thought about just giving up and joining the fascist half of the country? I’m just saying, they get to do more!” ---
**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 6, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1231 "2023-11-06T15:40:09Z")
I missed this but I read it on reddit. The guy whose funeral Rick and Morty attended mid episode was the guy whose wife left him for the final suicide guy. He presumably killed himself over the divorce. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1232 "2023-11-06T17:35:05Z")
Well. Um. That was certainly an episode. ---
**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 7, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1233 "2023-11-07T13:05:21Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > Well. Um. That was certainly an episode I’m not a mega-fan and I’ve seen most episodes only once when they aired, but I’ll say: I think that was one of the best episodes in years, if not of the entire run. I was kind of stunned. There is still life in this show yet, so to speak! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1234 "2023-11-07T13:33:02Z")
The tag with vacuum cleaner Rick was definitely one of the best tags I can remember. ---
**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 7, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1235 "2023-11-07T13:38:35Z")
My biggest laugh was “this room contains a being that has been in extreme pain its entire life” and then he reveals nothing is in there because he knew Morty would be so upset. ---
**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 7, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1236 "2023-11-07T17:56:19Z")
You don’t really wanna know how the sausage is made. Literally. ---
**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 13, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1237 "2023-11-13T08:37:22Z")
Diane: “YOU SUCKED AT EATING PUSSY!” Rick: “Clearly just said to be hurtful, but I also won’t deny it. I was young.” Possibly the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything on this show. I thought they’d save a confrontation like this for the season finale, but I’m OK with finally getting some closure on this arc. Nice use of “Look On Down From The Bridge” at the end, which was previously used back in season 1 when Rick and Morty had to bury themselves after Earth Prime got Cronenberged. Of course Rick wouldn’t be happy, even though he’s completed his life’s goal, because in the end Rick was never going to let himself be happy. The tag, with Uncle Slow’s wife becoming sort of an anti-Rick who lives a happy life with their family because they rejected the call to adventure, was great. ---
**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 20, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1238 "2023-11-20T09:43:58Z")
Ah, the faux-clip-show episode. Best one I’ve seen since Clerks did it 20+ years ago. ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1239 "2023-11-20T12:17:11Z")
It’s kind of a Rick and Morty tradition every other season or so. I liked this one. I think this episode and the spaghetti episode were top notch Rick and Morty. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1240 "2023-11-20T12:58:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ah, the faux-clip-show episode. > > Best one I’ve seen since Clerks did it 20+ years ago. Not when _Community_ did it 12 years ago? > **[Paradigms of Human Memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigms_of_Human_Memory)** > > "Paradigms of Human Memory" is the twenty-first episode of the second season of the American comedy television series Community and the forty-sixth episode overall. It was originally broadcast on April 21, 2011, on NBC. It was written by Chris McKenna and directed by Tristram Shapeero. In the episode, the study group reflects on events from the past school year; many of these memories lead to arguments as they recall and recognize their faults, both as individuals and as a group. > Though it c... ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1241 "2023-11-20T13:25:37Z")
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