# 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:** 63
**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, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1242 "2023-11-21T09:27:49Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Not when _Community_ did it 12 years ago? Never watched Community. Favorite “clip” from this episode would have to be Summer discovering she’s not attractive enough to be abducted by the grabby hands, with Principal Vagina rolling up on his bicycle and sympathizing with her about it. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1243 "2023-11-21T19:58:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Did the Simpsons do a fake clip show yet? Sort of - it was last season, where the show was “taken over” by hacktivists who proceed to show the show’s worst moments - a lot of which were created just for the episode. (To hide the storyline before it first aired, the title was changed from “Love, Hacktually” to “Lisa the Boy Scout,” and the episode begins with a scene where Lisa wants to join some Boy Scouts-type troop before the hacktivists interrupt 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:** [November 22, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1244 "2023-11-22T08:21:11Z")
The Hollywood Reporter has an interview with the new voice actors. > **[‘Rick and Morty’ New Voice Actors Speak Out: “A Literal Dream Come True”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/rick-and-morty-voice-actors-interview-1235651361/amp/)** > > Ian Cardoni (Rick) and Harry Belden (Morty) break their silence in this exclusive interview detailing how they were cast in the Adult Swim hit and what it's been like for two unknowns to land the voice roles of a lifetime. They sound like a couple of pretty ordinary guys who managed to get the opportunity of a lifetime. Cardoni mentions that the Jerricky episode was a challenging one since he had to voice Jerry-as-Rick and play off of Chris Parnell’s Rick-as-Jerry without Parnell actually being there, and Belden mentions saying “fuck” in his Morty voice thousands of times to try and get it right, which are both pretty amusing little anecdotes. I hope this opens up a lot of good things for both of them. ---
**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 28, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1245 "2023-11-28T11:54:01Z")
This week’s episode was kinda mid, really. It feels like they felt obligated to do one Summer-centric episode per season, and they had four or five half-fleshed-out ideas that weren’t strong enough to build a 22-minute story off of, so they decided to do all of them at once. ---
**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 28, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1246 "2023-11-28T12:10:53Z")
My thoughts pretty much exactly. The new season isn’t atrocious, but Rick and Morty is ranging from “meh” to “amazing”. This year, the spaghetti episode was outstanding. A few others were solid, but a few were also only OK. ---
**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 28, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1247 "2023-11-28T17:50:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This week’s episode was kinda mid, Open your mind! ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1248 "2023-11-29T04:14:52Z")
I just now watched it. There was a glitch for those of us who bought the season through Amazon Prime and it wasn’t available until an hour ago. I liked how Morty and Summer bonded as siblings. ---
**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, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1249 "2023-11-29T05:06:20Z")
The tag with the gold mask perverts from Squid Game probably got the biggest laugh of the episode for me. “You have a wife?” ---
**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:** [December 4, 2023, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1250 "2023-12-04T05:16:57Z")
That. Was. Awful. Like, really, one of the worst things that I’ve ever seen. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2023, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1251 "2023-12-04T06:54:53Z")
It was too bad to even take seriously, even for R&M, which I think was the point. It was obviously a send up of how bad the transformers movies and such are. So in that sense, I feel it worked and I got a few chuckles out of it. But yeah, not one of their best. ---
**Author:** ![jadielyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jadielyn/32/8808_2.png) [@jadielyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jadielyn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1252 "2023-12-04T07:10:07Z")
i do typically love Rick & Morty, when it’s clever, dumb, and frequently both at the same time. This one … Y’know, I appreciate the puns and their commitment to the bit. I rather like that the whole way through one’s expecting a rug-pull that never happens, not _even_ a tag with Rick involved. It’s also quite entertaining to peek in on the reddits and whatnot to see the rabid fans totally lose their minds at how completely subversive this episode was compared to what they were expecting to get. Mischief managed, 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:** [December 4, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1253 "2023-12-04T11:12:33Z")
I don’t know what y’all’re talking about. That episode was PERFECTION and I was grinning like a wild man for the entire time. ---
**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 4, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1254 "2023-12-04T21:00:58Z")
Loved 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:** [December 4, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1255 "2023-12-04T21:43:47Z")
Looks like they got the thought provoking, character development heavy, canonical bullshit out of the way in the first half of the season and now it’s all just for fun. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1256 "2023-12-11T06:26:26Z")
Okay, _that_ was a very solid episode. ---
**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 11, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1257 "2023-12-11T11:26:41Z")
Agreed. Solid 10, no notes. “Breaking into the afterlife”, “Pokemon Bigfoot”, and “Rick LARPing Dark Souls against the Pope” shouldn’t all have fit into one episode, but it worked. I couldn’t stop grinning the entire time and the tag where Feral Rick has somehow become Pope ( **POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!** ) sealed the deal. ---
**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 11, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1258 "2023-12-11T12:00:39Z")
Yep. Also loved the Jerry cold open. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1259 "2023-12-12T00:04:47Z")
Fun episode, not my favorite. But this is the kind of episode I do like. Just kind of quick moving with a lot of stuff happening. I still think the spaghetti episode was the best one of this season. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1260 "2023-12-12T17:58:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > But this is the kind of episode I do like. Just kind of quick moving with a lot of stuff happening. Have you ever seen the animated show **Jeff & Some Aliens**? It had some of the same vibe (average guy has mundane problem, technologically advanced person “solves” the problem with super-science, everything goes to hell after that). ---
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380/1261 "2023-12-18T05:32:13Z")
Solid enough season finale. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=62) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-and-morty-the-new-animated-show-from-dan-harmon-and-justin-roiland/679380.md?page=64)