Morty is much closer than Rick, but they’re both fine.
I thought it was funny how they did it on Solar Opposites, which also dropped Roiland. In the first episode of the new season they just shot the main character with a voice-changing ray, winked to the audience, and never mentioned it again. He’s British now.
ETA: Just realizing the thread was bumped. This post was referring to the trailer with the new voice actors, if that wasn’t obvious.
Mostly because Rick has as much respect for time travel as he does for heist movies. I don’t remember exactly why but I do remember him distaining it. There is the episode where Morty wanted a do-over ray, the one where he makes Morty kiss the vat. In that one he does voice his dislike of time travel.
But that’s sort of my whole point: if he disdains the heist-movie clichés as much as he disdains time-travel stuff, then the fact that he engages in heist-movie clichés (while grousing about it) is like the way he hands that book on time travel to those snakes (and then, when things play out like he figured, snarks about how “that’s about as much curvature as you’re gonna get from a time-travel story”).
So it’s — a thing he’’ll reluctantly do, while griping or rolling his eyes or whatever, to solve the problem in front of him? And, here, now, he’s out to resolve the biggest undertaking of his life, the one he’s spent decades bitterly plugging away at?
I think he’s mostly just cautious not to fuck up the particular Earth that he’s on. He’s out of backup dimensions, and he cares too much about this specific version of his family to risk it all on butterfly effects.
Well, he does do whatever he wants whenever he wants, so he may time travel. Who knows?
Also, Prime Rick is many places at once, wouldn’t he have to time travel in all of Prime Rick’s instances? I wonder how much real estate the writers are going to give these arcs this season. I think one of the creators said he disliked arcs and was mostly interested in one off adventures.
I’m pretty excited to see where we go from here.
I was kind of figuring he only has to go to a spot where he already knows his quarry will be (or was, or wioll haven be): that day when, in the garage, he pitched our Rick on joining up.
See, the payoff I had in mind was — per the bit with Rick explaining that the time-travel shenanigans he set in motion would be like metaphorically pressing down the gas pedal and blowing by a cop, sure as the time-travel shenaniganeers then draw the ire of the decidedly literal cops that deliver beatdowns when folks mess with time — Rick talks a good game about doing whatever he wants, and about not liking or respecting time travel, but, deep down, what if he just figures he would get beaten down by the time police? After all, that’s, like, their whole job: “We got a 10-51 on a gddmn snake planet,” they say, because of course the guys in the Time Prison business have a routine police-dispatch code for that.
So my question was: who controls the police?
Mr. Nimbus, of course.
Exactly!
There is an episode that bothers me a bit. The one were Rick makes a safe haven playland for Beth because she was a menace to the neighborhood. In the replay of Rick’s “tearjerk backstory” Beth looks to be barely a toddler. There also seems to be quite a few memories Rick and Beth share before Rick took off 20 years ago. Only the Rick we are following shouldn’t have those memories. Including memories of a baby Morty.
Also, I’m not super sure about this, but didn’t Prime Rick tell Cronenberg Jerry he didn’t hang around long enough to know that Beth got married? Why am I thinking so hard about this?
Can’t say I noticed any difference in the voices.
Ooo-eee!
The new VAs are Ian Cardoni as Rick and Harry Belden as Morty. Both very small-time players up until now - the most notable credit either of them has, according to IMDB, is that Cardoni did a Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow imitation for the opening narration to Wrestlemania 36.
Sounds pretty seamless to me. I liked the return of Birdperson, Gearhead, and Squanchy, and Gene getting a larger role was pretty humorous. The callback to the heist episode while Mr. Poopybutthole was fighting the Yautja was a nice touch. I don’t know how they got away with including one, what with Predator being a Disney property these days. Hugh Jackman being a serial plagiarist was also great, as was the Stand By Me homage at the end.
Favorite line: “Birddaughter is a total bitch. When you’re a parent you are allowed to say that.”
I just watched it and would have had no idea if I hadn’t known. Very well done.
Episode, however, was just another mostly forgettable episode.
I mean, South Park includes tons of things without getting permission, so maybe they just went for it.
I definitely wouldn’t have known but I don’t do a lot of rewatching.
Me neither. I mean, I think the show peaked fairly early and it mildly entertaining now, but only occasionally really funny. It’s fine. Just fine.
I noticed poopybutthole’s voice was different right away. That change itself didn’t bother me as much as it’s just an annoying voice to have to hear it for most of the episode. R and M’s voices sounded near enough to perfect that I totally forgot they had different people doing them.
Dan Harmon voiced him in this episode.
Is that right? IMDB says Jon Allen voiced him.
Hmm. I swear they had Harmon listed when I checked it last night.
IMDB says he was Birdman.