Rick and Morty

[Reply #480 on:]

After being absolutely unimpressed by season 3, I consider it the Family Guy to Futurama's Simpsons.     Also fuck the fandom, they are such absolutely sheep, they even spend shittons of money on nasty dipping sauce just because a cartoon character told the it was nice.  People are so stupid.

[Reply #481 on:]

I do see where you're coming from. A quality dip did occur sometime around this season (For me it was the 2nd episode, by the end I was questioning whether I was actually watching R&M). I did appreciate however the fact they were still following a narrative during that season concerning Beth and Jerry's divorce. It's the one thing Season 4 got wrong imo. Well, that and all the cliche montages I mentioned before. But mainly for me it failed to serve any sort of cohesive plot or character development during the entirety of the season up until the very last episode.. which disappointed me on many levels. I can handle a show's humor getting stale, but messing with the overall formula so much is a big no-no to me.

[Reply #482 on:]

nasty dipping sauce

Mix McDonalds sweet and sour with McDonalds BBQ. 1 S&S to 2 BBQ should give you the approximate flavour of the promotional Mulan sauce.

It's not bad. It's just a little underwhelming, and definitely not worth throwing a tantrum online or in a McDonalds over.

[Reply #483 on:]

It also sounds like a recipe for irritable bowel syndrome.

I love making marinades and sauces out of stuff I have in my kitchen cupboards and spice racks, so this obsession with Mulan nasty goop is just beyond me.   I know I could make something better in my sleep with four main ingredients or less.

[Reply #484 on:]

I do see where you're coming from. A quality dip did occur sometime around this season (For me it was the 2nd episode, by the end I was questioning whether I was actually watching R&M). I did appreciate however the fact they were still following a narrative during that season concerning Beth and Jerry's divorce. It's the one thing Season 4 got wrong imo. Well, that and all the cliche montages I mentioned before. But mainly for me it failed to serve any sort of cohesive plot or character development during the entirety of the season up until the very last episode.. which disappointed me on many levels. I can handle a show's humor getting stale, but messing with the overall formula so much is a big no-no to me.

One thing I noticed that after the quota demanded they hire female writers, I notice the quality and quantity of writing for the female characters dropped dramatically.   

[Reply #485 on:]

After being absolutely unimpressed by season 3, I consider it the Family Guy to Futurama's Simpsons.

Look, I love the original four seasons of Futurama, I've had an account here for over 17 years. I agree that the quality of Rick and Morty is inconsistent, but Rick and Morty beats the pants off the CC revival of Futurama imo and is certainly better than Family Guy. I'd liken it more to American Dad.

   Also fuck the fandom, they are such absolutely sheep, they even spend shittons of money on nasty dipping sauce just because a cartoon character told the it was nice.  People are so stupid.

I don't disagree, but I'm not going to pretend someone who posts here and has a wall full of Futurama Funko pop figures, DVDs and comics is any better, honestly.

[Reply #486 on:]

I disagree.  Spending thousands of dollars on dipping sauce from the nineties because a cartoon character has a hardon for it is a whole new level of fandom insanity that we very much do not need as a species.

[Reply #487 on:]

And by giving the world's sexiest handjob.

Excuse me but that title is copyrighted to me and they have no right to use it without permission or without sending me royalties

[Reply #488 on:]

And by giving the world's sexiest handjob.

Excuse me but that title is copyrighted to me and they have no right to use it without permission or without sending me royalties

And by giving the world's sexiest handjob.

That's my goddam title how dare they?

And by giving the world's sexiest handjob.

After me of course.

You're very passionate about this, aren't you?

[Reply #489 on:]

So, exactly how sexy is this handjob, Spacefish? What's your secret ingredient?

[Reply #490 on:]

I got wicked burned at the assertion that I'd doubled the number of people I'd had sex with in an arbitrarily defined timeframe: "Nick, both hands and both feet don't count."

All I could do was laugh because it was so funny.

[Reply #491 on:]

Episode 4 of season 5 was... really bad. Like, I'm still kind of shocked at how shit it was. At least the previous three were good, though! I especially liked the season premiere.

[Reply #492 on:]

Episode 4 of season 5 was... really bad. Like, I'm still kind of shocked at how shit it was. At least the previous three were good, though! I especially liked the season premiere.

I'm inclined to agree. The season was pretty good so far, but episode 4 was just kind of disjointed and not all the funny. I know some people disliked it because they found it offensive, but I just disliked it because it didn't make me laugh. I'd have zero issues with the space incest baby if it were funny.

[Reply #493 on:]

I kinda liked episode 4, it was probably the weakest so far this season but I didn’t think it was as weak as the weakest episodes from season 4. This half season was definitely a big improvement over the first half of season 4 in my opinion.

But yeah the sperm episode was dumb, but I was still entertained by its wackiness and I didn’t feel overly negative about it whatsoever.

[Reply #494 on:]

I feel like this is the weird season, TBH.

[Reply #495 on:]

Well, I enjoyed episode 6 quite a bit, so I think the shitty killer-sperm episode was just an outlier. The premise was funny, the jokes landed, and the social commentary didn't fall flat on its face.

Interesting how the President keeps showing up, but I love Keith David's voice so I'm not complaining. His random passion for Playstations was gold.

it was probably the weakest so far this season but I didn’t think it was as weak as the weakest episodes from season 4.

I'm guessing the slutty dragons episode from season 4 is what you're referring to? If so, I agree that was pretty weak. But the first half of that season also featured the heist episode and the terminator snakes which I loved!

[Reply #496 on:]

I really enjoyed the ridiculous premise that Rick turns himself into a turkey every year too get pardoned.

Sticking with a fictional president and not going for easy Trump or Biden jokes is going to help these episodes age better.

[Reply #497 on:]

Season 5 had a strong ending so I would say that I'm satisfied overall. I don't think there was anything quite as good as "The Vat of Acid Episode" from season 4, but it had enough good episodes that I wasn't disappointed.

[Reply #498 on:]

The third season was like a chicken nugget or fried cutlet that was cooked in a way that was horribly burnt to a cinder on the outside, but the middle was raw and dripping with salmonella.  What a disappointment.  I hope Season 4 they get the original team back together because, oh jesus was I not happy.

I absolutely loved season 3. I think it represents the peak of the series overall. It has the most emotional depth of the show overall while retaining the fantastic sci-fi / comedy nonsense. It also contains the best episode of the show to date.

To play catch-up, season 4 was a step down but still fantastic and the show's golden years as far as I'm concerned.

Season 5 was great TV overall but represented a real nose dive in quality relative to the rest of the show up until that point. I didn't understand it at the time, but years later, I discovered that a new showrunner had taken over from Harmon / Roiland and it all made sense.

Season 6 represented a step up in quality, but it still fell behind 1-4.

I'm intrigued to see how season 7 turns out without Roiland. The only really issue is his voices. It's clear as day that Harmon is and always was the one driving the actual writing of the thing.

[Reply #499 on:]

I actually really love season 6 and think it's the best the show's been in a long time.

The episode with Pissmaster, despite being kind of gross, was particularly excellent! I also loved the premiere, and the fortune cookie one.

As for the loss of Justin Roiland, all they really need is one good impersonator (maybe two). He did basically the same voice for every character that wasn't Rick or Morty.

[Reply #500 on:]

Anyone can do a passable Rick and Morty impression so I'm not particularly worried that they'll find someone who can nail it.

I mean, hell, if you've listened to Harmontown you'll know that Dan Harmon would be perfectly capable of voicing them himself if he wanted to.

[Reply #501 on:]

Anyone can do a passable Rick and Morty impression so I'm not particularly worried that they'll find someone who can nail it.

They should hire Roiland back as a non-guild, non-union, no-rights, zero-hours disposable employee and threaten to replace him if he doesn't improve after every line. And showing up to his job ought to be his only alternative to jail.

The guy's a scumbag, and he should suffer. And as long as that's happening, maybe the audience can benefit from it.

[Reply #502 on:]

Season 7 premieres on the 15th October, and we’re getting another trailer on Monday the 25th September - which means we might finally get to hear the new voices of the titular characters.

[Reply #503 on:]

*bump*

The new voices have been revealed.

[Reply #504 on:]

They're fine.

You can tell they're different, but they've got the voices almost perfectly down and, more impressively, it sounds like they've got the performance and mannerisms down too. Rick sounds a bit off when he's yelling, but it's close enough that I can see myself getting over it fairly soon. It'll be interesting to see if there's any noticeable difference without Roiland's improv -- I suspect the answer will be no, but we'll have to see.

Also, I remember detesting Roiland's voice on the show when I first started watching it. His Rick always sounded like a child trying to do an old man impression to me. I grew to love it, so hopefully I can just grow to love the new guy(s).

[Reply #505 on:]

I saw the pilot a short while ago and I thought it was fairly shite.

Also, Rick's voice-acting is just terrible.

It sounds like a kid doing an impression of an old man. I want old men characters to actually sound like they could be old men.

It also sounds more like a party trick impression than an actual fully-formed character.

And the acting, itself, was very poor.

Proof of what I just said.

[Reply #506 on:]

Lol

[Reply #507 on:]

Yeah the voices don't sound too bad. If I didn't know any better I'd just presume it's just a sign of Justin Roiland's vocal chords aging.

I haven't seen the back half of the last season, so I need to catch up

[Reply #508 on:]

They don't sound different enough that I care. Almost can't tell the diddly-ifference.

[Reply #509 on:]

Morty sounds good.

Rick sounds perfect when he's speaking at a normal volume/tone, but a bit weird when he yells.

Pretty good recasting, to be honest.

[Reply #510 on:]

So... that new episode sure was good, huh?

Nah I'm just busting your chops. It was very mid in my opinion. I didn't mind the new voices after the first 5 or 10 minutes personally, but I honestly didn't find this episode all that enjoyable aside from a few gags or jokes. It was nice seeing Rick's old friends but the episode started getting way too stale the moment they went on that bender. Sure was neat to have the actual Hugh Jackson voice himself in this episode, but aside from that it was very eh. His cameo is probably the worst celebrity cameo in the series tbh, but he did a good job voicing himself, I guess? Better than the show's worst episodes but still not something I'd consider good or great.

[Reply #511 on:]

It wasn't a great episode, but I stopped noticing the new voices pretty much straight away. The new voice for Mr. Poopybutthole (aka the generic Justin Roiland voice) was pretty spot-on.

Side note, it's very weird how his wife is named Amy, and voiced by Lauren Tom.

[Reply #512 on:]

His cameo is probably the worst celebrity cameo in the series tbh

...Elon Tusk



Yeah, this was an extremely weak episode by the show's usual standards -- but not bad. I'm hoping it's not reflective of the season's quality in general.

[Reply #513 on:]

Very weak season opener. Maybe the show's finally going to just fizzle out? I mean, that was a pretty lackluster offering and they went with it as the first of the season. It may be that they're not actually in their stride anymore.

I just hope that before it goes off the air, they conclude the arc of (our) Rick finding and anticlimactically just murdering the Rick who killed his wife, then himself. I mean, that seems like the logical conclusion to all of this.

[Reply #514 on:]

The voices were pretty good, but there was a definite late era Simpsons vibe to the first episode of the season.  "Hey, it's insert celebrity! Let's go on a wacky adventure with him!"

Enough jokes landed for me to enjoy myself, but the show has seen better days for sure.

[Reply #515 on:]

I'm hoping it's not reflective of the season's quality in general.

Well, good news. Episode 2 was wonderful.

Granted, I've always loved the Jerry/Rick episodes.

[Reply #516 on:]

I actually really liked the second episode as well, a much-needed breath of fresh air compared to Episode 1. Yeah J&R episodes do usually hit strong, and this one is no exception.

I did find some things cheesy like the Howard Dean scream, but the entire premise of their two minds being mixed together was a wonderful concept that was executed far better than I was expecting. The "Inside The Episode" video they released concerning the episode explains it all fairly well. I like the direction they took with just about everything, and to be completely honest, I think it combined both characters' traits extremely well. Although admittedly Jerry had more of Rick inside his brain while Rick had less of Jerry inside his with some hints of Jerry's passiveness? I hope I phrased that right.

All in all though, I'd gladly rate this episode a 8/10

[Reply #517 on:]

Yep. I agree. For my money, episode 2 is the best episode of the show since season 4. I'm now a lot more optimistic about the rest of season 7.

[Reply #518 on:]

Anyone else notice Morty has barely been in any of these? I guess they're still getting the voice down.

[Reply #519 on:]

He had a fair few lines in the newest episode. It was enough to hear that he sounds fairly different to Roiland.

Rick on the other hand was identical here. It's difficult to get over.

Anyway, I thought this was another great new episode. Surprised to see it has such as low IMDb rating. Are Roiland stands tanking the scores or do people genuinely not like it?

The return of Unity added a nice bit of depth and character development rather than just feeling like a cheap sequel episode. I'd be pleased to see more of her every few seasons or so.