Rick and Morty - Look At Me!!

This is my first post in this thread, as I had not watched the show at all ... until last Saturday. A small group of friends met up at a friend's house and played the drinking game while we binge watched season 1. The show is pretty good, and it was a lot of fun. I ended up drinking 10 beers in total; the first and last episodes of the season were especially brutal.

We're doing it again for season 2 in a couple weeks.

Nice.

I've been jiving to these Rick and Morty mixes for a few days now, so I figured I'd share them:

July 30th - I'm cool with that!

Oh sweet, we have a thread for this very good show.

The layers in this joke (which started at the beginning of S3E2) are just incredible. I love what they did to the character. It's some of the best social commentary/justice I've seen in awhile.

I really want to know if the loser winds are a thing or if it's Rick f*cking with Jerry or just a throw away gag.

Grenn wrote:

I really want to know if the loser winds are a thing or if it's Rick f*cking with Jerry or just a throw away gag.

I get the feeling that at some point in the season we may see a Rick-ed up explanation, be it either Rick shafting the weather or just Rick with a special sort of megaphone, the possibilities are Bradley Cooper -

- that is, to say, Limitless.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

The layers in this joke (which started at the beginning of S3E2) are just incredible. I love what they did to the character. It's some of the best social commentary/justice I've seen in awhile.

Do you mind explaining them? I don't know what they are.

Also, I really don't like the end of s3 ep1 where we get Rick telling Morty it was all a plot and stuff. That made me truly hate him.

Why are there like a dozen youtube channels doing live 24/7 R&M episodes?
Also, why is it that when I watch it "live" I fall behind by tens of seconds per minute?

RolandofGilead wrote:

Also, I really don't like the end of s3 ep1 where we get Rick telling Morty it was all a plot and stuff. That made me truly hate him.

Well, he is the primary villain of the show.

RolandofGilead wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

The layers in this joke (which started at the beginning of S3E2) are just incredible. I love what they did to the character. It's some of the best social commentary/justice I've seen in awhile.

Do you mind explaining them? I don't know what they are.

My take is that Jerry is the epitome of the over-privileged, middle-class, suburban, boring, American, white guy. He's just ignorantly a little sexist, a little racist, etc. If you listen to the Harmontown podcast at all, you'll know Dan Harmon has a massive amount of white guy guilt. I'm pretty sure he voices that "loser" line. So, he's kinda calling Jerry a loser along with all the other over-privileged white guys in America, including himself.

Starting the episode with that joke and then calling back to it in the end is perfect. The wild dog taking his check instead of the food just accents everything.

Basically, it's joking about a white dude actually getting his come-uppance.

I also feel like the wolf represents Jerry's wife. The wolf could also represent the world.

When the wind whispers "loser", I think Jerry pauses for a slight moment, but then goes about his business as if everything is fine. I think this represents that Jerry is just now starting to come to terms with something he's known his whole life, but never been able to acknowledge.

RawkGWJ wrote:

I also feel like the wolf represents Jerry's wife. The wolf could also represent the world.

When the wind whispers "loser", I think Jerry pauses for a slight moment, but then goes about his business as if everything is fine. I think this represents that Jerry is just now starting to come to terms with something he's known his whole life, but never been able to acknowledge.

Yeah, totally. I think there could be lots of interpretations which is kinda what I was going with originally in how layered it is. It's just a really good joke, a writer's joke.

More jams.

Holy moly did y'all see "Pickle Rick" last night?

I felt originally like this was one of the dumber concepts coming out of S3, but with this show, it seems to matter not how dumb the concept it rather than how the crew follows/plays out the concept. Great episode with solid Rick action and an excellent presentation of the Smith family healing in light of the recent divorce. Also, we get a whole lot more Beth than we usually do.

Spoiler:

Also Susan Sarandon, Danny Trejo and Peter Serafinowicz all guest-voice.

I've already watched it twice. It was a surprisingly deep episode considering it's A-story revolved around Rick turning himself into a Pickle.
I don't know if it was intentional or not but I also liked how last week Jerry said he'd only get to see his kids every other weekend and he was noticeably absent this week. It would be a cool meta-joke if he's only in every other episode for the rest of the season.

Loved it.

I got me a Pickle Rick T-shirt!

Hellz yeah!

At the start of the episode, I initially thought the syringe hovering over Pickle Rick's Rube-Goldberg-Lite machine was supposed to kill him.

A convoluted suicide? Perhaps, but Rick is no stranger to bizarre deaths.

Also I am desperately hoping Jaguar becomes our new de facto Birdperson.

TheMostRad wrote:

and an excellent presentation of the Smith family healing in light of the recent divorce. Also, we get a whole lot more Beth than we usually do

Oh I don't think any healing took place at all considering that last scene.

Spoiler:

Beth and Rick laughing about the therapy, completely missing the point that they are the source of all the family's problems, and then ditching the kids to go out for drinks sounds to me like they haven't learned anything at all.

Darkest season yet indeed.

Norfair wrote:
TheMostRad wrote:

and an excellent presentation of the Smith family healing in light of the recent divorce. Also, we get a whole lot more Beth than we usually do

Oh I don't think any healing took place at all considering that last scene.

Spoiler:

Beth and Rick laughing about the therapy, completely missing the point that they are the source of all the family's problems, and then ditching the kids to go out for drinks sounds to me like they haven't learned anything at all.

Darkest season yet indeed.

Point taken, friendo. Maybe not healing so much as more character, perhaps some healing on Morty and Summer's end.

Norfair wrote:

Oh I don't think any healing took place at all considering that last scene.

Spoiler:

Beth and Rick laughing about the therapy, completely missing the point that they are the source of all the family's problems, and then ditching the kids to go out for drinks sounds to me like they haven't learned anything at all.

Darkest season yet indeed.

Oh this implies they don't already know it. I mean Beth might not realize it on a conscious level but Rick...he don't give a f***. Or rather, the fact that he's unhappy enough that he's determined to have his family in his life to mitigate that unhappiness is not sufficient.

So wait, it occurs to me that since this is not Rick and Morty's original dimension (C137), is this not original Birdperson and Squanch?

RolandofGilead wrote:

So wait, it occurs to me that since this is not Rick and Morty's original dimension (C137), is this not original Birdperson and Squanch?

It's the original Birdperson and Squanchy of the dimension we've been witnessing. Rick and Morty bail on Earth C137 midway through S1, but we don't meet Birdperson and Squanchy till the season finale of S1.

In the Get Schwifty episode Morty steals the portal gun and stumbles upon Birdperson's home planet, so it's possible that Birdperson is just from an alternate Earth dimension where humans evolved from birds instead being an alien from another planet.

Technically there are infinite Bird Persons and Squanchys.

Radical Ans wrote:

Technically there are infinite Bird Persons and Squanchys. :)

I'm not certain there are. The most recent episode had Rick talk about how he doesn't form attachments to his family because there are an infinite number of them across the multiverse, and we've seen this in action with him abandoning family members in mortal danger and only eventually rescuing them for selfish reasons, or when he Cronenburged Earth and immediately abandoned Summer, Beth, and Jerry to their fate without even bothering to look for them despite knowing they were immune to the virus. The death of Birdperson is as far as I recall the only time in the series that he's shown any emotion other than annoyance over someone's death. In the context of his speech from the last episode it implies that Birdperson may be unique in some way.

ruhk wrote:

In the Get Schwifty episode Morty steals the portal gun and stumbles upon Birdperson's home planet, so it's possible that Birdperson is just from an alternate Earth dimension where humans evolved from birds instead being an alien from another planet.

Aye, but the portal gun isn't exclusively limited to traveling to different dimensions. It can also warp through general space within the same dimension. It's only true limitation (from what we've seen thus far) is time.

TheMostRad wrote:
ruhk wrote:

In the Get Schwifty episode Morty steals the portal gun and stumbles upon Birdperson's home planet, so it's possible that Birdperson is just from an alternate Earth dimension where humans evolved from birds instead being an alien from another planet.

Aye, but the portal gun isn't exclusively limited to traveling to different dimensions. It can also warp through general space within the same dimension. It's only true limitation (from what we've seen thus far) is time.

Though in a truly infinite universe there are an infinite-subset of universes where everything came to be exactly like the Universe they're in but N years previous. Which wouldn't technically be time travel but would effectively be time travel.

I'm of the theory that the Ricks severely limit the number of universes they can go to, maybe to those that already contain (or contained) a Rick. Otherwise there's a good chance of portaling to a universe with different physical laws, or that never had the big bang happen, etc.