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[Rick & Morty] and the Infinite Sadness
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Rick and Morty is an American animated television series created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland that premiered on December 2, 2013 on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. Roiland voices the eponymous main characters Rick, a scientist and alcoholic, and Morty, Rick's grandson. The series is a cosmic horror comedy that follows the two's adventures, sometimes with the rest of their family.
Currently airing season 3, Rick & Morty are also featured in other media such as video games, merch, comics and even a full-featured Pokemon parody for phones.
New episodes stream via the Adult Swim website, though some require cable provider credentials to view. You can purchase the whole season in advance through many video apps like Amazon, or wait for the Blu-Ray probably hitting around X-Mas.
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Either that or he got the owner of that garden gnome murdered in a diamond garden gnome related robbery.
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Which makes your wonder what the Rick is like in the universe where Jerry is snorting coke with Johnny Depp and Beth is a famous cardiac surgeon.
Maybe that's Doofus Rick's universe?
EDIT: I used to think the memory that Evil Morty's Rick brings up of baby Morty was proof that Rick had feelings, but for him to cry over that memory is a bit out of character since Morty was just down the hall. I'm starting to wonder if Morty isn't his original Morty and his original Morty died very young, starting his cycle.
Dead because he has no Dumb Field protection?
Though I guess he could just get a Morty of his own, there doesn't seem to be any shortage of Rick-less Morties at this point.
Jerry 4 Ever!
Embrace the Jerry
Thats kind of the point of the show, aside from the obviously different universes like Hammer Morty or whatever, ANY Rick and Morty could be OUR Rick and Morty. I mean, we dont have the same Beth, Summer or Jerry that we started with anymore, we have no way of knowing if the Rick and Morty we're watching now are the ones we started with either.
Well there was a deleted scene from that episode.
I think it's a pretty strong inference that Rick C-137 only needs a human cloaking device because he's hiding from other Ricks. You don't need your own Morty if you just join the Council.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Rick actually uses it to hide from the intergalactic government, warlords, and such and such. One Morty isn't enough, you need like 5 and a jumper cable to be able to hide from other Ricks.
I rendered a Pickle Rick!
Boom! Big reveal.
I got drunk one day and I got V Ray rendering and I rendered a Pickle!
... that's all ... return to your regular browsing.
Now whats the real reason you rendered that pickle?
The only reason anyone would do this, if they could, which they can't, would be because they could.
Also i'm bench marking V Ray on the render farm VS Redshift on a GTX 1080 to see if I could replace the aging farm with a single multi GPU rig and this damn pickle will be one of the test scenes.
"..I'm just using Logic to connect the dots"
so damn.. literal
In a reality where there are infinite universes, there are infinite Ricks and infinite Morties. What this means is that there will always be a Morty for a Rick.
He... connected dots?
Not all infinite sets are equal.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
On Doofus Ricks world , Jerry is
to the point of actual Rick has trouble defeating him. So could be a sorta universal construct that Jerry needs to be kept docile by a proper Rick.
Infinity is a really funny concept is the short version. Infinite realities doesn't mean every reality you can conceive of is the short version. We have confimation in show about the morty in show as well. In the first Rick council episode Rick C137 states that most universes have a Rick, and most Rick's have a Morty. We also have seen a Rick who had a Morty from an alternate universe.
That's fair.
I'm also thinking this through and it would make sense for Morty-less Ricks to join the Council anyway for self-preservation. Seems like the safest place for a Morty-less Rick.
That's assuming the whole cloaking device explanation was true. Rick frequently lies about his motivations especially where his family is concerned. Making up a reason why he doesn't actually care about Morty is a very Rick thing to do.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
There was also a bit of it last season with the Tree People in the episode about Rick's car battery.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Infinite realities also means that there are infinite universes that don't have a Rick or a Morty. Basically, infinite possibilities also means infinite universes of all contingencies. It's just that, as Rick mentioned WAAAAAAY back in the Cronenburging of Earth episode, it's a matter of finding one that's desirable/close enough to the universe you want to inhabit. It's kind of the same way with Ricks finding replacement Morties (or Summers): they're definitely out there...but the work required to find a suitable one is more than the work required for Rick to keep his Morty (or Summer) alive.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, but none of those numbers are greater than 1. Infinite sets do not necessarily mean infinite variations.
Except it's explicitly stated by Rick that there are infinite universes with infinite possibilities. So, yeah...I'm going with internal consistency instead of viewer interpretation.
The Council of Ricks mention the Central Finite Curve though. Which is probably the Rick's/Universes that are sufficiently similar to be compatible.
Rick's cyborg parts are a plant by a secret leader of the Council of Ricks and are reporting his every move back to the leader. A leader who knows Rick well enough to plant the cyborg enhanced Rick in just the right place for that to be the last body Rick jumped into after he took down the Federation and cleared out the bureaucratic dead weight in the CoR. The most likely leader? Evil Morty.
I feel like there should be at least one more for some reason, but lunch is only so long.
And explicitly stated that there were only so many universes similar enough to slip into. Not like he didn't want to do the work, but literally only possble a very small number of times. That makes the interpretation flawed at best.
As I mentioned before:
Which is something Rick also explicitly states in S3:E2.
The way I think about the Central Finite Curve is basically this - our universe is infinite. But that doesn't mean we can actually get everywhere (within its lifetime or whatever). Due to the limits on how information can be transmitted, there is a distinct area that is possible to reach (and even when you reach that point, the universe will stretch infinitely in every direction, just centered differently).
Infinite universes are the same way - there's just limitations to how far away from your current one you can get to. So yeah, there's some ones without Rick/Morty/etc they can get to, but due to the metaphysics of how infinite universes work, it's easier to jump to closer ones (and maybe easier to get better granularity?)
Basically, an easy handwave bullshit bullshit for why we tend to deal with universes with other Ricks.
They may also consider all universes that are nearly identical to just be the same thing as far as they're concerned. When they summon Rick C137, there are actually an infinite (or very large) number of Councils summoning an infinite number of Rick C137s. As long as exactly one Rick shows up, they don't need to care.
When Rick moved himself and Morty to a nearly identical universe, he may have been jumping to an entirely different parallel curve, one with its own parallel Council.
There are simply more infinite copies of a young dude then there are of an old dude.
The old dude is dying off.
This is simple back-of-the-napkin multiverse mechanics guys