I'm shocked people still think rick is someone worth emulating after the episode where he and morty go to a spa
I haven't seen Season 3 yet, but Rick and Morty does veer back and forth a lot between showing Rick as a monster and humanizing him by hinting at his inner pain. He's very much the classic charming sociopath.
That's not to say that I think it's a bad show or deserves the weird toxic attachment to the character the fans have generated. I'm just saying that Rick and Morty has a much harder, darker edge than Zim, which is actually a pretty sweet and wholesome show underneath all the weirdness and body horror.
I'm shocked people still think rick is someone worth emulating after the episode where he and morty go to a spa
i mean, pickle rick has this monologue in it and it's still somehow become the touchstone for shitty assholes who idolize rick:
Rick, the only connection between your unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying your family is that everyone in your family, you included, use intelligence to justify sickness.
You seem to alternate between viewing your own mind as an unstoppable force and as an inescapable curse. And I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for you is that it's your mind within your control. You chose to come here, you chose to talk -to belittle my vocation- just as you chose to become a pickle.
You are the master of your universe, and yet you are dripping with rat blood and feces. Your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand.
I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is, some people are okay going to work, and some people well, some people would rather die.
Each of us gets to choose.
it's just made by two guys who...kinda suck, a little bit, and has some fans who range from annoying to toxic
Rick and Morty definitely feels like it is coming from the mind of someone who has used their talent combined with massive amounts of work to rise to the top of their profession, and all they've gotten for it is personal pain, a failed family life, and the growing existential horror that they don't even know what success and happiness would mean for them anymore. It's very Evangelion-like in the feeling that you are watching and enjoying someone's mental breakdown.
Rick and Morty is the only show that I stopped watching because of the fan base.
I just couldn't enjoy it anymore.
I won't say that I stopped watching it, exactly, but I sure am taking a long time to get to the third season for a show I liked so much at the start.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
Like, the show has established that literally all of Rick's catchphrases sayings are fucking lame as shit and no one likes them. All his sayings are fucking stupid and respected by no one, except for that one which an expression of how much of a broken, miserable POS he is (and that one also very explicit, there is no subtext here).
And yet that doesn't stop people from calling out, "I'm pickle Rick!" like it's the funniest thing ever. Are you folks even watching the same show while you're enamored on how "cool" this dude is?
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
...is buttmunch actually an offensive thing, or is that the joke
...is buttmunch actually an offensive thing, or is that the joke
I think that is the joke, I've never heard it treated as an offensive thing but I can see how it could be?
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
Yeah working at comic-cons means I have dealt with Rick cosplayers on the scale of triple digits. And it's removed every ounce of enjoyment I would ever get from the show.
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Like, the show has established that literally all of Rick's catchphrases sayings are fucking lame as shit and no one likes them. All his sayings are fucking stupid and respected by no one, except for that one which an expression of how much of a broken, miserable POS he is (and that one also very explicit, there is no subtext here).
And yet that doesn't stop people from calling out, "I'm pickle Rick!" like it's the funniest thing ever. Are you folks even watching the same show while you're enamored on how "cool" this dude is?
That episode in particular makes it clear that Rick is an emotionally stunted shithead who's actively harming his family, and that Beth's desperation for his approval is damaging her kids and preventing them from emotionally processing the shit going on in their lives.
Like. I don't know how anyone likes him as a character!
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Like, the show has established that literally all of Rick's catchphrases sayings are fucking lame as shit and no one likes them. All his sayings are fucking stupid and respected by no one, except for that one which an expression of how much of a broken, miserable POS he is (and that one also very explicit, there is no subtext here).
And yet that doesn't stop people from calling out, "I'm pickle Rick!" like it's the funniest thing ever. Are you folks even watching the same show while you're enamored on how "cool" this dude is?
That episode in particular makes it clear that Rick is an emotionally stunted shithead who's actively harming his family, and that Beth's desperation for his approval is damaging her kids and preventing them from emotionally processing the shit going on in their lives.
Like. I don't know how anyone likes him as a character!
People have a lot of trouble distinguishing between protagonists and heroes.
Like, that's essentially it. By making an unlikeable/immoral/tragic person your main character, you've put them in a place where people will view them as the hero, no matter what.
Like, the show has established that literally all of Rick's catchphrases sayings are fucking lame as shit and no one likes them. All his sayings are fucking stupid and respected by no one, except for that one which an expression of how much of a broken, miserable POS he is (and that one also very explicit, there is no subtext here).
And yet that doesn't stop people from calling out, "I'm pickle Rick!" like it's the funniest thing ever. Are you folks even watching the same show while you're enamored on how "cool" this dude is?
That episode in particular makes it clear that Rick is an emotionally stunted shithead who's actively harming his family, and that Beth's desperation for his approval is damaging her kids and preventing them from emotionally processing the shit going on in their lives.
Like. I don't know how anyone likes him as a character!
Y'all
You know people idolize the joker and eric cartman right
it's just made by two guys who...kinda suck, a little bit, and has some fans who range from annoying to toxic
harmon and roiland seem like dudes who are very aware and are often on the right side, like when "fans" claimed that a woman couldn't POSSIBLY be a writer on R&M and they told the fans to fuck off, and also occasionally say some very stupid and upsetting things
like "why do people idolize this bad person" means you have the viewpoint that people do not actively desire to be assholes
Some people choose to be douchebags, knowing that's what they're doing
Tucker Max, Charles Bukowski, Celine, the dude who wrote Jarhead...
Stories about “awesome” assholes written by assholes pretending to be warning others against being assholes is an old genre. Rick and Morty rides the line between being one of those and a critique of those kind of stories in a way that shifts from week to week.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
My unrequested take has always been that those people get bullied by shitheads and feel powerless, so somehow shitheads in media end up being their idea of a perfect powerful person and they want to be like them because the powerful people in their own lives are shitheads.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
How many people watch Barry and don't realize Barry is the bad guy?
still only at the end of season 1, but I'm not seeing how that character turns the page... like ever.
well it's hard to say without seeing where they go, but...yeah, no, I don't think the show is about redemption
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
There are people who think Tony Soprano is a "pretty decent guy".
In a show full of fucking monsters, he's one of the worst! James Gandolfini had so much charisma he could make a serial murderer and dangerous sociopath into a character people sympathise with...
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I haven't seen Season 3 yet, but Rick and Morty does veer back and forth a lot between showing Rick as a monster and humanizing him by hinting at his inner pain. He's very much the classic charming sociopath.
That's not to say that I think it's a bad show or deserves the weird toxic attachment to the character the fans have generated. I'm just saying that Rick and Morty has a much harder, darker edge than Zim, which is actually a pretty sweet and wholesome show underneath all the weirdness and body horror.
i mean, pickle rick has this monologue in it and it's still somehow become the touchstone for shitty assholes who idolize rick:
http://www.audioentropy.com/
it's just made by two guys who...kinda suck, a little bit, and has some fans who range from annoying to toxic
Rick and Morty definitely feels like it is coming from the mind of someone who has used their talent combined with massive amounts of work to rise to the top of their profession, and all they've gotten for it is personal pain, a failed family life, and the growing existential horror that they don't even know what success and happiness would mean for them anymore. It's very Evangelion-like in the feeling that you are watching and enjoying someone's mental breakdown.
Hey @Zonugal Netflix harvested your subconscious for a show
I just couldn't enjoy it anymore.
I won't say that I stopped watching it, exactly, but I sure am taking a long time to get to the third season for a show I liked so much at the start.
And yet that doesn't stop people from calling out, "I'm pickle Rick!" like it's the funniest thing ever. Are you folks even watching the same show while you're enamored on how "cool" this dude is?
That episode in particular makes it clear that Rick is an emotionally stunted shithead who's actively harming his family, and that Beth's desperation for his approval is damaging her kids and preventing them from emotionally processing the shit going on in their lives.
Like. I don't know how anyone likes him as a character!
there is an upsetting amount of 80s-aughts sitcoms where this is the case
People have a lot of trouble distinguishing between protagonists and heroes.
Like, that's essentially it. By making an unlikeable/immoral/tragic person your main character, you've put them in a place where people will view them as the hero, no matter what.
Y'all
You know people idolize the joker and eric cartman right
Some people want to be nihilistic shitheads
harmon and roiland seem like dudes who are very aware and are often on the right side, like when "fans" claimed that a woman couldn't POSSIBLY be a writer on R&M and they told the fans to fuck off, and also occasionally say some very stupid and upsetting things
Some people choose to be douchebags, knowing that's what they're doing
everytime I would watch Cribs and a hiphop artist would have a dedicated scarface room or whatever I would just die a little more inside
he's the goddamn villain in his own story
Yeah, I'll check that out
Tucker Max, Charles Bukowski, Celine, the dude who wrote Jarhead...
Stories about “awesome” assholes written by assholes pretending to be warning others against being assholes is an old genre. Rick and Morty rides the line between being one of those and a critique of those kind of stories in a way that shifts from week to week.
Yesssss
And my main man, Dylan McDermott is cast in it???
OH YEAH
How many assholes do you know who idolize Don Draper?
Or Walter White?
personally? none thankfully
jon hamm is dick whitman
still only at the end of season 1, but I'm not seeing how that character turns the page... like ever.
well it's hard to say without seeing where they go, but...yeah, no, I don't think the show is about redemption
In a show full of fucking monsters, he's one of the worst! James Gandolfini had so much charisma he could make a serial murderer and dangerous sociopath into a character people sympathise with...
Yacht Rock also has some problems.
Didn't he quit Arrow saying headlining a show was taking up too much time which he wanted to spend with family?
I thought Arrow had just run its course.
The High School Musical Disney+ show is, apparently, about a bunch of high schoolers performing a production of
High School Musical, the actual play that Disney wrote and licensed out to real life high schools
Whoa... So meta.
even if one of them is my beloved Toby Huss, it's still odd
Clearly getting a premium cable show proved it the smart move.
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