One thing I guess I didn't quite understand: Why were the snakes suddenly trying to come after Morty after he sent that snake to the planet? What about him doing that triggered that course of events?
I greatly appreciate that Jerry's progressed to determined buffoon instead of simpering buffoon. He's still the dumbest one in the room but he's at least trying now.
Even Rick is grudgingly proud of him, which says a lot.
Well, at least 50% proud.
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I would say the only one I actively disliked was the dragon one
Yeah, that one felt kinda like a sub-par South Park episode where they have an idea but they don't really have anything much to say about it, so they just keep wallowing in it and hope it remains funny/shocking for 20 minutes.
Folks do this with all great sitcoms. Every season of its always sunny is the worst until it isn’t and all it’s solid episodes end up in your memory list of great sunny moments.
Not every episode of any show is it’s best. Some episides have to be the worst of the show
But this season I feel some folks genuinely hated the heist episode where I loved it. So I can see those folks thinking the quality dipped.
Dragon episode was the weakest one and does rank up there with the worst the series has, but the jerry side plot was pretty great in it still
I laughed at all the episodes, so by that metric it succeeded. I think the toliet ep was the weakest but I thought the Heist ep was pretty great.
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Weakest episode for me by far continues to be S1 Interdimensional Cable, this season has had nothing yet that I didn't enjoy.
Snakisode has easily been my fave, though. Not only does it have an insane amount of detail, it has a story about Jerry being an idiot without me hating every second of it. Endless recursive time travel piles of dead snakes was funny every time.
Interdimensional Cable 2 has to be the worst episode of the series.
The toilet episode isn't all that bad but it is the worst episode that is supposed to lay out what kind of a miserable shitbird Rick is and how it's all his own fault. But most of those episodes are pretty stellar so it kinda drew the Short straw there.
The dragon episode was the worst of this bunch.
The snake episode may be in my personal top 5
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I liked the Toilet episode because it’s an example of Rick’s nihilism being a major character flaw. It’s not the first example of this, but I still liked it.
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Interdimensional Cable 2 has to be the worst episode of the series.
The toilet episode isn't all that bad but it is the worst episode that is supposed to lay out what kind of a miserable shitbird Rick is and how it's all his own fault. But most of those episodes are pretty stellar so it kinda drew the Short straw there.
The dragon episode was the worst of this bunch.
The snake episode may be in my personal top 5
All that put Interdimensional Cable 2 above the first for me is that it at least it has some kind of actual writing to it. Unfortunately, it's also got a fair helping of "look at Jerry suck and fail because that's all Jerry does", which is my second most-disliked thing they do in the show. It's also pretty much the only other episode I will actively skip when it comes on, so I'm not a fan of it either.
Morty's Mind-blowers is where they finally do something with the idea that doesn't suck, since they use it for the characters instead just having randomly-generated zany shit that doesn't connect to anything.
Interdimensional Cable 2 has to be the worst episode of the series.
The toilet episode isn't all that bad but it is the worst episode that is supposed to lay out what kind of a miserable shitbird Rick is and how it's all his own fault. But most of those episodes are pretty stellar so it kinda drew the Short straw there.
The dragon episode was the worst of this bunch.
The snake episode may be in my personal top 5
All that put Interdimensional Cable 2 above the first for me is that it at least it has some kind of actual writing to it. Unfortunately, it's also got a fair helping of "look at Jerry suck and fail because that's all Jerry does", which is my second most-disliked thing they do in the show. It's also pretty much the only other episode I will actively skip when it comes on, so I'm not a fan of it either.
Morty's Mind-blowers is where they finally do something with the idea that doesn't suck, since they use it for the characters instead just having randomly-generated zany shit that doesn't connect to anything.
Interdimensional Cable 1 has about a 40% hit rate which is astonishingly high for improv and also a really great character beat for Summer and another for Morty.
It working as well as it did is why we got the dreadful second rendition
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But at the end of the day, it's still improv and it's still cratering most of the time while trying to trip and fall into some magic. As a writing process, fine, some great stuff can come out of that. As a script for an actual episode, it's like having my teeth drilled.
Folks do this with all great sitcoms. Every season of its always sunny is the worst until it isn’t and all it’s solid episodes end up in your memory list of great sunny moments.
Not every episode of any show is it’s best. Some episides have to be the worst of the show
But this season I feel some folks genuinely hated the heist episode where I loved it. So I can see those folks thinking the quality dipped.
Dragon episode was the weakest one and does rank up there with the worst the series has, but the jerry side plot was pretty great in it still
This show is something I routinely run in the background and I agree with this. Every season has episodes that are perfectly okay. But they pale in comparison to the great episodes. When they're running in the background it's no big deal. When watching the newest episode I've waited all week or months for it hits harder because of the expectation.
But at the end of the day, it's still improv and it's still cratering most of the time while trying to trip and fall into some magic. As a writing process, fine, some great stuff can come out of that. As a script for an actual episode, it's like having my teeth drilled.
It’s like having ants in your eyes, right Johnson?
Some of the improv was cringeworthy, but I did like that they actually animated all that randomness, which made it better for me. But I still like Morty’s Mind Blowers the best of them.
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Was morty mindbenders improv? It didn’t seem like it where as the other two definitely did
Less improv and more set pieces and situations they could never put into an actual episode because it wouldn’t work in the narrative. But Rick breaks the 4th wall and draws a comparison between mind blowers and inter-dimensional cable, so I consider them similar even if not exactly.
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Unfortunately, it's also got a fair helping of "look at Jerry suck and fail because that's all Jerry does", which is my second most-disliked thing they do in the show.
Seriously. I know the goal is "all the main characters are really flawed," but Jerry's painful because all his flaws end up reading as 1) depression and 2) trying to accomplish something (and get out of his depression) and failing. And the few times he really makes the attempt to stand up for himself he gets smacked down, hard (see: putting his foot down with Rick, finally, at the end of season 2, which lead to his marriage imploding). Part of what made his antigravity adventure so great is that he ended it with a shred of dignity.
Which isn't to say Jerry can't be as awful as the rest of them and work -- his rebound fling with the warrior alien was great, and it didn't seem like needlessly picking on him when it inevitably went south. But honestly, crap like the wind whispering "loser" at him is pretty much going "he sucks because he's got depression."
Unfortunately, it's also got a fair helping of "look at Jerry suck and fail because that's all Jerry does", which is my second most-disliked thing they do in the show.
Seriously. I know the goal is "all the main characters are really flawed," but Jerry's painful because all his flaws end up reading as 1) depression and 2) trying to accomplish something (and get out of his depression) and failing. And the few times he really makes the attempt to stand up for himself he gets smacked down, hard (see: putting his foot down with Rick, finally, at the end of season 2, which lead to his marriage imploding). Part of what made his antigravity adventure so great is that he ended it with a shred of dignity.
Which isn't to say Jerry can't be as awful as the rest of them and work -- his rebound fling with the warrior alien was great, and it didn't seem like needlessly picking on him when it inevitably went south. But honestly, crap like the wind whispering "loser" at him is pretty much going "he sucks because he's got depression."
I don't read Jerry as having depression. When he's sad, it's for a reason in the episode. And he is CONSTANTLY putting in tons of effort and energy to try to do anything he can. He's really optimistic. But he fails constantly. That's what the show does to him.
Jerry is also selfish and vain and as stubborn as anyone save Rick. The fact that his other character traits are a mix of sympathetic and pathetic doesn't make him suddenly put upon.
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Yeah Jerry isn't depressed or written to be depressed, he's just a failure without any potential. He's content just having a job he doesn't know how to do.
Yeah Jerry isn't depressed or written to be depressed, he's just a failure without any potential. He's content just having a job he doesn't know how to do.
He was pretty depressed in the Whirly-Dirly episode IMO. Depressed enough that he didn’t even protest when he thought Rick was going to execute him in the beginning of the episode.
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SSS... Sssnakelin Ssselano Sssoosivelt.
Don't forget the Hufflepuffadders and the Ravenbaits!
You mean Snake Hufflepuff and Snake Ravenclaw?
Sad, that there wasn't a Sssssoollliiidd Sssssnnnnaaakkkkeeee on this episode.
Unless I missed it.
Where the fuck did the Santa hats come from?
Santa hats? I’m not seeing any on mobile, but presumably the usual holiday forums are almost upon us, so I’m guessing that’s a sign of that pending.
No no, the ones Rick and Morty are wearing.
Future Rick and Morty passed their hats to present Rick and Morty.
But where did they come from?
Rick keeps an emergency supply of Santa hats in his car.
It would explain how Santa's whole gimmick is able to break the known laws of physics.
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That was...uncomfortable.
I would say the only one I actively disliked was the dragon one
Yeah, that one felt kinda like a sub-par South Park episode where they have an idea but they don't really have anything much to say about it, so they just keep wallowing in it and hope it remains funny/shocking for 20 minutes.
then went completely to crap about 3 minutes in
rewatching the heist one it's not as bad as I remember it, but it's definitely not on par with the rest of the show
Folks do this with all great sitcoms. Every season of its always sunny is the worst until it isn’t and all it’s solid episodes end up in your memory list of great sunny moments.
Not every episode of any show is it’s best. Some episides have to be the worst of the show
But this season I feel some folks genuinely hated the heist episode where I loved it. So I can see those folks thinking the quality dipped.
Dragon episode was the weakest one and does rank up there with the worst the series has, but the jerry side plot was pretty great in it still
Snakisode has easily been my fave, though. Not only does it have an insane amount of detail, it has a story about Jerry being an idiot without me hating every second of it. Endless recursive time travel piles of dead snakes was funny every time.
The toilet episode isn't all that bad but it is the worst episode that is supposed to lay out what kind of a miserable shitbird Rick is and how it's all his own fault. But most of those episodes are pretty stellar so it kinda drew the Short straw there.
The dragon episode was the worst of this bunch.
The snake episode may be in my personal top 5
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All that put Interdimensional Cable 2 above the first for me is that it at least it has some kind of actual writing to it. Unfortunately, it's also got a fair helping of "look at Jerry suck and fail because that's all Jerry does", which is my second most-disliked thing they do in the show. It's also pretty much the only other episode I will actively skip when it comes on, so I'm not a fan of it either.
Morty's Mind-blowers is where they finally do something with the idea that doesn't suck, since they use it for the characters instead just having randomly-generated zany shit that doesn't connect to anything.
Interdimensional Cable 1 has about a 40% hit rate which is astonishingly high for improv and also a really great character beat for Summer and another for Morty.
It working as well as it did is why we got the dreadful second rendition
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This show is something I routinely run in the background and I agree with this. Every season has episodes that are perfectly okay. But they pale in comparison to the great episodes. When they're running in the background it's no big deal. When watching the newest episode I've waited all week or months for it hits harder because of the expectation.
It’s like having ants in your eyes, right Johnson?
Some of the improv was cringeworthy, but I did like that they actually animated all that randomness, which made it better for me. But I still like Morty’s Mind Blowers the best of them.
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Less improv and more set pieces and situations they could never put into an actual episode because it wouldn’t work in the narrative. But Rick breaks the 4th wall and draws a comparison between mind blowers and inter-dimensional cable, so I consider them similar even if not exactly.
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Seriously. I know the goal is "all the main characters are really flawed," but Jerry's painful because all his flaws end up reading as 1) depression and 2) trying to accomplish something (and get out of his depression) and failing. And the few times he really makes the attempt to stand up for himself he gets smacked down, hard (see: putting his foot down with Rick, finally, at the end of season 2, which lead to his marriage imploding). Part of what made his antigravity adventure so great is that he ended it with a shred of dignity.
Which isn't to say Jerry can't be as awful as the rest of them and work -- his rebound fling with the warrior alien was great, and it didn't seem like needlessly picking on him when it inevitably went south. But honestly, crap like the wind whispering "loser" at him is pretty much going "he sucks because he's got depression."
I don't read Jerry as having depression. When he's sad, it's for a reason in the episode. And he is CONSTANTLY putting in tons of effort and energy to try to do anything he can. He's really optimistic. But he fails constantly. That's what the show does to him.
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He was pretty depressed in the Whirly-Dirly episode IMO. Depressed enough that he didn’t even protest when he thought Rick was going to execute him in the beginning of the episode.
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