Rick and Morty (and not Justin Roiland)

[Broker]

I fucking loved the shot of cloud desperately trying to lift his sword

 

[Silent Runner]

All the video game stuff was really well done. Mortys pathetic Interstellar video-message was so funny. 

 

I loving that they've pretty much dumped the meta-verse stuff (up to a point) and are concentrating on smaller plots this season. 

[Sidewaysbob]

Even though it wasn't about Jerry, that was peak Jerry. 

[PK]

The audio from the

 

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threesome

 

was incredible. "Is this mocking me?" 

[Benny]

I've gone on and off Rick and Morty throughout the previous few seasons or so. The meta stuff just tired me out after a while and it honestly put me off the show and made it quite hard to care much about watching it. But this last season 6 episode was absolutely brilliant, felt like a real classic. And all it needed was a funny and not compete off the wall concept and the characters acting like themselves.

 

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I think I guessed where the episode was going to go even before "Deux ex husbanda "

 

But it was even funnier than I expected. The cuts to the kid's faces as everything progressed were incredible.

 

Also, funny side note: when I started typing "Deus Ex" on my phone, my phone keyboard automatically showed me "husband" as the next word it guessed I wanted to type. That's some scary shit, as I never would have typed "husband" after Deus ex in pretty much any other context I can think of. So I'm assuming the autocorrect has used the internet to get suggestions for its algorithm, and the popularity of Rick and Morty is such that that recent line is now being referenced online a lot?

 

[Benny]

I mean it's not the first thing suggested on a Google search, so... Why?!

 

Anyway, digression over.

 

[Nick R]

On 24/09/2022 at 13:41, Benny said:

 

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Also, funny side note: when I started typing "Deus Ex" on my phone, my phone keyboard automatically showed me "husband" as the next word it guessed I wanted to type. That's some scary shit, as I never would have typed "husband" after Deus ex in pretty much any other context I can think of. So I'm assuming the autocorrect has used the internet to get suggestions for its algorithm, and the popularity of Rick and Morty is such that that recent line is now being referenced online a lot?

 

 

I just tried it by typing "ex" in this post field, and its suggested next word was "wife".

 

So although

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"deus ex husbanda"

might be a phrase that's never been used before this episode, your text prediction is probably based on the far more common "ex husband". No fancy lookups of search trends required!

 

Frankly, I'm disgusted that it's not including a hyphen as part of these suggestions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, I liked the episode.

[Benny]

Of course, that makes a lot more sense. No scary AI shit then.

 

FOR NOW

[Silent Runner]

This season has been hit after hit. I thought the new one was great. A clever idea (a little bit similar to the Me-Seeks maybe) that played out nicely. 

[Benny]

I love how much effort was put in for essentially one joke this week.

 

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"seizing the day"

 

[Hitcher]

Feels like they're just retelling the same stories to me this season.

[makkuwata]

New ep

 

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“Sleepy Gary ruined my gag reflex”

[Silent Runner]

I thought that was hilarious.

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For whatever reason the kids 'Tik-Tok Taxi theme trend' absolutely destroyed me.

 

[Sidewaysbob]

Suddenly I want to eat zebra food ???

[Benny]

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It feels a bit like this season is trying to do a bit of a "redemption" arc for Jerry? We've certainly had a lot of him and I'm not complaining. The Sailor Moon Jerry bit was brilliant

 

[Flub]

This week's episode was written by a Resetera user. I loved it.

[cassidy]

5 minutes ago, Flub said:

This week's episode was written by a Resetera user. I loved it.

I loved it too this season has been consistently good imo. 

[Alan Stock]

Yeah I watched the previous season for the first time last week, and then went straight into this season and these new episodes have been way better. Much more memorable. The sleep episode was an especially good idea, especially the madness at the end 

 

Re: Jerry

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I like that they are kind of evolving him and Beth's characters a bit. It was great to see survivalist Jerry in the alternate timeline where he'd become a badass. And Rick even saves him from *that fate* in this episode, showing he does actually care a tiny bit.

 

Also its very weird going straight into this season from the last, because Justin Roiland's Rick voice is quite different. Its like he needs a throat sweet or something, Rick sounds rough this season!

[McFly]

Enjoyed this one alot and this season way more than last which I didn't like much.

[makkuwata]

I didn’t catch the voice of the guest star, so a meta joke I saw pointed out on Reddit went completely over my head.

 

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The lady boss was Gwyneth Paltrow. At the start of the season Rick pretended to not know who Iron Man was and in this she pretended to not know who Rick was!

 

[JohnC]

11 minutes ago, makkuwata said:

I didn’t catch the voice of the guest star, so a meta joke I saw pointed out on Reddit went completely over my head.

 

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The lady boss was Gwyneth Paltrow. At the start of the season Rick pretended to not know who Iron Man was and in this she pretended to not know who Rick was!

 

Whereas I

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totally thought she was supposed to be Paltrow-esque, but missed that she did the voice.

 

[makkuwata]

I didn’t independently verify that, but there was no objection in a long thread. Starting to suspect the Reddit person messed up, but the joke still plays.

[McFly]

I watched the first 4 Die Hards (3>2>1>>>4),) over the last week cos of RnM. "Winslow" is the spot-on name for a senior henchman in this type of movie.

[makkuwata]

New episode.

 

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On 14/09/2022 at 01:33, makkuwata said:

Solid. The self contained nature nicely dodges the question of portals for another week. I wonder if we’re going to see more episodes like this, or if Rick will just fix things on a whim.

 

Welp.

 

Nice to see Keith David again, I assume he’s a cert for the Community movie.

It’s on break now until Nov 20th.

[Benny]

Honestly I think the only time I laughed in that episode was

 

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Jerry's file naming convention.

 

The rest of it felt like it was trying really hard to say nothing at all and have no redeeming qualities. Even by Rick and Morty's more nihilistic tendancies. Rick was just a complete prick, who I thought was being set up for some growth earlier in the season, proves a point, makes comments about virtue signalling that came across weird even though he's an asshole, and the other characters had literally nothing to do, apart from a bit of Jerry.

 

Really disappointing stuff.

 

[Silent Runner]

Loved this weeks and the whole of this season. Bit sad to see

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the return of the portal episodes for the 2nd half of the season but hopefully they'll do something clever with the idea again.

 

[makkuwata]

Back this weekend.

 

S06E07 - "Full Meta Jackrick"

 

Getting some season 5 vibes from that. But everything has been great this year.

[Benny]

The latest episode is on 4OD - I watched it this evening.

 

I'm honestly not sure if I enjoyed it, as it was just complete fucking nonsense. Even by Rick and Morty standards.

[Danster]

 

 

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The best bits were the "previously on" sections (especially Jesus'), which had a whiff of interstellar cable about it, the rest was all a bit meta...  I mean shit.

 

And storylord was a bad character first time around... he's no Adolflinkler. 

 

[Silent Runner]

I normally don't like the super-meta stuff but I really liked this episode. The Joseph Campbell bits especially.