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Rick and Morty S3 |OT| Keeping Summer Safe - Sundays on Adult Swim

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BLOODED_hands

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bernardobri said:
Supernova is sort of a Captain Universe and Star Sapphire mash-up, and Million Ants felt like Swamp Thing mixed with Vision. They both sort of parallel Scarlet Witch and Vision now that I think about it.
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I was thinking of Swamp Thing when I saw Million Ants. Now that I'm thinking about it, and with the responses here, I totally see the Vision and Scarlet Witch relationship lol. I'm surprisef they didn't do a parody for The Flash :thinking:

Whatever they did, it was great. Really enjoyed them just ripping on the superhero teamups in media. Rick is just speaking for all of us: taking care of their main villains in a shorter amount of time than it is required by plot or drama. They're powerful superheroes with insane powersets. Why take so long to beat your main villain?

I don't even wanna touch the darker and more serious stuff that was in last night's episode. They always bring it with the serious stuff 👏 One thing that I always look forward to are the episodes just dedicated to the silly shit. I love the dark and serious stuff, but it can get overwhelming, and I think Dan and Justin balances it out very well.
 
Bridges

Bridges

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The episode had its moments. Overall it was funny but I do think that everything after the premiere back in April has been missing something.

Lately it's felt like a lot of the show has been just looking for excuses for Rick to make fun of something or to come up with some quip. It feels weird for so much of the show's humor to be observational, new characters and situations too often feel like strawman put there so Rick can point and laugh, just doesn't land as well for me in something that's mostly scripted.

I know that's always been a part of the show but it seems more apparent lately. Are they laying it on thicker or am I just no longer able to appreciate its humor?

For what it's worth, I think the first two seasons and the S3 premiere are absolutely hilarious, and I've still enjoyed the last few episodes enough to stick it through to the end.
 
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theSlacker

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dLMN8R said:
Man I'm loving this season so far.

What's the deal with the ending and noob noob - was Rick just bullshitting everyone and the platform would've accepted anyone? Or if not, why did it accept Rick when it was really supposed to be noob noob?
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It was meant to only accept Morty and show him what he saw.
 
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HariKari

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I think they're having a problem with capturing some of the subtlety of the first two seasons. It's just not there in S3. But the show is still very good.
 
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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
it's not working for me quite as well as the first season or two, but i like what they're doing with the characters
 
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Rymuth

Member
i feel dirty after watching this episode ~ just an exercise in senseless killing without something deeper to say...

: /
 
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RockmanBN

Member
The last 2 episodes have been kinda meh. There wasn't even a subplot in the new one, it just focussed on Rick & Morty the entire time.
 
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WhateverItTakes

Banned
Alienous said:
I'm not sure why, but these episodes seem off.

Maybe they're a bit too straightforward? Doesn't seem as wacky or eclectic.
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They're more pensive definitely. Maybe in Morty being more apprehensive about everything it takes the 'fun' out of it? Nevertheless I'm enjoying the direction of this series a whole lot!
 
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Dunkley

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Pretty surprised that this is one of the episodes (or the first one, pretty sure however it isn't) where there isn't a B plot.

I really am not feeling this season at all. I miss Jerry since the family really lacks anyone they can talk about their feelings to or lash out at with their own problems, you know, anyone they can bounce off while being on screen. Right now the whole word is just spinning around Rick with Morty/Summer/Beth just being there to be along for the ride.

And I know this is weird to say given this is an adventure that Morty chose but the whole plot is just
Morty wants to go on an adventure that's fun to him, Rick doesn't like it because reasons, Morty tries to do his own thing, turns out Rick is right in the end when Morty realizes he was being naive and the world does suck as much as Rick wants to paint it.

So basically, this episode was just
Meeseeks and Destroy done worse because there's no B-plot and Rick does not wound up giving a fuck about Morty after his dreams were crushed by reality like he did back then
.
 
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Mister Wilhelm

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Violet_0 said:
you gotta admit, the Israel joke was great. Dragged it out a bit too long, but I'll take it
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That was my least favorite part of the episode actually, and I loved the rest of the season so far. It had absolutely no business being there and it makes no sense for Rick to be paranoid about such a thing.

Really took me out of the episode, actually.
 
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Sheroking

Member
Don't understand the naysayers at all.

Maybe it's because I was REALLY tired with the family dynamic, and the Jerry character in particular, but I love the focus on intelligent, referential Rick-as-the-man storylines as opposed to redundant marriage problems B-plots.

The writing and jokes are all landing MUCH harder for me than most of Season 1, in particular.
 
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Pop-O-Matic

Banned
Dunkley said:
And I know this is weird to say given this is an adventure that Morty chose but the whole plot is just
Morty wants to go on an adventure that's fun to him, Rick doesn't like it because reasons, Morty tries to do his own thing, turns out Rick is right in the end when Morty realizes he was being naive and the world does suck as much as Rick wants to paint it.

So basically, this episode was just
Meeseeks and Destroy done worse because there's no B-plot and Rick does not wound up giving a fuck about Morty after his dreams were crushed by reality like he did back then
.
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Honestly, it's worse than that.
Meeseeks and Destroy had Rick just go along for the ride and things just fell apart of their own accord. This episode, on the other hand, has Rick deliberately sends shit into a tailspin in a drunken rage to prove his point. Really, the message of the episode winds up being "this asshole ruins everything, why do you keep tolerating his shit," which might have been the intended message of the episode, but Rick getting nothing to mitigate his awfulness compared to other episodes, the fact that they've been hammering this point home for pretty much this whole season (and a not insignificant amount of Seasons 1 & 2) and just the general mean-spirited tone of this episode makes it a real hard one to enjoy.

Also, The Vindicators are the kind of shallow, surface-level superhero parody that would have been considered rote 20 years ago, and I honestly expected better from this show than that
especially since, even when their less heroic aspects are revealed, it still doesn't feel like enough to justify the horrible fates they suffer.

Hopefully things get back on track next episode. Last 3 were all new writers, while the one for the next episode (Ryan Ridley, according to his Twitter) has a pretty solid track record (Lawnmower Dog, Meeseeks and Destroy, Auto-Erotic Assimilation, etc.).
 
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HotHamBoy

Member
Kinda funny that last week we had a lot of people wishing for a straight-up "Rick and Morty go on an Adventure" episode and that's what we got and people are disappointed.

It was a pretty lame plot but the jokes landed for me.

I must say, I have my doubts that the show can stay fresh in season 4. The schtick is already getting a little tired. But I laughed. Still, think about how long it took them to write this season.

Here's a good comparison to make: Community. By season 3 it was getting really hit or miss. Some great highs but the lowest lows (up to that point).

Do you feel that the show has grown or evolved at all?

Consider the differences between Simpsons and South Park Season 1 and Season 3. Season 4 of both shows is where the strongest run of seasons begins. When I compare seasons 1 and what we have so far of season 3 of R&M I really don't chart that growth.

Going back to Community and the parallels to R&M, I see it as a Dan Harmon thing where he is trying to distill the show to what he thinks it is supposed to be rather than letting it continue to discover what it can be.

I make that assumption based on what I know of his obsession with learning the perfect storytelling structure/writing formula. I mean, shit, he makes a Joeseph Campbell joke in like every fucking episode of R&M. They opened this episode with one.
 
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JawzPause

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Snuggle Bubbler said:
The episode had its moments. Overall it was funny but I do think that everything after the premiere back in April has been missing something.

Lately it's felt like a lot of the show has been just looking for excuses for Rick to make fun of something or to come up with some quip. It feels weird for so much of the show's humor to be observational, new characters and situations too often feel like strawman put there so Rick can point and laugh, just doesn't land as well for me in something that's mostly scripted.

I know that's always been a part of the show but it seems more apparent lately. Are they laying it on thicker or am I just no longer able to appreciate its humor?

For what it's worth, I think the first two seasons and the S3 premiere are absolutely hilarious, and I've still enjoyed the last few episodes enough to stick it through to the end.
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Honestly couldn't agree me. This is exactly how I'm feeling. I absolutely loved the first two seasons and the first episode of season 3. These last three episodes however haven't been up to the high standards that I'm used to. Hopefully the season gets better

Mister Wilhelm said:
That was my least favorite part of the episode actually, and I loved the rest of the season so far. It had absolutely no business being there and it makes no sense for Rick to be paranoid about such a thing.

Really took me out of the episode, actually.
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Funnily it was the only part of the episode that i laughed at, not sure why it'd take you out of the Episode
 
UberTag

UberTag

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Sheroking said:
Don't understand the naysayers at all.

Maybe it's because I was REALLY tired with the family dynamic, and the Jerry character in particular, but I love the focus on intelligent, referential Rick-as-the-man storylines as opposed to redundant marriage problems B-plots.

The writing and jokes are all landing MUCH harder for me than most of Season 1, in particular.
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I'm in complete agreement with you... and, if it makes you feel any better, 90% of the discussion in most online forums was fan bitching when the Simpsons were still airing classic era episodes (I'm talking Seasons 4 and 5 back in the early-to-mid 1990s) and they're all pretty much revered now. So don't sweat the negativity in here.
 
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Admiral Woofington

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Akainu said:
Damn. Just damn. Will Morty catch a break?
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Morty caught a break in showing that being around Rick
has given him some very weird insights and made him a proper sidekick. Even if not intelligent, he isn't dumb
.

I think the episode was funny and I chuckled plenty of times. But someone in here drove it home about how bad Rick has gotten and how Morty
will hopefully tell him to fuck off. The guy once again went out of his way to be a jackass to Morty and his adventure. This time he actually physically fucked it all up. And not only that at the end we find out that if it wasn't for a mistake in the system he would have let morty die and only cared for noob noob
.

He's gone full asshole at this point.
 
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vypek

Member
Would love if Ghost Train returns as a full on ghost sometime in the future


EDIT: Better yet, start Supernova and Eye Patch Morty as the foundation of an anti C-137 council. Maybe with some surviving Ricks from the old space station that was teleported into the Federation.
 
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Ernest

Banned
Sheroking said:
Don't understand the naysayers at all.

Maybe it's because I was REALLY tired with the family dynamic, and the Jerry character in particular, but I love the focus on intelligent, referential Rick-as-the-man storylines as opposed to redundant marriage problems B-plots.

The writing and jokes are all landing MUCH harder for me than most of Season 1, in particular.
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Yeah, I agree with this. If anything, the show is becoming a bit more focused, getting better at what it does best.
 
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zeemumu

Member
So their dislike of Rick was so strong that they allowed countless lives to be taken just to avoid having to call him back?
 
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Intheflorsh

Banned
The episode was enjoyable, but I'm not sure I like how much this season is relying on parody for its plot-lines. (The Mad Max parody, the 80s action hero parody, the Superhero movie parody, the Saw parody...)
 
Ronabo

Ronabo

Member
A lot of you guys are so critical of a silly violent cartoon. I've enjoyed this season just as much as the previous.
 
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zeemumu

Member
caliph95 said:
I don't think avengers would commit genocide out of spite but yeah
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Well, the have been headed by two alcoholics with bad tempers and poor decision-making skills and a literal Nazi.

Pretty sure Tony wanted to blow up a few at some point.


After putting a little more thought into it, of course it wouldn't have been Morty. Drunk Rick assumed Rick would get himself and Morty out of there so he wouldn't have made the games with them in mind.
 
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KimiNewt

Scored 3/100 on an Exam
Didn't laugh and didn't feel like anything was said or done that wasn't done before. Yeah, we get it, Rick is cynical and only cares about himself and Morty knows it. It feels like that was the concept for every episode this season thus far.
 
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Violet_0

Banned
zeemumu said:
After putting a little more thought into it, of course it wouldn't have been Morty. Drunk Rick assumed Rick would get himself and Morty out of there so he wouldn't have made the games with them in mind.
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Rick has a teleport gun. He just forgot it

the only slightly confusing part of the episode was what's-her-name killing the miilion ants man and trying to kill Rick and Morty out of nowhere
 
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caliph95

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Violet_0 said:
Rick has a teleport gun. He just forgot it

the only slightly confusing part of the episode was what's-her-name killing the miilion ants man and trying to kill Rick and Morty out of nowhere
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I think million ants tried to stop or at least calm her down

Though I don't think there is anything ants could do to stop her
 
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zeemumu

Member
Violet_0 said:
Rick has a teleport gun. He just forgot it

the only slightly confusing part of the episode was what's-her-name killing the miilion ants man and trying to kill Rick and Morty out of nowhere
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Yeah, that's what I meant. Drunk Rick assumed Rick would still have the portal gun with him and he and Morty would leave the death trap, so that's why Morty wouldn't have been the answer.
 
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jviggy43

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Rymuth said:
i feel dirty after watching this episode ~ just an exercise in senseless killing without something deeper to say...

: /
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That's sort of the totality of rick and morty tho. Life is meaningless, life is pain, your existence doesn't matter so all killing is senseless as is your life.

Wubba lubba dub duuuuuuub

KimiNewt said:
Didn't laugh and didn't feel like anything was said or done that wasn't done before. Yeah, we get it, Rick is cynical and only cares about himself and Morty knows it. It feels like that was the concept for every episode this season thus far.
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Yeah they keep rehashing Rick not caring and I'm not sure why since that's been established over and over again by now.
 
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Zeus Molecules

illegal immigrants are stealing our air
I actually though the catalyst for everything
was Morty saying to Rick "you're not my hero they are" and Rick deciding to put on that whole display in a drunken saw'lite rage to make Morty feel a similar hurt with the last trap being Rick saying "Noob Noob your cool my Grandson isn't shit". Like the fact he doesn't even know who noob noob is sober means that he didn't really care it was all a drunken spiteful FU to Morty

I sort of fits with last episode about how Rick doesn't know how to deal with his emotions.
A normal person would of told Morty how he felt when Morty made the statement about the vindicators being his heroes. Instead Rick being Rick he decides to go in God Mode and tell Morty he means shit to him too (which is an unhealthy response) but ends up killing a bunch of super heroes and super villains
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Tregard

Soothsayer
This season has been falling a bit flat for me, and I'm not sure why. I get that the point is that Rick is a supergenius who can do anything, and that's never bothered me before, but in most episodes recently it feels...unearned? There was no jeopardy because Rick will solve everything, and most of the jokes did nothing for me (although I did enjoy Rick jumping out in front of the guns when he'd covered them)
 
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Owari

Member
Yeah. Not feeling this season so far at all. Between the needless advertising and the lack of character understanding I may be out. I'll catch up on the rest of this season when it's over.

Seems like the Network realized how popular this got and hit the "ACCESSIBILITY" button

Is there a reason they're using all new writers this season?
 
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Mesoian

Member
I think the problem I've had with this season is that every episode revolves around Rick begrudgingly doing things he doesn't want to do, causing him to come across as cranky hipster that's too cool for anything opposed to a man of ultra science that does things because he wants to. Watching Rick complain about things for 22 minutes isn't engaging, it's annoying and it makes you hate him. We're not being taken along for the ride anymore, we're being dragged behind him as he condescendingly dumbs it down for us for no real reason.

This week was particularly annoying because
black out drunk Rick just seems like an excuse to make Rick do things that Rick wouldn't do because it is beneath him, but they need to build out a bigger idea from a quick one shot "lol look at all the poop on the table" gag. The Ms. Universe equivalent turning evil made extremely little sense as well.
Rick's point was that they were galactic civil servants who were bad at their jobs,
not inherent sociopaths looking for an excuse to murder. Them turning on each other just felt forced and silly.

On top of which, they made such a big deal about this episode before the season started, doing an entire video of Harmon getting piss drunk to record the drunk Rick sessions, and it equated to little more than 4 lines in the episode that didn't seem any different from how the show usually is. Lot of hype for nothing.

I don't know, maybe next week's Jerry and Rick adventure will be better.
 
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KenzinFive

Member
Part of the reason why I'm not as anti-Rick in this episode is because it did an OK job of
portraying the Vindicators as hypocrites, dangerous, and petty people hiding behind being superheroes.
Rick is an asshole, but he
straight-up went and murdered Worldender and his goons without dicking around unlike the Vindicators. And he did it totally drunk. Meanwhile, they blew up a planet in "Vindicators 2" to stop a villain, when they could have just called Rick, who is an asshole but would have helped save million of lives. They committed planetary genocide because they couldn't swallow their pride and call up Rick, who literally could have been there in an instant with his portal gun. They put personal shit and their egos over actually helping people.

When you look at all the traps Rick made, most of them were either simple, impossible to fail, or easy to solve due to Morty. The Starlord parody guy freaked out, showed his true colors right away, and got himself killed over the first puzzle where every answer was interchangeable, as Morty pointed out. The 3-pointer trap was both super simple to finish normally and featured a shitty bomb that Morty more or less defused himself. The final trap was either built for Morty to humiliate him, actually built for Noob Noob, or a fake trap that just needed the right amount of weight.

I'd argue that the only trap that was cruel/unfair was the Israel one that killed Crocobot. He just thought he had the right answer, got overzealous and got killed. It would have been impossible for anyone but Morty or Rick to solve.
 
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