Rick & Morty (Season 3)

[Dukefrukem]

Did anyone catch the sneak peek on Adult Swim last night? They basically played an episode for 4 straight hours without changing the programming titles on the DVR.

If you didn't watch it, I'll be the first to tell you that it was the best episode in the series, so good in fact, that I watched it three times in a row.

Can't wait.

[Dukefrukem]

Here's a clip. Lol.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7gmZxP5TKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHp4FdPBT4

[Philip J. Fry]

I want that Szechuan dipping sauce.

[Dukefrukem]

Full episode is right here. Enjoy


https://vid.me/JBhQ

[Irish]

This really might be the best sci-fi show on TV.


I want that Szechuan dipping sauce.

lol, likewise :D

[Dukefrukem]

Ha. Nathan Fillion is the voice the main alien.

[number8]

Terri Hickey, a spokesperson for McDonald’s, said in a statement to USA TODAY that revisiting the sauce wasn't out of the question.

"We never say never, because when our customers speak, we listen," Hickey said, before making a Rick and Morty reference. "And to paraphrase some of our most enthusiastic fans, our sauce is so good that it would be worth waiting 9 seasons or 97 years for."

I'm sure they're already contacting Disney to time it with the live-action remake.

[Dukefrukem]

I juts want to say, in addition to watching it twice in a row on April fools, I've watched that episode ever day at 10PM this week. I am in love with that episode.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAw6aXHzcY
BACK ON JULY 30! YEAH, BITCHES!

[Dukefrukem]

Beat me by 6 hours. Looks incredible.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ornXZGEFcds

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecdrgB-Odc

[Irish]

I want that Szechuan dipping sauce.

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The sauce has returned to our dimension, albeit in limited amounts.

[Russ]

Rick and Morty, the prototype - Doc and Mharti:

(Warning - in no shape, form or fashion is this crude precursor to Rick and Morty even remotely safe for work!)

It is, however, hilarious.

EDIT: It doesn't like to be linked, just click on Watch on Vimeo.


https://vimeo.com/49664066

[Philip J. Fry]

“They don’t have to keep trying to kill us if we join them. They’re basically pussies.”


Summer was hilarious in tonight's episode. I'm glad R&M is back.

[Dukefrukem]

I died. So good.

"Make a fist if this isn't over"

Bwhahahaha

[Irish]

I died at: "Just stay in the driveway. The killbots are active and I took you off the whitelist."

This is a show that proceeds at such a quick clip and with such rapid fire dialogue that I want to watch every episode twice.

ETA: Also, the callback with the robo-kids, with one freaking out about "I love you Mom" and wanting to cross wade in a river or whatever. It takes a beat to realize that the fucking thing reached some sort of sentience and it's just callously turned off. I love the black humor of that.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zw_E4qwuNs

[Dukefrukem]

My god last night's episode was so good. It's hard to imagine these episodes getting better but that appears to be what's happening.

[Philip J. Fry]

Best. Therapist. Ever.

[Grouchy]

Yeah, this fucking show is a work of art.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvfRqMgVpz8

[Dukefrukem]

I love those breakdowns.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87404S8oOAs

[Ivan Drago]

Did anyone else watch last Sunday's episode? Watching Rick and Morty's relationship take a turn for the toxic was both compelling and unsettling for me. I also thought it was intriguing as it was twisted to watch Rick progress to a monster of a human being. Maybe there's an earlier example of this, but I feel like for the first two seasons, Rick's nihilism was made hilarious by the absurdist and improvisational comedy and world building, and while those elements are still present this season, there's a dark side of Rick coming out from underneath the woodworks. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but there was something about him telling the lead rat he wasn't special before killing him, and his Saw-esque game that drove the Vindicators apart and killed all but one of them, ruining Morty's childhood that made me notice a change in character.

[Grouchy]

Ivan, you're on the money. This season seems hellbent on exposing Rick's flaws and deconstructing his established persona of smartest man in the room who always wins in the end.

[Philip J. Fry]

"I want cookies and a 90 minute cut of Avatar!"

[Dukefrukem]

"Camp Flabbanabba".

[Dead & Messed Up]

Did anyone else watch last Sunday's episode? Watching Rick and Morty's relationship take a turn for the toxic was both compelling and unsettling for me. I also thought it was intriguing as it was twisted to watch Rick progress to a monster of a human being. Maybe there's an earlier example of this, but I feel like for the first two seasons, Rick's nihilism was made hilarious by the absurdist and improvisational comedy and world building, and while those elements are still present this season, there's a dark side of Rick coming out from underneath the woodworks. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but there was something about him telling the lead rat he wasn't special before killing him, and his Saw-esque game that drove the Vindicators apart and killed all but one of them, ruining Morty's childhood that made me notice a change in character.

There's been a lot of Rick's toxicity throughout the series (for me, the most harrowing is the Unity episode), but yeah, the show does seem to be shining its light more in that direction. I wonder if part of this is intended to be a consequence of him having adventures with Morty and becoming more cognizant of his toxicity (and doubling down to convince himself that it's not a problem). I mean, the entire reason "Pickle Rick" works is because the show immediately gives away the game: this isn't some absurdist adventure, he's simply trying to avoid therapy. And probably because he's scared the "agent of averageness" in the strip mall will recognize how corrosive he is to his family and to himself (and she does, and Sarandon knocks that scene out of the fucking park).

[Dukefrukem]

Have you ever been peed on before? OMG yum.

[number8]

I guess the increased toxicity in their relationship this season was a set up for this episode.

[Ivan Drago]

Last night's episode is up there with Pickle Rick as the best of the season so far.

[Dukefrukem]

Not sure anything beats episode 1 guys. It's so chaotic and perfectly written. Seal Team Rick!

I'm gonna go take a dump.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAqPA5WF8w

[Dukefrukem]

HAH! I completely missed the American Psycho reference.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjDnuc0y1Gc

[Dukefrukem]

Excellent episode btw. I dont know how many episodes there are this season, but i hope there's dozens.

[Philip J. Fry]

14, methinks.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Another amazing episode that I need to watch again - this is a premise where I would've been more than happy with a two-parter or hourlong episode; the story comes at you so fast that it's a struggle to keep up with all the nuance and real-world parallels, to race, class, corporatism, politics. It's like they wanted to see if they could jam a season of The Wire into 22 minutes.

[Dukefrukem]

Another amazing episode that I need to watch again - this is a premise where I would've been more than happy with a two-parter or hourlong episode; the story comes at you so fast that it's a struggle to keep up with all the nuance and real-world parallels, to race, class, corporatism, politics. It's like they wanted to see if they could jam a season of The Wire into 22 minutes.

I felt the same way. And upon a second rewatch there's a major plot twist I missed through the first viewing. I'll leave it for folks to find for themselves but it has to do with something campaign Morty says right before he's jettisoned into space. Also, that final shot.

[number8]

Paradigms of Morty Memory.

[Philip J. Fry]

Here’s the awful secret that “Truth Tortoise” told Morty in last week’s episode (https://www.avclub.com/heres-the-awful-secret-that-truth-tortoise-told-morty-1818582607)

[Dukefrukem]

I had never heard of that conspiracy theory before.

[Grouchy]

I had never heard of that conspiracy theory before.
What? Seriously? One of the most well known music legends of all time.

[Irish]

Duke's post made me consider how I know what I know. My reaction was similar to Grouch's---how does he not know that? But then I thought, wait, how do I know that? And why? It's an obscure piece of bullshit trivia that doesn't have much to do with anything. (But it was fun that R&M included it.)

Anyway this week's episode was a little lazy around the edges (too much self-referential stuff, too many lampshaded moments) but I still dug it. R&M is the only show around that continually tops itself week after week with pure crazy.

[Dukefrukem]

Well first, I'm not a Beatles fan. So I ignore anything that has anything to do with them.

And second, reading through the wiki, most of the speculation occurred in the 60s and 70s. I was born in 1984.

That's like me asking you guys if you remember the Britney Spears / Eminem conspiracy from 1999? I bet you don't.

[Grouchy]

The Britney / Eminem thing is bizarre but not nearly as well known.

I honestly can't remember the first time I heard about it either. Might also have been a pop culture joke I didn't get.

[number8]

I can't remember where I know it from, either. It's like how I don't remember when I found out that Darth Vader is Luke's dad. Certainly not from watching Empire for the first time, but before that. It was just a commonly known pop culture thing that's out there that I came in contact with, and the Paul rumor was the same. It wasn't from being a Beatles fanatic.

[Philip J. Fry]

Count me among the people who thought everyone knew the "Paul is dead" urban legend.

[number8]

Anyway, this Beth episode is seriously disturbing. Feels like a direct sequel to Pickle Rick, which I'm sure was the intention.

Good thing Jerry's got a B-plot to provide the laugh out loud stuff.

[Philip J. Fry]

Anyway, this Beth episode is seriously disturbing. Feels like a direct sequel to Pickle Rick, which I'm sure was the intention.

Good thing Jerry's got a B-plot to provide the laugh out loud stuff.Speaking of the devil.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89WKPR0ZShE

[Dukefrukem]

Damn it. That was the season finale??

We didn't even get to see Phoenix Bird Man.

[Ivan Drago]

Damn it. That was the season finale??

We didn't even get to see Phoenix Bird Man.

Yeah, given everything they set up over the course of the season, I'm disappointed there wasn't more of a climax.

Now comes the most agonzing part of being a fan of this show.......waiting for them to announce the season 4 premiere date.

[Dukefrukem]

Yeah, given everything they set up over the course of the season, I'm disappointed there wasn't more of a climax.

Now comes the most agonzing part of being a fan of this show.......waiting for them to announce the season 4 premiere date.

More anticipated than GoT Season 8.

[Grouchy]

Laughed a lot, but it seemed kind of rushed? There were much better episodes this season.

[number8]

I really like the Beth throughline of this season (they totally fulfilled the sezhuan sauce rant's promise of this being the darkest season), but it did feel like they had that to resolve and not really anything else in the finale. The fight scenes seem like padding in a way that the Pickle Rick/Jaguar stuff didn't, for some reason, even though it's nice to have President Keith David back.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-qnvEKMaU

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYsx1QWF9A

[Philip J. Fry]

Awesome.